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Title: Method for bulking full a retort

Abstract

A method for forming an in situ oil shale retort in a subterranean formation containing oil shale is provided. The in situ oil shale retort has top, bottom, and generally vertically extending side boundaries of unfragmented formation and contains a body of expanded oil shale formation that completely fills the retort to its top boundary. The retort is bulked full by explosively expanding a layer above a fragmented permeable mass of formation particles forming part of the body of expanded formation in the retort. The layer is expanded with an available void fraction of no more than about ten percent.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6289233
Patent Number(s):
US 4449753
Assignee:
Occidental Oil Shale, Inc.
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 1 Jun 1982; Other Information: PAT-APPL-383508
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS; OIL SHALES; IN-SITU RETORTING; DESIGN; DETONATIONS; EXPLOSIVES; LAYERS; PARTICLES; PERMEABILITY; RETORTS; VOID FRACTION; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DECOMPOSITION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; ENERGY SOURCES; EQUIPMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; IN-SITU PROCESSING; MATERIALS; PROCESSING; RETORTING; 040401* - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- In Situ Methods, True & Modified

Citation Formats

Ricketts, Tw E, and Sass, A. Method for bulking full a retort. United States: N. p., 1984. Web.
Ricketts, Tw E, & Sass, A. Method for bulking full a retort. United States.
Ricketts, Tw E, and Sass, A. 1984. "Method for bulking full a retort". United States.
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abstractNote = {A method for forming an in situ oil shale retort in a subterranean formation containing oil shale is provided. The in situ oil shale retort has top, bottom, and generally vertically extending side boundaries of unfragmented formation and contains a body of expanded oil shale formation that completely fills the retort to its top boundary. The retort is bulked full by explosively expanding a layer above a fragmented permeable mass of formation particles forming part of the body of expanded formation in the retort. The layer is expanded with an available void fraction of no more than about ten percent.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 22 00:00:00 EDT 1984},
month = {Tue May 22 00:00:00 EDT 1984}
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