INSTALLATION AND USE OF REMOVABLE HEATERS IN A HYDROCARBON CONTAINING FORMATION

• Main Authors: COLES, JOHN MATTHEW, COLE, ANTHONY THOMAS, HUNSUCKER, BRUCE GERARD, DE ROUFFIGNAC, ERIC PIERRE, WELLINGTON, SCOTT LEE, MENOTTI, JAMES LOUIS, VINEGAR, HAROLD J, PRATT, CHRISTOPHER ARNOLD, CARL, FREDERICK GORDON JR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 01.05.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; EARTH DRILLING; EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; FUELS; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; LUBRICANTS; MEASURING; METALLURGY; MINERAL WAXES; MINING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR ASLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINED SOIL SOIL; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TESTING; TRANSPORTING

In an embodiment, a system may be used to heat a hydrocarbon containing formation. The system may include a heater placed in an opening in the formation. The system may allow heat to transfer from the heater to a part o f the formation. The transferred heat may pyrolyze at least some hydrocarbons in the formation. The heater may be removable from the opening in the formation and redeployable in at least one alternative opening in the formation.</SDOA B>