发明名称 Method for developing deposits and extracting oil and gas from formations by injecting conductive fluid into formation and creating electric arc
摘要 A method for developing deposits and extracting oil and gas from formations is provided including pumping electrically conductive fluid under pressure into a first heating well and a second heating well, creating an electrically conductive zone between the first heating well and the second heating well, positioning at least one first electrical current source into the first well and at least one second electrical current source into the second well such that the first and second electrical current sources come into contact with the electrically conductive fluid, applying alternating current to the at least one first electrical current source and the at least one second electrical current source, and generating an electric arc in the electrically conductive zone.
申请公布号 US9328594(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.05.03
申请号 US201314348402 申请日期 2013.07.15
申请人 Linetskiy Alexander Petrovich 发明人 Linetskiy Alexander Petrovich
分类号 E21B43/24;E21B43/30 主分类号 E21B43/24
代理机构 St Onge Steward Johnson and Reens LLC 代理人 St Onge Steward Johnson and Reens LLC
主权项 1. A method for developing fields and providing for the most complete extraction of high-viscosity and shale oils, bitumens, gas condensates, shale gases and gases from oil, gas and coal layers, according to which at least one operational liquid is pumped under a selected pumping pressure through wells drilled at the fields-into layers, solid electrodes into them, with alternating current applied, electric arcs are initiated either between the solid electrodes of two neighbor wells when oil and gas layers comprise natural electric conductive slices or between pairs of solid electrodes within one well during separation thereof, or during melting of a fuse link between them, move electric arcs within natural electric conductive slices within in-situ space between at least one pair of neighboring wells of fields in necessary order and sequence, wherein, the at least one operational liquid to be pumped under the selected pressure comprises electrically conductive liquid having a viscosity, an electrical conductivity and a density, wherein artificially created slices, zones and areas with raised electrical conductivity are created in individual oil and gas, coal and shale layers after pumping, and, with suit of a plurality of layers, electrical conductivity of those slices is improved, or electrical conductivity of water-bearing slices or water-bearing horizons located adjacent to layers in the suit is raised, and electrically conductive liquid is pumped therein from adjacent heating wells towards each other under pressures that cause penetration to a depth under particular conditions, wherein liquid electrodes comprised of the electrically conductive liquid within the adjacent heating wells are connected to a circuit of alternating-current sources and super capacitors positioned on the surface that accumulate and discharge electromagnetic energy in a form of pulses of alternating current to artificially created conductive slices, zones and areas in layers and rocks, to further increase the voltage of the electrically conductive liquid within heating wells, to carry out heating to achieve discharge within layers, slices or rocks, containing electrically conductive liquid preliminary pumped therein in between interconnected adjacent heating wells, to create electric arcs and to treat a mineral resources field with plasma of the electric arcs, wherein the heating wells at newer fields are lined with electrically-insulating glass-reinforced plastic pipes, and wherein the heating well are optimally positioned within the specified distance from each other depending on power, outstretch and falling of the layers, and depending on different geological and physical and structural properties of rock materials of the layers, their permeability, porosity, and presence of water-bearing slices and horizons; wherein production wells are located within the specified distance in between heating wells; or wherein the existing well network at the fields is optimized by drilling additional heating wells, wherein their walls are not lined with casing pipes within layers, by power, outstretch and falling, and heating wells are repeatedly re-drilled to increase their diameters until a predetermined diameter is reached via specialized hole openers to improve filtration into layers of the electrically conductive liquid and oil or gas during subsequent production from the same wells; wherein, upon completion of a full cycle of layers treatments heating wells are used as production wells; wherein, with the suit of the plurality of layers, spaces in between adjacent layers are repeatedly treated with electric arc plasma from one or more adjacent layers located above or below the spaces, or from water-bearing slices or horizons located within the suit in proximity to layers, water-bearing slices or horizons, or other slices between the layers upon artificially raising its electrical conductivity to alter a stressed-deformed state of other adjacent layers within the suit and to decrease ground pressure thereon due to substantial displacements of mountain rock arrays after treatments to open cracks and pores to form new crack systems and channels for interflow of oils and gases; wherein the density and the viscosity of the electrically conductive liquid is adjusted based on different physical and chemical properties of oils, layer and underground waters, permeability and porosity of layer rocks; wherein electrically conductive liquid is repeatedly pumped at specified time intervals into the artificially created conductive slices, zones and areas within layers or within adjacent water-bearing slices and horizons to maintain and improve their electrical conductivity, to heat up to discharge and to initiate electric arcs therein to maintain the temperatures and pressures specified for the fields by simultaneously creating electric arcs either between particular adjacent heating wells, or between all heating wells at the fields.
地址 St. Petersburg RU