Shell Oil Comapny

Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian

John Michael Karanikas

Ernesto Rafael Fonseca Ocampos

Mikhail Boris Geilikman

Daniel Frederick Fehler

Sau-Wai Wong

Michael Anthony Addis

Chengho Abel Lee

Victor Arkady Dunayevsky

A method is provided to produce hydrocarbons from a formation, the method includes the steps of: placing a pair of electrodes within a formation; applying differential voltages between pairs of electrodes wherein the voltage differences between the electrodes is greater than at least 10,000 volts; and producing hydrocarbons from the formation or an adjacent formation wherein the formation has an initial permeability of less than ten millidarcy. The invention also includes an apparatus effective to release pulses of electrical energy into the formation as this frequency and voltage at least until the formation has reached a point where the electrical potential arcs from one electrode to at least one other electrode.

Electrofracturing formations

A method is provided for the reduction of inflow of rock particles from an earth formation into a wellbore for the production of hydrocarbon fluid. The method comprises creating a zone of reduced compressive stiffness around the wellbore by removing rock material from the wall of the wellbore.

Method of reducing sand production from a wellbore

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The Woodlands, TX, United States of America

Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian