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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Eugene Stolboushkin, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Eugene Stolboushkin, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC, Houston, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/24 (2006.01); E21B 43/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/2408 (2013.01); E21B 43/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of improving production in a steam assisted gravity drainage operation, the method including positioning a tubular system within a borehole, the tubular system including a plurality of inflow control devices; injecting steam into a formation to assist in drainage of targeted resources from the formation; receiving fluids at an inlet of the inflow control devices; and regulating thermal conformance in the formation by choking liquids at the inflow control devices when the liquids have a subcool lower than a predetermined subcool at a selected drawdown pressure.