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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2023
Fervo Energy Company, Houston, TX (US);
Timothy Latimer, Houston, TX (US);
Jack Norbeck, Golden, CO (US);
Fervo Energy Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and techniques may include enhancing production of a natural resource from a reservoir in the earth. By pumping and circulating a material through a reservoir, where the material interacts with proppant or formation material in fracture zones, the interaction reduces permeability in an overproductive fracture zone and redirects flow to an underproductive fracture zone. Through this self-correcting feedback mechanism, flow redistributes more uniformly across multiple fracture zones over time, resulting in more even permeability distribution and improved reservoir performance. The systems and techniques enable passive treatment using chemical solutions that create self-correcting permeability changes, leading to more controlled and efficient resource recovery from subsurface reservoirs.