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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas E Ricketts, Grand Junction, CO (US);
Allan Sass, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Occidental Oil Shale, Inc., Grand Junction, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ; E21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
299-2 ; 166251 ; 166259 ; 299 13 ;
Abstract
A method for forming an in situ oil shale retort in a subterranean formation containing oil shale is provided. The in situ oil shale retort has top, bottom, and generally vertically extending side boundaries of unfragmented formation and contains a body of expanded oil shale formation that completely fills the retort to its top boundary. The retort is bulked full by explosively expanding a layer above a fragmented permeable mass of formation particles forming part of the body of expanded formation in the retort. The layer is expanded with an available void fraction of no more than about ten percent.