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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wann-Sheng Huang, Houston, TX (US);
Margaret A Hight, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
166 52 ; 166 50 ; 166245 ;
Abstract
The disclosed invention is a method of recovering hydrocarbons by employing a modified 9 spot well pattern which contains a vertical central well, four vertical corner injection wells and four horizontal wells as the side wells in the pattern. The horizontal side wells are aligned on axes perpendicular to the substantially rectangular boundaries of the modified 9 spot well pattern or aligned on the axes between the four corner injection wells.