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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1987

Filed:

Mar. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:

Wann-Sheng Huang, Houston, TX (US);

Margaret A Hight, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
166245 ; 166268 ; 166 50 ;
Abstract

The invention is a method of recovering hydrocarbons from an underground formation by employing a modified 5 spot or 9 spot well pattern which contains a substantially vertical central well and four substantially horizontal wells, each having one end located relatively near the center of a substantially rectangular well pattern and the other ends located relatively near each of the corners of the well pattern. Preferably, the well pattern will also contain four substantially vertical corner wells located approximately at the four corners of the substantially rectangular modified 5 spot or 9 spot well pattern.


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