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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. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hon Chung Lau, Houston, TX (US);
John K Borchardt, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
166273 ; 166268 ; 166275 ; 1663051 ; 166309 ; 252-8554 ;
Abstract
An improved process for recovering oil by injecting a mixture of noncondensible gas and gas foam surfactant into an oil-containing subterranean reservoir, the improvement provided by using a surfactant enriched in olefin disulfonate. The sulfactant may be used in either a gas drive or a gas soak process. Disulfonate-enriched gas foam surfactants and mixtures are also described.