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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 16, 2008
Gareth David Huntley Shaw, Cape Town, ZA;
Ola Olsvik, Hundhamaren, NO;
Erling Rytter, Trondheim, NO;
Jostein Sogge, Stjørdal, NO;
Jan Age Stensen, Trondheim, NO;
Gareth David Huntley Shaw, Cape Town, ZA;
Ola Olsvik, Hundhamaren, NO;
Erling Rytter, Trondheim, NO;
Jostein Sogge, Stjørdal, NO;
Jan Age Stensen, Trondheim, NO;
Statoil ASA, Stavanger, NO;
Petrosa (The Petroleum Oil & Gas Corporation of SA (Pty) Ltd), Mossel Bay, ZA;
Abstract
A method for increasing oil recovery from an oil reservoir in which method surplus gas streams from a plant for synthesis of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas is injected into the reservoir, is described. The surplus streams from the plant is the tailgas from the synthesis and optionally nitrogen from an air separation unit which delivers oxygen or oxygen enriched air to the plant for synthesis of higher hydrocarbons.