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Process for the enhanced oil recovery of underground mineral oil deposits

CA 1255489 A · Owner: Chemie Holding Aktiengesellschaft · Inventors: Stern, Gerhard; Heinemann, Zoltan; Konig. Heinz

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A process for the enhanced oil recovery of underground mineral oil deposits, in which one or more substances which are scarcely water- and oil-soluble at deposit temperature but are well soluble or volatile in the hot flooding medium and whose melting point lies above the deposit temperature, are added to the flooding medium hot water and/or water vapor. They move with the hot flooding medium through the deposit and precipitate as a solid preferably at that part of the temperature front which is advancing fastest, thereby constricting the pores of the deposit temporarily and reversibly, until the solid is dissolved or evaporated again by the hot flooding medium flowing on after, which has …

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  • Granted June 13, 1989. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 13, 2006.
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FiledJanuary 31, 1985
GrantedJune 13, 1989
Term endedJune 13, 2006
Patent numberCA 1255489 A
Classification (IPC)E21B43/24 +2 more

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1986198919921995199820012004Application filedJan 31, 1985Patent grantedJune 13, 1989Term endedJune 13, 2006

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