Water flooding method
CA 2573680 C · Owner: Bp Exploration Operating Company Limited · Inventors: Collins, Ian Ralph
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A method of recovering hydrocarbons from a porous subterranean hydrocarbonbearing formation comprising: (a) feeding a first stream comprising a high salinity water to a first side of a semipermeable membrane of at least one forward osmosis unit of a desalination plant and feeding a second stream comprising an aqueous solution of a removable solute to a second side of the semipermeable membrane wherein the solute concentration of the aqueous solution of the removable solute is sufficiently greater than the solute concentration of the high salinity water that water passes through the semipermeable membrane from the high salinity water into the aqueous solution of the removable solute …
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- Filed June 30, 2005 and granted February 19, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 30, 2025.
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