E21B 43/166
Injecting a gaseous medium
Official title: {Injecting a gaseous medium; Injecting a gaseous medium and a liquid medium (CO2 injection E21B43/164; steam injection E21B43/24)}
E21B43/166 (Injecting a gaseous medium) appears on 566 US grants and 632 published applications in this corpus.
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- Method for coal seam gas seepage displacement, seepage water locking and dust reduction22 Sep 2026US 12,742,389 B2Hunan University of Science and Technology
- Enhanced solvent recovery from tight rock and shale oil wells15 Sep 2026US 12,735,965 B2Oil Technology Group LLC
- Subterranean capture of produced gas lost in gas enhanced hydrocarbon recovery25 Aug 2026US 12,716,337 B2ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
- Gas injection method and system for deep strong bottom water sandstone reservoir25 Aug 2026US 12,716,338 B2China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
- Method for optimization of huff-n-puff gas injection in hydrocarbon reservoirs1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298060 A1Texas Tech University System
- System and method for enhanced oil recovery utilizing alternating stacked liquid and gas slugs17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275841 A1Eor Etc LLC
- Lateral gas lift with slugging control10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266165 A1ConocoPhillips Company
- Extraction and integration of waste heat from enhanced geologic hydrogen production13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235020 A1Koloma, Inc.
- Sweetening of sour gas wells30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218591 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
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By later US patents
- Heavy oil recovery process320US 4,706,751 AS-Cal Research Corp. · 1987
- Enhanced recoveries of petroleum and hydrogen from underground reservoirs310US 4,183,405 A1980
- In situ thermal processing of a relatively permeable formation while controlling pressure306US 7,096,942 B1Shell Oil Company · 2006
- Recovery of oil from oil-bearing formation by continually flowing pressurized heated gas through channel alongside matrix304US 4,856,587 A1989
- Method for treating a mixture of gaseous fluids within a solid carbonaceous subterranean formation299US 5,439,054 AAmoco Corporation · 1995