Use of Ionized Water in Hydraulic Fracturing
AssigneeMBJ Water Partners
InventorJoseph G. Munisteri
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Abstract
A method and system for generating an ionized fluid, injecting the ionized fluid into fissures in a subterranean formation, pressurizing the ionized fluid, whereby the crystalline structure of a portion of the shale deposits located at the fissures are changed into suspended particles, whereby the depressurization of the ionized fluid forces the suspended particles out of the fissures, increasing the flow of hydrocarbons from those fissures.
Claims34
A method for increasing hydrocarbon production from a subsurface formation, the method comprising:
- generating ionized fluid,
- pumping the ionized fluid from a surface location into at least one subsurface location in a hydrocarbon well,
- pressuring the ionized fluid at least one subsurface location,
- depressurizing the ionized fluid at the perforated location, wherein at least a portion of the ionized fluid returns to the surface location containing suspended materials.
The method as in claim, further comprising ionizing the recycled portion of the fluid.
A system for increasing hydrocarbon production from a subsurface formation comprising:
- means for generating an ionized fluid;
- means for transporting the ionized fluid from the surface into at least one fracture zone of the subsurface formation,
- means for pressuring the ionized fluid at the at least one fracture zone;
- means for maintaining the pressurize at the at least one fracture zone;
- means for depressurizing the ionized fluid at the at least one fracture zone;
- wherein a portion of the ionized fluid returns to the surface carrying suspended particles of the formation.
A method of increasing production from a subsurface shale formation comprising:
- generating ionized fluid with electromagnetic fields of influence;
- pumping the ionized fluid into the subsurface shale formation;
- and
- exposing the previously perforated zone to ionized fluid under pressure;
- wherein the production from the subsurface shale increases after the ionized fluid is depressurized.
A device for use in a hydrocarbon well fracture operation comprising:
- an electromagnetic field generator having a first fluid input port and a first fluid output port;
- at least one fracturing pump having a second fluid input port connect to the first fluid output port of the electromagnetic field generator;
- and
- a coiled tubing device having the coil tubing input connect to the second fluid output port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.