On-site Fuel Combustion
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsSergey Makarychev-Mikhailov, Richard Hutchins, Christopher Daeffler
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus having a separator and mixing equipment. The separator is operable to receive exhaust from fuel-burning equipment at a wellsite and separate the exhaust into a gas component and water. The mixing equipment is operable to receive at least one of the gas component and the water to form a subterranean formation treatment fluid. The present disclosure is further directed to a method of operating fuel-burning equipment at a wellsite to form an exhaust and utilizing the exhaust to form a fluid for injecting into a wellbore to treat a subterranean formation into which the wellbore extends.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- operating fuel-burning equipment at a wellsite to form an exhaust;
- and
- utilizing the exhaust to form a fluid for injecting into a wellbore to treat a subterranean formation into which the wellbore extends.
A method comprising:
- combusting a fuel at a wellsite;
- separating exhaust from the combustion into a gas component and water;
- and
- forming a subterranean formation treatment fluid comprising at least one of the gas component and water.
An apparatus comprising:
- a system operable to form a compositional component of a subterranean formation treatment fluid at a wellsite, wherein the system comprises:
- a heat exchanger system disposed at the wellsite and operable to receive and cool exhaust from fuel-burning equipment disposed at the wellsite;
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- a separator disposed at the wellsite and operable to separate exhaust cooled by the heat exchanger into a gas and water, wherein the compositional component is at least one of the separated gas and water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.