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US 2025/0146397 A1Published application
Enhanced well extraction tool
AssigneeAgog Energy Inc.
InventorAlexander SCHRAUTEMYER
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Abstract
Improved techniques for fracking are presented, including simultaneous stimulation and resource extraction. The improved techniques include stimulating a rock formation surrounding a length along a borehole of a well, the length including alternating stimulation and extraction sections along the length, and extracting extraction fluid from the rock formation simultaneously with the stimulating of the well. A resource extraction tool may include a series of stages, each stage including a stimulation section and an extraction section.
Claims13
A mining method, comprising:
- stimulating a length along a borehole of a well, the length located within a reservoir and including a plurality of stimulation sections alternating along the length with a plurality of extraction sections, and the stimulating including injecting pressurized fracking fluid into rock surrounding the plurality of stimulation sections;
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- extracting extraction fluid from the well simultaneously with the stimulating of the well, the extracting including extracting the extraction fluid from rock surrounding the plurality of extraction sections.
A fracking system, comprising:
- a plurality of resource extraction tools, each tool corresponding to a stage of a well, and each tool including:
- an outer casing;
- a stimulation section along a length of the respective stage,
- an extraction section neighboring the stimulation section along the length of the respective stage;
- a stimulation pathway through each of the stimulation section and the extraction section, the stimulation pathway connected to a stimulation perforation in the outer casing and configured to provide a fracking fluid from the stimulation pathway to an exterior of the respective tool through the stimulation perforation;
- an extraction pathway through each of the stimulation section and the extraction section, the extraction pathway connected to an extraction perforation in the outer casing and configured to drain an extraction fluid from the exterior of the respective tool through the extraction perforation and into the extraction pathway;
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- a barrier between the stimulation section and the extraction section, the barrier configured to expand beyond the outer casing and into the exterior of the respective tool, mate with a casing of a borehole, and divide the exterior of the respective tool into a stimulation portion of the exterior and an extraction portion of the exterior.
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