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AssigneeBaker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
InventorsSunder Ramachandran, Zhengwei Liu, Jerry J. Weers, Jian Zou, Sandip Maity
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Methods for the in-situ production of one or more chemical products in a subterranean well include the steps of admitting natural gas into the well from the surrounding subterranean formation, directing the natural gas into a downhole reactor in the well, reacting the natural gas within the downhole reactor to produce an intermediate product stream that includes the one or more chemical products, and withdrawing the intermediate product stream and the one or more chemical products from the downhole reactor. The methods can be earned out in a downhole reactor (22) that includes a reaction chamber (26) inside tubing (20) and an inlet valve (24) adapted to control the introduction of natural gas into the reaction chamber (26).
A method for the in-situ production of one or more chemical products in a well that extends into a subterranean formation that produces natural gas, the method comprising the steps of:
An in-situ downhole reactor within a subterranean well extending into a formation that produces natural gas, wherein the well includes tubing that extends to a surface, the downhole reactor comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.