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AssigneeExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
InventorsMatthew T. Stone, Ganesh Ghurye, Matthew T Shanley, Peter Rasmussen, Xianghui Huang, Robert D. Kaminsky
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One or more methods, systems and computer readable mediums are utilized to provide treatment of a subterranean formation that contains solid organic matter, such as oil shale, tar sands, and/or coal formation. The treatment of the formation includes heating a treatment interval within the subterranean formation with one or more electrical in situ heaters. Available power, or other production resources, for the electrical heaters are determined at regular, predetermined intervals. Heating rates of the one or more electrical heaters are selectively controlled based on the determined available power at each regular, predetermined interval and based on an optimization model that outputs optimal heating rates for each of the electrical heaters at the determined available power.
A method of treating a subterranean formation that contains solid organic matter, said method comprising:
A method of treating a subterranean formation that contains solid organic matter, said method comprising:
A tangible computer-readable storage medium includes embodied thereon a computer program configured to, when executed by a processor, calculate at least one optimal solution for selectively adjusting heating rates for one or more in situ heaters for a treatment interval within a subterranean formation based on running a optimization model utilizing one or more of variable, intermittent source power, utility prices, and/or estimated available production resources, the computer-readable storage medium comprising one or more code segments configured to run the optimization model to output the at least one optimal solution.
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