Patent ID: 8307893
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A method of hydrocarbon production from a hydrocarbon reservoir comprising: providing a substantially horizontal wellbore having at least one productive interval within a hydrocarbon reservoir; forming at least one non-conductive transverse fracture in the reservoir along the substantially horizontal wellbore; installing a device for monitoring the fluid being produced in the substantially horizontal wellbore adjacent to one or more of the production intervals; providing an injection well into the reservoir; injecting a fluid into the reservoir through the injection well to displace hydrocarbons within the reservoir toward the at least one productive interval of the wellbore; and draining hydrocarbons from the reservoir into at least one production interval of the substantially horizontal wellbore; wherein fluid production from at least one productive interval in the substantially horizontal wellbore flows through an inflow control device that can restrict fluid flow.