Patent ID: 7946346

Claim:
A method for the in-situ recovery of hydrocarbons from hydrocarbon-bearing formations comprising: forming a bore hole seal assembly having an elongated substantially cylindrical outer housing, providing said elongated bore hole seal assembly with an interior containing a port to an upwardly extending intake air supply line and including in said upwardly extending intake air supply line a minor reactive gas intake regulator and valve, drilling two bore holes into a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation, lowering said elongated bore hole seal assembly into one of two said bore holes to a position surrounded by the hydrocarbon-bearing formation with said first and second bore holes having been drilled to define a diameter relative to said elongated bore hole seal assembly housing, insuring a close fit there between while providing a gas space between, providing a plurality of seal members within said bore hole around said elongated bore hole seal assembly restricting gas leaks, whereby supplying a major inert gas to said supply line from gas supply means disposed above ground, supplying a minor reactive gas that is reactive to hydrocarbon to said regulator valving in major inert gas air line from gas supply means disposed above ground, regulating said major inert gas supply means and said minor reactive gas supply means to progressively and radially infuse gas into surrounding undisturbed hydrocarbon-bearing formation, monitoring the hydrocarbon-bearing formations and manipulating said regulation of said gas supply means to maintain supercritical fluid (SCF) gas cell formation in hydrocarbon-bearing formation, insuring, during said regulating of said major inert gas supply means and said minor reactive gas supply means, that microbursts of reactive gas form SCF from the major inert gas reacting with hydrocarbons, insuring, during said monitoring of the temperature and pressure of the hydrocarbon-bearing formation, that a pressure at over 1 to 7 atmospheres is maintained, whereby, collecting the hydrocarbon generated from said first bore hole through said adjacent bore hole near the same hydrocarbon-bearing formation.