PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908099
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["166", "305100"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes a method of recovering oil and gas from a hydrocarbon-containing reservoir generally having some degree of water saturation within the reservoir pore network by injecting a gas into the reservoir. The method applicable to reservoirs having high water saturation of about 50 percent or greater. High water saturation in a reservoir can cause excessive amounts of water to be produced to produce the hydrocarbons. Coproduction and management of this water is costly and burdensome to operations leaving many reservoirs of oil and gas are stranded, rendering the production uneconomic. The method described herein addresses this need and other needs. The injection gas (with or without other hydrocarbons) can coalesce with the hydrocarbons contained within the hydrocarbon-containing reservoir to form a continuous phase of hydrocarbons within the reservoir. Once the targeted volume of the injection gas is injected, the flow is reversed producing the gathered hydrocarbons.

Claim (Index 10):
A method, comprising:\n providing a well producing gaseous hydrocarbons having first water to gas production ratio; providing a gas; injecting the provided gas into a well bore, wherein the well bore is in fluid communication with a hydrocarbon-containing reservoir, wherein the hydrocarbon-containing reservoir comprises a gaseous hydrocarbon; ceasing the injection of the provided gas; and producing from the well bore a mixture of the provided gas and some of the gaseous hydrocarbons having a second water to gas production ratio, wherein the first water-to-gas ratio is greater than the second water-to-gas ratio and wherein the hydrocarbons produced from the well bore in the producing step are predominately gaseous hydrocarbons.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86047
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12827290', '15463244', '13979808', '11050965', '12949506']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8088974623103513
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821058955079202
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7762183056301083
- Mean Citation Score: 227.17376400000003
- Max Citation Score: 230.66965
- Similarity Product: 162.89442549762725

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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