PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209705
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["166", "308100"]

Abstract:
The fracturing methods described in the present disclosure provide advantage over the current fracturing methods. The disclosed fracturing methods can change the fracture gradient of the downhole subterranean formation. For example, one or more of the fracture gradients of the low and high stress zones of the downhole subterranean formation can be changed. Furthermore, the methods of present disclosure, in relation to current practices, can decrease the extent and/or degree of fracturing within low stress downhole formations and increase the degree of fracturing within high stress formations.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n injecting a gas into a wellbore comprising a tubing string having inner and outer tubing sting walls, a well casing having inner and outer well casing walls, and an annular space defined by the inner well casing wall and the outer tubing string wall, wherein the wellbore is at least partly contained within a subterranean formation, wherein the gas is injected into the annular space of the wellbore is at a rate from about 1 to about 500,000 scf/min and occupies one or more portions of the subterranean formation surrounding the wellbore at an injected pressure; maintaining the gas at the injected pressure; and injecting a fracturing liquid into a tubing space defined by the inner tubing string wall at a sufficient pressure to fracture a target portion of the subterranean formation surrounding the wellbore, wherein the one or more portions of the subterranean formation and the target portion of the subterranean formation differ.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02128
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15197384', '15627160', '14957182', '15870677', '15870713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8389066002376914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5662626436280417
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8116422045767264
- Mean Citation Score: 421.544154
- Max Citation Score: 463.52008
- Similarity Product: 439.480973325324

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

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