PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008162
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["166", "272100"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a particularly effective well configuration that can be used for heat based oil recovery methods. Fishbone multilateral wells are combined with inline electric heaters and a thermally conductive proppant. Preferably, an array of overlapping fishbone wells cover the pay, allowing more complete production of the pay, and the use of the proppants prevents the open-hole fishbone laterals from collapsing. These methods can be applied in variety of configurations, including traditional vertically spaced well-pairs, laterally spaced well-pairs, producers only, and combinations thereof.

Claim (Index 12):
A well configuration for electrically heated production of hydrocarbons, the well configuration comprising:\n a) a plurality of horizontal producer wells, each producer well separated from an adjacent producer well by a distance D and configured for heating with an electric downhole heater; b) each producer well at a first depth at or near the bottom of a hydrocarbon play; c) a plurality of upper wells, each upper well being higher in said play than a producer well by 4-10 m, each upper well configured for heating with an electric downhole heater; d) a plurality of lateral wells originating from said plurality of producer wells or said plurality of upper wells, or both producer wells and upper wells, and covering at least 95% of said distance D; e) wherein said plurality of lateral wells are filled with a thermally conductive proppant material, such that said electric downhole heater heats said thermally conductive proppant which then conveys heat to hydrocarbons which can be produced at said producer well.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38571
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15274235', '14173267', '14227826', '14595614', '15948460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8345183773564163
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5436970184414163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8054362414649163
- Mean Citation Score: 390.715472
- Max Citation Score: 466.97876
- Similarity Product: 315.0250707673001

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

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