PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["166", "246000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system and method of increasing low pressure zones for microbial enhanced oil recovery through radially drilled narrow, high surface area bore holes around a well bore. A drill string is inserted into the well bore and is thereafter directed horizontally and perpendicularly from the well bore by a tool at the end of the radial drill to create the narrow, high surface area bore holes. These bore holes extend through surface materials including pipes, casings, cement, rock material and the like. The drill is then rotated a distance about the well bore. The process may then be repeated to create bore sets positioned below or above one another relative to a pay zone. The process lowers the pressure gradient along a skin around the well bore and a larger surface area extending away from the well bore to create a larger oil drainage and microbial interaction area. The invention further includes injecting a nutrient package formulated to activate resident microbes such that the microbial morphology is physically changed which in turn increases the relative permeability of the oil, water, and rock interaction thereby enhancing overall oil production and recovery.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the narrow, high surface area bore holes provide extra outlet streams allowing reservoir fluids to flow toward the producer such that pressure within the reservoir, at a distance from the well bore, and over a large area extending through the narrow, high surface area bore holes is lowered.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88288
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10581648', '14307048', '15731849', '13280760', '12140484']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7476305888267001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4588952053025598
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187570504742861
- Mean Citation Score: 124.817228
- Max Citation Score: 129.9665
- Similarity Product: 96.86544942218065

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

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