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US1678592A
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21BEARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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  • - Fig. 2 is a detail, on slightly enlarged scale, of a modification.
  • the reference 0 araoter 1 designates the casing of a well to be treated, and 2 the producing stratum or oil-sand.
  • the easing is a tubing 3 having at its upper end a lateral pipe 4, which is connected with a mixer C and this in turn with valved gas-- supply and air-supply pipes 5 and 6 respectively.
  • the precise construction of the mixer may vary, but advantageously it may be of the Venturi type, for exam le, having a constricted or choked flowtube g, provided 5 with ducts 8 opening into the tube from the surrounding passage.
  • a valve-controlled test-burner 9 Between the mixer and the tubing connection ,is a valve-controlled test-burner 9. By means of this burner we are able to determine the character of the combustion taking place in the Well and can vary the proportions of combustible and comburent, as may be necessary.
  • a lateral pipe 10 leads from the upper end of the casing, and any suitable form of tight casing-head construction may be employed.
  • a burner-tip 11 having a checked passage 12, and an outlet 13 preferably flaring outwardly.
  • test-burner 9 may be lighted to verify and which runs over a sheave 16, from a suitable reel 17 A stuffing-box 18 with a separable or removable gland for allowing initial'entry of the igniter serves to secure an adequately tight joint about the cable.
  • the igniter 14 is pulled back up into the tub ing 3 away from the flame.
  • the products of combustion pass up between the tubing 3 and the casing and escape by pipe 10.
  • the burner acts as a gigantic blow-torch, bathing the walls of the stratum' in flame.
  • Combustible matter is burned out andthe surface freshened up and with continued treatment the wall may be progressively caved back, further freshening by exposing new surfaces back of the infiltrated and silt-loaded zone immediately adjacent the well-borer After burning for from about 2 to 10 hours, the time depending upon the history of the well and thevknown character of stratum, the gas mixture is turned off, and the burner tubing is pulled out, and the well may be baled, and equipped for pumping.
  • FIG. 2 A modified form of burner tip is shown in Fig. 2.
  • the tubing 3 here carries a reducer coupling 20 with a swedge connection 21 to a perforated or latticed tubular member 22, closed at the bottom 23.
  • tubing extending within said casing, a-

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J. B. GARNER ET AL ART OF TREATING OIL WELLS Filed Feb. 5, 1.923
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PATENT OFFICE.
UNITED STATES JAMES B. GARNER AND GEORGE B. LEYDEN, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, AS- SIGNORS TO STANDARD OIL DEVELOPMENT COM PANY, A CORPORATION OF DELA- WARE.
ART OF TREATING OIL WELLS.
Application-filed February 3, 1923. Serial No. 616,780.
limits of the drawing, and
- Fig. 2 is a detail, on slightly enlarged scale, of a modification.
Referring more articularly to the drawing, the reference 0 araoter 1 designates the casing of a well to be treated, and 2 the producing stratum or oil-sand. \Vithin the easing is a tubing 3 having at its upper end a lateral pipe 4, which is connected with a mixer C and this in turn with valved gas-- supply and air-supply pipes 5 and 6 respectively. The precise construction of the mixer may vary, but advantageously it may be of the Venturi type, for exam le, having a constricted or choked flowtube g, provided 5 with ducts 8 opening into the tube from the surrounding passage. Between the mixer and the tubing connection ,is a valve-controlled test-burner 9. By means of this burner we are able to determine the character of the combustion taking place in the Well and can vary the proportions of combustible and comburent, as may be necessary.
A lateral pipe 10 leads from the upper end of the casing, and any suitable form of tight casing-head construction may be employed.
To the lower end of the tubing 3 is coupled a burner-tip 11 having a checked passage 12, and an outlet 13 preferably flaring outwardly.
Assuming the case of a wellwwhich has declined in production and which it is olesired to treat, with a View to reviving production, the well having been baled out, if necessary, and the apparatus having been assembled, a flow of combustible gas under pressure is admitted from the gas-supply pipe, anda flow of compressed air from the air-supply pipe, the proportions being so gaged as to give a ratio-at the mixer C suitable for a proper combustion mixture. The test-burner 9 may be lighted to verify and which runs over a sheave 16, from a suitable reel 17 A stuffing-box 18 with a separable or removable gland for allowing initial'entry of the igniter serves to secure an adequately tight joint about the cable. After the gas at the burner-tip has been ignited, the igniter 14: is pulled back up into the tub ing 3 away from the flame. The products of combustion pass up between the tubing 3 and the casing and escape by pipe 10. The burner acts as a gigantic blow-torch, bathing the walls of the stratum' in flame. Combustible matter is burned out andthe surface freshened up and with continued treatment the wall may be progressively caved back, further freshening by exposing new surfaces back of the infiltrated and silt-loaded zone immediately adjacent the well-borer After burning for from about 2 to 10 hours, the time depending upon the history of the well and thevknown character of stratum, the gas mixture is turned off, and the burner tubing is pulled out, and the well may be baled, and equipped for pumping.
A modified form of burner tip is shown in Fig. 2. The tubing 3 here carries a reducer coupling 20 with a swedge connection 21 to a perforated or latticed tubular member 22, closed at the bottom 23.
While we have described the invention with reference to certain specific details, changes may be made, within the spirit and scope of the invention which is limited only as defined in thefollow'ing claims.
What we claim is:
1. In. combination with a well casing, a
tubing extending within said casing, a-
means for feeding a combustible mixture into the tubing,- 3, burner at one end of the tubing, a closure for the other end thereof and having an orifice therein, an ignition 5 device within the tubing, and means carrying said device and passing through the ori-' fice in the closure.
3. In means for treating oil wells to in- 7 crease production, the combination of a tubing, a burner carried thereby and having a narrow passage merging into a flaring orifice, and ignition means adapted to be lowered through the tubing and the burner.
JAMES B. GARNER. GEORGE B. LEYDEN.
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Cited By (9)

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US2444755A (en) * 1946-01-04 1948-07-06 Ralph M Steffen Apparatus for oil sand heating
US2707029A (en) * 1950-07-28 1955-04-26 Carroll H Van Hartesveldt Apparatus for obtaining liquids from deep wells
US2887160A (en) * 1955-08-01 1959-05-19 California Research Corp Apparatus for well stimulation by gas-air burners
US2890755A (en) * 1953-12-19 1959-06-16 Svenska Skifferolje Ab Apparatus for recovering combustible substances from subterraneous deposits in situ
US2985240A (en) * 1959-05-21 1961-05-23 Sinclair Oil & Gas Company Bottom hole burner
US3113623A (en) * 1959-07-20 1963-12-10 Union Oil Co Apparatus for underground retorting
US3244231A (en) * 1963-04-09 1966-04-05 Pan American Petroleum Corp Method for catalytically heating oil bearing formations
US3293863A (en) * 1963-09-23 1966-12-27 James H Cox Apparatus and method for thawing frozen ground
US3680636A (en) * 1969-12-30 1972-08-01 Sun Oil Co Method and apparatus for ignition and heating of earth formations

Cited By (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2444755A (en) * 1946-01-04 1948-07-06 Ralph M Steffen Apparatus for oil sand heating
US2707029A (en) * 1950-07-28 1955-04-26 Carroll H Van Hartesveldt Apparatus for obtaining liquids from deep wells
US2890755A (en) * 1953-12-19 1959-06-16 Svenska Skifferolje Ab Apparatus for recovering combustible substances from subterraneous deposits in situ
US2887160A (en) * 1955-08-01 1959-05-19 California Research Corp Apparatus for well stimulation by gas-air burners
US2985240A (en) * 1959-05-21 1961-05-23 Sinclair Oil & Gas Company Bottom hole burner
US3113623A (en) * 1959-07-20 1963-12-10 Union Oil Co Apparatus for underground retorting
US3244231A (en) * 1963-04-09 1966-04-05 Pan American Petroleum Corp Method for catalytically heating oil bearing formations
US3293863A (en) * 1963-09-23 1966-12-27 James H Cox Apparatus and method for thawing frozen ground
US3680636A (en) * 1969-12-30 1972-08-01 Sun Oil Co Method and apparatus for ignition and heating of earth formations

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