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OIL&GAS FROM LOW PERMEABILITY PLAYS. Latest published applications 2017-2019. Energy, gas or water consumption
Summary
High consumption of energy, gas and water is a major issue in the production of hydrocarbons through directional drilling and hydrofracking. This is particularly true for remote and arid regions without developed infrastructure, including some parts of the United States. Water consumption largely determines the profitability of a significant number of projects, and therefore requires careful preliminary planning and the application of latest technologies.
In addition, the treatment and disposal of large volumes of wastewater used in the fracking process is very expensive. The energy intensity of oil or gas production is also important, especially in the case of directional drilling, when the energy consumption is much higher than in traditional vertical drilling.
The present bulletin reviews patent applications granted by patent offices around the globe in 2017-2019 in the field related to energy, gas and water consumption in the process of oil and gas extraction from low permeability plays. General research methodology can be found on the Advanced Energy Technologies website. 695 patent documents from 23 patent offices around the world are represented in the bulletin. In total, 247 applicants from 15 countries and 622 subgroups of the International Patent Classification are mentioned.
Key Highlights
The bulletin contains statistical data on the distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The top three patent offices that granted the largest number of patent applications were CNIPA (CN), USPTO (US) and WIPO.
For each of the patent documents selected for the examination in the present bulletin the characteristics of unified indicators were preliminary defined, they include: technical problems, types of inventive solutions employed, belonging to one or other technological segment. This allows the internal content for each of the indicators in the aggregate array of documents to be visualized, for instance, to define the sequence and proportional correlation of technical problems the inventive solutions disclosed in the texts aim to solve. A list of the top 10 groups consisting of patent documents with identical unified indicators contains ID numbers and applicant names of respective documents; the groups are sorted by the number of patent documents.
A list of the top 10 applicants by the number of patent documents includes Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (USA), Evolution Well Services, LLC (USA), Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Arabia), Fluid Energy Group Ltd (Canada), Geomec Engineering Ltd (the United Kingdom), Downhole Technology LLC (USA), Beijing Rechsand Science & Technology Group Co., Ltd (China), Aramco Services Company, Inc. (USA), Baker Hughes Incorporated (USA), API Intellectual Property Holdings LLC (USA). Data representing the share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of documents by problems, IPC sections, patent offices is provided in the form of tables and diagrams for them.
The prominent documents pages contain the top 10 patent applications with the highest bibliographical rating, the most extensive coverage of IPC sections, and top prominent single applications.
The conclusive part of the bulletin represents the lists of all of the documents reviewed, arranged by the top 10 groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators and by patent offices with the indication of the ID numbers of the granted patents.
Who needs this bulletin?
The proposed patent statistics bulletin allows the existing trends in the intellectual property market of the specified industrial sector to be timely traced, as well as the possibility of acquiring a carefully selected list of patent documents fully corresponding to the specified subject. The bulletin can be useful for inventors, engineers, scientific workers, and business representatives, who are focused on the development of oil and gas extraction from low permeability plays.
