Charles I Ware

8091625, Jan 10, 2012

Feb 21, 2006

11/358390

Charles H. Ware - Palm Harbor FL, US
Myron I. Kuhlman - Houston TX, US

World Energy Systems Incorporated - Fort Worth TX

E21B 36/02
E21B 43/24

166 59, 166302, 166369, 166263

A downhole burner is used for producing heavy-oil formations. Hydrogen, oxygen, and steam are pumped by separate conduits to the burner, which burns at least part of the hydrogen and forces the combustion products out into the earth formation. The steam cools the burner and becomes superheated steam, which is injected along with the combustion products into the earth formation. Carbon dioxide is also pumped down the well and injected into the formation.

8286698, Oct 16, 2012

Oct 5, 2011

13/253783

Charles H. Ware - Palm Harbor FL, US
Myron I. Kuhlman - Houston TX, US

World Energy Systems Incorporated - Fort Worth TX

E21B 36/02
E21B 43/24

166 59, 166302, 166369, 166263

A downhole burner is used for producing heavy-oil formations. Hydrogen, oxygen, and steam are pumped by separate conduits to the burner, which burns at least part of the hydrogen and forces the combustion products out into the earth formation. The steam cools the burner and becomes superheated steam, which is injected along with the combustion products into the earth formation. Carbon dioxide is also pumped down the well and injected into the formation.

8584752, Nov 19, 2013

Nov 15, 2012

13/678293

Charles H. Ware - Palm Harbor FL, US

World Energy Systems Incorporated - Fort Worth TX

E21B 43/24
E21B 43/22

1662724, 186300, 186302, 186371

Embodiments include methods for recovering petroleum products from a formation containing heavy crude oil. In one embodiment, a method includes positioning a steam generator within the petroleum-bearing formation, flowing a fuel source and an oxidizing agent into the steam generator, generating and releasing steam from the steam generator to heat the heavy crude oil, flowing a catalytic material containing a nanocatalyst into the petroleum-bearing formation, and exposing the catalytic material to the heavy crude oil. The method further provides forming lighter oil products from the heavy crude oil within the petroleum-bearing formation and extracting the lighter oil products from the petroleum-bearing formation. In some examples, the fuel source contains methane, syngas, or hydrogen gas, and the oxidizing agent contains oxygen gas, air, or oxygen enriched air. The nanocatalyst may contain cobalt, iron, nickel, molybdenum, chromium, tungsten, titanium, alloys thereof, or combinations thereof.

20060162923, Jul 27, 2006

Jan 9, 2006

11/327874

Charles Ware - Safety Harbor FL, US

E21B 43/24
E21B 43/26
E21B 43/25

166263000, 166302000, 166308100, 166059000

A method for producing viscous hydrocarbon formations involves the use of a downhole burner. The well undergoes a mild hydraulic fracturing process that limits the fractured zone to a relatively small dimension so as to avoid intersecting any drainage zones of adjacent wells. The operator pumps fuel, steam and oxygen to the burner, which bums the fuel, causing the flow of hot, gaseous fluids into the fractured zone. The steam delivered from the surface cools the burner and becomes superheated as it enters the fractured zone. The operator allows the fractured zone to soak, then produces the oil. After the production declines, the operator may repeat the fracturing to incrementally increase the fractured zone, then repeat the injection and soak cycles.