WO2010093938A3 - Methods for controlling temperatures in the environments of gas and oil wells - Google Patents

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WO2010093938A3
WO2010093938A3 PCT/US2010/024120 US2010024120W WO2010093938A3 WO 2010093938 A3 WO2010093938 A3 WO 2010093938A3 US 2010024120 W US2010024120 W US 2010024120W WO 2010093938 A3 WO2010093938 A3 WO 2010093938A3
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Robert L. Horton
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B36/00—Heating, cooling, insulating arrangements for boreholes or wells, e.g. for use in permafrost zones
    • E21B36/003—Insulating arrangements

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Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling temperatures in the environments of oil, gas condensate, or gas wells. Methods are provided for reducing the melting of glaciers and ice dams through the deployment of hydrate-forming substances. Active methods involve employing a vapor-compression refrigerator/heat pump cycle in an annulus lying between the relatively hot production string and the relatively cold outer pipe. Passive methods include: deploying cold hydrate-forming fluids into the external ice-laden environment of an oil, gas condensate, or gas well in a permafrost area and allowing those hydrate forming fluids to mix with any melt-water that may be present or that may subsequently form due to the loss of heat from the oil, gas condensate, or gas well. Mixtures of the hydrate forming fluids and the melt- water will set up into a solid having a much higher melting point and a much lower thermal conductivity than those of ice.
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