US 11,939,248 B2
System and method for using subterranean biological reactors
Dean Michael Willberg, Tucson, AZ (US); Andrew Pomerantz, Lexington, MA (US); and Thorarinn Kristjansson, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/298,011.
Application 18/298,011 is a continuation of application No. 17/251,435, granted, now 11,623,886, previously published as PCT/US2019/039002, filed on Jun. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/690,145, filed on Jun. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0265001 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. C02F 11/04 (2006.01); C02F 3/28 (2023.01); C02F 103/20 (2006.01); C09K 8/582 (2006.01); C09K 8/594 (2006.01); E21B 43/22 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 43/38 (2006.01)
CPC C02F 11/04 (2013.01) [C02F 3/2866 (2013.01); C09K 8/582 (2013.01); C09K 8/594 (2013.01); E21B 43/26 (2013.01); E21B 43/38 (2013.01); C02F 2103/20 (2013.01); C02F 2209/02 (2013.01); C02F 2209/03 (2013.01); C02F 2209/06 (2013.01); C02F 2209/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
16. A method comprising:
receiving a feedstock including a slurry of biologically derived material at a pre-reactor storage unit;
pumping, using at least one pump, effluent from the pre-reactor storage unit;
receiving, at one or more wellbores containing a subterranean biological reactor, the effluent from the pre-reactor storage unit, wherein at least a portion of the subterranean biological reactor is configured to perform anaerobic digestion upon the effluent to generate a biogas, and wherein the subterranean biological reactor comprises an agitator.