US 12,221,871 B2
Method, apparatus, real time modeling and control system, for steam and steam with super-heat for enhanced oil and gas recovery
James Charles Juranitch, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US); Raymond Clifford Skinner, Coral Springs, FL (US); and Alan Craig Reynolds, Novi, MI (US)
Assigned to HEAT IP HOLDCO, LLC, Aberdeen (GB)
Filed by HEAT IP HOLDCO, LLC, Aberdeen (GB)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/133,066.
Application 18/133,066 is a continuation of application No. 17/133,922, filed on Dec. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,655,698.
Application 17/133,922 is a continuation of application No. 16/074,607, granted, now 10,895,137, issued on Jan. 19, 2021, previously published as PCT/US2017/016244, filed on Feb. 2, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/298,453, filed on Feb. 22, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/290,214, filed on Feb. 2, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0392486 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E21B 43/24 (2006.01); F22G 5/18 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/2406 (2013.01) [E21B 43/24 (2013.01); F22G 5/18 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for steam injection, comprising:
a boiler in fluid communication with a well, wherein the boiler is configured to produce steam, and wherein a real time control system controls steam flow levels with or without super-heat to the well using a temperature feedback;
a control table selected from the group consisting of a discontinuous control table and a continuous control table; and
a supervisory loop configured to invoke optimum steam flow conditions, wherein the control table accounts for a feedback selected from the group consisting of an ambient temperature and a humidity of an environment in which the system is disposed.