AGOSTO CORPORATION LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120261142 | METHOD OF CREATING CARBONIC ACID WITHIN AN OIL MATRIX - A system and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. A system includes injecting syngas into a oil deposit to crack and hydrogenate the oil to produce upgraded oil with a reduced density and viscosity. An acid is created to increase the geological matrix within the oil deposit to allow an increase volume of upgraded oil to flow through the geological matrix. For example, condensing the syngas in the oil deposit produces condensed syngas and this can be combined with combining carbon dioxide with the condensed syngas to produce carbonic acid. The upgraded oil with reduced density and viscosity is extracted from the underground deposit to transport the upgraded oil aboveground. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261141 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING A CATALYST OCCURRING NATURALLY IN AN OIL FIELD - A system and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. A method includes injecting syngas into the oil deposit for processing the oil to produce upgraded oil with a reduced density and viscosity. A natural catalytic bed of the oil deposit is utilized to aid a rate of processing the oil into upgraded oil. The upgraded oil with reduced density and viscosity is extracted from the underground oil deposit by transporting the upgraded oil aboveground. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261123 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A VOLUME OF HYDROGEN INPUT AND THE AMOUNT OF OIL TAKEN OUT OF A NATURALLY OCCURRING OIL FILED - A system and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. A method includes injecting a mixture of oxygen, steam and oil into an injection well to upgrade oil in an oil deposit below ground to decrease the viscosity of the oil to product upgraded oil. The upgraded oil is extracted with a production well to bring upgraded oil aboveground. The method monitors at least one characteristic of the upgraded oil to determine when the at least on characteristic exceed a threshold. The mixture of oxygen, steam and oil is adjusted when the at least one characteristic exceeds the threshold value so that the mixture of oxygen, steam and oil does not exceed the threshold. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261122 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING LOW VISCOSITY OIL FROM AN OIL FIELD - A system, apparatus and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. An apparatus for extracting low viscosity oil from an oil field includes a gasification unit to generate syngas adapted to hydrogenate and hydrocrack high viscosity oil to produce low viscosity oil. At least one injection well injects the syngas belowground to a location near an upper portion of an oil deposit. At least one production well for recovering and bringing aboveground at least some low viscosity oil that was high viscosity oil that was at least partially hydrogenated and cracked by the syngas to produce the low viscosity oil. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261121 | METHOD OF REDUCING OIL BENEATH THE GROUND - A system and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. A method for extracting oil from underground deposits includes generating a high pressure, high temperature syngas. The method injects the syngas into a deposit of oil under the ground to crack and hydrogenate the oil to produce upgraded oil with a reduced density and viscosity. The reduced density and viscosity oil is extracted from the underground deposits to transport the reduced viscosity oil aboveground. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261119 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING CARBON DIOXIDE IN SITU - A system and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. A system includes injecting carbon dioxide and syngas into a deposit of oil under the ground to crack and hydrogenate the heavy oil to produce upgraded oil with a reduced density and reduced viscosity. The carbon dioxide acts as a pressurization agent to further reduce the viscosity of the heavy oil. The method transports the reduced density and reduced viscosity oil aboveground. The carbon dioxide is left underground after the reduced viscosity oil is transported aboveground. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261112 | SYSTEM FOR REDUCING OIL BENEATH THE GROUND - A system and method for cracking, hydrogenating and extracting oil from underground deposits is presented. A system includes a gasifier, an injection well and a production well. The gasifier creates high pressure, high temperature syngas. The pressurized syngas flows through an injection well into a deposit of oil under the ground to crack and hydrogenate the oil to produce upgraded oil with a reduced density and viscosity. The production well of the system receives the reduced density and viscosity oil, transports it above the ground where it may be further separated into a portion that may be sold and a portion that can be gasified in the gasifier. | 10-18-2012 |