| TOTAL SA Patent applications |
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| 20120122176 | CELLULASE CEL5H RELATED REAGENTS AND THEIR USE IN MICROORGANISMS - The invention relates to applications of the cellulase Cel5H of | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120118879 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING HYDROCARBONS BY IN-SITU ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING OF AN UNDERGROUND FORMATION - The disclosure relates to a plant for extracting hydrocarbons contained in an underground formation including:
| 05-17-2012 |
| 20120097215 | Method For Manufacturing Photovoltaic Cells With Multiple Junctions And Multiple Electrodes - A photovoltaic device and method of manufacture of a photovoltaic device including an assembly of at least two photovoltaic cells; and a lamination material inserted between each photovoltaic cell, each photovoltaic cell including: two current output terminals; at least one photovoltaic junction; current collection buses; and connection strips extending from the current collection buses to the current output terminals, all the current output terminals being placed on a single surface of the photovoltaic device. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120068547 | ELECTRONIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS - An electronic management system for a photovoltaic generator is disclosed herein. The, the electronic management system comprises a plurality of static microconverters, each microconverter being electrically connected to one or more photovoltaic cells, the one or more photovoltaic cells forming a portion of a whole of the cells of the generator, a reconfiguration module adapted for transmitting energy flows from said microconverters towards a load, and a central electronic unit adapted for controlling a modification of the energy flows transmitted by said at least one reconfiguration module. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120034106 | Ejector Device for Forming a Pressurized Mixture of Liquid and Gas, and Use Therefore - Ejector device for forming a pressurized mixture of liquid and gas, comprising a suction chamber and a diffuser. The suction chamber comprises an injection nozzle for producing a jet of liquid flowing in a longitudinal direction, a gas inlet for admitting into the suction chamber a gas to be driven by the liquid jet, and an outlet opening for discharging the liquid jet and the driven gas from the suction chamber. The diffuser is connected to the outlet opening of the suction chamber and has, in the longitudinal direction, a transversal section that increases from the outlet opening, the diffuser being situated immediately after the outlet opening of the suction chamber. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20110294184 | CELLULOLYTIC POLYPEPTIDES AND THEIR USE IN MICRO-ORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SOLVENTS AND FUELS - The invention relates to applications of a cellulase of | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110260051 | METHOD FOR DETECTING TRACER COMPOUNDS FOR HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION - The invention concerns a method for surveying a subsurface formation containing hydrocarbons, comprising:
| 10-27-2011 |
| 20110240090 | PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE INCLUDING A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODE HAVING A VARIABLE THICKNESS, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A photovoltaic module includes at least two photovoltaic cells in series, each rectangular cell including, respectively, a first rear thin film electrode, a photovoltaic stack having at least two active materials included between the rear electrode and a transparent conductive electrode made of a thin film, the electrode TC being capable of collecting and transmitting an electric current generated by the photovoltaic stack, the two photovoltaic cells being electrically connected in series by an electrical contact strip that is included between the electrode TC of the first cell and the rear electrode of the second cell. The local thickness of the electrode TC of the cell varies as a function of the distance to the electrical contact strip. Also described are methods for depositing and etching the transparent conductive film so as to simultaneously manufacture a plurality of cells for a single module. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110236943 | BIOPROCESSING LIGNO-CELLULOSE INTO ETHANOL WITH RECOMBINANT CLOSTRIDIUM - The present invention relates, inter alia, to recombinant Gram-positive Clostridia host cells for producing solvents, fuels and/or chemical intermediates, and preferably ethanol, from plant cell walls comprising: (a) at least one nucleic acid encoding a plant cell wall degrading enzyme, wherein the host cells produce and secrete the plant cell wall degrading enzyme, (b) at least one nucleic acid encoding an enzyme that converts pyruvate to acetaldehyde and at least one nucleic acid encoding an enzyme that converts acetaldehyde to ethanol wherein the host cell is capable of expressing said nucleic acid, and, (c) a mutation in at least one nucleic acid encoding for an enzyme in a metabolic pathway which produces a metabolite other than acetaldehyde from pyruvate or ethanol from acetaldehyde, such that the mutation results in a reduced production of the metabolite. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110231170 | ESTIMATION OF LITHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF A GEOLOGICAL ZONE - A method of estimating lithologic properties of a geological zone represented by a grid, in which method facies are allocated to the nodes of the grid by sequential stochastic simulation. For a target node (x | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110129876 | Constructs and Methods for the Production and Secretion of Polypeptides - Described herein are molecules, constructs and methods for the production and secretion of polypeptides of interest by host cells, preferably bacterial host cells, and more particularly gram positive bacteria. In particular, the present invention is related to a polynucleic acid encoding a fusion protein and to uses thereof for the secretion of heterologous or homologous polypeptides of interest by a bacterial host cell, preferably | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110077922 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OILFIELD SIMULATION OPERATIONS - The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one wellsite, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method includes determining a time-step for simulating the reservoir, the reservoir being represented as a plurality of gridded cells and being modeled as a multi-phase system using a plurality of partial differential equations, calculating a plurality of Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) conditions of the reservoir model corresponding to the time-step, the plurality of CFL conditions comprising a temperature CFL condition, a composition CFL condition, and a saturation CFL condition, simulating a first cell of the plurality of gridded cells with an Implicit Pressure, Explicit Saturations (IMPES) system, and simulating a second cell of the plurality of gridded cells with a Fully Implicit Method (FIM) system. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110005751 | PRODUCTION OF STEAM AND ITS APPLICATION TO ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY - The invention relates to a method for producing steam comprising the successive steps of:
| 01-13-2011 |
| 20100300759 | DRILLING FLUID CONTAINING CARBON NANOTUBES - The present invention relates to a viscoelastic drilling fluid for drilling in underground rock formations, comprising
| 12-02-2010 |
| 20100232651 | Method of Processing Seismic Images of the Subsurface - The processing comprises an analysis of a seismic image to estimate seismic horizons in an area of the subsurface and the calculation of an accumulation value associated with each pixel of the seismic image by accumulation along a set of estimated seismic horizons to form a synthesized image composed of accumulation values. This synthesized image is transformed to obtain a seismic representation in which signed amplitudes are allocated to the pixels of the synthesized image. The transformation may comprise a combination with the original seismic image or else a convolution with a wavelet or another convolution kernel. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100200223 | METHOD FOR HEATING A HYDROCARBONS RESERVOIR - A method is proposed for heating a hydrocarbons reservoir, comprising
| 08-12-2010 |
| 20100185424 | Method, Program and Computer System for Conciliating Hydrocarbon Reservoir Model Data - A method, program and computer system for conciliating hydrocarbon reservoir model data are provided. This method, implemented by means of a computer, comprises the steps of:
| 07-22-2010 |
| 20100133013 | BIT FOR DRILLING WELLS AND ASSOCIATED DRILLING METHOD - The invention relates to a bit for drilling wells comprising:—a front face,—a plurality of radial blades ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100121580 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF A GEOLOGICAL FORMATION - A well passing through a geological formation is fitted with a tube, open at its bottom end, that is filled with a fluid. Another fluid is in the annular space between the tube and the wall of the well, the two fluids exhibiting an interface situated in the annular space. A hydraulic balance of the fluids of the well is disturbed and the trend of certain quantities is measured. These measurements are moreover simulated by computer by using different sets of values for the physical parameters, and efforts are made to estimate the geological formation. A comparison of the measurements with the simulation results makes it possible to identify an optimum set of values for the parameters. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100083696 | METHOD FOR PURIFYING A GAS MIXTURE CONTAINING ACID GASES - A method for treating a gas mixture containing acid gases is provided, comprising: contacting the gas mixture with an absorbing solution, by means of which a de-acidified gas mixture and an absorbing solution loaded with acid gases may be obtained; and regenerating the absorbing solution loaded with acid gases;
| 04-08-2010 |
| 20090238039 | Method and Program for Fracture Plane Reconstruction - The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090095533 | SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEM FOR DRILLING A DRAINHOLE - A self-contained system for drilling a drainhole laterally to a wellbore that includes a drill head with a tool for boring a drainhole and a self-propelled device for advancing the head into the drainhole during boring; a relay unit lowered into the wellbore, arranged to position the drill head against the sidewall of the wellbore in order to initiate the boring of the drainhole laterally to the wellbore; a cable for supplying electric power to the drill head, reeled out from the relay unit; and a mechanical system for removing cuttings from the drainhole during boring, the debris removed falling downhole. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090055141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OILFIELD SIMULATION OPERATIONS - The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one wellsite, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method includes determining a time-step for simulating the reservoir using a reservoir model, the reservoir being represented as a plurality of gridded cells and being modeled as a multi-phase system using a plurality of partial differential equations, calculating a plurality of Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) conditions of the reservoir model corresponding to the time-step, the plurality of CFL conditions being calculated for each of the plurality of gridded cells and comprising a temperature CFL condition, a composition CFL condition, and a saturation CFL condition calculated concurrently, simulating a first cell of the plurality of gridded cells using the reservoir model with an Implicit Pressure, Explicit Saturations (IMPES) system to obtain a first simulation result, the first cell having no CFL condition of the plurality of CFL conditions with a value greater than one, and simulating a second cell of the plurality of gridded cells using the reservoir model with a Fully Implicit Method (FIM) system to obtain a second simulation result, the second cell having at least one CFL condition of the plurality of CFL conditions with a value greater than one, and performing the oilfield operation based on the first and second simulation results. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20080291781 | PROCESS AND PROGRAM FOR CHARACTERISING EVOLUTION OF AN OIL RESERVOIR OVER TIME - Evolution of an hydrocarbon reservoir in the process of producing is carried out by co-analyzing the changes in the propagation times and seismic amplitudes of a seismic wavelet along propagation paths in the ground. A base survey of the reservoir is provided, with a set of seismic traces at a first time T associated to a first velocity field V | 11-27-2008 |
