Title:
METHODS OF WELL TREATMENT
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2002095187
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method is disclosed relating to the treatment of a hydrocarbon well, which method comprises administering down a bore hole thermophilic microorganisms capable of generating a well treatment chemical, in particular wherein the bore hole is a producer bore hole and the well treatment chemical is a peptide such as polyAsp; further aspects include thermophilic microorganisms which have been genetically engineered to produce a well treatment chemical and bioreactors in which microorganisms generate well treatment chemicals for application to a down hole environment.
Inventors:
KOTLAR HANS KRISTIAN (NO)
HAUGEN JARLE ANDRE (NO)
HAUGEN JARLE ANDRE (NO)
Application Number:
PCT/GB2002/002359
Publication Date:
May 30, 2003
Filing Date:
May 21, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
STATOIL ASA (NO)
GARDNER REBECCA (GB)
KOTLAR HANS KRISTIAN (NO)
HAUGEN JARLE ANDRE (NO)
GARDNER REBECCA (GB)
KOTLAR HANS KRISTIAN (NO)
HAUGEN JARLE ANDRE (NO)
International Classes:
C07K14/00; C09K8/58; C09K8/582; C12N11/00; (IPC1-7): E21B43/22; C12N15/00
Domestic Patent References:
| WO1988000948A1 | 1988-02-11 |
Foreign References:
| US5250201A | 1993-10-05 | |||
| EP0365390A1 | 1990-04-25 | |||
| EP0187092A1 | 1986-07-09 |
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