The HTBC Technology

Intensification of oil and gas production

The HTBC is a new intensification technology of gas and oil extraction. This is a adjustable stimulation method, equally efficient for both, the bottomhole zone and the nearborewell zone of oil collectors of almost all types. The HTBC technology provides the extraction of 50-60 percent of hydrocarbons, previously considered as virtually unrecoverable and non-separable from the formation.

The HTBC field tests have been started in the 90`s of the 20^th century and were mostly held in Ukraine, Russia, China and, subsequently, in Turkmenistan. After the initial testing in 2013 , the companies began to implement the HTBC technology under the long-term commercial contract. Nowadays, the technology is also used in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, India and Kuwait. The HTBC is also being prepared for the implementation in Qatar, the UAE, the USA and Russia.

Up to 50-60% percent of the hydrocarbons, remained in the formation, get extracted.

The HTBC Technology

*A terrigenous collector

*A carbonate collector

The technology is efficient and equally applied to the terrigenous collectors as well to the carbonate ones.

A multi-stage reagent combustion process provides a significant bottomhole zone permeability increase and general wellbore productivity growth due to the following factors:

Description of the HTBC Method

intensive physical and chemical impact of the innovative Hi-Cal underwater-burning redox compounds on the formation;

application of the innovative physical effects, such as the direct impact of the derived hydrogen and other gases jointly with heating effect

in situ petroleum coke and ARPD combustion, which causes a significant temperature rise and, respectively, oil fluidity

hydrogen penetration into the formation pores and consequent hydrogen recombination, which makes a quantum of energy to allocate into the molecule and causes the destruction of the closed pore;

colmation decrease;

skin-factor decrease.

in situ cracking (hydro conversion) and pyrolysis of high-molecular hydrocarbons and their conversion to benzene and gas fractions;