METHOD AND APPARATUS OF USING HEAT GENERATED BY SINGLE WELL ENGINEERED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM (SWEGS) TO HEAT OIL LADEN ROCK OR ROCK WITH PERMEABLE FLUID CONTENT FOR ENHANCE OIL RECOVERY

摘要

Apparatus is provided having a heat extraction system for generating geothermal heat from within a drilled well, comprising: a heat conductive material injected into an area within a heat nest near a bottom of a drilled well between a heat exchanging element and rock, and any fluid around the rock, surrounding the heat nest to form a closed-loop solid state heat exchange to heat contents of a piping system flowing into and out of the heat exchanging element at an equilibrium temperature at which the rock surrounding the heat nest and generating the geothermal heat continually recoups the geothermal heat that the rock is conducting to the heat conductive material and above which the geothermal heat generated by the rock surrounding the heat nest dissipates as the heat conductive material conducts heat from the rock surrounding the heat nest to the heat exchanging element, the heat conductive material configured to solidify to substantially fill the area within the heat nest to transfer heat from the rock surrounding the heat nest and the heat exchanging element, the piping system configured to bring the contents from a surface of the well into the heat nest and carry heated contents to the surface of the well from the heat nest, and the closed-loop solid state heat exchange configured to extract geothermal heat from the well without exposing the rock surrounding the heat nest to a liquid flow, and provide heated contents to the piping system for further processing; and an enhanced oil recovery apparatus configured to receive the heated content and to further process the heated content in order to deliver heat to oil in an oil reservoir to decrease substantially the viscosity of the oil and increase substantially oil recovery of the oil in the oil reservoir.