Patents by Inventor Danny R. Williamson

Danny R. Williamson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5373899
    Abstract: The invention controls a well during completion by first running a sealable well completion tool and string downhole from the surface and isolating a productive interval near an oil or gas formation from the remainder of the wellbore. The drilling or other fluid in the interval is displaced from the interval under control by a non-damaging fluid. Using a pressure source from the surface, the non-damaging fluid is pressurized and circulated to move the gravel to the formation face by fluid entrainment. After the gravel is separated from the entraining fluid to form a gravel pack, the oil or gas formation may now be produced through the gravel pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Union Oil Company of California
    Inventors: Eddie E. Dore', Frank L. Jones, Danny R. Williamson