Patents by Inventor Robert S. Taylor
Robert S. Taylor 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).
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Patent number: 7264047Abstract: The present disclosure addressed apparatus and methods for forming an annular isolator in a borehole after installation of production tubing. Annular seal means are carried in or on production tubing as it is run into a borehole. In conjunction with expansion of the tubing, the seal is deployed to form an annular isolator. An inflatable element carried on the tubing may be inflated with a fluid carried in the tubing and forced into the inflatable element during expansion of the tubing. Reactive chemicals may be carried in the tubing and injected into the annulus to react with each other and ambient fluids to increase in volume and harden into an annular seal. An elastomeric sleeve, ring or band carried on the tubing may be expanded into contact with a borehole wall and may have its radial dimension increased in conjunction with tubing expansion to form an annular isolator.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael M. Brezinski, Gregory B. Chitwood, Gary P. Funkhouser, Jody R. McGlothen, Thomas W. Ray, Robert S. Taylor, Bradley L. Todd
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Patent number: 7261158Abstract: A method of fracturing a subterranean formation comprising the steps of: providing a coarse-foamed fracturing fluid comprising a liquid fracturing fluid component, a gas, proppant particulates, and a foaming agent; and placing the coarse-foamed fracturing fluid into a portion of a subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to create or extend at least one fracture therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Richard L. Middaugh, Phillip C. Harris, Stanley J. Heath, Robert S. Taylor, Ottmar F. Hoch, Max L. Phillippi, Billy F. Slabaugh, John M. Terracina
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Patent number: 7252142Abstract: The present disclosure addressed apparatus and methods for forming an annular isolator in a borehole after installation of production tubing. Annular seal means are carried in or on production tubing as it is run into a borehole. In conjunction with expansion of the tubing, the seal is deployed to form an annular isolator. An inflatable element carried on the tubing may be inflated with a fluid carried in the tubing and forced into the inflatable element during expansion of the tubing. Reactive chemicals may be carried in the tubing and injected into the annulus to react with each other and ambient fluids to increase in volume and harden into an annular seal. An elastomeric sleeve, ring or band carried on the tubing may be expanded into contact with a borehole wall and may have its radial dimension increased in conjunction with tubing expansion to form an annular isolator.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael M. Brezinski, Gregory B. Chitwood, Ralph H. Echols, Gary P. Funkhouser, John C. Gano, Paul I. Herman, Marion D. Kilgore, Ronald J. Powell, Thomas W. Ray, Michael W. Sanders, Robert S. Taylor, Bradley L. Todd, Cynthia Tuckness
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Patent number: 7238646Abstract: A method for using an invert emulsion fluid in a well bore, comprising placing an invert emulsion fluid in a well bore, wherein the invert emulsion fluid comprises an oleaginous fluid, a non-oleaginous fluid and an emulsifier comprising one or more amines generally represented by the formula: wherein R is a radical selected from the group consisting of abietyl, hydroabietyl, dihydroabietyl, tetrahydroabietyl, and dehydroabietyl, each R? may be the same or different and is an alkyl having from about 1 to about 3 carbons, each A may be the same or different and is NH or O, and the sum of x and y ranges from about 1 to about 20, and contacting the invert emulsion fluid with an acid solution to reversibly convert the invert emulsion to an oil-in-water emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Carl J. Thaemlitz, Robert S. Taylor, Ryan M. Foster
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Patent number: 7168490Abstract: The present invention relates to servicing fluids for use in subterranean operations. More particularly, the present invention relates to improved servicing fluids comprising optimized hydrocarbon blends and methods of using such servicing fluids in subterranean formations. One embodiment of the preset invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation comprising the steps of providing a servicing fluid comprising a hydrocarbon blend wherein the hydrocarbon blend comprises at least about 65% hydrocarbons having from 6 carbons (C6) to eleven carbons (C11); and placing the servicing fluid into the subterranean formation. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a subterranean servicing fluid comprising a hydrocarbon blend wherein the hydrocarbon blend comprises at least about 65% hydrocarbons having from 6 carbons (C6) to eleven carbons (C11).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignees: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, Robert S. Lestz, Audis Byrd, Ronald G. Dusterhoft, David Attaway, Gary P. Funkhouser
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Patent number: 7140440Abstract: Methods for cementing in a subterranean zone, which use a cement composition that includes zeolite, cementitious material, proportioned fluid loss control additives and a mixing fluid. Cement compositions containing proportioned fluid loss control additives, and methods of making cement compositions containing proportioned fluid loss control additives.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2004Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Karen Luke, Russell M. Fitzgerald, Robert S. Taylor, Keith A. Rispler, Glen C. Fyten
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Patent number: 7125826Abstract: Methods of using invertible oil external-water internal emulsions in drilling, hydraulic fracturing, gravel packing and completion and then inverting the emulsion to a water external-oil internal emulsion are provided. The methods basically comprise the steps of contacting the oil external-water internal emulsion with an aqueous acid solution containing an anionic sulfonate surfactant for preventing aqueous acid solution-crude oil emulsions and crude oil sludging and a chemical for preventing the anionic sulfonate surfactant from reacting with the emulsifier in the oil external-water internal emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, David W. Ritter
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Patent number: 7036597Abstract: The present invention relates to fluid systems comprising a first fluid comprising carbon dioxide and a second fluid comprising an alkaline crosslinked fluid. The fluid combinations of the present invention may be used, for example, in hydraulic fracturing, frac-packing, and gravel packing. Some embodiments of the present invention provide systems for treating a subterranean formation comprising a first fluid comprising a foamed carbon dioxide fluid, an emulsion of carbon dioxide, or a carbon dioxide gel; and, a second fluid comprising an alkaline crosslinked fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignees: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Anadarko Petroleum CorporationInventors: Crispin O'Brien, Kyong Joe Lee, Robert S. Taylor, Phillip C. Harris
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Patent number: 6989354Abstract: An invert emulsion fluid, method for making same, and method for using same as a servicing fluid in a well bore. The invert emulsion fluid contains an oleaginous fluid, a non-oleaginous fluid, and an emulsifier comprising one or more amines generally represented by the formula: wherein R is a cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon, each R? may be the same or different and is H or an alkyl having from about 1 to about 3 carbon atoms, each A may be the same or different and is NH or O, and the sum of x and y ranges from about 1 to about 20. In a preferred embodiment, R is a radical selected from the group consisting of abietyl, dihydroabietyl, tetrahydroabietyl, and dehydroabietyl, R? is H, and A is O.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Carl J. Thaemlitz, Robert S. Taylor, Ryan M. Foster
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Patent number: 6854522Abstract: The present disclosure addressed apparatus and methods for forming an annular isolator in a borehole after installation of production tubing. Annular seal means are carried in or on production tubing as it is run into a borehole. In conjunction with expansion of the tubing, the seal is deployed to form an annular isolator. An inflatable element carried on the tubing may be inflated with a fluid carried in the tubing and forced into the inflatable element during expansion of the tubing. Reactive chemicals may be carried in the tubing and injected into the annulus to react with each other and ambient fluids to increase in volume and harden into an annular seal. An elastomeric sleeve, ring or band carried on the tubing may be expanded into contact with a borehole wall and may have its radial dimension increased in conjunction with tubing expansion to form an annular isolator.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2002Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael M. Brezinski, Gregory B. Chitwood, Ralph H. Echols, Gary P. Funkhouser, John C. Gano, William D. Henderson, Paul I. Herman, Marion D. Kilgore, Jody R. McGlothen, Ronald J. Powell, Alex Procyk, Thomas W. Ray, Michael W. Sanders, Roger L. Schultz, David J. Steele, Robert S. Taylor, Bradley L. Todd, Cynthia Tuckness
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Publication number: 20040244977Abstract: Methods for cementing in a subterranean zone, which use a cement composition that includes zeolite, cementitious material, proportioned fluid loss control additives and a mixing fluid. Cement compositions containing proportioned fluid loss control additives, and methods of making cement compositions containing proportioned fluid loss control additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Karen Luke, Russell M. Fitzgerald, Robert S. Taylor, Keith A. Rispler, Glen C. Fyten
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Publication number: 20040214728Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation comprising the steps of providing a gelled liquid hydrocarbon treatment fluid comprising a liquid hydrocarbon and a gelling agent that comprises a polyvalent metal salt of an organophosphonic acid ester or a polyvalent metal salt of an organophosphinic acid, and treating the subterranean formation with the gelled liquid hydrocarbon treatment fluid. The gelled liquid hydrocarbon treatment fluids of the present invention are suitable for use in subterranean treatment operations, such as subterranean stimulation and sand control treatments like fracturing and gravel packing, that may be carried out in subterranean formations for the production of hydrocarbons. The compositions and methods of the present invention also may be suitable, for example, to be used as plugging agents, well bore cleanup fluids, viscous sweep fluids, or insulating fluids to be used in associated methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, Gary P. Funkhouser, Michael A. McCabe, B. Raghava Reddy
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Publication number: 20040147404Abstract: An invert emulsion fluid, method for making same, and method for using same as a servicing fluid in a well bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Carl J. Thaemlitz, Robert S. Taylor, Ryan M. Foster
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Publication number: 20040055758Abstract: The present disclosure addressed apparatus and methods for forming an annular isolator in a borehole after installation of production tubing. Annular seal means are carried in or on production tubing as it is run into a borehole. In conjunction with expansion of the tubing, the seal is deployed to form an annular isolator. An inflatable element carried on the tubing may be inflated with a fluid carried in the tubing and forced into the inflatable element during expansion of the tubing. Reactive chemicals may be carried in the tubing and injected into the annulus to react with each other and ambient fluids to increase in volume and harden into an annular seal. An elastomeric sleeve, ring or band carried on the tubing may be expanded into contact with a borehole wall and may have its radial dimension increased in conjunction with tubing expansion to form an annular isolator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2002Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Michael M. Brezinski, Gregory B. Chitwood, Ralph H. Echols, Gary P. Funkhouser, John C. Gano, William D. Henderson, Paul I. Herman, Marion D. Kilgore, Jody R. McGlothen, Ronald J. Powell, Alex Procyk, Thomas W. Ray, Michael W. Sanders, Roger L. Schultz, David J. Steele, Robert S. Taylor, Bradley L. Todd, Cynthia Tuckness
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Publication number: 20040023817Abstract: Methods of using invertible oil external-water internal emulsions in drilling, hydraulic fracturing, gravel packing and completion and then inverting the emulsion to a water external-oil internal emulsion are provided. The methods basically comprise the steps of contacting the oil external-water internal emulsion with an aqueous acid solution containing an anionic sulfonate surfactant for preventing aqueous acid solution-crude oil emulsions and crude oil sludging and a chemical for preventing the anionic sulfonate surfactant from reacting with the emulsifier in the oil external-water internal emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, David W. Ritter
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Publication number: 20030228985Abstract: Improved methods and compositions for treating subterranean formations penetrated by well bores are provided. A method for breaking a gelled hydrocarbon fluid comprised of a hydrocarbon liquid, a ferric iron or aluminum polyvalent metal salt of a phosphonic acid ester or dialkylphosphinic acid is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, Gary P. Funkhouser
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Publication number: 20030192366Abstract: The current invention provides a method for determining the rheology of a mixture of gelled hydrocarbon and liquid carbon dioxide. The method of the current invention precludes the negative impact of the Weissenberg effect when determining the rheology of a non-Newtonian fluid. Additionally, the method of the current invention produces a homogenous mixture without generating the Weissenberg effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2002Publication date: October 16, 2003Inventor: Robert S. Taylor
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Patent number: 6629451Abstract: The current invention provides a method for determining the rheology of a mixture of gelled hydrocarbon and liquid carbon dioxide. The method of the current invention precludes the negative impact of the Weissenberg effect when determining the rheology of a non-Newtonian fluid. Additionally, the method of the current invention produces a homogenous mixture without generating the Weissenberg effect.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Robert S. Taylor
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Patent number: 6608006Abstract: Methods of drilling well bores using an invertible oil external-water internal emulsion drilling fluid and then inverting the drilling fluid to a water external-oil internal emulsion are provided. The methods basically comprise the steps of contacting the oil external-water internal emulsion with an aqueous acid solution containing an anionic sulfonate surfactant for preventing aqueous acid solution-crude oil emulsions and crude oil sludging and a chemical for preventing the anionic sulfonate surfactant from reacting with the emulsifier in the oil external-water internal emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2001Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, Suzanne Arnold, Tommy R. Gardner, Karen L. King
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Patent number: 6544934Abstract: Improved methods and compositions for treating subterranean formations penetrated by well bores are provided. A method for breaking a gelled hydrocarbon fluid comprised of a hydrocarbon liquid, a ferric iron or aluminum polyvalent metal salt of a phosphonic or phosphoric acid ester is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Taylor, Gary P. Funkhouser