Patents by Inventor Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative

Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative 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).

  • Methods and compositions for enhancing guar hydration rates and performing guar derivitization reactions
    Patent number: 8268757
    Abstract: Methods are provided that include, but are not limited to, methods of treating guar splits comprising: exposing guar splits to a treatment chemical to create treated guar splits, wherein the treatment chemical comprises at least one treatment chemical selected from the group consisting of: an aqueous salt solution; a caustic solution, and a derivatizing agent; and grinding the treated guar splits to create ground, treated guar splits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmie D. Weaver, Robert E. Hanes, Jr., Billy Slabaugh, Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative
  • Methods for treating a well by simultaneously introducing into a mixer streams of water, a viscosity-increasing agent, and a particulate and introducing the mixture into the well
    Patent number: 7931088
    Abstract: A method is provided for treating at least a portion of a well. The method includes the steps of: (a) simultaneously introducing into a mixer at least: (i) a first stream comprising water; (ii) a second stream comprising a dry, hydratable, viscosity-increasing agent for water, wherein the second stream is substantially free of water; and (iii) a third stream comprising a non-hydratable, insoluble particulate; wherein at least the first and second streams are not mixed prior to being introduced into the mixer; (b) mixing the first, second, and third streams in the mixer to form a pumpable mixture, wherein: (i) the mixer creates at least a sufficiently-high shear rate to disperse the viscosity-increasing agent and the insoluble particulate in the pumpable mixture; and (ii) the pumpable mixture has or is capable of developing a substantially-higher viscosity than the viscosity of the first stream; and (c) introducing a treatment fluid comprising the pumpable mixture into a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Max L. Phillippi, Billy Slabaugh, Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative
  • Methods of pumping fluids having different concentrations of particulate at different average bulk fluid velocities to reduce pump wear and maintenance in the forming and delivering of a treatment fluid into a wellbore
    Patent number: 7621329
    Abstract: The invention is for a method of forming and delivering a treatment fluid into a wellbore. In one aspect, a method is provided for pumping a first fluid having a relatively high concentration of a particulate suspended therein and pumping a second fluid having either none of the particulate or a relatively low concentration of the particulate suspended therein, and then merging at least the first and second fluids to form a treatment fluid having a merged concentration of the particulate. According to this aspect, the first fluid has a relatively high concentration of a hydratable additive and the second fluid has either none or a relatively low concentration of the hydratable additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Case, Michael Segura, Harold Walters, Jason Bryant, Herbert Horinek, Jonn Thompson, Von Parkey, Shaun Burns, Billy Slabaugh, Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative
  • Methods of pumping fluids having different concentrations of particulate with different concentrations of hydratable additive to reduce pump wear and maintenance in the forming and delivering of a treatment fluid into a wellbore
    Patent number: 7621328
    Abstract: The invention is for a method of forming and delivering a treatment fluid into a wellbore. In one aspect, a method is provided for pumping a first fluid having a relatively high concentration of a particulate suspended therein and pumping a second fluid having either none of the particulate or a relatively low concentration of the particulate suspended therein, and then merging at least the first and second fluids to form a treatment fluid having a merged concentration of the particulate. According to this aspect, the first fluid has a relatively high concentration of a hydratable additive and the second fluid has either none or a relatively low concentration of the hydratable additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Case, Michael Segura, Harold Walters, Jason Bryant, Herbert Horinek, Jonn Thompson, Von Parkey, Shaun Bums, Billy Slabaugh, Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative
  • Methods of using a lower-quality water for use as some of the water in the forming and delivering of a treatment fluid into a wellbore
    Patent number: 7621330
    Abstract: The invention is for a method of forming and delivering a treatment fluid into a wellbore. In one aspect, a method is provided for pumping a first fluid having a relatively high concentration of a particulate suspended therein and pumping a second fluid having either none of the particulate or a relatively low concentration of the particulate suspended therein, and then merging at least the first and second fluids to form a treatment fluid having a merged concentration of the particulate. According to this aspect, the first fluid has a relatively high concentration of a hydratable additive and the second fluid has either none or a relatively low concentration of the hydratable additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold Walters, Jason Bryant, Leonard Case, Jonn Thompson, Michael Segura, Herbert Hornick, Von Parkey, Shaun Burns, Billy Francis Slabaugh, Jr., Tommy Slabaugh, legal representative