Patents Assigned to KING FAHAD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS
  • METHODS FOR WELLBORE FORMATION USING THERMOCHEMICALS
    Publication number: 20210363866
    Abstract: A method for stimulating a well includes mixing at least one thermochemical with fracturing fluid to create a fracturing fluid mixture, injecting the fracturing fluid mixture into the well, creating an exothermic reaction with the fracturing fluid mixture, generating a pressure pulse in the well from the exothermic reaction, and fracturing a formation around the well with pressure from the pressure pulse and a hydraulic pressure source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHAD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman R. Al-Nakhli, Mohammed A. Bataweel, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr El Din Mahmoud, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Zeeshan Tariq
  • REDUCTION OF BREAKDOWN PRESSURE BY FILTER CAKE REMOVAL USING THERMOCHEMICALS
    Publication number: 20210292635
    Abstract: A method for the simultaneous removal of filter cake from a wellbore and fracturing of the wellbore using a mixture including a chelating agent and a thermochemical. The method including feeding a mixture into the wellbore, contacting the filter cake with the mixture, reacting the chelating agent and the thermochemical to produce heat and pressure, removing the filter cake from the wellbore, and creating microfractures in the wellbore using pressure produced from the reacting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHAD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman R. Al-Nakhli, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr El Din Mahmoud, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Zeeshan Tariq
  • MODIFIED GRAPHENE SHALE INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20210269698
    Abstract: A water-based wellbore fluid may include an aqueous base fluid and a modified graphene shale inhibitor that comprises one or more substituents that are covalently bonded to graphene via a linking group. One of the one or more substituents may be a hydrocarbon group that has a number of carbon atoms in the range from 8 to 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHAD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS
    Inventors: Tawfik Abdo Saleh, Mohammed Khalid Al-Arfaj, Azeem A. Rana