Patents Assigned to Regency Technologies, LLC
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Patent number: 8475230Abstract: An abrasive cutting or drilling system, apparatus and method, which includes an upstream supercritical fluid and/or liquid carrier fluid, abrasive particles, a nozzle and a gaseous or low-density supercritical fluid exhaust abrasive stream. The nozzle includes a throat section and, optionally, a converging inlet section, a divergent discharge section, and a feed section.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignees: The Curators of the University of Missouri, Regency Technologies LLCInventors: David Archibold Summers, Klaus Hubert Woelk, Kenneth Doyle Oglesby, Grzegorz Galecki
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Patent number: 8474529Abstract: An apparatus and a method to control rotational positioning of continuous concentric tubing that extends from a surface downhole in a subterranean well or bore. In one version, a continuous cylindrical inner tube resides within and is concentric with a cylindrical outer tube. At least one elliptical lobe extends from the continuous inner tube. The invention utilizes diameter restrictions within and attached to the outer concentric tubing so that the elliptical lobe or lobes engage the diameter restrictions. Accordingly, rotation of one tube rotates or orients the other tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Regency Technologies LLCInventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby
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Publication number: 20120309268Abstract: An abrasive cutting or drilling system, apparatus and method, which includes an upstream supercritical fluid and/or liquid carrier fluid, abrasive particles, a nozzle and a gaseous or low-density supercritical fluid exhaust abrasive stream. The nozzle includes a throat section and, optionally, a converging inlet section, a divergent discharge section, and a feed section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicants: Regency Technologies LLC, The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: David Archibold Summers, Klaus Hubert Woelk, Kenneth Doyle Oglesby, Grzegorz Galecki
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Patent number: 8257147Abstract: An abrasive cutting or drilling system, apparatus and method, which includes an upstream supercritical fluid and/or liquid carrier fluid, abrasive particles, a nozzle and a gaseous or low-density supercritical fluid exhaust abrasive stream. The nozzle includes a throat section and, optionally, a converging inlet section, a divergent discharge section, and a feed section.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Regency Technologies, LLC, The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: David Archibold Summers, Klaus Hubert Woelk, Kenneth Doyle Oglesby, Grzegorz Galecki
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Patent number: 8056251Abstract: A top plate alignment template device for subterranean drilling or boring. The template device includes a frame receivable on a ground site. A plurality of tubular guide bores are provided on the frame, with each of the guide bores arranged at an angle extending downwardly and outwardly from the frame. In one embodiment, each of the guide bores has an axis so that the axes of the guide bores extend from a common center point above the frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Regency Technologies LLCInventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby
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Patent number: 7934563Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating inverted laterals or drainholes for producing from a subterranean reservoir including the steps of lowering, positioning and securing a reverse whipstock in a wellbore. A tube is secured from the surface to a pull tube which extends through and below the reverse whipstock. Fluid is pumped from the surface and through a U-tube device below the pull tube. At least one inverted drainhole is drilled using force from the pumping fluid. The pull tube is pulled upward vertically toward the surface while pumping the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Regency Technologies LLCInventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby
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Patent number: 7794215Abstract: A high pressure slurry plunger pump is described which provides a clean fluid buffer around the suction and discharge valves of the pump and in some cases in the vicinity of the plunger seal mechanism in order to displace erosive slurry material and thus extend the life of the pump and improve pump efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Regency Technologies LLCInventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby
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Publication number: 20090194292Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating inverted laterals or drainholes having an inverted or upwardly inclining bore in a producing interval from a generally vertical wellbore and a method for drilling, completing, and producing from such a drainhole.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: REGENCY TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby
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Patent number: 7569098Abstract: A compact cyclonic separator is described which can handle mixtures of solids, liquids and gases in one vessel and provide continuous separation. The invention operates by providing tangential flow into a vertical cylindrical tube and utilizing the tangential flow and gravity to separate into a gas stream, a clean liquids stream, and a solid rich slurry mixture. Several embodiments for controlling the flow of the solid rich slurry mixture are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2006Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Regency Technologies, LLCInventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby