Abstract: Cuttings from drilling through or into natural rock and/or soil can be incorporated into useful, high quality load-bearing structures such as vehicle roads and pads for deep drilling rigs. This process recycles a material previously regarded as valueless at best and often as a pollution hazard. The cuttings, optionally mixed with drilling mud and/or soil, are converted to the useful structures by pozzolanic and/or cementitious reactions after being mixed with suitable other materials and/or are bonded into the useful structures by asphaltic materials.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 26, 2009
Date of Patent:
August 30, 2011
Assignee:
Scott Environmental Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Jonathan Blake Scott, Billy Roy Scott, Jeanne McCoy Scott, legal representative, Dallas N. Little
Abstract: Cuttings from drilling through or into natural rock and/or soil can be incorporated into useful, high quality load-bearing structures such as vehicle roads and pads for deep drilling rigs. This process recycles a material previously regarded as valueless at best and often as a pollution hazard. The cuttings, optionally mixed with drilling mud and/or soil, are converted to the useful structures by pozzolanic and/or cementitious reactions after being mixed with suitable other materials and/or are bonded into the useful structures by asphaltic materials.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 26, 2009
Publication date:
May 27, 2010
Applicant:
SCOTT ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC.
Inventors:
Jonathan Blake SCOTT, Billy Roy SCOTT, Jeanne McCoy SCOTT, Dallas N. LITTLE