Patents Examined by Aiqun Li
  • Patent number: 11952533
    Abstract: A breaker composition comprising (i) an acid precursor, (ii) an accelerating agent wherein the accelerating agent comprises a Lewis acid and (iii) an aqueous fluid wherein the effective operating temperature of the breaker composition ranges from about 15° C. to about 120° C. A wellbore servicing system comprising (a) an aqueous-based drilling fluid, wherein the aqueous-based drilling fluid forms water-wet solids in the wellbore; and (b) a breaker composition comprising (i) an acid, (ii) an accelerating agent and (iii) an aqueous fluid. A method of dissolving a filtercake comprising contacting the filtercake with a breaker solution comprising (i) an acid precursor, (ii) an accelerating agent and (iii) an aqueous fluid wherein the filtercake comprises calcium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhau Anantha Kuchik, V. Ramireddy Devarapalli, Sunita S. Kadam
  • Patent number: 11955661
    Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a cathode, an anode, a separator and a binding layer. The separator is disposed between the cathode and the anode, and at least one binding layer is included between the cathode and the anode. The binding layer includes a high molecular polymer. A dielectric constant of the high molecular polymer is 5 F/m to 50 F/m. By optimizing the dielectric constant of the high molecular polymer in the binding layer of the electrochemical device, a binding force of the binding layer can be effectively increased, deformation of the anode or the cathode due to volume swelling during charge and discharge cycles is reduced, and peeling from the separator is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Rui Wang
  • Patent number: 11926789
    Abstract: A brine-based viscosified pill including (1) a viscosified brine, (2) a surfactant-solvent blend containing about 5 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of at least one nonionic surfactant; about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of at least one polyglycerol ester, about 20 wt. % to about 60 wt. % of at least one co-solvent; about 20 wt. % to about 25 wt. % water; and optionally about 1 wt. % to about 15 wt. % of at least one hydrophobic solvent, and (3) no solid weighting agent, may be introduced to a wellbore in an effective amount to clean the wellbore or displace fluid in the wellbore at a wide range of temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Dorianne Castillo, Erna Kakadjian, Saniya Syed
  • Patent number: 11923565
    Abstract: A battery module is provided including a battery unit that includes a battery top cover; a temperature measurement unit, including a temperature collection element to collect temperature of the battery top cover; a harness plate, arranged on the battery top cover and including a harness plate body and a limiting structure arranged on the harness plate body, wherein the limiting structure is matched with the temperature measurement unit; a circuit board, arranged on the harness plate and including a circuit board body and an extending strip arranged on the circuit board body, wherein the temperature collection element is connected with the extending strip; and an electrical connecting sheet arranged on the harness plate to connect different battery units, wherein the temperature measurement unit is arranged between the electrical connecting sheet and the battery top cover, and the electrical connecting sheet exerts pressure onto the temperature measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Gen Cao, Jihua Yao, Huayuan Cao, Xingyuan Wu, Xiaoteng Huang
  • Patent number: 11920083
    Abstract: This invention relates to a surfactant composition, production and use thereof in tertiary oil recovery. The present surfactant composition comprises a cationic surfactant and an anionic-nonionic surfactant, and exhibits significantly improved interfacial activity and stability as compared with the prior art. With the present surfactant composition, a flooding fluid composition for tertiary oil recovery with improved oil displacement efficiency and oil washing capability as compared with the prior art could be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SINOPEC
    Inventors: Yingcheng Li, Songyuan Gu, Weidong Zhang, Xinning Bao, Zhiqin Shen, Hengzhi Tang, Xiaodong Zhai
  • Patent number: 11912928
    Abstract: A composition is for making a drilling fluid a non-invasive drilling fluid. The composition has a first component comprising particles having a scratch hardness above 2 Mohs and a second component comprising particles selected from the group of fragmented seeds of Tamarindus indica, comminuted bark from Litsea glutinosa, or comminuted Ocimum tenuiflorum. Also disclosed is a non-invasive drilling fluid having the composition, and a method for drilling a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: European Mud Company AS
    Inventors: Jan Kristian Vasshus, Karl Ronny Klungtvedt, Swapan Kumar Mandal
  • Patent number: 11912934
    Abstract: The instant invention friction reducer formulation comprising friction reducer polymers such as PAM within the dispersed phase of an inverse emulsion containing a composition C which comprises a mixture of: —at least an alkanolamide emulsifier; and —a block copolymer comprising: —a hydrophilic block A comprising units deriving from a mono-alpha-ethylenically-unsaturated monomers; and —a hydrophobic block B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Helène Martin, Patrick Moreau, Arnaud Cadix
  • Patent number: 11912925
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for increasing recovery, or flowback, of hydrocarbon compounds from hydrocarbon-containing subterranean fractured rock formations (tight shale reservoirs). The flowback compositions include an anionic dimer surfactant, an anionic monomer surfactant, and a demulsifier. The flowback compositions convert oil-wet rocks to water-wet, yet exhibit a low tendency of composition components to sorb to the rock. The flowback compositions do not cause formation of emulsions with hydrocarbon compounds within the subterranean fractured rock formations. The flowback composition are useful for increasing the yield of hydrocarbons recovered from tight shale reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ChampionX USA Inc.
    Inventors: Duy T. Nguyen, Jenny L. Phan
  • Patent number: 11905463
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing proppants, including the following steps: providing red mud, providing fly ash, producing a mixture from the red mud and the fly ash so that the mixture has a first moisture content in the range of 7 to 30 wt. %, producing a granular product from the mixture, and sintering the granular product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Ralph Enderle
  • Patent number: 11884891
    Abstract: A method of treating petroleum fluids may include adding a flow improver composition to the petroleum fluids, the flow improver composition, comprising: a solvent; and a dendrimer-based flow improver, wherein at least a portion of the surface sites of the dendrimer are chemically modified with saturated and unsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tore Nordvik, Rachael Anne Cole, Chandrashekhar Yeshwant Khandekar, Pradyumna Avinash Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11884851
    Abstract: Methods and compositions including silicate shale inhibitor additives. In some embodiments, the methods include introducing a shale inhibitor additive comprising a silicate anion and a quaternary ammonium cation into a treatment fluid; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation that comprises shale; and allowing the shale inhibitor additive to interact with the shale in the subterranean formation to at least partially inhibit the shale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Preston May
  • Patent number: 11873448
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wellbore servicing fluid comprising a scale inhibitor, a surfactant, and an aqueous fluid comprising sulfate in an amount of from about 100 ppm to about 10,000 ppm based on the total weight of the aqueous fluid. The wellbore servicing fluid can be used as a fracturing fluid in a method of servicing a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The wellbore servicing fluid can mitigate the formation of scales, prevent water blockage, and increase hydrocarbon production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiwei Yue, Andrew Bailey Slocum, Linping Ke, Chunli Li
  • Patent number: 11859478
    Abstract: Fiber additives that may be useful as lost circulation materials for mitigating fluid loss and/or as bridging agents or diverting agents in subterranean treatment fluids such as drilling fluids. In some embodiments, the fiber additives include a fiber and calcium carbonate disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the fiber. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid that includes the base fluid and the fiber additives, and introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of a subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangnan Ye, Dale E. Jamison
  • Patent number: 11834705
    Abstract: The subject invention provides microbe-based products, as well as their use in simultaneously enhancing oil recovery from an oil well while efficiently removing contaminating compositions such as biofilm, scale, paraffin, and/or asphaltenes from oil production equipment and oil-bearing formations. The subject invention can also be used to disperse paraffin and asphaltene precipitates, and to reduce the viscosity of heavy crude oil. The subject invention further provides materials and methods for bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Farmer, Ken Alibek, Kent Adams, Karthik N. Karathur
  • Patent number: 11827847
    Abstract: Provided is a method for hydraulic fracturing in a borehole in a geological formation using a process fluid including an environmentally friendly biostabiliser. The biostabiliser is characterised in that it includes at least one organic acid, or a salt, alcohol or aldehyde thereof, such that the at least one organic acid is selected from the hop acids, resin acids, fatty acids and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: AGRANA BETEILIGUNGS-AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Florian Emerstorfer, Markus Omann, Johann Marihart, Marnik Michel Wastyn
  • Patent number: 11827836
    Abstract: A demulsified composition comprising a clear oil phase comprising hydrocarbons, a clear brine phase comprising up to 5 wt. % of a diethanolamine-based C8-C18 alkanolamide demulsifying agent, and a water-wetted solid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: STEPAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Yongling Ginger Ren, Aaron Sanders, Jonathan Mohandessi
  • Patent number: 11820936
    Abstract: A scour-resistant interface enhancer, a preparation method, and an application thereof are provided. The scour-resistant interface enhancer is a compound solution prepared by using a 0.1% surfactant CAEO-15 and a 0.3% silane coupling agent as solutes and using clear water and absolute ethanol as solvents, where the mass ratio of clear water to absolute ethanol is 9:1. The scour-resistant interface enhancer of the present invention used as pre-flush for well cementing of coalbed methane wells has good wettability modification effect, shows scour-resistant effect against cement slurry, exhibits good compatibility with cement slurry system, and can significantly improve the cementing strength and air tightness of two interfaces of coal bed and effectively enhance the cementing quality of coalbed methane wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA), Guizhou Engineering Research Institute of Oil & Gas Exploration and Development
    Inventors: Shenglai Guo, Yuhuan Bu, Chang Lu, Lingyun Zhao, Yuanlong Wei, Qi Zhao, Huajie Liu, Qiang Wang, Xinyang Guo
  • Patent number: 11814582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to friction reducers and to well treatment fluids. In one embodiment there is provided a friction reducing composition comprising (a) a phosphonium compound and (b) a polymeric friction reducer. In a further embodiment there is provided a well treatment fluid comprising a phosphonium compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ITALMATCH CHEMICALS GB LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeffrey Frank Kramer
  • Patent number: 11814901
    Abstract: A method of performing a wellbore operation may include circulating an oil-based wellbore fluid having a conductive material therein within a wellbore, the oil-based wellbore fluid having a conductivity of at most 0.02 S/m when measured at 20 kHz; and forming a filtercake having a conductivity at least two orders of magnitude higher than the oil-based wellbore fluid on at least a portion of a wall of the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher, Cara Bovet, Albert Okhrimenko
  • Patent number: 11802233
    Abstract: A permeability-enhancing flooding system for tight oil reservoirs and preparation and use thereof are disclosed. The permeability-enhancing flooding system is present in a state of oil-in-water droplet and composed of a surfactant, an oil-soluble substance and water, and has an outer phase that is an aqueous solution containing the surfactant, and an inner phase that is the oil-soluble substance; and the surfactant comprises one of nonionic gemini surfactants and anionic gemini surfactants, or a combination of two or more thereof. The preparation process for the permeability-enhancing flooding system is simple to operate, suitable for industrialized production, and low in overall cost, and has obvious application prospects in the field of tight oil reservoirs for an enhanced oil recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: PetroChina Company Limited
    Inventors: Bin Ding, Chunming Xiong, Xiangfei Geng, Baoshan Guan, Falin Wei, Jingjun Pan, Baocheng Wu, Jingfeng Dong, Youguo Yan