Patents by Inventor Ali Daneshy

Ali Daneshy 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).

  • Publication number: 20190003295
    Abstract: Enhancing the recovery of unconventional and conventional hydrocarbons is possible by utilizing patterns of wells and hydraulic fractures that are carefully designed to avoid interconnection between injection and production well fractures to allow for both primary production and improved secondary production. Adjacent horizontal wells may be drilled and fractured, with selected wells converted to injection wells after primary production to produce alternating production and injection fractures. In addition, infill horizontal injection wells may be drilled and fractured adjacent to an existing and previously produced multiple transverse fracture horizontal hydrocarbon production well to produce alternating production and injection fractures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: University of Houston System
    Inventors: Christine Ehlig-Economides, Ali Daneshy
  • Patent number: 8277145
    Abstract: An engineered, scalable underground containment system and method for storing compressed gases or liquids in permeable rock formations using conventional drilling techniques. The porosity and permeability of the formation may be enhanced to maximize reservoir capacity and increase the rate at which gases and liquids can be introduced into and removed from the reservoir. In some embodiments, layers of cap rock in the formation are utilized as containment barriers, and in some, containment barriers are constructed around the storage zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SEQEnergy, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, III, Robert Wayne Dickinson, Oliver Douglas Ousterhout, Lawrence Joseph Musetti, Porter James Underwood, Ali Daneshy
  • Patent number: 8256991
    Abstract: An engineered, scalable underground containment system and method for storing compressed gases or liquids in permeable rock formations using conventional drilling techniques. The porosity and permeability of the formation may be enhanced to maximize reservoir capacity and increase the rate at which gases and liquids can be introduced into and removed from the reservoir. In some embodiments, layers of cap rock in the formation are utilized as containment barriers, and in some, containment barriers are constructed around the storage zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: SEQEnergy, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, III, Robert Wayne Dickinson, Oliver Douglas Ousterhout, Lawrence Joseph Musetti, Porter James Underwood, Ali Daneshy
  • Publication number: 20100101789
    Abstract: An engineered, scalable underground containment system and method for storing compressed gases or liquids in permeable rock formations using conventional drilling techniques. The porosity and permeability of the formation may be enhanced to maximize reservoir capacity and increase the rate at which gases and liquids can be introduced into and removed from the reservoir. In some embodiments, layers of cap rock in the formation are utilized as containment barriers, and in some, containment barriers are constructed around the storage zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, III, Robert Wayne Dickinson, Oliver Douglas Ousterhout, Lawrence Joseph Musetti, Porter James Underwood, Ali Daneshy
  • Publication number: 20100098492
    Abstract: An engineered, scalable underground containment system and method for storing compressed gases or liquids in permeable rock formations using conventional drilling techniques. The porosity and permeability of the formation may be enhanced to maximize reservoir capacity and increase the rate at which gases and liquids can be introduced into and removed from the reservoir. In some embodiments, layers of cap rock in the formation are utilized as containment barriers, and in some, containment barriers are constructed around the storage zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, III, Robert Wayne Dickinson, Oliver Douglas Ousterhout, Lawrence Joseph Musetti, Porter James Underwood, Ali Daneshy