Patents by Inventor Alvin O. Clauset, Jr.

Alvin O. Clauset, Jr. 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).

  • Method for plugging high permeability zones in subterranean reservoirs
    Patent number: 4210204
    Abstract: Fresh water solutions of pectic materials are injected into high permeability zones in the subterranean reservoir wherein said materials upon contact with brine solutions form thick gels for the purpose of reducing the permeability of these high permeability zones thereby improving the vertical conformance efficiency of flooding operations within the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Christopher, Jr., Alvin O. Clauset, Jr.
  • Attic oil reservoir recovery method
    Patent number: 4205723
    Abstract: In a conventional attic oil reservoir recovery program wherein gas is injected through a well into an attic reservoir, the gas then migrating updip and displacing oil downward to the producing interval in the well wherefrom the oil is then produced, the improvement is added wherein at the completion of the gas injection step a water excluding agent is injected into the reservoir in the immediate vicinity of the well bore which prevents the formation water from restricting the flow of oil into the well bore and being produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin O. Clauset, Jr.