Patents by Inventor Ayman AL-NAKHLI

Ayman AL-NAKHLI 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).

  • Patent number: 11732566
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for increasing a stimulated reservoir volume in a hydrocarbon-bearing formation in fluid communication with a wellbore, one method including drilling a plurality of lateral extensions at varying depths in the formation extending from a vertical wellbore using slickwater hydraulic fracturing fluid, the slickwater hydraulic fracturing fluid comprising at least one friction reducer; and injecting an exothermic reaction component into the plurality of lateral extensions to create a plurality of fractures extending outwardly from and between the plurality of lateral extensions to create a multilateral fracture network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ayman Al-Nakhli, Jose Rueda, Mohammed Ahmed Alsayed, Karim Mechkak, Almaz Sadykov
  • Publication number: 20230160291
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for increasing a stimulated reservoir volume in a hydrocarbon-bearing formation in fluid communication with a wellbore, one method including drilling a plurality of lateral extensions at varying depths in the formation extending from a vertical wellbore using slickwater hydraulic fracturing fluid, the slickwater hydraulic fracturing fluid comprising at least one friction reducer; and injecting an exothermic reaction component into the plurality of lateral extensions to create a plurality of fractures extending outwardly from and between the plurality of lateral extensions to create a multilateral fracture network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ayman Al-Nakhli, Jose Rueda, Mohammed Ahmed Alsayed, Karim Mechkak, Almaz Sadykov
  • Patent number: 11268017
    Abstract: Reservoir stimulation treatment diversion methods, systems, and compositions. One method includes identifying a reservoir requiring liquid stimulation treatment in a lesser-permeability portion of the reservoir. The method includes identifying a greater-permeability portion of the reservoir, the greater-permeability portion of the reservoir having a greater permeability than the lesser-permeability portion. The method also includes disposing a gas in the greater-permeability portion of the reservoir; injecting a liquid stimulation treatment into the reservoir, and allowing the gas in the greater-permeability portion of the reservoir to divert the liquid stimulation treatment into the lesser-permeability portion to stimulate fluid production from the lesser-permeability portion of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman Al-Nakhli, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Eldin Mahmoud
  • Patent number: 11208877
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and compositions for increasing hydrocarbon production from a wellbore where the wellbore or a nearby hydrocarbon reservoir is suffering from water blockage, one method including identifying water blockage in a rock sample of a formation via increased capillary pressure in the rock sample; formulating an exothermic reaction component to remove water blockage from a reservoir rock in situ via heat and pressure release, the reservoir rock type the same as the rock sample; injecting the exothermic reaction component into the wellbore; and allowing the exothermic reaction component to react to remove water blockage in situ to decrease capillary pressure of the reservoir rock without substantially changing porosity of the reservoir rock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman Al-Nakhli, Amjed Mohammed Hassan, Alade Olalekan Saheed, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Eldin Mahmoud
  • Patent number: 11168245
    Abstract: Compositions, systems, and methods for hydraulically fracturing a hydrocarbon-bearing formation, a method including injecting into the hydrocarbon-bearing formation under increased pressure a heavy oil fracturing fluid; allowing the heavy oil fracturing fluid to remain in situ for a period of time suitable to create fractures in the hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, the heavy oil fracturing fluid operable to undergo an at least about 70% viscosity decrease in situ; and flowing back the heavy oil fracturing fluid to the surface without damaging the hydrocarbon-bearing formation or reducing production of hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon-bearing formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman Al-Nakhli, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr El Din Mahmoud, Arqam Muqtadir
  • Publication number: 20210310344
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and compositions for increasing hydrocarbon production from a wellbore where the wellbore or a nearby hydrocarbon reservoir is suffering from water blockage, one method including identifying water blockage in a rock sample of a formation via increased capillary pressure in the rock sample; formulating an exothermic reaction component to remove water blockage from a reservoir rock in situ via heat and pressure release, the reservoir rock type the same as the rock sample; injecting the exothermic reaction component into the wellbore; and allowing the exothermic reaction component to react to remove water blockage in situ to decrease capillary pressure of the reservoir rock without substantially changing porosity of the reservoir rock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman AL-NAKHLI, Amjed Mohammed HASSAN, Alade Olalekan SAHEED, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Eldin MAHMOUD
  • Publication number: 20210284899
    Abstract: Reservoir stimulation treatment diversion methods, systems, and compositions, one method including identifying a reservoir requiring liquid stimulation treatment in a lesser-permeability portion of the reservoir; identifying a greater-permeability portion of the reservoir, the greater-permeability portion of the reservoir having a greater permeability than the lesser-permeability portion; disposing a gas in the greater-permeability portion of the reservoir; injecting a liquid stimulation treatment into the reservoir; and allowing the gas in the greater-permeability portion of the reservoir to divert the liquid stimulation treatment into the lesser-permeability portion to stimulate fluid production from the lesser-permeability portion of the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicants: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Ayman AL-NAKHLI, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr Eldin MAHMOUD
  • Publication number: 20210179928
    Abstract: Compositions, systems, and methods for hydraulically fracturing a hydrocarbon-bearing formation, a method including injecting into the hydrocarbon-bearing formation under increased pressure a heavy oil fracturing fluid; allowing the heavy oil fracturing fluid to remain in situ for a period of time suitable to create fractures in the hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, the heavy oil fracturing fluid operable to undergo an at least about 70% viscosity decrease in situ; and flowing back the heavy oil fracturing fluid to the surface without damaging the hydrocarbon-bearing formation or reducing production of hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon-bearing formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Ayman AL-NAKHLI, Mohamed Ahmed Nasr El Din MAHMOUD, Arqam MUQTADIR