Patents by Inventor Benjamin Lascaud

Benjamin Lascaud 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: 12571377
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to harvesting geothermal energy from mature and near end-of-life oil and gas reservoirs that have been subjected to secondary oil recovery steam processes like steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), steamflood, etc. The geothermal potential of these mature SAGD reservoirs can be used to generate green electricity thus reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of the oil production. Lateral spacing of injectors and producers, with closing of unused members of a well-pair for energy recovery is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Mohammad H. Kalaei, Benjamin Lascaud, Thomas J. Wheeler, Gustavo A. Gomez, Julian Ortiz Arango, Harish T. Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240369046
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to harvesting geothermal energy from mature and near end-of-life oil and gas reservoirs that have been subjected to secondary oil recovery steam processes like steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), steamflood, etc. The geothermal potential of these mature SAGD reservoirs can be used to generate green electricity thus reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of the oil production. Lateral spacing of injectors and producers, with closing of unused members of a well-pair for energy recovery is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Mohammad H. KALAEI, Benjamin LASCAUD, Thomas J. WHEELER, Gustavo A. GOMEZ, Julian Ortiz ARANGO, Harish T. KUMAR
  • Patent number: 12078771
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting subsurface karst features includes receiving surface mapping data. A potential surface pad location can be identified in view of the surface mapping data. A resistivity survey for the potential surface pad location can be designed. The resistivity survey can include at least one long line extending through a surface hole for each of one or more wellbores in the potential surface pad location, and a short line extending through the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores, each short line intersecting the long line substantially at the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores. High resistivity areas exceeding approximately 150 Ohm per meter can be identified as sub surface karst features within the resistivity survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Phuong Hoang, Khalid A. Soofi, Benjamin Lascaud, Patrick R Boyle
  • Patent number: 12066012
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to harvesting geothermal energy from mature and near end-of-life oil and gas reservoirs that have been subjected to secondary oil recovery steam processes like steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), steamflood, etc. The geothermal potential of these mature SAGD reservoirs can be used to generate green electricity thus reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of the oil production. Lateral spacing of injectors and producers, with closing of unused members of a well-pair for energy recovery is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohammad H. Kalaei, Benjamin Lascaud, Thomas J. Wheeler, Gustavo A. Gomez, Julian Ortiz Arango, Harish T. Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240068450
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to harvesting geothermal energy from mature and near end-of-life oil and gas reservoirs that have been subjected to secondary oil recovery steam processes like steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), steamflood, etc. The geothermal potential of these mature SAGD reservoirs can be used to generate green electricity thus reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of the oil production. Lateral spacing of injectors and producers, with closing of unused members of a well-pair for energy recovery is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohammad H. KALAEI, Benjamin LASCAUD, Thomas J. WHEELER, Gustavo A. GOMEZ, Julian Ortiz ARANGO, Harish T. KUMAR
  • Patent number: 11746651
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for developing resources from an unconventional reservoir. In one implementation, raw reservoir data for the unconventional reservoir is obtained. The raw reservoir data includes geology data, completion data, development data, and production data. The raw reservoir data is transformed to transformed data. The raw reservoir data is transformed to the transformed data based on a transformation from a set of one or more raw variable to a set of one or more transformed variables. The set of one or more transformed variables is statistically uncorrelated. Resource development data is extracted from the transformed data. Performance analytics are generated for the unconventional reservoir using the resource development data. The performance analytics are generated through ensemble machine learning. The unconventional reservoir is developed based on the performance analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Hui Zhou, Benjamin Lascaud
  • Publication number: 20230012212
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting subsurface karst features includes receiving surface mapping data. A potential surface pad location can be identified in view of the surface mapping data. A resistivity survey for the potential surface pad location can be designed. The resistivity survey can include at least one long line extending through a surface hole for each of one or more wellbores in the potential surface pad location, and a short line extending through the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores, each short line intersecting the long line substantially at the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores. High resistivity areas exceeding approximately 150 Ohm per meter can be identified as sub surface karst features within the resistivity survey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Phuong Hoang, Khalid A. Soofi, Benjamin Lascaud, Patrick R. Boyle
  • Patent number: 11353618
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting subsurface karst features includes receiving surface mapping data. A potential surface pad location can be identified in view of the surface mapping data. A resistivity survey for the potential surface pad location can be designed. The resistivity survey can include at least one long line extending through a surface hole for each of one or more wellbores in the potential surface pad location, and a short line extending through the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores, each short line intersecting the long line substantially at the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores. High resistivity areas exceeding approximately 150 Ohm per meter can be identified as sub surface karst features within the resistivity survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Phuong Hoang, Khalid A. Soofi, Benjamin Lascaud, Patrick R. Boyle
  • Publication number: 20210123343
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for developing resources from an unconventional reservoir. In one implementation, raw reservoir data for the unconventional reservoir is obtained. The raw reservoir data includes geology data, completion data, development data, and production data. The raw reservoir data is transformed to transformed data. The raw reservoir data is transformed to the transformed data based on a transformation from a set of one or more raw variable to a set of one or more transformed variables. The set of one or more transformed variables is statistically uncorrelated. Resource development data is extracted from the transformed data. Performance analytics are generated for the unconventional reservoir using the resource development data. The performance analytics are generated through ensemble machine learning. The unconventional reservoir is developed based on the performance analytics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Hui Zhou, Benjamin Lascaud
  • Publication number: 20210018646
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting subsurface karst features includes receiving surface mapping data. A potential surface pad location can be identified in view of the surface mapping data. A resistivity survey for the potential surface pad location can be designed. The resistivity survey can include at least one long line extending through a surface hole for each of one or more wellbores in the potential surface pad location, and a short line extending through the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores, each short line intersecting the long line substantially at the surface hole of one of the one or more wellbores. High resistivity areas exceeding approximately 150 Ohm per meter can be identified as sub surface karst features within the resistivity survey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Phuong Hoang, Khalid A. Soofi, Benjamin Lascaud, Patrick R. Boyle