Patents by Inventor Caleb M. Conrad

Caleb M. Conrad 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 of balancing resource recovery from a resource bearing formation
    Patent number: 9650876
    Abstract: A method of recovering resources from a resource bearing formation includes selectively injecting a fluid into the resource bearing formation through one or more injector wells, extracting a resource from the resource bearing formation through one or more production wells, receiving at a sweep pattern controller, an input from each of the one or more production wells indicating an amount of the resource extracted over a period of time, determining, in the sweep pattern controller, an adjusted sweep pattern for the formation that substantially equalizes production from each of the one or more production wells, and signaling each of the one or more injector wells, from the sweep pattern controller, to selectively inject the fluid to establish the adjusted sweep pattern in the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Freeman L. Hill, Cameron J. McBurney, Caleb M. Conrad
  • METHOD OF BALANCING RESOURCE RECOVERY FROM A RESOURCE BEARING FORMATION
    Publication number: 20160186539
    Abstract: A method of recovering resources from a resource bearing formation includes selectively injecting a fluid into the resource bearing formation through one or more injector wells, extracting a resource from the resource bearing formation through one or more production wells, receiving at a sweep pattern controller, an input from each of the one or more production wells indicating an amount of the resource extracted over a period of time, determining, in the sweep pattern controller, an adjusted sweep pattern for the formation that substantially equalizes production from each of the one or more production wells, and signaling each of the one or more injector wells, from the sweep pattern controller, to selectively inject the fluid to establish the adjusted sweep pattern in the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Freeman L. Hill, Cameron J. McBurney, Caleb M. Conrad