Patents by Inventor Chad Kraemer
Chad Kraemer 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).
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Patent number: 11959372Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to a method that includes receiving water at a centralized facility. The method also includes receiving sand from one or more sand mines at the centralized facility. The method further includes receiving one or more chemicals at the centralized facility. In addition, the method includes using processing equipment of the centralized facility to process the water, the sand, and the one or more chemicals to produce a fracturing slurry. The method also includes conveying the fracturing slurry from the centralized facility to one or more fracturing sites.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Herbe Gomez Conzatti Y Martinez, Karishma Prasad, Chad Kraemer, Salvador Ayala
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Publication number: 20240044234Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to a method that includes receiving water at a centralized facility. The method also includes receiving sand from one or more sand mines at the centralized facility. The method further includes receiving one or more chemicals at the centralized facility. In addition, the method includes using processing equipment of the centralized facility to process the water, the sand, and the one or more chemicals to produce a fracturing slurry. The method also includes conveying the fracturing slurry from the centralized facility to one or more fracturing sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Herbe GOMEZ CONZATTI Y MARTINEZ, Karishma PRASAD, Chad KRAEMER, Salvador AYALA
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Publication number: 20230175370Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to a method that includes receiving water at a centralized facility. The method also includes receiving sand from one or more sand mines at the centralized facility. The method further includes receiving one or more chemicals at the centralized facility. In addition, the method includes using processing equipment of the centralized facility to process the water, the sand, and the one or more chemicals to produce a fracturing slurry. The method also includes conveying the fracturing slurry from the centralized facility to one or more fracturing sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Herbe GOMEZ CONZATTI Y MARTINEZ, Karishma PRASAD, Chad KRAEMER, Salvador AYALA
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Publication number: 20230023606Abstract: A system and method for treating a subterranean formation. The method may include utilizing a diluted stream and a high-loading stream which are combined to form a diverting composition. The diverting composition may then be injected into a wellbore. The system may include devices to prepare the diluted stream and high-loading stream, combine the streams, and introduce the combined stream into the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Chad Kraemer, Bruno Lecerf, Zinaida Usova, William Troy Huey
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Patent number: 11396790Abstract: A system and method for treating a subterranean formation. The method may include utilizing a diluted stream and a high-loading stream which are combined to form a diverting composition. The diverting composition may then be injected into a wellbore. The system may include devices to prepare the diluted stream and high-loading stream, combine the streams, and introduce the combined stream into the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Chad Kraemer, Bruno Lecerf, Zinaida Usova, William Troy Huey
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Patent number: 11008844Abstract: A method of stimulating the inflow of oil and/or gas from the wellbore, in particular, a hydraulic fracturing method, is disclosed. The method of hydraulic fracturing comprises the stages: injecting a slug of a proppant-free fluid through the well into a formation for hydraulic fracture creation and propagation; injecting a slug of proppant-laden slurry into the formation to create a proppant pack in the hydraulic fracture; injecting a slug of slurry that contains a fluid and the polyelectrolyte complex-based proppant aggregates to create permeable channels in the near-wellbore area of the hydraulic fracture; injecting a slug of a displacement fluid into the well. This sequence of operations allows avoiding the proppant slurry overdisplacement deep into the hydraulic fracture, maintaining high fracture conductivity, and increasing the well productivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Chad Kraemer, Fedor Nikolaevich Litvinets, Sergey Vladimirovich Semenov, Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga, Maxim Pavlovich Yutkin, Ksenia Mikhailovna Kaprielova, Sergey Sergeevich Skiba, Bernhard Rudolf Lungwitz, Denis Viktorovich Bannikov
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Patent number: 10421897Abstract: This method is designed to facilitate the well treatment with the possibilities for non-uniform/heterogeneous proppant placement in the extended and branched fractures produced by hydraulic fracturing. The essence of the method is to inject a proppant-bearing gel into the wellbore drilled into a productive formation. The low-viscosity fracturing fluid is injected into the wellbore together with the gel fluid (simultaneously or in turns). The method also provides for the injection of gas into the proppant-bearing gel and/or the low-viscosity fluid. The gas can be injected upstream of the junction point, at the junction point, or downstream of the junction point of the flows of the proppant-bearing gel and the low-viscosity fluid. The method further provides for the division of the gel fluid into the separate agglomerates with their subsequent injection into the fractures in the subterranean formation to form the proppant structures in the fracture.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Sergey Sergeevich Skiba, Kira Vladimirovna Yudina, Maxim Pavlovich Yutkin, Bernhard Rudolf Lungwitz, Andrey Vladimirovich Yakovlev, Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga, Konstantin Viktorovich Vidma, Alexey Vladimirovich Alekseev, Chad Kraemer, Geza Horvath Szabo
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Patent number: 10240082Abstract: The disclosure claimed herein relates to well systems for various fluids production, in particular, for production of fluids from hydrocarbon-containing formations using hydraulic fracturing process. According to the proposed method, injecting into well of fracturing fluid not containing proppant is performed to form a fracture in the formation, after which fracturing fluid is injected into the wellbore in pulse mode; the pulse mode provides at least one pulse of injecting fracturing fluid containing proppant, and at least one pulse of proppant-free fluid. Also, methods for fluid production and injection are proposed. Methods for fluids production, injection and recovery using hydraulic fracturing method are proposed. The proposed method increase the well lifetime due to reduced fluid flow impact on fracture walls and proppant clusters.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Danil Sergeyevich Pantsurkin, Geza Horvath Szabo, Chad Kraemer, Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga
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Publication number: 20180362838Abstract: This method is designed to facilitate the well treatment with the possibilities for non-uniform/heterogeneous proppant placement in the extended and branched fractures produced by hydraulic fracturing. The essence of the method is to inject a proppant-bearing gel into the wellbore drilled into a productive formation. The low-viscosity fracturing fluid is injected into the wellbore together with the gel fluid (simultaneously or in turns). The method also provides for the injection of gas into the proppant-bearing gel and/or the low-viscosity fluid. The gas can be injected upstream of the junction point, at the junction point, or downstream of the junction point of the flows of the proppant-bearing gel and the low-viscosity fluid. The method further provides for the division of the gel fluid into the separate agglomerates with their subsequent injection into the fractures in the subterranean formation to form the proppant structures in the fracture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Sergey Sergeevich SKIBA, Kira Vladimirovna YUDINA, Maxim Pavlovich YUTKIN, Bernhard Rudolf LUNGWITZ, Andrey Vladimirovich YAKOVLEV, Mohan Kanaka Raju PANGA, Konstantin Viktorovich VIDMA, Alexey Vladimirovich ALEKSEEV, Chad KRAEMER, Geza HORVATH SZABO
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Publication number: 20180135399Abstract: According to the claimed method, fracturing fluid is injected into a well containing a plurality of perforated intervals to create, and facilitate the propagation of, a hydraulic fracture in at least one of the perforated intervals; then, the suspension containing insoluble degradable material, oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and/or their precursors is injected into the well; at the same time, a degradable viscous phase, non-miscible with fracturing fluid, is formed from the oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and/or their precursors; a degradable plug is formed in at least one of the perforated intervals, fracture, or wellbore; diversion of the fracturing fluid flow to the next perforated interval is provided with subsequent plug degradation in at least one of the perforated intervals, fracture, or wellbore within the required time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Sergey Vladimirovich SEMENOV, Chad KRAEMER, Mohan Kanaka Raju PANGA, Maxim Pavlovich YUTKIN, Ksenia Mikhailovna KAPRIELOVA, Sergey Sergeevich SKIBA, Bernhard Rudolf LUNGWITZ, Denis Viktorovich BANNIKOV
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Patent number: 9896923Abstract: A technique facilitates a fracturing operation by maintaining the heterogeneity of proppant fluid as it is injected into reservoir fractures. The technique comprises using a blender to deliver proppant material in a pulsating manner to create pulses of proppant. The pulses of proppant are mixed with a fluid to create a proppant slurry having the pulses of proppant material separated by a second fluid. The proppant slurry is then split between a plurality of pumps which are operated to pump the slurry to a well. To maintain heterogeneity, the pump rates of the pumps are individually adjusted to control dispersion of the pulses of proppant downstream of the pumps and to substantially maintain the separated pulses of proppant material in the slurry. A wide variety of other system adjustments also may be made for enhancing the ability of the overall fracturing system to maintain separated pulses of concentrated proppant material.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Aleksandr Lakhtychkin, Mikhail Shestakov, Chad Kraemer, Herbe Gomez Conzatti y Martinez
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Patent number: 9797212Abstract: A method for treating a subterranean formation utilizing a slurry having a plurality of shrinkable material. The method of treatment may include a diversion treatment during a fracturing operation. The shrinkable material may be adapted to shrink in response to a temperature change. The slurry may be used to perform a plugging of a perforation or fracture in the formation.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Chad Kraemer, Dmitry Viktorovich Badazhkov, Bruno Lecerf, Alexey Alekseev, Ksenia Kaprielova
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Publication number: 20170158505Abstract: An aqueous solution includes HCl present in an amount exceeding 37% by weight. The solution further includes a fixing agent that is urea and/or a urea derivative. The fixing agent is present in the solution in a molar ratio of between 0.25 and 2.0 of fixing agent to HCl, inclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Li Jiang, Bruno Lecerf, Timothy G. J. Jones, Richard Donald Hutchins, Murtaza Ziauddin, Andrey Mirakyan, Jian He, Chad Kraemer
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Publication number: 20170121593Abstract: The disclosure claimed herein relates to well systems for various fluids production, in particular, for production of fluids from hydrocarbon-containing formations using hydraulic fracturing process. According to the proposed method, injecting into well of fracturing fluid not containing proppant is performed to form a fracture in the formation, after which fracturing fluid is injected into the wellbore in pulse mode; the pulse mode provides at least one pulse of injecting fracturing fluid containing proppant, and at least one pulse of proppant-free fluid. Also, methods for fluid production and injection are proposed. Methods for fluids production, injection and recovery using hydraulic fracturing method are proposed. The proposed method increase the well lifetime due to reduced fluid flow impact on fracture walls and proppant clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Danil Sergeyevich Pantsurkin, Geza Horvath Szabo, Chad Kraemer, Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga
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Patent number: 9573808Abstract: An aqueous solution includes HCl present in an amount exceeding 37% by weight. The solution further includes a fixing agent that is urea and/or a urea derivative. The fixing agent is present in the solution in a molar ratio of between 0.25 and 2.0 of fixing agent to HCl, inclusive.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Li Jiang, Bruno Lecerf, Timothy G. J. Jones, Richard Hutchins, Murtaza Ziauddin, Andrey Mirakyan, Jian He, Chad Kraemer
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Publication number: 20170037306Abstract: Proppant transport assist in low viscosity treatment fluids. Treatment fluids and methods use fiber containing 0.1 to 20 wt % silicones to inhibit proppant settling without an unacceptable bridging tendency.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Anastasia Evgenyevna Shalagina, Chad Kraemer, Elizaveta Andreevna Inozemtseva
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Publication number: 20170015891Abstract: Oilfield treatment compositions contain water, hydrochloric acid at a concentration between 15 wt % and 45.7 wt % and a first and second fixing agent. The first fixing agent comprises urea, a urea derivative or both. The second fixing agent may be a mixture or amines and alcohols. These compositions provide corrosion inhibition when exposed to steel. The compositions may also contain an inhibitor aid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Li Jiang, Bruno Lecerf, Timothy G. J. Jones, Murtaza Ziauddin, Richard Hutchins, Jian He, Jack Li, Chad Kraemer
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Publication number: 20160312573Abstract: A system and method for treating a subterranean formation. The method may include utilizing a diluted stream and a high-loading stream which are combined to form a diverting composition. The diverting composition may then be injected into a wellbore. The system may include devices to prepare the diluted stream and high-loading stream, combine the streams, and introduce the combined stream into the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Chad Kraemer, Bruno Lecerf, Zinaida Usova, William Troy Huey
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Patent number: 9476287Abstract: Oilfield treatment compositions contain water, hydrochloric acid at a concentration between 15 wt % and 45.7 wt % and a first and second fixing agent. The first fixing agent comprises urea, a urea derivative or both. The second fixing agent may be a mixture or amines and alcohols. These compositions provide corrosion inhibition when exposed to steel. The compositions may also contain an inhibitor aid.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Li Jiang, Bruno Lecerf, Timothy G.J. Jones, Murtaza Ziauddin, Richard Hutchins, Jian He, Jack Li, Chad Kraemer
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Patent number: 9410394Abstract: A method of treating a subterranean formation comprising generating a fracture in the subterranean formation, introducing a predetermined amount of proppant into a treatment fluid, and subsequently introducing a plugging agent into the treatment fluid before the entire predetermined amount of proppant reaches the fracture, minimizing overdisplacement of the proppant from the fracture.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Bruno Lecerf, Chad Kraemer, Timothy L. Pope, Dean M. Willberg, Zinaida Usova