Patents by Inventor Coye T. Vincent

Coye T. Vincent 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: 4391337
    Abstract: An integrated jet perforation and controlled propellant fracture device and method for enhancing production in oil or gas wells, wherein the device is inserted in a well bore to the level of a geological production structure; the fracturing device being constructed with a cylindrical housing of variable cross-section and wall-thickness with the housing filled with combustible propellant gas generating materials surrounding specially oriented and spaced shaped charges, having an abrasive material distributed within the propellant filled volume along the device length to produce enhanced perforations with attendant pressure-controlled gas and fluid injection into the perforations to produce controlled frac entry at point or points desired in the producing zones of the well bore, wherein a high velocity jet penetrates the production zone of the well bore initiating fractures, and is simultaneously followed by a high pressure propellant material which amplifies and propagates the jet initiated fractures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Inventors: Franklin C. Ford, Gilman A. Hill, Coye T. Vincent