Patents by Inventor Frederic D. Sewell

Frederic D. Sewell 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: 11591882
    Abstract: An oil or gas production method forms a wellbore in a rock formation, wherein the wellbore including a lateral portion, and the method introduces a plurality of perforation diverters into the wellbore, wherein each perforation diverter in the plurality of diverters includes circuitry for determining a pressure proximate the perforation diverter, and the method measures a respective pressure proximate each perforation diverter and within the lateral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Zipfrac LLC
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Publication number: 20220251923
    Abstract: An oil or gas production method forms a wellbore in a rock formation, wherein the wellbore including a lateral portion, and the method introduces a plurality of perforation diverters into the wellbore, wherein each perforation diverter in the plurality of diverters includes circuitry for determining a pressure proximate the perforation diverter, and the method measures a respective pressure proximate each perforation diverter and within the lateral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Zipfrac LLC
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Patent number: 11333001
    Abstract: A diverter for obstructing and temporarily sealing a perforation in a well casing in a subterranean formation during hydraulic fracturing. The diverter comprises an outer surface and circuitry within the outer surface for determining a pressure proximate the diverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Frederic D. Sewell, Dennis Gleason
  • Publication number: 20210087903
    Abstract: A diverter for obstructing and temporarily sealing a perforation in a well casing in a subterranean formation during hydraulic fracturing. The diverter comprises an outer surface and circuitry within the outer surface for determining a pressure proximate the diverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Zipfrac LLC
    Inventors: Frederic D. Sewell, Dennis Gleason
  • Patent number: 10822914
    Abstract: A diverter for obstructing and temporarily sealing a perforation in a well casing in a subterranean formation during hydraulic fracturing. The diverter comprises an outer surface and circuitry within the outer surface for determining a pressure proximate the diverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Zipfrac LLC
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Patent number: 10815750
    Abstract: Low profile diverters for, and the use of such diverters in, fracing operations to stimulate production of oil and gas are capable of seating against and temporarily sealing perforations, even when frac fluid is being pumped at high rates and pressures, or in horizontal or highly deviated well bores, where conventional ball sealers cannot be reliably used because of high flow rates and pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Publication number: 20180216438
    Abstract: Low profile diverters for, and the use of such diverters in, fracing operations to stimulate production of oil and gas are capable of seating against and temporarily sealing perforations, even when frac fluid is being pumped at high rates and pressures, or in horizontal or highly deviated well bores, where conventional ball sealers cannot be reliably used because of high flow rates and pressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Patent number: 9903178
    Abstract: Low profile diverters for, and the use of such diverters in, fracing operations to stimulate production of oil and gas are capable of seating against and temporarily sealing perforations, even when frac fluid is being pumped at high rates and pressures, or in horizontal or highly deviated well bores, where conventional ball sealers cannot be reliably used because of high flow rates and pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Publication number: 20170175484
    Abstract: Low profile diverters for, and the use of such diverters in, fracing operations to stimulate production of oil and gas are capable of seating against and temporarily sealing perforations, even when frac fluid is being pumped at high rates and pressures, or in horizontal or highly deviated well bores, where conventional ball sealers cannot be reliably used because of high flow rates and pressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Publication number: 20170159404
    Abstract: Low profile diverters for, and the use of such diverters in, fracing operations to stimulate production of oil and gas are capable of seating against and temporarily sealing perforations, even when frac fluid is being pumped at high rates and pressures, or in horizontal or highly deviated well bores, where conventional ball sealers cannot be reliably used because of high flow rates and pressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Patent number: 5531800
    Abstract: An automatically controlled water spray-based air purification system having a humidification portion and a dehumidifying portion is operatively installed in an air handling unit used to recirculate air within a conditioned space. A blower within the air handling unit housing operates to draw return air into the housing, flow the air across the entire air purification system, and then discharge the purified and humidified air back into the conditioned space. Upon sensing an excess humidification of the air, a humidistat operates a supply air/return air damper system to cause a portion of the air interiorly traversing the housing to bypass the humidification portion of the purification system to thereby reduce the moisture content of the air discharged from the unit. A water spray portion of the purification system is served by a pump forcing water from a sump structure through a filter, with the spray water draining back into the sump after cleansing air traversing the purification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Inventors: Frederic D. Sewell, Barry D. Jones
  • Patent number: 5531801
    Abstract: A water spray-based air purification system having a humidification portion and a dehumidifying portion is operatively installed in an air handling unit used to recirculate air within a conditioned space. A blower within the air handling unit housing operates to draw return air into the housing, flow the air across the entire air purification system, and then discharge the purified and humidified air back into the conditioned space. A water spray portion of the purification system is served by a pump forcing water from a sump structure through a filter, with the spray water draining back into the sump after cleansing air traversing the purification system. Upon a sensed demand therefor, an additive injector adds suitable chemical treatment material to the sump water, and a water pollutant monitor structure operates to backwash the filter upon sensing an undesirable pump back pressure increase or a buildup of particulate and gaseous pollutants in the sump water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Inventors: Frederic D. Sewell, Barry D. Jones
  • Patent number: 5389120
    Abstract: An automatically controlled water spray air purification system is incorporated in a heating, ventilating and air conditioning unit serving a conditioned interior building space. The purification system is operative to receive a portion of the return air that would normally be flowed through the unit, mix the received return air with a quantity of outside ventilation air, purify the return air/outside air mixture using water sprayed from a sump portion of the purification system, and flow the purified air into the unit for mixture therein with the balance of the return air being flowed therethrough to the conditioned space. Damper structures on the unit and its associated air purification system permit selective variance of the percentage of the unit discharge air that has traversed the purification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Inventors: Frederic D. Sewell, Barry D. Jones