Patents by Inventor Garnet Ross Olson

Garnet Ross Olson 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 Treating a Formation Using Deformable Proppants
    Publication number: 20120090840
    Abstract: A substance and method for treating a subterranean formation using hydraulic fracturing is provided. The method includes treating a formation with a non-metallic deformable proppant that may be substantially deformable, “elastically flexible”, or “plastically compressible.” The method may include the steps of injecting a carrier fluid into the formation at a pressure and a flow rate sufficient to create or open an existing fracture or fracture network in the formation, and placing at least a portion of the deformable proppant in the fracture by way of the carrier fluid so that the deformable proppant forms substantially a partial monolayer in the fracture, and reducing the pressure and/or the flow rate sufficiently to allow the fracture in the formation to at least partially close, wherein at least a portion of the deformable proppant remains in the fracture to prop open at least a portion of the fracture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Fulton, Adolph Joseph John Peskunowicz, Garnet Ross Olson
  • Method of treating a formation using deformable proppants
    Patent number: 8062998
    Abstract: A substance and method for treating a subterranean formation using hydraulic fracturing. A non-metallic, substantially deformable, proppant particle is “elastically flexible” or “plastically compressible” and adapted for use at concentrations which will substantially create a partial monolayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Canyon Technical Services, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Fulton, Adolph Joseph John Peskunowicz, Garnet Ross Olson
  • METHOD OF TREATING A FORMATION USING DEFORMABLE PROPPANTS
    Publication number: 20110088900
    Abstract: A substance and method for treating a subterranean formation using hydraulic fracturing. A non-metallic, substantially deformable, proppant particle is “elastically flexible” or “plastically compressible” and adapted for use at concentrations which will substantially create a partial monolayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Fulton, Adolph Joseph John Peskunowicz, Garnet Ross Olson
  • Method of treating a formation using deformable proppants
    Patent number: 7875574
    Abstract: A substance and method for treating a subterranean formation using hydraulic fracturing. A non-metallic, substantially deformable, proppant particle is “elastically flexible” or “plastically compressible” and adapted for use at concentrations which will substantially create a partial monolayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Canyon Technical Services, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Fulton, Adolph Joseph John Peskunowicz, Garnet Ross Olson
  • Method of Treating a Formation Using Deformable Proppants
    Publication number: 20090107672
    Abstract: A substance and method for treating a subterranean formation using hydraulic fracturing. A non-metallic, substantially deformable, proppant particle is “elastically flexible” or “plastically compressible” and adapted for use at concentrations which will substantially create a partial monolayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Robert Gordon Fulton, Adolph Joseph John Peskunowicz, Garnet Ross Olson