Patents by Inventor Hazim Hussein Abass
Hazim Hussein Abass 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: 11598899Abstract: Construction and use of an instrument test fixture for capturing performance data for stimulation or fracturing treatments. The test fixture includes a target material, such as concrete, which includes embedded sensors surrounding a casing. An energetic stimulation treatment, such as a dynamic pulse fracturing technique, is applied through the casing to the target material to simulate a treatment that would be performed in a wellbore. During application of the treatment, the sensors capture measurements which are recorded for analysis by a data collection system. The sensors allow for the measurement of key performance indicators including static and dynamic pressure, generated temperature, and resulting strain energy. The captured data can be analyzed and used to design and optimize stimulation treatments for field applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: James Marshall Barker, Daniel Joshua Stark, Hazim Hussein Abass
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Publication number: 20210181372Abstract: This disclosure describes the construction and use of an instrument test fixture for capturing performance data for stimulation or fracturing treatments. The test fixture includes a target material, such as concrete, which includes embedded sensors surrounding a casing. An energetic stimulation treatment, such as a dynamic pulse fracturing technique, is applied through the casing to the target material to simulate a treatment that would be performed in a wellbore. During application of the treatment, the sensors capture measurements which are recorded for analysis by a data collection system. The sensors allow for the measurement of key performance indicators including static and dynamic pressure, generated temperature, and resulting strain energy. The captured data can be analyzed and used to design and optimize stimulation treatments for field applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: James Marshall Barker, Daniel Joshua Stark, Hazim Hussein Abass
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Patent number: 10989030Abstract: Provided is a method and composition for the in-situ generation of synthetic sweet spots in tight-gas formations. The composition can include gas generating compounds, which upon activation, exothermically react to generate heat and gas. The method of using the composition includes injecting the composition into a tight-gas formation such that upon activation, the heat and gas are generated, resulting in the formation of fractures and microfractures within the formation.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventors: Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Hazim Hussein Abass
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Publication number: 20190284917Abstract: Provided is a method and composition for the in-situ generation of synthetic sweet spots in tight-gas formations. The composition can include gas generating compounds, which upon activation, exothermically react to generate heat and gas. The method of using the composition includes injecting the composition into a tight-gas formation such that upon activation, the heat and gas are generated, resulting in the formation of fractures and microfractures within the formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Hazim Hussein Abass
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Patent number: 10358902Abstract: Provided is a method and composition for the in-situ generation of synthetic sweet spots in tight-gas formations. The composition can include gas generating compounds, which upon activation, exothermically react to generate heat and gas. The method of using the composition includes injecting the composition into a tight-gas formation such that upon activation, the heat and gas are generated, resulting in the formation of fractures and microfractures within the formation.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Hazim Hussein Abass
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Patent number: 10030492Abstract: Techniques for well testing include providing an amount of a chemical material to a location in a wellbore; reacting the chemical material to generate an exothermic chemical reaction at the location in the wellbore; and fracturing the formation by the exothermic chemical reaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli, Hazim Hussein Abass, Mirajuddin Riazuddin Khan
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Patent number: 9939421Abstract: Example methods and systems are described for evaluating an effectiveness of ceramic particles to recover heavy oil from a subterranean region. In some aspects, a heavy oil recovery evaluation system includes a vessel containing a mixture of heavy oil and sand, the vessel including a chamber to receive a plurality of ceramic particles and water, a probe connected to the vessel to transfer energy from an energy source for energizing the plurality of ceramic particles, wherein the energized ceramic particles convert the water into steam to recover the heavy oil from the mixture, and a computer system connected to the vessel to evaluate an effectiveness of the plurality of ceramic particles to recover heavy oil from the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Sameeh Batarseh, Hazim Hussein Abass, Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli
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Patent number: 9738824Abstract: Provided is a method and composition for the in-situ generation of synthetic sweet spots in tight-gas formations. The composition can include nitrogen generating compounds, which upon activation, react to generate heat and nitrogen gas. The method of using the composition includes injecting the composition into a tight-gas formation such that upon activation, heat and nitrogen gas are generated. Upon the generation of nitrogen gas and heat within the formation, microfractures are produced within the formation and the hydrostatic pressure within the reservoir is reduced to less than the reservoir fluid pressure, such that the rate of production of hydrocarbons from the formation is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli, Hazim Hussein Abass, Ali A. Al-Taq
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Publication number: 20160376884Abstract: Techniques for well testing include providing an amount of a chemical material to a location in a wellbore; reacting the chemical material to generate an exothermic chemical reaction at the location in the wellbore; and fracturing the formation by the exothermic chemical reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli, Hazim Hussein Abass, Mirajuddin Riazuddin Khan
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Patent number: 9366125Abstract: A method of using a slurry-like fracturing fluid for hydraulic fracturing in an unconventional reservoir: injecting the slurry-like fracturing fluid into the unconventional reservoir, the slurry-like fracturing fluid comprises a particulate portion and a slurry water, the particulate portion comprises a solid acid component, injecting the slurry-like fracturing fluid is operable to generate a network of fractures, the slurry-like fracturing fluid is operable to reduce a reservoir temperature from a resting reservoir temperature, permitting the slurry-like fracturing fluid to cure into a permeable bed, allowing the reservoir temperature to return to the resting reservoir temperature to trigger the hydrolysis of the solid acid, hydrolyzing the solid acid to produce a liquid acid, and stimulating the network of fractures with the liquid acid to increase permeability of the permeable bed in the network of fractures in the unconventional reservoir, the increased permeability operable to create a sweet spot.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Hazim Hussein Abass, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Mirajuddin R. Khan, Victor V. Hilab
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Publication number: 20160069857Abstract: Example methods and systems are described for evaluating an effectiveness of ceramic particles to recover heavy oil from a subterranean region. In some aspects, a heavy oil recovery evaluation system includes a vessel containing a mixture of heavy oil and sand, the vessel including a chamber to receive a plurality of ceramic particles and water, a probe connected to the vessel to transfer energy from an energy source for energizing the plurality of ceramic particles, wherein the energized ceramic particles convert the water into steam to recover the heavy oil from the mixture, and a computer system connected to the vessel to evaluate an effectiveness of the plurality of ceramic particles to recover heavy oil from the mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Sameeh Batarseh, Hazim Hussein Abass, Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli
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Publication number: 20150330198Abstract: Provided is a method and composition for the in-situ generation of synthetic sweet spots in tight-gas formations. The composition can include gas generating compounds, which upon activation, exothermically react to generate heat and gas. The method of using the composition includes injecting the composition into a tight-gas formation such that upon activation, the heat and gas are generated, resulting in the formation of fractures and microfractures within the formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Hazim Hussein Abass
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Publication number: 20150175879Abstract: Provided is a method and composition for the in-situ generation of synthetic sweet spots in tight-gas formations. The composition can include nitrogen generating compounds, which upon activation, react to generate heat and nitrogen gas. The method of using the composition includes injecting the composition into a tight-gas formation such that upon activation, heat and nitrogen gas are generated. Upon the generation of nitrogen gas and heat within the formation, microfractures are produced within the formation and the hydrostatic pressure within the reservoir is reduced to less than the reservoir fluid pressure, such that the rate of production of hydrocarbons from the formation is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Ayman Raja Al-Nakhli, Hazim Hussein Abass, Ali A. Al-Taq
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Publication number: 20150068746Abstract: A method of using a slurry-like fracturing fluid for hydraulic fracturing in an unconventional reservoir: injecting the slurry-like fracturing fluid into the unconventional reservoir, the slurry-like fracturing fluid comprises a particulate portion and a slurry water, the particulate portion comprises a solid acid component, injecting the slurry-like fracturing fluid is operable to generate a network of fractures, the slurry-like fracturing fluid is operable to reduce a reservoir temperature from a resting reservoir temperature, permitting the slurry-like fracturing fluid to cure into a permeable bed, allowing the reservoir temperature to return to the resting reservoir temperature to trigger the hydrolysis of the solid acid, hydrolyzing the solid acid to produce a liquid acid, and stimulating the network of fractures with the liquid acid to increase permeability of the permeable bed in the network of fractures in the unconventional reservoir, the increased permeability operable to create a sweet spot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Hazim Hussein ABASS, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz AL-MULHEM, Mirajuddin R. KHAN, Victor V. HILAB
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Publication number: 20120156787Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention enables users to determine the efficiency of acid fracturing in stimulating a formation. The testing procedures of embodiments of the present invention examine the elastic, plastic, and creeping effects on closing an acidized fracture during the life span of an oil/gas well. If it is determined that an acidized fracture will be closed for a given stress and temperature, then proppant fracturing should be used; otherwise, acid fracturing is the stimulation treatment to consider. The testing results also provide an estimation of the lifetime of an acid fracture for a given set of in-situ conditions of stress and temperature. If the lifetime is determined to be too short to make the fracturing treatment economically feasible, a different stimulation method should be considered, such as proppant fracturing or matrix acidizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Hazim Hussein Abass, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Miarjuddin R. Khan