Patents by Inventor Jacobus Petrus Maria Van Vliet

Jacobus Petrus Maria Van Vliet 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: 5667011
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of creating a casing in a borehole formed in an underground formation. The method comprises the steps of (a) installing a tubular liner in the borehole, the liner being radially expandable in the borehole whereby the liner in its radially expanded position has a plurality of openings which are overlapping in the longitudinal direction of the liner, (b) radially expanding the liner in the borehole, and (c) either before or after step (b), installing a body of hardenable fluidic sealing material in the borehole so that the sealing material fills said openings and thereby substantially closes said openings. The sealing material is selected so as to harden in said openings and thereby to increase the compressive strength of the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Daljit Singh Gill, Wilhelmus Christianus Maria Lohbeck, Robert Bruce Stewart, Jacobus Petrus Maria Van Vliet