Patents by Inventor James Ernest Brown
James Ernest Brown 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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Publication number: 20240151129Abstract: Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore. The one or more reactive components delivered to the wellbore are configured to enable one or more chemical reactions to occur. The one or more chemical reactions are carried out until a threshold volume of the one or more reactive components is delivered to the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
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Patent number: 11808128Abstract: Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore. The one or more reactive components delivered to the wellbore are configured to enable one or more chemical reactions to occur. The one or more chemical reactions are carried out until a threshold volume of the one or more reactive components is delivered to the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
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Publication number: 20210207466Abstract: Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore. The one or more reactive components delivered to the wellbore are configured to enable one or more chemical reactions to occur. The one or more chemical reactions are carried out until a threshold volume of the one or more reactive components is delivered to the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
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Patent number: 10954771Abstract: Methods of delivering reactive components to a geological formation disclosed herein include generating a plurality of microholes along a wellbore, the plurality of microholes comprising one or more openings, and the plurality of microholes are configured to connect the wellbore to the geological formation. Methods further include delivering the one or more reactive components to the plurality of microholes via a carrier fluid, wherein the one or more reactive components are configured to enable one or more chemical reactions to occur, and wherein the carrier fluid is configured to expand, and controlling a flow rate of the one or more reactive components based on whether a volume of the one or more reactive components delivered to the plurality of microholes is greater than a threshold volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
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Patent number: 10815766Abstract: A method for drilling and fracturing a subterranean formation includes drilling a substantially horizontal pilot well from a previously drilled vertical pilot well. A plurality of substantially vertical sidetracks is drilled from the horizontal pilot well. Fracturing fluid is pumped into the plurality of vertical sidetracks to hydraulically fracture the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Dmitriy Potapenko, James Ernest Brown, Mathieu Vandermolen
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Publication number: 20190153844Abstract: Methods of delivering reactive components to a geological formation disclosed herein include generating a plurality of microholes along a wellbore, the plurality of microholes comprising one or more openings, and the plurality of microholes are configured to connect the wellbore to the geological formation. Methods further include delivering the one or more reactive components to the plurality of microholes via a carrier fluid, wherein the one or more reactive components are configured to enable one or more chemical reactions to occur, and wherein the carrier fluid is configured to expand, and controlling a flow rate of the one or more reactive components based on whether a volume of the one or more reactive components delivered to the plurality of microholes is greater than a threshold volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
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Patent number: 10202833Abstract: Methods of stimulating subterranean formations are given in which thermite is placed downhole and then ignited. The thermite may be ignited with a downhole tool, the fracture may be mapped, and the thermite-affected region of the formation may be reconnected to the surface after the thermite reaction through the original or a second wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Dean M. Willberg, James Ernest Brown
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Publication number: 20180023375Abstract: A method for drilling and fracturing a subterranean formation includes drilling a substantially horizontal pilot well from a previously drilled vertical pilot well. A plurality of substantially vertical sidetracks is drilled from the horizontal pilot well. Fracturing fluid is pumped into the plurality of vertical sidetracks to hydraulically fracture the subterranean formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Dmitriy POTAPENKO, James Ernest Brown, Mathieu VANDERMOLEN
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Patent number: 9670764Abstract: A method of heterogeneous proppant placement in a subterranean fracture is disclosed. The method comprises injecting well treatment fluid including proppant (16) wherein the proppant comprises from 1 to 100 percent in weight of stiff, low-elasticity and low-deformability elongated particles (34) and proppant-spacing filler material called a channelant (18) through a wellbore (10) into the fracture (20), heterogeneously placing the proppant in the fracture in a plurality of proppant clusters or islands (22) spaced apart by the channelant (24), and removing the channelant filler material (24) to form open channels (26) around the pillars (28) for fluid flow from the formation (14) through the fracture (20) toward the wellbore (10). The proppant and channelant can be segregated within the well treatment fluid, or segregated during placement in the fracture.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy M. Lesko, James Ernest Brown, Dean M. Willberg, Ivan Vitalievich Kosarev, Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev, Jonathan Abbott, Alexander Burukhin
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Patent number: 9528354Abstract: Downhole tool positioning systems and methods are disclosed which employ buoyancy-mediated tool displacement wherein the density of the tool or string connected to it, and the treatment fluid are matched to facilitate hydraulic translation of the tool in a deviated borehole or lateral with or without a mechanical translation device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Loiseau, James Ernest Brown
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Publication number: 20160319651Abstract: A downhole tool assembly for completing or cleaning a wellbore may include a perforation gun sub, and a laser assembly sub.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Harvey Willimas, Jeremy P. Harvey, Andrew J. Martin, Iain Cooper, James Ernest Brown
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Publication number: 20160053597Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for hydraulically fracturing a subterranean wellbore while drilling and/or tripping are disclosed. A method for hydraulically fracturing a subterranean formation may include rotating a drill string to drill the wellbore and hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation at a plurality of axially spaced locations along the wellbore while tripping the drill string out of the wellbore. The drill string may include a hydraulic fracturing assembly. The hydraulic fracturing operation may include translating the drill string in an uphole direction so that a set of frac ports in the hydraulic fracturing assembly is adjacent a region of the formation selected for fracturing, expanding at least one pair of packers to seal an annular region of the wellbore exterior to the frac ports, and pumping fracturing fluid downhole through the frac ports to hydraulically fracture the subterranean formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: James Ernest Brown, Robert J. Utter, Iain M. Cooper, Matthew J. Miller, Dmitriy Ivanovich Potapenko
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Publication number: 20160040518Abstract: In-line electrolysis of well treatment fluid in a method and system to supply a treatment fluid downhole in the well. In the method, a treatment fluid is electrolyzed in a flow path to a downhole location to form one or more electrolysis products. In the system, an electrolysis cell has at least one electrode integrated in the flow path. Also disclosed is a method to treat a subterranean formation by modulating amperage to an electrolysis cell in the flow path to form a heterogeneous concentration of one or more electrolysis products to transform a self-agglomerating solid composition in the fracture into a channelized solids pack comprising clusters having a high concentration of solids, wherein the clusters are separated by open voids having a substantially reduced concentration of solids between the clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Dmitriy Potapenko, James Ernest Brown
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Publication number: 20150369029Abstract: Proppant cluster placement in fractures with foamed carrying fluid. A formation treatment method includes injecting a treatment fluid stage, having a particulate-containing substage containing a self-agglomerating solid composition and a foamed carrying fluid, above a fracturing pressure, and alternating pulses of a pumping parameter to transform the self-agglomerating composition into a channelized solids pack, and closing the fracture. Also disclosed are methods of modeling a fracture treatment interval for such a method, and methods of treatment and systems to treat with such a treatment fluid stage, wherein solid particulate-rich substages are larger than the solid particulate-lean substages to form particulate-rich island regions, an interconnected network of open channel regions between the island regions and the island regions are channelized to form particulate clusters within the island regions separated from adjacent particulate clusters by open voids in the island regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Dmitriy Ivanovich Potapenko, James Ernest Brown, Theodore Lafferty, Matthew J. Miller
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Publication number: 20150368547Abstract: A method of heterogeneous proppant placement in a subterranean fracture is disclosed. The method comprises injecting well treatment fluid including proppant (16) wherein the proppant comprises from 1 to 100 percent in weight of stiff, low-elasticity and low-deformability elongated particles (34) and proppant-spacing filler material called a channelant (18) through a wellbore (10) into the fracture (20), heterogeneously placing the proppant in the fracture in a plurality of proppant clusters or islands (22) spaced apart by the channelant (24), and removing the channelant filler material (24) to form open channels (26) around the pillars (28) for fluid flow from the formation (14) through the fracture (20) toward the wellbore (10). The proppant and channelant can be segregated within the well treatment fluid, or segregated during placement in the fracture.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Timothy M. Lesko, James Ernest Brown, Dean M. Willberg, Ivan Vitalievich Kosarev, Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev, Jonathan Abbott, Alexander Burukhin
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Publication number: 20140262249Abstract: Method of stimulating subterranean formations for are given in which a thermite is placed downhole and then ignited. The thermite may be ignited with a downhole tool, the fracture may be mapped, and the thermite-affected region of the formation may be reconnected to the surface after the thermite reaction through the original or a second wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Dean M. Willberg, James Ernest Brown