Patents by Inventor JIANFA WU

JIANFA WU 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).

  • Publication number: 20260210243
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for testing conductivity of unsupported fractures in deep shale after hydration. The method includes: selecting a rock sample from a target block, and dividing the rock sample into two portions; performing artificial fracturing on relative faces between the two portions to obtain fracture surfaces of the rock sample; soaking the two portions of the rock sample until a required hydration time is reached; assembling the two portions of the rock sample with a silicone gasket into a core chamber and injecting water into the rock sample; applying a horizontal closure stress to the rock sample, inducing shear slip of the rock sample under a set temperature and pressure, and measuring and collecting an injection flow rate; and calculating conductivity of the unsupported fractures after hydration based on the injection flow rate, and plotting a curve of rock sample conductivity versus flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2026
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Inventors: Ran Lin, Lan Ren, Jinzhou Zhao, Zhihao Yu, Jianfa Wu, Xuewen Shi, Yi Song, Cheng Shen, Dengji Tang
  • Publication number: 20260147966
    Abstract: Provided are methods, systems, and mediums for fracturing design of an infill well based on a recoverable region, belonging to the field of unconventional natural gas exploration and development technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huiying TANG, Qi RUAN, Chenxi ZHANG, Kaichen LU, Yulong ZHAO, Liehui ZHANG, Feng GE, Jianfa WU, Yong LIU, Bo ZENG, Yi SONG, Deliang ZHANG, Jian ZHENG
  • Patent number: 12480854
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method for determining gas diffusion coefficient in rocks. The device includes: a core holder, a sampling mechanism, a gas analyzer, a gas source and a pressure gauge. A middle part of the core holder holds a rock sample, two sampling mechanisms are symmetrically arranged at two ends of the rock sample, each sampling mechanism includes a first blind tube, a cylinder, a second blind tube and a sampling cavity, an open end of the first blind tube faces the rock sample and is in sealing connection with an end surface of the rock sample to form a diffusion chamber. A single sampling cavity is isolated from the diffusion chamber, and the pressure of the diffusion chamber is not affected, so that undisturbed sampling is achieved, the influence on the pressure of the diffusion chamber is reduced, and the accuracy of the determination results is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Ruihan Zhang, Feng Ge, Jianfa Wu, Jian Zheng, Hongxi Li, Qian Li, Yulong Zhao, Tao Zhang, Bo Hu, Liehui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240209733
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, equipment, and readable storage medium for tracking and evaluating the life cycle EUR of horizontal wells, and relates to the field of oil and gas development technology. The present invention divides the life cycle stages of fractured horizontal wells in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, provides corresponding EUR evaluation steps for different life cycle stages based on the production performance characteristics of fractured horizontal wells in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs in the drilling and fracturing stage, extraction and testing stage, rapid production decline stage, and low pressure and small volume production stage, and establishes the EUR tracking and evaluation process of fractured horizontal wells in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs throughout their life cycle from drilling to abandonment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Yulong ZHAO, Xiangyu LIU, Liehui ZHANG, Xiao HE, Jianfa WU, Zhidong YANG, Jie LI, Bin ZENG, Jian ZHENG, Hongxi LI, Chengzhong BU, Jun PAN, Ruihan ZHANG, Tao ZHANG, Ye TIAN, Huiying TANG, Weihua CHEN, Haoran HU, Cheng CHANG, Deliang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240076980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for simulating subterranean regions having multi-scale, complex fracture geometries in a realistic simulation environment, which includes in the modeling process three-dimensional multi-scale rock discontinuities, hydraulic fractures, and heterogenous reservoir properties. Non-intrusive embedded discrete fracture modeling formulations are applied in conjunction with commercial or in-house simulators to efficiently and accurately model subsurface characteristics including three-dimensional geometries having combinations of complex hydraulic fractures and multi-scale rock discontinuities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gas Field Company, ZFRAC LLC, BJ Karst Science & Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Yong, Jianfa Wu, Joseph Alexander Leines Artieda, Cheng Chang, Jijun Miao, Wei Yu, Hongbing Xie
  • Patent number: 11781062
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bionics-based efficiently transported and packed proppant and preparation method thereof, comprising enhanced fracturing fluid and biomimetic dandelion proppant; the mass ratio of the enhanced fracturing fluid and the biomimetic dandelion is: 1-2:100-400; the 100 pbw of enhanced fracturing fluid includes 0.1-1 pbw of drag reducing agent, 0.01-0.1 pbw of cleanup additive, 0.2-0.8 pbw of clay stabilizer, 0.01-0.05 pbw of bactericide, 0.01-0.2 pbw of nanoparticle enhancer, and water; the biomimetic dandelion proppant consists of modified proppant and modified fiber, and the mass ratio between the modified proppant and the modified fiber is 99-99.9:0.1-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Pingli Liu, Jun Li, Jian Yang, Jianfa Wu, Shang Gao, Xingwu Guo, Jian Zou, Xitang Lan, Liping Zhang, Zhifeng Luo, Lan Ren, Changlong Liu, Juan Du, Xiang Chen, Nianyin Li, Peng Wang
  • Patent number: 11136871
    Abstract: A method for developing shale gas by tapered gradient pressure drop with multi-stage fractured horizontal well is provided and the method comprises: acquiring fracturing crack form parameters of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well and reservoir characteristic parameters of nearby formation; dividing the formation near the shale gas multi-stage fractured horizontal well into strongly transformed area, weakly transformed area and matrix area; establishing pressure difference-flow models of gas-phase and water phase of the three areas respectively, and coupling the models of the three areas to establish production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; according to the production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well, performing numerical simulation with different combinations of production pressure differences in the three stages of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; and selecting a combination of production pressure differences with the greatest economic benefit as
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING
    Inventors: Weiyao Zhu, Zhiyong Song, Jianfa Wu, Shou Ma, Debin Kong, Ming Yue, Zhen Chen, Yubao Gao
  • Publication number: 20210238973
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for developing shale gas by tapered gradient pressure drop with multi-stage fractured horizontal well; the method comprises: acquiring fracturing crack form parameters of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well and reservoir characteristic parameters of nearby formation; dividing the formation near the shale gas multi-stage fractured horizontal well into strongly transformed area, weakly transformed area and matrix area; establishing pressure difference-flow models of gas-phase and water phase of the three areas respectively, and coupling the models of the three areas to establish production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; according to the production equation of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well, performing numerical simulation with different combinations of production pressure differences in the three stages of the multi-stage fractured horizontal well; and selecting a combination of production pressure differences with the
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: WEIYAO ZHU, ZHIYONG SONG, JIANFA WU, SHOU MA, DEBIN KONG, MING YUE, ZHEN CHEN, YUBAO GAO
  • Publication number: 20210003004
    Abstract: A method for identifying structure of flow field in unconventional gas reservoir is provided. The unconventional gas reservoir comprises at least one horizontal well, for any horizontal well in the at least one horizontal well, the method comprises: during fracturing fluid flowback stage, obtaining first production data, and drawing an actual production curve diagram of the fracturing fluid flowback stage; obtaining reservoir physical parameters corresponding to different fracture network forms and second production data, and performing numerical simulations on water production rate, gas production rate and casing pressure of the fracturing fluid flowback stage, and drawing layouts of structure of flow field corresponding to different fracture network forms of the fracturing fluid flowback stage; and comparing the actual production curve diagram with the layouts of structure of flow field corresponding to different fracture network forms to identify structure of flow field of the reservoir after fracturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: WEIYAO ZHU, MING YUE, JIANFA WU, KAI LIU, ZHEN CHEN, ZHIYONG SONG, DEBIN KONG