Patents by Inventor JINZHOU ZHAO

JINZHOU ZHAO 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: 11692423
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for realizing uniform stimulation for the oil and gas well by low-cost multi-stage fracturing, comprising the following steps: first calculate and predict the inlet widths of the fracture created in the planned hydraulic fracturing; then design the plugging scheme for blocking the fracture inlet after each fracturing treatment; the selected plugging particles are composed of filling particles and skeleton particles, with designed plugging scheme; after complete the design of plugging scheme, perform the fracturing treatment to create hydraulic fracturing in the reservoir; skeleton particles and filling particles are added into the fractures successively according to plan. The present invention provides a multi-stage single-cluster fracturing method, with the advantages of controllable fracture sizes and low cost. The present invention can realize a good uniformity of stimulation for the oil and gas wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Xiyu Chen, Yitao Huang, Yongming Li, Huibo Wen, Yu Peng, Youshi Jiang, Jinzhou Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230203929
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for realizing uniform stimulation for the oil and gas well by low-cost multi-stage fracturing, comprising the following steps: first calculate and predict the inlet widths of the fracture created in the planned hydraulic fracturing; then design the plugging scheme for blocking the fracture inlet after each fracturing treatment; the selected plugging particles are composed of filling particles and skeleton particles, with designed plugging scheme; after complete the design of plugging scheme, perform the fracturing treatment to create hydraulic fracturing in the reservoir; skeleton particles and filling particles are added into the fractures successively according to plan. The present invention provides a multi-stage single-cluster fracturing method, with the advantages of controllable fracture sizes and low cost. The present invention can realize a good uniformity of stimulation for the oil and gas wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Xiyu CHEN, Yitao HUANG, Yongming LI, Huibo WEN, Yu PENG, Youshi JIANG, Jinzhou ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11542801
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optimized design method for a temporary blocking agent to promote uniform expansion of fractures produced by fracturing in horizontal wells, which comprises the following steps: calculating a particle size and a volume range of a candidate temporary blocking agent in an applicable target area; establishing a hydraulic fracture expansion calculation model with complete fluid-solid coupling; calculating an optimal average particle size required for effective temporary blocking; determining the particle size distribution of the temporarily blocked particles according to the optimal average particle size; calculating the particle volume of the temporary blocking agent required for effective temporary blocking; and predicting and evaluating a fracturing effect after the preferred temporary blocking design is adopted in the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiyu Chen, Yongming Li, Jinzhou Zhao
  • Patent number: 11465152
    Abstract: A crushing system for large-size natural gas hydrate rock samples, which mainly includes a crushing and stirring control subsystem, crushing and stirring execution subsystem and hydrate preparation subsystem. Full automatic control to parameter acquisition and experimental process is achieved by utilizing modern automation technology, including the function of automatically crushing the large-size natural gas hydrate rock samples and also monitoring, collecting and storing the drilling pressure, the torque and the internal furnace pressure and temperature parameters during the crushing process in real time, to provide reliable guarantee for the follow-up researches on crushing mechanism, crushing efficiency, drilling parameter optimization, rock crushing ability evaluation of a crushing tool and the like of the large-size natural gas hydrate rock samples and necessary experimental verification means for optimization of on-site exploiting construction conditions of natural gas hydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinzhou Zhao, Na Wei, Chunquan Liu, Kaisong Wu, Liehui Zhang, Shouwei Zhou, Haitao Li, Wantong Sun
  • Publication number: 20220290529
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gas flow rate analysis and prediction method for wellhead choke of gas well based on Gaussian process regression, comprising the following steps of Step 1) acquiring basic data of the wellhead choke on site, Step 2) selecting a kernel function, Step 3) calculating a covariance matrix, Step 4) testing the Gaussian process regression model with the test data sample to calculate a prediction deviation, Step 5) selecting different kernel functions, repeating Steps 2-4, comparing prediction deviations of the different kernel functions, and Step 6) analyzing and predicting the gas flow rate of the wellhead choke of the gas well to be tested. According to the method, the data of the wellhead choke of the gas well can be processed effectively, and the gas flow rate can be predicted accurately under the condition that there is gas-liquid flow rate in the wellhead choke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Youshi JIANG, Yan KOU, Yongming LI, Jing JIA, Jinzhou ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11428620
    Abstract: A high-temperature and high-pressure microscopic visual flowing device and an experimental method are provided by the present disclosure, comprising a seepage simulation system, a micro-displacement and metering system connected to the seepage simulation system, and an image acquisition and analysis system; the seepage simulation system consists of a visual high-temperature and high-pressure kettle, a microscopic core model placed in the visual high-temperature and high-pressure kettle, and glass carriers arranged above and below the microscopic core model; the glass carriers are provided with sealing rubber sleeves, and the visual high-temperature and high-pressure kettle is provided with an annular heating jacket; an outlet of the microscopic core model is provided with a microflow channel which is connected to the micro-displacement and metering system through a pipe, effectively reducing the metering error caused by the dead volume of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Wenlian Xiao, Yubin Yang, Jitian Ren, Wanfen Pu, Shuaishuai Liu, Xiao Guo, Yongming Li, Kun Wang, Lingli Zheng, Jinzhou Zhao, Yijian Chen, Quantang Fang
  • Patent number: 11377589
    Abstract: An emulsifier with high temperature resistance, low viscosity and low corrosiveness, and an emulsified acid system comprising the same. The emulsifier includes a viscoelastic surfactant, which is prepared by a quaterization of fatty acid acyl propyl dimethylamine and a halogenated compound; by a quaterization of a long-chain halogenated hydrocarbon and a tertiary amine compound; or by a reaction of the fatty acid acyl propyl dimethylamine with a linking group synthesized by epichlorohydrin and an alkylamine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaojiang Yang, Difei Han, Jincheng Mao, Heng Zhang, Chong Lin, Jinhua Mao, Jinzhou Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220205896
    Abstract: A high-temperature and high-pressure microscopic visual flowing device and an experimental method are provided by the present disclosure, comprising a seepage simulation system, a micro-displacement and metering system connected to the seepage simulation system, and an image acquisition and analysis system; the seepage simulation system consists of a visual high-temperature and high-pressure kettle, a microscopic core model placed in the visual high-temperature and high-pressure kettle, and glass carriers arranged above and below the microscopic core model; the glass carriers are provided with sealing rubber sleeves, and the visual high-temperature and high-pressure kettle is provided with an annular heating jacket; an outlet of the microscopic core model is provided with a microflow channel which is connected to the micro-displacement and metering system through a pipe, effectively reducing the metering error caused by the dead volume of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Wenlian XIAO, Yubin YANG, Jitian REN, Wanfen PU, Shuaishuai LIU, Xiao GUO, Yongming LI, Kun WANG, Lingli ZHENG, Jinzhou ZHAO, Yijian CHEN, Quantang FANG
  • Patent number: 11156064
    Abstract: A natural gas hydrate solid-state fluidization mining method and system under an underbalanced positive circulation condition, used for performing solid-state fluidization mining on a non-rock-forming weak-cementation natural gas hydrate layer in the ocean. Equipment includes a ground equipment system and an underwater equipment system. The construction procedure has an earlier-stage construction process, underbalanced hydrate solid-state fluidization mining construction process and silt backfilling process. Natural gas hydrates in the seafloor are mined through an underbalanced positive circulation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinzhou Zhao, Na Wei, Haitao Li, Liehui Zhang, Shouwei Zhou, Qingping Li, Wantong Sun
  • Patent number: 11118450
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for simulating the discontinuity of the hydraulic fracture wall in fractured reservoirs, comprising the following steps: establish a physical model of the natural fracture; establish a hydraulic fracture propagation calculation equation; establish a natural fracture failure model, calculate the natural fracture aperture, and then calculate the natural fracture permeability, and finally convert the natural fracture permeability into the permeability of the porous medium; couple the hydraulic fracture propagation calculation equation with the permeability of the porous medium through the fracture propagation criterion and the fluid loss to obtain a pore elastic model of the coupled natural fracture considering the influence of the natural fracture; work out the stress and displacement distribution of the hydraulic fracture wall with the pore elastic model of the coupled natural fracture, and analyze the offset and discontinuity of the hydraulic fracture wall according to the dis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinzhou Zhao, Qiang Wang, Yongquan Hu, Lan Ren, Chaoneng Zhao, Jin Zhao, Ran Lin
  • Publication number: 20210270114
    Abstract: An optimization method for high-efficiently placing proppants in a hydraulic fracturing treatment includes steps of: (1) constructing a rock deformation governing equation during a fracturing process, and constructing a material balance equation of flowing of fracturing fluid and transport of the proppant; (2) constructing a model for representing a pumped volume fraction of the proppant; (3) calculating with given parameters, and obtaining corresponding fracture geometric size and volumetric concentration distribution of the proppant; (4) calculating a placement efficiency of the proppant for each set of parameters; (5) calculating an average placement efficiency of the proppant under different parameters; (6) selecting optimized parameters; (7) substituting the optimized parameters into the models constructed in the steps (1) and (2), calculating the placement efficiency of the proppant as step (4), and verifying whether the placement efficiency is maximum, which means the optimized parameters are optimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Xiyu Chen, Yongming Li, Jinzhou Zhao, Huibo Wen, Bin Fu, Zhibo Yu
  • Publication number: 20210222057
    Abstract: An emulsifier with high temperature resistance, low viscosity and low corrosiveness, and an emulsified acid system comprising the same. The emulsifier includes a viscoelastic surfactant, which is prepared by a quaterization of fatty acid acyl propyl dimethylamine and a halogenated compound; by a quaterization of a long-chain halogenated hydrocarbon and a tertiary amine compound; or by a reaction of the fatty acid acyl propyl dimethylamine with a linking group synthesized by epichlorohydrin and an alkylamine compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaojiang YANG, Difei HAN, Jincheng MAO, Heng ZHANG, Chong LIN, Jinhua MAO, Jinzhou ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11054405
    Abstract: The invention discloses a testing device and method for simulating the flowback in the shut-in period of fractured wells, comprising a fracturing fluid tank, a flowback fracturing fluid tank, a hydraulic fracturing pump, a flowback fluid collection beaker, and a shut-in flowback testing system; the shut-in flowback testing system is composed of a box body and an acoustic wave testing device, a temperature control device, a fracturing string and a square rock block arranged in the box body; a stress loading plate and a hydraulic block are successively arranged between the four surfaces of the square rock block and the inner walls of the box body; the acoustic wave testing device consists of an acoustic wave transmitting probe and an acoustic wave receiving probe; the four outer surfaces of the box body are provided with hydraulic tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongquan Hu, Chaoneng Zhao, Jinzhou Zhao, Pengju Song, Qiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11053779
    Abstract: A hydrate solid-state fluidization mining method and system under an underbalanced reverse circulation condition are used for solid-state fluidization mining on a non-rock-forming weak-cementation natural gas hydrate layer in the ocean. Equipment includes a ground equipment system and an underwater equipment system. The construction procedure includes an earlier-stage construction process, pilot hole drilling construction process, reverse circulation jet fragmentation process, underbalanced reverse circulation fragment recovery process and silt backfilling process. Natural gas hydrates in the seafloor are mined through an underbalanced reverse circulation method. Problems such as shaft safety, production control and environmental risks faced by conventional natural gas hydrate mining methods such as depressurization, heat injection, agent injection and replacement are effectively solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinzhou Zhao, Na Wei, Haitao Li, Liehui Zhang, Shouwei Zhou, Qingping Li, Wantong Sun
  • Patent number: 11015444
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for predicting the optimal shut-in duration by coupling fluid flow and geological stress, comprising the following steps: determine basic parameters; obtain the fracture length, fracture width and reservoir stress distribution based on the basic parameters; calculate the oil saturation, pore pressure, and permeability and porosity after coupling change in different shut-in durations on the basis of the principle of fluid-solid coupling; take the oil saturation, pore pressure, and permeability and porosity obtained in Step 3 as initial parameters and calculate the production corresponding to different shut-in time on the basis of the productivity model; finally select the optimal shut-in time based on the principle of fastest cost recovery. The present invention can accurately predict the optimal shut-in duration after fracturing to improve the oil and gas recovery ratio in tight oil and gas reservoirs with difficulty in development and low recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongquan Hu, Qiang Wang, Jinzhou Zhao, Lan Ren, Chenghao Fu, Chaoneng Zhao, Jin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10921228
    Abstract: A testing device and method for floating rate of floating agent for fracture height control are provided. The test device includes a support frame, a glass tube vertically fixed on the support frame, a floating agent storage container, a control valve, and a liquid storage tank, wherein multiple circular holes are uniformly distributed along an axial direction of the glass tube, and multiple turbidimeters for measuring liquid turbidity are sequentially mounted on the circular holes. The liquid storage tank communicates with an inner cavity of an upper end of the glass tube through a pipeline, and the floating agent storage container is connected to an inner cavity of a lower end of the glass tube through a control valve. The present invention increases accuracy of measured floating rate of the floating agent, and provides reliable floating data of the floating agent for oil and gas reservoir reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Youshi Jiang, Fujian Liu, Yongming Li, Bo Chen, Jinzhou Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210018415
    Abstract: A testing device and method for floating rate of floating agent for fracture height control are provided. The test device includes a support frame, a glass tube vertically fixed on the support frame, a floating agent storage container, a control valve, and a liquid storage tank, wherein multiple circular holes are uniformly distributed along an axial direction of the glass tube, and multiple turbidimeters for measuring liquid turbidity are sequentially mounted on the circular holes. The liquid storage tank communicates with an inner cavity of an upper end of the glass tube through a pipeline, and the floating agent storage container is connected to an inner cavity of a lower end of the glass tube through a control valve. The present invention increases accuracy of measured floating rate of the floating agent, and provides reliable floating data of the floating agent for oil and gas reservoir reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Youshi Jiang, Fujian Liu, Yongming Li, Bo Chen, Jinzhou Zhao
  • Patent number: 10870790
    Abstract: A three-poly cationic viscoelastic and a clean fracturing fluid containing the three-poly cationic viscoelastic surfactant are provided. N, N?-dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine and epichlorohydrin are used to prepare an intermediate A, and then the intermediate A and a fatty acid amidopropyl dimethylamine is used to prepare the three-poly cationic viscoelastic surfactant. The preparation process is simple. The clean fracturing fluid including the three-poly cationic viscoelastic surfactant has excellent temperature and shear resistance, strong suspended sand performance, simple on-site preparation, automatic gel breaking, small damage to formation, low cost and simple preparation process. The clean fracturing fluid including the surfactant also has strong temperature resistance, and the viscosity of the product can be maintained at 42 mPa·s after 80 minutes at 180° C. and 170 s?1, which is higher than the viscosity requirement (>25 mPa·s) of the clean fracturing fluid in on-site construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jincheng Mao, Jinming Fan, Jinzhou Zhao, Xiaojiang Yang
  • Publication number: 20200386081
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optimized design method for a temporary blocking agent to promote uniform expansion of fractures produced by fracturing in horizontal wells, which comprises the following steps: calculating a particle size and a volume range of a candidate temporary blocking agent in an applicable target area; establishing a hydraulic fracture expansion calculation model with complete fluid-solid coupling; calculating an optimal average particle size required for effective temporary blocking; determining the particle size distribution of the temporarily blocked particles according to the optimal average particle size; calculating the particle volume of the temporary blocking agent required for effective temporary blocking; and predicting and evaluating a fracturing effect after the preferred temporary blocking design is adopted in the target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Xiyu CHEN, Yongming LI, Jinzhou ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200347721
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for simulating the discontinuity of the hydraulic fracture wall in fractured reservoirs, comprising the following steps: establish a physical model of the natural fracture; establish a hydraulic fracture propagation calculation equation; establish a natural fracture failure model, calculate the natural fracture aperture, and then calculate the natural fracture permeability, and finally convert the natural fracture permeability into the permeability of the porous medium; couple the hydraulic fracture propagation calculation equation with the permeability of the porous medium through the fracture propagation criterion and the fluid loss to obtain a pore elastic model of the coupled natural fracture considering the influence of the natural fracture; work out the stress and displacement distribution of the hydraulic fracture wall with the pore elastic model of the coupled natural fracture, and analyze the offset and discontinuity of the hydraulic fracture wall according to the dis
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinzhou Zhao, Qiang Wang, Yongquan Hu, Lan Ren, Chaoneng Zhao, Jin Zhao, Ran Lin