Patents by Inventor Mathew M. Samuel
Mathew M. Samuel 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: 20180209260Abstract: Compositions include (1) aggregating compositions capable of forming deformable partial or complete coatings on formation surfaces, formation particle surfaces, downhole fluid solid surfaces, and/or proppant surfaces, where the coatings increase aggregation and/or agglomeration propensities of the particles and surfaces to form particles clusters or pillars having deformable coatings, and (2) aggregation stabilizing and/or strengthening compositions capable of altering properties of the coated clusters or pillars to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars. Methods for stabilizing aggregated particle clusters or pillars include (1) treating the particles with an aggregating composition to form aggregated clusters or pillars and (2) treating the aggregated particle clusters or pillars with a stabilizing or strengthening composition to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Chih-Chau Hwang, Rajesh K. Saini, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith
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Patent number: 10001769Abstract: Systems and methods generate optimized formation fracturing operational parameters by iteratively optimizing bottom hole temperature design, perforation design, fracturing fluid pulse design, and proppant design based on formation properties, proppant properties, candidate selection, flow and geomechanical modeling, and engineering design, where the systems and methods as implemented on a digital processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLCInventors: Jian Huang, Kedar M. Deshpande, Mohammad Reza Safariforoshani, Ovunc Mutlu, Chih-Chau Hwang, Rajesh K. Saini, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith
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Patent number: 9945220Abstract: Methods for forming proppant pillars in a formation during formation fracturing include include periods of pumping a first fracturing fluid including a proppant and an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound or a plurality of phosphate and an amine, periods of pumping a second fracturing fluid excluding a proppant and an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound and periods of pumping a third fracturing fluid including an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound, where the pumping of the three fracturing fluids may be in any order and may involve continuous pumping, pulse pumping, or non-continuous pumping.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Rajesh K. Saini, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith, Chih- Chau Hwang, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig, Pratyush Singh
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Patent number: 9909404Abstract: Compositions include (1) aggregating compositions capable of forming deformable partial or complete coatings on formation surfaces, formation particle surfaces, downhole fluid solid surfaces, and/or proppant surfaces, where the coatings increase aggregation and/or agglomeration propensities of the particles and surfaces to form particles clusters or pillars having deformable coatings, and (2) aggregation stabilizing and/or strengthening compositions capable of altering properties of the coated clusters or pillars to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars. Methods for stabilizing aggregated particle clusters or pillars include (1) treating the particles with an aggregating composition to form aggregated clusters or pillars and (2) treating the aggregated particle clusters or pillars with a stabilizing or strengthening composition to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Chih-Chau Hwang, Rajesh K. Saini, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith
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Publication number: 20160139588Abstract: Systems and methods generate optimized formation fracturing operational parameters by iteratively optimizing bottom hole temperature design, perforation design, fracturing fluid pulse design, and proppant design based on formation properties, proppant properties, candidate selection, flow and geomechanical modeling, and engineering design, where the systems and methods as implemented on a digital processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Jian Huang, Kedar M. Deshpande, Mohammad Reza Safariforoshani, Ovunc Mutlu, Chih-Chau Hwang, Rajesh K. Saini, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith
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Publication number: 20150101808Abstract: Methods for forming proppant pillars in a formation during formation fracturing include include periods of pumping a first fracturing fluid including a proppant and an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound or a plurality of phosphate and an amine, periods of pumping a second fracturing fluid excluding a proppant and an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound and periods of pumping a third fracturing fluid including an aggregating composition including a reaction product of a phosphate compound, where the pumping of the three fracturing fluids may be in any order and may involve continuous pumping, pulse pumping, or non-continuous pumping.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Rajesh K. Saini, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith, Chih- Chau Hwang, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig
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Publication number: 20150072901Abstract: A lost circulation additive including a guar chaff material. The method of forming a lost circulation fluid includes contacting the lost circulation additive with a base fluid. The method for treating a formation including injecting the loss circulation fluid into a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: CLEARWATER INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: Mathew M. Samuel, Gaston W. Curtis, Shawn Lu
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Publication number: 20150068747Abstract: Compositions include (1) aggregating compositions capable of forming deformable partial or complete coatings on formation surfaces, formation particle surfaces, downhole fluid solid surfaces, and/or proppant surfaces, where the coatings increase aggregation and/or agglomeration propensities of the particles and surfaces to form particles clusters or pillars having deformable coatings, and (2) aggregation stabilizing and/or strengthening compositions capable of altering properties of the coated clusters or pillars to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars. Methods for stabilizing aggregated particle clusters or pillars include (1) treating the particles with an aggregating composition to form aggregated clusters or pillars and (2) treating the aggregated particle clusters or pillars with a stabilizing or strengthening composition to form consolidated, stabilized, and/or strengthened clusters or pillars.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Chih-Chau Hwang, Rajesh K. Saini, Leonid Vigderman, Duane Treybig, Clayton S. Smith, Mathew M. Samuel, Kern L. Smith
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Publication number: 20140190128Abstract: The flowability of asphalt particles may be improved by mixing the particles with comprises further compound comprises Portland cement, calcium aluminate cement, fly ash, blast furnace slag, lime/silica blends, silica, ground limestone, cement kiln dust, chemically bonded phosphate ceramics, zeolites, geopolymers, cellulose, starch, calcium carbonate, colloidal silica, aluminosilicates, and combinations thereof. Treating the asphalt particles with at least one of these compounds inhibits caking during storage and enhances transportability.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Mathew M. Samuel, Deepak Khatri, Roger Keese, Robert Williams
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Patent number: 8653011Abstract: A gelled organic-based fluid system and method of forming and using the system. The fluid system is prepared by gelling an organic solvent, a viscoelastic surfactant, and a nitrogen compound having a free electron pair such as urea in an amount effective to both increase viscosity and increase a rate of breaking the viscosity, relative to the gelled system without the nitrogen compound. In a further aspect, the method is used to treat a well penetrating a subterranean formation, for example, in a coiled tubing cleanout, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Mathew M. Samuel, Leiming Li, Juliet Edwena Juel
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Publication number: 20130277047Abstract: A technique utilizes micro-tubing to facilitate performance of a well treatment in which the micro-tubing is deployed for cooperation with a larger tubing, such as a coiled tubing positioned in wellbore. The micro-tubing is used to deliver a separated chemical downhole to modify a property of a treatment fluid used in performing a desired well treatment operation at a desired treatment region along the wellbore. A variety of additional components may be combined with the micro-tubing to further facilitate the treatment application.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yan P. Kuhn de Chizelle, Mathew M. Samuel, Douglas Pipchuk, Don Williamson, Andrey Mirakyan, Hemant K.J. Ladva, Richard D. Hutchins
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Patent number: 8413719Abstract: A fluid containing a viscous hyposaline aqueous solution of first and second cationic polymers that include quatemized ammonium groups, wherein the first cationic polymer includes a hydrophilic base polymer structure and the second cationic polymer includes a lipophilic base polymer Also disclosed is a method of introducing the viscous fluid into an initial first interval of a subterranean formation, and diverting with the viscous fluid a treating fluid from the initial first interval to an initial second interval.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Arthur Milne, Eric Gin Wai Lian, Sandra Janette Montoya Padilla, Mario Ulloa, Frederic Vincent Martin, Mathew M. Samuel
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Patent number: 8361935Abstract: Methods of treating a subterranean formation are disclosed, using a fluid including an essentially metal-free organic crosslinker selected from amines, diamines, poly amines, polyamino polymers, alcohols, polyols, polyhydroxy polymers, hydroxyl amines, peptides and proteins, combined with a polysaccharide or cellulosic material having oxidized functional groups. The fluid is then introduced into a wellbore penetrating the formation to contact the formation. The polysaccharide or cellulosic material may have aldehyde groups as one example of an oxidized group, or any other suitable oxidized functional group. The polysaccharide or the cellulosic material may be oxidized using at least one of an enzymes, oxidizers, photooxidation, bacteria, catalyst, or other suitable technique. The fluid may also further include an inorganic crosslinker.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Carlos Abad, Mathew M. Samuel, Kevin W. England
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Patent number: 8247355Abstract: The invention discloses method of treating a subterranean formation of a well bore, the method comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising: an aqueous base fluid; a viscosity enhancer; and a viscoelastic surfactant, wherein the enhancer is acid in the aqueous base fluid and co-operates with the viscoelastic surfactant to enhance viscosity compared to viscoelastic surfactant alone in the aqueous base fluid; and introducing the treatment fluid into the well bore.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Leiming Li, Lijun Lin, Mathew M. Samuel, Syed Ali, Paul R. Howard
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Publication number: 20110237470Abstract: A method of decreasing the viscosity of a gelled organic-based fluid is disclosed. The method comprises combining an organic solvent, a gelling agent, and a metal crosslinker; forming the gelled organic-based fluid; and adding a chelating agent forming a complex with the metal to decrease the viscosity of the gelled organic-based fluid. The chelating agent may be chosen within nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), citric acid; ascorbic acid, hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA) or its salts, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) or its salts, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) or its salts, phosphinopolyacrylate, thioglycolates, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Leiming Li, Lijun Lin, Oscar Bustos, Randy Tercero, Mathew M. Samuel
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Patent number: 7981845Abstract: This relates to a method and composition for forming and utilizing a fluid in the oilfield services industry including exposing a polyacid and/or polyacid derivative to a preparation method, introducing the prepared polyacid and/or polyacid derivative to a fluid to form a treatment fluid, and treating a subterranean formation and/or a wellbore with the treatment fluid, wherein the viscosity of the treatment fluid is not observably reduced by introducing the prepared polyacid and/or polyacid derivative to a treatment fluid. This also relates to a method and composition for use in the oil field services industry including a prepared polyacid and/or polyacid derivative, a fluid, and a viscosity control agent, wherein the viscosity of the composition is not observably lower than if the prepared polyacid and/or polyacid derivative were not present.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Mathew M. Samuel, Balkrishna Gadiyar, Sai Aung Zaw Min
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Publication number: 20110111989Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating a subterranean formation traversed by a wellbore including forming an emulsion comprising oil, acid, and particulate, wherein the forming the emulsion is prepared on the fly, and introducing the emulsion into a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Oscar Bustos, Mathew M. Samuel, Frank F. Chang, Leiming Li
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Publication number: 20110111991Abstract: A gelled organic-based fluid system and method of forming and using the system. The fluid system is prepared by gelling an organic solvent, a viscoelastic surfactant, and a nitrogen compound having a free electron pair such as urea in an amount effective to both increase viscosity and increase a rate of breaking the viscosity, relative to the gelled system without the nitrogen compound. In a further aspect, the method is used to treat a well penetrating a subterranean formation, for example, in a coiled tubing cleanout, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Mathew M. Samuel, Leiming Li, Juliet Edwena Juel
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Patent number: 7923414Abstract: Embodiments of this invention relate to a composition and a method for tailoring the rheology of a fluid for use in the oil field services industry including forming a fluid comprising a tetrakis(hydroxyalkyl) phosphonium salt and a polymer, and exposing the fluid to a temperature of about 20° C. to about 200° C., wherein a viscosity is observed that is at least about 5 percent different than if no salt were present. Embodiments of this invention also relate to a composition and a method for tailoring the rheology of a fluid for use in the oil field services industry including forming a fluid comprising a tetrakis(hydroxyalkyl) phosphonium salt and diutan and/or guar and/or guar derivatives and/or a combination thereof, and exposing the fluid to a temperature of about 20° C. to about 163° C., wherein a viscosity is observed that is at least about 5 percent lower than if no salt were present.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Lijun Lin, Leiming Li, Mathew M. Samuel, Syed Ali
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Patent number: 7902124Abstract: A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore of a well having iron-containing components is carried out by introducing a treatment fluid into the wellbore of the well. The treatment fluid is formed from an aqueous solution, a mineral acid, a viscoelastic surfactant gelling agent and corrosion inhibitor system containing at least one of an alkyl, alkenyl, alicyclic or aromatic substituted aliphatic ketone and aliphatic or aromatic aldehyde. The treatment fluid is substantially free of any formic acid or precursor formic acid. In certain embodiments, the corrosion inhibitor system comprises a mixture of at least one of an alkenyl phenone or ?,?-unsaturated aldehyde, an unsaturated ketone or unsaturated aldehyde other than the alkenyl phenone and ?,?-unsaturated aldehyde, a dispersing agent, an extender and an alcohol solvent. A corrosion inhibitor intensifier may also be used in certain embodiments, which may include a mixture of cuprous iodide and cuprous chloride.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Syed Ali, Javier Sanchez Reyes, Mathew M. Samuel, Francois M. Auzerais