Patents by Inventor Melvin E. Kelly

Melvin E. Kelly 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: 7219737
    Abstract: A subsea well pumping system for installing and retrieving a hydraulically actuated down hole pump employed within the tubing suspended within casing extending from above a seabed, the system having a wellhead assembly affixed to the upper end of the casing for supporting the tubing and including provision for hydraulically communicating with the interior of the casing and the tubing, a remotely controllable main valve affixed to the tubing at its upper end, a tubular pump lubricator affixed at its lower end to the main valve, a removable pump latch sealably closing the pump lubricator at its upper end and having a pump catcher extending downwardly therefrom for removably latching onto the pump and a system for guiding the pump suspended form the pump catcher into the pump lubricator whereby the pump can be moved downwardly in the tubing into a pumping position by fluid injected into the tubing and can be moved upwardly in the tubing into a retrievable position for grasping by the pump catcher by fluid inject
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Inventors: Melvin E. Kelly, Christopher H. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 6364633
    Abstract: A hydraulically actuated down-hole pump formed as a vertically elongated tubular structure having an engine outer tube that receives a reduced external diameter engine cylinder providing an annular power fluid passageway there between with an engine piston in the engine cylinder, a production outer tube supported to a lower end of the engine outer tube, the production outer tube receiving a reduced external diameter production cylinder providing an annular production fluid passageway there between, a ported valve rod interconnecting the engine piston and production piston, an engine valve controlling the delivery of power fluid to the power cylinder and production valve controlling the passage of production fluid to the production cylinder, the annular passageways reducing the need for external pump seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Inventor: Melvin E. Kelly
  • Patent number: 6164727
    Abstract: For use in a field having a plurality of interspersed injection and production wells that extend to a mineral bearing formation, a system for extracting the mineral from the formation having a jet pump system for each production well, each pump system having a power fluid inlet and a production fluid outlet at the earth's surface, a bottom hole fluid inlet, a solvent reservoir at the earth's surface providing a source of liquid solvent and reservoir having connection to each of the injection wells by which solvent is conveyed to the mineral producing formation to produce a bottom hole reservoir of mineral laden bottom hole fluid, a power fluid reservoir at the earth's surface, a high pressure pump at the earth's surface connected between the power fluid reservoir and the power fluid inlet of each of the jet pump systems for moving power fluid through the jet pump systems to draw in bottom hole fluid that is mixed with the power fluid to provide production fluid that is moved to the earth's surface; and a mine
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Inventor: Melvin E. Kelly