Patents by Inventor Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian

Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian 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).

  • Electrofracturing formations
    Patent number: 9243487
    Abstract: A method is provided to produce hydrocarbons from a formation, the method includes the steps of: placing a pair of electrodes within a formation; applying differential voltages between pairs of electrodes wherein the voltage differences between the electrodes is greater than at least 10,000 volts; and producing hydrocarbons from the formation or an adjacent formation wherein the formation has an initial permeability of less than ten millidarcy. The invention also includes an apparatus effective to release pulses of electrical energy into the formation as this frequency and voltage at least until the formation has reached a point where the electrical potential arcs from one electrode to at least one other electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Mikhail Boris Geilikman, John Michael Karanikas, Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian, Ernesto Rafael Fonseca Ocampos, Sau-Wai Wong
  • ELECTROFRACTURING FORMATIONS
    Publication number: 20130255936
    Abstract: A method is provided to produce hydrocarbons from a formation, the method includes the steps of: placing a pair of electrodes within a formation; applying differential voltages between pairs of electrodes wherein the voltage differences between the electrodes is greater than at least 10,000 volts; and producing hydrocarbons from the formation or an adjacent formation wherein the formation has an initial permeability of less than ten millidarcy. The invention also includes an apparatus effective to release pulses of electrical energy into the formation as this frequency and voltage at least until the formation has reached a point where the electrical potential arcs from one electrode to at least one other electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Mikhail Boris GEILIKMAN, John Michael KARANIKAS, Mohamad Fereydoon KHODAVERDIAN, Ernesto Rafael Fonseca OCAMPOS, Sau-Wai WONG
  • Method of Drilling a Stable Borehole
    Publication number: 20090032306
    Abstract: A method of drilling a stable borehole in a formation containing a stress field having a direction of maximal stress, whereby the borehole is drilled with an elongated non-circular cross sectional contour along an axis of elongation and whereby a directional component of the axis of elongation is kept oriented substantially parallel to the direction of maximal stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Addis, Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian
  • Method of reducing sand production from a wellbore
    Patent number: 7451818
    Abstract: A method is provided for the reduction of inflow of rock particles from an earth formation into a wellbore for the production of hydrocarbon fluid. The method comprises creating a zone of reduced compressive stiffness around the wellbore by removing rock material from the wall of the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Addis, Chengho Abel Lee, Victor Arkady Dunayevsky, Daniel Frederick Fehler, Mohamad Fereydoon Khodaverdian