Patents by Inventor Paul DeVille

Paul DeVille 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: 11970658
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for use in the inhibition of the formation of gas hydrate agglomerates are provided. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: providing an emulsion drilling fluid including: a continuous phase including a non-oleaginous fluid; an internal phase including an oleaginous fluid; and a thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor; and drilling at least a portion of a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William Walter Shumway, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11959013
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods include introducing a treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid, at least one viscoelastic surfactant, a divalent salt, a metal salt; and a metal oxide into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Waseem Abdulrazzaq, Ayoub Ibrahim Awaji, Siham Kamal Fatani, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11932808
    Abstract: Particulate additives that may be useful in mitigating fluid loss and/or as bridging agents or diverting agents in subterranean treatment fluids such as drilling fluids. In some embodiments, the particulate additives include a polymeric material and calcium carbonate disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the polymer core wherein the particulates have a particle size (d50) of from about 2 ?m to about 1600 ?m in diameter. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid that includes the base fluid and the particulate additives and introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of a subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee J. Hall, Jonathan Walker, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11773312
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, and systems directed to filter cake removal embodying a delayed breaker fluid for oil-based drill-in fluids. A wellbore treatment method comprising: introducing a delayed breaker fluid into a wellbore, wherein the delayed breaker fluid comprises an aqueous base fluid, an acid precursor, and a carbodiimide; and contacting a filter cake in the wellbore with the delayed breaker fluid such that the filter cake is at least partially degraded by acid released from the acid precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Martin Santos, William Walter Shumway, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11768190
    Abstract: Described herein are methods to determine an amount of shale inhibitor in drilling fluids used in wellbore operations. In some cases, methods include receiving a sample of a drilling fluid, removing solids from the sample to produce a solids-free fluid, contacting the solids-free fluid with an anion to produce a precipitate in a test solution, and determining an amount of an amine-based shale inhibitor within the sample by measuring the amount of the precipitate in the test solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
  • Publication number: 20230242803
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods that use a true crystallization temperature reduction additive in the aqueous internal phase. An example method may comprise providing an oil-based treatment fluid in the form of an invert emulsion comprising an aqueous internal phase and an oil external phase. The aqueous internal phase may include a bromide brine and a true crystallization temperature reduction additive, wherein the bromide brine has a density of about 14.2 lbs/gal or greater. The method may further include placing the oil-based treatment fluid into a wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Hui Zhou, Chesnee Lae Davis, Catherine Martin Santos
  • Publication number: 20230174841
    Abstract: A variety of methods and systems are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a method for emulsion breaking including: applying a trigger to an oilfield emulsion to facilitate breaking of the oilfield emulsion, wherein the oilfield emulsion includes an oleaginous phase, a non-oleaginous phase, and a breakable emulsifier, wherein the trigger breaks the breakable emulsifier into non-emulsifying byproducts; and separating at least a portion of the oleaginous phase from the non-oleaginous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11649391
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods that use a true crystallization temperature reduction additive in the aqueous internal phase. An example method may comprise providing an oil-based treatment fluid in the form of an invert emulsion comprising an aqueous internal phase and an oil external phase. The aqueous internal phase may include a bromide brine and a true crystallization temperature reduction additive, wherein the bromide brine has a density of about 14.2 lbs/gal or greater. The method may further include placing the oil-based treatment fluid into a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Hui Zhou, Chesnee Lae Davis, Catherine Martin Santos
  • Patent number: 11639459
    Abstract: A fluid is provided. The fluid includes a base fluid and an additive. The additive has a marker functional group that absorbs infrared radiation having a wavelength in a predetermined range between about 2100 cm?1 and about 2300 cm?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Preston Andrew May, Michele Suzanne Brown
  • Patent number: 11624279
    Abstract: A method comprises flowing a mud into a wellbore, wherein the mud has a mud composition and has a weight in a defined range. The method includes introducing a fluid pill into the mud flowing into the wellbore, wherein the fluid pill has an injection fluid with an injection composition that is different from the mud composition. A particulate has been added to the injection fluid to increase the weight of the fluid pill. After flowing the mud into the wellbore such that the fluid pill is positioned in a zone of the wellbore: filtering out the particulate from the injection fluid; injecting, after the filtering, the injection fluid into the zone; measuring a downhole parameter that changes in response to injecting the injection fluid into the zone; and determining a property of the formation of the zone based on the measured downhole parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus Ray Hudson, Pramod Chamarthy, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Jay Paul Deville, William W. Shumway, Dale E. Jamison
  • Publication number: 20230078038
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for servicing a wellbore and, in certain embodiments, to the use of compositions in a wellbore to mitigate lost circulation. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid that includes an aqueous base fluid, a lost circulation material, and a rheology modifier that includes a nanocellulose material; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation including a loss zone; and allowing the treatment fluid to rapidly defluidize in the loss zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Hui Zhou
  • Patent number: 11603487
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for using those compositions to at least partially stabilize subterranean formations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods include providing a treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid and an additive including a low molecular mass organic gelator; introducing the treatment fluid into at least a portion of a subterranean formation to contact at least a portion of the subterranean formation that includes shale; and allowing the additive to interact with the shale to at least partially stabilize the shale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Preston Andrew May
  • Publication number: 20230023003
    Abstract: Compositions of lost circulation materials and methods for using the same in subterranean formations can include introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation including a loss zone, the treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid, at least one viscoelastic surfactant, at least one component selected from the group consisting of: a divalent salt, a metal salt, a metal oxide, and any combination thereof, and a lost circulation material; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially plug the loss zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Waseem Abdulrazzaq, Jay Paul Deville, Siham Kamal Fatani, Ayoub Ibrahim Awaji, Azhar Ahmed Alhasawi, Rawan Jawad ALameer
  • Patent number: 11560794
    Abstract: A method of detecting an amine-based additive in a wellbore servicing fluid (WSF) comprising contacting an aliquot of WSF with an amine detector compound and an aqueous salt solution to form a detection solution; wherein the aqueous salt solution comprises an inorganic salt and organic carboxylate salt; wherein the WSF comprises the amine-based additive; and wherein the detection solution is characterized by at least one absorption peak wavelength in the range of 380-760 nm; detecting an absorption intensity for detection solution at a wavelength within about ±20% of the at least one absorption peak wavelength; comparing the absorption intensity of detection solution at the wavelength within about ±20% of the at least one absorption peak wavelength with a target absorption intensity of amine-based additive to determine the amount of amine-based additive in WSF; and comparing the amount of amine-based additive in WSF with a target amount of amine-based additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Emily Cummings Hart, Jay Paul Deville
  • Publication number: 20230019738
    Abstract: Cement compositions and methods for using the same in subterranean formations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods include introducing a treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid, at least one viscoelastic surfactant, a divalent salt, a metal salt; and a metal oxide into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Waseem Abdulrazzaq, Ayoub Ibrahim Awaji, Siham Kamal Fatani, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11555787
    Abstract: A method of detecting an amine-based additive in wellbore servicing fluid (WSF) comprising contacting an aliquot of WSF with an amine detector reagent and aqueous medium to form a detection solution; wherein the amine detector reagent comprises an amine detector compound, and a polar organic solvent (POS) with flash point >105° C.; wherein the WSF comprises the amine-based additive; and wherein the detection solution is characterized by at least one absorption peak wavelength in 380-760 nm; detecting an absorption intensity for detection solution at a wavelength within ±20% of the at least one absorption peak wavelength; comparing the absorption intensity of detection solution at the wavelength within ±20% of the at least one absorption peak wavelength with a target absorption intensity of amine-based additive to determine the amount of amine-based additive in WSF; and comparing the amount of amine-based additive in WSF with a target amount of amine-based additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Emily Cummings Hart, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11535794
    Abstract: Compositions of lost circulation materials and methods for using the same in subterranean formations can include introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation including a loss zone, the treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid, at least one viscoelastic surfactant, at least one component selected from the group consisting of: a divalent salt, a metal salt, a metal oxide, and any combination thereof, and a lost circulation material; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially plug the loss zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Waseem Abdulrazzaq, Jay Paul Deville, Siham Kamal Fatani, Ayoub Ibrahim Awaji, Azhar Ahmed Alhasawi, Rawan Jawad ALameer
  • Patent number: 11473426
    Abstract: A method comprising determining a concentration of one or more components of a wellbore servicing fluid during a wellbore servicing operation; and adjusting or maintaining a composition of the wellbore servicing fluid being introduced into a wellbore and/or an operational parameter of the wellbore servicing operation based on the determining of the concentration of the one or more components, wherein the determining of the concentration of the one or more components comprises contacting a sample of the wellbore servicing fluid with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device to provide a sample response indicative of the concentration of the one or more components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
  • Publication number: 20220315824
    Abstract: A fluid is provided. The fluid includes a base fluid and an additive. The additive has a marker functional group that absorbs infrared radiation having a wavelength in a predetermined range between about 2100 cm?1 and about 2300 cm?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jay Paul DEVILLE, Preston Andrew MAY, Michele Suzanne BROWN
  • Patent number: 11460464
    Abstract: It can sometimes be difficult to quantify the amount of polymer present in a subterranean treatment fluid, particularly at a job site. Methods for analyzing a treatment fluid for a polymer can comprise: receiving a sample of a treatment fluid comprising a nitrogen-containing polymer; placing the sample of the treatment fluid and an aqueous base in an oilfield retort; heating the sample of the treatment fluid and the aqueous base together in the oilfield retort at least until the nitrogen-containing polymer has been substantially hydrolyzed to one or more volatile nitrogen compounds; distilling the one or more volatile nitrogen compounds from the oilfield retort; and determining a quantity of the nitrogen-containing polymer in the sample of the treatment fluid based upon a quantity of the one or more volatile nitrogen compounds distilled from the oilfield retort. Analyses of other nitrogen-containing compounds may take place similarly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhao Deng, Jay Paul Deville, Philip Wayne Livanec