Patents by Inventor Preston Andrew May
Preston Andrew May 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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Patent number: 11932803Abstract: Methods and compositions for improving the rheological properties of fluids including sepiolite are provided. In one or more embodiments, the compositions comprise a clay selected from the group consisting of: sepiolite, palygorskite, attapulgite, and a combination thereof; and an extender comprising sodium polyacrylate, wherein the extender is present in an amount from about 0.01 lbs/ton of the clay to about 10 lbs/ton of the clay. In one or more embodiments, the methods comprise introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation, wherein the treatment fluid comprises an aqueous base fluid, a clay selected from the group consisting of: sepiolite, palygorskite, attapulgite, and a combination thereof, and an extender comprising sodium polyacrylate.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Preston Andrew May
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Patent number: 11927062Abstract: Methods for manufacturing lost circulation material particulates that may be for use in treating a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing at a well-site a feed vessel that contains a liquid material, the liquid material including a monomer and an initiator; providing an injection device disposed underneath the feed vessel for directing at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to a reaction chamber, wherein the reaction chamber includes a fluid; discharging at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to the reaction chamber through an orifice disposed on the injection device; and forming LCM particulates at least in part by allowing at least a portion of the liquid material to polymerize in the fluid in the reaction chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May
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Patent number: 11768190Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
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Publication number: 20230287745Abstract: Methods for manufacturing lost circulation material particulates that may be for use in treating a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing at a well-site a feed vessel that contains a liquid material, the liquid material including a monomer and an initiator; providing an injection device disposed underneath the feed vessel for directing at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to a reaction chamber, wherein the reaction chamber includes a fluid; discharging at least a portion of the liquid material from the feed vessel to the reaction chamber through an orifice disposed on the injection device; and forming LCM particulates at least in part by allowing at least a portion of the liquid material to polymerize in the fluid in the reaction chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May
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Patent number: 11718777Abstract: Compositions and methods involving polyvalent cation reactive polymers for use as lost circulation materials in subterranean treatment operations are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include forming a treatment fluid including a base fluid, a source of a polyvalent cation, a polyvalent cation reactive polymer, and an acid precursor; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Hui Zhou, Jay Deville
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Publication number: 20230174841Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
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Patent number: 11639459Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Preston Andrew May, Michele Suzanne Brown
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Patent number: 11603487Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jay Paul Deville, Preston Andrew May
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Patent number: 11560794Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Emily Cummings Hart, Jay Paul Deville
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Patent number: 11555787Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Emily Cummings Hart, Jay Paul Deville
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Patent number: 11499087Abstract: Methods and compositions for the use of thermally responsive lost circulation materials in subterranean formations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods include introducing a treatment fluid including a base fluid and a thermally responsive lost circulation material including a thermally responsive hydrogel that includes at least one thermoresponsive polymer into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation including a loss zone; allowing the thermally responsive lost circulation material to reach a thickening transition temperature; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set in the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May
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Patent number: 11485899Abstract: Methods for reducing zinc in fluids for use in subterranean formations are provided. In one or more embodiments, the methods include providing a fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and zinc; and adding a precipitant comprising polyvinylpyrrolidone or any derivative thereof to the fluid to form a precipitate with at least a portion of the zinc.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Walter Shumway, Hui Zhou, Preston Andrew May
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Patent number: 11473426Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
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Publication number: 20220315824Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Jay Paul DEVILLE, Preston Andrew MAY, Michele Suzanne BROWN
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Patent number: 11448022Abstract: Described herein are methods of enhancing the rheological properties of a colloidal mineral suspension in a liquid with high-intensity acoustical energy. In some examples, the colloidal mineral suspension may be dehydrated after treatment with high-intensity acoustical energy.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Eric Benjamin Frantz
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Patent number: 11401805Abstract: A method of detecting an amine-based shale inhibitor in a wellbore servicing fluid (WSF) comprising contacting an aliquot of the WSF with an amine detector compound to form a detection solution; wherein the WSF comprises the amine-based shale inhibitor; and wherein the detection solution is characterized by at least one absorption peak wavelength in the range of from about 380 nm to about 760 nm; detecting an absorption intensity for the detection solution at a wavelength within about ±20% of the at least one absorption peak wavelength; comparing the absorption intensity of the detection solution at the wavelength within about ±20% of the at least one absorption peak wavelength with a target absorption intensity of the amine-based shale inhibitor to determine the amount of amine-based shale inhibitor in the WSF; and comparing the amount of amine-based shale inhibitor in the WSF with a target amount of the amine-based shale inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville
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Publication number: 20220235259Abstract: Compositions and methods involving polyvalent cation reactive polymers for use as lost circulation materials in subterranean treatment operations are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include forming a treatment fluid including a base fluid, a source of a polyvalent cation, a polyvalent cation reactive polymer, and an acid precursor; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Hui Zhou, Jay Deville
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Patent number: 11370676Abstract: Methods for removing polymers from treatment fluids for use in subterranean formations are provided. In one or more embodiments, the methods include providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a polymer comprising polyvinylpyrrolidone or a derivative thereof; and adding a precipitant to the treatment fluid to form a precipitate with at least a portion of the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Hui Zhou, William Walter Shumway
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Patent number: 11365338Abstract: Solid shale inhibitor additives and methods of using such additives to, for example, inhibit shale are provided. In some embodiments, such methods include providing an aqueous treatment fluid that includes an aqueous base fluid and a solid shale inhibitor additive, the solid shale inhibitor additive including carrier particles and a treatment composition that includes a shale inhibitor; and introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Preston Andrew May, Jeffrey James Miller
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Patent number: 11360014Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising determining a concentration of one or more compounds of a fluid in an industrial water operation in real time. The determining of the concentration of the one or more components comprises contacting an array of sensors of a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device with a sample of the fluid to provide a sample response indicative of the concentration of the one or more components. The method further provides adjusting or maintaining at least one operating parameter of the industrial water operation based on the concentration of the one or more components of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Multi-Chem Group, LLCInventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway, Preston Andrew May, Jay Paul Deville, Troy Francis Davis, Frederick Thomas Brown