Patents by Inventor Robert Loran GALEY

Robert Loran GALEY 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).

  • Increasing formation strength through the use of temperature and temperature coupled particulate to increase near borehole hoop stress and fracture gradients
    Patent number: 9580967
    Abstract: A method of increasing near-wellbore rock strength so as to mitigate or remediate lost circulation events through increased hoop stress in the near-wellbore in a subsurface formation comprises a) cooling a near-wellbore region of the formation, b) allowing a lost circulation material to enter the cooled near-wellbore region; and c) heating the near-wellbore region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Loran Galey, Lisa Shave Grant, Jeffrey Robert Scheibal, James Brett Wieseneck, Arthur Herman Hale, Mary Elizabeth Egan, Nor Janiah Japar, Arno Laurentius Michael Van Den Haak
  • INCREASING FORMATION STRENGTH THROUGH THE USE OF TEMPERATURE AND TEMPERATURE COUPLED PARTICULATE TO INCREASE NEAR BOREHOLE HOOP STRESS AND FRACTURE GRADIENTS
    Publication number: 20140151045
    Abstract: A method of increasing near-wellbore rock strength so as to mitigate or remediate lost circulation events through increased hoop stress in the near-wellbore in a subsurface formation comprises a) cooling a near-wellbore region of the formation, b) allowing a lost circulation material to enter the cooled near-wellbore region; and c) heating the near-wellbore region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert Loran GALEY, Lisa Shave GRANT, Jeffrey Robert SCHEIBAL, James Brett WIESENECK, Arthur Herman HALE, Mary Elizabeth EGAN