Patents by Inventor Roopa Tellakula

Roopa Tellakula 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).

  • Publication number: 20240084190
    Abstract: Emulsions, treatment fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations are provided, wherein the emulsions comprise water, a water-immiscible liquid, one or more polymers, and an inverting surfactant composition comprising one or more surfactants selected from the group consisting of ethoxylated amine compounds, ethoxylated fatty acid compounds, and alkyl polyethyleneglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, alkyl polyglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, and salts or esters thereof. The emulsions are particularly suitable for use in brine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Roopa Tellakula
  • Patent number: 11859128
    Abstract: Emulsions, treatment fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations are provided, wherein the emulsions comprise water, a water-immiscible liquid, one or more polymers, and an inverting surfactant composition comprising one or more surfactants selected from the group consisting of ethoxylated amine compounds, ethoxylated fatty acid compounds, and alkyl polyethyleneglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, alkyl polyglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, and salts or esters thereof. The emulsions are particularly suitable for use in brine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KEMIRA OYJ
    Inventor: Roopa Tellakula
  • Publication number: 20230019003
    Abstract: Emulsions, treatment fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations are provided, wherein the emulsions comprise water, a water-immiscible liquid, one or more polymers, and an inverting surfactant composition comprising one or more surfactants selected from the group consisting of ethoxylated alcohol compounds, ethoxylated fatty acid compounds, and alkyl polyethyleneglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, and salts or esters thereof. The emulsions are particularly suitable for use in brine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Kemira OYJ
    Inventors: Roopa TELLAKULA, Louis ROSATI, Ronald ROBINSON, Samuel HANSON
  • Publication number: 20220251440
    Abstract: Well treatment fluids, and methods for treating wellbores or fracturing subterranean formations, which include acrylamide polymer or copolymer crosslinked with one or more crosslinkers and one or more iron-containing compounds are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula, Scott Rosencrance
  • Patent number: 11339322
    Abstract: Well treatment fluids, and methods for treating wellbores or fracturing subterranean formations, which include acrylamide polymer or copolymer crosslinked with one or more crosslinkers and one or more iron-containing compounds are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KEMIRA OYJ
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula, Scott Rosencrance
  • Patent number: 11279866
    Abstract: Methods for fracturing a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore are provided, the method comprising the step of injecting a well treatment fluid into the well bore at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to fracture the subterranean formation, wherein the well treatment fluid comprises one or more iron-containing compounds and one or more booster compounds. The methods can be used to reduce viscosity and to facilitate the decomposition of acrylamide-containing polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KEMIRA OYJ
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula
  • Publication number: 20200397093
    Abstract: Methods for fracturing a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore are provided, the method comprising the step of injecting a well treatment fluid into the well bore at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to fracture the subterranean formation, wherein the well treatment fluid comprises one or more iron-containing compounds and one or more booster compounds. The methods can be used to reduce viscosity and to facilitate the decomposition of acrylamide-containing polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula
  • Patent number: 10822462
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel aqueous composition of a structurally modified, water soluble polymer suitable for papermaking and to a method for manufacturing it. The method includes cleaving a backbone of the acrylamide polymer by a degradation agent and cross-linking the acrylamide polymer subjected to cleaving by using a polyfunctional cross-linking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Kemira Oyj
    Inventors: Yuping Luo, Roopa Tellakula, Scott Rosencrance
  • Patent number: 10689565
    Abstract: Methods for fracturing a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore are provided, the method comprising the step of injecting a well treatment fluid into the well bore at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to fracture the subterranean formation, wherein the well treatment fluid comprises one or more iron-containing compounds and one or more booster compounds. The methods can be used to reduce viscosity and to facilitate the decomposition of acrylamide-containing polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Kemira OYJ
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula
  • Publication number: 20190211255
    Abstract: Emulsions, treatment fluids and methods for treating subterranean formations are provided, wherein the emulsions comprise water, a water-immiscible liquid, one or more polymers, and an inverting surfactant composition comprising one or more surfactants selected from the group consisting of ethoxylated amine compounds, ethoxylated fatty acid compounds, and alkyl polyethyleneglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, alkyl polyglycol ether carboxylic acid compounds, and salts or esters thereof. The emulsions are particularly suitable for use in brine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: Roopa Tellakula
  • Publication number: 20190177492
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel aqueous composition of a structurally modified, water soluble polymer suitable for papermaking and to a method for manufacturing it. The method includes cleaving a backbone of the acrylamide polymer by a degradation agent and cross-linking the acrylamide polymer subjected to cleaving by using a polyfunctional cross-linking agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Kemira Oyj
    Inventors: Yuping LUO, Roopa TELLAKULA, Scott ROSENCRANCE
  • Patent number: 10081754
    Abstract: Gel compositions comprising an acrylamide polymer or copolymer crosslinked with dialdehyde, methods to produce the gel compositions, wellbore treatment fluids comprising the gel compositions, and methods of treating a well bore comprising injecting the gel compositions, are provided. In the drilling, completion, and stimulation of oil and gas wells, well treatment fluids are often pumped into well bore holes under high pressure and at high flow rates causing the rock formation surrounding the well bore to fracture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Kemira Oyj
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula
  • Patent number: 9920241
    Abstract: Methods and well treatment fluids for fracturing a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore are provided, the method comprising injecting a well treatment fluid into the well bore at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to fracture the subterranean formation, wherein the well treatment fluid comprises an iron-containing breaker compound. The methods can be used to reduce viscosity of well treatment fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Kemira Oyj
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula, Tom Lynch, Harsha Kolla, Logan Jackson
  • Publication number: 20160376494
    Abstract: Well treatment fluids, and methods for treating wellbores or fracturing subterranean formations, which include acrylamide polymer or copolymer crosslinked with one or more crosslinkers and one or more iron-containing compounds are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula, Scott Rosencrance
  • Publication number: 20160075942
    Abstract: Methods and well treatment fluids for fracturing a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore are provided, the method comprising injecting a well treatment fluid into the well bore at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to fracture the subterranean formation, wherein the well treatment fluid comprises an iron-containing breaker compound. The methods can be used to reduce viscosity of well treatment fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula, Tom Lynch, Harsha Kolla, Logan Jackson
  • Publication number: 20160009983
    Abstract: Gel compositions comprising an acrylamide polymer or copolymer crosslinked with dialdehyde, methods to produce the gel compositions, welibore treatment fluids comprising the gel compositions, and methods of treating a well bore comprising injecting the gel compositions, are provided. In the drilling, completion, and stimulation of oil and gas wells, well treatment fluids are often pumped into well bore holes under high pressure and at high flow rates causing the rock formation surrounding the well bore to fracture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jiang Li, Roopa Tellakula