Patents by Inventor Steve Allen Faurot

Steve Allen Faurot 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).

  • Method and Compositions for Hydraulic Fracturing and for Tracing Formation Water
    Publication number: 20180282612
    Abstract: A method of hydraulic fracturing, and tracer composites for use in the fracturing procedure, for tracing the production of formation water from one or more fractured zones. The tracer composites preferably include a formation water tracer material adsorbed onto a solid carrier material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Rule, Steve Allen Faurot
  • Method and compositions for hydraulic fracturing and for tracing formation water
    Patent number: 10017684
    Abstract: A method of hydraulic fracturing, and tracer composites for use in the fracturing procedure, for tracing the production of formation water from one or more fractured zones. The tracer composites preferably include a formation water tracer material adsorbed onto a solid carrier material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Spectrum Tracer Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Rule, Steve Allen Faurot
  • METHOD OF ALLOCATING INDIVIDUAL OIL OR WATER PRODUCTION CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MULTIPLE COMBINED SOURCES
    Publication number: 20180080314
    Abstract: A method of production allocation for multiple wells, fields, or other individual production sources which feed a common collection tank or battery. For any or each of the individual production sources, an oil-soluble or water-soluble tracer solution is added to the product stream flowing from the source and one or more downstream samples are then taken prior to the point at which the product stream combines with the product streams from any of the other sources. The individual oil production rate or water production rate of the tested production source is then determined using (i) the concentration of the oil-soluble tracer or water-soluble tracer in the tracer solution, (ii) the rate of addition of the tracer solution to the product stream, and (iii) the downstream concentration of the tracer in the oil phase or the water phase of the product stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Rule, Steve Allen Faurot
  • METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND FOR TRACING FORMATION WATER
    Publication number: 20170306217
    Abstract: A method of hydraulic fracturing, and tracer composites for use in the fracturing procedure, for tracing the production of formation water from one or more fractured zones. The tracer composites preferably include a formation water tracer material adsorbed onto a solid carrier material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Rule, Steve Allen Faurot
  • Method using halogenated benzoic acid esters and aldehydes for hydraulic fracturing and for tracing petroleum production
    Patent number: 9594070
    Abstract: A method of hydraulic fracturing, and tracer composites for use in the fracturing procedure, for tracing the production of crude oil or other hydrocarbon liquid products from one or more fractured zones. The tracer composites preferably include an oil soluble tracer adsorbed onto a solid carrier material. A non-water soluble coating is preferable also included on the composite over the tracer compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SPECTRUM TRACER SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Rule, Steve Allen Faurot
  • METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND FOR TRACING PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20150323515
    Abstract: A method of hydraulic fracturing, and tracer composites for use in the fracturing procedure, for tracing the production of crude oil or other hydrocarbon liquid products from one or more fractured zones. The tracer composites preferably include an oil soluble tracer adsorbed onto a solid carrier material. A non-water soluble coating is preferable also included on the composite over the tracer compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Rule, Steve Allen Faurot