Patents by Inventor William O. Wooden

William O. Wooden 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: 10156108
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for producing shock waves in a well including a device connected to the bottom of the tubing string in a borehole of the well filled by liquid and containing the upper and lower plungers movably arranged within corresponding cylinders for compressing a liquid inside the compression chamber and discharging the liquid into the borehole on upstroke thereby generating a shock wave. In addition, a length of upstroke Lstr is determined by the following expression: L str ? H 1 + ( D 1 2 - D 2 2 ) ? A sw ? L 2 Ed r 2 , where H1 is a length of a lower cylinder, L2 is a distance between lower and upper plungers, D1 is a diameter of the lower plunger, D2 is a diameter of the upper plunger, Asw is a required amplitude of a generated shock wave, E is an elasticity modulus of a sucker rod's material, dr is a diameter of the sucker rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Seismic Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Publication number: 20170096869
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for producing shock waves in a well wherein a device connected to the bottom of the tubing string in the borehole of the well filled by liquid and containing the damper, the upper and lower plungers movably arranged within corresponding cylinders for compressing the liquid inside the compression chamber and discharging the liquid into the borehole on upstroke thereby generating a shock wave. In addition, providing a length of upstroke Lstr of the pumping unit determined by the following expression: L str ? H 1 + ( D 1 2 - D 2 2 ) ? A sw ? L 2 Ed r 2 , where H1 is the length of the lower cylinder, L2 is the distance between the lower and upper plungers, D1 is the diameter of the lower plunger, D2 is the diameter of the upper plunger, Asw is the required amplitude of the generated shock wave, E is a modulus of elasticity of the sucker rod's material, dr is the diameter of the sucker rods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Publication number: 20150218924
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for enhancing of the formation fracturing around a wellbore the regime of resonance by means of applying vibrations to the formation surrounding wellbore which is undergoing pressures exceeding the fracture gradient pressure of the formation. The method includes the steps of arranging a device attached to the end of tubing inside the wellbore in the vicinity of perforations, providing a fracturing fluid via tubing into a device for generating vibrations on a resonant frequency fr in accordance with following expression: f r = c 2 ? ? ? r 1.2 ? HL ? ( r + W ) , where fr is the frequency of resonance, c is a speed of sound in fluid, ? equals 3.1415, r is the required width of fracture, H is a combined thickness of a casing and a cement bond surrounding the casing, W is a distance on a casing arch between an adjacent perforations, L is the required length of fracture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Patent number: 8684076
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for enhancing fluid removal from a fracture in a geologic formation by applying periodic/cyclic shock waves to the fracture in a formation surrounding a wellbore which has undergone fracturing. In accordance with the invention, the method includes the steps of arranging a device attached to an end of a tubing string inside a wellbore in a vicinity of said fracture for generating shock waves, providing a liquid via the tubing string into the device for generating shock waves with the amplitude Pa of shock waves determined by a following expression: 0.3 MPa?Pa?1.4Pp?0.8?gH, where Pp is a formation pore pressure, ? is a formation density, g is a gravity acceleration, H is a depth of said fracture, Pa is an amplitude of the shock wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Inventors: Sergey A Kostrov, William O Wooden
  • Patent number: 8480859
    Abstract: An apparatus to decrease viscosity of crude oil or bitumen and increase the rate of fractional extraction by breaking the high molecular chains in crude oil or bitumen undergoing treatment which includes a flow of crude oil or bitumen inside the treatment unit under simultaneous affection by cavitations and vibrations on different frequencies and between at least two opposite conical jets formed inside the diffusers having the same axis of symmetry and interacting with each other under the conditions of an auto-oscillations of the periodic backward flows of fluid inside each conical jet due to a periodic negative pressure inside each conical jet and the periodic negative pressure is determined in accordance with the following formulae: P a = P 0 - ? ? ? ? ? V 2 2 , ? wherein ? ? V = f ? ( D 4 - 2 ? R ) Sh , Pa is negative pressure in backward flow between the opposite conical jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventors: Sergey A Kostrov, Sergey V Bortkevitch, Aleksey M Boldyrev, William O Wooden
  • Patent number: 8459351
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for producing shock waves in a well wherein a device connected to the bottom of the tubing string in the borehole of the well filled by liquid and containing the upper and lower plungers movably arranged within corresponding cylinders for compressing a liquid inside the compression chamber and discharging the liquid into the borehole on upstroke thereby generating a shock wave. In addition, providing an exit of the lower plunger out of the lower cylinder at the top of upstroke of pumping unit on the distance ? determined by the following formulae: ? ? ( D 1 2 - D 2 2 ) ? A sw ? H Ed r 2 , where D1 and D2 are the outside diameters of the lower and upper plungers, Asw is the amplitude of generated shock wave, H is a depth of the lower plunger at the top of upstroke, E is modulus of elasticity of the sucker rod's material, dr is the diameter of sucker rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Inventors: Sergey A Kostrov, William O Wooden
  • Publication number: 20120211225
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for enhancing fluid removal from a fracture in a geologic formation by applying periodic/cyclic shock waves to the fracture in a formation surrounding a wellbore which has undergone fracturing. In accordance with the invention, the method includes the steps of arranging a device attached to the end of tubing inside the wellbore in the vicinity of said fracture for generating shock waves, providing a liquid via tubing into the device for generating shock waves with the amplitude Pa of shock waves determined by following expression: 0.3 MPa?Pa?1.4Pp?0.8?gH, where Pp is the formation pore pressure, ? is the formation density, g is a gravity acceleration, H is the depth of said fracture, Pa is the amplitude of the shock wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Publication number: 20120175107
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for producing shock waves in a well wherein a device connected to the bottom of the tubing string in the borehole of the well filled by liquid and containing the upper and lower plungers movably arranged within corresponding cylinders for compressing a liquid the compression chamber and discharging the liquid into the borehole on upstroke thereby generating a shock wave. In addition, providing an exit of the lower plunger out of the lower cylinder at the top of upstroke of pumping unit on the distance ? determined by the following formulae: ? ? ( D 1 2 - D 2 2 ) ? A sw ? H Ed r 2 , where D1 and D2 are the outside diameters of the lower and upper plungers, Asw is the required amplitude of generated shock wave, H is a depth of the lower plunger at the top of upstroke, E is modulus of elasticity of the sucker rod's material, dr is the diameter of sucker rods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Patent number: 7059591
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for making a micro-dispersed gas-liquid mixture which includes a gas-liquid ejector unit, a cavitation unit and a jet dispersing unit installed in a sequence. All above referenced units are installed into a cylindrical housing which in turn includes bottom and top covers and also has a first partition having a conical orifice separating a gas-liquid ejector unit from a cavitation unit and a second partition separating a cavitation unit from a jet dispersing unit. The gas-liquid ejector unit has an inlet located at the bottom of the cylindrical housing for liquid and the inlet located on side surface of housing for gas, these being between bottom cover of the housing and the first partition. In addition, the inlet for liquid is a nozzle the top having both outside and inside parts of which are adapted to the conical orifice of first partition to provide a required flow-rate of an ejected gas through the gas inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventors: Sergey V. Bortkevitch, Sergey A. Kostrov, Nickolay V. Savitsky, William O. Wooden
  • Patent number: 6899175
    Abstract: An apparatus and seismic method for producing an shock wave in an oil well borehole, with a pumping unit arranged at the wellhead, a tubing string extending downward into the production casing of the well, a hollow cylinder assembly connected with the bottom of the tube string, and pair of plungers arranged within the cylinder assembly and connected with the pumping unit with sucker rods and a polish rod for compressing liquid contained within the cylinder assembly and discharging the compressed liquid into the production casing, thereby generating a shock wave. The cylinder assembly includes an upper cylinder, a lower cylinder below the upper cylinder, a crossover cylinder below the upper and lower cylinders, and a compression chamber cylinder containing a compression chamber arranged between the crossover cylinder and the upper cylinder. The lower cylinder is adapted to receive the lower plunger, and the upper cylinder is adapted to receive the upper plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Patent number: 6706006
    Abstract: A hand held hydro-suction vibration bio-stimulator submerged below the surface of a liquid in the liquid filled vessel and connected to a fluid supply by means of a flexible hose to create a periodical suction force in the range of 0.5-70 N on the frequency of 10-200 Hz and high frequency vibrations in the range of 1-20 kHz to the skin of the human body both being submerged under the surface of a liquid in a liquid filled vessel due to the passing of the fluid from the fluid supply through the hydro-suction vibration bio-stimulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, Olga Zakharova, Esther Wooden, William O. Wooden
  • Publication number: 20030201101
    Abstract: An apparatus and seismic method for producing an shock wave in an oil well borehole, with a pumping unit arranged at the wellhead, a tubing string extending downward into the production casing of the well, a hollow cylinder assembly connected with the bottom of the tube string, and pair of plungers arranged within the cylinder assembly and connected with the pumping unit with sucker rods and a polish rod for compressing liquid contained within the cylinder assembly and discharging the compressed liquid into the production casing, thereby generating a shock wave. The cylinder assembly includes an upper cylinder, a lower cylinder below the upper cylinder, a crossover cylinder below the upper and lower cylinders, and a compression chamber cylinder containing a compression chamber arranged between the crossover cylinder and the upper cylinder. The lower cylinder is adapted to receive the lower plunger, and the upper cylinder is adapted to receive the upper plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden
  • Publication number: 20030144612
    Abstract: A hand held hydro-suction vibration bio-stimulator submerged below surface of fluid in the fluid filled vessel and connected to the pump by means of flexible hose to derive the periodical suction force in the range of 0.5-70 N on the frequency of 10-200 Hz and high frequency vibrations in the range of 1-20 kHz to a living organism also submerged under the surface of the fluid in the fluid filled vessel due to the circulation of the fluid from the fluid filled vessel through the hydro-suction vibration bio-stimulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, Olga Zakharova, Esther Wooden, William O. Wooden
  • Patent number: 6467542
    Abstract: A process is provided to enhance fluid production, recovery, and/or injection from and/or into fluid-bearing formations. The process includes the stimulation of the formation by vibrations, generated by the vibration source installed in the vicinity of the productive layer so that the stimulation is performed on the frequency coinciding with the eigen frequency bandwidth of filtration process of productive layer/sublayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Inventors: Sergey A. Kostrov, William O. Wooden