Hydraulic Fracturing Device Patents (Class 166/177.5)
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Patent number: 12252649Abstract: A system and method for hydraulic fracturing a subterranean formation with fracturing fluid to generate fractures, and intermittently adjusting a characteristic of the fracturing fluid conveying proppant to form pillars of proppant in the fractures.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Ataur Malik, Mohammed A. Asiri, Saad Al-Driweesh, Rajesh Kumar Saini, Mohammad Hamidul Haque, Mohammed Sayed
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Patent number: 12241349Abstract: A method of deploying a pump in a well production tubing using an electrical cable includes attaching a downhole barrier valve (DBV) to a spoolable conveyance. The DBV is closed to flow in both directions until a differential pressure across the DBV exceeds a first threshold. The DBV is closed to flow when the differential pressure falls below the first threshold. The DBV is moved to a selected depth in the well by extending the conveyance through a lubricator attached to a wellhead at an upper end of the production tubing. The spoolable conveyance is withdrawn from the well. The pump is attached to the electrical cable and is moved through the wellhead and the production tubing by extending the cable until the pump reaches a selected setting depth in the well.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Iain Maclean, Rubria Garza, Mike Banda
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Patent number: 12146105Abstract: Methods and fracturing fluids for fracturing a subterranean formation using in situ proppant particulates. Methods include introducing a fracturing fluid into a subterranean formation at or above a fracture gradient. The fracturing fluid includes a non-phase-transition fluid comprising at least an aqueous fluid and a surfactant; and a phase-transition fluid comprising a phase-change material selected from the group consisting of styrene monomers, methyl methacrylate monomers, or a combination of styrene monomers and methyl methacrylate monomers, an initiator, and an optional accelerator.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, ALFAISAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Wengang Li, Bader G. Alharbi, Edreese Alshaerah, Mohan Raj Krishnan
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Patent number: 12146397Abstract: A hydraulic fracturing operation is performed in a wellbore formed in a subterranean zone. A wellhead is installed at an entrance to the wellbore. Liquid CO2 is flowed through a pipeline located at a surface and fluidically coupled to the wellhead. The liquid CO2 is flowed into the wellbore through the wellhead to perform the hydraulic fracturing. The hydraulic fracturing operation including flowing of the liquid CO2 through the pipeline to the wellhead is stopped. A portion of the liquid CO2 is withdrawn from within the pipeline into a liquid CO2 storage container, which is a portable system designed to capture and store liquid CO2 and that is fluidically coupled to the pipeline at the surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Saad AlMutairi, Khalid Mohammed M. Alruwaili
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Patent number: 12134964Abstract: An electrically driven fracturing system is provided. The electrically driven fracturing system includes: one or more frequency converter apparatuses; and a plurality of electrically driven fracturing apparatuses configured to pressurize and output fluid. One of the one or more frequency converter apparatuses is connected with multiple ones of the plurality of electrically driven fracturing apparatuses, respectively, and the frequency converter apparatus is configured to adjust pressure and flow rate of fluid output by the multiple electrically driven fracturing apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jifeng Zhong, Shuzhen Cui, Shouzhe Li, Liang Lv
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Patent number: 12117023Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine fracturing apparatus. The turbine fracturing apparatus includes: a main power assembly and an auxiliary power assembly. The main power assembly includes a first power source and a piston pump connected to the first power source; the first power source outputs power to the piston pump, and the piston pump outputs a first liquid. The auxiliary power assembly includes a second power source, a load sensitive system connected to the second power source, and an auxiliary power device; the second power source outputs power to the load sensitive system, the load sensitive system is connected to the auxiliary power device and outputs a second liquid for the auxiliary power device. The first liquid is different from the second liquid, and the first liquid and the second liquid have certain pressure. The load sensitive system is configured to regulate a pressure of the second liquid in real time according to pressure of the second liquid required by the auxiliary power device.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianwei Wang, Yongcheng Liu, Yuguo Tang, Zhongzhang Ma, Fuhong Li
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Patent number: 12084953Abstract: A system includes a tubing head, a bushing profile, and a wear bushing. The tubing head is connected to the casing head. The bushing profile is formed by a tubing head inner surface of the tubing head. The wear bushing has a bushing external surface configured to mate with the bushing profile. An orifice is formed by the installation of the wear bushing in the bushing profile and the connection between the tubing head and the casing head.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Syed Muhammad Taha, Amr Mohamed Zahran, Bagus Setiadi, Fatimah AlNasser, Mustafa Karakaya
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Patent number: 11988455Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal energy storage with at least one thermal energy storage volume. The thermal energy storage comprises at least one primary borehole extending from ground level to a first predetermined depth in a rock body; at least one set of secondary boreholes located around the at least one primary borehole; and at least an upper and a lower fracture plane extending in a radial and/or oblique plane from the at least one primary borehole towards adjacent secondary boreholes. At least one fracture plane permits a hydraulic flow between at least one of the secondary boreholes and the primary borehole. Each thermal energy storage volume is defined by one set of secondary boreholes and its upper and lower fracture planes. The set of secondary boreholes diverge away from the at least one primary borehole at each fractured plane level, without intersecting the at least one primary borehole.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Hydroc Energy Storage ABInventors: Sven-Åke Larsson, Bo Bergman, Nils Olofsson, Timo Pohjanvouri
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Patent number: 11692424Abstract: Methods and systems for performing injection treatments in subterranean formations stimulated by the ignition of propellants are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: igniting a propellant in one or more secondary boreholes in a subterranean formation to at least partially rupture at least a region of the subterranean formation near the secondary boreholes; introducing a fracturing fluid into a first production well bore in the subterranean formation in or near the ruptured region of the subterranean formation at or above a pressure sufficient to create or enhance at least a primary fracture in the subterranean formation that extends into at least a portion of the ruptured region of the subterranean formation; and introducing a displacement fluid into one or more of the secondary boreholes or an injection well bore in the subterranean formation that comprises one or more fractures penetrating the ruptured region of the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Philip D. Nguyen, Glenn A. Wilson, Golchehreh Salamat
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Patent number: 11536406Abstract: A modular multiport pod missile includes a plurality of pipe sections securable together to form a conduit for transporting a fluid in a generally horizontal direction of travel, and at least one pod secured between two of the pipe sections forming the conduit. Each pod has a plurality of input ports extending radially outwardly at an angle from a perimeter of the pod. Each of the input ports is configured for connection to a high-pressure line for delivering a high-pressure fluid from a pump to the conduit. The input ports are angled such that, when connected to a high-pressure line, high-pressure fluid flowing through the input ports merges with the fluid in the conduit generally in the same direction of travel as the fluid in the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: ALADDIN CAPITAL, INC.Inventors: Paul Stuart George, Robert Curtis Dacar, Leroy Tanner Dickinson, Kyle Lee Barnoff, Marcus Curtis Dacar
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Patent number: 11506038Abstract: A modular fracing wellhead extension for use in a fracing system for enabling the connection of wells on a well pad that are out of reach of an articulated connection platform. The extension modules use the same connection interface as deployed on the wellheads in reach of the articulated connection platform so that an uninterrupted fracing operation can be carried out on two or more wells even if some of the wells are not within the usual reach of the articulated connection platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BLUECORE COMPLETIONS, LLCInventors: Travis Harrel, Austin Bainbridge
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Patent number: 11408259Abstract: System and methods of controlling diverter placement during stimulation treatments are provided. Data relating to at least one downhole parameter is obtained for a current treatment stage within a subsurface formation. A response of the diverter to be injected during a diversion phase of the current stage on the downhole parameter is estimated, based on the obtained data and a diagnostic data model. Values for diversion control parameters are calculated, based on the estimated response. As the diverter is injected into the formation, an actual response of the diverter is monitored. Upon determining that a difference between the actual and estimated response exceeds an error tolerance threshold, the model is updated. The model is further updated over subsequent iterations of the diversion phase when the actual response is less than the estimated response. Subsequent diversion phases are performed over a remainder of the current stage, based on the updated model.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Chaitanya Mallikarjun Karale, Joshua Lane Camp
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Patent number: 11268377Abstract: Disclosed are a measurement-while-drilling method and device for obtaining a coal seam gas parameter applicable to measurement of a coal seam gas/coal seam methane parameter while drilling and evaluation of gas drainage performance. The invention performs a measurement-while-drilling operation to obtain information about downhole gas and a coal seam, thereby realizing on-site measurement of a coal seam gas parameter while drilling. The measurement-while-drilling device for obtaining a coal seam gas parameter comprises a compartment (17), a pressure sensor (15), a temperature sensor (14), a flow sensor (4), an acoustic emission sensor (16), a monitoring and control module (11), a power module and a communication module. The device is installed between a drill bit (1) and a first drill pipe (20).Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Enyuan Wang, Zhonghui Li, Jianchun Ou, Liming Qiu
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Patent number: 11199074Abstract: A lateral wellbore access system is used for moving an isolation sleeve relative to a window of a completion sleeve to adjust access through the window. The system includes an actuator having an isolation sleeve coupling mechanism and a driving mechanism. The isolation sleeve coupling mechanism is configured to engage with an isolation sleeve. The driving mechanism is configured to longitudinally reciprocate the isolation sleeve coupling mechanism within a bore of a completion sleeve to longitudinally move an isolation sleeve coupled to the isolation sleeve coupling mechanism within the bore relative to a window of the completion sleeve. Movement of the isolation sleeve adjusts a position of the isolation sleeve relative to the completion sleeve window for permitting or blocking access through the window into the bore.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: David Joe Steele
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Patent number: 11193355Abstract: A lateral wellbore access system is used for moving an isolation sleeve relative to a window of a completion sleeve to adjust access through the window. The system includes an actuator having an isolation sleeve engagement mechanism and a driving mechanism. The isolation sleeve engagement mechanism is configured to engage with an isolation sleeve. The driving mechanism is configured to longitudinally reciprocate the isolation sleeve relative to the isolation sleeve engagement mechanism within a bore of a completion sleeve to longitudinally move an isolation sleeve within the bore relative to a window of the completion sleeve. Movement of the isolation sleeve adjusts a position of the isolation sleeve relative to the completion sleeve window for permitting or blocking access through the window into the bore.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: David Joe Steele
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Patent number: 11168532Abstract: An apparatus or a well tool for testing a blowout preventer (BOP) on a surface wellhead. The apparatus includes a sacrificial wellhead adapter, a top locking mechanism adapted to lock the adapter to a BOP riser, and a bottom locking mechanism adapted to lock the adapter to a permanent tubing or casing spool of the surface wellhead. The apparatus further includes a plurality of lock down screws configured to be activated as a load ring. The sacrificial wellhead adapter further comprises a first profile for accommodating a test plug load ring, and a sealing profile for a test plug. The apparatus further includes a test plug with an activated load shoulder. The test plug is activated externally by energizing the lock down screws. The apparatus further includes a load ring configured to lock the test plug in place.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Mohammed E. Mukhlifi
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Patent number: 11091993Abstract: A frac zipper manifold bridge connector comprises two bridge spools for connecting a well configuration unit of a frac zipper manifold to a frac tree of a wellhead. The connector comprises multiple connections involving threaded flanges, such that the orientation of the bridge spools may be adjusted to ensure that they are correctly aligned with the frac tree. The bridge connector further comprises one or more flow diverters to decrease turbulence and reduce erosion.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.Inventors: Richard Brian Sizemore, Bob McGuire, Danny L. Artherholt, Mickey Claxton, Blake Mullins, Charles Beedy
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Patent number: 11037040Abstract: A straddle packer for proppant-laden fracturing fluids has a slotted frac sub with a proppant filtration plug body that excludes proppant in the fracturing fluid from a central passage of the straddle packer downhole from the slotted frac hub. Pressure equalization sleeve filters exclude an entry of debris in a well bore through pressure equalization ports of the straddle packer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: EXACTA-FRAC ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Joze John Hrupp, Ahmed Mohamed Saeed
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Patent number: 10982523Abstract: A missile flow line is assembled in a frac manifold to manifold the discharge from a plurality of pumps. The missile comprises at least two junction fittings joined by a flange union to at least one spooled pipe to form a conduit. The junction fittings comprise a fitting body having a primary bore and at least two feed bores. The primary bore extends axially through the body between primary union faces adapted for connection to a flowline component by a flange union. The feed bores extend radially through the body from a feed union face to an intersection with the primary bore. The feed union faces are adapted for connection to pump discharge lines by a flange union. The intersections of the feed bores with the primary bore are offset axially from each other along the primary bore.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: KHOLLE Magnolia 2015, LLCInventors: Larry Mitchel Hill, William Brent Stroebel, Scott Taylor Donaldson, E. Lee Colley, III
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Patent number: 10767443Abstract: The present invention relates to burst port subs (BPS) 120 allowing for a tubing 100 or a liner 200 or a casing 200 in a borehole 300 to be opened at a predetermined pressure and further providing a delayed opening sequence due to a dissolvable barrier 400, 500 arranged in a port 440, 540 of the sub 120. The present invention relates further to a downhole system comprising a predetermined number of such burst port subs (BPS) 120.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: TRICAN COMPLETION SOLUTIONS LTDInventors: Mike Bellavance, Todd Atkinson, Tore Sørheim
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Patent number: 10633934Abstract: Missile flow lines are incorporated into frac manifolds, especially trailered or skidded frac manifolds. The missiles manifold the discharge from a plurality of pumps and comprise at least two junction fittings joined by spooled pipe. The junction fittings comprise a body having a primary bore and at least two feed bores. The intersections of the feed bores with the primary bore are offset axially from each other along the primary bore. The junction fittings are joined by flange unions to at least one spooled pipe such that the junction fittings and spooled pipe form a conduit including the primary bores. A discharge line from a pump may be joined to each feed union face of the junction fittings by a flange union. Thus, the discharge from the pumps may be manifolded into the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: KHOLLE Magnolia 2015, LLCInventors: Larry Mitchel Hill, William Brent Stroebel, Scott Taylor Donaldson, E. Lee Colley, III
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Patent number: 10612531Abstract: The present invention discloses a hydraulically-driven double-acting mud pump, comprising power motors, pressure oil pumps, a three-position four-way hydraulically-actuated directional valve, a hydraulic power end and a mud pump head, the power motors being connected to the pressure oil pumps in a conventional way, the pressure oil pumps being communicated with a port P of the three-position four-way hydraulically-actuated directional valve via a pipeline, a port T of the three-position four-way hydraulically-actuated directional valve being communicated with an oil tank via a pipeline, a port A and a port B of the three-position four-way hydraulically-actuated directional valve being both connected to the hydraulic power end, the hydraulic power end being connected to the mud pump head in a conventional way, a lower end of the mud pump head being communicated with a low-pressure manifold and two sides of the mud pump head being communicated with a high-pressure manifold.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Huangshan Huirun Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jie Jiang
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Patent number: 10538991Abstract: The present disclosure relates to downhole tools, including downhole valves, which actuate via a pressure differential created across a shifting element having one or more pressure surfaces isolated from fluid, and fluid pressure, flowing through the interior flowpath. Embodiment downhole tools of the present disclosure may actuate in response to, among other signals, fluid pressure in the interior flowpath of the tool and fluid pressure communicated to a pressure surface of the shifting sleeve from the exterior of the tool. Certain embodiments may also have an outlet connector whereby fluid pressure from the downhole tool may be communicated to its exterior. Isolation of the shifting element from the interior flowpath may be accomplished using a frangible, shiftable, degradable or other members which may be moved from a closed state to an open state in response to fluid conditions in the interior flowpath.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Inventors: Raymond Hofman, William Sloane Muscroft
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Patent number: 10487623Abstract: A circulation sub including a tubular and a diverter valve are configured to continuously circulate fluid into a drill string. The tubular has a first end connectable to the drill string, a second end connectable to a pipe segment, and a port. The tubular has a fluid path for allowing the fluid to flow from the pipe segment to the drill string and a circulation path for allowing the fluid to flow from the port to the drill string. The diverter valve has a channel in selective fluid communication with the fluid path. The diverter valve is positionable between a flow through position for selectively allowing the fluid to flow through the fluid path and a diversion position for selectively allowing the fluid to flow through the circulation path whereby the fluid may continuously flow through the drill string.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.Inventors: James William Weir, Andrew Shelton
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Patent number: 10472935Abstract: The present invention concerns a feedback control method for adjusting the proppant concentration in a fracturing fluid that is utilized in stimulation of an underground formation.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: William J. Scharmach, Gregory Panuccio
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Patent number: 10400567Abstract: The invention discloses a pipeline descaling and rock stratum fracturing device based on electro-hydraulic pulse shock waves, comprising a ground low-voltage control device, a transmission cable and an electro-hydraulic pulse shock wave transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yi Liu, Fuchang Lin, Yuan Pan, Qin Zhang, Hua Li, Zhiyuan Li, Siwei Liu
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Patent number: 10370937Abstract: A system for use in treating a wellbore may include a tubular string deployed in the wellbore; and at least one valve assembly connected to the tubular string, each valve assembly for establishing communication between the tubular string and a formation zone, the at least one valve assembly comprises a sleeve having at least one fluid port therein that expands in an axial direction when the valve assembly opens to form a flowpath between an interior of the tubular string and the formation zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jahir Pabon, Matthew Godfrey
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Patent number: 10287874Abstract: A method of monitoring hydraulic fracturing using DAS sensors in a treatment well and/or observation well is described. The raw data is transformed using a low pass filter (?0.05 Hz) and down-sampled to show the signal as the stimulation progresses. The resulting data can be used to optimize the hydraulic fracturing or improve reservoir models for other reservoirs.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: ConocoPhillips CompanyInventors: Ge Jin, Charles C. Mosher, Frank P. Filice, Kyle R. Krueger, Ali Tura, Baishali Roy, Dana M. Jurick
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Patent number: 10280363Abstract: A method comprising: introducing into a fracture within a subterranean formation a first treatment fluid comprising uncoated first proppant particulates; introducing into the fracture a second treatment fluid comprising non-hardenable coated second proppant particulates to form a proppant pack; and introducing into the fracture a third treatment fluid comprising hardenable coated third proppant particulates intermittently between a spacer fluid to form pillars.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Joao Walter Pereira Suzart, Clarence John Bertrand, Jr., Anupom Sabhapondit
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Patent number: 10280725Abstract: The present invention discloses a hydraulic double-acting fracturing pump skid, comprising a skid chassis, power motors, oil pumps, a hydraulic power end and fluid ends; the power motors and the oil pumps are arranged at two ends of the skid chassis, the hydraulic power end is arranged in the middle of the skid chassis, and the fluid ends are arranged on two sides of the hydraulic power end; the power motors are connected to the oil pumps via a transmission mechanism, the oil pumps are communicated with the hydraulic power end via a three-position four-way directional valve and can drive the hydraulic power end to operate, the hydraulic power end is connected to the hydraulic power in a transmission way, and a lower end of the fluid ends is communicated with a low-pressure manifold and two sides of the fluid ends are respectively communicated with a high-pressure manifold.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Huangshan Huirun Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jie Jiang
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Patent number: 10227856Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a composition and method of fracturing a formation penetrated by a well-bore. The composition and method comprises providing a fracturing fluid that is liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) with at least one friction reducing polymer that is a polysiloxane dissolved in the LCO2 at a concentration of about 0.001 to 1.0 weight percent, and a first at least one co-solvent, and optionally a second at least one co-solvent that has a closed cup flash point greater than the first at least one co-solvent, in order to enable dissolution of the polymer in order to effect friction reduction.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Richard M. Kelly, William J. Scharmach, Walter L. Renz
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Patent number: 10190391Abstract: A valve for inclusion or insertion in a tubular includes a substantially cylindrical outer valve housing; an inner sliding sleeve mounted axially movable inside the valve housing; and a seat arranged for receiving a drop ball, dart or falling device. The seat is built in such a way that it can partially or completely be removed or drilled out from the valve. The inner sliding sleeve includes a first profile arranged at a first end of the inner sliding sleeve and a second profile arranged at a second end of the inner sliding sleeve, wherein the first profile and the second profile are configured to be engaged with an activating or shifting tool inserted and run in the tubular after the seat has been partially or completely removed or drilled out from the valve in order to operate the valve from an open to a closed position and/or vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TRICAN COMPLETION SOLUTIONS ASInventors: Roger Antonsen, Kristoffer Braekke, Geir Lunde
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Patent number: 10138415Abstract: Systems and methods that use far-field diverting agents and proppant pulsing to enhance fracture geometries in far field areas of a subterranean formation are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise: introducing into a well bore penetrating a portion of a subterranean formation alternating stages of a proppant-carrying fracturing fluid comprising a plurality of proppant particulates, and a clean fracturing fluid comprising a lesser concentration of proppant particulates than the proppant-carrying fracturing fluid, wherein the alternating stages of the proppant-carrying fracturing fluid and the clean fracturing fluid are introduced into the well bore at or above a pressure sufficient to create or enhance one or more fractures in the subterranean formation; and introducing a diverting agent into the well bore during one or more of the alternating stages of proppant-carrying fracturing fluid and clean fracturing fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jason E. Bryant, Thomas Donovan Welton, Ubong Inyang, Jeremy Butler
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Patent number: 10119364Abstract: A sleeve apparatus having a longitudinal axis and an interior further includes a tubular having a plurality of ports providing a length of fluidic access between the interior and an exterior of the tubular, the length measured with respect to the longitudinal axis; and, a sleeve disposed within the tubular and configured to move longitudinally with respect to the longitudinal axis. The sleeve further has a plurality of apertures misaligned with the plurality of ports in a closed condition of the sleeve apparatus and at least substantially aligned with the plurality of ports in a fully open condition of the sleeve apparatus, and a plurality of non-apertured sections aligned with the plurality of ports in the closed condition. A longitudinal shifting distance of the sleeve to move the sleeve apparatus from the closed condition to the fully open condition is less than the length of fluidic access.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventor: Juan Carlos Flores
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Patent number: 10081761Abstract: The present invention relates to a proppant laden fracture fluid having a Mitchell quality of at least 50% and fracturing a subterranean formation therewith.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Richard M. Kelly, Afshin Esmaeil Zadeh, Mark K. Weise
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Patent number: 10065223Abstract: A method and an associated system for in-situ decontamination of a contaminated soil region (2) which contains degradable pollutants, in which a fluid substance is introduced into the soil (1) using an injection device (4, 4?), wherein the fluid substance is introduced into the soil using a pressure injection method in a pressure-controlled manner and/or with an injection device that has a valve pipe with a pressure-controlled outlet valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Geo-Bohrtechnik GmbHInventor: Benjamin Klock
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Patent number: 10060241Abstract: A method of performing an oilfield operation about a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The method involves performing a fracture operation comprising injecting fluid into the formation and generating fractures about the wellbore. The fractures form a fracture network about the wellbore. The method further involves collecting during the performing data comprising injection temperature and pressure, generating a fluid distribution through the fracture network by performing real time simulations of the fracture network based on the collected data (the fluid distribution comprising temperature distribution), and performing a production operation comprising generating production based on the temperature distribution.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Wenyue Xu
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Patent number: 10047595Abstract: A downhole energy transmission system is described. The system can include a casing string having a number of casing pipe disposed within a wellbore, where the casing string has at least one wall forming a cavity. The system can also include a remote electrical device disposed within the cavity of the casing string at a first location. The system can further include a first stripline cable disposed on an outer surface of the casing string, where the first stripline cable transmits a first energy received from an energy source. The system can also include a second stripline cable disposed adjacent to the first stripline cable at the first location, where the second stripline cable is electrically coupled to the remote electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.Inventors: Melvin Clark Thompson, David William Beck
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Patent number: 10047590Abstract: A tool for influencing electrically conductive paths using ferrofluids in a downhole system. The downhole system can include a tool body, a source of ferrofluid, and a magnet. The magnet can provide a magnetic field that influences an electrically conductive path within an annulus between the tool body and a wellbore formation by arranging the ferrofluid from the source in the annulus.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Burkay Donderici, Baris Guner, George David Goodman, Wesley Neil Ludwig
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Patent number: 10041326Abstract: A plug for sealing a well in oil and gas recovery operations, and a method of removing the plug from the well is provided. The method is an erosion method of dislodging the plug from the wellbore, and the plug is designed so as to better be removed through erosion. The plug includes a jetting component to direct an abrasive fluid during the erosion method.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Michael James Jurgensmeier
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Patent number: 10030478Abstract: A series of independently operated chokes, using a shift tool in registry with a profile discrete to each choke, have a tubular valve member that aligns or misaligns openings for the fully open or closed positions for the choke and for intermediate positions as the valve opens or closes. The valve member is actuated axially using a reversing screw and a j-slot. A shifting tool latches a unique profile to operate the j-slot to cause a sleeve to rotate in place. The sleeve has a pin in registry with a profile on a profile shaft. The profile shaft can move axially in opposite direction but is restrained against rotation. The profile is shaped so that continuous j-slot operation causes the registered pin to move in the profile to then axially drive the profile shaft which is connected to the valve member.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Michael H. Johnson, Steve Rosenblatt
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Patent number: 9945375Abstract: A method for automatic tuning of a reference model for a fracking rig pump is provided. The method includes determining, at a processor connected to a fracking rig pump, a current choke area associated with the fracking rig pump based upon at least a maximum power and a maximum pressure obtained from the fracking rig pump for a pump speed of the fracking rig pump, obtaining a pump power and a pump pressure for the current choke area based upon at least a reference model for the fracking rig pump stored in a memory device coupled to the processor, determining a pressure difference between the maximum pressure obtained from the fracking rig pump and the pump pressure, determining a power difference between the maximum power obtained from the fracking rig pump and the pump power obtained from the reference model, and providing an updated choke area to the reference model.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Yanchai Zhang, Zhijun Cai, Venkata Dandibhotla, Evan Jacobson, Koti Padarthy
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Patent number: 9909392Abstract: An apparatus for fluid treatment of a borehole, the apparatus allowing initial outflow injection of fluids into a wellbore in which it is installed and then is actuable to allow fluid inflow control.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Inventor: Daniel Jon Themig
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Patent number: 9903190Abstract: A modular fracturing system including a fracturing fluid manifold and a skid apparatus coupled in fluid communication with the fracturing fluid manifold and only one fracturing tree. The skid apparatus can include an inlet coupled to the fracturing fluid manifold, a single outlet coupled to the one fracturing tree via a fluid conduit, and a valve between the inlet and the single outlet to control flow of fracturing fluid from the fracturing fluid manifold through the skid apparatus to the one fracturing tree.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventors: Gregory A. Conrad, James W. Lovin
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Patent number: 9845666Abstract: A limited entry perforating phased gun system and method for accurate perforation in a deviated/horizontal wellbore is disclosed. The system/method includes a gun string assembly (GSA) deployed in a wellbore with shaped charge clusters. The charges are spaced and angled such that, when perforated, they intersect at a preferred fracturing plane. Upon fracturing, the fractures initiate at least principal stress location in a preferred fracturing plane perpendicular to the wellbore from an upward and downward location of the wellbore. Thereafter, the fractures connect radially about the wellbore in the preferred fracturing plane. The fracture treatment in the preferred fracturing plane creates minimal tortuosity paths for longer extension of fractures that enables efficient oil and gas flow rates during production.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: GEODYNAMICS, INC.Inventors: John T. Hardesty, James A. Rollins
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Patent number: 9777571Abstract: A method for determining along relatively uniformly spaced apart parallel first and second wellbores situated in an underground hydrocarbon-containing formation, regions within the formation, including in particular regions between such wellbores, to inject a fluid at a pressure above formation dilation pressure, to stimulate production of oil into the second of the two wellbores, and subsequently injecting fluid at pressures above formation dilation pressures at the discrete regions along such wellbores determined to be in need. An initial information-gathering procedure is conducted, wherein fluid is supplied under a pressure less than formation dilation or fracture pressure, to discrete intervals along a first wellbore, and sensors in the second wellbore measure and data is recorded regarding the ease of penetration of such fluid into the various regions of the formation intermediate the two wellbores.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: Husky Oil Operations Limited, Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc.Inventors: Brett C. Davidson, Lawrence J. Frederick, Tor Meling
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Patent number: 9719339Abstract: A well with existing perforations is re-fractured by positioning isolators at locations offset from the existing perforations and perforating through those isolators. The isolators are part of a bottom hole assembly that can be delivered on coiled or rigid tubing. The initial fractures can be straddled by the isolators with no mandrel openings between them to effectively isolate the existing perforations as new perforations take place through the isolators. The elements of the isolators can have internal gaps to allow for axial shifting after perforation that is thermally induced. The gaps assure remaining alignment with the new perforations despite some axial shifting. The bottom hole assembly can alternatively have an anchor to resist thermally induced forces that can cause axial shifting.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Bennett M. Richard, Edward T. Wood
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Patent number: 9593535Abstract: This disclosure is related to a perforator tool and a method of using the perforator tool to perforate a formation. The perforator tool can include a first and second sleeve and optionally a third sleeve. The perforator tool can also include at least one perforation opening and at least one circulation port. The sleeves are slidably disposed within the perforator tool and can be displaced to permit perforation of the formation, block the perforation openings and open circulation ports.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Thru Tubing Solutions, LLCInventors: Brett Fears, Jason Burke, Roger Schultz
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Patent number: 9574421Abstract: Systems and methods describe a frac sleeve with an expandable ball seat. More specifically, the systems and methods include an expandable ball seat within a frac sleeve configured to allow a single frac-ball to treat a plurality of zones associated with a plurality of frac sleeves.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Vertice Oil ToolsInventor: Mohamed Ibrahim Saraya
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Patent number: 9410411Abstract: Fractures are induced from lobe shaped inflatable members disposed at different axial locations along a string with frac ports in the circumferential gaps between the lobes. The lobes are inflated by landing a ball on a seat on a sleeve that is initially shifted enough to expose a fill port on each lobe. The lobes are inflated to a pressure that initiates fractures in the formation as the lobes extend. Further raising the pressure induces the sleeve to move a second time to open frac ports. The annulus can be cemented and fracturing can penetrate the cement to further propagate the initiated fractures from lobe inflation. The process is repeated at different levels until the zone of interest is completed. Sensors can relay information by telemetry techniques as to the onset of fractures or other well conditions. The sleeve for the frac ports can be moved in a variety of ways without intervention tools.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Edward J. O'Malley, James G. King, Paul Madero