Using Specific Materials Patents (Class 166/292)
  • Patent number: 12129206
    Abstract: Cementing in a subterranean formation may include, activating an extended-life cement composition by mixing at least the extended-life cement composition with a liquid activated pozzolan additive comprising a carrier fluid and an activated pozzolan, wherein the extended-life cement composition comprises water, pumice, hydrated lime, and a set retarder; introducing the extended-life cement composition into a subterranean formation; and allowing the extended-life cement composition to set to form a hardened mass in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Jason Pisklak, Claudia Carmen Pineda, Travis Allen Patterson, Samuel Jason Lewis
  • Patent number: 12129733
    Abstract: A plug for Plug and Abandonment (P&A) operations. The plug is a two-part plug of bismuth-based alloy and resin, allowing for sealing of an oil well using two different mechanisms with a shorter plug. The sealing can be rock-to-rock and/or cast-in-place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventor: Randall S. Shafer
  • Patent number: 12116860
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for producing wellbore fluids using drill cuttings, geopolymers, and/or mine tailings, and compositions relating to the same are disclosed. The drill cuttings, geopolymers, and/or mine tailings may be used to create appropriate wellbore fluids to be used in wellbore fluid supply systems, such as spacer fluids, lead barrier fluids, tail barrier fluids. In one embodiment, the wellbore fluids result in one or more substantially impermeable barrier sheaths within the wellbore, which barrier sheaths may be cementitious or non-cementitious.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: EXERO WELL INTEGRITY
    Inventors: Alexandra Elizabeth Cedola, Elizabeth Ann Sones, Matthew David Hudson, Cheve Arlyn Meyer
  • Patent number: 12098323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to artificially reducing the porosity of any potential flow paths in the near-wellbore region of a well or in permeable zones within or surrounding a well. In doing so, the permeability in this the targeted region will be significantly reduced, thus, preventing unwanted flow of subsurface fluids. The present invention concerns a method comprising applying a first and second solution comprising scale precursors to the porous media, wherein following this application, at least a portion of the scale precursors form at least two insoluble salts. Additionally, the present invention concerns a kit of parts comprising the first and second solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Heriot-Watt University
    Inventors: Oleg Ishkov, Mohamed Arab
  • Patent number: 12037872
    Abstract: A well tool device includes a housing; a through bore provided axially through the well tool device; and a frangible disc supported in the through bore by a first supporting device and a second supporting device. The through bore is defined with a bore wall. The second supporting device is axially displaceable in relation to the first supporting device. The well tool includes a shear element for preventing axial displacement of the second supporting device; a sealing element arranged radially outside of the frangible disc and radially inside of the bore wall when the well tool device is in a first state, in which the sealing element together with the frangible disc is configured to prevent axial fluid flow between a first side of the frangible disc and a second side of the frangible disc; and a disintegration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Interwell Norway AS
    Inventor: Espen Hiorth
  • Patent number: 12037869
    Abstract: A well system includes a well extending from a surface into a formation, a Y-tool provided at an end of a tubing string extending through the well, a concentric coiled tubing string extending through the tubing string and through a bypass line of the Y-tool, and a plurality of treatment solutions provided at the surface of the well. The plurality of treatment solutions includes at least one component of a dissolvable gel, a gel dissolving solution, and at least one component of a non-dissolvable gel. A method for plugging a water zone in a hydrocarbon bearing formation and a method for reducing a concentration of produced water from a hydrocarbon bearing formation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Haitham Aljuaydi, Faisal Mohammed Alissa, Rashed Altowairqi, Yazeed Alamro
  • Patent number: 11987748
    Abstract: A method and compounds for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) including flooding of a mixture of water and one or more of the compounds in a geological formation. The compounds have a fluoroalkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: S. Sherry Zhu, Ayrat Gizzatov, Marta Antoniv
  • Patent number: 11988052
    Abstract: A method, and related apparatus, involves providing one or more drill pipe segments and disposing a quantity of lost circulation material objects within the one or more drill pipe segments. A retention element is provided to retain the lost circulation material objects within the one or more drill pipe segments. The one or more drill pipe segments are connected to a drill string at a wellbore, and drilling fluid is flowed through the drill string. The flowing of drilling fluid through the drill string causes the retention element to release the lost circulation material objects to propagate further.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Affleck, Graham Richard Hitchcock
  • Patent number: 11965839
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for acquiring an elastic modulus of a rock containing sedimentary rhythms, including: acquiring a rock sample containing sedimentary rhythms; measuring contents of rock elements in the rock sample at test points with an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer, the test points being provided on different rhythms of the rock sample; determining a lithology of the rock sample according to the contents of the rock elements; determining an element-mineral relation equation according to the lithology; determining mineral components of the rock sample with the lithology and the element-mineral relation equation; determining a modulus coefficient of each of minerals according to the mineral components; and determining an elastic modulus of the rock sample according to the mineral components and the modulus coefficient of each of the minerals. The present disclosure can implement nondestructive testing on mechanical properties of rock samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INST. OF GEOL. & GEOPHYS., CN ACAD. OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Beixiu Huang, Lihui Li, Xiao Li
  • Patent number: 11946332
    Abstract: A swellable packer assembly that includes a mandrel, a sealing element disposed about a least a portion of the mandrel, and a degradable metal coating disposed about at least a portion of an outer surface of the sealing element. The degradable metal coating fluidly isolates the portion of an outer surface of the sealing element from an exterior of the coating and the sealing element is formed of a material responsive to exposure to a fluid in a wellbore to radially expand from the mandrel. The degradable metal coating is selectively removable from the mandrel downhole so as to expose the sealing element to the fluid in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Xiaoguang Allan Zhong, Benjamin Jon Wellhoefer
  • Patent number: 11920079
    Abstract: The effectiveness of expansive cement systems may be diluted when, during a well cementing operation, commingling takes place between the cement slurry and a spacer fluid, a drilling fluid, or both. Incorporating expansive agents in the spacer fluid or drilling fluid may reduce or negate the loss of expansion at the cement slurry/spacer interface or the cement slurry/drilling fluid interface, thereby promoting zonal isolation throughout the cemented interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bipin Jain, Shameed Ashraf
  • Patent number: 11898088
    Abstract: Cement slurries are prepared that comprise water, a hydraulic cement, particles of an oil-absorbent particles and non-swellable hydrophobic particles. The particles are present in an amount sufficient to alter a property of a non-aqueous drilling fluid. The cement slurry is placed in a subterranean well, whereupon the slurry contacts residual drilling fluid on casing and formation surfaces. The oil-absorbent particles and hydrophobic particles in the cement slurry may reduce the mobility of the drilling fluid, thereby improving zonal isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yan Gao, Dominic Vincent Perroni, Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev, Andrey Vladimirovich Yakovlev
  • Patent number: 11898084
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for modified well fluids. One method including combining an amount of a synthetic functionalized additive with an intermediate well fluid composition to form a synthetic functionalized additive-containing well fluid composition; the synthetic functionalized additive comprising a synthetic layered magnesium silicate that is covalently bonded to a functional group, and the intermediate well fluid composition comprising a water-based continuous phase with solid particles, wherein the synthetic functionalized additive increases suspension stability of the solid particles versus a well fluid composition comprising the solid particles without the synthetic functionalized additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Hasmukh Patel, Ashok Santra, Carl Thaemlitz
  • Patent number: 11898415
    Abstract: Cement slurries are prepared that comprise water, a hydraulic cement and particles of an oil-absorbent material. The particles are present in an amount sufficient to alter a property of a non-aqueous drilling fluid. The cement slurry is placed in a subterranean well, whereupon the slurry contacts residual drilling fluid on casing and formation surfaces. The oil-absorbent material in the cement slurry may reduce the mobility of the drilling fluid, thereby improving zonal isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev, Dominic Vincent Perroni, Laure Martin-Al-Khatib, Adam Ethan Keilers, Petr Kolchanov
  • Patent number: 11866642
    Abstract: A method for the subterranean regeneration of CO2-philic solvents and the sequestration of carbon dioxide may include exposing the CO2-philic solvent to a carbon dioxide-containing gas in an absorber to allow the CO2-philic solvent to absorb at least a portion of the carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide-containing gas, thereby producing a CO2-containing solution. The CO2-containing solution may be supplied to one or more porous rock fractures via one or more injection conduits in fluid communication with the one or more porous rock fractures. The CO2-containing solution may be heated via heat provided by one or more rock fractures in order to release at least a portion of the absorbed carbon dioxide into the one or more rock fractures and thereby regenerate the CO2-philic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Hasmukh A. Patel, Anuj Gupta, Esam Z. Hamad
  • Patent number: 11851605
    Abstract: Suspensions of elastomer particles for cement compositions and associated methods of cementing. An example method includes providing a suspension of elastomer particles. The suspension of elastomer particles includes elastomer particles, an aqueous fluid, a viscosifier, a surfactant, and a clay-based stabilizer. The suspension may be combined with a cement slurry to form a cement composition. The cement slurry includes a cement and a base fluid. The cement composition may be introduced into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The cement composition may be allowed to set in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Rahul Nandkumar Jadhav
  • Patent number: 11840660
    Abstract: Cement slurries, cured cements, and methods of making cured cement and methods of using cement slurries have, among other attributes, an extended thickening time, leading to improved retardation, flowability, and pumpability and may be used, for instance, in the oil and gas drilling industry. The cement slurry includes water, microfine cement material, and bisphenol-F diglycidyl ether resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Abdullah Al-Yami, Mohammed Alawami, Pratyush Singh, Vikrant Wagle, Husain A. Buwaidi, Ahmad A. Omair
  • Patent number: 11834381
    Abstract: Disclosed are a room temperature curable quick-setting high-strength alkali-activated fly ash (AAFA) cementitious material and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of building materials. The raw materials include: in parts by mass, 30-50 parts of undisturbed fly ash, 50-70 parts of highly reactive ultra-fine fly ash, and 12-18 parts of sodium hydroxide. Specifically, the AAFA with fast setting and high strength for room temperature curing is prepared by pretreatment of fly ash with sodium hydroxide exciter, based on a premise that the raw material system and preparation process are simplified and feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hui Li, Huimei Zhu, Yuwen Zhang, Xindong Zhang, Chen Yu, Jia'ni Chen
  • Patent number: 11834605
    Abstract: A geopolymer cementing fluid with controllable thickening time includes the following components in parts by weight: 100 parts of a cementitious material, 10 parts-30 parts of an activator, 0.2 parts-5 parts of a retarder, 0.4 parts-4 parts of an anti-settling agent, and 30 parts-70 parts of water. The geopolymer cementing fluid of the present invention has the advantages of controllable thickening time, excellent compressive strength, good settlement stability, good rheological properties, green and eco-friendly, and the like. The geopolymer cementing fluid can be better suited for the operations of oil and gas well cementing and ensure cementing safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)
    Inventors: Shenglai Guo, Kunpeng Li, Yang Li, Ming Li, Jiaxin Zhao, Yuhuan Bu, Huajie Liu
  • Patent number: 11820935
    Abstract: A method of setting a wellbore fluid includes injecting a drilling fluid including water, cementitious material, a phosphonic acid derivative, a sulfonate acrylic acid copolymer, and zinc oxide into a wellbore; introducing sodium hexametaphosphate to the drilling fluid to form the wellbore fluid; allowing the sodium hexametaphosphate to dissolve phosphonate-calcium complexes between the phosphonic acid derivative and the cementitious material, thereby reducing the hydration time; and allowing the water and cementitious material to react, thereby curing the wellbore fluid and forming a cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Peter Boul, Kenneth Dejuan Johnson
  • Patent number: 11807806
    Abstract: Provided are methods, compositions, and systems embodying cement compositions and the synergistic effect of lost circulation materials (LCMs) and fluid loss control additives (FLCAs) thereupon for cementing subterranean zones. A method of subterranean well cementing, comprising providing a cement composition comprising a hydraulic cement, a first FLCA, a LCM, and water, wherein the first FLCA comprises a water-soluble polymer with repeating units comprising a 5- to 6-membered cyclic amide; introducing the cement composition into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, wherein inclusion of the first FLCA and the LCM in the cement composition fluid reduces fluid loss into the subterranean formation, wherein the subterranean formation has fractures with a width of from about 1 micron to about 800 microns, and wherein the subterranean formation has a permeability of about 1 millidarcy to about 300 Darcy; and allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandip Prabhakar Patil, Samuel Jason Lewis, Kyriacos Agapiou, Ganesh Shriniwas Pangu
  • Patent number: 11761289
    Abstract: A shearable sleeve supports a disintegrable plug element in a pipe string, and may include a first portion including a first circumferential end surface, a seat for supporting the disintegrable plug element, a second portion including a second circumferential end surface, and a surface extending axially between the first and second circumferential end surfaces and formed with one or more radial protrusions adapted to shear off from the rest of the sleeve when being exposed to a predefined axial force, and one or more recesses for receiving one or more loading devices for initiating disintegration of the disintegrable plug element upon contact with the plug, wherein one or more radial protrusions is/are axially offset relative to the first circumferential end surface. A plug device, as well as a plug assembly in a pipe string, may include the shearable sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nine Downhole Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Viggo Brandsdal
  • Patent number: 11732547
    Abstract: A wellbore is plugged using a bismuth alloy. The wellbore is arranged so that a liquid bismuth alloy sets with an excess pressure of the plug relative to the borehole fluid pressure along a desired seal height distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Hua Zhang, Quincy K. Elias, Albert Perez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11697760
    Abstract: A system for utilizing oolitic aragonite as a proppant in hydraulic fracking is provided. The system includes a proppant storage tank including a stockpile of the oolitic aragonite. The system further includes a proppant pumping unit operable to pump the oolitic aragonite from the proppant storage tank, through an underground shaft, and into an underground fracture proximate to the underground shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Pisa Carolina, LLC
    Inventors: James Duane Stover, Jayson Alexander Meyers
  • Patent number: 11697968
    Abstract: A rupture disc assembly and a float tool incorporating the rupture disc assembly is disclosed. The rupture disc assembly may include a rupture disc assembly comprising a rupture disc, an upper tubular portion and a lower tubular portion, and a securing mechanism for holding the rupture disc between the upper and lower tubular portions. A float tool for creating a buoyant chamber in a casing string may include the rupture disc assembly and a sealing device for sealing the lower end of the casing string, the buoyant, sealed chamber may be created there between. In operation, applied fluid pressure causes the rupture disc to move downward. The rupture disc may be shattered by contact with a surface on the lower tubular portion. Full casing internal diameter may be restored in the region where the rupture disc formerly sealed the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NCS MULTISTAGE INC.
    Inventors: Donald Getzlaf, Marty Stromquist, John Ravensbergen, David Devlin, Douglas Braden, Travis Harris
  • Patent number: 11634967
    Abstract: Methods for more reliably cementing and remediating oil and gas wells by plastically expanding the diameter of the wellbore casing at select locations along the wellbore to control fluid flow in the micro-annular leak paths formed in the casing annulus between the casing and cement sheath, or between the casing and wellbore. Such methods do not require pre-placement of casing packers or prediction of potential leak points of the casing annulus. In cementing operations, casing expansion can be performed at strategic locations along the wellbore to eliminate annular leak paths that permit detrimental flow, direct the flow of cement to the desired portions of the wellbore, and prevent the flow of cement to oil producing formations. In instances of inter-zonal communication between subterranean formations, casing expansion can be performed at location(s) between the formations to mitigate or prevent inter-zonal communication via annular leak paths in the casing annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: WINTERHAWK WELL ABANDONMENT LTD.
    Inventor: Dale Kunz
  • Patent number: 11572761
    Abstract: A method for zonal isolation in a subterranean formation includes identifying a zone of interest within the subterranean formation, determining a static temperature of the zone of interest, determining a time duration for gelation of a treatment fluid, determining a concentration of an accelerator in the treatment fluid, determining a volume of the treatment fluid to be delivered to the zone of interest, determining a correlation between cooling of a wellbore near the zone of interest and a delivery rate of the treatment fluid, determining a target wellbore temperature, delivering a cooling stage until the target wellbore temperature is reached, and delivering a treatment stage. Delivering the cooling stage and the treatment stage results in forming, within the zone of interest, a gel that is impermeable to fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohamed Hassan Sherief, Ayman Mohammed Almohsin, Haider Jaffer Abdulal, Mohammed I. Alabdrabalnabi
  • Patent number: 11499086
    Abstract: A method for strengthening a subterranean formation is disclosed herein. A method of strengthening a subterranean formation includes: introducing a first fluid into the subterranean formation, wherein the first fluid includes polyvalent cations; and introducing a second fluid into the subterranean formation, wherein the second fluid includes a dissolved silicate in an aqueous-base fluid; wherein the dissolved silicate reacts with the polyvalent cations in the subterranean formation to form a reaction product including precipitated silicate in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, Brian Alan Evans, William Walter Shumway, Denise Nicole Benoit
  • Patent number: 11499085
    Abstract: A method of controlling lost circulation includes introducing into a wellbore a lost circulation fluid comprising: an external oil phase, an internal aqueous phase, an emulsifier, a wetting agent, a magnesia sealant, and a; retarder; contacting the lost circulation fluid with a lost circulation zone; and forming a plug adjacent the lost circulation zone by reacting the magnesia sealant with water at a wellbore temperature, thereby reducing fluid loss into the lost circulation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Shiv Shankar Sangaru, Pranjal Sarmah
  • Patent number: 11466535
    Abstract: A casing segment comprising a cylinder, a downhole tool, a first channel in the cylinder, a degradable plug wherein the plug degrades when exposed to a degrading fluid, said degrading fluid concurrently not degrading to the cylinder or the downhole tool, and a fluid reservoir that stores the degrading fluid, wherein the fluid reservoir is in fluid communication with the plug. A method comprising obtaining a casing segment having a cylinder, a downhole tool, and a fluid reservoir with degrading fluid, said degrading fluid concurrently not degrading to the cylinder or the downhole tool, wherein the cylinder includes a first channel, installing a degradable plug within the first channel, deploying the casing segment downhole, and exposing the degradable plug to the degrading fluid to cause the downhole tool to be in fluid communication with the interior surface of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zac Suresh Arackakudiyil, Gregory Scott Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11459849
    Abstract: A sealing method for a drilled hole in three zones of overburden comprises: blocking the fissure zone and the caving zone with at least one filling bag; and transporting prepared cement slurry to the drilled hole through a hollow drill pipe, so as to block the curved subsidence zone. The three zones of overburden comprise a fissure zone, a caving zone and a curved subsidence zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY, BEIJING, Shaanxi Coal Caojiatan Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifan Zeng, Qiang Wu, Zhaolai Hua, Rui Wang, Zhenzhong Pang, Lu Wang, Yang Lv, Xin Du, Kai Pang, Aoshuang Mei
  • Patent number: 11454082
    Abstract: An exemplary dissolvable assembly is provided. The dissolvable assembly includes a skeleton made from a first material, and a body made from a second material, wherein the first material and the second material dissolve at different rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Sakethraman Mahalingam, Graham Hitchcock, Daniele Colombo, Jianhui Xu
  • Patent number: 11447685
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for inhibiting dissolution of carbonates in a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: providing a treatment fluid that comprises a base fluid and a carbonate dissolution inhibiting additive; contacting a portion of a carbonate-bearing subterranean formation with the treatment fluid; and allowing the carbonate dissolution inhibiting additive to chemically interact with the portion of the carbonate-bearing subterranean formation to inhibit dissolution of one or more carbonate minerals in the formation, whereby the susceptibility of at least a portion of the carbonate-bearing subterranean formation to fluid-induced damage is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mallikarjuna Shroff Rama, Denise Nicole Benoit, Sumit Shivshankar Konale, Kristina Henkel Holan, Enrique Reyes
  • Patent number: 11414513
    Abstract: A method for producing a nanocomposite sorbent comprising carbon nanotube-grafted acrylic acid/acrylamide copolymer which involves copolymerization of acrylic acid and acrylamide in the presence of an aqueous dispersion of carbon nanotubes. The method yields a nanocomposite sorbent material having a reversible adsorption capacity phenol of 5 to 2500 ?g of phenol per mg of nanocomposite sorbent. Also disclosed is a method for removing organic pollutants from water using the nanocomposite sorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Asma Mohammed Zamil Elsharif
  • Patent number: 11365612
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon wellbore production apparatus includes a tailpipe and a control valve connected with the tailpipe. The tailpipe has a fluid inlet receiving well fluids entering the casing from a formation, and a fluid outlet above the fluid inlet to deliver well liquid to a connected pump inlet. The control valve is operable to (i) open when a lower fluid pressure below the flow control valve exceeds an upper fluid pressure above the flow control valve to allow upward flow through the flow control valve, (ii) close when the upper fluid pressure exceeds the lower fluid pressure by an amount which does not exceed a prescribed pressure limit value to hold fluid in the apparatus above the flow control valve, and (iii) open when the upper fluid pressure exceeds the lower fluid pressure by an amount which exceeds the pressure limit value to release excess fluid back down the tailpipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Brian Ellithorp
  • Patent number: 11352546
    Abstract: A lost circulation material (LCM) is provided having an alkaline nanosilica dispersion and an ester activator. The alkaline nanosilica dispersion and the ester activator may form a gelled solid after interaction over a contact period. Methods of lost circulation control using the LCM are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Vikrant Wagle, Rajendra Kalgaonkar, Abdullah Al-Yami, Zainab Alsaihati
  • Patent number: 11339626
    Abstract: A method for mitigating a fluid flow from a target wellbore using a relief wellbore includes receiving wellbore geometry information of the target wellbore, receiving an initial interception point of the target wellbore, simulating a change in a three-dimensional flow characteristic of a kill fluid flow from a simulated relief wellbore and a target fluid flow from a simulated target wellbore resulting from an interaction between the kill fluid flow and the target fluid flow at the initial interception point, the simulated target wellbore designed using the received wellbore geometry information, and determining a final interception point of the target wellbore based on the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Madhusuden Agrawal, Paulo Jorge Da Cunha Gomes, James H. Knight, Satpreet Nanda, Lei Zhou, Eugene Sweeney
  • Patent number: 11313199
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a temporary seal within a wellbore. More specifically, embodiments include a temporary seal within casing that limits the flow of fluid through the casing until the temporary seal is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: VERTICE OIL TOOLS INC.
    Inventor: Mohamed Ibrahim Saraya
  • Patent number: 11306574
    Abstract: Compositions of nanoparticle-based stimulation fluids and methods of use for acid diversion from high permeability zones into low permeability zones to achieve deep penetration of wormholes in subterranean formations, such as carbonate formations. Certain embodiments include a gel precursor composition comprising metal oxide nanoparticles, such as silicon dioxide nanoparticles as a gelling agent, and magnesium chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventors: Sangho Bang, Bor Jier Shiau, Jeffrey H. Harwell, Elsayed R. Abdelfatah, Maysam Pournik
  • Patent number: 11299662
    Abstract: Provided is a lost circulation material that may consist essentially of an alkaline nanosilica dispersion and a sodium bicarbonate activator. Further provided are methods that may control lost circulation in a lost circulation zone in a wellbore by introducing the lost circulation material such that it contacts the lost circulation zone and forms a gelled solid in the lost circulation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Vikrant Wagle, Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar, Abdullah Al-Yami, Sara Alkhalaf
  • Patent number: 11293262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a well tool device (1) comprising a housing (10) having an axial through bore (11). A sleeve section (20) is releasably connected to the housing (10) in the through bore (11). The sleeve section (20) comprises an axial bore (21) and a frangible disc (30) provided in the bore (21) of the sleeve section (20) in sealing engagement with the sleeve section (20). The sleeve section (20) is axially displaceable within the bore (11) between a first position (P1) and a second position (P2). The housing (10) comprises an axial bypass fluid passage (12) provided axially between a first location (L1) above the sleeve section (20) to a second location (L2) below the sleeve section (20) when the sleeve section (20) is in the first position (P1). The axial bypass fluid passage (12) is provided radially between the sleeve section (20) and the housing (10) when the sleeve section (20) is in the first position (P1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Interwell Norway AS
    Inventors: Espen Hiorth, Stig Ove Bjørgum
  • Patent number: 11293252
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses of the present disclosure generally relate to dissolvable plugs for separating fluids in a wellbore. A dissolvable plug includes a first end comprising a first fluid barrier. The first fluid barrier includes a polymer film. The dissolvable plug also includes a second end opposite to the first end. The second end comprises a second fluid barrier. The second fluid barrier comprises a polymer film. The dissolvable plug includes a solid structure made of a sand and salt mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Jason Lewis, Paul Joseph Jones, Lonnie Carl Helms
  • Patent number: 11255155
    Abstract: A downhole tool includes a casing string with a fluid barrier connected therein defining a lower end of a buoyancy chamber. A plug assembly connected in the casing string defines an upper end of the buoyancy chamber. The plug assembly has an outer case with a rupture disc positioned therein configured to block flow and to burst at a predetermined pressure. The rupture disk is removable from a flow path through the outer case upon the flow of fluid therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Mark Yuan, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Lonnie Helms, Rajesh Parameshwaraiah
  • Patent number: 11219888
    Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a solution B comprising at least one catalyst in at least one second solvent, comprising at least the following steps of (A) providing a solution A comprising the at least one catalyst in at least one first solvent, (B) treating the solution A from step (A) with activated carbon, (C) removing the activated carbon from the solution A, and (D) exchanging the at least one first solvent in solution A for at least one second solvent in order to obtain the solution B comprising the at least one catalyst in at least one second solvent, to a solution of at least one catalyst in at least one second solvent, obtainable by the method according to the invention, to the use of this solution for preparing a composition comprising the at least one catalyst, the at least one second solvent, at least one polyisocyanate and at least one NCO-reactive compound, to the use of this composition for producing a single-layered or multi-layered coating system and a corresponding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Traving, Holger Rosellen, Salvatore Manzelli, Cosimo Calandrelli, Stephan Reimer, Frank Richter, Joerg Kolle
  • Patent number: 11214725
    Abstract: A well treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a sugar-based surfactant is provided. The sugar-based surfactant includes at least one betaine functionalized alkyl polyglucoside. Also provided is a method of treating an oil and gas well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sairam Eluru, Chetan Prakash, Shreya Mohan
  • Patent number: 11186759
    Abstract: A lost-circulation material including a mixture of an aqueous colloidal dispersion and fatty acid. The aqueous colloidal dispersion includes silica nanoparticles and has a pH of at least 8. Combining the colloidal dispersion and the fatty acid initiates gelation of the lost-circulation material when the pH of the lost-circulation material is less than 8 and a temperature of the lost-circulation material is in a range of 5° C. to 300° C. Sealing an opening in a portion of a wellbore or a portion of a subterranean formation in which the wellbore is formed may include providing the aqueous colloidal dispersion and the fatty acid to the wellbore, mixing the colloidal dispersion and the fatty acid to yield the lost-circulation material, initiating gelation of the lost-circulation material, and solidifying the lost-circulation material in the wellbore to yield a set gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar, Vikrant Bhavanishankar Wagle, Abdullah Saleh Hussain Al-Yami, Ayman Mohammed Almohsin
  • Patent number: 11180958
    Abstract: A rupture disc assembly and a float tool incorporating the rupture disc assembly is disclosed. The rupture disc assembly may include a rupture disc assembly comprising a rupture disc, an upper tubular portion and a lower tubular portion, and a securing mechanism for holding the rupture disc between the upper and lower tubular portions. A float tool for creating a buoyant chamber in a casing string may include the rupture disc assembly and a sealing device for sealing the lower end of the casing string, the buoyant, sealed chamber may be created there between. In operation, applied fluid pressure causes the rupture disc to move downward. The rupture disc may be shattered by contact with a surface on the lower tubular portion. Full casing internal diameter may be restored in the region where the rupture disc formerly sealed the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NCS MULTISTAGE INC.
    Inventors: Donald Getzlaf, Marty Stromquist, John Ravensbergen, David Devlin, Douglas Braden, Travis Harris
  • Patent number: 11168243
    Abstract: A cement composition is disclosed that includes a cement slurry and an epoxy resin system that includes at least one epoxy resin and a curing agent. The cement slurry has a density in a range of from 65 pcf to 180 pcf and includes a cement precursor material, silica sand, silica flour, a weighting agent, and manganese tetraoxide. The epoxy resin system includes at least one of 2,3-epoxypropyl o-tolyl ether, alkyl glycidyl ethers having from 12 to 14 carbon atoms, bisphenol-A-epichlorohydrin epoxy resin, or a compound having formula (I): (OC2H3)—CH2—O—R1—O—CH2—(C2H3O) where R1 is a linear or branched hydrocarbyl having from 4 to 24 carbon atoms; and a curing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Abdullah Al-Yami, Vikrant Wagle, Zainab Alsaihati, Tushar Mukherjee, Ali BinAli, Ali Alqahtani
  • Patent number: 11158434
    Abstract: A hazardous material repository includes a drillhole formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean zone that includes a geologic formation, where the drillhole includes a vertical portion and a non-vertical portion coupled to the vertical portion by a transition portion, the non-vertical portion includes a storage volume for hazardous waste; a casing installed between the geologic formation and the drillhole, the casing including one or more metallic tubular sections; at least one canister positioned in the storage volume of the non-vertical portion of the drillhole, the at least one canister sized to enclose a portion of hazardous material and including an outer housing formed from a non-corrosive metallic material; and a backfill material inserted into the non-vertical portion of the drillhole to fill at least a portion of the storage volume between the at least one canister and the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe H. Payer, Stefan Finsterle, John Apps, Richard A. Muller
  • Patent number: 11149190
    Abstract: Treatment fluids for acid diversion during acid stimulation of a subterranean formation may include at least an acidizing fluid, a nanoparticle dispersion, and an activator. The treatment fluid may include from 40 weight percent to 70 weight percent acidizing fluid based on the total weight of the treatment fluid. The treatment fluid may include from 20 weight percent to 40 weight percent nanoparticle dispersion based on the total weight of the treatment fluid. The treatment fluid may include from 5 weight percent to 15 percent activator based on the total weight of the treatment fluid. Methods of treating a subterranean formation with the treatment fluids are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar, Qasim Sahu