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公开(公告)号:US12010970B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-18
申请号:US17934202
申请日:2022-09-22
CPC分类号: A01H6/4684 , A01H5/10 , C09K8/42 , E21B33/13
摘要: A composition for a plug for use in wellbores undergoing plugging and abandonment operations, as well as plugs made with the composition, wherein the composition includes a first molten metal produced by igniting nano-thermite clusters of
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公开(公告)号:US11820939B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-21
申请号:US17847161
申请日:2022-06-22
发明人: Huili Guan , Cory Berkland , Ahmad Moradi-Araghi , Jenn-Tai Liang , Terry M. Christian , Riley B. Needham , Min Cheng , Faye Lynn Scully , James H. Hedges
摘要: The instant application relates to nanogels or compositions that hold multivalent metal ions until some level of nanogel degradation has occurred, then slowly release the multivalent metal ions for gelation with carboxylate containing polymers. Compositions comprising such nanogels, together with polymers that can be crosslinked with multivalent metal ions, allow the deployment of such mixtures in various applications, and greatly increased gelation times.
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公开(公告)号:US11814578B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-14
申请号:US17319414
申请日:2021-05-13
发明人: Huili Guan , Cory Berkland , Ahmad Moradi-Araghi , Jenn-Tai Liang , David R. Zornes , Riley B Needham , James H. Hedges , Min Cheng , James P. Johnson , Faye L. Scully
IPC分类号: C09K8/588 , C09K8/88 , C09K8/92 , E21B33/138
CPC分类号: C09K8/588 , C09K8/88 , C09K8/887 , C09K8/92 , E21B33/138
摘要: The invention is directed to delayed gelation agents comprising a degradable polymeric cage containing therein one or more gelation agents. The cage degrades in situ, e.g, in an oil reservoir, thus releasing the gelation agent(s), which can then crosslink second polymers in situ to form a gel.
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公开(公告)号:US11697830B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US16818642
申请日:2020-03-13
CPC分类号: C12P7/42 , C12N9/001 , C12N9/0006 , C12N9/0008 , C12N9/1029 , C12N9/13 , C12N9/16 , C12N9/88 , C12N9/93 , C12Y101/01036 , C12Y102/0101 , C12Y103/01044 , C12Y402/01119
摘要: The use of microorganisms to make alpha-functionalized chemicals and fuels, (e.g. alpha-functionalized carboxylic acids, alcohols, hydrocarbons, amines, and their beta-, and omega-functionalized derivatives), by utilizing an iterative carbon chain elongation pathway that uses functionalized extender units. The core enzymes in the pathway include thiolase, dehydrogenase, dehydratase and reductase. Native or engineered thiolases catalyze the condensation of either unsubstituted or functionalized acyl-CoA primers with an alpha-functionalized acetyl-CoA as the extender unit to generate alpha-functionalized β-keto acyl-CoA. Dehydrogenase converts alpha-functionalized β-keto acyl-CoA to alpha-functionalized β-hydroxy acyl-CoA. Dehydratase converts alpha-functionalized β-hydroxy acyl-CoA to alpha-functionalized enoyl-CoA. Reductase converts alpha-functionalized enoyl-CoA to alpha-functionalized acyl-CoA. The platform can be operated in an iterative manner (i.e. multiple turns) by using the resulting alpha-functionalized acyl-CoA as primer and the aforementioned alpha-functionalized extender unit in subsequent turns of the cycle. Termination pathways acting on any of the four alpha-functionalized CoA thioester intermediates terminate the platform and generate various alpha-functionalized carboxylic acids, alcohols and amines with different β-reduction degree.
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公开(公告)号:US11686194B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17540305
申请日:2021-12-02
发明人: Ge Jin , Kyle R Krueger , Baishali Roy
IPC分类号: E21B47/06 , E21B43/26 , E21B47/07 , E21B47/107 , E21B47/10 , G01V1/42 , G01H9/00 , E21B47/135
CPC分类号: E21B47/07 , E21B43/26 , E21B47/06 , E21B47/10 , E21B47/107 , E21B47/135 , G01H9/004 , G01V1/42 , G01V2210/646
摘要: Methods and systems for assessing cross-well interference and/or optimizing hydrocarbon production from a reservoir by obtaining low frequency DAS and DTS data and pressure data from a monitor well, when both the monitor and production well are shut-in, and then variably opening the production well for production, and detecting the temperature and pressure fluctuations that indication cross-well interference, and localizing the interference along the well length based on the low frequency DAS data. This information can be used to optimize well placement, completion plans, fracturing plans, and ultimately optimize production from a given reservoir.
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公开(公告)号:US11572514B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-07
申请号:US17494470
申请日:2021-10-05
发明人: Jay Locklear , David P. Cope
摘要: Methods for preventing elemental sulfur deposition from a hydrocarbon fluid is disclosed. A mercaptan is added to a hydrocarbon fluid that has elemental sulfur and reacted with the elemental sulfur to produce a disulfide and hydrogen sulfide. Amines and/or surfactants can assist with the process. Secondary reactions between the disulfide and the elemental sulfur result in a polysulfide and a solvated sulfur-disulfide complex. The disulfide, hydrogen sulfide, polysulfide and solvated sulfur-disulfide complex do not deposit, and can optionally be removed.
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公开(公告)号:US11486222B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-01
申请号:US16944727
申请日:2020-07-31
发明人: Randall S. Shafer
IPC分类号: E21B36/00 , E21B33/134 , E21B29/00 , E21B33/12 , H03H9/54 , H03H9/58 , H03H9/60 , H03H9/64 , H03H9/70 , H03H9/72
摘要: A method of plugging a hydrocarbon well includes deploying a downhole tool to remove at least a portion of a casing at a section of well to be plugged. Deploying a blocking device downhole to block a bottom of the section of well to be plugged. Deploying a plugging material downhole onto the blocking device to fill an area to be plugged. Deploying an exothermic fluid downhole, wherein activation of the exothermic material liquefies the plugging material. Allowing the plugging material and the exothermic fluid to solidify form a cast-in-place plug that fills the section of well to be plugged.
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公开(公告)号:US11466198B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-11
申请号:US16694004
申请日:2019-11-25
发明人: Ahmad Moradi-Araghi , Min Cheng , Riley B. Needham , James H. Hedges , Ramesh S. Sarathi , Faye L. Scully , Terry M. Christian , Huili Guan , Cory Berkland , Jenn-Tai Liang
IPC分类号: C09K8/588 , E21B33/138 , E21B43/16
摘要: The invention is directed to stable and labile crosslinked water swellable polymeric microparticles that can be further gelled, methods for making same, and their various uses in the hygiene and medical arts, gel electrophoresis, packaging, agriculture, the cable industry, information technology, in the food industry, papermaking, use as flocculation aids, and the like. More particularly, the invention relates to a composition comprising expandable polymeric microparticles having labile crosslinkers and stable crosslinkers, said microparticle mixed with a fluid and an unreacted tertiary crosslinker comprising PEI or other polyamine based tertiary crosslinker that is capable of further crosslinking the microparticle on degradation of the labile crosslinker and swelling of the particle, so as to form a stable gel. A particularly important use is as an injection fluid in petroleum production, where the expandable polymeric microparticles are injected into a well and when the heat and/or pH of the well cause degradation of the labile crosslinker and when the microparticle expands, the tertiary crosslinker crosslinks the polymer to form a stable gel, thus diverting water to lower permeability regions and improving oil recovery.
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公开(公告)号:US11421506B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-23
申请号:US17164871
申请日:2021-02-02
发明人: Randall S. Shafer
IPC分类号: E21B33/134 , E21B33/12 , E21B29/02 , E21B29/00
摘要: A method for creating access to annular spacing during P&A operations is described. Specifically, helical coils are cut into one or more casings before the plugging material is set. The plugging material is able to exit the helical coils, forming multiple, small rock-to-rock seals.
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公开(公告)号:US11357866B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-14
申请号:US16002604
申请日:2018-06-07
发明人: Stephen E. Braun , Debasis Mondal , Bruce A Bunnell , Narae Lee
IPC分类号: C12N5/00 , A61K48/00 , A61K39/42 , C07K16/10 , A61P31/18 , A61K45/06 , A61K31/513 , A61K35/28 , A61K31/683 , A61K39/00
摘要: A composition of matter and method of treating HIV with mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) is disclosed. Specifically, MSCs are transduced with vectors incorporating an anti-viral fusion inhibitor, such as a C46-derived peptide or neutralizing antibody. The transduced MSCs are capable of expression the inhibitor and preventing HIV virus-cell fusion.
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