Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Newpark Mats & Integrated Services LLC

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Johns Manville

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Baker Huges Incorporated

Bakers Hughes Inc.

Gaurav Agrawal

Soma Chakraborty

Zhiyue Xu

Anthony Albert DiGiovanni

Oleg Antonovych Mazyar

Valery Khabashesku

Michael H Johnson

Tianping Huang

Oleksandr V Kuznetsov

Ping Duan

Prahlad Kumar Yadav

Michael W Weber

Danny Eugene Scott

Dana Lynn Pilliod

John Roger Porter

Michael Salciccioli

James B Crews

David Peter Gerrard

Devesh Kumar Agrawal

Teng Xu

D V Satyanarayana Gupta

Bennett M Richard

James Kerwin McDowell

Kapil Kandel

Andreas Sebastian Bommarius

James Edward Goodson

Blake C Burnette

Yang Xu

Anil Sadana

Don C Cox

Jiaxiang Ren

Randall V Guest

Glenn Allen Heeter

Timothy Charles Frank

Stephen Todd Cohn

Timothy Paul Bender

Malay Nandi

Pranjal Sarmah

Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Vipul Mathur

Shiv Shankar Sangaru

Mohammed Al-Rabah

Toby D Hain

Saad Aziz

Catherine M Dorsi

Bobby J Salinas

Jiang Zhu

Dane Manuel

Siwei Guo

Jungmin Oh

Jason Bentley

Randy Paul Bordelon

Krystle J Emanuele

Mohan L Soni

Kushal Seth

Houman Michael Shammai

Ronnie D Hughes

Xiao Wang

Jeffrey C Yeh

Megan E Donaldson

Keith J Murphy

Subramanya V Nayak

Adam Marcel

Naeem-Ur-Rehman Minhas

Matthew Stephen James Lanigan

Richard J Brennan

Asok Janardhanan Nair

Jingxing Feng

Prahlad Yadav

Jared B Howenstine

Taher Bakr Hafiz

Abdulaziz Abdulrhman Almathami

Manuel Hoegerl

Balamurali Sreedhar

Andres Rodela

William McCarty

Allen Grabrysch

Michael Johnson

Valery N Khabashesku

Anthony A Digiovanni

A mat comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side is disclosed. The mat has a body with a thickness defined between the first side and the second side and a width defined between a first edge and a second edge. A plurality of fortifying members can be positioned between the first side and the second side extend within the body substantially vertically with respect to the width. A lip can extend from the body of the mat and have a first rib having a first rib thickness. A first channel portion can have a first channel thickness whereby the first rib thickness is greater than the first channel thickness.

Overlapping modular mat system including mat components having fortifying members

Mat locking pins include a pin body and a wheel housed within the pin body, the wheel configured to be movable from a first position to a second position, wherein in the first position the wheel is housed within the pin body and in the second position at least a portion of the wheel extends from the pin body. Mat systems include such mat locking pins to enable movement of the may system and/or secure two mats together.

Pins for mats having integrated wheels

Mats and methods associated therewith are described. The mats include a main body defined by a plurality of sidewalls and two exterior surface walls opposing each other. The main body includes a pattern of internal walls that define internal voids within the main body. At least one primary structural support rib is arranged within the main body and extends between the two surface walls and from one of the plurality of side walls to another of the plurality of side walls. The at least one primary structural support rib traverses the internal voids defined by the pattern of internal walls.

Overlapping modular mat systems

Apparatus and methods related to mats and connects are described. The apparatus include a mat having a top side, a bottom side, and an interior defined between the top side and the bottom side, and at least one connector post extending within the interior of the mat, wherein the at least one connector post comprises a connector pin cavity extending within the interior of the mat and configured to receive a connector pin and at least one locking structure configured to engage with a portion of the connector pin and secure the connector pin to the at least one connector post.

Mats and connector systems thereof

A method of improving rheological properties of a divalent brine based downhole treatment fluid at an elevated temperature comprises adding to the divalent brine based downhole treatment fluid a rheological modifier, which comprises a carboxylic acid ester, or a phosphate ester blended with an ethoxylated glycol, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing in an amount effective to improve the rheological properties of the divalent brine based downhole treatment fluid at a temperature of greater than about 200&#xb0; F. The divalent brine based downhole treatment fluid comprises calcium bromide, calcium chloride, zinc bromide, zinc chloride, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing.

Divalent brine fluids having improved rheology and multifunctional properties

Mats and panels of mats and methods of making the same are described. The panels include a first portion defined by a first material and a second portion defined by a second material. The first material and the second material have at least one of different compositions and different material properties. The methods include depositing a first material into a mold of a panel, depositing a second material into the mold of the panel after deposition of the first material, and applying at least one of pressure and heat to the mold of the panel to form a panel having the first material and the second material having at least one different compositions and different material properties.

Multilayered mat

A treatment fluid comprises: a base fluid; a viscoelastic surfactant gelling agent and hydrophobic nanoparticles comprising metallic nanoparticles that are surface modified with Caliphatic groups. The treatment fluid is a fracturing fluid, a completion fluid, a gravel pack fluid, a fluid loss pill, a lost circulation pill, a diverter fluid, a foamed fluid, a stimulation fluid and the like.

Hydrophobized nanoparticles as breaker for viscoelastic surfactant gelled fluids

A holding container includes a plurality of pre-formed, releasably interlocking, load-bearing panels configured to form an at least partially curved, load-bearing wall extending around the perimeter of at least one storage area capable of containing at least 100,000 gallons of liquids, solids or a combination thereof. At least one among the width and length of each panel is less than 102 inches in a non-load-bearing state.

Large-capacity modular holding container and related methods

This invention relates to thermally-treating and hydroprocessing pyrolysis tar to produce a hydroprocessed pyrolysis tar, but without excessive foulant accumulation during the hydroprocessing. The invention also relates to upgrading the hydroprocessed tar by additional hydroprocessing; to products of such processing; to blends comprising one or more of such products; and to the use of such products and blends, e.g., as lubricants, fuels, and/or constituents thereof.

Pyrolysis tar pretreatment

The process involves the use of two rotary valves to implement Varicol operation of a simulated moving bed apparatus to separate a product from at least one multicomponent feed. In a particular embodiment, paraxylene is separated from a mixture of C8 aromatic hydrocarbons. The use of the Varicol process further enhances the separation of the desired product and provides flexibility with a simulated moving bed apparatus using dual rotary valves.

Simulated moving bed separation process

Removing an asphaltene particle from a substrate includes contacting a silicate nanoparticle with a chemical group to form a functionalized silicate nanoparticle, the chemical group includes a first portion; and a second portion comprising a nonaromatic moiety, the first portion being bonded to the silicate nanoparticle; contacting the asphaltene particle with the functionalized silicate nanoparticle, the asphaltene particle being disposed on the substrate; interposing the functionalized silicate nanoparticle between the asphaltene particle and the substrate; and separating the asphaltene particle from the substrate with the functionalized silicate nanoparticle to remove the asphaltene particle. A composition includes a functionalized silicate nanoparticle comprising a reaction product of a silicate nanoparticle and a functionalization compound; and a fluid. The functionalization compound includes a chemical group that includes a first portion, the first portion being directly bonded to the silicate nanoparticle in the functionalized silicate nanoparticle; and a second portion including an aromatic moiety or a nonaromatic moiety.

Functionalized silicate nanoparticle composition, removing and exfoliating asphaltenes with same

A seal including a fluid resistive cover, a structured element disposed at an inside surface of the cover and drawable with the cover between a first position and a second position.

Seal for a borehole

Coated diamond particles have solid diamond cores and at least one graphene layer. Methods of forming coated diamond particles include coating diamond particles with a charged species and coating the diamond particles with a graphene layer. A composition includes a substance and a plurality of coated diamond particles dispersed within the substance. An intermediate structure includes a hard polycrystalline material comprising a first plurality of diamond particles and a second plurality of diamond particles. The first plurality of diamond particles and the second plurality of diamond particles are interspersed. A method of forming a polycrystalline compact includes catalyzing the formation of inter-granular bonds between adjacent particles of a plurality of diamond particles having at least one graphene layer.

Methods of forming graphene-coated diamond particles and polycrystalline compacts

A method of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation comprises forming a suspension comprising reactive particles and a carrier fluid. The suspension is introduced into a subterranean formation containing a hydrocarbon material. At least a portion of the reactive particles are exothermically reacted with at least one other material within the subterranean formation to form a treated hydrocarbon material from the hydrocarbon material. The treated hydrocarbon material is extracted from the subterranean formation. An additional method of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation, and a method of treating a hydrocarbon material within a subterranean formation are also described.

Methods of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation, and methods of treating a hydrocarbon material within a subterranean formation

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Gaurav Agrawal