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Petrolphysics Operators

Bechtel National, Inc.

Seqenergy, LLC

High Temperature Physics, LLC

Petrolphysics Partners LP

Graphene Technologies, Inc.

Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson Iii Et Al.

Turn Engineering, Ltd.

Robert Wayne Dickinson

Ben W Dickinson

Charles S Mackey

Oliver Douglas Ousterhout

Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, Iii

Lawrence Joseph Musetti

Randall R Anderson

Eric W Dickinson

Herman Dykstra

Robert D Wilkes, Jr

Sherman C May

Ben Wade Dickinson, Iii

Paul S Turin

Jon K Myers

Robert Nordlund

Porter James Underwood

Irving L Odgers

Richard R Jensen

Ali Daneshy

Stanley O Hutchison

Douglas Paul DuFaux

Richard E Cummings

David T Rabb

James McGhee

Merle D Larsen

Robert D Wilkes

Process for producing nanomaterials such as graphenes, graphene composites, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxides and other nanomaterials by high heat vaporization and rapid cooling. In some of the preferred embodiments, the high heat is produced by an oxidation-reduction reaction of carbon dioxide and magnesium as the primary reactants, although additional materials such as reaction catalysts, control agents, or composite materials can be included in the reaction, if desired. The reaction also produces nanomaterials from a variety of other input materials, and by varying the process parameters, the type and morphology of the carbon nanoproducts and other nanoproducts can be controlled. The reaction products include novel nanocrystals of MgO (percilase) and MgAlO(spinels) as well as composites of these nanocrystals with multiple layers of graphene deposited on or intercalated with them.

Nanomaterials and process for making the same

Process for the production of carbon graphenes and other nanomaterials

Process for producing carbon nanospheres and other nano materials with carbon dioxide and magnesium. The carbon dioxide and magnesium are combusted together in a reactor to produce carbon nanospheres and magnesium oxide, which are then separated to provide the individual reaction products. The reaction occurs at a very high temperature, e.g. 2000&#xb0; F.-5000&#xb0; F. and also produces large amounts of useful energy in the form of heat and light, including infrared and ultraviolet radiation. Other oxidizing agents such as aluminum can be combined with the magnesium, and the metal oxides produced by the reaction can be recycled to provide additional oxidizing agents for combustion with the carbon dioxide. By varying the reaction temperature, the morphology of the carbon products can be controlled.

Process for the production of carbon nanoparticles and sequestration of carbon

An engineered, scalable underground containment system and method for storing compressed gases or liquids in permeable rock formations using conventional drilling techniques. The porosity and permeability of the formation may be enhanced to maximize reservoir capacity and increase the rate at which gases and liquids can be introduced into and removed from the reservoir. In some embodiments, layers of cap rock in the formation are utilized as containment barriers, and in some, containment barriers are constructed around the storage zones.

Engineered, scalable underground storage system and method

Underground sequestration system and method in which a liquid or gas is stored in a sequestration zone of enhanced porosity in an underground geological formation, with a containment barrier around the sequestration zone. Conditions within the formation are monitored to verify the integrity of the sequestered substance, and any necessary repair or maintenance is done through wells that extend into the formation. In some disclosed embodiments, the porosity of the formation in the sequestration zone is enhanced by boreholes and laterals that are drilled with high velocity hydraulic cutting jets, and the sequestered liquid or gas is injected into the sequestration zone through the boreholes and laterals. Additional boreholes and laterals are employed in the containment barrier, and the barrier is formed of a thixotropic material that is injected into the formation through the additional boreholes and laterals.

Underground sequestration system and method

Hydraulic drilling apparatus and method in which a hole is formed with a series of drill heads and strings of successively smaller diameter. After each section of the hole is formed, the drill head is withdrawn back through the string, leaving the string in place in the hole to serve as a casing for the well. The next smaller size drill head and string are then introduced through the strings which have already been placed, and the process is repeated until the hole has reached the desired length. The course of the hole can be changed, e.g. from vertical to horizontal, without interruption of the drilling process by selective application of the drilling fluid to the nozzles in the drill head to steer the advancing string. Multiple laterals are formed by introducing a module having a plurality of extensible drilling tubes with drill heads at the distal ends thereof into the string and applying the pressurized drilling fluid to the module to advance the tubes from the string. The direction of the holes formed with the tubes is controlled by inclining the drill heads at oblique angles relative to the axes of the tubes. Once the laterals have been drilled, the module is withdrawn from the string, and the drilling tubes can either be withdrawn with the module or they can be cut off and left in the well. In one disclosed embodiment, the drill heads which form the laterals have a generally hemispherical nose with a plurality of vortex generators or nozzles distributed thereover. In another, the drill heads have a hemispherical button projecting from a forwardly facing planar surface, with forwardly directed nozzle openings toward the front of the button and laterally directed nozzle openings in the base of the button near the planar surface.

Multiple lateral hydraulic drilling apparatus and method

Hydraulic drilling apparatus and method in which a drill head is driven toward the formation being drilled by the force of the drilling fluid, and the rate of advancement or penetration of the drill head is controlled by entrapping a fluid in a chamber to resist advancement of the drill head and allowing a controlled amount of the entrapped fluid to pass out of the chamber through an orifice to permit the drill head to advance at a controlled rate.

Hydraulic drilling method with penetration control

A system for gravel packing a production radial tube terminating in an open drillhead in electrically conductive oil bearing formation. An elongate perforating tube having spaced ports with electrically conductive perimeters connected to an electrical power source is passed to the forward end of the radial tube. Then an electrolyte solution is passed through the hollow interior of the perforating tube and out the ports to be directed against the tube while current is supplied to form spaced perforations in the tube. Then the perforating tool is withdrawn.

Gravel packing system for a production radial tube

A system for gravel packing a production radial tube terminating in an open drillhead in an oil bearing formation. The radial tube is perforated by an electrolytic perforation tool which is removed. A flexible permeable liner is passed into the radial tube and slurry is flowed through the liner and out the distal end to the radial tube back towards the well bore to the fill. Then, plug filters are placed at the proximal and distal ends of the radial tube which pass oil but not gravel, and the proximal end of the radial tube is severed, if desired.

Oil well production system using a hollow tube liner

Hydraulic drilling apparatus and method suitable for use in a variety of applications including the drilling of deep holes for oil and gas wells and the drilling of vertical, horizontal or slanted holes, drilling through both consolidated and unconsolidated formations, and cutting and removing core samples. The drill head produces a whirling mass of pressurized cutting fluid, and this whirling fluid is applied to a discharge nozzle to produce a high velocity cutting jet. In one embodiment, the fluid is discharged from a central nozzle as a thin wall conical cutting jet, and a plurality of axially directed jets are spaced about the central nozzle for removing material within the circular groove cut by the conical jet. The conical jet can be used without the axially directed jets to cut core samples. In a second embodiment, the discharge nozzle comprises an oblique bore in a rotor which is driven at a relatively slow speed (e.g. 5-50 rpm) by the whirling fluid in the drill head. The direction of the borehole is controlled by side jets discharged in a radial direction from the distal end portion of the drill string which carries the drill head. The side jets are actuated in accordance with the curvature of the drill string. In one embodiment, the drill head is mounted on a carrier which can be withdrawn from the drill string and replaced while the drill string remains in the hole.

Hydraulic drilling apparatus and method

Hydraulic drilling apparatus and method suitable for use in a variety of applications including the drilling of deep holes for oil and gas wells and the drilling of vertical, horizontal or slanted holes, drilling through both consolidated and unconsolidated formations, and cutting and removing core samples. The drill head produces a whirling mass of pressurized cutting fluid, and this whirling fluid is applied to a discharge nozzle to produce a high velocity cutting jet. The cutting action is enhanced by abrasive material in the drilling fluid. The direction of the borehole is controlled by controlling the discharge of the drilling fluid either in side jets directed radially from the distal end portion of the drill string which carries the drill head or in a plurality of forwardly directed cutting jets.

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