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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
May. 17, 2019
GR Energy Services Management, Lp, Sugar Land, TX (US);
James William Anthony, Missouri City, TX (US);
Marion M. Ringo, League City, TX (US);
David Chesney, Houston, TX (US);
Roma Montifar, Katy, TX (US);
Thomas Bell, Houston, TX (US);
Tyler Chaney, Houston, TX (US);
Joel Henry, Manvel, TX (US);
Ronald Craig Smith, Norman, OK (US);
Steven Robert Olsen, Rosenberg, TX (US);
GR Energy Services Management, LP, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A ball launcher and method for actuating wellsite equipment at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite has wellhead equipment positioned at an inlet of a wellbore. The ball launcher includes a housing, a ball release, and a housing extension. The housing has a passage for receiving balls. The ball is release positionable about the housing. The ball release includes a feeder to selectively and sequentially release the balls from the housing. The housing extension includes a hopper tube and a feed tube. The hopper tube has an inlet to receive the balls from the housing, the feed tube extending at an angle from the hopper tube. The feed tube has an exit a distance above the wellhead equipment to release the balls therethrough whereby the balls are dropped into and activates the wellsite equipment in the wellbore.