Methods of stimulating a hydrocarbon well

    公开(公告)号:US12281558B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-22

    申请号:US18501155

    申请日:2023-11-03

    Abstract: Methods of stimulating a hydrocarbon well are disclosed herein. The hydrocarbon well includes a wellbore that extends within a subterranean formation and a tubular that extends within the wellbore and defines a tubular conduit. The methods include retaining a sealing structure within the tubular conduit and, during the retaining, stimulating a zone of the subterranean formation. Subsequent to the stimulating, the methods include fluidly isolating the zone of the subterranean formation from the uphole region by at least partially sealing the plurality of perforations. Subsequent to the fluidly isolating, the methods include moving the sealing structure in a downhole direction within the tubular conduit. The methods also include repeating the retaining, the stimulating, the fluidly isolating, and the moving a plurality of times to stimulate a plurality of corresponding zones of the subterranean formation.

    OXIDATIVELY STABLE ORGANOSILICATES FOR CO2 CAPTURE

    公开(公告)号:US20250121316A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-17

    申请号:US18915714

    申请日:2024-10-15

    Abstract: Amine-functionalized organosilica materials are provided that have improved stability when exposed to oxidizing/oxygen-containing environments during cycling of temperature, such as the cycling of temperature that occurs when using a material as a sorbent during successive adsorption/desorption cycles. Methods of performing CO2 sorption/desorption with improved stability of the organosilica sorbent material are also provided. The improved stability is achieved in part by using amine-functionalized organosilica materials where the amine-functionalization is provided by functional groups that include primary amines but do not include secondary amines. Still further improvements in stability can be achieved when the functionalization is provided by a functional group that includes a primary amine while also not having any hydrogens on a carbon atom that is in the beta position relative to the primary amine.

    MINERAL CARBONATION IN ALKALINE AQUEOUS SCRUBBING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250091892A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-20

    申请号:US18884522

    申请日:2024-09-13

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using a two-step process to capture CO2 from a process flue gas in an aqueous solution followed by conversion of the captured CO2 into metal carbonates for storage, transport, or other potential uses. In the first processing step, CO2 is removed from a process flue gas by contacting the process flue gas with an aqueous solution at a sufficiently high pH to enhance capture of the CO2 while reducing or minimizing other impacts on the vessel where capture is performed. The CO2-enriched aqueous solution is then passed into a second zone, such as a second vessel, for contact with a metal reagent, such as a metal oxide, metal sulfide, metal hydroxide, and/or metal silicate.

    HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20250084193A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-13

    申请号:US18784035

    申请日:2024-07-25

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polyethylene compositions, articles (e.g., films) including such polyethylene compositions, and methods of making polyethylene compositions and articles (e.g., films) thereof. The polyethylene composition comprises 80 wt % or greater ethylene-derived units; has density within the range from 0.940 to 0.975 g/cm3; a melt index (MI) of 0.1 to 3.0 g/10 min (such as 0.5 g/10 min to 2.5 g/10 min); a high load melt index (HLMI) within the range from 60 g/10 min to 150 g/10 min; a melt index ratio (MIR, defined as HILMI/MI) greater than 50; and has a crossover frequency (COF) according to the following relationship: COF>−0.00015*(Mw)+80 (where COF is in rad/s and Mw is weight-average molecular weight in g/mol).

    Bitumen Upgrading and Carbon Product Production

    公开(公告)号:US20250066675A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18812725

    申请日:2024-08-22

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process that includes providing bitumen; performing thermal upgrading on the bitumen to form mildly upgraded bitumen; distilling the mildly upgraded bitumen to form streams of naphtha; distillates and/or gas oils; and residue; combining the naphtha and residue to form a naphtha/residue stream, which causes deasphalting to occur, and forming streams of deasphalted oil and high-carbon pitch comprising asphaltenes; and adding the distillates and/or gas oils to the deasphalted oil to form partially upgraded bitumen.

    Compositions Including Copolymers of Isobutylene and Paramethylstyrene Substantially Free of Paramethylstyrene Monomers and Methods of Making the Same

    公开(公告)号:US20250066645A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18717510

    申请日:2022-12-13

    Abstract: A process for preparing a cement composition comprising an isoolefin-alkylstyrene copolymer and substantially free of an alkylstyrene monomer is described herein. The process comprises reacting the isoolefin monomer with at least a portion of the alkylstyrene monomer in a diluent to form an isoolefin-alkylstyrene copolymer, replacing the diluent with a solvent, reacting a halogenic scavenger with the unreacted alkylstyrene monomer in an absence of a free radical initiator in order to form a halogenic alkylstyrene compound without altering the isoolefin-alkylstyrene copolymer, and removing the halogenic alkylstyrene compound from the slurry to form the cement composition substantially free of the alkylstyrene monomer. Also disclosed herein is a composition comprising an isoolefin-alkylstyrene copolymer and an alkylstyrene monomer comprising a concentration less than about 20 ppm.

    Processes for Making Polyolefins with Composition Control

    公开(公告)号:US20250043034A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-06

    申请号:US18717173

    申请日:2022-12-14

    Abstract: Processes for making olefin copolymers, particularly ethylene-based copolymers. A process for making an olefin copolymer can include introducing an olefin monomer, at least one other olefin comonomer, and a single type of catalyst system to a tubular reactor to produce an olefin copolymer containing: a) an absolute comonomer distribution (CD) slope 90 of about 2.0 to about 30.0, an absolute CD slope 75 of about 2.0 to about 30.0, an absolute CD slope 50 of about 2.0 to about 30.0, or an absolute CD slope 25 of about 2.0 to about 30.0; b) a first long chain branching index (g′(Mz)) of about 0.30 to about 1.0; and c) a second long chain branching index (g′(Mz+1)) of about 0.30 to about 1.0. The tubular reactor can include one or more plug flow components, one or more spiral heat exchangers, and/or a recycle pump.

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