- Patent Title: Single straight-line connection for hydraulic fracturing flowback
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Application No.: US16977457Application Date: 2019-03-01
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Publication No.: US11306573B2Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Inventor: Matthew Thomas Robinson Webster
- Applicant: SPM Oil & Gas PC LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: SPM Oil & Gas PC LLC
- Current Assignee: SPM Oil & Gas PC LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Grable Martin Fulton PLLC
- Agent Wei Wei Jeang
- International Application: PCT/US2019/020280 WO 20190301
- International Announcement: WO2019/169261 WO 20190906
- Main IPC: E21B43/26
- IPC: E21B43/26 ; E21B33/068 ; E21B34/02

Abstract:
A frac tree coupled to a wellhead is connected to either flowback equipment or zipper modules using a single straight-line connection of pipes, valves, and/or frac iron that define a straight-line pathway for fluid, gas, or flowback materials. The disclosed single straight-line connections referenced herein may be used in pressure pumping operations to deliver hydraulic fracturing fluid (“frack fluid”) to a frac tree for delivery to a wellhead or for carrying flowback from the wellhead to a flowback-collecting equipment. Using the single straight-line connections referenced herein dramatically reduces the complexity of connections needed to deliver frack fluid to or carry flowback away from a well, thereby reducing the cost, improving the efficiency, and increasing the safety of pressure-pumping and flowback operations.
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