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JOHN L. GIDLEY
JOHN L. GIDLEY
Pages 102-107
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These are designed to create flow paths through the rock surrounding a well bore drilled into a subterranean formation containing hydrocarbons. It was Herman Frasch, inventor of the method of producing sulfur by introducing hot water into sulfur-bearing formations, who first used acid to stimulate the production of oil and gas around 1900.
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reached a thermodynamic equilibrium when contacted with an excess of carbonate rock, he conceived a new process applying these acids. The Humble engineers decided to try the process on wells on Humble leases on the King Ranch, some 800,000 acres in deep South Texas.
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He was extremely pleased that royalties collected from his patents by Exxon's research affiliate more than paid his salary and benefits during the last 17 years of his 28-year employment with Exxon. In 1975 John convinced Exxon to conduct a field test of a new experimental material, sintered bauxite, as a highstrength proppant to keep the fractures open following hydraulic fracturing.
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The idea was that each company would identify a well, pay the cost of the test, and at the end of the program receive a report that would summarize the results of all the tests performed. Because Gidley was well respected for his previous accomplishments -- he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994 and received the SPE's John Franklin Carl Award in 1992 as well as honorary membership, its highest award -- he almost immediately found more than a dozen companies willing to sponsor the test.
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, and his sister Margaret Clover and brother William J Gidley, and his grandchildren Danielle Gidley, George Franklin Gidley, Travis Gidley, Jessica Gidley, Jack Gidley, Edward Gidley, Elizabeth Gidley, Charlotte Gidley, Eliza and Dalton Wright, Gabriel Gidley, Haley Morrison, Austin Morrison, John Lytle Morrison, Julia Morrison, Lauren Morrison, and Colin Patrick Gidley.
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