198 patents
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Utility
Collapsible Mud Bucket
9 Jun 22
A mud bucket system including a base structure and a bellows with a longitudinal internal cavity, the base structure attached to one end of the bellows and a retention ring attached to another end, where the vertical movement of the retention ring lengthens or shortens the longitudinal internal cavity, and a method of using the system that can include coupling a mud bucket to a rig floor, raising a retention ring of the mud bucket, thereby elongating a longitudinal internal cavity of the mud bucket such that a connection of a tubular string is positioned within the longitudinal internal cavity, and unthreading the connection while the connection is positioned within the longitudinal internal cavity, where a tubular is connected to the tubular string at the connection and unthreading the connection disconnects the tubular from the tubular string and expels a fluid from the tubular into the longitudinal internal cavity.
Derek PATTERSON, David SILJEG
Filed: 30 Nov 21
Utility
Mast assembly for drilling rig
24 May 22
A mast assembly for a drilling rig includes a mast formed from a plurality of mast subunits.
Ashish Gupta, Padira Reddy, Denver Lee
Filed: 17 Jul 19
Utility
Drilling rig communication systems, devices, and methods
19 Apr 22
Systems, devices, and methods for carrying out communications on a drilling rig are presented.
Sri Valleru, Eric D. Sawyer, Divye Kumar
Filed: 2 Feb 18
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Identifying a Potential Problem with Drilling Equipment Using a Feedback Control Loop System
31 Mar 22
An apparatus for, and method of identifying a potential problem with, drilling equipment that is used in a drilling operation.
Austin GROOVER, Scott COFFEY, Drew CURRAN, Adam LACROIX
Filed: 30 Sep 20
Utility
Dual mast rig with independently adjustable platforms
22 Mar 22
A system for performing a subterranean operation, where the system may include a substructure of a rig configured to move from a first position to a second position, a first platform overlying and coupled to the substructure, a second platform overlying and coupled to the substructure, with the first platform configured to move independently from and relative to the substructure and the second platform, and with the second platform configured to move independently from and relative to the substructure and the first platform.
Padira P. Reddy, Denver C. Lee
Filed: 9 Jun 20
Utility
Systems and methods for monitoring drill strings
15 Mar 22
A system for monitoring a drill string comprising: a plurality of image capture devices disposed around a wellbore and adapted to record images of a portion of the drill string; and a logic device adapted to determine linearity of the portion of the drill string based on a form factor deviation.
Christopher Magnuson, Mark Docherty
Filed: 5 Dec 19
Utility
V-door safety gate
15 Mar 22
A gate assembly that can include a frame with first and second mounts to mount the gate assembly across a V-door space on a rig floor, a first gate rotationally attached to a left side of the frame, and a second gate rotationally attached to a right side of the frame, such that the first and second gates selectively permit and prevent access through the V-door space.
Gary W. Craig
Filed: 12 Apr 19
Utility
Adjustable pipe handling system
15 Mar 22
A pipe handling system for transporting pipe between a horizontal storage location and a rig floor, where the pipe handling system can include an adjustable length ramp assembly which can be adjusted by installing one or more extension sections between bottom and top sections The sections can include interfacing features that can align the sections with each other when they are attached together in the ramp assembly.
David Do, Travis Burke, Geoffrey Fletcher
Filed: 6 Nov 20
Utility
Side Saddle Traversable Drilling Rig
3 Mar 22
A land-based drilling rig includes a drill rig floor and a subfloor, the subfloor supporting the drill rig floor.
Padira REDDY, Denver LEE, Premkumar MONGATTIL
Filed: 27 Aug 21
Utility
Bolt-on Wireless Vibration Sensor Assembly
24 Feb 22
A system for detecting acoustic or vibration signals transmitted along a tubular string, the system can include a tool assembly with a sensor assembly configured to be removably attached to a sub, the sub being connected to the tubular string such that acoustic/vibration signals travel through the sub and the sensor assembly detects the signals, with the sensor assembly including sensors that are configured to contact the sub and detect the signals traveling through the sub.
James M. HALL, Jose Abelardo SANCHEZ
Filed: 14 Jul 21
Utility
Methods and Systems for Improving Confidence In Automated Steering Guidance
17 Feb 22
Systems including a plurality of sensors disposed on a bottom hole assembly (BHA) configured to provide data to a controller, wherein a drill bit is connected to a bottom of the BHA; and a controller configured to: receive a well plan; receive, at a first stationary survey station, locational data and directional data of the BHA from the plurality of sensors; create steering instructions based on the well plan, historical drilling data, and the locational and directional data; generate a predicted future position of the drill bit for each of a plurality of stationary survey stations subsequent to the first stationary survey station assuming implementation of the steering instructions; display the predicted future position of the drill bit for each stationary survey station on a graphical user interface; receive directions to implement, reject, or revise the steering instructions; and execute the received directions.
Austin GROOVER, Scott COFFEY, Drew CURRAN, Adam LACROIX
Filed: 13 Aug 20
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Transitioning Between Rotary Drilling and Slide Drilling While Maintaining a Bit of a Bottom Hole Assembly on a Wellbore Bottom
17 Feb 22
A method of transitioning from rotary to slide drilling while maintaining a bit of a bottom hole assembly (“BHA”) on a wellbore bottom includes (a) recording a first toolface value of the BHA that is coupled to a drill string; (b) identifying a correlation between the first toolface value and a first quill position of a quill coupled to the drill string; (c) identifying a breakover torque for the drill string; (d) performing rotary drilling; (e) recording a second toolface value while the bit remains on the wellbore bottom; (f) receiving, while the bit remains on the wellbore bottom, a target toolface value; (g) calculating, while the bit remains on the wellbore bottom, an unwind amount to unwind the drill string; and (h) unwinding the drill string by the unwind amount to bring the second toolface value closer to the target toolface value while the bit remains on the bottom.
Austin GROOVER, Scott COFFEY, Drew CURRAN, Adam LACROIX
Filed: 14 Aug 20
Utility
Steerable Drilling Bi-directional Communications System and Methods
17 Feb 22
An apparatus and method of operating a drilling system with a directional guidance system and a drilling operation system is described.
Austin GROOVER, Scott COFFEY, Drew CURRAN, Adam LACROIX
Filed: 13 Aug 20
Utility
System for guiding a tubular during subterranean drilling operations
15 Feb 22
A method of conducting subterranean drilling operations comprising guiding a tubular with a first guide arranged in a first configuration; coupling an umbilical line to the tubular with an engagement element; guiding the tubular with a second guide; arranging the first guide to a second configuration to permit longitudinal passage of the engagement element past the first guide; and arranging the first guide to the first configuration after the engagement element is past the first guide.
Jamie Bergeron, Hendrik Schalk Le Roux
Filed: 10 Sep 19
Utility
Apparatus and method for securing tubulars on a drilling rig
15 Feb 22
A device and method for subterranean operations comprising a latch adapted to be coupled with a fingerboard of a drilling rig, the fingerboard including at least two fingers, wherein: the latch is selectively moveable between an open configuration and a closed configuration, the latch is adapted to selectively permit entrance of a first tubular into a tubular storage area between the at least two fingers when the latch is in the open configuration, and selectively maintain the first tubular in the tubular storage area when the latch is in the closed configuration, and the latch is spaced apart from the fingerboard.
Christopher Magnuson, Alex Kunec, Eric Deutsch
Filed: 5 Nov 20
Utility
Gamma Ray Logging Tool with Detector Window
10 Feb 22
A system including a logging tool that can detect gamma rays in a wellbore, where the logging tool can have a window formed in an outer surface of a drill collar that allows increased sensitivity of a gamma ray detector assembly housed within the drill collar, with a body of the drill collar radially surrounding the gamma ray detector assembly, where the window can be filled with a material, and where the windows provide increased sensitivity to gamma rays in a wellbore in an azimuthal direction allowing azimuthal mapping of the gamma rays in formation surrounding the wellbore.
Sergei KNIZHNIK, Marian L. MORYS
Filed: 14 Jul 21
Utility
Side saddle drilling rigs
8 Feb 22
A land-based drilling rig includes a first substructure and a second substructure, the second substructure being positioned generally parallel to the first substructure.
Padira Reddy, Ashish Gupta
Filed: 12 Nov 20
Utility
System and method of automating a slide drilling operation
1 Feb 22
A system and method of automating a slide drilling operation comprising a plurality of tasks is described, in particular, reducing stored torque within a drill string that extends within a wellbore that includes storing, using a computing system, a first predetermined workflow to reduce stored torque within the drill string, and a second predetermined workflow to reduce stored torque within the drill string, wherein the first predetermined workflow comprises instructions to vertically move the drill string in first and opposing second directions; and wherein the second predetermined workflow comprises instructions to rotate the drill string in a first direction.
Austin Groover, Christopher Wagner, Jesse Johnson, Colin Gillan
Filed: 24 Jun 20
Utility
Side saddle slingshot drilling rig
25 Jan 22
A side saddle slingshot drilling rig includes a left and right substructure including a left and right lower box.
Padira Reddy, Ashish Gupta
Filed: 14 May 20
Utility
Robotic Pipe Handler Systems
6 Jan 22
A tubular handling system can include a bridge disposed in a horizontal orientation above a horizontal storage area, a tubular lift system that can transport a tubular in a horizontal orientation between the horizontal storage area and an intermediate storage location, and a pipe handler, moveably coupled to the bridge, that can transport the tubular between the intermediate storage location and a rig floor.
Travis BURKE
Filed: 14 Jun 21