2001 patents
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Utility
Closing Unit System for a Blowout Preventer
17 Aug 23
A closing unit system for a blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a first fluid reservoir, a first power source, a first pump system fluidly coupled to the first fluid reservoir and electrically coupled to the first power source, and a valve manifold fluidly coupled to the first pump system via a closing unit hose assembly and configured to couple to the BOP stack.
Matthew Olson, Stephen McGuire
Filed: 25 Apr 23
Utility
Downhole Flowmeter
17 Aug 23
An intelligent completion module includes a flowmeter that uses one or more electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) sensors and a flow control valve.
Harold Pfutzner, Mohammed Badri
Filed: 26 Apr 23
Utility
Lower-Density or Collimating Well-Logging Radiation Detector Windows
17 Aug 23
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for radiation detector windows that have an improved shape or density and/or provide collimation of radiation that passes through.
Justin Mlcak, Sicco Beekman, Avtandil Tkabladze
Filed: 23 Jul 21
Utility
Method and System for Determining a Lithology of a Subterranean Formation
17 Aug 23
A first method is provided for determining a lithology of a subterranean formation into which a wellbore has been drilled.
Sophie Androvandi, Maurice Ringer, Karim Bondabou
Filed: 24 Apr 23
Utility
Fluid and solid material separator
15 Aug 23
An apparatus includes a materials separator that includes a continuous filter belt disposed around a plurality of rollers.
Richard Bingham
Filed: 23 Jan 18
Utility
Permanently installed in-well dry mate connectors with shape memory alloy technology
15 Aug 23
A technique facilitates formation of secure connections for use in downhole environments.
Jean-Luc Garcia, Yann Dufour, Steve Watelle
Filed: 25 Oct 19
Utility
Electrically conductive fiber optic slickline for coiled tubing operations
15 Aug 23
A slickline that includes both electrically conductive and fiber optic capacity.
Joseph Varkey, David Geehyun Kim, Maria Auxiliadora Grisanti
Filed: 26 Jan 15
Utility
Systems and methods for downhole deployment of containers
15 Aug 23
A downhole tool system may include one or more containers to hold waste product and a tractor to convey the one or more containers to a storage location within a wellbore.
Robert Utter, Rod Shampine, Dmitriy Potapenko, Yu Wang, Iain Cooper
Filed: 14 Nov 19
Utility
Method, system and compure- readable storage media for controlling filed equipment by analyzing information received from interface
15 Aug 23
A method for controlling field equipment can include receiving information via an interface of a control system; analyzing the information by the control system with respect to tiered well construction activities; based on the analyzing, generating a workflow that includes at least a series of tiered well construction activities; and transmitting a signal from the control system to the field equipment to control the field equipment to perform at least one of the series of tiered well construction activities.
Jean-Marc Pietrzyk, Richard John Harmer
Filed: 18 Oct 21
Utility
Process for highlighting text with varied orientation
15 Aug 23
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for highlighting text in an image disposed in a markup language document are disclosed.
Mohit Sajwan
Filed: 21 May 20
Utility
Automation of packer inflation
15 Aug 23
The disclosure provides for a method for setting an inflatable packer.
Bo Yang, Kai Hsu, Deopaul Dindial
Filed: 8 Aug 22
Utility
Methods for in-situ multi-temperature measurements using downhole acquisition tool
15 Aug 23
Methods for obtaining in-situ, multi-temperature measurements of fluid properties, such as saturation pressure and asphaltene onset pressure include obtaining a sample of formation fluid using a downhole acquisition tool positioned in a wellbore in a geological formation.
Hadrien Dumont, Christopher Harrison, Youxiang Zuo, Christopher Albert Babin, Li Chen, Vinay K. Mishra, German Garcia, Abhishek Agarwal, Matthew T. Sullivan
Filed: 30 Aug 21
Utility
Engineering completion and selective fracturing of lateral wellbores
15 Aug 23
A method for completing a wellbore traversing a subterranean formation includes making electromagnetic resistivity measurements along a lateral section of the wellbore.
Modhar Khan, Robert Utter, Irlan Amir, Dmitriy Potapenko, Joseph Gremillion
Filed: 18 Feb 20
Utility
Variable feed enclosed combustor system and method for its use
15 Aug 23
Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for using a sensed combustion zone temperature to continuously control combustion of a first (main) gas within an enclosed combustor.
Rafiqul Khan, Herman C. Hatfield, II, Ankur D. Jariwala, Gary W. Sams
Filed: 4 Jan 18
Utility
Rescheduling one or more tasks of a digital plan associated with subsystems of a wellsite based on the wellsite's state
15 Aug 23
A method can include receiving scheduled tasks associated with subsystems of a wellsite system wherein the scheduled tasks are associated with achievement of desired states of the wellsite system; transmitting task information for at least a portion of the scheduled tasks to computing devices associated with the subsystems; receiving state information via the wellsite system; assessing the state information with respect to one or more of the desired states; based at least in part on the assessing, scheduling a task; and transmitting task information for the task to one or more of the computing devices associated with the subsystems.
Richard John Meehan, Benoit Foubert, Jean-Pierre Poyet
Filed: 1 Oct 20
Utility
Geo-steering using electromagnetic gap impedance data
8 Aug 23
A method for steering a downhole tool includes receiving an electromagnetic (EM) signal from the downhole tool.
Luis Eduardo DePavia, Jiuping Chen, Liang Sun, Richard Hunter
Filed: 1 Oct 20
Utility
System and methodology for monitoring in an injection well
8 Aug 23
A technique facilitates monitoring of parameters related to a downhole operation, e.g. a water injection operation.
Jerson Orlando Becerra Alfonso, Anderson Arboleda Correa, Andrea Ximena Guerrero AvendaƱo
Filed: 4 Aug 20
Utility
Circular downhole ultrasonic phased array
8 Aug 23
A downhole tool having an acoustic transducer for downhole measurements.
Jean-baptiste Cozon, Orland Guedes, Roel Van Os, Stephane Guimont
Filed: 29 Mar 21
Utility
Volumetric well production user interface components
8 Aug 23
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are set forth for visualizing and interacting with well production data in a three-dimensional or four-dimensional environment, e.g., using a volumetric well production display representation representing a well in an oilfield and including a plurality of display characteristics configured to display historical production data for the well over a time period.
Siau Ban Teh, Andrey Konchenko, Sergey Doronichev, Tong Zhang
Filed: 29 Nov 18
Utility
Detection of Fluid Events In a Wellbore
3 Aug 23
A method includes obtaining fluid volume change data for a fluid circuit including a wellbore and one or more tripping tanks, the fluid volume change data representing the fluid circuit during a tripping operation for each of a plurality of pipe stands and forming a buffer, calculating a delta displacement threshold based at least in part on the buffer, receiving additional fluid volume change data for the fluid circuit, the additional fluid volume change data representing the fluid circuit during a tripping operation for a first stand, comparing the fluid volume change data for the first stand with the delta displacement threshold, determining that the fluid volume change data for the first stand represents a delta displacement that is greater in magnitude than the delta displacement threshold, and initiating an alarm in response to the delta displacement being greater than the delta displacement threshold.
Julien Converset, Aditya Garga
Filed: 12 Dec 22