2001 patents
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Systems and methods for monitoring and/or predicting sagging tendencies of fluids
9 May 23
Systems and methods measure one or more rheological properties and/or parameters of a fluid and establish at least one correlation between the measured one or more rheological properties and/or parameters.
Yan Gao, Yiyan Chen, Reda Karoum
Filed: 17 Oct 19
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Methods, apparatus and systems for creating wellbore plugs for abandoned wells
9 May 23
A wellbore is plugged using a bismuth alloy.
Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Hua Zhang, Quincy K. Elias, Albert Perez, Jr.
Filed: 24 May 18
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Sliding sleeve and split shifting tool
9 May 23
A system includes a sliding sleeve valve including a valve body and an inner sleeve selectively shiftable within the valve body, at least one flow port contained in the valve body, at least one metal to metal seal provided between an inside wall of the valve body and the inner sleeve, and a shifting tool.
Dinesh Patel
Filed: 25 Oct 19
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Active alternator control in a downhole tool string
9 May 23
A downhole system includes a drill string having a drilling fluid flow channel and at least one turbine alternator deployed in the flow channel.
Mustafa Kamil Guven, Torgeir Rusten, In Chul Jang, Yaoxin Qian
Filed: 15 Mar 21
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Integrated electric submersible pumping system with electromagnetically driven impeller
9 May 23
An electric submersible pumping system is constructed with an outer housing which contains an integrated pump and motor.
Maksim Radov, Ruslan Alexandrovich Bobkov, Souvik Dasgupta
Filed: 7 Jun 17
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Rod pump system diagnostics and analysis
9 May 23
Providing diagnostics or monitoring operation of a rod pressure includes using waves in production fluid produced by the rod pump may be used to determine one or more operating states of the rod pump.
Sebastien Mannai, Tianxiang Su, Sepand Ossia, Choon Sooi Tan
Filed: 2 May 19
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Work flow based acoustic processing system and method
9 May 23
A method, article and system are provided for processing and interpreting acoustic data.
Henri-Pierre Valero, Takeshi Endo, Hrvoje Markovic, Yoshisuke Fukagawa, Yuta Okabe, Shinichi Sunaga, Mitsuko Kitazawa, Ryoko Hayashi, Ivayla Gueorguieva
Filed: 23 Sep 16
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Analogue facilitated seismic data interpretation system
9 May 23
A method can include acquiring imagery of an exposed surface of the Earth; generating a multi-dimensional model based at least in part on the imagery; generating synthetic seismic data utilizing the multi-dimensional model; acquiring seismic data of a subsurface region of the Earth; performing a search that matches a portion of the acquired seismic data and a portion of the synthetic seismic data; and characterizing the subsurface region of the Earth based at least in part on the portion of the synthetic seismic data.
Pierre Le Guern, Marie Etchebes, Aicha Bounaim
Filed: 23 May 18
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Geologic formation operations framework
9 May 23
A method can include receiving a selection for data via a graphical user interface rendered to a display; via the graphical user interface, initiating a data ingestion process for the selected data; via the graphical user interface, rendering data descriptors generated by the data ingestion process; via the graphical user interface, issuing a validation instruction that validates the data descriptors; and, via the graphical user interface, issuing an instruction that stores a data ingestion template that includes the validated data descriptors.
Todd Christopher Dixon, Ramchandra Nile, Sanjeet Khanuja
Filed: 15 Jul 20
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Armored submersible power cable
9 May 23
A method can include extruding polyethylene about a lead (Pb) barrier layer disposed about a conductor to form an assembly; and armoring at least one of the assemblies with metallic armor to form a cable.
Jason Holzmueller, Jinglei Xiang, Samy A. Madbouly, William Goertzen, Varun Vinaykumar Nyayadhish, Gregory Howard Manke
Filed: 28 Jun 17
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Modular Hydrocarbon Facility Placement Planning System
4 May 23
A method for identifying locations for components of a hydrocarbon production facility may involve receiving, via a processor, input data having one or more maps representative of an area, a plurality of sets of coordinates for a plurality of wells, and cost data associated with at least one of the plurality of components.
Kassem GHORAYEB, Haytham Mounji DBOUK, Hussein Mohammad HAYEK, Ahmad HARB, Richard TORRENS, Owen WELLS
Filed: 30 Dec 22
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Flexural Wave Measurement for Thick Casings
4 May 23
Systems and methods are provided for obtaining a flexural-attenuation measurement for cement evaluation that may be effective even for wells with relatively thick casings.
Andrew Hayman, Christoph Klieber, Jean-Luc Le Calvez, Thilo Brill
Filed: 14 Oct 22
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Modular Hydrocarbon Facility Placement Planning System
4 May 23
A method for identifying locations for components of a hydrocarbon production facility may involve receiving, via a processor, input data having one or more maps representative of an area, a plurality of sets of coordinates for a plurality of wells, and cost data associated with at least one of the plurality of components.
Kassem GHORAYEB, Haytham Mounji DBOUK, Hussein Mohammad HAYEK, Ahmad HARB, Richard TORRENS, Owen WELLS
Filed: 30 Dec 22
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Reversible oil-based mud
2 May 23
A wellbore fluid may include a non-oleaginous internal phase, an oleaginous external phase, and an emulsifier having a molecular weight of at least 700 daltons, whereby the emulsifier may include at least one tertiary amine.
Pawilai Chinwangso, Hui Zhang, Changping Sui, Paulo Pauferro, Jr.
Filed: 19 Feb 16
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Riser running tool with liquid fill and test
2 May 23
A system includes a top drive system; a drilling riser running tool configured to be deployed by the top drive system; a fluid line configured to run from the top drive system to the drilling riser running tool; and a liquid filing system.
Nicolas Arteaga, Carlos Mesquita, Rolf Gullaksen
Filed: 3 Jun 22
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Downhole turbine assembly
2 May 23
A downhole turbine assembly may comprise a tangential turbine disposed within a section of drill pipe.
David R. Hall, Jonathan D. Marshall, Jordan D. Englund
Filed: 19 Jan 21
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Virtual high-density well survey
2 May 23
A method for determining tortuosity, e.g., in an oilfield well includes obtaining a planned trajectory for a hole, and obtaining a first survey of the hole using a sensor deployed into the hole.
Zhengxin Zhang, Wei Chen, Yuelin Shen, Zhenyu Chen
Filed: 13 Feb 20
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Systems and Methods for Enhancing Data Acquisition Operations In Seismic Surveys
27 Apr 23
A sensor package may include a sensor housing unit and a first sensor that may acquire a first set of measurements within a first measurement range.
Peter R. Swinburne, Robert van Kuijk, Eshan Chittimalla, Fadhel Rezgui, Hikmet Andic, Erik Emilio Homil Espinoza, Alexey Masyukov, Nicolas Roumilly, Gatien Fangwa Tikanwou, Peter John Airey, Olivier Condat, Upendra Rao Vedullapalli, Gamanuel Dalmas
Filed: 1 Mar 21
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X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy Analysis
27 Apr 23
Multivariate machine learning (ML) techniques can be applied to an XRF spectra and mitigate matrix effects and enable simultaneous quantification of composition, even when markers elements or ions of interest are imperceptible in the XRF spectra.
Sergey Mikailovich Makarychev-Mikhailov, Isabelle Atheaux, Débora Campos de Faria
Filed: 5 Oct 22
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Raster Image Digitization Using Machine Learning Techniques
27 Apr 23
A method for digitizing image-based data includes receiving an image file including one or more target objects, generating an intermediate image by removing noise from the image file using a denoising machine learning model, identifying the one or more target objects included in the intermediate image using an object segmentation machine learning model, discretizing the one or more target objects that were identified using the trained object segmentation machine learning model, and storing the one or more target objects that were discretized in a data file, visualizing the one or more target objects, or both.
Atul Laxman KATOLE, Hiren MANIAR, Denzil Francis CRASTA, Preeti GUPTA, Aria ABUBAKAR, Aaron SCOLLARD, Ekansh VERMA, Pumaprajna MANGSULI
Filed: 2 Mar 21