2001 patents
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Pressure drop in low liquid loading flows
24 Jan 23
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media that improve flow of a multiphase mixture in a fluid transport system by determining pressure drop of low-liquid loading flows are provided.
Dag Biberg
Filed: 16 Apr 18
Utility
Lead alloy barrier tape splice for downhole power cable
24 Jan 23
A technique facilitates splicing of a power cable including splicing of a protective lead barrier.
Christopher Von Fange
Filed: 3 Oct 18
Utility
Drilling Control
19 Jan 23
A method can include receiving block position data of a rig prior to addition of a length of pipe to a drillstring, where the drillstring is disposed at least in part in a borehole and supported by the rig; receiving block position data of the rig after addition of the length of pipe to the drillstring; and controlling position of the drillstring with respect to time using the rig and at least a portion of the block position data for landing a drill bit of the drillstring on a bottom of the borehole.
Richard Meehan, James Belaskie
Filed: 18 Dec 20
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Well Construction Equipment Framework
19 Jan 23
A method can include receiving input for a drilling operation that utilizes a bottom hole assembly and drilling fluid; generating a set of offset drilling operations using historical feature data, where the historical feature data are processed by computing feature distances; performing an assessment of the offset drilling operations as characterized by at least feature distance-based similarity between the drilling operation and the offset drilling operations; and outputting at least one recommendation for selection of one or more of a component of the bottom hole assembly and the drilling fluid based on the assessment.
Gregory Michael Skoff, Crispin Chatar, Velizar Vesselinov, Cheolkyun Jeong, Yingwei Yu, Georgia Kouyialis, Fatma Mahfoudh
Filed: 12 Jul 22
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Measurement of Metal or Alloy Coating
19 Jan 23
A method for measuring average thickness of a metal or alloy coating on a metal or alloy substrate using an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer is used when the coating has an uneven surface at different distances from a measurement window of the XRF spectrometer.
Jill F. Geddes, Trevor Lloyd Hughes, Evgeny Borisovich Barmatov
Filed: 18 Nov 20
Utility
Hydraulic Winch Control
19 Jan 23
A method for controlling a hydraulic winch includes acquiring measurements from sensors coupled to the hydraulic winch.
Fanping Bu
Filed: 17 Dec 20
Utility
Method of Monitoring a Downhole Stimulation Operation, Downhole Device and System for Monitoring the Downhole Operation
19 Jan 23
The disclosure relates to a system, downhole device and method for monitoring a wellbore, in particular in a lateral section, during stimulation, with an equipment enabling retrieval in many conditions.
Robert Loov, Nicholas Fundytus, Colin Wilson
Filed: 15 Dec 20
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Safety Valve with Electrical Actuators
19 Jan 23
A downhole valve assembly includes a safety valve and an actuator that opens and/or closes the valve.
Christian Chouzenoux, Cash Elston, Olivier Loeuillet, Francesco Vaghi, Oguzhan Guven
Filed: 24 Feb 21
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Method of Predicting and Preventing an Event of Fracture Hit
19 Jan 23
A method is offered to predict and prevent the event of fracture hit (direct fluid communication) between a parent well and a child (active) well.
Roman KORKIN, Andrey FEDOROV, Artem KABANNIK, Kira Vladimirovna YUDINA, Dmitry BADAZHKOV, Jared BRUNS, Xiaowei WENG, Aleksandra KHUDOROZHKOVA
Filed: 16 Dec 20
Utility
Modular borehole imaging apparatus and methods
17 Jan 23
The present disclosure introduces an apparatus including a toolstring for use in a tubular extending into a subterranean formation.
Cédric Perrin, Jose Luis Lopes, Sébastien Jacquart, Miguel Delgado, Florian Becker, Pedro Alexandre Das Neves, Ram Sunder Kalyanraman, Syed Talghani, Alexis He, Chew Yeong Leong, Josselin Kherroubi
Filed: 7 Dec 20
Utility
Fluids and methods for mitigating sag and extending emulsion stability
17 Jan 23
A method of drilling a wellbore includes pumping an oleaginous wellbore fluid into a wellbore, the oleaginous wellbore fluid including an oleaginous continuous phase; a non-oleaginous discontinuous phase; an emulsifier stabilizing the non-oleaginous discontinuous phase in the oleaginous continuous phase; an organophilic clay; a weighting agent; and a wetting agent having an HLB ranging from about 4 to 10.5 that it selected such that the oleaginous wellbore fluid has a 600 rpm dial value at 40° F. of less than about 300 and a 10 minute gel strength of less than about 40 lbf/100 ft2.
Stephen Cliffe, Steven Young, Chemsseddine Bouguetta, Dimitri M. Khramov
Filed: 26 Feb 18
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Systems and Methods for Generating a Downlink Signal
12 Jan 23
A flow regulation system for downlink communication includes a fixed flow valve and a variable flow valve on a discharge line.
Milan Subotic, Scott Richard Woolston, Christopher Paul Reed, Pavel Annenkov
Filed: 7 Jul 22
Utility
Screen Break Detector
12 Jan 23
A method for determining a screen break may include obtaining a fluid stream after a screening system in a drilling process; placing the fluid stream into a screen break detector; obtaining a pressure within a well of the screen break detector when the screening system is in a first state; obtaining a pressure within the well of the screen break detector when the screening system is in a second state; determining a differential pressure within the well of the screen break detector obtained when the screening system is in the second state compared to the pressure when the screen break is in the first state; and transmitting a notification to an operator when the pressure within the screen break detector obtained when the screening system is in the second state is greater than the pressure within the screen break detector when the screening system is in the first state.
Eric Cady
Filed: 19 Sep 22
Utility
System and Method for Handling a Tubular Member
12 Jan 23
A device for handling a tubular member includes a gripping assembly configured to grip the tubular member.
Erling Tambs, Zhijun Zhou, Thomas Vatne
Filed: 23 Sep 22
Utility
Direct Emulsion Drilling Fluid
12 Jan 23
Drilling fluid mixtures are described herein that are stable oil-in-water emulsions.
Lynn Michelle Foster, Jeremy Smith, Dimitri M. Khramov
Filed: 7 Jul 22
Utility
Modular Perforation Tool
12 Jan 23
An apparatus for use in a well bore is described herein.
Erick Lowe, Andrew Prisbell, Todd Busch
Filed: 7 Jul 22
Utility
Drawworks apparatus and method
10 Jan 23
A drawworks assembly including a drum including a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis, a coupling assembly configured to transmit torque to the drum, and a cradle assembly configured to support the drum, wherein the coupling assembly is releasably coupled to the drum at a first planar engagement interface disposed at the first end of the drum, wherein the cradle assembly is releasably coupled to the drum at a second planar engagement interface disposed at the second end of the drum.
Mike Netecke, Roy Cabrera
Filed: 25 Aug 20
Utility
Dynamic reservoir characterization
10 Jan 23
A method of operating a reservoir simulator can include performing a time step of a reservoir simulation using a spatial reservoir model that represents a subterranean environment that includes a reservoir to generate simulation results for a first time where the simulation results include a front defined by at least in part by a gradient at a position between portions of the spatial reservoir model; predicting a position of the front for a subsequent time step for a corresponding second time using a trained machine model; discretizing the spatial reservoir model locally at the predicted position of the front to generate a locally discretized version of the spatial reservoir model; and performing a time step of the reservoir simulation using the locally discretized version of the spatial reservoir model to generate simulation results for the second time.
Barys Samson, Aleksandr Bogush
Filed: 19 Dec 19
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Methods and systems for predicting interfacial tension of reservoir fluids using downhole fluid measurements
10 Jan 23
Methods and systems are provided for characterizing interfacial tension (IFT) of reservoir fluids, which involves obtaining fluid property data that represents fluid properties of a reservoir fluid sample measured downhole at reservoir conditions, and inputting the fluid property data to a computational model that determines a value of oil-water IFT of the reservoir fluid sample based on the fluid property data.
Sharath Chandra Mahavadi, Robin Singh, Wael Abdallah, Mohammed Al-Hamad, Bastian Sauerer, Shouxiang Ma, Leilei Zhang
Filed: 28 Jul 20
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Self-tuning of Power Units for Electrical Separators
5 Jan 23
Embodiments described herein provide a method of tuning an electrical liquid separator, comprising providing a liquid mixture to a separator; electrically coupling a power unit to the liquid mixture inside the separator; applying a time-varying voltage from the power unit to the liquid mixture; increasing a voltage applied to the liquid mixture from the power unit from a first voltage to a second voltage; detecting an inflection point in a current from the power unit; setting a voltage output range of the power unit to encompass a voltage at which the inflection point was detected.
Pavan Kumar B. Mandewalkar, Miguel Angel Lopez
Filed: 4 Nov 20