2001 patents
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Reducing Energy Consumption In Meg Reclamation
5 Jan 23
A method is described herein, comprising vaporizing a glycol material by thermal contact with a heating medium to form a vaporized glycol stream, increasing a pressure of the vaporized glycol stream to form a pressurized glycol stream, and increasing a temperature of the heating medium by thermally contacting the heating medium with the pressurized glycol stream.
David John Knight, Steven Langley, Bryan Bussell
Filed: 1 Dec 20
Utility
Fluid Loss Control Agent for Aqueous Wellbore Fluids
5 Jan 23
The present disclosure relates to fluid loss control agents for use in a water-based wellbore fluid.
Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam, Linus Sebelin
Filed: 3 Dec 20
Utility
Indexing Track and Pin
5 Jan 23
A downhole tool is hydraulically actuated.
Andrew Mueller
Filed: 15 Dec 20
Utility
Control Line Activated Tubing Disconnect Latch System
5 Jan 23
A method and apparatus are disclosed that use a control line to expand a piston that shears pins to disconnect a latching system for wellbore operations.
Thomas James Wakerley, Krishna Trisal, Farid Afandiyev, Ilyana Sergeevna Afanasyeva
Filed: 16 Dec 19
Utility
Mixed Element Swell Packer System and Method
5 Jan 23
A technique facilitates use of a swellable packer or packers which may be disposed along completion equipment of a well string.
Nicholas Moses, Mark Wei Xiong Yun, Joel Gil
Filed: 1 Jul 22
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Measurement of Thickness of Scale or Corrosion
5 Jan 23
A method for measuring a thickness of a deposit layer on a metal or alloy substrate using an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer, where the deposit layer includes scale deposits or corrosion products.
Jill F. Geddes, Trevor Lloyd Hughes, Evgeny Borisovich Barmatov, Man Yi Ho, Paul Barnes
Filed: 8 Dec 20
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Methods for drilling using a rotary steerable system
3 Jan 23
A rotary steerable system (RSS) including an upper stabilizer connected to a collar of a drill string, an articulated section connected by a flexible joint to the collar, a drill bit connected to the articulated section opposite from the flexible joint, a lower stabilizer located proximate to the flexible joint and an actuator located with the articulated section and selectively operable to tilt an axis of the drill bit and the articulated section relative to the collar.
Martin Thomas Bayliss
Filed: 28 Sep 21
Utility
Rig operations controller
3 Jan 23
A method can include, during drilling operations at a wellsite, receiving operational data, where the data include hookload data, surface rotation data and block position data; training a controller using the hookload data, the surface rotation data and the block position data for determination of one or more transition thresholds, where the transitions thresholds include an in-slips to out-of-slips transition threshold and an out-of-slips to in-slips transition threshold; during the drilling operations, receiving additional operational data that include additional hookload data; and storing at least a portion of the additional operational data in association with slips state as determined based at least in part on a comparison of at least a portion of the additional hookload data and at least one of the determined transition thresholds.
Sylvain Chambon, Sai Venkatakrishnan Sankaranarayanan
Filed: 3 Dec 20
Utility
High ratio reamer
3 Jan 23
A reamer includes a housing, a first reamer block, and a second reamer block.
Juraj Irsa
Filed: 12 Oct 20
Utility
Method of creating and executing a plan
3 Jan 23
A method includes accessing a domain model plan that includes a time independent initial state and a time independent goal state and sequences of events that include a sequence of a first event, a second event and a third event with conditional interrelationships; accessing operational data that include a failure condition for the third event and a time constraint for the failure condition; issuing a control instruction to rigsite equipment to perform a drilling-related action for generating the third event; during performance of the drilling-related action for generating the third event, receiving sensor data germane to the failure condition; upon occurrence of the failure condition, timing a duration of the occurrence of the failure condition; comparing the duration to the time constraint for the failure condition; and, based on the comparing, deciding to re-plan the domain model plan or to continue execution of the domain model plan.
Maria Fox, Derek Long, Guillaume Jean Daniel Tamboise, Rustam Isangulov
Filed: 21 Dec 15
Utility
Marking and sensing a borehole wall
3 Jan 23
A downhole drilling apparatus, passing through a subterranean borehole, may mark an inner wall of the borehole with a marking element.
Jonathan D. Marshall, David C. Hoyle, Scott Richard Woolston
Filed: 11 Jun 20
Utility
Torque transfer system
3 Jan 23
A torque transfer system includes a drive shaft threaded into a housing.
Jay M. Eppink
Filed: 12 Nov 20
Utility
NMR characterization and monitoring of drilling fluids
3 Jan 23
A method for evaluating drilling fluid includes making an NMR measurement of a sample of the drilling fluid and inverting the measurements to compute a corresponding T1T2 plot.
Yiqiao Tang, Reda Karoum, Yi-Qiao Song, Shin Utsuzawa, Stephen Cliffe
Filed: 17 Aug 20
Utility
Method for reservoir simulation optimization under geological uncertainty
3 Jan 23
A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for receiving reservoir data associated with the reservoir.
Kashif Rashid
Filed: 15 Apr 19
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Cutting Tool and Controls for Downhole Mechanical Services
29 Dec 22
Systems and methods presented herein provide for cutting in a borehole or casing.
Todor Sheiretov, Joseph Matthew Casassa, Gregory Jay Giem, David Engel, Maxim Alekseevich Klyuzhev, Joshua Wurtz, Albert Dionisio, Robert Kyle Wiesenborn, Philip Stevenson
Filed: 27 Jun 22
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Slot Cutter System and Operations
29 Dec 22
Devices, systems and methods for cutting openings in a wellbore tubular by a slot cutting assembly having an anchoring system and a slot cutting tool.
Joshua Wurtz, Joseph Matthew Casassa, Christopher Albert Babin, Robert Kyle Wiesenborn, Pierre-Arnaud Foucher, David Engel, Todor Sheiretov
Filed: 27 Jun 22
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Data Rate Mismatch Advisor
29 Dec 22
A method, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a computing system are provided for determining a telemetry mode of a signal.
Arnaud Jarrot, David Kirk Conn, Pavel Annenkov
Filed: 24 Jun 22
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Pump Harmonic Noise Advisor
29 Dec 22
A method includes receiving a signal having a telemetry portion and a noise portion.
Liang Sun, Pavel Annenkov, Arnaud Jarrot, David Kirk Conn, Robert Tennent, Richard Hunter
Filed: 24 Jun 22
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Thermal Measurement System
29 Dec 22
Embodiments described herein provide a thermal flux apparatus, forming a distributed temperature measurement system and comprising a plurality of temperature probe modules, each temperature probe module comprising a sensing element having an electrical resistance that varies with temperature; a data acquisition module comprising an analog-to-digital converter with an input electrically connectable to the plurality of temperature probe modules; and an electrical network comprising between 6 and 8 wires connecting each temperature probe module with the data acquisition module.
Romain Suard, Vladimir Shitikov
Filed: 28 Jun 21
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Methods for wellbore strengthening
27 Dec 22
A wellbore fluid may include an oleaginous fluid forming a continuous phase; a non-oleaginous fluid forming a discontinuous phase; at least one emulsifier stabilizing an emulsion of the non-oleaginous continuous phase within the oleaginous continuous phase; and at least one viscosifier dispersed into the oleaginous continuous phase in a concentration of at least 4 ppb; wherein upon subjecting the wellbore fluid to shear rate of at least 10,000 s−1, the emulsion is disrupted and the non-oleaginous fluid contacts the at least one viscosifier, thereby solidifying the wellbore fluid.
Steven Young, Aaron Blue, Josh Sheldon
Filed: 12 Nov 19