2001 patents
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Orientation measurements for rig equipment
4 Oct 22
A drilling rig system may include a drilling rig including a plurality of surface rig equipment thereon and a plurality of orientation sensors disposed on the plurality of surface rig equipment.
Alejandro Camacho Cardenas, Vishwanathan Parmeshwar, Manat Singh
Filed: 22 Jun 20
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Pressure exchanger manifolding
4 Oct 22
An apparatus having a plurality of pressure exchangers.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 8 May 17
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Pressure exchanger wear prevention
4 Oct 22
Apparatus and methods for pressurizing well operations fluids via a pressure exchanger.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 6 Nov 17
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Asphaltene Dispersants
29 Sep 22
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for prevent the formation of and disperse aggregates and other poorly soluble materials in hydrocarbon fluids.
Rachael Cole, Astrid Lone, Neil David Feasey, Tore Nordvik
Filed: 22 Jun 20
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Polycrystalline Diamond Cutting Element Having Improved Cutting Efficiency
29 Sep 22
A cutting element may include a body, a concave cutting face formed at a first end of the body, the cutting face including one or more cutting ridges adjacent a cutting tip that are raised above the concavity of the cutting face and having a length that is at least about 10% of a diameter of the cutting face.
Ronald K. Eyre, Yi Fang, Ronald B. Crockett, Lynn Belnap, Aaron Madsen, Haibo Zhang, J. Daniel Belnap, Christopher A. Tucker, Xiaoge Gan, Anjie Dong, Venkatesh Karuppiah
Filed: 28 Aug 20
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True Particle Velocity Wavefield Processing In Fiber Optics - Particle Motion Sensor Hybrid Array
29 Sep 22
Systems and methods may be used to reconstruct particle velocity wavefields from coupling-calibrated fiber-optic data that subsequently enables physically valid construction of the particle velocity wavefields for a hybrid sensor array including both fiber-optic and particle motion sensors.
Takashi Mizuno, Joel Herve Le Calvez
Filed: 24 Mar 21
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Hydration systems and methods
27 Sep 22
A substantially continuous stream of aqueous fluid and a substantially continuous stream of gel having a first concentration are combined to form a substantially continuous stream of gel having a second concentration.
Rajesh Luharuka, Hau Nguyen-Phuc Pham, Jonathan Wun Shiung Chong, Miguel Angel Lopez, Rod William Shampine, Gocha G. Chochua, Mark Maher Hakim Ayyad
Filed: 12 May 15
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System and method for handling a tubular member
27 Sep 22
A system for handling a tubular member includes a gripping assembly configured to grip the tubular member.
Erling Tambs, Zhijun Zhou, Thomas Vatne
Filed: 21 Apr 20
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Estimating Wellbore Curvature Using Pad Displacement Measurements
22 Sep 22
A method for evaluating a subterranean wellbore includes rotating a drill string in the subterranean wellbore.
Stuart Alan Kolbe, Denis Li, Geoffrey Charles Downton
Filed: 17 Mar 22
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Design Patterns on Automated Fracturing Pump Setup and Operations
22 Sep 22
Systems and methods presented herein include a computing system that includes a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to perform operations.
Ying Wang, Alexander Tanner Taylor, Bao Mi, Nan Mu
Filed: 17 Jun 20
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Applying Geotags to Images for Identifying Exploration Opportunities
22 Sep 22
A method includes obtaining first data representing a subterranean domain, and creating a geotag associated with a three-dimensional location of interest in the subterranean domain and a feature at the location of interest.
Tracy FRUGIER-DORRINGTON, Carlos GARCIA, Jr.
Filed: 4 Jun 20
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System and Method for Managing External Processing In a Web-based Computing System
22 Sep 22
A computing system includes one or more processors and a memory.
Puneet Saraswat, Vincent Bergbauer, Cyril Simon Ferdinand Lagrange, Arnaud Houegbelo
Filed: 24 Aug 20
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Modelling Annular Stratified Flow
22 Sep 22
Methods and systems for modelling annular multiphase fluid flows in a structure are disclosed.
Dag BIBERG, Aron ANDERSSON, Alexandre BRIGADEAU
Filed: 4 Jun 20
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Cables for Cable Deployed Electric Submersible Pumps
22 Sep 22
Various cables for cable deployed electric submersible pumping systems and methods of manufacturing such cables are provided.
Bradley Matlack, Varun Vinaykumar Nyayadhish, Gregory Howard Manke, Patrick Zhiyuan Ma, Jason Holzmueller, Vincent Gerstner, William Goertzen, Douglas Pipchuk, Joseph Varkey, Juan Amado, Willem Wijnberg, Maria Grisanti, Xiaohong Ren
Filed: 3 Sep 20
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Additive to improve cold temperature properties in oil-based fluids
20 Sep 22
An additive composition includes a rheology modifier selected from alcohol ethoxylates, amine ethoxylates, or ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymers, wherein the rheology modifier has an HLB ranging from about 4 to 10; and a winterizing agent that is at least one aliphatic non-ionic surfactant that has a branched structure and/or includes at least one unsaturation, wherein the winterizing agent has an HLB value between about 8 and 10.5.
Dimitri M. Khramov, Reda Karoum, Stephen Cliffe
Filed: 26 Feb 18
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Automated control of hydraulic fracturing pumps
20 Sep 22
Methods and systems pertaining to generating a startup or other operating order of pumps of a pumping system for performing a subterranean formation fracturing operation, and/or another pumping operation, and for coordinating distribution of flow rates to the pumps for performing the pumping operation.
Nan Mu, Bao Mi, Amal Bagulayan, James Matthews, Marcos Suguru Kajita, Alexander Tanner Taylor, Manuel Alfonso Bobadilla Larios, Joseph McKinney
Filed: 23 Jan 19
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Screen break detector
20 Sep 22
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: 23 Jun 19
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Two dimensional pixel-based inversion
20 Sep 22
Methods and systems for characterizing subterranean formations are described herein.
Michael Thiel, Dzevat Omeragic
Filed: 19 Oct 16
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Riser Running Tool with Liquid Fill and Test
15 Sep 22
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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Determining Stickup Height Based on Pipe Tally, Block Position, and Digital Images
15 Sep 22
A monitoring system for determining a stickup height of a drill string.
Shunfeng Zheng
Filed: 12 Mar 21