2001 patents
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Utility
Spacer Fluids Containing Swellable Abrasive Particles
1 Sep 22
Spacer fluids or chemical washes are prepared that comprise water, a hydraulic cement and particles of an oil-absorbent material.
Dominic Vincent Perroni, Anatoly Vladimirovich Medvedev
Filed: 26 Jun 20
Utility
Conveyance Apparatus, Systems, and Methods
1 Sep 22
A method of obtain formation evaluation data that includes deploying an evaluation tool string into a drill string located in a wellbore.
Julien Toniolo, Dustin Cavin, Firas Al Shaikh Hasan
Filed: 19 Aug 20
Utility
Field Data Acquisition and Virtual Training System
1 Sep 22
A method includes obtaining data representing a subterranean volume, the data having been collected by a user in a field, generating a digital model representing at least the subterranean volume based in part on the data, searching the digital model based in part on one or more metadata parameters, identifying one or more gaps in the model, and determining a data acquisition activity based on the one or more gaps that were identified in the model.
Tormod Slettemeas
Filed: 29 Jun 20
Utility
Visually Differentiating and Merging Oil-gas Data Using a Mapping User Interface
1 Sep 22
A method includes accessing a first well header dataset from a first repository; accessing a second well header dataset from a second repository; identifying matches and mismatches between data within the first well header dataset and data within the second well header dataset using information identifying different formats of the first well header dataset and the second well header dataset; and presenting, within a mapping interface, graphical representations of the matches and mismatches between the data within the first well header dataset and the data within the second well header dataset in a mapping interface.
Atul SUREKA
Filed: 8 Jul 20
Utility
System and Method for Fluid Separation
1 Sep 22
This disclosure relates to a separating a fluid having multiple phases during formation testing.
Thomas Pfeiffer, Ashers Partouche, Kai Hsu, Simon Edmundson
Filed: 16 May 22
Utility
Bob and Shaft Designs for Portable Rheometry Units
1 Sep 22
A bob for a viscometer in a portable rheology unit is provided.
Jerry Connaughton, Zakhar Chizhov, Colin Stewart
Filed: 30 Jun 20
Utility
Process for the production of dispersions of thermally oxidised carbon-based materials
30 Aug 22
Methods of preparing dispersions of carbon-based materials are disclosed herein.
Simone Musso, Matteo Pavese, Luca Lavagna
Filed: 27 Jul 16
Utility
Method of making rod-shaped particles for use as proppant and anti-flowback additive
30 Aug 22
A method for forming rod-shaped particles includes reducing a length of rods derived from a slurry made up of particles and a reactant, wherein the rods are in a stabilized state in which the reactant has been at least partially reacted with a coagulant, but the rods have not been sintered, and subsequently sintering the reduced length stabilized rods.
Jose Alberto Ortega Andrade, Jiangshui Huang, Bernhard R. Lungwitz
Filed: 10 Feb 20
Utility
Geological interpretation with artificial intelligence
30 Aug 22
A method for drilling includes obtaining formation-measurement pairings, training a machine-learning model using the formation-measurement pairings, receiving measurements obtained by a tool positioned in a well formed in a formation, and generating a formation model of at least a portion of the formation using the machine-learning model and the measurements.
Yan Kai Xu, Qingfeng Zhu, Hui Xie, Helen Xiaoyan Zhong, Ettore Mirto, Aria Abubakar, Yao Feng, Ping Zhang
Filed: 5 Jul 19
Utility
Wireline automation systems and methods
30 Aug 22
A well-logging system includes a downhole tool coupled to a cable.
Matthew Billingham, Erwan Olliero, Adolfo Recio, David Schlosser
Filed: 5 Jan 18
Utility
Geologic formation operations framework control
30 Aug 22
A method can include accessing data generated during field operations; analyzing at least a portion of the data as to legal tag property values; storing the legal tag property values in association with the data; and operating a computational framework in accordance with the legal tag property values.
Todd Christopher Dixon, Michael Antony Cleminson
Filed: 15 Jul 20
Utility
Method to simulate bop shearing
30 Aug 22
A method to create a simulation of a shearing process for a ram blowout preventer (BOP) comprising the steps of building a 3D digital model of the ram BOP including damage parameters based on generic material properties of the ram BOP; inputting the 3D digital model of the ram BOP into a damage model; and simulating the shearing process using the 3D digital model of the ram BOP and the damage model.
Yaou Wang, Christopher Nault, Michael W. Berckenhoff
Filed: 30 Apr 19
Utility
Expanding and Collapsing Apparatus and Methods of Use
25 Aug 22
Embodiments described herein provide an expanding and collapsing apparatus and methods of use.
Gareth Brown, Oliver Fry
Filed: 2 Jul 20
Utility
Anti-collision Well Trajectory Design
25 Aug 22
Techniques for determining trajectories for a plurality of wells while avoiding collision between wells are presented.
Xin Chen, Qing Liu, Lu Jiang, XiaoWei Sheng, Paul Bolchover
Filed: 7 Jul 20
Utility
Conveyance Apparatus, Systems, and Methods
25 Aug 22
An apparatus can have a seal module located at an upper portion thereof.
Julien Toniolo
Filed: 23 Jul 20
Utility
Cohesively enhanced modular perforating gun
23 Aug 22
Embodiments may take the form of a perforating gun of modular assembly.
Edward Harrigan, Hao Liu, Vinod Chakka, Richard Warns, Pedro Hernandez, Raphael Rogman, Allan Goldberg
Filed: 2 May 14
Utility
Real-time well construction process inference through probabilistic data fusion
23 Aug 22
A method includes acquiring data during rig operations where the rig operations include operations that utilize a bit to drill rock and where the data include different types of data; analyzing the data utilizing a probabilistic mixture model for modes, a detection engine for trends and a network model for an inference based at least in part on at least one of a mode and a trend; and outputting information as to the inference where the inference characterizes a relationship between the bit and the rock.
Sai Venkatakrishnan, Sylvain Chambon, James P. Belaskie, Yingwei Yu, Mohammad Khairi Hamzah
Filed: 27 Jun 18
Utility
Simultaneous distributed measurements on optical fiber
23 Aug 22
A system and technique for obtaining two or more distributed measurements from an optical sensing fiber deployed along a desired measuring path are disclosed.
Paul Frederick Cilgrim Dickenson, Gareth Lees, Peter Wait, Jakub Szypicyn, Colin Allan Wilson
Filed: 25 Jul 17
Utility
Focus probe for unconsolidated formations
23 Aug 22
A fluid sampling probe may include one or more features that increase the likelihood that a seal will be maintained during a sampling operation, even for sampling operations in unconsolidated formations.
Stephen Torgerson, Hadrien Dumont, Francois Robert, Christopher Babin, Peter Miller, Tudor Ioan Palaghita, Sebastian Mastrangelo, Gabriel Morosini
Filed: 17 May 18
Utility
Method and system for estimating borehole condition using stoneley measurement
23 Aug 22
A method for estimating a borehole condition using a Stoneley measurement is provided.
Oliver Skelton, Osman Hamid, Mohammed Ahmed Mohiuddin
Filed: 19 Jan 17