2001 patents
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Utility
Automatic tool head placement and assembly apparatus for a boring machine
7 Jun 22
A method for machining a workpiece includes using a multi-axis robot to lift a tool head from a magazine.
Christopher Fitzgerald, E-Kiang Soh, Jiawei Dong, Chintankumar Bharatkumar Shah
Filed: 10 Apr 18
Utility
Slide drilling overshot control
7 Jun 22
Apparatus and operational methods thereof, including a top drive, a rotation sensor, and a processing device.
Jahir Pabon, Nathaniel Wicks
Filed: 11 May 20
Utility
Temperature measurement correction in producing wells
7 Jun 22
Methods for correcting temperatures measured in producing wells are provided.
Yves Manin, John R. Lovell, George A. Brown
Filed: 23 Sep 15
Utility
Determining multi-phasic fluid properties and hydrocarbon production information as a function thereof
7 Jun 22
A method of determining properties of a fluid having an oil phase, a water phase, and an emulsion phase between the oil phase and water phase includes emitting an electromagnetic wave into the fluid, measuring an amplitude of a reflection of the electromagnetic wave off an interface between the oil phase in order to determine a height of a coalescing portion of the oil/emulsion interface.
Francis Dominique Allouche, Mathilde Jan
Filed: 21 Jun 17
Utility
Method for determining a property of a material behind a borehole casing
7 Jun 22
The disclosure relates to a method of determining at least a property of a material situated behind a casing of a borehole, wherein an image of a imaging parameter of the material, such as acoustic impedance, has been obtained.
Robert Laronga, Ram Sunder Kalyanraman
Filed: 28 Sep 18
Utility
Event Driven Control Schemas for Artificial Lift
2 Jun 22
A system for oil and gas production includes a drilling, pipeline, or power quality device, a sensor, and a storage device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including receiving first data from the sensor, determining whether the device is experiencing an event condition based on the first data, generating one or more potential corrective actions responsive to a determination that the device is experiencing the event condition, calculating a reward value for each of the one or more potential corrective actions, identifying a first corrective action of the one or more potential corrective actions with a largest or most positive reward value, and controlling the device according to the first corrective action.
Jonathan Wun Shiung Chong, T. Everett Chambliss, Magnus Hedlund, David Rossi, Nam Nguyen, Pengyu Yuan, Albert Hoefel
Filed: 20 Feb 20
Utility
Drilling System
2 Jun 22
A method can include acquiring drilling performance data for a downhole tool; modeling drilling performance of the downhole tool to generate results; training a machine learning model using the drilling performance data and the results to generate a trained machine learning model; and predicting behavior of the downhole tool using the trained machine learning model.
Riadh Boualleg, Geoffrey Charles Downton, Jean Marie Degrange, Steven G. Villareal, Maja Ignova, Ling Li, Katharine L. Mantle, Tao Yu, Jia Yao, Kai Feng Zhao, Paul Bolchover
Filed: 20 Mar 20
Utility
Treatment fluid, method for formation treatment, method for reducing the proppant settling rate in the formation treatment fluid
31 May 22
A fluid and a method for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore.
Anastasia Evgenyevna Shalagina, Elizaveta Andreevna Inozemtseva
Filed: 1 Aug 16
Utility
Sequencing for pipe handling
31 May 22
A method sequence for handling tubulars into or out of a wellbore, the method comprising: moving a tubular string into or out of a wellbore via a top drive; moving tubular stands to and from a setback position and a stand handoff position via a transfer bridge racker and a setback guide arm; moving tubular stands to and from the stand handoff position and a well center position via a tubular delivery arm and a lower stabilizing arm; building stands and breaking down stands offline via a mousehole and operating a roughneck on joints between the tubular stands and the tubular string.
Jan Alvaer, Christian Doennestad Nilssen, Joe Rodney Berry
Filed: 23 Mar 20
Utility
Self-propelling perforating gun system
31 May 22
A well system includes a perforating gun having shaped charges and a detonator to controllably detonate the shaped charges.
Michael Bertoja
Filed: 20 Dec 19
Utility
Delayed drop assembly
31 May 22
A method of perforating a wellbore is described herein.
Jose Escudero, Andrew Prisbell, Bhagyashri Walse
Filed: 31 Jul 18
Utility
Prognostic health monitoring of downhole tools
31 May 22
Changes to the vibrational frequencies of a drill string or BHA are monitored for prognostic health monitoring purposes.
Adam Ian Bowler, Mauro Caresta, Benjamin Peter Jeffryes
Filed: 3 Mar 20
Utility
Methods and apparatus to measure formation features
31 May 22
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure a formation feature.
Jean-Christophe Auchere, Hiroshi Hori, Adam Pedrycz, Bharat Narasimhan
Filed: 14 May 19
Utility
Split stream operations with pressure exchangers
31 May 22
Apparatus and method for performing split stream operations with pressure exchangers.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 6 Nov 17
Utility
Reservoir fluid characterization system
31 May 22
A method can include receiving measurements of a fluid mixture where the measurements are acquired by at least one downhole tool; performing a multiphysics inversion of the measurements to generate nuclear parameter values for the fluid mixture; performing a multivariate interpolation using the generated nuclear parameter values that accounts for intermolecular interactions in the fluid mixture; and determining a composition of the fluid mixture based on the multivariate interpolation.
Vitor Villar De Andrade E Silva, John Rasmus
Filed: 17 Jan 19
Utility
Techniques for NMR logging with antenna arrays
31 May 22
The present disclosure relates to a method that includes generating a first pulse at a first position along a geological formation with a plurality of antennae, wherein the first pulse comprises a Can-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) sequence, and wherein each antenna of the plurality of antennae is configured to generate NMR data via transmitting and receiving pulses into the geological formation.
Henry Nathaniel Bachman, Albina Mutina
Filed: 11 Sep 19
Utility
Digital Seawater Processing
26 May 22
Methods of operating membrane processes, such as seawater purification processes, are described herein.
Shu Pan, Oleg O. Medvedev, Robert Charles William Weston, Marcus Suzart Ungaretti Rossi
Filed: 23 Apr 20
Utility
Multi-diameter Thrust Cups
26 May 22
Embodiments described herein provide a multi-diameter thrust device that includes one or more thrust cups.
Simon Mattias Flander, Julien Toniolo
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Utility
Modeling and Simulating Faults In Subterranean Formations
26 May 22
Methods for modeling and simulating fractured subterranean volumes include a method including obtaining geological data representing a subterranean volume, generating a structural model thereof in depositional space and in structural space.
Simon Harris, Samita Santoshini, Stephen Grenfell
Filed: 15 Apr 20
Utility
Local/hybrid Blockchain for Oil and Gas Operations Integrity
26 May 22
Methods and systems for blockchain-related systems for oil and gas infrastructure are disclosed.
Eric Jeanson
Filed: 2 Apr 20