2001 patents
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Multi-Level Well Design Validator
26 May 22
A method for designing a well, including: determining a first well construction discipline for a first participant and an authority level for the first participant within the first well construction discipline; obtaining a plurality of rules corresponding to the first well construction discipline and the authority level for the first participant within the first well construction discipline; operating, based on the plurality of rules, an interface that restricts decision options for the first participant; receiving a decision associated with the well and based on the interface from the first participant; and updating a design of the well based on the decision.
Eric Jonathan Schoen, Lucian Johnston, Mark S. Passolt
Filed: 14 Feb 22
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Method for Automated Stratigraphy Interpretation from Borehole Images
26 May 22
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards systems and methods for automated stratigraphy interpretation from borehole images.
Marie LeFranc, Zikri Bayraktar, Morten Kristensen, Philippe Marza, Isabelle Le Nir, Michael Prange, Josselin Kherroubi
Filed: 11 Mar 20
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Method for nuclear magnetic resonance diffusion measurements
24 May 22
A method and system for determining a property of a substance using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is described herein.
Jeffrey Paulsen, Yi-Qiao Song
Filed: 11 Mar 19
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Multi-frequency electromagnetic tensor measurements
24 May 22
An electromagnetic measurement tool for making multi-frequency, full tensor, complex, electromagnetic measurements includes a triaxial transmitter and a triaxial receiver deployed on a tubular member.
Dean M. Homan, John Rasmus, Siddharth Misra
Filed: 4 Sep 18
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Method and installation for determining an improved mineralogical composition of a rock sample
24 May 22
A method for determining a mineralogical composition of a geological formation sample includes measuring a mineralogical composition of the sample and measuring an elemental composition of the sample.
Yohann Rocher, Mahdi Ammar
Filed: 14 Aug 18
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Detecting and correcting for discrepancy events in fluid pipelines
24 May 22
Techniques for detecting and correcting for discrepancy events in a fluid pipeline are presented.
David Rossi
Filed: 20 Apr 18
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NMR characterization and monitoring of drilling fluids
24 May 22
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
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Method for reservoir stimulation analysis and design based on lagrangian approach
24 May 22
A method of stimulating a subterranean formation includes acquiring stimulation treatment input data, simulating a transport of at least one material transport present in a stimulation treatment design with a transport simulator model, determining and preparing the treatment design and performing the stimulating treatment according to the selected treatment design.
Vadim Ismailovich Isaev, Dmitry Sergeevich Kuznetsov, Ivan Vladimirovich Velikanov
Filed: 5 Dec 17
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Thermal stability of high temperature oil based system enhanced by organophilic clay
24 May 22
Compositions herein may include an oleaginous continuous phase, an aqueous discontinuous phase, a first clay comprising an organophilic smectite clay, and a second clay comprising a magnesium silicate clay.
Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam, Paulo Pauferro, Jr.
Filed: 16 Feb 21
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Self-inflating high expansion seal
24 May 22
Embodiments described herein provide a downhole tool (e.g., a retrievable bridge plug) that includes a sealing device and a load retention/equalization mechanism.
Gareth Brown, Oliver Fry
Filed: 23 Nov 20
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Wellsite system services
17 May 22
A method can include selecting a location in an area that includes offset wells; determining design parameters of the offset wells; modeling a modeled well based at least in part on the design parameters of the offset wells to generate design parameters for the modeled well; and determining design parameters for a well at the selected location based at least in part on a portion of the design parameters of the offset wells and based at least in part on a portion of the design parameters for the modeled well.
Lucian Johnston, Mark S. Passolt
Filed: 1 Apr 16
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System and method for fluid separation
17 May 22
This disclosure relates to a separating a fluid having multiple phases during formation testing.
Thomas Pfeiffer, Ashers Partouche, Kai Hsu, Simon Edmundson
Filed: 2 Apr 20
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Electrochemical hydrogen sensor
17 May 22
A process for determining a content of hydrogen in a fluid medium includes contacting the fluid medium with a sensor.
Timothy Jones, Debbie S. Silvester, Li Jiang, Hanpu Liang, Nathan Lawrence, Richard Compton
Filed: 11 May 20
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Compression and stretch resistant components and cables for oilfield applications
17 May 22
An opto-electrical cable may include an opto-electrical cable core and a polymer layer surrounding the opto-electrical cable core.
Joseph Varkey, David Kim, Maria Grisanti, Burcu Unai Altintas
Filed: 23 Dec 19
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Automated Spooling
12 May 22
A system that is configured to automatically control a spooling of a drum of a deployment unit used in hydrocarbon recovery operations.
Muhannad Abuhaikal, Tianxiang Su, Chris Bogath
Filed: 12 Feb 21
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Tubage Horizontal Hors Installation De Forage Et Ensemble De Tige De Forage
12 May 22
A stand-building system and method for a drilling rig, of which the system includes a casing preparation skid configured to prepare a casing joint for connection to another casing joint, and a casing stand assembly skid configured to receive the prepared casing joint and to connect together the prepared casing joint with one or more other joints so as to form a casing stand.
Joe Rodney Berry, Aaron Bryant
Filed: 11 Feb 20
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Multi-agent Drilling Decision System and Method
12 May 22
A method for drilling a well includes generating a plurality of proposed drilling actions using a plurality of working agents based on a working environment, simulating drilling responses to the proposed drilling actions using a plurality of validation agents in a validation environment that initially represents the working environment, determining rewards for the proposed drilling actions based on the simulating, using the validation agents, selecting one of the proposed drilling actions, and causing a drilling rig to execute the selected one of the proposed actions.
Yingwei Yu, Richard John Meehan, Cheolkyun Jeong, Velizar Vesselinov, Wei Chen, Yuelin Shen, Minh Trang Chau
Filed: 17 Feb 21
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Third Interface Echo (Tie) Detection from Flexural Data for Gas/liquid Annulus Discrimination
12 May 22
Systems and methods for identifying a potential third interface echo (TIE) using objective criteria are provided.
Mikhail Lemarenko, Elizaveta Rybka, Ram Sunder Kalyanraman, Josselin Kherroubi
Filed: 12 Nov 20
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Automatic Recognition of Environmental Parameters with Azimuthally Distributed Transducers
12 May 22
Methods and apparatus for automatic recognition of environmental parameters with azimuthally distributed transducers.
Mikhail Lemarenko, Roel Van Os, Orland Guedes, Thilo Michael Brill, Hiroshi HORI
Filed: 5 Nov 21
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Automated Facies Classification from Well Logs
12 May 22
Facies of a formation are classified from data charactering properties of a portion of the formation as a function of depth, wherein the number of facies is determined automatically in an unsupervised manner without human input.
Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Lin Liang
Filed: 11 Mar 20