2001 patents
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Controlling Release of Torsional Energy from a Drill String
28 Apr 22
Apparatus and methods for controlling release of torsional energy from a drill string having a lower portion that is stuck against a subterranean formation and a top end rotated by a top drive.
Justo Elias Matheus Valero, Jan Alvaer, Juan-Carlos Yepez
Filed: 23 Oct 20
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Monitoring Equipment of a Plurality of Drill Rigs
28 Apr 22
Systems and methods for monitoring equipment of multiple drill rigs.
Juan-Carlos Yepez
Filed: 23 Oct 20
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Energy Storage Devices and Virtual Transmission Lines
28 Apr 22
A virtual transmission line includes a charge location and a discharge location.
David Robert Evan Snoswell, Gregory Michael Skoff
Filed: 25 Oct 21
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Non-metallic Compliant Sand Control Screen
28 Apr 22
A sand screen apparatus for use in a downhole operation for hydrocarbon recovery includes a non-metallic material and a mechanical retainer.
Jushik Yun, Rasika Prabhu, Valerie Gisele Helene Lafitte, Julien Debard, Balkrishna Gadiyar, Mehmet Parlar, Camilo Eduardo Zuniga Jurgensen, Chidi Eugene Nwafor
Filed: 17 Feb 20
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Water Saturation Estimation of Pyrite-rich Formation Rock
28 Apr 22
Methods and systems are provided that use resistivity log data to estimate water saturation of formation rock and/or other useful formation parameters (such as CEC) in a manner that accounts for one or more electrically conductive mineral components contained in the formation rock.
Ping Zhang, Wael Abdallah, Dean Homan, Gong Li Wang, Tariq Alshaikh Mubarak, Anas Almarzooq
Filed: 11 Feb 20
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Formation Analysis Incorporating Identification of Immovable and Viscous Hydrocarbons
28 Apr 22
Methods and systems are provided for conducting formation analysis.
Harish B. Datir, Jean-Marc Donadille, Oliver C. Mullins, Vladislav Achourov, Lalitha Venkataramanan
Filed: 11 Mar 20
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Monitoring Equipment Health
28 Apr 22
Systems and methods for monitoring operational health of an equipment unit.
Juan-Carlos Yepez
Filed: 23 Oct 20
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Metal matrix composite material for additive manufacturing of downhole tools
26 Apr 22
A downhole cutting tool includes a tool body with a cutting element or cutting element pocket thereon.
Anthony Griffo, Madapusi K. Keshavan, Youhe Zhang
Filed: 31 Oct 18
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Geophysical deep learning
26 Apr 22
A method can include selecting a type of geophysical data; selecting a type of algorithm; generating synthetic geophysical data based at least in part on the algorithm; training a deep learning framework based at least in part on the synthetic geophysical data to generate a trained deep learning framework; receiving acquired geophysical data for a geologic environment; implementing the trained deep learning framework to generate interpretation results for the acquired geophysical data; and outputting the interpretation results.
Nader Salman, Victor Aarre, Hilde Grude Borgos, Michael Hermann Nickel
Filed: 9 Feb 18
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Downhole cable and method of making a downhole cable
26 Apr 22
A cable that has a cable core with a first armor wire layer and a second armor wire layer.
Joseph Varkey, Burcu Unal Altintas, Dong Yang, Sheng Chang, Qingdi Huang
Filed: 15 Apr 19
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Adaptive Drillstring Condition Determination
21 Apr 22
A method can include identifying a threshold value for a drillstring off-bottom condition determination; filtering time series surface data of a post-connection drilling state of the drillstring using the threshold value to generate filtered time series surface data; and statistically determining a drillstring off-bottom condition value using the filtered time series surface data.
Pavel Gutarov, Laurent Vallet, Bertrand Luc Chevallier
Filed: 15 Oct 21
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Ultrasonic Pulse-echo and Caliper Formation Characterization
21 Apr 22
A method can include, using a downhole tool, acquiring ultrasonic echo data of a borehole, where the ultrasonic echo data include echoes representative of material and borehole geometry responsive to reflection of ultrasonic energy that has a wide-band frequency range; filtering the ultrasonic echo data using at least one selected filter for multi-band frequency filtering corresponding to different frequency ranges of the wide-band frequency range to generate filtered data; and processing the filtered data to generate attribute values representative of physical characteristics the material, the borehole geometry, or the material and the borehole geometry.
Hiroshi Hori, Kenji Endo, Mika Uno
Filed: 22 Jan 20
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Miniaturized NMR Tool Electronics
21 Apr 22
An NMR well logging tool is provided that includes a sensor and associated electronic circuitry.
Yi-Qiao Song, Yiqiao Tang, Shin Utsuzawa, Tancredi Botto, Irfan Bulu, Martin Hurlimann
Filed: 23 Dec 19
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Differential Multi Model Training for Multiple Interpretation Options
21 Apr 22
Computing systems, computer-readable media, and methods for providing multiple computer-generated seismic data interpretation options, of which the method includes receiving a training input, sorting the training input into a first group and a second group, subgrouping the second group into a plurality of subgroups, generating a plurality of trained models based on the plurality of subgroups and the first group, receiving a prediction input having a set of data to be interpreted, generating a plurality of interpretation options for the prediction input by applying the plurality of training models to the prediction input, and outputting the plurality of interpretation options.
Francis Grady, Mats Stivang Ramfjord
Filed: 5 Feb 20
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Thermally stable polycrystalline diamond and methods of making the same
19 Apr 22
A method of making a cutting element includes subjecting a mixture of diamond particles and a carbonate material to high-pressure high-temperature sintering conditions to form a sintered carbonate-polycrystalline diamond body having a diamond matrix of diamond grains bonded together and carbonates residing in the interstitial regions between the diamond grains, the carbonate material having a non-uniform distribution throughout the diamond matrix.
Yahua Bao, Liang Zhao, J. Daniel Belnap, Zhijun Lin
Filed: 9 Sep 14
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Methods and systems employing look-around and look-ahead inversion of downhole measurements
19 Apr 22
Inversion-based workflows are provided for real-time interpretation of the electromagnetic (EM) look-around and look-ahead measurements.
Michael Thiel, Dzevat Omeragic, Andrei Davydychev, Tarek M. Habashy
Filed: 8 May 17
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Handling tool for casing tongs
19 Apr 22
Embodiments of a vertical pipe handler system (50) and method of its use include a casing tong handling tool (10) connected to a lifting tool (55) having a gripper head (51) and supported by an arm (53) of the vertical pipe handler system.
Kenneth McCabe, Dag Holen, Lars Petter Smeland, Glenn Saebo, Svein Jarle Haugland
Filed: 29 Sep 17
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Methods and systems to analyze bed boundary detection
19 Apr 22
Methods capable of determining a depth of investigation of a logging tool can include generating an error distribution model for a logging tool.
Helen Xiaoyan Zhong, Steve F. Crary, Ettore Mirto, Christophe Dupuis, Weixin Dong, Mark T. Frey
Filed: 26 Sep 16
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Compact high-voltage power supply and radiation apparatus systems and methods
19 Apr 22
A apparatus may include a power supply to receive a first voltage potential and output a second voltage potential that is greater than the first voltage potential and a cathode emitter to emit ions in response to application of the second voltage potential.
Jani Reijonen
Filed: 20 Dec 19
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Downhole Directional Drilling Tool
14 Apr 22
A downhole tool has a directional pad that contacts a wellbore wall at a pad contact location and a drill bit with at least one active cutting element that contacts the wellbore wall at a cutting element contact location.
Andrew Mueller, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt, Ke Chen, Xiaoge Gan, Venkatesh Karuppiah
Filed: 14 Feb 20