2001 patents
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Utility
Graphical representation management
22 Feb 22
Dynamically combining graphical information from multiple windows displayed in a graphical user interface includes displaying a first window including a first graphic representation of a first data set, and a second window including a second graphic representation of a second data set.
Hallgrim Ludvigsen, Mark Gerrard Douglas
Filed: 17 Aug 16
Utility
Seal apparatus and methods of use
22 Feb 22
A seal apparatus and method of use is described.
Gareth Edward George Brown
Filed: 28 Jun 18
Utility
Flowline saturation pressure measurements
22 Feb 22
A method for sampling a downhole formation fluid includes pumping formation fluid into the flowline of a downhole sampling tool While pumping, a saturation pressure of the formation fluid is measured.
Kentaro Indo, Julian Pop, Maxim Yushko, Tudor Ioan Palaghita, Zeynep Alpman, Alexis Petit, Sepand Ossia, Tullio Moscato
Filed: 6 Jul 20
Utility
Earth model generation via measurements
22 Feb 22
A method includes receiving information for a subsurface region; based at least in part on the information, identifying sub-regions within the subsurface region; assigning individual identified sub-regions a dimensionality of a plurality of different dimensionalities that correspond to a plurality of different models; via a model-based computational framework, generating at least one result for at least one of the individual identified sub-regions based at least in part on at least one assigned dimensionality; and consolidating the at least one result for multiple sub-regions.
Koji Ito, Xiao Bo Hong, Keli Sun, Aria Abubakar
Filed: 25 Oct 17
Utility
Residual Signal Detection for Noise Attenuation
17 Feb 22
A method for processing an image includes receiving an input image including a signal and noise, and generating a filtered image based on the input image by removing at least a portion of the noise from the input image.
Victor Aarre
Filed: 14 Jan 20
Utility
Viscosification of aqueous solutions
15 Feb 22
A viscosified aqueous solution, optionally for use in a subterranean wellbore, is made by reacting in aqueous solution (i) an initial polymer with either carboxylic acid or amino groups on its polymer chain, (ii) a second compound with an amino group or carboxylic acid group, and (iii) a coupling agent, so that molecules of the second compound join to the polymer chain through amide groups, thereby forming an aqueous solution of a modified polymer which, without separation from the aqueous solution, participates in cross-linking thereby enhancing viscosity of the solution.
Jesús Del Barrio, Robert Seth Hartshorne, Trevor Lloyd Hughes, Andrew Meredith
Filed: 19 Mar 20
Utility
Systems and methods for manipulating wellbore completion products
15 Feb 22
A service tool that may be inserted into a tubular, the service tool includes an anchoring system.
Thomas Mauchien, Mark Milkovisch, Anthony Westphal, Brandon Christa, Todor Sheiretov, Wade DuPree
Filed: 17 Dec 18
Utility
Lubricator skid with pivotal rack
15 Feb 22
An apparatus for deploying lubricator pipes includes a rack configured to hold a plurality of lubricator pipes in a generally parallel orientation.
Nathaniel Pettibone
Filed: 27 Jul 20
Utility
Frac diverter
15 Feb 22
A technique facilitates use of a frac diverter instead of a frac plug in a variety of fracturing operations.
Robert Matthew Graham, Michael Bilynsky, Roberto Jaime, Christopher Cromer, Sidney J. Jasek, William Norrid, Bhushan Pendse
Filed: 26 Jul 18
Utility
Methods of drilling with resistivity tools
15 Feb 22
A method of electrically logging a section of a wellbore includes circulating an oil-based wellbore fluid within the wellbore and allowing filtration of the oil-based wellbore fluid to form a conductive filtercake on a wall of the wellbore; placing within the wellbore a wellbore logging tool with at least one pad capable of applying a current to a portion of the conductive filtercake and wellbore wall; applying electrical current from the at least one pad; and collecting an electrical log of the portion of the wellbore that has had electrical current applied thereto.
Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher, Cara Bovet, Albert Okhrimenko
Filed: 3 May 17
Utility
Geologic structural model generation
15 Feb 22
A method (1200) can include receiving implicit functions values for a mesh that represents a geologic environment that includes intersecting faults defined by fault patches (1210); assigning states to the fault patches (1220); revising the implicit function values based at least in part on the assigned states to provide revised implicit function values (1230); and outputting a structural model of the geologic environment based at least in part on the revised implicit function values (1240).
Jimmy Klinger
Filed: 14 Oct 16
Utility
Method of separation evaluation of acoustic anisotropy and heterogeneity
15 Feb 22
A method for displaying slowness data after defects of anisotropy and heterogeneity have been removed includes visually depicting a slowness image on a computer monitor in which the slowness image includes a log of slowness values at a plurality of depths of a wellbore and a plurality of azimuth angles about a periphery of the wellbore.
Naoki Sakiyama
Filed: 24 Mar 20
Utility
Multi-level well design validator
15 Feb 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: 17 Feb 20
Utility
Method and Downhole Apparatus to Accelerate Wormhole Initiation and Propagation During Matrix Acidizing of a Subterranean Rock Formation
10 Feb 22
The present disclosure relates to downhole tools and related methods that accelerate wormhole initiation and propagation during matrix acidizing of a hydrocarbon-bearing subterranean rock formation.
Ziad Sidaoui, Mustapha Abbad
Filed: 19 Apr 21
Utility
Seismic Pore-pressure Prediction Using Prestack Seismic Inversion
10 Feb 22
A method of predicting pore pressure based on seismic data can include obtaining seismic inversion data based in part on seismic data collected from a formation.
Colin Sayers, Lennert den Boer
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Techniques for NMR Logging with Antenna Arrays
10 Feb 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
Fatigue analysis procedure for drill string
8 Feb 22
Management of fatigue life includes partitioning a drilling interval into sections, and calculating a stress value for each section.
Wei Chen, Yani Dong, Geng Yun, Yuelin Shen, Sujian Huang
Filed: 4 May 16
Utility
Well planning using geomechanics nudge
8 Feb 22
A method for planning and drilling a well includes receiving geomechanical and geological data for a subterranean domain, and receiving an initial well trajectory including a well path and survey points.
Gong Rui Yan, Zhenning Bao, Qing Liu, Bei Yan
Filed: 16 Jan 19
Utility
Methods for Wellbore Strengthening
3 Feb 22
A wellbore fluid may include an oleaginous fluid forming a continuous phase; a non-oleaginous fluid forming a discontinuous phase; at least one emulsifier stabilizing an emulsion of the non-oleaginous continuous phase within the oleaginous continuous phase; and at least one viscosifier dispersed into the oleaginous continuous phase in a concentration of at least 4 ppb; wherein upon subjecting the wellbore fluid to shear rate of at least 10,000 s−1, the emulsion is disrupted and the non-oleaginous fluid contacts the at least one viscosifier, thereby solidifying the wellbore fluid.
Steven Young, Aaron Blue, Josh Sheldon
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
Rotary Steerable System with Cutters
3 Feb 22
A rotary steerable tool may include a tool body with an upper end and a lower end.
Edward Richards, Riadh Boualleg, Michael George Azar, Geoffrey Charles Downton, Denis Li, Richard D. Hill
Filed: 18 Oct 21