2001 patents
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Utility
Split threads for fixing accessories to a body
11 Jan 22
An accessory is coupled to a body using a connection member inserted into a plurality of lateral recesses of a bore.
Youhe Zhang, Yuri Y. Burhan, Huimin Song
Filed: 13 Jun 19
Utility
Predicting a telemetry mode of a downhole tool
11 Jan 22
A method for predicting a telemetry mode of a downhole tool includes receiving a signal from the downhole tool at a computing system at a surface.
David Conn
Filed: 16 Oct 19
Utility
Mid-infrared carbon dioxide sensor
11 Jan 22
A sensor for monitoring CO2 in a fluid regardless of the phase properties of the fluid, i.e., regardless of whether the fluid contacting the window is a liquid water-based phase, a liquid oil-based phase, a mixture of liquid water and liquid oil-based phases, or a gas phase.
Go Fujisawa, Sheng Chao, Timothy Jones, Nathan Lawrence, Rolf Rustad, Li Jiang, Steven Gahlings
Filed: 12 Jan 21
Utility
Fracturing Operations Controller
6 Jan 22
A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.
Nan MU, Xiaowei WENG, Timothy Michael LESKO, James MATTHEWS, Marcos Suguru KAJITA, Bao MI, Amal BAGULAYAN, Francois DAUBE, Brandon Travis HOBBS, Yan P. KUHN DE CHIZELLE, Samir MENASRIA, Kevin HO
Filed: 5 Nov 19
Utility
Isolation Valves
6 Jan 22
A valve assembly that can be deployed in a subterranean well that includes a valve adapted to selectively isolate a region of the subterranean well, and a separating apparatus.
Ganesh Balasubramanian, Ashish Sharma
Filed: 4 Nov 19
Utility
Method of Gravel Packing Open Holes
6 Jan 22
A method of gravel packing an open hole penetrating a subterranean information includes installing at least one sand control screen disposed about a tubular member into the open hole, circulating a slurry including an expandable gravel and a carrier fluid, depositing the slurry in the wellbore annulus surrounding the at least one sand control screen in an alpha wave beginning at a heel of the wellbore annulus, detecting at least one of: arrival of the alpha wave at a toe of the wellbore annulus and start of a beta wave at the toe of the wellbore annulus, stopping circulation of the slurry, and triggering the expandable gravel to expand to pack the wellbore annulus surrounding the at least one sand control screen above the alpha wave.
Mehmet Parlar, Balkrishna Gadiyar, Julien Debard
Filed: 6 Nov 19
Utility
Uploading and Validation of Combined Oilfield Data
6 Jan 22
A method for uploading, validating, and visualizing data in an oilfield software platform includes obtaining oilfield data at least partially collected using one or more sensors at a wellsite, deployed into a well, or both.
Swapnil Patel, Jyoti Giri, Abhinaav Singh
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Terminal Modules for Downhole Formation Testing Tools
6 Jan 22
A method includes positioning a downhole acquisition tool in a wellbore in a geological formation.
Miroslav Slapal, Christopher Albert Babin, Daniel Palmer, Kai Hsu, Anthony Robert Holmes Goodwin, Julian Pop, Nathan Mathew Landsiedel, Adriaan Gisolf
Filed: 20 Sep 21
Utility
Fracturing Operations Pump Fleet Balance Controller
6 Jan 22
A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.
Nan MU, Yan P. KUHN DE CHIZELLE, Florence BINET, Manbro LEE, Alexander Tanner TAYLOR, Bryan SUHARIK, Clare SCHOENE, James MATTHEWS, Bao MI, Muktabh ANCHLIA
Filed: 5 Nov 19
Design
Display device with a graphical user interface having a responsive menu
4 Jan 22
Zhen Li
Filed: 1 Mar 20
Utility
Ultra hard electrically-responsive and environmentally resistant metals for oilfield services
4 Jan 22
A consolidated material formed by powder metallurgy is provided.
Manuel Marya
Filed: 2 Jul 18
Utility
Cutting elements having non-planar surfaces and downhole cutting tools using such cutting elements
4 Jan 22
A cutting element may include a substrate, an upper surface of the substrate including a crest, the crest transitioning into a depressed region, and an ultrahard layer on the upper surface, thereby forming a non-planar interface between the ultrahard layer and the substrate.
Chen Chen, Huimin Song, Liang Zhao, Youhe Zhang, Michael G. Azar, Xiaoge Gan, Madapusi K. Keshavan, Zhijun Lin, Bala Durairajan, Michael L. Stewart
Filed: 13 May 19
Utility
Perforating shock protection for sensors
4 Jan 22
An electronics component for use downhole includes a body having an outer surface.
Christine Borgfeld, Steven Matlock
Filed: 23 Nov 16
Utility
Method to predict reservoir formation permeability using combined acoustic and multi-frequency dielectric measurements
4 Jan 22
Methods may include calculating a formation permeability for a subterranean formation from a combination of dielectric measurements and acoustic measurements, wherein the formation permeability is calculated according to the formula: kg=a(Vxσw/εr)b, where Vx is either Vp, Vs, or Vp/Vs, σ is formation conductivity, Øw is water-filled porosity, and a and b are constants that are empirically determined for the frequency selected with respect to Vx; and creating a design for a wellbore operation from the calculated formation permeability.
Salah Mohammed Al-Ofi, Wael Abdallah, Mohammed Badri
Filed: 7 Feb 18
Utility
System and methodology for minimizing perforating gun shock loads
4 Jan 22
A technique facilitates perforating along specific regions of a wellbore without creating detrimental transient pressure changes along a perforating gun string.
Carlos Erik Baumann, David Damm, Jose Escudero, Moises Enrique Smart
Filed: 18 Nov 16
Utility
Characterizing responses in a drilling system
4 Jan 22
Computing systems, computer-readable media, and methods may include determining at least one automated sequence to be performed during a portion of a drilling operation by a drilling system.
Richard John Harmer
Filed: 6 Mar 20
Utility
Joint sensor orientation and velocity model calibration
4 Jan 22
A method can include receiving microseismic data of microseismic events as acquired by sensors during hydraulic fracturing of a geologic region; jointly calibrating sensor orientation of the sensors and a velocity model of the geologic region via an objective function and the microseismic data; and, based at least in part on the jointly calibrating, determining one or more locations of the one or more microseismic events.
Joel Herve Le Calvez, Takashi Mizuno
Filed: 22 Apr 20
Utility
Determining subsurface layers using machine learning
4 Jan 22
A method is disclosed and includes receiving a seismic cube.
Nader Salman
Filed: 18 Oct 16
Utility
Automated material classification by structural features
4 Jan 22
A method, apparatus, and program product perform microstructure analysis of a digital image of rock using a trained convolutional neural network model to generate a plurality of rock features.
Alexander Starostin, Alexander Nadeev
Filed: 6 May 19
Utility
Power Unit Phase Angle for Separation Unit Control
30 Dec 21
Embodiments described herein provide a method of separating a liquid mixture, comprising providing a liquid mixture to a separator, electrically coupling a power circuit to the liquid mixture inside the separator, applying a time-varying voltage to the power circuit, detecting a phase angle in the power circuit; and controlling the phase angle by adjusting a characteristic of the time-varying voltage.
Gary W. SAMS, S. Pavankumar B. MANDEWALKAR
Filed: 21 Nov 19