2001 patents
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Flat Rheology Wellbore Fluids for Generating Clean Wellbores
30 Dec 21
A method of drilling a wellbore may include drilling the wellbore using a wellbore fluid that has rheological property values for 6 rpm, 10 minute gel, Yield Point, and/or 10 minute-to-10 second gel ratio that are +/20% of the mean values across a temperature range from 40° F. to 300° F.; and conditioning the wellbore with less than 2 hole volumes.
Damian R. Vickers, Chemsseddine Bouguetta
Filed: 8 Nov 19
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Downhole Steering System and Methods
30 Dec 21
A downhole steering system includes a substantially tubular housing, a shaft positioned within the substantially tubular housing, a first bearing and a second bearing, the first and second bearings being configured to support rotation of the shaft relative to the housing.
Jonathan D. Marshall, Edward George Parkin, Geoffrey Charles Downton, David C. Hoyle, Nalin Weerasinghe, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt
Filed: 13 Sep 21
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Multiphase Flowmeter and Related Methods
30 Dec 21
Multiphase flowmeters and related methods are disclosed herein.
Cheng-Gang Xie, Jianhua Zhu, Guillaume Jolivet
Filed: 28 Jun 21
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Methods and Systems for Characterizing A Hydrocarbon-Bearing Rock Formation Using Electromagnetic Measurements
30 Dec 21
Methods and systems are provided for characterizing a subterranean formation that involve the generation of a 3D geological model of the formation.
Mohammed Badri, Ping Zhang, Wael Abdallah
Filed: 25 Jun 20
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Active Learning Framework for Machine-assisted Tasks
30 Dec 21
An active learning framework is provided that employs a plurality of machine learning components that operate over iterations of a training phase followed by an active learning phase.
Nader SALMAN, Guillaume LE MOING, Sepand OSSIA, Vahagn HAKOPIAN
Filed: 24 Sep 19
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Approaches to Creating and Evaluating Multiple Candidate Well Plans
30 Dec 21
An improved approach to creating a plan for a well.
Shaoyu Chen, Ping Lyu, Kevin Hermansen, Qingrui Li, Diego Medina, Yingfei Hu, Petter Laurentius Eide, Lucian Johnston
Filed: 25 Jun 21
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Stepped downhole tools and methods of use
28 Dec 21
A downhole tool includes at least a pilot section, a first expansion section, and a second expansion section.
Michael George Azar, Geoffrey Charles Downton, Edward George Parkin
Filed: 24 Apr 18
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Inflatable downhole packer tool
28 Dec 21
An inflatable packer assembly configured to be conveyed within a wellbore.
Stephen Parks, Juan Miguel La Rotta Marin, Adam Cygan, Adriaan Gisolf, Adame Kante, Thomas Pfeiffer
Filed: 20 Apr 18
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Gas-extraction device and associated analysis assembly and method
28 Dec 21
Gas-extraction device (152) for extracting at least one gas contained in a drilling mud, the device comprising: —an enclosure (162), —an equipment (164) for supplying the drilling mud to the enclosure (162), —an equipment (170) for introducing a carrier gas into the enclosure (62; 162), wherein the device comprises a flow regulator (204) able to regulate the flow rate of a gas flow containing at least carrier gas, and a pressure controller situated downstream of the enclosure (162) configured for locally setting a pressure lower than the pressure of the enclosure (162), wherein the flow, regulator (204) is interposed between the pressure controller and the enclosure (162).
Paul Bertrand, Patrick Banik, Jerome Breviere, Nassim Bentamy
Filed: 27 Oct 16
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Frangible degradable materials
28 Dec 21
A borehole tool can include a frangible degradable alloy that includes an oxidizable base element and at least one alloying element.
Manuel P. Marya
Filed: 18 Nov 14
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Assignment of systems tracts
28 Dec 21
A method (1310) for attributing a systems tract to a geological environment, including computing (1314) a shelf break for a geologic environment based at least in part on implicit function values associated with the geologic environment; identifying (1318) sea level variations with respect to geological time for the shelf break; and assigning (1322) at least one systems tract to the geologic environment based at least in part on the sea level variations.
Jimmy Klinger
Filed: 14 Jul 16
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Generation of fault displacement vector and/or fault damage zone in subsurface formation using stratigraphic function
28 Dec 21
A method, apparatus, and program product may model a subsurface formation by computing an iso-surface for an iso-value from a three-dimensional stratigraphic function (436) for a volume of interest in the subsurface formation, computing first and second strike traces (454, 456) following a topography of the computed iso-surface on respective first and second sides of a fault (452) in the volume of interest, extracting seismic data (458, 460) along the first and second strike traces, correlating the extracted seismic data along the first and second strike traces, and computing a fault displacement vector (C) for the fault from the correlated extracted seismic data along the first and second strike traces.
Jimmy Klinger, Martin Neumaier
Filed: 3 Nov 16
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Shield assembly for logging tool sensors
28 Dec 21
A shield assembly for logging tool sensors includes a single piece cylindrical shield and first and second cylindrical end clamps deployed about opposing axial ends of the cylindrical shield.
Qingyan He, Kent David Harms, Luis Pamintuan
Filed: 27 Nov 18
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Meshless and mesh-based technique for modeling subterranean volumes
28 Dec 21
Methods, computing systems, and computer-readable media for modeling a subterranean volume, of which the methods include receiving data representing a geology of the subterranean volume, calculating a mesh for a digital model of the subterranean volume, generating the digital model using the mesh and the data, wherein generating the digital model comprises defining an implicit function for isostratigraphic surfaces of the subterranean volume. calculating values for a plurality of data points in the model using the implicit function, determining a discrepancy value for the individual data points, identifying a sample domain in the digital model, determining a refined implicit function for the sample domain, and modeling the subterranean volume using the refined implicit function for the sample domain and the implicit function for an area outside of the sample domain in the digital model.
Emmanuel Malvesin, Frantz Maerten, Julien Renaudeau, Arnaud Levannier
Filed: 22 Feb 19
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Low Density Oil-based Wellbore Fluids and Methods Thereof
23 Dec 21
A wellbore fluid may include an oleaginous continuous phase; a non-oleaginous discontinuous phase; an emulsifier stabilizing the non-oleaginous phase within the oleaginous phase; a low density material selected and in an amount to result in a specific gravity of the wellbore fluid that is less than 0.83; and at least one rheology modifier selected to suspend the low density material within the wellbore fluid.
Roger DANILOFF, Arne ASKØ, Nicholas HILBIG, Jerome PIC
Filed: 22 Oct 19
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System and Method for Generating Slowness Logs In Thinly Laminated Formations
23 Dec 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating high resolution slowness logs.
Ting LEI, Sandip BOSE, Smaine ZEROUG
Filed: 24 Oct 19
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Well Logging Tool and Interpretation Framework That Employs a System of Artificial Neural Networks for Quantifying Mud and Formation Electromagnetic Properties
23 Dec 21
Methods and systems are provided that predict electromagnetic properties of drilling mud and a formation, which involve a logging tool that measures current injected into a measurement zone adjacent a sensor electrode at multiple frequencies.
Zikri BAYRAKTAR, Dzevat OMERAGIC
Filed: 24 Oct 19
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System and Method for Reducing a Feasible Region of Solutions In a Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure Curve
23 Dec 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving downhole logging data for a porous media.
Lalitha Venkataramanan, Lin Liang, Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Khaled Hadj-Sassi, Albina Mutina, Tarek Habashy
Filed: 6 Nov 18
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Maintaining Torque Wrenches Using a Predictive Model
23 Dec 21
A method includes generating a model for predicting a remaining service life of a gripping member of a torque wrench based in part on a number of connections of one or more types of tubulars that are made or broken using the torque wrench before slippage of the torque wrench occurs, counting a first number of connections of a first type of tubular that are made using the torque wrench, predicting, using the model, the remaining service life of the gripping member of the torque wrench based in part on the first number of connections of the first type of tubular that were made using the torque wrench, and performing maintenance on the torque wrench based on the remaining service life of the gripping member of the torque wrench that is predicted, before slippage of the torque wrench occurs.
Palaque Thakur, Sven Brinkmann
Filed: 22 Jun 20
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Pipeline Network Solving Using Decomposition Procedure
23 Dec 21
A physical pipeline network is decomposed into multiple subnetworks.
Kashif Rashid, Hamza Keurti, Rodney William Lessard, Trevor Graham Tonkin
Filed: 8 Nov 19