2001 patents
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Utility
Real time drilling monitoring
21 Sep 21
A method, system, and computer readable medium for managing drilling operations include calibrating a drilling model using collected drilling data, and executing, during a drilling operation, a simulation on the drilling model to generate a predicted measurement value for a drilling property.
Yuelin Shen, Wei Chen, Gang Xu, Guishui Zheng, Rongbing Chen, Riadh Boualleg, My Lien Ta, Gregg Alexander, Sujian Huang
Filed: 4 May 16
Utility
Downhole drilling apparatus with drilling, steering, and reaming functions and methods of use
21 Sep 21
A downhole drilling apparatus may comprise a rotatable body with various cutting elements connected thereto, some radially protruding therefrom, some radially extendable therefrom, and some revolvable relative thereto about a common axis.
Geoffrey Charles Downton, Jonathan D. Marshall
Filed: 2 Apr 19
Utility
Terminal modules for downhole formation testing tools
21 Sep 21
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: 23 Oct 17
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Customized drilling tools
21 Sep 21
A downhole cutting tool has a body that includes a cutting end, a connection end, a longitudinal axis extending axially through the body, and a gradient composition having one or more gradients.
Xiaoge Gan, Youhe Zhang, Huimin Song
Filed: 1 Jul 19
Utility
Pressure-reducing choke assembly
21 Sep 21
A choke for fluid connection between a manifold and a pump.
Gustavo Plaza, Kim A. Hodgson, Gocha Chochua, Walter Taylor, Donald E. Hensley, John Starr, Jijo Oommen Joseph
Filed: 5 Nov 15
Utility
Liner lock flange for a piston pump
21 Sep 21
A piston pump includes a frame, a housing configured to be coupled to the frame via a fastener, an annular liner defining a chamber configured to receive a piston of the piston pump, and an annular liner lock flange circumferentially surrounding the annular liner.
Jaakko Jalmari Halmari, David Scott Crew, Jr., Jeffrey Boardman Pruitt, Ban Tran
Filed: 9 Aug 18
Utility
Geologic feature splitting
21 Sep 21
A method includes receiving information that defines a three-dimensional subterranean structure; splitting the three-dimensional subterranean structure into portions; generating convex hulls for the portions; and generating a discrete fracture network based at least in part on the convex hulls.
Zhenhua Li, Qingrui Li, Ping Xu, Guang Xiong, Lina Xu, Paolo Saverio Damiani
Filed: 24 Nov 14
Utility
Automatic calibration for modeling a field
21 Sep 21
Automatic calibration for modeling a field includes performing model calibration iterations based on measurements of the field.
Claudio Schirrmann, Adrian Kleine, Christian Vogt
Filed: 13 Jun 16
Utility
Real-Time Well Construction Process Inference Through Probabilistic Data Fusion
16 Sep 21
A method includes acquiring data during rig operations where the rig operations include operations that utilize a bit to drill rock and where the data include different types of data; analyzing the data utilizing a probabilistic mixture model for modes, a detection engine for trends and a network model for an inference based at least in part on at least one of a mode and a trend; and outputting information as to the inference where the inference characterizes a relationship between the bit and the rock
Sai Venkatakrishnan, Sylvain Chambon, James P. Belaskie, Yingwei Yu, Mohammad Khairi Hamzah
Filed: 27 Jun 18
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System and Method for Obtaining and Analyzing Flux Leakage Data In the Inspection of Oil and Gas Wells
16 Sep 21
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for obtaining and analyzing flux leakage data.
Yong-Hua CHEN, Dzevat OMERAGIC, Tarek M. HABASHY
Filed: 19 Jun 19
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Polymeric Materials
16 Sep 21
A submersible component can include a conductor; and a polymeric material disposed about at least a portion of the conductor where the polymeric material includes at least approximately 50 percent by weight polyether ether ketone (PEEK) and at least 5 percent by weight perfluoroalkoxy alkanes (PFA).
Samy A. Madbouly, Jason Holzmueller, William Goertzen, Gregory Howard Manke
Filed: 28 May 21
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Compositions and methods for servicing subterranean wells
14 Sep 21
Treatment fluids containing salts, surfactants, mutual solvents and fibers may be used to remove wellbore filter cakes that have been deposited by drilling fluids.
Diankui Fu, Kong Teng Ling, Daniel Thomas Melice
Filed: 15 Sep 16
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Drilling systems and methods
14 Sep 21
A directional drilling system that includes a drill bit that drills a bore through rock.
Mauro Caresta, Fabio Cappi, Hans Seehuus, Kjell Haugvaldstad, Riadh Boualleg, Joachim Sihler, Ashley Bernard Johnson
Filed: 2 Jul 18
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Downhole steering system and methods
14 Sep 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 Chestnutt
Filed: 26 Jun 18
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Tubular delivery arm for a drilling rig
14 Sep 21
A tubular delivery arm that travels vertically along a rail on the front of a drilling mast in generally parallel orientation to the travel of a top drive.
Melvin Alan Orr, Mark W. Trevithick, Joe Rodney Berry, Robert Metz
Filed: 1 May 17
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Automated system health check and system advisor
14 Sep 21
Systems and methods for monitoring system health of a well cementing operation are disclosed.
Dinh Quy Nguyen, Carlos Urdaneta, Gang Qu, Rajnarayanan Balsamy
Filed: 28 Aug 19
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Construction of digital representation of complex compositional fluids
14 Sep 21
A method for performing a simulation of a field having a subterranean formation is described.
John Ratulowski, Denis Klemin, Mark Andersen, Oleg Dinariev, Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Evseev, Evgeny Ivanov, Sergey Sergeevich Safonov, Dmitry Anatolievich Koroteev
Filed: 25 Nov 14
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Methods and systems for determining fast and slow shear directions in an anisotropic formation using a logging while drilling tool
14 Sep 21
Methods are provided for determining properties of an anisotropic formation (including both fast and slow formations) surrounding a borehole.
Pu Wang, Sandip Bose, Bikash Kumar Sinha, Ting Lei
Filed: 13 Apr 17
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Compression and timely delivery of well-test data
14 Sep 21
A method is described for performing, by a processor, one or more queries on one or more sensors, for one or more data collected by the one or more sensors, at predetermined instants of time by a downhole modem operably coupled to the one or more sensors, prior to receiving a request for transmission of the data from a surface modem.
Clement Probel, Carlos Merino, Andriy Gelman, Julius Kusuma
Filed: 18 Mar 19
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Methods for Making and Using Retarded Acid Compositions for Well Stimulation
9 Sep 21
Described herein are methods for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore with a retarded acidizing fluid containing an acid and an acid retarding agent, the concentrations of which are adjusted based on measured parameter values of the formation.
Xiangdong Qiu, Dominic Joseph Brady, Ziad Al-Jalal, Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga, Christopher Daeffler
Filed: 26 May 21