2001 patents
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Utility
Slide drilling control based on top drive torque and rotational distance
14 Nov 23
Apparatus and methods for controlling slide drilling based on torque and rotational distance of a top drive connected with an upper end of a drill string.
Nathaniel Wicks, Ginger Hildebrand
Filed: 4 Dec 20
Utility
Downhole tool with tapered actuators
14 Nov 23
A downhole tool includes a tool body and an actuator coupled to and selectively extendible relative to the tool body.
Kjell Haugvaldstad, Neil Cannon
Filed: 13 Jan 23
Utility
Fracturing operations pump fleet balance controller
14 Nov 23
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
Utility
Apparatus and method for determining borehole size with a borehole imaging tool
14 Nov 23
A downhole borehole imaging tool and methods for determining a borehole size includes a magnetoresistive system and a hub moveably coupled to a fixed tool string.
Julien Toniolo, Alan J. Sallwasser, Peter Wells, Mark A. Fredette
Filed: 30 Mar 21
Utility
Drilling fluid activation correction methodology
14 Nov 23
A method for making natural gamma ray measurements of a subterranean formation includes causing a natural gamma ray sensor on an LWD tool to acquire a spectral gamma ray measurement while a neutron source emits neutrons.
Marie-Laure Mauborgne, Christian Stoller
Filed: 8 Jul 19
Utility
Geologic model and property visualization system
14 Nov 23
A method can include accessing volumetric data from a data store, where the volumetric data correspond to a region; generating structured shape information for the region using at least a portion of the volumetric data; and, in response to a command from a client device, transmitting to the client device, via a network interface, a visualization data stream generated using at least a portion of the structured shape information.
Oleg Mishchenko, Alain Cudennec
Filed: 21 May 20
Utility
Multiple valve control system and method
14 Nov 23
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a valve control system.
Vincent Chatelet, Stephane Mainier
Filed: 11 Oct 19
Utility
Lithium Recovery Using Aqueous Sources
9 Nov 23
Described herein are methods of recovering lithium from dilute lithium sources.
Gary W. Sams, Dominic Vincent Perroni, Prasanna Nirgudkar, Florence Binet, Rod William Shampine
Filed: 4 May 23
Utility
Machine-learning Calibration for Petroleum System Modeling
9 Nov 23
A method for simulating a subterranean volume includes receiving one or more input parameters and one or more simulation realizations representing the subterranean domain, modeling the one or more simulation realizations as a target function of the one or more input parameters, training a machine-learning model to predict values for the target function using the one or more input parameters and the one or more simulation realizations, predicting a value for the target function based on a first candidate simulation or a first candidate output parameter of a simulation, selecting the first candidate simulation, the first candidate output parameter, or both based on the predicted value of the target function, and simulating the subterranean volume using the first candidate output parameter, or both.
Adrian KLEINE, Thomas HANTSCHEL
Filed: 23 Sep 21
Utility
Inhibitive Divalent Wellbore Fluids, Methods of Providing Said Fluids, and Uses Thereof
9 Nov 23
A wellbore fluid includes an aqueous fluid, a viscosifer, a stabilizer agent, and a lubricant.
Justin Linscombe
Filed: 29 Jun 23
Utility
Impurity Control In Lithium Recovery
9 Nov 23
Described herein are methods of recovering lithium from aqueous sources.
Dominic Vincent Perroni, Florence Binet, Prasanna Nirgudkar, Rod William Shampine
Filed: 3 May 23
Utility
Polycrystalline Diamond Assemblies with Cast Mounting Elements
9 Nov 23
A retention mechanism for a PCD insert includes an expansion bolt inserted through a mounting element into a bore of the PCD insert.
David Wahlquist
Filed: 9 May 23
Utility
Swivel System for Downhole Well Tool Orientation
9 Nov 23
Systems and methods presented herein include a downhole well tool having an electromechanical joint configured to connect to a downhole well tool component within a wellbore of an oil and gas well system.
Mark Callister Oettli
Filed: 3 May 22
Utility
Automated Offset Well Analysis
9 Nov 23
A system and method that includes querying a database to obtain offset well data collected while drilling previously drilled wells.
Cheolkyun Jeong, Francisco Jose Gomez, Maurice Ringer, Paul Bolchover, Paul Muller
Filed: 18 Jul 23
Utility
Methods and Systems for Subsurface Modeling Employing Ensemble Machine Learning Prediction Trained with Data Derived from at Least One External Model
9 Nov 23
Method and systems are provided that create one or more models of a subsurface geological formation (such as a reservoir characterization model of a hydrocarbon reservoir or a model of some other subsurface geological formation).
Colin DALY
Filed: 17 Dec 20
Utility
Petrotechnical Data Ingestion Framework
9 Nov 23
A method, apparatus, and program product utilize a data ingestion framework for petrotechnical data that incorporates a REST API agent service that implements common agent functionality used to interact with various data sources in combination with dedicated source-specific agent plugins to minimize the development efforts required to integrate new data sources into a petrotechnical data ingestion system.
Ramchandra Nile, Niranjan Madhukar Karvekar
Filed: 6 May 22
Utility
System and method for removing debris from a drilling fluid
7 Nov 23
An internal assembly (230) for a tool (200) includes a retainer (232) that at least partially defines an axial bore (238).
James Edward Atkins
Filed: 8 Mar 21
Utility
Adjusting control gain based on error sampling in automated cement mixing
7 Nov 23
Methods and apparatus for controlling a characteristic of a cement slurry at a cementing unit, including regulating a characteristic of the cement slurry employing a closed loop feedback arrangement in the cementing unit, and adjusting a gain of the closed loop feedback arrangement in response to sampling an error of the characteristic.
Carlos Junior Urdaneta, James Dean, Oscar Montemayor, Rajnarayanan Subbu Balsamy, Dinh Quy Nguyen
Filed: 12 Dec 17
Utility
Distributed ground single antenna ion source
7 Nov 23
Embodiments presented provide for a distributed ground single antenna ion source used in scientific experimentation.
Benjamin Levitt, Brian Munroe
Filed: 13 Jan 21
Utility
Thermally induced graphene sensing circuitry on intelligent valves, actuators, and pressure sealing applications
7 Nov 23
Thermally induced graphene sensing circuitry and methods for producing circuits from such thermally induced circuits are presented in conjunction with applications to hydrocarbon exploration and production, and related subterranean activities.
Manuel Marya, Alireza Zolfaghari, Srinand Karuppoor
Filed: 8 Apr 20