2001 patents
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Utility
Systems and Methods of Initiating Energetic Reactions for Reservoir Stimulation
8 Jul 21
Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore.
Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
Filed: 22 Mar 21
Utility
Tracer Tracking for Control of Flow Control Devices on Injection Wells
8 Jul 21
Tracer tracking for control of flow control devices on injection wells includes at least one computer processor executing a reservoir model using numerical tracers to obtain output values for at least one producer well.
Hussein Mustapha
Filed: 29 May 19
Utility
Conductive Outer Jacket for Wireline Cable
8 Jul 21
A cable containing a conductive outer layer and methods for manufacturing the conductive outer layer and the cable are provided.
Joseph Varkey, Serko Sarian, Qingdi Huang, Tam Tran
Filed: 29 May 19
Utility
Snap in screen and method
6 Jul 21
A method of installing a vibratory shaker screen in a vibratory shaker, including placing a first end of the vibratory shaker screen in a retainer, wherein the retainer is a component of the vibratory shaker; pivoting a second end of the vibratory shaker screen toward a screen installation position on the vibratory shaker, deflecting a tab on one of the vibratory shaker screen and the vibratory shaker through contact of the vibratory shaker screen to another retainer of the vibratory shaker, and connecting the vibratory shaker screen to the vibratory shaker, where the tab fixedly connects the vibratory shaker screen to the vibratory shaker.
Mitchell Landwehr, Benjamin Holton, John Fedders
Filed: 27 Jun 19
Utility
Iron roughnecks for non-stop circulation system
6 Jul 21
An iron roughneck for constant circulation of drilling mud during operation of a drill string, the iron roughneck comprising: a frame; a wrench unit supported by the frame, wherein the wrench unit is capable of gripping a drill string; a spinner unit supported by the frame, wherein the spinner unit is capable of engaging and spinning a drill pipe; and a circulation coupler supported by the frame, wherein the circulation coupler forms a chamber around the drill string.
Zaurayze Tarique, Blaine Dow, Justin Cremer
Filed: 18 Jan 18
Utility
Hang off ram preventer
6 Jul 21
A ram type blowout preventer is designed to provide substantial hang off capability.
Gabriele Armilli, Teddy Rames, Florent Vargas
Filed: 9 Jan 19
Utility
Machine learning for production prediction
6 Jul 21
Estimating a production prediction of a target well includes computing, based on production time series from training wells, a smoothed production history curves.
Gabriel Maher, Daniel D'Souza
Filed: 29 Dec 16
Utility
Piston control via adjustable rod
6 Jul 21
A piston's stroke length may be restricted by passing a rod through a through hole in the piston.
Jonathan D. Marshall
Filed: 11 Dec 18
Utility
Feature index-based feature detection
6 Jul 21
A method can include receiving n-dimensional data where n is equal at least three; analyzing a plurality of two-dimensional slices of the n-dimensional data to determine characteristic information with respect to a plurality of feature indexes for a feature in the n-dimensional data; and, based at least in part on the characteristic information, associating the feature with one of the feature indexes.
Victor Aarre
Filed: 26 Jan 17
Utility
Autonomous Optimization of Single-well and Multi-well Gas Lift
1 Jul 21
Methods and systems are provided for controlling gas lift in at least one production well, which determine a quadratic function that relates flow rate or value of oil produced from a production well to gas flow rate for gas injected into the production well based on flow rate measurements for gas injected into the production well and corresponding flow rate measurements of oil produced from the production well.
Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid
Filed: 26 Dec 19
Utility
Downhole Tools with Tapered Actuators Having Reduced Cyclical Torque
1 Jul 21
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: 16 Mar 21
Utility
Method for Reservoir Simulation Optimization Under Geological Uncertainty
1 Jul 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for receiving reservoir data associated with the reservoir.
Kashif RASHID
Filed: 15 Apr 19
Utility
Actuation Valve System with Pilot and Main Valves
1 Jul 21
A tool, e.g. a downhole tool, utilizes at least one actuator which may be actuated rapidly between positions during operation of the tool.
Edward George Parkin, Michael Pearce, Julien Steimetz, Jonathan D. Marshall, D. Peter Johnson, Clint William Philbrick
Filed: 11 Mar 21
Utility
Method and System for Generating Virtual Reality Images of a Drilling Rig Site
1 Jul 21
A method may include obtaining a request for a virtual reality (VR) image of a first VR area among a plurality of VR areas proximate a drilling rig.
James Arthur Zapico, Juan-Carlos Yepez, Paul Andrew Thow
Filed: 27 Dec 19
Utility
Method and System for Reactively Defining Valve Settings
1 Jul 21
A method includes obtaining a reservoir model for a subsurface reservoir, identifying a current state of the subsurface reservoir using the reservoir model, and a computer processor selecting an optimization function from multiple optimization functions according to the current state of the reservoir to obtain a selected optimization function.
Trevor Graham Tonkin, Shingo Watanabe, Matthew Worthington, Mohamed Osman Mahgoub Ahmed
Filed: 11 Sep 18
Utility
Well Log Channel Matching
1 Jul 21
A method may include calculating a first set of hash values for a set of well log channels, extracting a well log channel snippet from an unknown well log channel, calculating a second set of hash values for the well log channel snippet, identifying, for the unknown well log channel, a matching well log channel by searching the first set of hash values with the second set of hash values, and storing, for the unknown well log channel, a channel context corresponding to the matching well log channel
Christopher Lunny
Filed: 17 Dec 20
Utility
Downhole Electromagnetic Sensing Techniques
1 Jul 21
An electromagnetic (EM) telemetry system includes an EM transmitter configured to transmit EM signals downhole and multiple sensors each configured to communicate with the EM transmitter and with another of the multiple sensors.
Jung Kee Chung, Sameer Bhoite, Dean Homan, Edward Michael Tollefsen, Jaroslav Dobos
Filed: 17 Mar 21
Utility
Adaptive Downhole Acquisition System
1 Jul 21
A method can include accessing a measurement model in memory of a downhole tool; determining an optimal parameter set using a processor of the downhole tool and the measurement model; and performing at least one measurement using at least one sensor of the downhole tool operated according to the optimal parameter set.
Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Nicholas Heaton, Martin Hurlimann, Scott DiPasquale, Diogenes Molina, Albina Rishatovna Mutina
Filed: 15 May 19
Utility
Systems and methods for managing drive parameters after maintenance
29 Jun 21
Systems and methods for operating a motor according to parameters provided by an autotuning component if available are described.
Shyam Janakiraman, Ramakrishna Madhireddy, Franz Carstens, Seetharam Kothuru
Filed: 30 Oct 18
Utility
Chemical injection system
29 Jun 21
A technique facilitates both actuation of a well tool and chemical injection at a corresponding well zone or well zones.
Soufiane Halily, Emrah Gokdag, Jerome Prost, Richa Bansal, Parvesh Singh
Filed: 15 Aug 17