2001 patents
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Mid-infrared Carbon Dioxide Sensor
3 Jun 21
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
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Slug Flow Initiation in Fluid Flow Models
3 Jun 21
A method for modeling slug flow includes receiving a fluid flow model including a representation of a conduit and a multiphase fluid flow therein.
Chris John Lawrence, Zheng Gang Xu
Filed: 19 Jul 17
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System and Method for Simulating Reservoir Models
3 Jun 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for defining one or more injector completions and one or more producer completions in one or more reservoir models.
William J. Bailey, Emilien Dupont, Lin Liang, Peter G. Tilke, Tuanfeng Zhang, Lingchen Zhu
Filed: 13 Dec 18
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Disentanglement for Inference on Seismic Data and Generation of Seismic Data
3 Jun 21
A method, apparatus, and program product utilize a disentangled factor learning framework to analyze petro-technical image data such as seismic image data to infer properties of a subsurface volume and/or to generate image data for use in training machine learning algorithms for use in petro-technical applications.
Emilien Dupont, Jose Celaya Galvan
Filed: 12 Apr 19
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Field Operations System with Filter
3 Jun 21
A method can include training a deep neural network to generate a trained deep neural network where the trained deep neural network represents functions of a nonlinear Kalman filter that represents a dynamic system of equipment and environment via an internal state vector of the dynamic system; generating a base internal state vector, that corresponds to a pre-defined operational procedure, using the trained deep neural network; receiving operation data from the equipment responsive to operation in the environment; generating an internal state vector using the operation data and the trained deep neural network; and comparing at least the internal state vector to at least the base internal state vector.
Yingwei Yu, Qiuhua Liu, Richard John Meehan, Sylvain Chambon, Mohammad Khairi Hamzah
Filed: 15 Nov 18
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Wellsite Report System
3 Jun 21
A method can include receiving state information for a wellsite system; receiving contextual information for a role associated with a workflow; generating a natural language report based at least in part on the state information and based at least in part on the contextual information; and transmitting the natural language report via a network interface based at least in part on an identifier associated with the role.
Benoit Foubert, Richard Meehan, Jean-Pierre Poyet, Sandra Reyes, Raymond Lin, Sylvain Chambon
Filed: 11 Jan 21
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Seismic Processing Task Predictive Scheduler
3 Jun 21
A method for scheduling tasks includes receiving input that was acquired using one or more data collection devices, and scheduling one or more input tasks on one or more computing resources of a network, predicting one or more first tasks based in part on the input, assigning one or more placeholder tasks for the one or more predicted first tasks to the one or more computing resources based in part on a topology of the network, receiving one or more updates including an attribute of the one or more first tasks to be executed as input tasks are executed, modifying the one or more placeholder tasks based on the attribute of the one or more first tasks to be executed, and scheduling the one or more first tasks on the one or more computing resources by matching the one or more first tasks to the one or more placeholder tasks.
Marvin Decker
Filed: 15 Feb 21
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System and Method for Simulating Reservoir Models
3 Jun 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for defining one or more injector completions and one or more producer completions in one or more reservoir models.
William J. Bailey, Peter G. Tilke
Filed: 13 Dec 18
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Oil Field Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning and Optimization
3 Jun 21
Oil field resources are allocated using machine learning and optimization.
Abdulfattah FAHHAM, Richard James Stuart BOOTH
Filed: 30 Apr 19
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Automated Directional Drilling System and Method Using Steerable Drilling Motors
3 Jun 21
A method for drilling a subterranean wellbore includes deploying a drill string in the wellbore, the drill string including a drill bit and a steerable drilling motor.
Steven Duplantis, Kam Lui, Cesar Pena, Jason Swoboda
Filed: 6 Jan 21
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Variable density, variable composition or complex geometry components for high pressure presses made by additive manufacturing methods
1 Jun 21
A method of manufacturing a component for use in a high pressure press includes successively depositing a volume of one or more materials using a deposition device to build a three dimensional body of the component having a selected material property varied along at least one direction of the component for use in the high pressure press.
Stewart Middlemiss
Filed: 3 Dec 15
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Rotary steering systems and methods
1 Jun 21
A drilling system that includes a drill bit that drills a bore through rock.
Simon H. Bittleston, Ashley Bernard Johnson, Mauro Caresta, Riadh Boualleg, Joachim Sihler, Huseyin Murat Panayirci
Filed: 2 Jul 18
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Direct casting of ultrahard insert in bit body
1 Jun 21
A cutting bit includes a body, a plurality of blades, and at least one ultrahard insert cast directly into at least one of the plurality of blades.
Yahua Bao, John Daniel Belnap
Filed: 14 Dec 16
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Downhole tools and methods of controlling downhole tools
1 Jun 21
A downhole tool that has a plurality of arm assemblies.
Pierre-arnaud Foucher, Todor K. Sheiretov, Gregory J. Giem, Lucas Teurlay, Quentin Smith
Filed: 29 May 19
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Morphable anchor
1 Jun 21
A method of anchoring a morphable tubular in a wellbore includes providing a first tubular member including an expandable portion having an anchoring system arranged around a circumference thereof, the anchoring system including a gripper element, two wedge elements having inclined surfaces oriented to engage two oppositely arranged inclined surfaces of the gripper element, wherein each wedge element includes a beam spring, which are oppositely arranged to act against the inclined surfaces of the gripper element, locating the expandable portion in an existing tubular in a wellbore, introducing fluid pressure to an inner surface of the expandable portion and morphing the expandable portion towards the existing tubing so that the gripper element engages an inner surface of the existing tubing, reducing the fluid pressure, and maintaining engagement of the gripper element on the inner surface by action of the at least one beam spring axially on the gripper element.
Damien Gerard Patton
Filed: 30 Aug 19
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System and method related to pumping fluid in a borehole
1 Jun 21
A technique facilitates use of a submersible pumping system deployed downhole in a borehole.
Matthew Crowley, David Bauchelle, James Rudolph Wetzel, Neil Griffiths, Nils Van Der Stad
Filed: 18 Nov 16
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Well construction communication and control
1 Jun 21
Apparatus and methods regarding a processing system operable to implement an arbiter.
Shunfeng Zheng, Juan Jose Rojas
Filed: 13 Jun 17
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Formation pressure testing
1 Jun 21
A pressure testing module separable from and configured to be coupled with a tool base that is to be coupled along a downhole tool string to be conveyed within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation.
Arun Sharma, Tudor Ioan Palaghita, Ashers Partouche
Filed: 13 Jul 20
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Surface well testing systems and methods
1 Jun 21
A well testing apparatus includes a separator, a well control assembly upstream of the separator, and a fluid management assembly downstream of the separator.
Francis Dominique Allouche, Mathilde Jan, Ibrahim El Alami, Pierre Chaigne, Mahesh Shenoy, Gilbert Conort
Filed: 3 Oct 16
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Correcting eccentering effect in pulse-echo imaging
1 Jun 21
Methods for correcting eccentering effects on echoes detected from ultrasonic pulses emitted by a transducer of a downhole tool.
Adam Pedrycz, Hiroshi Hori, Jean-Christophe Auchere
Filed: 30 Aug 18