2001 patents
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Polymeric materials
1 Jun 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: 27 Sep 19
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Methods, Apparatus and Systems for Creating Bismuth Alloy Plugs for Abandoned Wells
27 May 21
A wellbore is plugged using a bismuth alloy.
Terizhandur S. RAMAKRISHNAN, Quincy K. ELIAS, Hua ZHANG, Youssef Magdy Abdou Mohamed ELKADY, Yixuan FENG
Filed: 8 Feb 19
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Permeability Determinations from Wideband Em Models Using Borehole Logging Tools
27 May 21
A permeability log is generated by running borehole tools in a borehole traversing a formation, including at least electromagnetic (EM) tool providing at least a low-frequency complex conductivity measurement at at least one frequency.
Nikita V. Seleznev, Tarek M. Habashy
Filed: 23 May 18
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Electrical Cables and Processes for Making and Using Same
27 May 21
Electrical cables and processes for making and using same.
Joseph Varkey, Willem Wijnberg, Maria Grisanti, Paul Wanjau, Douglas Pipchuk
Filed: 1 Feb 21
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Solid PCD with transition layers to accelerate full leaching of catalyst
25 May 21
A method of making a polycrystalline diamond compact includes forming a first layer of polycrystalline diamond precursor materials comprising diamond particles and a first concentration of catalyst, forming a second layer of polycrystalline diamond precursor materials comprising diamond particles and a second concentration of catalyst, and placing a layer of an infiltrant material in the proximity of the first or the second layer of polycrystalline diamond precursor materials.
Yahua Bao
Filed: 19 Nov 15
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Sensor activated downhole cutting tool
25 May 21
A sensor assembly may include a housing made of a non-magnetic material.
Jacques Orban, R. Craig Boswell, Scott Richard Woolston, Jordan Dane Englund
Filed: 22 Jan 19
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Cutting elements and drill bits incorporating the same
25 May 21
An ultra-hard cutting element for use in a drill bit, such as a percussion drill bit, a rotary cone drill bit, a drag bit, or a reamer.
Lynn Belnap, Stewart N. Middlemiss
Filed: 4 Dec 15
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System and method for quantitative cement bond evaluation
25 May 21
A technique facilitates cement bonding evaluation including collecting waveform data and pre-processing the waveform data.
Wataru Izuhara, Naoki Sakiyama, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Shin'ichi Watanabe
Filed: 6 Feb 17
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Load-monitoring sensor proximate to a shifting device
25 May 21
A downhole tool includes a sand control device, a tubular member coupled to and positioned below the sand control device, a shifting device coupled to the tubular member, and a load-monitoring sensor coupled to the tubular member and positioned between the sand control device and the shifting device.
Andrew Dorban, Michael Huh, Seth Conaway
Filed: 5 Aug 19
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Bore trajectory system
25 May 21
A method includes acquiring trajectory information; based at least in part on a portion of the trajectory information, generating a set of candidate trajectories with associated performance indicator values; rendering a graphical user interface to a display; via the graphical user interface, receiving input that adjusts one of the performance indicator values; and, responsive to the adjustment of the one of the performance indicator values, selecting one of the set of candidate trajectories.
Haifeng Li, Qing Liu, Miroslaw Magiera, Paul Bolchover, Yan Zhang, Yann Trevelot, Yang Yuan, Hongze Zhao, Kai Feng Zhao
Filed: 21 Aug 17
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Microfluidic determination of wax appearance temperature
25 May 21
A method and system are provided for detecting the wax appearance temperature (WAT) of a hydrocarbon fluid sample.
Shahnawaz Molla, Abdel Kharrat, Farshid Mostowfi
Filed: 20 Sep 13
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Estimation of horizontal stresses and nonlinear constants in anisotropic formations such as interbedded carbonate layers in organic-shale reservoirs
25 May 21
Methods and systems are provided that identify relatively large anisotropic horizontal stresses in a formation based on (i) azimuthal variations in the compressional and shear slownesses or velocities of the formation measured from ultrasonic data acquired by at least one acoustic logging tool as well as (ii) cross-dipole dispersions of the formation measured from sonic data acquired by the at least one acoustic logging tool.
Ting Lei, Smaine Zeroug, Bikash Kumar Sinha
Filed: 31 May 17
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Flushing microfluidic sensor systems
25 May 21
A method and an apparatus for characterizing a fluid provide for flowing a sample fluid through a microfluidic flow line and subsequently flushing the flowline with flushing fluid alone or together with heating and/or exposure to a pulsating electromagnetic field.
Laurent Pirolli, Stephen Parks, Nathan Landsiedel, Adriaan Gisolf
Filed: 5 Jul 19
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Gradient-based 4D seabed acquisition positioning
25 May 21
A method includes receiving desired locations of nodes for deployment on a seabed of a seismic survey where each of the nodes includes a sealed housing and, within the sealed housing, at least one battery and spaced seismic sensors electrically powered by the at least one battery; determining locations of the nodes as deployed on the seabed where at least some of the determined locations differ from their corresponding desired locations; acquiring seismic data sensed by the spaced seismic sensors of the nodes where the acquired seismic data corresponds to the determined locations; and, based at least in part on the acquired seismic data, a spacing of the spaced seismic sensors and the desired locations, generating seismic data for the desired locations.
Nicolas Goujon
Filed: 20 Nov 16
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Method of designing and optimizing fixed cutter drill bits using dynamic cutter velocity, displacement, forces and work
25 May 21
A method includes simulating a cutting tool drilling an earth formation by incrementally rotating the cutting tool at a plurality of time intervals, determining a true trajectory of a cutting element disposed on the cutting tool for the duration of the plurality of time intervals, and determining a dynamic work profile for the cutting element based on the true trajectory and a force acting on the cutting element at each time interval.
Andrew Dow, Crystal Brown Mayer, Carlos Alberto Armada, Balasubramanian Durairajan
Filed: 11 May 16
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Methods, Apparatus and Systems for Creating Wellbore Plugs for Abandoned Wells
20 May 21
A wellbore is plugged using a bismuth alloy.
Terizhandur S. RAMAKRISHNAN, Hua ZHANG, Quincy K. ELIAS, Albert PEREZ, JR.
Filed: 24 May 18
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Fractured Reservoir Simulation
20 May 21
Simulating fluid flow in a fractured reservoir includes generating a grid for a fractured reservoir model that includes a fracture and a matrix to obtain a generated grid.
Hussein Mustapha
Filed: 2 May 18
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Torque Transfer System
20 May 21
A torque transfer system includes a drive shaft threaded into a housing.
Jay M. Eppink
Filed: 12 Nov 20
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Data Interpretation Quality Control Using Data Stacking
20 May 21
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media utilize data stacking to facilitate identification and/or correction of data interpretation conducted for a subsurface formation.
Yu Lin, Priya Kannan, Aaron Scollard
Filed: 13 Nov 20
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Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm for Oilfield Logic
20 May 21
Various computer-implemented methods for utilizing a modified upper confidence bound (UCB) in an agent-simulator environment in well placement planning for oil fields are disclosed herein.
John Pang, Vishakh Hegde, Joseph Chalupsky
Filed: 14 Nov 19