2001 patents
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Pressure Range Control In a Downhole Transducer Assembly
6 May 21
A downhole transducer assembly capable of being safely operated at a variety of pressures and depths may include a turbine rotatable by a fluid pressure differential rotationally fixed to a rotor in a generator.
Jonathan D. Marshall, Edward George Parkin, David C. Hoyle, Scott Richard Woolston, Jim Shumway
Filed: 20 Aug 18
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Rotating Control Device
6 May 21
An apparatus includes a non-rotating housing, a rotatable member rotatably supported in the non-rotating housing and a bearing adapter sleeve disposed externally to the non-rotating housing.
Lap Tran
Filed: 17 Sep 18
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Reservoir Stimulation Comprising Hydraulic Fracturing Through Extnded Tunnels
6 May 21
A technique facilitates hydrocarbon fluid production.
Donald W. Lee, George Alan Waters, Richard E. Lewis, Dmitriy Ivanovich POTAPENKO
Filed: 4 Jan 18
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Autodriller Contextual Scaling
6 May 21
Methods and apparatus pertaining to scaling of the proportional gain and the integral gain in PI controllers of an autodriller based on drilling context.
Nathaniel Wicks, Jian Wu, Benjamin Peter Jeffryes
Filed: 30 Oct 20
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Optimizing Algorithm for Controlling Drill String Driver
6 May 21
Apparatus and methods for optimizing a stick-slip algorithm for controlling a driver of a drill string.
Benjamin Peter Jeffryes, Nathaniel Wicks, Jian Wu
Filed: 4 Nov 20
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Combined Wireline and Wireless Apparatus and Related Methods
6 May 21
Combined wireline and wireless apparatus and related methods are disclosed herein.
Palma Giordano, Stephane Vannuffelen, Arnaud Croux
Filed: 19 Dec 16
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Flow Cage
6 May 21
A valve assembly for an artificial lift system can include a cage defining a bore therethrough, a valve seat, and a ball disposed within the cage.
Christopher Valenzuela, Edward Guerrero, Denys LeBlanc, Yuteng Liang, Charles Fisher
Filed: 30 Oct 20
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Shearable deployment bar with ballistic transfer
4 May 21
Apparatus includes a conveyance device and a first shearable deployment bar connected to the conveyance device at a first distal end of the first shearable deployment bar, where the first shearable deployment bar has a deployment bar section and a shearable section.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 20 Oct 16
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Well integrity analysis using sonic measurements over depth interval
4 May 21
Methods arc provided for using sonic tool data to investigate a multi-string wcllbore.
Maja Skataric, Sandip Bose, Smaine Zeroug, Bikash Kumar Sinha, Ram Sunder Kalyanaraman, Erik Wielemaker
Filed: 2 Mar 17
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Downhole interpretation techniques using borehole dips
4 May 21
Embodiments of the disclosure involve a method comprising a method comprising inputting borehole dip data; determining characteristics of a plurality of dips based on the borehole dip data; applying one or more geological models to the characteristics; and generating one or more geological cross-sections based on geological modeling.
Tetsushi Yamada, Josselin Kherroubi
Filed: 31 Jan 18
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Closed loop control of drilling toolface
4 May 21
A downhole closed loop method for controlling a drilling toolface includes measuring first and second attitudes of the subterranean borehole at corresponding first and second upper and lower survey stations.
Peter Hornblower, Christopher C. Bogath, Adam Bowler, Junichi Sugiura
Filed: 9 Jan 19
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Image based system for drilling operations
4 May 21
A drilling rig site may include at least one tubular configured to be inserted into a wellbore at the drilling rig, at least one imaging device configured to detect a location of an end of the at least one tubular or a feature of the at least one tubular, and a processor receiving an input from the at least one imaging device and configured to calculate a distance between the end of the at least one tubular and another element, a diameter of the at least one tubular, or movement of the at least one tubular.
Shunfeng Zheng, Richard John Meehan, John David Rowatt, Vishwanathan Parmeshwar, Joergen Kringen Johnsen, Sylvain Chambon
Filed: 24 May 17
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Closed loop control of drilling curvature
4 May 21
A downhole closed loop method for controlling a curvature of a subterranean wellbore while drilling includes controlling a direction of drilling such that the drilling attitude is substantially equal to a setpoint attitude.
Peter Hornblower, Steven David Hough, Maja Ignova
Filed: 30 Nov 16
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Pressure exchanger with pressure ratio
4 May 21
Apparatus and methods for pressurizing well operations fluids via a pressure exchanger having a housing with a bore extending between first and second ends of the housing and a rotor rotatably disposed within the bore of the housing.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 6 Nov 17
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Removal of acquisition effects from marine seismic data
4 May 21
Marine seismic data can be processed to remove or reduce two or more source side acquisition effects jointly when 1) the effects are placed in the same data domain as the received data and 2) the effects are described using the same basis functions which may signify representing the received data and the effects in the same chosen transform domain.
David Fraser Halliday
Filed: 4 May 16
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System and Method for Using Subterranean Biological Reactors
29 Apr 21
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a system and method using a subterranean biological reactor.
Dean Michael WILLBERG, Andrew POMERANTZ, Thorarinn KRISTJANSSON
Filed: 25 Jun 19
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System and Methodology to Integrate M-tool Nozzle with Sand Screen
29 Apr 21
A sand control assembly includes a base pipe having at least one perforation, a housing, and at least one inflow control device integrated within the housing via an associated ring secured to the housing and the base pipe, the at least one inflow control device and the associated ring creating a seal.
Ashutosh Dikshit, Michael Plooy
Filed: 23 Oct 20
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System and Methodology for High Pressure Alternate Path
29 Apr 21
A technique facilitates formation of a gravel pack along relatively lengthy wellbores.
Michael Dean Langlais, Michael Robbins
Filed: 29 Jan 19
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Clay Detection and Quantification Using Low Frequency Electromagnetic Measurements
29 Apr 21
Methods and systems are provided for clay detection, clay typing, and clay volume quantification using electromagnetic measurements on a porous media sample at a low frequency less than 5000 Hz.
Wael Abdallah, Ping Zhang, Shouxiang Ma, Chengbing Liu
Filed: 25 Oct 19
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Methods and Systems for Characterizing Clay Content of a Geological Formation
29 Apr 21
Methods and systems are provided that determine or estimate total clay volume fraction in a formation for well log data of the formation using machine learning are described.
Ping Zhang, Wael Abdallah, Shouxiang Ma, Chengbing Liu
Filed: 4 Aug 20