2001 patents
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Clay Detection and Quantification Using Downhole Low Frequency Electromagnetic Measurements
29 Apr 21
Methods and systems are provided for clay detection, clay typing, and clay volume quantification using downhole electromagnetic measurements conducted by a downhole logging tool on a formation at a low frequency less than 5000 Hz.
Shouxiang Ma, Ping Zhang, Wael Abdallah, Chengbing Liu
Filed: 25 Oct 19
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Determining Anisotropic Subsurface Properties with Electromagnetic Measurements
29 Apr 21
Properties of a geological formation, such as vertical resistivity values, horizontal resistivity values, dip, and azimuth may be determined by inverting electromagnetic (EM) well log data based at least in part on an anisotropic formation model and a cost function.
Gong Li Wang, Koji Ito, Xiao Bo Hong
Filed: 25 Oct 19
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Mapping Workloads to Cloud Infrastructure
29 Apr 21
A visualization request to visualize data is received.
Abhishek Gupta, Kishore Mulchandani
Filed: 22 Oct 20
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Artificial Intelligence Technique to Fill Missing Well Data
29 Apr 21
A discriminator of a training model is trained to discriminate between original training images without artificial subsurface data and modified training images with artificial subsurface data.
Kishore Mulchandani, Abhishek Gupta
Filed: 22 Oct 20
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System and Method for Stopping Electrically Powered Fracturing Pumps
29 Apr 21
A technique facilitates a fracturing operation in a borehole and surrounding formation.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 14 Oct 20
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Methods and systems for calculating and evaluating value of information for reservoir fluid models derived from DFA tool data
27 Apr 21
A method for deriving VOI for a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir fluid model based on DFA data (“true fluid model”) versus an “incorrect fluid model” includes calculating first, second and third objective functions that are based on NPV(s) of simulated production by a reservoir simulator with different configurations.
William J. Bailey, Benoit Couet, Peter Kaufman, Oliver C. Mullins
Filed: 13 Jan 14
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Flotation performance enhancement
27 Apr 21
Flotation separation apparatus and methods are described herein, comprising a vessel having a plurality of flow guides oriented vertically in the vessel, a liquid inlet at a lower part of the vessel, a gas inlet at the lower part of the vessel, a first liquid outlet at an upper part of the vessel, a second liquid outlet at the lower part of the vessel, and a gas outlet at the upper part of the vessel.
Luis Eduardo Caires-Fernandez, Daniel E. Shannon
Filed: 21 Dec 18
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Degradable grip
27 Apr 21
A method includes pressing a blend of materials; and forming a degradable grip from the pressed blend of materials.
Indranil Roy
Filed: 21 Sep 16
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Rate of penetration drilling operation controller
27 Apr 21
A method can include receiving a maximum depth of cut value of a bit that accounts for bit body formation engagement; receiving a total revolution rate value for the bit that is based at least in part on a differential pressure value of a mud motor; generating a rate of penetration value for the bit as operatively coupled to the mud motor by multiplying the maximum depth of cut value and the total revolution rate value; and operating a rigsite system according to the rate of penetration value for drilling a portion of a borehole using the bit as operatively coupled to the mud motor.
Yuelin Shen, Zhengxin Zhang, Wei Chen
Filed: 26 Sep 19
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Progressive cavity motor dampening system
27 Apr 21
A rotor and/or stator dampening system includes a stator and/or rotor with a liner selected of one or more materials to achieve a desired dampening effect.
Maxim Pushkarev, Shun'etsu Onodera, Samba Ba, Pierre Lauric Dubesset, Peter T. Cariveau
Filed: 18 Dec 15
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Intelligent Power Management System
22 Apr 21
A method may include obtaining, from a digital drilling program and by a drilling management network, a drilling operation sequence of the drilling rig.
Mateo Garcia, Shunfeng Zheng, Seetharam Kothuru
Filed: 17 Oct 19
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Well Construction Workstation and Control
22 Apr 21
Apparatus and methods for performing well construction control.
Paal GUNDERSEN, Anstein JORUD
Filed: 22 May 19
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Autodriller Utilizing Intermediate ROP Setpoint
22 Apr 21
Apparatus and methods for automatically controlling selected drilling operations.
Fergus Hopwood, Jian Wu, Nathaniel Wicks
Filed: 19 Oct 20
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Predicting A Telemetry Mode of A Downhole Tool
22 Apr 21
A method for predicting a telemetry mode of a downhole tool includes receiving a signal from the downhole tool at a computing system at a surface.
David Conn
Filed: 16 Oct 19
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System and method for shock mitigation
13 Apr 21
A technique facilitates mitigation of shock loads.
Christian C. Spring, Allan Goldberg, Sheryl Raezer, Christophe Rayssiguier
Filed: 1 Apr 19
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Pressure exchanger low pressure flow control
13 Apr 21
Apparatus and methods for pressurizing well operations fluids.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 6 Nov 17
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System and method for mitigating a mud motor stall
13 Apr 21
A system and method for operating a mud motor in a wellbore.
Benjamin Peter Jeffryes, Samba Ba
Filed: 28 Apr 16
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Estimating contamination during focused sampling
13 Apr 21
Disclosed are methods and apparatus pertaining to processing in-situ, real-time data associated with fluid obtained by a downhole sampling tool.
Ryan Sangjun Lee, Adriaan Gisolf, Youxiang Zuo
Filed: 7 Nov 19
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Sensor array noise reduction
13 Apr 21
Sensor array noise reduction is provided.
Arnaud Jarrot, Julius Kusuma
Filed: 12 Jun 17
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Determining an elastic model for a geologic region
13 Apr 21
A technique includes determining at least one impulse response of a modeling and migration of at least one point scatterer in a target structure and based at least in part on the impulse response(s) and a reflection amplitude image, determining a model for at least part of the target structure.
Stewart Archer, Robin Fletcher, Weijian Mao, David Nichols
Filed: 20 Aug 12