2001 patents
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Attaining Access to Compromised Fractured Production Regions at an Oilfield
8 Apr 21
A technique for providing a fluid conduit between a main bore and a substantially non-producing region of a fracture at a horizontal section of the bore.
Dmitriy Ivanovich Potapenko, William Batzer, Robert Utter, Donald W. Lee, George Alan Waters, Douglas Pipchuk, Ryan Rodgers
Filed: 12 Sep 17
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Wellbore Landing Methods for Reservoir Stimulation
8 Apr 21
A technique facilitates enhanced hydrocarbon fluid production.
Dmitriy Ivanovich Potapenko
Filed: 12 Sep 17
Utility
Safe Drill Floor Access
8 Apr 21
Systems and methods for safe drill floor access.
Anstein JORUD, Jarle Hardeland OEVSTHUS, Jan ALVAER
Filed: 23 May 19
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Well Log Correlation and Propagation System
8 Apr 21
A system can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; and processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to instruct the system to: receive a marker on a well log for a well in a geographic region; and iteratively propagate the marker automatically to a plurality of well logs for other wells in the geographic region.
Emilien DUPONT, Sergey DORONICHEV, Velizar VESSELINOV, Valerian GUILLOT, Carlos BONETI, Jose CELAYA GALVAN
Filed: 18 Apr 19
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Rig Power Management System
8 Apr 21
A system for monitoring and optimizing fuel consumption by a genset at an oil rig is described.
Alejandro CAMACHO CARDENAS, David Robert Evan SNOSWELL
Filed: 3 Jun 19
Utility
Crosslinked synthetic polymer-based reservoir drilling fluid
6 Apr 21
A wellbore fluid includes a base fluid; and a crosslinked and branched polymeric fluid loss control agent formed from at least an acrylamide monomer and a sulfonated anionic monomer; wherein the fluid loss control agent has an extent of crosslinking that is selected so that the fluid loss control agent has a viscosity that is within a peak viscosity response of the viscosity response curve.
Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam
Filed: 6 Jan 17
Utility
Devices and systems for reducing cyclical torque on directional drilling actuators
6 Apr 21
An actuator for use in a directional steering assembly includes an ultrahard insert positioned on a working face.
Kjell Haugvaldstad, Neil Cannon
Filed: 27 Jun 17
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System and method for providing oscillation downhole
6 Apr 21
A technique employs the use of oscillations downhole to facilitate a desired functionality of a downhole tool.
Edward Harrigan, Jahir Pabon, Satish Kumar, Sashank Vasireddy, Murat Ocalan, Shunfeng Zheng
Filed: 12 Oct 16
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Wear rings for electric submersible pump stages
6 Apr 21
Wear rings for electric submersible pump (ESP) stages are provided.
Arthur I. Watson, David Milton Eslinger
Filed: 10 Sep 14
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Systems for sealing pressure control equipment
6 Apr 21
An actuation assembly to actuate a component of a mineral extraction system, where the actuation assembly includes an actuator configured to generate a force in a direction, a lever assembly coupled to the actuator, where the lever assembly is configured to rotate about a fulcrum in response to application of the force, and a piston coupled to the lever assembly, where the piston is configured to move in the direction in response to rotation of the lever assembly about the fulcrum.
Ian McDaniel, Jesse Garcia
Filed: 8 Jan 19
Utility
Image-based wellsite equipment health monitoring
6 Apr 21
Methods and apparatus are presented herein for detecting an oilfield equipment unit of an oilfield wellsite from a visible image, overlaying the detected oilfield equipment unit of the visible image on a corresponding portion of a thermal image, and generating an alert when a temperature indicated by the corresponding portion of the thermal image is outside of an operational temperature range of the detected oilfield equipment unit.
Rajesh Luharuka, Ashok Veeraraghavan
Filed: 6 Jun 16
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System and method for monitoring a blowout preventer
6 Apr 21
A monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors positioned about a mineral extraction system, input the sensor data into a model to generate a health index predictive of a future condition of a component of a blowout preventer (BOP) stack assembly of the mineral extraction system, and to provide an output indicative of the future condition of the component of the BOP stack assembly.
Anshul Gupta, Wenyu Zhao, Gilbert Haddad
Filed: 21 Nov 16
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Geo-steering Using Electromagnetic Gap Impedance Data
1 Apr 21
A method for steering a downhole tool includes receiving an electromagnetic (EM) signal from the downhole tool.
Luis Eduardo DePavia, Jiuping Chen, Liang Sun, Richard Hunter
Filed: 1 Oct 20
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High Performance Fluoroelastomer Bonded Seal for Downhole Applications
1 Apr 21
A bonded seal includes a metal alloy substrate, a bonding agent, and a perfluoroelastomer bonded to at least a portion of the metal alloy substrate via the bonding agent.
Mark Anderson, Jushik Yun, John Zarnowiecki, Aurelien Mainy
Filed: 20 Mar 19
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Estimating Downhole RPM Oscillations
1 Apr 21
Methods and apparatus for including obtaining raw surface data for present values of torque (TTD) generated by a top drive operably coupled with a drillstring, obtaining raw surface data for present values of rotational speed (ω) of the top drive corresponding to the TTD, obtaining inertia (JTD) of the top drive, and estimating torque TST of the drillstring based on the obtained TTD data, the obtained data, and the obtained JTD data.
Jian WU, Ramakrishna MADHIREDDY, Nathaniel WICKS
Filed: 3 Jun 19
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Method of Minimizing Immiscible Fluid Sample Contamination
1 Apr 21
A method of formation fluid sampling that includes setting a dual packer tool in a wellbore.
Thomas Pfeiffer, Vladislav Achourov, Ashers Partouche, Pratik Halani, Simon Edmundson
Filed: 15 Sep 20
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Sampler Trigger Mechanism
1 Apr 21
A well sampling apparatus is described herein.
Brian Abbott, Ian James Mainwaring, Akhil Bahl, Carlos Merino
Filed: 30 Sep 20
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X-ray Downhole Tool with at Least Two Targets and at Least One Measurement Detector
1 Apr 21
The current disclosure is related to a downhole tool that comprises an electronic photon generator and at least one detector.
Matthieu Simon, Christian Stoller
Filed: 14 Dec 20
Utility
Smooth Surface Wrapping of Features In an Imaged Volume
1 Apr 21
The present disclosure provides an automated interpretation workflow for smooth surface wrapping of an imaged volume.
Jarle Haukås, Aicha Bounaim, Oddgeir Gramstad
Filed: 2 Apr 18
Utility
Pressure exchanger pressure oscillation source
30 Mar 21
Apparatus and methods for utilizing pressure exchangers as a source of pressure oscillations.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 6 Nov 17