963 patents
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Graphene-based Fluid System Component
9 Feb 23
A fluid system component can include a body that includes a multidimensional shape defined in orthogonal directions and layers stacked along one of the orthogonal directions, where at least one of the layers includes polymeric material and graphene nanoplatelets formed in situ from the polymeric material, and where the graphene nanoplatelets increase stiffness of the polymeric material.
Manuel Marya, Alireza Zolfaghari, Srinand Sreedharan Karuppoor
Filed: 3 Aug 21
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Drilling Operations Friction Framework
9 Feb 23
A method can include acquiring data during rig operations for a specified drillstring for drilling a specified borehole in a geologic environment, where the data include downhole survey data; determining a drillstring load based on at least a portion of the data; comparing the drillstring load to a plurality of modeled loads, where the plurality of modeled loads depend on the specified drillstring, the specified borehole, and at least a portion of the survey data and correspond to a plurality of different friction factor values; and, based on the comparing, estimating a friction factor value that corresponds to the drillstring load.
Pavel Gutarov, Laurent Vallet
Filed: 5 Aug 22
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Adjustable Reamer
9 Feb 23
During extension, the reamer block of an expandable reamer pushes on an upper plate.
Stuart Johnston
Filed: 4 Aug 22
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Downhole Tool Interface
9 Feb 23
A downhole tool interface is connected to a downhole tool at a surface location.
Almaz Kuliev, Aaron Barnes, Neil Cooper, Nicholas Masson
Filed: 1 Aug 22
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Formation Stimulation with Acid Etching Model
2 Feb 23
A method of stimulating fluid production from a well includes defining a candidate stimulation treatment including injection of a slurry comprising acid and proppant, based on measurements of the formation.
Rostislav Vladimirovich ROMANOVSKII, Denis Viktorovich BANNIKOV, Denis Yurievich EMELYANOV, Olga Vladimirovna NEVVONEN, Galina Gennadievna PETUKHOVA, Alexey Vladimirovich ALEKSEEV, Dmitry Sergeevich KUZNETSOV
Filed: 19 Dec 19
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Patterned Substrate for Use In Image-based Classification of Rock Cuttings
2 Feb 23
A method of producing an image of at least one rock cutting.
Richa Sharma, Quincy K. Elias
Filed: 15 Dec 20
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Method for Estimating Rate of Penetration While Drilling
2 Feb 23
A method for estimating a rate of penetration while drilling a subterranean wellbore includes estimating a first rate of penetration while drilling using a first measurement method, estimating a second rate of penetration while drilling using a second measurement method, and combining the first and second rates of penetration to obtain a combined rate of penetration of drilling.
Ling Li, Martin Jones
Filed: 18 Dec 20
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Choke Valve Assembly
2 Feb 23
A seat assembly for a choke valve assembly includes a housing having an internal passage, in which the housing is formed from a non-superhard material.
Declan Elliott, Scott Dahlgren, Edmund Peter McHugh, Abinesh Gnanavelu, Jerry Allen Martino, David C. Hoyle
Filed: 13 Jan 21
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Lithium Purification and Conversion
2 Feb 23
Lithium recovery processes are described using vaporization and conversion techniques.
Gary W. Sams, Florence Binet, Rod William Shampine, Dominic Vincent Perroni
Filed: 28 Jul 22
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Flow Control Valve with Erosion Protection
2 Feb 23
The disclosure herein generally relates to flow control valves having mechanisms to prevent, inhibit, reduce the likelihood or extent of, and/or protect against erosion of components of the flow control valve, for example, due to the effects of leakage flow.
Brad Swenson, David Clayton, David Gomez Ramirez, Oguzhan Guven, Cash Elston, Ivan Caliu Candiani, Bernardo Machado
Filed: 20 Jan 21
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Power Supply Unit, System and Method for Electrical Coalescence of Multi-phase Liquid Mixturesfield
2 Feb 23
A power supply device includes a power conversion circuit configured to convert an input voltage into an output voltage, a controller, and an output switch.
Pavan Kumar B. Mandewalkar
Filed: 18 Jan 21
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a Multi-resolution Based Method for Automated Acoustic Log Depth Tracking
2 Feb 23
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method using clusters of sonic peaks from a logging tool to generate a log of an acoustic property of the formation as a function of depth.
Ting Lei
Filed: 20 Jan 21
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Systems and Methods for Performing Seismic Survey In Shallow Water Areas
26 Jan 23
A method may include receiving, via a processor, multiple seismic datasets acquired simultaneously in response to multiple seismic waves generated by multiple sources towed by one or more vessels.
Nicolae Moldoveanu, Maurice Nessim
Filed: 7 Jan 21
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Method to Improve Hydraulic Fracturing In the Near Wellbore Region
26 Jan 23
The present disclosure relates to a method for stimulating a subterranean formation that includes performing an initial stimulation in a wellbore positioned within the subterranean formation to place a designed volume of a first proppant in fractures, determining a near wellbore fracture width of the fractures, determining an unpropped fracture length of the fractures based on a rock bending model, determining an unpropped fracture volume based on the unpropped fracture length and near wellbore width of the fractures and performing a second stimulation treatment to place a proppant in fractures in an amount equal to the unpropped fracture volume.
Ivan Vladimirovich VELIKANOV, Denis Viktorovich BANNIKOV, Fedor Nikolaevich LITVINETS
Filed: 19 Dec 19
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System and Method of Treating a Subterranean Formation with a Diverting Composition
26 Jan 23
A system and method for treating a subterranean formation.
Chad Kraemer, Bruno Lecerf, Zinaida Usova, William Troy Huey
Filed: 25 Jul 22
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Systems for Securing a Downhole Tool to a Housing
26 Jan 23
A system for securing a downhole tool to a housing includes a plurality of linear wave springs placed around a chassis.
Xavier Benoist, Nicolas Mornet
Filed: 8 Oct 20
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Estimating Rate of Penetration Using Pad Displacement Measurements
26 Jan 23
A method for drilling a subterranean wellbore includes rotating a drill string in the subterranean wellbore to drill the wellbore.
Ling Li, Riadh Boualleg, Denis Li, Prashant Saxena, Kjell Haugvaldstad
Filed: 9 Dec 20
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Subsurface Property Estimation In a Seismic Survey Area with Sparse Well Logs
26 Jan 23
A method for seismic processing includes extracting, using a first machine learning model, one or more seismic features from seismic data representing a subsurface domain, receiving one or more well logs representing one or more subsurface properties in the subsurface domain, and predicting, using a second machine learning model, the one or more subsurface properties in the subsurface domain at a location that does not correspond to an existing well based on the seismic data, the one or more well logs, and the one or more seismic features that were extracted from the seismic data.
Haibin DI, Xiaoli CHEN, Hiren MANIAR, Aria ABUBAKAR
Filed: 11 Jan 21
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Drilling Control
19 Jan 23
A method can include receiving block position data of a rig prior to addition of a length of pipe to a drillstring, where the drillstring is disposed at least in part in a borehole and supported by the rig; receiving block position data of the rig after addition of the length of pipe to the drillstring; and controlling position of the drillstring with respect to time using the rig and at least a portion of the block position data for landing a drill bit of the drillstring on a bottom of the borehole.
Richard Meehan, James Belaskie
Filed: 18 Dec 20
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Well Construction Equipment Framework
19 Jan 23
A method can include receiving input for a drilling operation that utilizes a bottom hole assembly and drilling fluid; generating a set of offset drilling operations using historical feature data, where the historical feature data are processed by computing feature distances; performing an assessment of the offset drilling operations as characterized by at least feature distance-based similarity between the drilling operation and the offset drilling operations; and outputting at least one recommendation for selection of one or more of a component of the bottom hole assembly and the drilling fluid based on the assessment.
Gregory Michael Skoff, Crispin Chatar, Velizar Vesselinov, Cheolkyun Jeong, Yingwei Yu, Georgia Kouyialis, Fatma Mahfoudh
Filed: 12 Jul 22