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Biased Control Unit
30 Jun 22
A control unit includes a rotatable tubular body that rotates around a spindle.
Nikolas Lohi, Paul Michael Linford, Abdiwahid Alasow, Juho Pekka Piiparinen, Alexander Hickson
Filed: 7 May 20
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Methods and Systems to Determine Tortuosity of Rock and Fluids In Porous Media
30 Jun 22
Methods and systems are provided that employ a combination of dielectric dispersion measurement(s) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) measurement(s) to determine data that characterizes tortuosity of rock and data that characterizes tortuosity of fluid phases in the rock independently from one another. t,?
Andrea Valori, Salah Mohammed Al-Ofi, Wael Abdallah, Marie Van Steene, Chengbing Liu, Shouxiang Ma
Filed: 11 Feb 20
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Training a Machine Learning System Using Hard and Soft Constraints
30 Jun 22
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a test seismic dataset associated with a known truth interpretation, receiving one or more hard constraints, training a machine learning system based on the test seismic dataset, the known truth interpretation, and the one or more hard constraints, determining an error value based on the training the machine learning system, adjusting the error value based on one or more soft constraints, updating the training of the machine learning system based on the adjusted error value, receiving a second seismic dataset after the updating the training; applying the second seismic dataset to the machine learning system to generate an interpretation of the second seismic dataset, generating a seismic image representing a subterranean domain based on the interpretation of the second seismic dataset, and outputting the seismic image.
Haibin Di, Cen Li, Aria Abubakar, Stewart Smith
Filed: 11 May 20
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System and Method for Identifying Subsurface Structures
30 Jun 22
A subsurface structure identification system includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors.
Vishakh Hegde, Suhas Suresha, Carlos Boneti, Sergey Doronichev, Jose Celaya Galvan, Anthony Lichnewsky
Filed: 10 May 19
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Breaker Fluids and Methods of Use Thereof
23 Jun 22
A method of breaking a filtercake in a wellbore may include circulating a breaker fluid into the wellbore having a filtercake on the walls thereon, the filter cake including copolymer formed from at least one acrylamide monomer and at least one sulfonated anionic monomer, the breaker fluid comprising: a base fluid; a mixture of hydrolysable esters of dicarboxylic acids; and an organic peroxide oxidant.
Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam, Richard Toomes, Daniel Alvarez
Filed: 15 May 20
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Acid Stimulation Methods
23 Jun 22
Stimulation treatments are designed and performed in a manner that takes into account radial acid flow into the formation.
Murtaza ZIAUDDIN, Mahmoud ALI
Filed: 23 Apr 20
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Hydraulic Downhole Tool Decelerator
23 Jun 22
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for minimizing deceleration of downhole tools when the downhole tools are pumped down into wellbores through drill pipe in an untethered manner.
Julien Toniolo, Simon Mattias Flander
Filed: 19 Jul 21
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Identifying Operation Anomalies of Subterranean Drilling Equipment
23 Jun 22
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for dynamically utilizing, in potentially real time, anomaly pattern detection to optimize operational processes relating to well construction or subterranean drilling.
Diego Fernando Patino Virano, Darine Mansour, Sai Venkatakrishnan Sankaranarayanan, Yingwei Yu
Filed: 22 Oct 21
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Pressure Meter Testing Apparatus and Method
23 Jun 22
Embodiments provide a pressure meter testing apparatus and method that allows operations/engineers the ability to determine in-situ stiffness values of geological stratum.
Jean E. Elkhoury, Thomas Berard, Emilie Peyret, Romain Prioul, Vincenzo De Gennaro
Filed: 6 Dec 21
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Geologic Formation Operations Framework
23 Jun 22
A method can include rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) to a display where the GUI includes graphical controls that correspond to windows and objects of a computational framework and a windows builder panel; responsive to receipt of instructions via the graphical controls, generating specifications for the windows and the objects; and storing the specifications for the windows and the objects as a template file.
Oren Feinstein
Filed: 25 Mar 20
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Automatic Wellbore Activity Schedule Adjustment Method and System
23 Jun 22
A method can include determining an ideal activity speed profile of an activity for a well, where the ideal activity speed profile of the activity for the well corresponds to a length of the well; forecasting a start time and a stop time using the ideal activity speed profile of the activity; generating a drilling plan using the start time and the stop time where another activity commences after the stop time; during performance of the activity for the well, receiving data indicative of an actual activity speed of the activity for the well for a corresponding length of the well; during the performance of the activity, deciding to make an adjustment to the performance of the activity for the well using the ideal activity speed profile and the actual activity speed of the activity for the well; and adjusting the stop time of the drilling plan.
Ginger Hildebrand, Chunling Gu Coffman, John Christian Luppens
Filed: 14 Mar 22
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System and Methodology for Actuating a Downhole Device
16 Jun 22
A technique facilitates actuation of a downhole device, such as an isolation valve.
Cassius Elston, Thomas Meeks, Venkata Siva Reddy Battula, Ashish Sharma
Filed: 21 Apr 20
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Method and System for Determining Depths of Drill Cuttings
16 Jun 22
Methods of and systems for determining depths of provenance of drill cuttings contained in a drilling fluid received from a wellbore, the drilling fluid containing drill cuttings of different sizes that arrive at surface at different recorded times, the drill cuttings originating from different formation layers at different depth along the wellbore.
Paul Simon Hammond
Filed: 4 Mar 22
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System and Method for Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Reservoir Fluid Geodynamics
16 Jun 22
Embodiments herein include a system and method for modeling and interpreting an evolution of fluids in an oilfield using artificial intelligence.
Denise E. Freed, Harish Baban Datir, Peter Tilke, Oliver C. Mullins, Lalitha Venkataramanan, Sandip Bose
Filed: 11 Mar 20
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Geologic Model and Property Visualization System
16 Jun 22
A method can include accessing volumetric data from a data store, where the volumetric data correspond to a region; generating structured shape information for the region using at least a portion of the volumetric data; and, in response to a command from a client device, transmitting to the client device, via a network interface, a visualization data stream generated using at least a portion of the structured shape information.
Oleg Mishchenko, Alain Cudennec
Filed: 21 May 20
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Hot Isostatic Pressing (Hip) Fabrication of Multi-metallic Components for Pressure-controlling Equipment
16 Jun 22
A multi-metallic pressure-controlling component and a hot isostatic pressure (HIP) manufacturing process and system are disclosed.
Micah Threadgill, Terry Clancy, Herman Ernesto Amaya, Christopher Nault
Filed: 24 May 21
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Modeling Diffusion and Expulsion of Hydrocarbons In Kerogen
9 Jun 22
A method, comprising receiving input data representing a subterranean formation, defining a grid representing the input data, with the grid including cells.
Adrian Kleine, Christian Vogt, Thomas Hantschel
Filed: 6 Mar 20
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Slide Drilling Control Based on Top Drive Torque and Rotational Distance
9 Jun 22
Apparatus and methods for controlling slide drilling based on torque and rotational distance of a top drive connected with an upper end of a drill string.
Nathaniel Wicks, Ginger Hildebrand
Filed: 4 Dec 20
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Instrumented Cutter
9 Jun 22
A rotary cutting tool for use in a wellbore has an instrumented cutter fitted into a cavity in the tool body.
Jonathan Robert Hird, Michael Paul Barrett, Tomas Rosinski, Jarek Rosinski
Filed: 27 Mar 20
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Rig Operations Controller
9 Jun 22
A method can include, during drilling operations at a wellsite, receiving operational data, where the data include hookload data, surface rotation data and block position data; training a controller using the hookload data, the surface rotation data and the block position data for determination of one or more transition thresholds, where the transitions thresholds include an in-slips to out-of-slips transition threshold and an out-of-slips to in-slips transition threshold; during the drilling operations, receiving additional operational data that include additional hookload data; and storing at least a portion of the additional operational data in association with slips state as determined based at least in part on a comparison of at least a portion of the additional hookload data and at least one of the determined transition thresholds.
Sylvain Chambon, Saivenkatakrishn Venkatakrishnan
Filed: 3 Dec 20