963 patents
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Method of Gravel Packing Open Holes
6 Jan 22
A method of gravel packing an open hole penetrating a subterranean information includes installing at least one sand control screen disposed about a tubular member into the open hole, circulating a slurry including an expandable gravel and a carrier fluid, depositing the slurry in the wellbore annulus surrounding the at least one sand control screen in an alpha wave beginning at a heel of the wellbore annulus, detecting at least one of: arrival of the alpha wave at a toe of the wellbore annulus and start of a beta wave at the toe of the wellbore annulus, stopping circulation of the slurry, and triggering the expandable gravel to expand to pack the wellbore annulus surrounding the at least one sand control screen above the alpha wave.
Mehmet Parlar, Balkrishna Gadiyar, Julien Debard
Filed: 6 Nov 19
Utility
Uploading and Validation of Combined Oilfield Data
6 Jan 22
A method for uploading, validating, and visualizing data in an oilfield software platform includes obtaining oilfield data at least partially collected using one or more sensors at a wellsite, deployed into a well, or both.
Swapnil Patel, Jyoti Giri, Abhinaav Singh
Filed: 29 Oct 19
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Terminal Modules for Downhole Formation Testing Tools
6 Jan 22
A method includes positioning a downhole acquisition tool in a wellbore in a geological formation.
Miroslav Slapal, Christopher Albert Babin, Daniel Palmer, Kai Hsu, Anthony Robert Holmes Goodwin, Julian Pop, Nathan Mathew Landsiedel, Adriaan Gisolf
Filed: 20 Sep 21
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Fracturing Operations Pump Fleet Balance Controller
6 Jan 22
A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.
Nan MU, Yan P. KUHN DE CHIZELLE, Florence BINET, Manbro LEE, Alexander Tanner TAYLOR, Bryan SUHARIK, Clare SCHOENE, James MATTHEWS, Bao MI, Muktabh ANCHLIA
Filed: 5 Nov 19
Utility
Power Unit Phase Angle for Separation Unit Control
30 Dec 21
Embodiments described herein provide a method of separating a liquid mixture, comprising providing a liquid mixture to a separator, electrically coupling a power circuit to the liquid mixture inside the separator, applying a time-varying voltage to the power circuit, detecting a phase angle in the power circuit; and controlling the phase angle by adjusting a characteristic of the time-varying voltage.
Gary W. SAMS, S. Pavankumar B. MANDEWALKAR
Filed: 21 Nov 19
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Flat Rheology Wellbore Fluids for Generating Clean Wellbores
30 Dec 21
A method of drilling a wellbore may include drilling the wellbore using a wellbore fluid that has rheological property values for 6 rpm, 10 minute gel, Yield Point, and/or 10 minute-to-10 second gel ratio that are +/20% of the mean values across a temperature range from 40° F. to 300° F.; and conditioning the wellbore with less than 2 hole volumes.
Damian R. Vickers, Chemsseddine Bouguetta
Filed: 8 Nov 19
Utility
Downhole Steering System and Methods
30 Dec 21
A downhole steering system includes a substantially tubular housing, a shaft positioned within the substantially tubular housing, a first bearing and a second bearing, the first and second bearings being configured to support rotation of the shaft relative to the housing.
Jonathan D. Marshall, Edward George Parkin, Geoffrey Charles Downton, David C. Hoyle, Nalin Weerasinghe, Dennis Patrick Chesnutt
Filed: 13 Sep 21
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Multiphase Flowmeter and Related Methods
30 Dec 21
Multiphase flowmeters and related methods are disclosed herein.
Cheng-Gang Xie, Jianhua Zhu, Guillaume Jolivet
Filed: 28 Jun 21
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Methods and Systems for Characterizing A Hydrocarbon-Bearing Rock Formation Using Electromagnetic Measurements
30 Dec 21
Methods and systems are provided for characterizing a subterranean formation that involve the generation of a 3D geological model of the formation.
Mohammed Badri, Ping Zhang, Wael Abdallah
Filed: 25 Jun 20
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Active Learning Framework for Machine-assisted Tasks
30 Dec 21
An active learning framework is provided that employs a plurality of machine learning components that operate over iterations of a training phase followed by an active learning phase.
Nader SALMAN, Guillaume LE MOING, Sepand OSSIA, Vahagn HAKOPIAN
Filed: 24 Sep 19
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Approaches to Creating and Evaluating Multiple Candidate Well Plans
30 Dec 21
An improved approach to creating a plan for a well.
Shaoyu Chen, Ping Lyu, Kevin Hermansen, Qingrui Li, Diego Medina, Yingfei Hu, Petter Laurentius Eide, Lucian Johnston
Filed: 25 Jun 21
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Low Density Oil-based Wellbore Fluids and Methods Thereof
23 Dec 21
A wellbore fluid may include an oleaginous continuous phase; a non-oleaginous discontinuous phase; an emulsifier stabilizing the non-oleaginous phase within the oleaginous phase; a low density material selected and in an amount to result in a specific gravity of the wellbore fluid that is less than 0.83; and at least one rheology modifier selected to suspend the low density material within the wellbore fluid.
Roger DANILOFF, Arne ASKØ, Nicholas HILBIG, Jerome PIC
Filed: 22 Oct 19
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System and Method for Generating Slowness Logs In Thinly Laminated Formations
23 Dec 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating high resolution slowness logs.
Ting LEI, Sandip BOSE, Smaine ZEROUG
Filed: 24 Oct 19
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Well Logging Tool and Interpretation Framework That Employs a System of Artificial Neural Networks for Quantifying Mud and Formation Electromagnetic Properties
23 Dec 21
Methods and systems are provided that predict electromagnetic properties of drilling mud and a formation, which involve a logging tool that measures current injected into a measurement zone adjacent a sensor electrode at multiple frequencies.
Zikri BAYRAKTAR, Dzevat OMERAGIC
Filed: 24 Oct 19
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System and Method for Reducing a Feasible Region of Solutions In a Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure Curve
23 Dec 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving downhole logging data for a porous media.
Lalitha Venkataramanan, Lin Liang, Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Khaled Hadj-Sassi, Albina Mutina, Tarek Habashy
Filed: 6 Nov 18
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Maintaining Torque Wrenches Using a Predictive Model
23 Dec 21
A method includes generating a model for predicting a remaining service life of a gripping member of a torque wrench based in part on a number of connections of one or more types of tubulars that are made or broken using the torque wrench before slippage of the torque wrench occurs, counting a first number of connections of a first type of tubular that are made using the torque wrench, predicting, using the model, the remaining service life of the gripping member of the torque wrench based in part on the first number of connections of the first type of tubular that were made using the torque wrench, and performing maintenance on the torque wrench based on the remaining service life of the gripping member of the torque wrench that is predicted, before slippage of the torque wrench occurs.
Palaque Thakur, Sven Brinkmann
Filed: 22 Jun 20
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Pipeline Network Solving Using Decomposition Procedure
23 Dec 21
A physical pipeline network is decomposed into multiple subnetworks.
Kashif Rashid, Hamza Keurti, Rodney William Lessard, Trevor Graham Tonkin
Filed: 8 Nov 19
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Data Structures for Augmented Reality Planning of Geographic Locations
23 Dec 21
A method including obtaining a first image of a geographical location and a physical object located therein.
Andrey Konchenko, Kim Swift, Bruce MacKay, Sergey Doronichev, Siau Ban Teh, Markus Schlafli, Salvador Ruiz-Esparza, Jared Krichko, Ewan Maxwell, Rod Shampine, Apoorva Dubey, Jared Bruns
Filed: 6 Nov 19
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Method and System for Directional Drilling
16 Dec 21
A method for wellbore directional drilling includes selecting a starting and stopping spatial position of at least one portion of the wellbore.
Matthew Summers, Ginger Vinyard Hildebrand, Wayne Kotovsky, Chunling Gu Coffman, Rustam Isangulov
Filed: 27 Aug 21
Utility
Downhole Tools Having Radially Extendable Elements
16 Dec 21
A downhole drilling tool, forming part of a subterranean drilling system, may include at least one plate secured to an exterior of an elongate body.
Jonathan D. Marshall, Steven G. Villareal, Michael George Azar, Scott Richard Woolston
Filed: 11 Jun 21