963 patents
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Ball Valve for Improved Performance In Debris Laden Environments
16 Dec 21
An isolation valve system includes a well string having an isolation valve including a ball rotatably mounted to a pair of inserts for rotation about a fixed axis, an arm coupled to the ball at a position offset from the fixed axis, and a mandrel connected to an actuation end of the arm, the mandrel and the actuation end of the arm being disposed uphole of the ball.
Cassius Elston, Brian Walther, Venkata Siva Reddy Battula, Ashish Sharma, Diana Orzechowski
Filed: 16 Sep 19
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System and Method for Contamination Monitoring
16 Dec 21
A method includes receiving first fluid property data from a sample flowline of a focused sampling system and receiving second fluid property data from a guard flowline of the focused sampling system.
Kai Hsu, Thomas Pfeiffer, Kang Wang, Dan Schulz, Morten Kristensen, Youxiang Zuo
Filed: 17 Oct 19
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Methods for In-Situ Multi-Temperature Measurements Using Downhole Acquisition Tool
16 Dec 21
Methods for obtaining in-situ, multi-temperature measurements of fluid properties, such as saturation pressure and asphaltene onset pressure, are provided.
Hadrien Dumont, Christopher Harrison, Youxiang Zuo, Christopher Albert Babin, Li Chen, Vinay K. Mishra, German Garcia, Abhishek Agarwal, Matthew T. Sullivan
Filed: 30 Aug 21
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Rotary Tool with Thermally Stable Diamond
16 Dec 21
A tool for removing material includes a body, an ultrahard insert, and a matrix.
Yahua Bao, J. Daniel Belnap, Francis E. Leany, Ronald B. Crockett, Dwain Norris, Anatoliy Garan
Filed: 27 Sep 19
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Determining Shear Slowness from Dipole Source-based Measurements Acquired by a Logging While Drilling Acoustic Measurement Tool
16 Dec 21
A method for determining a shear slowness of a subterranean formation includes receiving waveforms data acquired by receivers in an acoustic measurement tool in response to energy emitted by at least one dipole source.
Pu Wang, Sandip Bose, Bikash K. Sinha
Filed: 26 Aug 21
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Systems and Methods for Determining the Presence of Cement Behind at Least One Casing Using Spectroscopy Measurement
16 Dec 21
A presence of cement may be identified based on a downhole tool that may emit neutrons into a wellbore having at least one cement casing.
Pascal Millot, Adil Busaidy, Jeffrey Miles, Tong Zhou, Christian Stoller, David Rose, Richard Radtke
Filed: 30 Aug 21
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Emulsions Containing Water-soluble Acid Retarding Agents and Methods of Making and Using
9 Dec 21
Described herein is a multi-phase aqueous composition containing a surfactant; a first phase comprising water, an acid, and a water-soluble acid retarding agent; and a second phase selected from the group consisting of an immiscible organic phase, a gas, and combinations thereof.
Christopher DAEFFLER, Mohan Kanaka Raju PANGA
Filed: 16 Aug 21
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Cutting Elements Having Non-planar Surfaces and Tools Incorporating the Same
9 Dec 21
A cutting element includes a body, a non-planar cutting face formed on a first end of the body, and an edge formed around a perimeter of the cutting face.
Xiaoge Gan, Anjie Dong, Gerard Johnson, Michael George Azar, Huimin Song, Youhe Zhang, Venkatesh Karuppiah
Filed: 23 Aug 21
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Permanently Installed In-well Dry Mate Connectors with Shape Memory Alloy Technology
9 Dec 21
A technique facilitates formation of secure connections for use in downhole environments.
Jean-Luc Garcia, Yann Dufour, Steve Watelle
Filed: 25 Oct 19
Utility
Sliding Sleeve and Split Shifting Tool
9 Dec 21
A system includes a sliding sleeve valve including a valve body and an inner sleeve selectively shiftable within the valve body, at least one flow port contained in the valve body, at least one metal to metal seal provided between an inside wall of the valve body and the inner sleeve, and a shifting tool.
Dinesh Patel
Filed: 25 Oct 19
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Performance Index Using Frequency or Frequency-Time Domain
9 Dec 21
First time-based data, indicative of a first parameter, varies in value with respect to time and is associated with a drilling operation utilized to construct a well extending into a subterranean formation.
Joergen K. Johnsen, Mbaga Louis Ahorukomeye, Rui Pan, Yuzhen Xue, Mahmoud Hadi
Filed: 3 Jun 20
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Automatic Fact Extraction
9 Dec 21
Automatic fact extraction that involves tokenizing text in unstructured information to generate a token list.
Akhilesh GOYAL, Michael Antony CLEMINSON
Filed: 4 Oct 19
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Plan Deviations Visualization and Interpretation
2 Dec 21
A method for conducting an oilfield operation includes obtaining a plan for conducting an oilfield operation, the plan including a planned value for a metric, receiving data collected while performing one or more oilfield activities using the plan, at least a portion of the data representing an actual value for the metric, determining that one or more deviations from the plan occurred based on a difference between the actual value and the planned value, identifying one or more unplanned events of the one or more oilfield activities that are not in the plan that caused the one or more deviations, calculating a contribution to the difference between the actual value and the planned value caused by the one or more unplanned events, and modifying the plan to account for the one or more unplanned events.
Siau Ban TEH, Vladimir ZHERNAKOV
Filed: 18 Sep 19
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Non Planar Cutting Element with Non Planar Interface Design and Tools Incorporating Such Elements
2 Dec 21
A cutting element may include a substrate having a non-planar upper surface with a peripheral edge, and an ultrahard layer.
Ronald K. Eyre, Feng Yu, Cheng Peng
Filed: 8 Nov 19
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System and Method for Coupling Upper and Lower Completions
2 Dec 21
A technique facilitates joining of an upper completion with a lower completion in a manner which enables adjustability.
Dinesh Patel
Filed: 20 Sep 18
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Non-explosive Downhole Perforating and Cutting Tools
2 Dec 21
A non-explosive downhole tool for creating openings in tubulars and or earthen formations includes a carrier holding a non-explosive material, such as thermate, a head connected with the carrier and having a port to eject a product of the ignited material from the head and a communication path extending from the material to the port and a moveable member in a closed position blocking the communication path and in an open position opening the communication path.
Hongfa Huang, Delbert Taylor
Filed: 16 Aug 21
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Operating Multiple Fracturing Pumps to Deliver a Smooth Total Flow Rate Transition
2 Dec 21
Changing a cumulative pumping rate of multiple pump units by adjusting individual pumping rates of the pump units, wherein each temporary dip or spike of an individual pumping rate of one of the pump units is automatically offset by a predetermined temporary adjustment of an individual pumping rate of another one or more of the pump units to thereby reduce effects of the temporary dip or spike on the cumulative pumping rate of the pump units.
Amal Bagulayan, Nan Mu, James Matthews, Bao Mi, Alexander Tanner Taylor, Marcos Suguru Kajita
Filed: 23 Jan 19
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Multiphase Flowmeter Aperture Antenna Transmission and Pressure Retention
2 Dec 21
Multiphase flowmeter aperture antenna transmission and pressure retention are disclosed herein.
Yu Ke Lim, Shasha Wang, Linyuan Zhan, Muhammad Fuad Bin Mohamed Zain, Kenny Shin Han Wei, Guillaume Jolivet, Cheng-Gang Xie
Filed: 27 May 21
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Rugged Hexagonal Boron Nitride Solid State Detector
2 Dec 21
Detection of nuclear reactions are accomplished through use of a solid-state detector that uses a hexagonal boron nitride configuration.
Olivier Philip, Irina Shestakova
Filed: 1 Jun 21
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Isolation Plugs for Enhanced Geothermal Systems
25 Nov 21
An element includes an elastomer having a temperature rating of at least 400° F. for enhanced geothermal system applications.
Huilin Tu, Mitchell Gamble, Laurent Alteirac, Bhushan Pendse
Filed: 18 May 21