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Flow Line Installation Device for Drilling Rigs
14 Oct 21
A pipe installation device for a drilling rig includes a frame that is pivotably coupled to an elevated rig floor of the drilling rig, a saddle coupled to the frame and configured to grip a pipe, and a driver coupled to the frame and the elevated rig floor of the drilling rig.
Franz Aguirre, Christopher Shane Lalumandier, Gustavo Rodriguez
Filed: 8 Apr 20
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Method of Determining Remaining Useful Lifetime of Membrane for Separation Process
7 Oct 21
Membranes used in membrane separation technologies change over time due to changes in physical characteristics of the membrane.
Shu Pan, George E. Mahley, III, Atsushi Morisato, Oleg O. Medvedev, Jason M. Dietrich
Filed: 29 Jul 19
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Intelligent Energy Management System of a Drilling Rig
7 Oct 21
A system may include a top drive coupled to a mast on a drilling rig.
Mateo Garcia
Filed: 3 Apr 20
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Particle Guard Ring for Mixed Flow Pump
7 Oct 21
A mixed-flow impeller for an electric submersible pump can include a lower end and an upper end; a hub that includes a through bore that defines an axis; blades that extend at least in part radially outward from the hub where each of the blades includes a leading edge and a trailing edge; an upper balance ring that includes a radially inward facing balance chamber surface and a radially outward facing diffuser clearance surface; and an upper guard ring disposed radially outwardly from the upper balance ring where the upper guard ring includes an axially facing diffuser clearance surface that is disposed axially between the trailing edges of the blades and the upper end.
Kean Wee Cheah, David Milton Eslinger
Filed: 21 Jun 21
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Circular Downhole Ultrasonic Phased Array
7 Oct 21
A downhole tool having an acoustic transducer for downhole measurements.
Jean-baptiste Cozon, Orland Guedes, Roel Van Os, Stephane Guimont
Filed: 29 Mar 21
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Power Management at a Wellsite
30 Sep 21
An example well construction system includes well construction equipment, a power supply system, and a control system.
Nick Paul Krippner, James Arthur Zapico, Mateo Garcia, Carlos White
Filed: 31 Mar 21
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Methods of Drilling Using Mixed Proportional Integral Derivative Control
30 Sep 21
A proportional integral derivative (PID) controller implements control over a drilling system based on an integral term and a proportional term.
Benjamin Peter Jeffryes
Filed: 15 Mar 21
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Using High Rate Telemetry to Improve Drilling Operations
30 Sep 21
Systems and methods for using high rate telemetry to improve drilling operations.
Nathaniel Wicks, Joergen Johnsen, Rui Pan
Filed: 30 Mar 20
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Automated Method and Apparatus for Measuring Saturate, Aromatic, Resin, and Asphaltene Fractions Using Microfluidics and Spectroscopy
30 Sep 21
Vincent Joseph Sieben, Farshid Mostowfi, Nejib Hamed, Alexander Stickel, Collins Obiosa-Maife
Filed: 14 Jun 21
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Method of Separation Evaluation of Acoustic Anisotropy and Heterogeneity
30 Sep 21
Aspect of the disclosure provides for a method to display sonically received data after defects of anisotropy and heterogeneity have been removed.
Naoki Sakiyama
Filed: 24 Mar 20
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Dynamic Field Operations System
30 Sep 21
A method can include acquiring data associated with a field operation in a geologic environment; processing the data by partitioning operationally and representing symbolically; formulating a symbolic query for an operating procedure specification; performing a search of the symbolically represented data utilizing the symbolic query and a probabilistic chain model; receiving a search result responsive to the search; assessing compliance with the operation procedure specification utilizing the search result; and issuing a control signal to field equipment utilizing the assessment of compliance.
Sai Venkatakrishnan, Oney Erge, Sylvain Chambon, Richard Meehan, Mohammad Khairi Hamzah, Darine Mansour, David Conn
Filed: 21 Aug 18
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Geologic Formation Characterization Via Fluid Separation
23 Sep 21
A method can include flowing fluid from a formation from an inlet of a tool to an annulus; flowing spacer fluid from a conduit to the annulus; flowing the fluid and the spacer fluid in the annulus to a station; and collecting the fluid.
Hadrien Dumont, Francois Xavier Dubost, Bertrand Claude Theuveny, Adriaan Gisolf, Pierre-Yves Corre
Filed: 22 Mar 21
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Systems, Methods, and Apparatus to Measure Multiphase Flows
23 Sep 21
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure a multiphase flow.
Cheng-Gang Xie, Guillaume Jolivet
Filed: 18 Jul 19
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Real-Time Well Construction Process Inference Through Probabilistic Data Fusion
16 Sep 21
A method includes acquiring data during rig operations where the rig operations include operations that utilize a bit to drill rock and where the data include different types of data; analyzing the data utilizing a probabilistic mixture model for modes, a detection engine for trends and a network model for an inference based at least in part on at least one of a mode and a trend; and outputting information as to the inference where the inference characterizes a relationship between the bit and the rock
Sai Venkatakrishnan, Sylvain Chambon, James P. Belaskie, Yingwei Yu, Mohammad Khairi Hamzah
Filed: 27 Jun 18
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System and Method for Obtaining and Analyzing Flux Leakage Data In the Inspection of Oil and Gas Wells
16 Sep 21
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for obtaining and analyzing flux leakage data.
Yong-Hua CHEN, Dzevat OMERAGIC, Tarek M. HABASHY
Filed: 19 Jun 19
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Polymeric Materials
16 Sep 21
A submersible component can include a conductor; and a polymeric material disposed about at least a portion of the conductor where the polymeric material includes at least approximately 50 percent by weight polyether ether ketone (PEEK) and at least 5 percent by weight perfluoroalkoxy alkanes (PFA).
Samy A. Madbouly, Jason Holzmueller, William Goertzen, Gregory Howard Manke
Filed: 28 May 21
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Methods for Making and Using Retarded Acid Compositions for Well Stimulation
9 Sep 21
Described herein are methods for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore with a retarded acidizing fluid containing an acid and an acid retarding agent, the concentrations of which are adjusted based on measured parameter values of the formation.
Xiangdong Qiu, Dominic Joseph Brady, Ziad Al-Jalal, Mohan Kanaka Raju Panga, Christopher Daeffler
Filed: 26 May 21
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Mud Motor Rotor with Core and Shell
9 Sep 21
A rotor for a mud motor includes a core having a first outer shape, and a shell positioned around the core, the shell having a second outer shape that is different from the first outer shape, the second outer shape defining one or more lobes and one or more cavities that are configured to engage a bore of a stator during rotation of the rotor relative to the stator.
Anton Kolyshkin, Li Guo
Filed: 4 Mar 21
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Tapered Shoulder Position Measurement In Real-time
9 Sep 21
Systems and methods for determining a vertical position of a tool joint between two pipe segments of a drill string relative to a rig floor are disclosed.
Vishwanathan Parmeshwar, Jaijith Sreekantan, Pradeep Shetty, Sreekanth Asodi
Filed: 3 Mar 20
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Automating Well Construction Operations Based on Detected Abnormal Events
9 Sep 21
Apparatus and methods for automating well construction operations based on detected abnormal events.
Shunfeng Zheng
Filed: 6 Mar 20