963 patents
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System and Method for Electro-hydraulic Actuation of Downhole Tools
15 Jul 21
A technique facilitates wellbore operations and utilization of wellbore equipment, e.g. equipment comprising actuation devices for downhole tools.
Benoit Deville, Srinivas Poluchalla, Virinchi Mallela, Marian Faur, Charley Martinez
Filed: 30 Oct 18
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Methods of Treatment of a Subterranean Formation with Polymeric Structures Formed In Situ
15 Jul 21
Methods of treating a subterranean formation are disclosed that include placing a treatment fluid into a subterranean formation, the treatment fluid containing a one or more polymers capable of consolidating to form a polymeric structure at a downhole location.
Jazmin Godoy-Vargas, Sergey Makarychev-Mikhailov, Brent Busby, Philip Sullivan, Patrice Abivin, Marie Cambournac
Filed: 30 Mar 21
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Inflow Control System
15 Jul 21
A technique facilitates the production of well fluid.
Ashutosh Dikshit, Glenn Woiceshyn, Amrendra Kumar
Filed: 14 Feb 20
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Method for Characterizing the Geometry of Elliptical Fractures from Borehole Images
15 Jul 21
Methods may include creating a fracture set from a collection of intersecting fractures in a borehole image log recorded within a subterranean formation; classifying the fracture set into groups of fully and partially intersecting fractures; calculating one or more of the elongation ratio and the rotation angle of the partially intersecting fractures; determining a probability of full intersection of fractures from the fracture set; and determining a fracture size or a parametric distribution of fracture sizes from the fracture set using the calculated one or more of the elongation ratio and the rotation angle and the determined probability of full intersection of formation fractures within the borehole
Marie Emeline Cecile LeFranc, Michael David Prange, Laure Pizzella
Filed: 15 May 18
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Perforated Foil Screen Assembly
8 Jul 21
A screen assembly includes a frame having an outer perimeter and at least one inner support member, and at least one smooth surface affixed to the frame, where the smooth surface(s) have perforations.
Eric Cady, Richard Bingham
Filed: 22 Mar 21
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Compositions and Methods for Reducing Fluid Loss In Well Cementing Slurries
8 Jul 21
A well cementing composition comprises an aqueous fluid, portland cement, styrene-butadiene latex and styrene sulfonate-maleic acid copolymer.
Michel MICHAUX, Jean-Philippe CARITEY, Pierre BEAUDY
Filed: 8 Feb 17
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Systems and Methods of Initiating Energetic Reactions for Reservoir Stimulation
8 Jul 21
Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore.
Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
Filed: 22 Mar 21
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Tracer Tracking for Control of Flow Control Devices on Injection Wells
8 Jul 21
Tracer tracking for control of flow control devices on injection wells includes at least one computer processor executing a reservoir model using numerical tracers to obtain output values for at least one producer well.
Hussein Mustapha
Filed: 29 May 19
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Conductive Outer Jacket for Wireline Cable
8 Jul 21
A cable containing a conductive outer layer and methods for manufacturing the conductive outer layer and the cable are provided.
Joseph Varkey, Serko Sarian, Qingdi Huang, Tam Tran
Filed: 29 May 19
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Autonomous Optimization of Single-well and Multi-well Gas Lift
1 Jul 21
Methods and systems are provided for controlling gas lift in at least one production well, which determine a quadratic function that relates flow rate or value of oil produced from a production well to gas flow rate for gas injected into the production well based on flow rate measurements for gas injected into the production well and corresponding flow rate measurements of oil produced from the production well.
Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid
Filed: 26 Dec 19
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Downhole Tools with Tapered Actuators Having Reduced Cyclical Torque
1 Jul 21
A downhole tool includes a tool body and an actuator coupled to and selectively extendible relative to the tool body.
Kjell Haugvaldstad, Neil Cannon
Filed: 16 Mar 21
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Method for Reservoir Simulation Optimization Under Geological Uncertainty
1 Jul 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for receiving reservoir data associated with the reservoir.
Kashif RASHID
Filed: 15 Apr 19
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Actuation Valve System with Pilot and Main Valves
1 Jul 21
A tool, e.g. a downhole tool, utilizes at least one actuator which may be actuated rapidly between positions during operation of the tool.
Edward George Parkin, Michael Pearce, Julien Steimetz, Jonathan D. Marshall, D. Peter Johnson, Clint William Philbrick
Filed: 11 Mar 21
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Method and System for Generating Virtual Reality Images of a Drilling Rig Site
1 Jul 21
A method may include obtaining a request for a virtual reality (VR) image of a first VR area among a plurality of VR areas proximate a drilling rig.
James Arthur Zapico, Juan-Carlos Yepez, Paul Andrew Thow
Filed: 27 Dec 19
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Method and System for Reactively Defining Valve Settings
1 Jul 21
A method includes obtaining a reservoir model for a subsurface reservoir, identifying a current state of the subsurface reservoir using the reservoir model, and a computer processor selecting an optimization function from multiple optimization functions according to the current state of the reservoir to obtain a selected optimization function.
Trevor Graham Tonkin, Shingo Watanabe, Matthew Worthington, Mohamed Osman Mahgoub Ahmed
Filed: 11 Sep 18
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Well Log Channel Matching
1 Jul 21
A method may include calculating a first set of hash values for a set of well log channels, extracting a well log channel snippet from an unknown well log channel, calculating a second set of hash values for the well log channel snippet, identifying, for the unknown well log channel, a matching well log channel by searching the first set of hash values with the second set of hash values, and storing, for the unknown well log channel, a channel context corresponding to the matching well log channel
Christopher Lunny
Filed: 17 Dec 20
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Downhole Electromagnetic Sensing Techniques
1 Jul 21
An electromagnetic (EM) telemetry system includes an EM transmitter configured to transmit EM signals downhole and multiple sensors each configured to communicate with the EM transmitter and with another of the multiple sensors.
Jung Kee Chung, Sameer Bhoite, Dean Homan, Edward Michael Tollefsen, Jaroslav Dobos
Filed: 17 Mar 21
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Adaptive Downhole Acquisition System
1 Jul 21
A method can include accessing a measurement model in memory of a downhole tool; determining an optimal parameter set using a processor of the downhole tool and the measurement model; and performing at least one measurement using at least one sensor of the downhole tool operated according to the optimal parameter set.
Yiqiao Tang, Yi-Qiao Song, Nicholas Heaton, Martin Hurlimann, Scott DiPasquale, Diogenes Molina, Albina Rishatovna Mutina
Filed: 15 May 19
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Motor Bypass Valve
24 Jun 21
A motor bypass valve diverts drilling fluid away from a downhole motor when the motor is off bit.
Yuelin Shen, Zhengxin Zhang, Wei Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Maria Neves Carrasquilla
Filed: 21 Dec 20
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Coiled Tubing Electronically Controlled Multilateral Access of Extended Reach Wells
24 Jun 21
A bottom hole assembly (BHA) operable to be conveyed within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation from a wellsite surface via coiled tubing.
Rich Christie, Luis Fernando Silva, Jordi Juan Segura Dominquez, Mark Callister Oettli, Afsal Areepetta Mannil
Filed: 12 Oct 18