1026 patents
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Utility
Rotary steerable system with cutters
29 Mar 22
A rotary steerable tool may include a tool body with an upper end and a lower end.
Michael George Azar, Edward Richards, Riadh Boualleg, Geoffrey Charles Downton, Denis Li, Richard D. Hill
Filed: 31 Jan 19
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Organic-inorganic hybrid polymer based fluids
29 Mar 22
A brine viscosifier includes at least one monomer and triethoxyvinylsilane (TEVS) to provide crosslinking among the at least one monomer.
Changping Sui, Balakrishnan Panamarathupalayam
Filed: 28 Dec 15
Utility
In-situ evaluation of gauges
29 Mar 22
Methods for evaluating sensor data to predict when the sensor should be recalibrated are described.
Nicholas Williard, Mihitha Nutakki, Ahmed Fikri Ali Mosallam, Daniel Viassolo, Laurent Cotelle, Marco Alioto, Lucile Baur
Filed: 10 Aug 18
Utility
Fine control of casing pressure
29 Mar 22
Back pressure control devices used to control fluid pressure in a wellbore require various utilities for operation, such as an air supply.
Roger Suter, David Molley
Filed: 13 Dec 12
Utility
Systems and methods for injecting fluids into high pressure injector line
29 Mar 22
A system includes a hydraulic fracturing system including a tank having a slurry and an injector line, where the injector line is disposed between a high-pressure pump and a treatment line to fluidly couple to a wellhead.
Adam Ethan Keilers, Anna Dunaeva, Alhad Phatak, Herbe Gomez Conzatti y Martinez, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar
Filed: 7 Sep 17
Utility
Blowout preventer shearing ram
29 Mar 22
A blowout preventer (BOP) includes a main body that includes a bore extending through the main body.
Christopher Nault, Micah Threadgill
Filed: 21 Apr 20
Utility
Drilling with information characterizing lateral heterogeneities based on deep directional resistivity measurements
29 Mar 22
A method and system is provided for drilling a wellbore that traverses a geological formation using a drilling tool.
Dzevat Omeragic, Michael Thiel, Niloofar Farnoosh
Filed: 24 Jan 17
Utility
Systems and methods for executing a plan associated with multiple equipment by using rule-based inference
29 Mar 22
A recursive structure of inference rules is disclosed that enables translation of sensed data into high level predicates, e.g. to authorize the starts and ends of actions and detect violation of invariants, hence enabling coordination at different levels and/or across different domains at the same level within a multi-domain architecture.
Maria Fox, Derek Long, Rustam Isangulov
Filed: 4 Dec 18
Utility
Spherical elastomeric mounts
22 Mar 22
An apparatus includes an outer bearing member defining a cavity and an inner bearing member disposed within the cavity.
Christopher T. Meranda, Marc D. Mayer
Filed: 3 Jul 18
Utility
Evaluation of pressure-transient behavior of wells
22 Mar 22
A method for monitoring movement of a fluid interface in a composite reservoir includes receiving data related to a composite reservoir.
Bobby Dale Poe, Jr., Donald Hender
Filed: 30 Jan 18
Utility
Methods of drilling with resistivity tools
22 Mar 22
A method of electrically logging a section of a wellbore includes circulating an oil-based wellbore fluid comprising a conductive carbon material therein, the oil-based wellbore fluid having a conductivity of at most 0.01 S/m when measured at 20 kHz, within the wellbore while drilling the wellbore with a drill bit on a drill string; applying electrical current from a logging tool on the drill string above the drill bit; and collecting an electrical log of the portion of the wellbore that has had electrical current applied thereto.
Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher, Cara Bovet, Albert Okhrimenko
Filed: 3 May 17
Utility
Estimating a formation index using pad measurements
22 Mar 22
A method for drilling a wellbore through a subterranean formation includes rotating a drill string in the subterranean wellbore to drill.
Riadh Boualleg, Steven G. Villareal, Joffroy Urbain, Ling Li, Denis Li, Prashant Saxena, Kjell Haugvaldstad
Filed: 18 Dec 20
Utility
System and method for controlled pumping in a downhole sampling tool
22 Mar 22
A downhole tool designed to be disposed in a borehole of a subterranean formation that includes a probe used to interface with the subterranean formation in order to sample fluid from or to inject fluid into the subterranean formation.
Adriaan Gisolf, Nathan Landsiedel, Cosan Ayan, Kenneth Moelhoff
Filed: 20 Apr 20
Utility
Method for characterization of hydrocarbon reservoirs
22 Mar 22
A methodology that performs fluid sampling within a wellbore traversing a reservoir and fluid analysis on the fluid sample(s) to determine properties (including asphaltene concentration) of the fluid sample(s).
Youxiang Zuo, Oliver C. Mullins, Francois Xavier Dubost, Cosan Ayan, Wael Abdallah, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Dingan Zhang
Filed: 17 Jan 13
Utility
Structural volume segmentation
22 Mar 22
A method for performing a field operation of a field.
Azeddine Benabbou, Arnaud Levannier, Colin Daly
Filed: 8 Jun 16
Utility
Multiphase flow in porous media
22 Mar 22
A method can include receiving information associated with a geologic environment; based at least in part on the information, computing values associated with multiphase fluid flow in the geologic environment using a viscous flow upwind scheme and a buoyancy flow upwind scheme; and outputting at least a portion of the computed values.
Seong Lee, Yalchin Efendiev, Hamdi Tchelepi
Filed: 29 Apr 16
Utility
Automatic wellbore activity schedule adjustment method and system
15 Mar 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: 1 Apr 19
Utility
Tool positioning technique
15 Mar 22
Systems and techniques for locating a tool component in a channel of a blowout preventer.
Rod William Shampine
Filed: 14 Feb 19
Utility
High performance water based fluid
15 Mar 22
A fluid may include an aqueous based continuous phase, a pH adjusting additive, wherein the pH adjusting additive is formic acid, and a clay hydration suppressant agent having the formula H2NCH(CH3)CH2(OCH(CH3)CH2)xNH2, wherein x is a value less than 15.
Steven Philip Young, Emanuel Stamatakis, Meghan Ruth Riley, Yiyan Chen
Filed: 31 Jul 15
Utility
Systems and techniques for controlling and monitoring downhole operations in a well
15 Mar 22
An apparatus and method for using a pressure-powered tool to perform a downhole operation in a well determine the operating condition of the tool based on indications of pressure in a region associated with the tool.
Chao Wang, Julien Bost, Vincent Nicolas, Abbigail Ullrich, Quangen Du
Filed: 9 Dec 19