1026 patents
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Characterizing responses in a drilling system
4 Jan 22
Computing systems, computer-readable media, and methods may include determining at least one automated sequence to be performed during a portion of a drilling operation by a drilling system.
Richard John Harmer
Filed: 6 Mar 20
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Joint sensor orientation and velocity model calibration
4 Jan 22
A method can include receiving microseismic data of microseismic events as acquired by sensors during hydraulic fracturing of a geologic region; jointly calibrating sensor orientation of the sensors and a velocity model of the geologic region via an objective function and the microseismic data; and, based at least in part on the jointly calibrating, determining one or more locations of the one or more microseismic events.
Joel Herve Le Calvez, Takashi Mizuno
Filed: 22 Apr 20
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Determining subsurface layers using machine learning
4 Jan 22
A method is disclosed and includes receiving a seismic cube.
Nader Salman
Filed: 18 Oct 16
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Automated material classification by structural features
4 Jan 22
A method, apparatus, and program product perform microstructure analysis of a digital image of rock using a trained convolutional neural network model to generate a plurality of rock features.
Alexander Starostin, Alexander Nadeev
Filed: 6 May 19
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Stepped downhole tools and methods of use
28 Dec 21
A downhole tool includes at least a pilot section, a first expansion section, and a second expansion section.
Michael George Azar, Geoffrey Charles Downton, Edward George Parkin
Filed: 24 Apr 18
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Inflatable downhole packer tool
28 Dec 21
An inflatable packer assembly configured to be conveyed within a wellbore.
Stephen Parks, Juan Miguel La Rotta Marin, Adam Cygan, Adriaan Gisolf, Adame Kante, Thomas Pfeiffer
Filed: 20 Apr 18
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Gas-extraction device and associated analysis assembly and method
28 Dec 21
Gas-extraction device (152) for extracting at least one gas contained in a drilling mud, the device comprising: —an enclosure (162), —an equipment (164) for supplying the drilling mud to the enclosure (162), —an equipment (170) for introducing a carrier gas into the enclosure (62; 162), wherein the device comprises a flow regulator (204) able to regulate the flow rate of a gas flow containing at least carrier gas, and a pressure controller situated downstream of the enclosure (162) configured for locally setting a pressure lower than the pressure of the enclosure (162), wherein the flow, regulator (204) is interposed between the pressure controller and the enclosure (162).
Paul Bertrand, Patrick Banik, Jerome Breviere, Nassim Bentamy
Filed: 27 Oct 16
Utility
Frangible degradable materials
28 Dec 21
A borehole tool can include a frangible degradable alloy that includes an oxidizable base element and at least one alloying element.
Manuel P. Marya
Filed: 18 Nov 14
Utility
Assignment of systems tracts
28 Dec 21
A method (1310) for attributing a systems tract to a geological environment, including computing (1314) a shelf break for a geologic environment based at least in part on implicit function values associated with the geologic environment; identifying (1318) sea level variations with respect to geological time for the shelf break; and assigning (1322) at least one systems tract to the geologic environment based at least in part on the sea level variations.
Jimmy Klinger
Filed: 14 Jul 16
Utility
Generation of fault displacement vector and/or fault damage zone in subsurface formation using stratigraphic function
28 Dec 21
A method, apparatus, and program product may model a subsurface formation by computing an iso-surface for an iso-value from a three-dimensional stratigraphic function (436) for a volume of interest in the subsurface formation, computing first and second strike traces (454, 456) following a topography of the computed iso-surface on respective first and second sides of a fault (452) in the volume of interest, extracting seismic data (458, 460) along the first and second strike traces, correlating the extracted seismic data along the first and second strike traces, and computing a fault displacement vector (C) for the fault from the correlated extracted seismic data along the first and second strike traces.
Jimmy Klinger, Martin Neumaier
Filed: 3 Nov 16
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Shield assembly for logging tool sensors
28 Dec 21
A shield assembly for logging tool sensors includes a single piece cylindrical shield and first and second cylindrical end clamps deployed about opposing axial ends of the cylindrical shield.
Qingyan He, Kent David Harms, Luis Pamintuan
Filed: 27 Nov 18
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Meshless and mesh-based technique for modeling subterranean volumes
28 Dec 21
Methods, computing systems, and computer-readable media for modeling a subterranean volume, of which the methods include receiving data representing a geology of the subterranean volume, calculating a mesh for a digital model of the subterranean volume, generating the digital model using the mesh and the data, wherein generating the digital model comprises defining an implicit function for isostratigraphic surfaces of the subterranean volume. calculating values for a plurality of data points in the model using the implicit function, determining a discrepancy value for the individual data points, identifying a sample domain in the digital model, determining a refined implicit function for the sample domain, and modeling the subterranean volume using the refined implicit function for the sample domain and the implicit function for an area outside of the sample domain in the digital model.
Emmanuel Malvesin, Frantz Maerten, Julien Renaudeau, Arnaud Levannier
Filed: 22 Feb 19
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Radial drilling link transmission and flex shaft protective cover
21 Dec 21
Systems and methods for performing a radial drilling operation using a shaft are disclosed.
Donald Cardon, Bill DuBose, Mark Callister Oettli, Alexander Rudnik, Harold Steve Bissonnette
Filed: 10 Jul 18
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Mechanical flow assembly
21 Dec 21
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an expandable packer assembly that includes a mechanical flow assembly.
Hugues Dupont, Pierre-Yves Corre, Stephane Metayer
Filed: 15 Sep 20
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Determining anisotropic subsurface properties with electromagnetic measurements
21 Dec 21
Properties of a geological formation, such as vertical resistivity values, horizontal resistivity values, dip, and azimuth may be determined by inverting electromagnetic (EM) well log data based at least in part on an anisotropic formation model and a cost function.
Gong Li Wang, Koji Ito, Xiao Bo Hong
Filed: 25 Oct 19
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Implementing free advection in basin modeling
21 Dec 21
A method for performing a field operation of a field.
Christian Vogt, Adrian Kleine
Filed: 24 Jun 16
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Cutting elements with wear resistant diamond surface
14 Dec 21
A cutting element has an intercrystalline-bonded diamond body that includes an inner region and an outer surface that includes a working surface of the cutting element.
Yi Fang, J. Daniel Belnap, Scott L. Horman, Ryan Davis, Haibo Zhang
Filed: 8 Oct 18
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Method and model for wellbore strengthening by filtercake
14 Dec 21
Methods for drilling a wellbore into a subterranean formation include preparing a drilling fluid and circulating the drilling fluid in the wellbore while drilling in the subterranean formation, forming a filtercake from the drilling fluid, creating or encountering one or more fractures in the subterranean formation while drilling, and allowing a portion of the filtercake formed to at least partially seal the one or more fractures while continuing the drilling.
John Mervyn Cook, Quanxin Guo, Paul William Way, Louise Bailey, Simon James, Salim Taoutaou
Filed: 1 Mar 16
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Adaptive signal decomposition
14 Dec 21
A disclosed method for wellsite operations includes obtaining a spectral decomposition, of a seismic data associated with a geological formation.
Ahmed Adnan Aqrawi, Mats Stivang Ramfjord
Filed: 30 Mar 16
Utility
Effective permeability upscaling for a discrete fracture network
14 Dec 21
A method for computing effective permeability for a discrete fracture network in a subterranean environment.
Emmanuel Malvesin, Jean Pierre Joonnekindt
Filed: 29 Dec 16