1026 patents
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Morphable anchor
1 Jun 21
A method of anchoring a morphable tubular in a wellbore includes providing a first tubular member including an expandable portion having an anchoring system arranged around a circumference thereof, the anchoring system including a gripper element, two wedge elements having inclined surfaces oriented to engage two oppositely arranged inclined surfaces of the gripper element, wherein each wedge element includes a beam spring, which are oppositely arranged to act against the inclined surfaces of the gripper element, locating the expandable portion in an existing tubular in a wellbore, introducing fluid pressure to an inner surface of the expandable portion and morphing the expandable portion towards the existing tubing so that the gripper element engages an inner surface of the existing tubing, reducing the fluid pressure, and maintaining engagement of the gripper element on the inner surface by action of the at least one beam spring axially on the gripper element.
Damien Gerard Patton
Filed: 30 Aug 19
Utility
System and method related to pumping fluid in a borehole
1 Jun 21
A technique facilitates use of a submersible pumping system deployed downhole in a borehole.
Matthew Crowley, David Bauchelle, James Rudolph Wetzel, Neil Griffiths, Nils Van Der Stad
Filed: 18 Nov 16
Utility
Well construction communication and control
1 Jun 21
Apparatus and methods regarding a processing system operable to implement an arbiter.
Shunfeng Zheng, Juan Jose Rojas
Filed: 13 Jun 17
Utility
Formation pressure testing
1 Jun 21
A pressure testing module separable from and configured to be coupled with a tool base that is to be coupled along a downhole tool string to be conveyed within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation.
Arun Sharma, Tudor Ioan Palaghita, Ashers Partouche
Filed: 13 Jul 20
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Surface well testing systems and methods
1 Jun 21
A well testing apparatus includes a separator, a well control assembly upstream of the separator, and a fluid management assembly downstream of the separator.
Francis Dominique Allouche, Mathilde Jan, Ibrahim El Alami, Pierre Chaigne, Mahesh Shenoy, Gilbert Conort
Filed: 3 Oct 16
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Correcting eccentering effect in pulse-echo imaging
1 Jun 21
Methods for correcting eccentering effects on echoes detected from ultrasonic pulses emitted by a transducer of a downhole tool.
Adam Pedrycz, Hiroshi Hori, Jean-Christophe Auchere
Filed: 30 Aug 18
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Polymeric materials
1 Jun 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: 27 Sep 19
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Solid PCD with transition layers to accelerate full leaching of catalyst
25 May 21
A method of making a polycrystalline diamond compact includes forming a first layer of polycrystalline diamond precursor materials comprising diamond particles and a first concentration of catalyst, forming a second layer of polycrystalline diamond precursor materials comprising diamond particles and a second concentration of catalyst, and placing a layer of an infiltrant material in the proximity of the first or the second layer of polycrystalline diamond precursor materials.
Yahua Bao
Filed: 19 Nov 15
Utility
Sensor activated downhole cutting tool
25 May 21
A sensor assembly may include a housing made of a non-magnetic material.
Jacques Orban, R. Craig Boswell, Scott Richard Woolston, Jordan Dane Englund
Filed: 22 Jan 19
Utility
Cutting elements and drill bits incorporating the same
25 May 21
An ultra-hard cutting element for use in a drill bit, such as a percussion drill bit, a rotary cone drill bit, a drag bit, or a reamer.
Lynn Belnap, Stewart N. Middlemiss
Filed: 4 Dec 15
Utility
System and method for quantitative cement bond evaluation
25 May 21
A technique facilitates cement bonding evaluation including collecting waveform data and pre-processing the waveform data.
Wataru Izuhara, Naoki Sakiyama, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Shin'ichi Watanabe
Filed: 6 Feb 17
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Load-monitoring sensor proximate to a shifting device
25 May 21
A downhole tool includes a sand control device, a tubular member coupled to and positioned below the sand control device, a shifting device coupled to the tubular member, and a load-monitoring sensor coupled to the tubular member and positioned between the sand control device and the shifting device.
Andrew Dorban, Michael Huh, Seth Conaway
Filed: 5 Aug 19
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Bore trajectory system
25 May 21
A method includes acquiring trajectory information; based at least in part on a portion of the trajectory information, generating a set of candidate trajectories with associated performance indicator values; rendering a graphical user interface to a display; via the graphical user interface, receiving input that adjusts one of the performance indicator values; and, responsive to the adjustment of the one of the performance indicator values, selecting one of the set of candidate trajectories.
Haifeng Li, Qing Liu, Miroslaw Magiera, Paul Bolchover, Yan Zhang, Yann Trevelot, Yang Yuan, Hongze Zhao, Kai Feng Zhao
Filed: 21 Aug 17
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Microfluidic determination of wax appearance temperature
25 May 21
A method and system are provided for detecting the wax appearance temperature (WAT) of a hydrocarbon fluid sample.
Shahnawaz Molla, Abdel Kharrat, Farshid Mostowfi
Filed: 20 Sep 13
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Estimation of horizontal stresses and nonlinear constants in anisotropic formations such as interbedded carbonate layers in organic-shale reservoirs
25 May 21
Methods and systems are provided that identify relatively large anisotropic horizontal stresses in a formation based on (i) azimuthal variations in the compressional and shear slownesses or velocities of the formation measured from ultrasonic data acquired by at least one acoustic logging tool as well as (ii) cross-dipole dispersions of the formation measured from sonic data acquired by the at least one acoustic logging tool.
Ting Lei, Smaine Zeroug, Bikash Kumar Sinha
Filed: 31 May 17
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Flushing microfluidic sensor systems
25 May 21
A method and an apparatus for characterizing a fluid provide for flowing a sample fluid through a microfluidic flow line and subsequently flushing the flowline with flushing fluid alone or together with heating and/or exposure to a pulsating electromagnetic field.
Laurent Pirolli, Stephen Parks, Nathan Landsiedel, Adriaan Gisolf
Filed: 5 Jul 19
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Gradient-based 4D seabed acquisition positioning
25 May 21
A method includes receiving desired locations of nodes for deployment on a seabed of a seismic survey where each of the nodes includes a sealed housing and, within the sealed housing, at least one battery and spaced seismic sensors electrically powered by the at least one battery; determining locations of the nodes as deployed on the seabed where at least some of the determined locations differ from their corresponding desired locations; acquiring seismic data sensed by the spaced seismic sensors of the nodes where the acquired seismic data corresponds to the determined locations; and, based at least in part on the acquired seismic data, a spacing of the spaced seismic sensors and the desired locations, generating seismic data for the desired locations.
Nicolas Goujon
Filed: 20 Nov 16
Utility
Method of designing and optimizing fixed cutter drill bits using dynamic cutter velocity, displacement, forces and work
25 May 21
A method includes simulating a cutting tool drilling an earth formation by incrementally rotating the cutting tool at a plurality of time intervals, determining a true trajectory of a cutting element disposed on the cutting tool for the duration of the plurality of time intervals, and determining a dynamic work profile for the cutting element based on the true trajectory and a force acting on the cutting element at each time interval.
Andrew Dow, Crystal Brown Mayer, Carlos Alberto Armada, Balasubramanian Durairajan
Filed: 11 May 16
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System and methodology for drilling
18 May 21
A technique facilitates a drilling operation by providing a drill bit having limited magnetic influence.
Steven Hough, Katharine L. Mantle
Filed: 12 Aug 19
Utility
Cutting elements with impact resistant diamond body
18 May 21
Cutting elements include a diamond-bonded body attached with a substrate.
John Daniel Belnap, Yi Fang, Michael David France, David P. DenBoer, Haibo Zhang
Filed: 20 Jul 16