416 patents
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Utility
System and method for monitoring a blowout preventer
6 Apr 21
A monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors positioned about a mineral extraction system, input the sensor data into a model to generate a health index predictive of a future condition of a component of a blowout preventer (BOP) stack assembly of the mineral extraction system, and to provide an output indicative of the future condition of the component of the BOP stack assembly.
Anshul Gupta, Wenyu Zhao, Gilbert Haddad
Filed: 21 Nov 16
Utility
Lubricator Skid with Pivotal Rack
1 Apr 21
An apparatus for deploying lubricator pipes includes a rack configured to hold a plurality of lubricator pipes in a generally parallel orientation.
Nathaniel Pettibone
Filed: 27 Jul 20
Utility
System and Apparatus for Routing a Wire Rope or Wireline
1 Apr 21
An apparatus of this disclosure provides a twisted- or 3-dimensional guide path for a wire rope or wireline, the guide path being defined by a plurality of sheaves arranged sequentially along the path with the wrap angle being on a same side portion of each sheave as any other sheave of the plurality.
Slawomir Kukielka
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Wellhead Systems and Methods
1 Apr 21
A wellhead system includes a wellhead including a position sensor disposed in an inner surface of the wellhead, and a wellhead component to be installed in the wellhead, the wellhead component including a position indicator disposed in an outer surface of the wellhead component, wherein the position sensor is configured to transmit a position signal in response to the wellhead component entering into a predetermined aligned position in the wellhead.
Jose Navar, Kythu Nguyen, Dennis Nguyen, Delbert Vanderford, Jason Busch, Haw Keat Lim
Filed: 15 Dec 20
Utility
Flange system
30 Mar 21
A technique enables maintenance of sufficient clearance between a wellhead and, for example, a mobile rig.
Benny Poedjono, Jose Melguizo, Pheng Aun Soh, Craig Cotton
Filed: 10 May 19
Utility
FRAC stacks with rams to close bores and control flow of fracturing fluid
30 Mar 21
A fracturing system having rams for controlling flow through a fracturing tree is provided.
Kirk P. Guidry
Filed: 11 Dec 17
Utility
Fracturing systems and methods with rams
30 Mar 21
Fracturing systems having rams for controlling flow through fracturing trees are provided.
Adam Christopherson, Nicholas Ruff, Michael Krejci, Leonard Vogel, Gary Schaeper, Kirk P. Guidry, Stuart Robinson
Filed: 13 Jun 19
Utility
Frac stack well intervention
30 Mar 21
A fracturing system having rams for controlling flow through a fracturing tree is provided.
Kirk P. Guidry
Filed: 13 Jun 19
Utility
Tool Trap System
25 Mar 21
A tool trap system that includes a housing.
Pandeeswaran Krishnasamy, Prabhu Jagadesan, Meshach Samuel Raj R
Filed: 20 Aug 20
Utility
Blowout Preventer Annular
25 Mar 21
A packer assembly for an annular blowout preventer includes an annular packer, a plurality of inserts, and a support.
Ray Zonoz, Xuming Chen
Filed: 23 Sep 19
Utility
Method and apparatus for filtering heat transfer fluid from a monoethylene glycol stream
23 Mar 21
Methods and apparatus for reclaiming monoethylene glycol from a produced hydrocarbon stream are described.
Nasser Ghorbani
Filed: 28 Aug 19
Utility
Tool Catcher System
18 Mar 21
A tool catcher system that includes a housing.
Ian McDaniel, Jesse Garcia, Jeffrey Lambert, Nathaniel Pettibone, Ross Stevenson, Kody Carrillo
Filed: 12 Sep 19
Utility
Positive Displacement Pump Including a Plain Bearing for Components Experiencing an Oscillating Motion at Low Speeds
18 Mar 21
A positive displacement pump of this disclosure includes a plain bearing comprising a composite material located between a first component that may experience an oscillating motion at low speed (or at low speed and high loads) and a second component located about the first.
Jaakko Jalmari Halmari, Jeffrey Pruitt, Jonathan David Deagle, Jens Onno Onneken
Filed: 13 Sep 19
Utility
Apparatus, Systems, and Methods for Controlling Valve Actuation Speed
11 Mar 21
A valve actuator for a valve is disclosed, including an actuator housing with a reciprocation axis and a piston configured to reciprocate within the actuator housing along the reciprocation axis.
Loc G. Hoang, Margaret Anne Maciejko
Filed: 5 Sep 19
Utility
System and methodology utilizing conductor sharing offset shoe
9 Mar 21
A technique facilitates drilling operations by combining a conductor with a conductor sharing offset shoe system.
Anthony Lambert, Adam Baker, Michael J. O'Keefe, Dwayne C. Raynard
Filed: 23 Jan 19
Utility
CO2 concentration measurement in dry gas mixtures
9 Mar 21
Described herein is an apparatus and methods for characterizing a fluid composition including exposing electrolyte to one fluid mixture, collecting a signal from an electrode in contact with the electrolyte, and simultaneously exposing the electrolyte to a second fluid, collecting a signal from a second electrode in contact with the electrolyte exposed to the second fluid, and comparing the signal difference between the electrodes with the Nerst equation wherein the temperature of the electrolyte is above 488° C.
Albert Perez, Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Wenlin Zhang, Li Jiang, Roy Koveleski, Quincy K. Elias
Filed: 3 Oct 17
Utility
Well fracturing manifold apparatus
2 Mar 21
A fracturing system can include a fracturing manifold coupled to a plurality of fracturing trees.
Gregory A. Conrad
Filed: 16 Aug 19
Utility
Needle Tip and Seat for a Choke Valve
25 Feb 21
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a choke valve that includes a choke body, a choke trim disposed in the choke body, where the choke trim is configured to adjust a cross-sectional area of a flow path in the choke body to adjust a fluid flow through the choke valve, a needle of the choke trim disposed in the flow path of the fluid flow, where the needle includes a first portion having a superhard material, a seat of the choke trim, where the needle is configured to move along an axis extending through an opening of the seat to adjust the fluid flow through the choke valve.
Scott A. Miller, Ghulam A. Barkatally, Jerry A. Martino, Declan Elliott, Edmund Peter McHugh, Jonathan Marshall, David Hoyle, Neil Cannon
Filed: 5 Nov 20
Utility
Load shoulder system
23 Feb 21
A system including a load shoulder system, including a shoulder setting tool, including a shoulder coupling system configured to couple to a load shoulder, and a shoulder energizing system configured to couple the load shoulder to a tubular of a mineral extraction system.
Dennis P. Nguyen
Filed: 21 Mar 18
Utility
System and method to process effluent brine and interface rag from an oil dehydration/desalting system
9 Feb 21
A system and method for processing interface emulsion, water, and solids contained within a separator vessel that comprises the steps of continually extracting those components from the vessel and then passing them through a gas flotation cell.
Gary W. Sams, Ronald D. Hypes
Filed: 18 Jan 16