229 patents
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Utility
Fracturing system with fluid conduit having communication line
25 May 21
A fracturing fluid delivery system with a fluid conduit having a communication line is provided.
Kirk P. Guidry
Filed: 31 Oct 18
Utility
Chemical inhibitors with sub-micron materials as additives for enhanced flow assurance
18 May 21
Methods may include admixing an additive composition with a hydrocarbon fluid, wherein the additive composition contains at least one inhibitor and at least one sub-micron particle.
Merlyn Xavier Pulikkathara, Chandrashekhar Yeshwant Khandekar
Filed: 16 Oct 15
Utility
Electrically smart multi-layered coating for condition-base monitoring
11 May 21
The disclosure provides for apparatus, including coated parts, where a base material of the part is coated with a multilayer coating.
Manuel Marya, Ronald Manson, Christian Meade
Filed: 7 Nov 18
Utility
Hard and lubricious valve surfaces, material compositions and sequences of manufacturing
4 May 21
A valve including a surface movably engaged with another surface.
Manuel Marya, Ronald Manson, Christian Meade
Filed: 7 Nov 18
Utility
Flotation performance enhancement
27 Apr 21
Flotation separation apparatus and methods are described herein, comprising a vessel having a plurality of flow guides oriented vertically in the vessel, a liquid inlet at a lower part of the vessel, a gas inlet at the lower part of the vessel, a first liquid outlet at an upper part of the vessel, a second liquid outlet at the lower part of the vessel, and a gas outlet at the upper part of the vessel.
Luis Eduardo Caires-Fernandez, Daniel E. Shannon
Filed: 21 Dec 18
Utility
Systems for sealing pressure control equipment
6 Apr 21
An actuation assembly to actuate a component of a mineral extraction system, where the actuation assembly includes an actuator configured to generate a force in a direction, a lever assembly coupled to the actuator, where the lever assembly is configured to rotate about a fulcrum in response to application of the force, and a piston coupled to the lever assembly, where the piston is configured to move in the direction in response to rotation of the lever assembly about the fulcrum.
Ian McDaniel, Jesse Garcia
Filed: 8 Jan 19
Utility
Booster assembly for gate valves
6 Apr 21
A booster assembly includes a booster body configured to removably couple to an actuator body of an actuator of a gate valve, a booster stem configured to removably couple to an actuator stem of the actuator, and a booster biasing member configured to provide a supplemental force to supplement an actuating force applied by the actuator to drive a gate of the gate valve from an open position to a closed position.
Delbert Edwin Vanderford, Stuart Robinson, Joseph A Hedges
Filed: 30 Oct 17
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
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
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
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
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
Utility
Systems for retrievable subsea blowout preventer stack modules
26 Jan 21
A blowout preventer (BOP) stack module includes a chassis core including a module frame, a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) coupling hardware coupled to the chassis core, wherein the ROV coupling hardware couples with an ROV configured to transport and selectively couple and uncouple the BOP stack module relative to a BOP stack, a mechanical connector coupled to the chassis core, wherein the mechanical connector couples to a stack frame of the BOP stack, an electrical BOP component coupled to the chassis core, wherein the electrical BOP component performs one or more electrical BOP functions of the BOP stack, and an electrical connector coupled to the chassis core and the electrical BOP component, wherein the electrical couples to a corresponding electrical connector of the BOP stack or an adjacent BOP stack module.
Harold Daley, Mac M Kennedy, Michael Urdiales, Gerrit Kroesen
Filed: 28 Jul 17
Utility
BOP elastomer health monitoring
26 Jan 21
The service life of a packer element, an annular BOP, is estimated using one pressure sensor below the elastomer seal or two pressure sensors positioned above and below the elastomer seal.
Olivier Amsellem, Alice Chougnet-Sirapian, Matthew Givens, Fadhel Rezgui, Remi Robutel, Ray Zonoz
Filed: 1 Mar 18