Patents Assigned to International Research Institute of Stavanger AS
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Patent number: 9605532Abstract: A method is for determining the position of a lower portion of a drill string in a bore hole. The drill string comprises a number of drill string components, each drill string component being interconnected by means of at least one joint. Several ultrasonic sensors are arranged after each other along a drill string. The method comprises localizing the position of the chamfer of the joint relative to the ultrasonic sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: International Research Institute of Stavanger ASInventor: Eric Cayeux
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Patent number: 9562417Abstract: A sealing device is for sealing fluid transmittable openings in well components. The sealing device includes an elastic element which is arranged between two shoulders. The elastic element, before being placed in the fluid transmittable opening, has a larger external dimension than the fluid transmittable opening to be sealed. A gap is arranged between at least one of the shoulders and the elastic element, allowing liquid to enter between the shoulder and the elastic element. The ridge is arranged on an intermediate piece which is located between the shoulder and the elastic element. The intermediate piece is constituted by as ring in which the ridge is surrounding and divided, and projects from an end surface opposite an abutment surface facing the elastic element.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: International Research Institute of Stavanger ASInventor: Svein Arne Idland
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Publication number: 20150167421Abstract: A sealing device is for sealing fluid transmittable openings in well components. The sealing device includes an elastic element which is arranged between two shoulders. The elastic element, before being placed in the fluid transmittable opening, has a larger external dimension than the fluid transmittable opening to be sealed. A gap is arranged between at least one of the shoulders and the elastic element, allowing liquid to enter between the shoulder and the elastic element. The ridge is arranged on an intermediate piece which is located between the shoulder and the elastic element. The intermediate piece is constituted by as ring in which the ridge is surrounding and divided, and projects from an end surface opposite an abutment surface facing the elastic element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGER ASInventor: Svein Arne Idland
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Publication number: 20140246243Abstract: A device for the pressure regulation of a well is provided with a return pump for drilling fluid. The operating level of drilling fluid in an annulus which is fanned between an outer pipe and an inner pipe is at a height level between the upper portion of the outer pipe and the bottom portion of the well. The return pump is in the annulus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGER ASInventor: Eric Cayeux
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Publication number: 20140174826Abstract: A method is for determining the position of a lower portion of a drill string in a bore hole. The drill string comprises a number of drill string components, each drill string component being interconnected by means of at least one joint. Several ultrasonic sensors are arranged after each other along a drill string. The method comprises localizing the position of the chamfer of the joint relative to the ultrasonic sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGER ASInventor: Eric Cayeux
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Publication number: 20130332125Abstract: An earth model comprising a plurality of regions in geological space; associated with each said region in geological space, at least one parameter function defined over a region in parameter space; associated with each region in geological space, at least one transformation which maps coordinates within the region of geological space to coordinates within the region of parameter space. This gridless approach to earth modelling allows much easier alteration of the structural model and the parameter data independently of each other, facilitating multiresolution evaluation of the model as well as easy production of multiple geological interpretations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGERInventors: Erich Suter, Eric Cayeux
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Publication number: 20100224358Abstract: A casing device for a borehole in the ground, in which an annulus is formed between the casing and the wall of the borehole, and in which the casing is provided with at least two packer groups, each including activatable packers, the packers being formed, in their active state, to seal the annulus, and at least one packer group of the activatable packers being connected to sliding sleeves, so that at least one group of packers is movable relative to the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: International Research Institute of Stavanger ASInventors: Sigmund Stokka, Bjarne Aas
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Publication number: 20080314644Abstract: A device for a borehole arrangement, in which a casing for a borehole is formed of at least one casing section, and in which there is placed at a downhole end portion of the casing at least one downhole tool, for example a drilling tool, wherein the casing is provided with two or more pipe bores, each separately extending continuously through a substantial part of the length of the casing and being separated in a fluid-tight manner from adjacent pipe bores and from an external annulus defined by the external mantle surface of the pipe and a borehole wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2006Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: International Research Institute of Stavanger ASInventor: Eric Cayeux