Patents Examined by Giovanna C Wright
  • Low break out safety joint and method for releasably connecting a tubing expansion assembly to a drill string
    Patent number: 10287827
    Abstract: A low break out screw threaded safety joint for releasably connecting a Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) of a well tubular expansion assembly to a drill string comprises a pair of intermeshing TOothed MAte (TOMA) rings (24) with intermeshing sawtooth profiles (25,26) teethed profiles that have a low break out performance upon reverse rotation of the drill string relative to the BHA, which may be stuck within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Can Altunlu, Wissam Assaad, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Artificial lift
    Patent number: 10280721
    Abstract: A retrievable string is positioned in a stator of a completion string installed in a well. The retrievable string includes a rotating portion and a non-rotating portion. The rotating portion includes a rotor and an impeller coupled to the rotor. The non-rotating portion includes a coupling part. The coupling part is coupled to a corresponding coupling part of the completion string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Upwing Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Herman Artinian, Kuo-Chiang Chen, Patrick McMullen, David Biddick
  • Communication system for an offshore drilling system
    Patent number: 10280743
    Abstract: A communication system for an offshore drilling system includes an acoustic transceiver located at a surface location and a rotating control device (RCD) located below sea level. The RCD including a RCD acoustic transceiver configured to transmit data related to the RCD through a packer assembly located inside of the RCD and to the acoustic transceiver located at the surface location. The acoustic transceiver and the RCD acoustic transceiver are configured to wirelessly and bilaterally communicate data between the surface location and the RCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Jameel A. Khan
  • Telemetrically operable packers
    Patent number: 10273777
    Abstract: A down-hole packer is provided for positioning in a wellbore to establish a seal with a surrounding surface. The packer includes a sealing element that is responsive to compression by a setting piston to radially expand into the wellbore. An actuator is provided to longitudinally move the setting piston in response to a telemetry signal received by the down-hole packer. The actuator can include a hydraulic pump, an electromechanical motor or valves operable to control hydraulic energy to apply a down-hole force to the setting piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc
    Inventors: Eric Conzemius, Megan Rae Kelley, Reid Elliott Zevenbergen, Gregory Thomas Werkheiser
  • Telemetrically operable packers
    Patent number: 10273776
    Abstract: A down-hole packer is provided for positioning in a wellbore to establish a seal with a surrounding surface. The packer includes a sealing element that is responsive to compression by a setting piston to radially expand into the wellbore. An actuator is provided to longitudinally move the setting piston in response to a telemetry signal received by the down-hole packer. The actuator can include a hydraulic pump, an electromechanical motor or valves operable to control hydraulic energy to apply a down-hole force to the setting piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Reid Elliott Zevenbergen, Gregory Thomas Werkheiser, Eric Conzemius, Megan Rae Kelley
  • Axial retention connection for a downhole tool
    Patent number: 10273761
    Abstract: A axial retention connection for a downhole tool is disclosed. The connection includes a drill string component including a socket having a plurality of walls and a top surface. The connection additionally includes a downhole tool coupled to the socket, the downhole tool including a male-type connector having an outer perimeter and a top surface. The connection further includes a seal between the drill string component and the downhole tool. The connection further includes a chamber formed by the plurality of walls and the top surface of the socket and the top surface of the male-type connector; and a fluid filling the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamid SadAbadi, Neil Roy Choudhury
  • Drilling control and information system
    Patent number: 10273752
    Abstract: A drilling control and information system comprising: a rig site network (102) including a drilling equipment controller (112) and a drilling parameter sensor (116); a downhole sensor (118) communicatively coupled to the rig site network; a data center (104) communicatively coupled to the rig site network; a remote access site (106) communicatively coupled to the data center; and a pressure management application (300) communicatively coupled to the rig site network, wherein the pressure management application receives pressure data from the drilling parameter sensor and the downhole sensor and issues an operating instruction to the drilling equipment controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Eugene Mebane, III
  • Directional drilling apparatus with an aligned housing bore
    Patent number: 10273757
    Abstract: A drilling apparatus including a tubular bearing housing, a tilted sleeve removably connected with the bearing housing, and a driveshaft. The bearing housing has a housing axis, a housing bore, and a housing bore axis. The housing bore axis is parallel with the housing axis. The tilted sleeve has a sleeve axis, a sleeve bore, and a sleeve bore axis. The tilted sleeve is connected with the bearing housing and is positioned within the housing bore. The sleeve axis is parallel with the housing bore axis and the sleeve bore axis is oblique to the sleeve axis. The driveshaft is rotatably supported within the sleeve bore. The driveshaft has a driveshaft axis. The driveshaft axis is parallel with the sleeve bore axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Keith Savage, Steven Graham Bell
  • Drill bit rolling element with retaining ring
    Patent number: 10267096
    Abstract: A cutting element includes a sleeve, a rotatable cutting element, and at least one retaining ring. The sleeve has a first inner diameter and a second inner diameter, wherein the second inner diameter is larger than the first inner diameter and located at a lower axial position than the first inner diameter. The rotatable cutting element has an axis of rotation extending therethrough, a cutting face, a body extending axially downward from the cutting face, wherein the body has a shaft that is disposed within the sleeve, and a circumferential groove formed around an outer surface of the shaft. The at least one retaining ring is disposed in the circumferential groove and extends at least around the entire circumference of the shaft, wherein the at least one retaining ring protrudes from the circumferential groove, thereby retaining the rotatable cutting element within the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Yuri Y. Burhan, Jibin Shi, Chen Chen, Youhe Zhang
  • Drilling assembly having a tilted or offset driveshaft
    Patent number: 10267090
    Abstract: A drilling assembly includes a straight housing in which a mud motor assembly is mounted. The mud motor includes a rotor that rotates within a stator. The rotor has an axial centerline substantially parallel with the housing. A drivetrain is coupled between the rotor and a driveshaft. The driveshaft is coupled to a drill head. The driveshaft has a centerline that is non-coincident with (i.e., offset or angled) the axial centerline. The angle between the driveshaft centerline and the axial centerline may be fixed or variable. The angle may be variable in response to an axial force, imparted to the rotor, that is transferred to the driveshaft through the drivetrain. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Keith Savage, Stephen Jones
  • Dedicated wireways for collar-mounted bobbin antennas
    Patent number: 10260292
    Abstract: A system to protect a downhole antenna from fluid penetration, in some embodiments, comprises a collar; a bobbin antenna, mounted on the collar, including multiple coil slots on an outer surface of the bobbin antenna and including one or more intra-bobbin wireways between at least one of the coil slots and an outlet of the bobbin antenna; and a collar wireway that is dedicated to the bobbin antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexei Korovin, Kazi Rashid
  • Torque control device for a downhole drilling assembly
    Patent number: 10253584
    Abstract: This invention relates to a torque control device for a downhole drilling assembly, the torque control device being adapted for connection to a drill bit. The torque control device includes an outer sleeve and an inner shaft, the outer sleeve being movable longitudinally relative to the inner shaft. The torque control device has a cylinder, a piston located within the cylinder, and a rotary valve to control the volume of the cylinder. The volume of the cylinder can be changed by way of the rotary valve whereby to adjust the weight on bit and thereby control the torque upon the drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Smart Stabilizer Systems Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Brendan Crowley, Colin Walker
  • Apparatuses, systems, and methods for improving downhole separation of gases from liquids while producing reservoir fluid
    Patent number: 10253611
    Abstract: A reservoir fluid production system for producing reservoir fluid from a subterranean formation is provided for mitigating gas interference by effecting downhole separation of a gaseous phase from reservoir fluids, while mitigating entrainment of liquid hydrocarbon material within the gaseous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Heal Systems LP
    Inventors: Jeffrey Charles Saponja, Robbie Singh Hari, Tim Keith, Shawn Deugo
  • Diamond high temperature shear valve designed to be used in extreme thermal environments
    Patent number: 10253623
    Abstract: A control valve assembly includes a body having a first mud flow passage defining a mud flow inlet and one or more second mud flow passage portions. A magnetic plunger is slidingly mounted within the body. The magnetic plunger includes one or more third mud flow passage portions each including an inlet section and an outlet section configured to selectively align with the one or more second mud flow passage portions. A solenoid is mounted at the body. The solenoid is selectively activated to shift the magnetic plunger between a first position wherein the third mud flow passage portion is misaligned with the one or more second mudflow passage portions and a second position wherein the third mud flow passage portion aligns with the one or more second mud flow passage portions allowing a pulse of mud to flow through the mud flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANT, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Damont Green
  • Casing hanger retention system
    Patent number: 10246964
    Abstract: A system includes a housing of a wellhead, a hanger configured to be positioned within the housing of the wellhead, and a hanger retention system. The hanger retention system includes a key-slot interface having at least one retention segment configured to move between a collapsed position in which the at least one retention segment does not block movement of the hanger relative to the housing of the wellhead and an engaged position in which the at least one retention segment engages at least one corresponding slot to block movement of the hanger relative to the housing of the wellhead. The at least one retention segment includes a wavy cross-sectional shape at least while the at least one retention segment is in the engaged position that enables the at least one retention segment to move between the collapsed position and the engaged position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventors: Isaac Weng Chun Kam, Shuang Yong Cheah, Haw Keat Lim, Choon Seng Koa, Choon Keat Lai, Yen Hau Kok
  • Earth-boring tools, methods of forming earth-boring tools, and methods of forming a borehole in a subterranean formation
    Patent number: 10246945
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool comprises a body having a face at a leading end thereof, blades extending from the body and comprising primary blades and secondary blades, and cutting elements on the blades and arranged in groups each comprising neighboring cutting elements. Some of the groups are disposed only on the primary blades in a first spiral configuration. Others of the groups disposed only on the secondary blades in a second, opposing spiral configuration. Methods of forming an earth-boring tool, and methods of forming a borehole in a subterranean formation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated, a GE Company, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Boehm, Nephi M. Mourik, Timothy P. Uno, Miguel E. Garcia
  • Valve assembly
    Patent number: 10246958
    Abstract: A valve assembly for use controlling flow of fluid into a drill pipe, the valve assembly having a valve body, a valve member and a valve seat, wherein a) the valve body has a main passage b) the valve member is movable between a closed position in which the valve member engages with a seat face of the valve seat to substantially prevent flow of fluid along the main passage, and an open position in which the valve member is spaced from the seat face, c) the valve seat is a separate part to the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MANAGED PRESSURE OPERATIONS PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Alexander John MacGregor, Christian Leuchtenberg, James Bisset
  • Alignment assembly
    Patent number: 10240415
    Abstract: A technique facilitates latching of a tool in a desired alignment within a tubing string. The tubing string comprises a latching section designed to latch the tool in a specific orientation. The latching section comprises a plurality of mounting regions designed to receive a plurality of profile inserts which are releasably engaged and interchangeable. The profile inserts may be arranged to create a key profile for engagement with a corresponding key associated with the tool. However, the profile inserts may be interchanged to change the key profile. Additionally, different combinations of profile inserts may be used to create different key profiles from one latching section to the next in tubing strings with more than one latching section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John C. Wolf, Luis A. Gonzalez
  • Downhole drill bit cutting element with chamfered ridge
    Patent number: 10240399
    Abstract: A cutting element for a drill bit is advanceable into a subterranean formation to form a wellbore. The cutting element includes an element body having a face at an end thereof, and a ridge. The element body has a face at an end thereof. The face has a ramp and a pair of side regions thereon. The ramp has a curved edge along a periphery of the face and two sides. Each of the two sides extends from opposite ends of the curved edge and converges at a location along the face. The face has a chamfer along a peripheral edge thereof. The ridge is between the chamfer and the location. Each of the pair of side regions is positioned on opposite sides of the ridge and extends between the periphery, the ridge, and one of the two sides of the ramp whereby the chamfer engages a wall of the wellbore and extrudate is drawn along the pair of side regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL DHT, L.P.
    Inventor: Reza Rahmani
  • Pipe joint having coupled adapter
    Patent number: 10240401
    Abstract: An adapter for a wired drill pipe joint includes an annular adapter body having a first end, a second end, and an outer recess configured to receive a latch, an annular recess extending partially into the first end of the adapter body, a communication element disposed at least partially within the annular recess, wherein the second end of the adapter body is configured to be coupled to an end portion of a first wired drill pipe joint, and an annular latch coupled to the adapter body and configured to contact the first wired drill pipe joint when the adapter body is coupled to the first wired drill pipe joint and to resist decoupling of the adapter body from the first wired drill pipe joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Intelliserv, LLC
    Inventor: Ashers Partouche