Patents by Inventor Aurore Lafond

Aurore Lafond has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230281473
    Abstract: Methods, computing systems, and computer-readable media for training and using a machine learning system to predict equipment pressure measurements, of which the method includes inputting a set of training data including a first set of equipment pressure measurements, inputting a set of supplemental data. The supplemental data is obtained from a physical model that estimates a second set of equipment pressure measurements. The method includes training the machine learning system based on the set of training data and the set of supplemental data to generate a trained machine learning system, receiving real-time operational data, inputting the real-time operational data into the trained machine learning system, predicting a real-time equipment pressure measurement based on the inputting the real-time operational data into the trained machine learning system, and executing a computer-based instruction based on the predicting the real-time equipment pressure measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Aurore Lafond, Maurice Ringer
  • Publication number: 20220397008
    Abstract: A method for monitoring and controlling a mud flow system in a drilling rig includes measuring an active mud volume in an active mud pit and an inactive mud volume in an inactive mud pit, modeling a modeled active mud volume in the active mud pit, determining a mud volume balance by calculating a difference between the measurement of the active mud volume and the modeled active mud volume, detecting a transfer of mud from the inactive mud pit to the active mud pit based on a combination of a change in the measurement of the inactive mud volume in the inactive mud pit and a change in the mud volume balance, and detecting downhole gains and losses automatically based on the mud volume balance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Aurore Lafond
  • Patent number: 11105670
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for estimating a flow out of at least one fluid pump for injecting fluid in a well, comprising: —determining a calculation model for the flow rate of a pump exiting the at least one pump, said calculation model permitting the calculation of the flow rate in function of at least one calculation parameter (p, SPAM) related to the at least one fluid pump; then —providing at a plurality of measuring times (tm), a set of measurement values (PDH,m, PB,m, SPMDH,m, SPMB,m) representative of said at least one calculation parameter; then —estimating (86) the flow rate exiting the pump in function of the model and of said at least one calculation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Florian Le Blay, Aurore Lafond, Nicolas Elie
  • Publication number: 20180259382
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for estimating a flow out of at least one fluid pump for injecting fluid in a well, comprising: —determining a calculation model for the flow rate of a pump exiting the at least one pump, said calculation model permitting the calculation of the flow rate in function of at least one calculation parameter (p, SPAM) related to the at least one fluid pump; then —providing at a plurality of measuring times (tm), a set of measurement values (PDH,m, PB,m, SPMDH,m, SPMB,m) representative of said at least one calculation parameter; then —estimating (86) the flow rate exiting the pump in function of the model and of said at least one calculation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Florian Leblay, Aurore Lafond, Nicolas Elie