Patents by Inventor David Paul Brisco

David Paul Brisco 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).

  • Patent number: 7383889
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a mono diameter wellbore casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco, Brock Wayne Watson, Kevin K. Waddell
  • Patent number: 7363984
    Abstract: A apparatus and method for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member. The apparatus includes a tubular support member, an expansion device coupled to the tubular support member, a tubular expansion launcher that receives and mates with the expansion device, an expandable tubular member coupled to an end of the tubular expansion launcher; and one or more cup seals coupled to the tubular support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology, LLC
    Inventors: David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring
  • Patent number: 7357188
    Abstract: A mono-diameter wellbore casing is formed by radially expanding a first tubular liner off of a mandrel into contact with a second tubular liner. The first and second tubular liners are positioned within the wellbore in an overlapping relationship. The overlapping portions of the tubular liners include thin wall portions with compressible annular members that are expanded into contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7350563
    Abstract: A system for lining a wellbore casing includes a support member, an expansion device coupled to an end of the support member, and a tubular liner coupled to the expansion device. The tubular liner includes an expandable tubular member that includes a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, and an intermediate tubular portion coupled between the first and second tubular portions. The expandable tubular member also includes a sealing member coupled to the exterior surface of the intermediate tubular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kevin Waddell, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco
  • Patent number: 7290616
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming or repairing a wellbore casing by radially expanding a tubular liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco
  • Patent number: 7243731
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding tubular members including a segmented expansion cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology
    Inventors: Brock Wayne Watson, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco
  • Patent number: 7240728
    Abstract: A tubular liner including a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, and an intermediate tapered tubular portion coupled to, and positioned between, the first and second tubular portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Andrei Filippov, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7240729
    Abstract: An apparatus for expanding a tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7234531
    Abstract: A mono-diameter wellbore casing. A tubular liner and an expansion cone are positioned within a new section of a wellbore with the tubular liner in an overlapping relationship with a pre-existing casing. A hardenable fluidic material is injected into the new section of the wellbore below the level of the expansion cone and into the annular region between the tubular liner and the new section of the wellbore. The inner and outer regions of the tubular liner are then fluidicly isolated. A non hardenable fluidic material is then injected into a portion of an interior region of the tubular liner to pressurize the portion of the interior region of the tubular liner below the expansion cone. The tubular liner is then extruded off of the expansion cone. The overlapping portion of the pre-existing casing and the tubular liner are then radially expanded using an expansion cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Kendziora, Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco
  • Patent number: 7216701
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member includes a support member comprising a fluid passage, an expansion device for radially expanding and plastically deforming the tubular member movably coupled to the support member for longitudinal displacement relative to the support member comprising an expansion cone, at least one pressure chamber defined by and positioned between the support member and expansion device fluidicly coupled to the first fluid passage, and one or more releasable supports coupled to the support member adapted to support the tubular member, wherein the releasable supports are positioned above the expansion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7198100
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member includes a support member comprising a fluid passage, an expansion device for radially expanding and plastically deforming the tubular member movably coupled to the support member for longitudinal displacement relative to the support member, a plurality of pressure chambers defined by and positioned between the support member and the expansion device fluidicly coupled to the first fluid passage, and one or more releasable supports coupled to the support member adapted to support the tubular member positioned below the expansion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7195061
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member includes a support member comprising a fluid passage, an expansion device for radially expanding and plastically deforming the tubular member movably coupled to the support member for longitudinal displacement relative to the support member, a plurality of pressure chambers defined by and positioned between the support member and the expansion device fluidicly coupled to the first fluid passage, one or more releasable supports coupled to the support member adapted to support the tubular member positioned above the expansion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7174964
    Abstract: A wellhead is formed by extruding a plurality of tubular liners off of a mandrel into contact with an outer casing. The first tubular liner and mandrel are positioned within the wellbore with the tubular liner in an overlapping relationship with the outer casing. At least a portion of the tubular liner is extruded off of the mandrel into contact with the interior surface of the outer casing. The first tubular liner is extruded off of the mandrel by pressurizing an interior portion of the first tubular liner. Subsequent tubular liners are positioned in concentric overlapping relation and similarly extruded off of a mandrel into at least partial contact with the interior surface of the outer casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack
  • Patent number: 7172021
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming or repairing a wellbore casing, a pipeline, or a structural support. An expandable tubular member is radially expanded and plastically deformed by an expansion cone that is displaced by hydraulic pressure. Before or after the radial expansion of the expandable tubular member, a sliding sleeve valve within the apparatus permit a hardenable fluidic sealing material to be injected into an annulus between the expandable tubular member and a preexisting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: David Paul Brisco, Edwin Arnold Zwald, Chan Lawrence Daigle, Gregory Marshall Noel, William Joseph Dean, Andrei Gregory Filippov, Ronald D. Nida, Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring, Kevin Karl Waddell, William Rusty Stephenson, Rune T. Gusevik
  • Patent number: 7168496
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming or repairing a wellbore casing by radially expanding a tubular liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Eventure Global Technology
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco
  • Patent number: 7159667
    Abstract: First and second members, representatively first and second portions of a collet assembly, are removably coupled to one another by aligning slots in the first member with slots in the second members to form opposing slot pairs into which coupling members are inserted in first directions. The inserted coupling members are removed from the slot pairs, in second directions opposite from the first directions, in response to the generation of a fluid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Patent number: 7159665
    Abstract: A wellbore casing formed by extruding a tubular liner off of a mandrel. The tubular liner and mandrel are positioned within a new section of a wellbore with the tubular liner in an overlapping relationship with an existing casing. A hardenable fluidic material is injected into the new section of the wellbore below the level of the mandrel and into the annular region between the tubular liner and the new section of the wellbore. The inner and outer regions of the tubular liner are then fluidicly isolated. A non hardenable fluidic material is then injected into a portion of an interior region of the tubular liner to pressurize the portion of the interior region of the tubular liner below the mandrel. The tubular liner is then extruded off of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack
  • Patent number: 7147053
    Abstract: A wellhead is formed by extruding a plurality of tubular liners off of a mandrel into contact with an outer casing. The first tubular liner and mandrel are positioned within the wellbore with the tubular liner in an overlapping relationship with the outer casing. At least a portion of the tubular liner is extruded off of the mandrel into contact with the interior surface of the outer casing. The first tubular liner is extruded off of the mandrel by pressurizing an interior portion of the first tubular liner. Subsequent tubular liners are positioned in concentric overlapping relation and similarly extruded off of a mandrel into at least partial contact with the interior surface of the outer casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack
  • Patent number: 7121352
    Abstract: One or more subterranean zones are isolated from one or more other subterranean zones using a combination of solid tubulars and perforated tubulars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Kevin Karl Waddell, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco, Vikram Rao
  • Patent number: 7121337
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member including a support member comprising a fluid passage, an expansion device for radially expanding and plastically deforming the tubular member movably coupled to the support member for longitudinal displacement relative to the support member, at least one pressure chamber defined by and positioned between the support member and expansion device fluidicly coupled to the first fluid passage, and releasable supports coupled to the support member adapted to support the tubular member, wherein the releasable supports are positioned above and below the expansion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell