Patents by Inventor Frank Vinicio Acosta
Frank Vinicio Acosta 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).
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Patent number: 11898416Abstract: A downhole tool for use in a well comprising a mandrel and an outer sleeve slidably disposed about the mandrel. An inner sleeve is slidably disposed in the mandrel. A drive pin comprising a drive pin bushing connected to the outer sleeve and a shear pin connected to the inner sleeve connects the inner sleeve to the outer sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Avinash Gopal Dharne, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta Villarreal, Priyanshkumar Prashantkumar Desai
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Patent number: 11873697Abstract: The present disclosure includes a plug for cementing a wellbore. The plug may include a cylinder. The cylinder may include at least one body including a non-conductive material with conductive filaments dispersed within the non-conductive material. The present disclosure also includes float equipment for cementing a wellbore. The float equipment may include a casing segment including an inner surface, drillable material affixed to the inner surface of the casing segment, and a check valve attached to the drillable material. The drillable material may include a non-conductive material and conductive filaments dispersed within the non-conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., SDG LLC, Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta Villarreal, Avinash Gopal Dharne, William M. Moeny, Neal Gregory Skinner
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Publication number: 20230399918Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is a cementing apparatus. The cementing apparatus, in one embodiment comprising a housing; a fixed member coupled with the housing, the fixed member having at least one fixed member fluid opening therein; and a moving member positioned downhole of the fixed member and movable between a circulating position and a cemented position, the moving member having at least one moving member fluid opening therein, the at least one moving member fluid opening linearly offset from the at least one fixed member fluid opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Handoko Tirto Santoso, Lonnie Carl Helms, Jinhua Cao, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Mayur Narain Ahuja, Rajesh Parameshwaraiah
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Patent number: 11746618Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is a cementing apparatus. The cementing apparatus, in one embodiment comprising a housing; a fixed member coupled with the housing, the fixed member having at least one fixed member fluid opening therein; and a moving member positioned downhole of the fixed member and movable between a circulating position and a cemented position, the moving member having at least one moving member fluid opening therein, the at least one moving member fluid opening linearly offset from the at least one fixed member fluid opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Handoko Tirto Santoso, Lonnie Carl Helms, Jinhua Cao, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Mayur Narain Ahuja, Rajesh Parameshwaraiah
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Patent number: 11739611Abstract: A single sleeve, multi-stage cementing tool for cementing in a wellbore can include a tool body, an outer mandrel, a flow port for providing fluid communication transversely from the inside of a tubing string into an annulus, and a port plug. The port plug is located within the flow port during first stage cementing such that the cement flows into the annulus from a bottom of the tubing string. The bottom of the tubing string can be closed after the first stage, and the port plug can be released from the flow port by increasing pressure within the tubing string. Second stage cementing can then be performed such that the cement flows into the annulus directly through the opened flow port. After all cement stages have been completed, a closing sleeve can be shifted to close the flow port.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Frank Vinicio Acosta Villarreal, Ahmad Rizal Maharam, Saul Emmanuel Vazquez Niebla
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Publication number: 20230243235Abstract: The present disclosure includes a plug for cementing a wellbore. The plug may include a cylinder. The cylinder may include at least one body including a non-conductive material with conductive filaments dispersed within the non-conductive material. The present disclosure also includes float equipment for cementing a wellbore. The float equipment may include a casing segment including an inner surface, drillable material affixed to the inner surface of the casing segment, and a check valve attached to the drillable material. The drillable material may include a non-conductive material and conductive filaments dispersed within the non-conductive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta Villarreal, Avinash Gopal Dharne, William M. Moeny, Neal Gregory Skinner
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Patent number: 11603736Abstract: A downhole apparatus includes a casing string with a fluid barrier connected therein defining a lower end of a buoyancy chamber. A rupture disk is spaced from the fluid barrier and defines an upper end of the buoyancy chamber. A degradable plug is connected in the casing string above the rupture disk. The degradable plug defines a flow path to permit flow therethrough to the rupture disk, and is movable from a first to a second position in the casing string.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie C. Helms, Min Mark Yuan, Frank Vinicio Acosta
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Patent number: 11566489Abstract: A stage cementing tool has a mandrel defining a central flow passage and a plurality of fully open cement flow ports. A packer disposed about the mandrel is movable from an unset to a set position. An opening sleeve is movable in the mandrel from a closed position to an open position in which the flow ports are exposed to allow flow therethrough. The opening sleeve is operable to move the setting sleeve to set the packer against the wellbore as it moves in the mandrel from the closed to the open position.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Lonnie Carl Helms, Avinash Gopal Dharne, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Priyanshkumar Prashantkumar Desai
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Patent number: 11519242Abstract: A stage cementing tool has a mandrel defining a central flow passage and a plurality of cementing passages in a wall thereof. A packer is disposed about the mandrel. A closing sleeve is detachably connected to and movable relative to the mandrel. An opening sleeve defining a plurality of fully open cement flow ports therethrough is telescopically movable relative to the closing sleeve and movable relative to the mandrel. The opening sleeve is movable to move the packer to the set position, and thereafter movable to open a cement flow path between the central flow passage and an annulus defined by the stage cementing tool and the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Avinash Gopal Dharne, Lonnie Carl Helms, Ishwar Dilip Patil, Frank Vinicio Acosta
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Publication number: 20220364437Abstract: A downhole tool for use in a well comprising a mandrel and an outer sleeve slidably disposed about the mandrel. An inner sleeve is slidably disposed in the mandrel. A drive pin comprising a drive pin bushing connected to the outer sleeve and a shear pin connected to the inner sleeve connects the inner sleeve to the outer sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Avinash Gopal Dharne, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta Villarreal, Priyanshkumar Prashantkumar Desai
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Patent number: 11492867Abstract: A downhole apparatus includes an outer case connectable at upper and lower ends thereof in a casing string. A degradable plug is fixed in an interior of the outer case. A rupture disc is mounted in a port in the wall of the outer case. The port is positioned to communicate a degrading fluid to an axial flow passage defined in a wall of the outer case and the axial flow passage is configured to communicate the degrading fluid back into the interior of the outer case and into the degradable plug.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Min Mark Yuan, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Lonnie C. Helms
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Publication number: 20220349273Abstract: A stage cementing tool has a mandrel defining a central flow passage and a plurality of cementing passages in a wall thereof. A packer is disposed about the mandrel. A closing sleeve is detachably connected to and movable relative to the mandrel. An opening sleeve defining a plurality of fully open cement flow ports therethrough is telescopically movable relative to the closing sleeve and movable relative to the mandrel. The opening sleeve is movable to move the packer to the set position, and thereafter movable to open a cement flow path between the central flow passage and an annulus defined by the stage cementing tool and the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Avinash Gopal Dharne, Lonnie Carl Helms, Ishwar Dilip Patil, Frank Vinicio Acosta
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Publication number: 20220349272Abstract: A stage cementing tool has a mandrel defining a central flow passage and a plurality of fully open cement flow ports. A packer disposed about the mandrel is movable from an unset to a set position. An opening sleeve is movable in the mandrel from a closed position to an open position in which the flow ports are exposed to allow flow therethrough. The opening sleeve is operable to move the setting sleeve to set the packer against the wellbore as it moves in the mandrel from the closed to the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Lonnie Carl Helms, Avinash Gopal Dharne, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Priyanshkumar Prashantkumar Desai
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Publication number: 20220195835Abstract: A single sleeve, multi-stage cementing tool for cementing in a wellbore can include a tool body, an outer mandrel, a flow port for providing fluid communication transversely from the inside of a tubing string into an annulus, and a port plug. The port plug is located within the flow port during first stage cementing such that the cement flows into the annulus from a bottom of the tubing string. The bottom of the tubing string can be closed after the first stage, and the port plug can be released from the flow port by increasing pressure within the tubing string. Second stage cementing can then be performed such that the cement flows into the annulus directly through the opened flow port. After all cement stages have been completed, a closing sleeve can be shifted to close the flow port.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Frank Vinicio ACOSTA VILLARREAL, Ahmad Rizal MAHARAM, Saul Emmanuel VAZQUEZ NIEBLA
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Patent number: 11359454Abstract: A downhole apparatus comprises a casing string with a degradable plug therein to block flow therethrough. A flow barrier is positioned in the casing below the degradable plug and the degradable plug and the flow barrier defining a buoyancy chamber therebetween. An annular fluid reservoir holds a degrading fluid. The fluid reservoir has first and second rupture disks at upper and lower ends. Fluid from the annular fluid reservoir is communicated to the degradable plug after the first and second rupture disks rupture.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta
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Patent number: 11346171Abstract: A downhole apparatus comprises a casing string with a frangible disk positioned therein. A flow barrier is connected in the casing string and spaced downwardly from the frangible disk. The frangible disk and the flow barrier define a buoyancy chamber. The sliding sleeve will impact and shatter the frangible disk into a plurality of pieces that will pass downwardly in the casing after the casing has been lowered to a desired depth.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Min Mark Yuan, Stephen Allen Yeldell, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Rajesh Parameshwaraiah
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Publication number: 20220136364Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is a cementing apparatus. The cementing apparatus, in one embodiment comprising a housing; a fixed member coupled with the housing, the fixed member having at least one fixed member fluid opening therein; and a moving member positioned downhole of the fixed member and movable between a circulating position and a cemented position, the moving member having at least one moving member fluid opening therein, the at least one moving member fluid opening linearly offset from the at least one fixed member fluid opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Ishwar Dilip Patil, Handoko Tirto Santoso, Lonnie Carl Helms, Jinhua Cao, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Mayur Narain Ahuja, Rajesh Parameshwaraiah
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Patent number: 11293260Abstract: A buoyancy assist tool has an outer case and a rupture disk connected in the outer case. A sleeve is disposed in the outer case and movable from first to second position in the outer case. A rupture disk membrane of a rupture disk prevents the sleeve from moving to the second position prior to the rupture disk membrane rupturing. The outer case is configured to be connected in a well casing. A lock ring holds the sleeve in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Avinash Gopal Dharne, Stephen Allen Yeldell, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Min Mark Yuan, Kevin Wendell Ardoin
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Patent number: 11293261Abstract: A buoyancy assist tool has an outer case and a sleeve disposed in the outer case. The sleeve is movable from first to second positions in the outer case. A permeable membrane is attached to the movable sleeve at a lower end thereof. A rupture disk is mounted in the outer case. Fluid flow through the permeable membrane detaches the sleeve from the outer case and moves the sleeve from the first to the second position. In the second position, the sleeve creates an open bore for the passage of downhole tools therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Min Mark Yuan, Stephen Allen Yeldell, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicio Acosta, Rajesh Parameshwaraiah, Kevin Wendell Ardoin
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Patent number: 11280157Abstract: A cementing tool has an outer housing defining a central flow passage and a plurality of housing flow ports through a wall thereof. An opening sleeve has first and second opening sleeve faces exposed to housing pressure. The first opening sleeve face has a greater surface area than the second opening sleeve face. The pressure differential created is such that the sleeve will move from a first position to a second position in which flow through the plurality of housing flow ports is permitted. The cementing tool has an opening seat defined on the opening sleeve. The opening sleeve may also be moved from the first to the second position as a result of the engagement of the opening plug with the opening seat and an application of pressure thereabove.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Frank Vinicio Acosta, Lonnie Carl Helms