Patents by Inventor Gaute OFTEDAL

Gaute OFTEDAL 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: 10689975
    Abstract: A petroleum well tracer release flow shunt chamber in an annulus space about a base pipe and method of estimating one or more pressure differences or gradients, wherein the flow shunt chamber extending generally axial-parallel with the base pipe, and provided with a shunt flow passage for holding a shunt chamber fluid, and including: a tracer carrying system designed to release shots of tracer molecules or particles according to some control to the shunt chamber fluid, a first inlet aperture for receiving a first fluid, a second outlet aperture for releasing the shunt chamber fluid to a fluid, a flow restrictor nozzle unit allowing a pressure gradient between the inlet and outlet apertures driving the shunt chamber fluid out via the flow restrictor nozzle unit, topside recording the tracer transient response from the shunt chamber after tracer shots, extracting pressure gradients from recoded tracer transient response and tracer transient model, deriving wellbore inflow profile information from pressure gradi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: RESMAN AS
    Inventors: Fridtjof Nyhavn, Christian Andresen, Gaute Oftedal
  • Patent number: 9896913
    Abstract: A petroleum well tracer release flow shunt chamber in an annulus space about a base pipe and method of estimating one or more pressure differences or gradients, wherein the flow shunt chamber extending generally axial-parallel with the base pipe, and provided with a shunt flow passage for holding a shunt chamber fluid, and including a tracer system exposed to and arranged for releasing unique tracer molecules at a generally even release time rate to the shunt chamber fluid, a first inlet aperture for receiving a first fluid, a second outlet aperture for releasing the shunt chamber fluid to a fluid, a flow restrictor allowing a pressure gradient between the inlet and outlet apertures driving the shunt chamber fluid out via the flow restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: RESMAN AS
    Inventors: Fridtjof Nyhavn, Christian Andresen, Gaute Oftedal
  • Publication number: 20180038223
    Abstract: A petroleum well tracer release flow shunt chamber in an annulus space about a base pipe and method of estimating one or more pressure differences or gradients, wherein the flow shunt chamber extending generally axial-parallel with the base pipe, and provided with a shunt flow passage for holding a shunt chamber fluid, and including: a tracer carrying system designed to release shots of tracer molecules or particles according to some control to the shunt chamber fluid, a first inlet aperture for receiving a first fluid, a second outlet aperture for releasing the shunt chamber fluid to a fluid, a flow restrictor nozzle unit allowing a pressure gradient between the inlet and outlet apertures driving the shunt chamber fluid out via the flow restrictor nozzle unit, topside recording the tracer transient response from the shunt chamber after tracer shots, extracting pressure gradients from recoded tracer transient response and tracer transient model, deriving wellbore inflow profile information from pressure gradi
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: RESMAN AS
    Inventors: Fridtjof NYHAVN, Christian ANDRESEN, Gaute OFTEDAL
  • Publication number: 20160201454
    Abstract: A petroleum well tracer release flow shunt chamber in an annulus space about a base pipe and method of estimating one or more pressure differences or gradients, wherein the flow shunt chamber extending generally axial-parallel with the base pipe, and provided with a shunt flow passage for holding a shunt chamber fluid, and including a tracer system exposed to and arranged for releasing unique tracer molecules at a generally even release time rate to the shunt chamber fluid, a first inlet aperture for receiving a first fluid, a second outlet aperture for releasing the shunt chamber fluid to a fluid, a flow restrictor allowing a pressure gradient between the inlet and outlet apertures driving the shunt chamber fluid out via the flow restrictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: RESMAN AS
    Inventors: Fridtjof NYHAVN, Christian ANDRESEN, Gaute OFTEDAL