Patents by Inventor Martin Gerards Rene Bosma
Martin Gerards Rene Bosma 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: 7708081Abstract: A wellbore system is provided including a wellbore formed in an earth formation, the wellbore extending into a salt layer of the earth formation. The wellbore system comprises a tubular conduit arranged in the wellbore whereby at least a portion of the tubular conduit is surrounded by the salt layer whereby an annular space is formed between said portion of the tubular conduit and the wellbore wall. The wellbore system further comprises an annular body of a- resilient material arranged in said annular space and extending substantially the length of said portion of the tubular conduit surrounded by the salt layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2005Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Patent number: 7640965Abstract: A method is provided of in-situ casting well equipment wherein a metal is used which expands upon solidification. A body of such metal is placed in a cavity in a well. Before or after placing the metal in the cavity in the well, the body is brought at a temperature above the melting point of the metal. The metal of the body in the cavity is solidified by cooling it down to below the melting point of the metal.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Mike Peters, Robert Nicholas Worrall
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Patent number: 7578347Abstract: A method of sealing a space in a wellbore formed in an earth formation comprises inserting a plurality of swellable particles into the space by pumping them in a carrier fluid, the particles being susceptible to swelling upon contact with a selected fluid, and inducing the selected fluid to contact the swelleable particles whereby the swelleable particles swell so as to form a body of swollen particles in the space.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, John Alexander Gordon Dewar
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Patent number: 7527099Abstract: A system is provided for sealing a space in a wellbore formed in an earth formation. The system has a swelleable body arranged in the wellbore in a manner so as to seal the space upon swelling of the swelleable body, the swelleable body being susceptible of being in contact with formation water flowing into the wellbore, the swelleable body including a matrix material provided with a compound soluble in the formation water. The matrix material substantially prevents or restricts migration of the compound out of the swelleable body and allows migration of the formation water into the swelleable body by osmosis so as to induce swelling of the swelleable body upon migration of the formation water into the swelleable body.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Juul Cuijpers, Francesco Picchioni, Sanjay Rastogi
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Patent number: 7527095Abstract: A method of creating a zonal isolation above a target zone in an underground wellbore comprises: inserting a slurry injection tubing into the wellbore; arranging within an annular space surrounding said tubing an particle accumulation means, such as an expandable screen or an area where the slurry velocity is reduced; and pumping a slurry comprising a carrier fluid and granular material down via the slurry injection tubing and the target zone and then up into the annular space, such that at least some granular material accumulates and forms an elongate zonal isolation in the annular space between the target zone and the particle accumulation means, which zonal isolation is removable and exerts a limited radial force to the surrounding formation, thereby reducing the risk of formation damage.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2004Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Andreas Bloess, Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Michael Caspar Gunningham, Cornelis Jan Kenter, Robert Nicholas Worrall
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Patent number: 7510020Abstract: A wellbore system is provided including a wellbore formed in an earth formation, the wellbore extending into a salt layer of the earth formation. The wellbore system comprises a tubular conduit arranged in the wellbore whereby at least a portion of the tubular conduit is surrounded by the salt layer whereby an annular space is formed between said portion of the tubular conduit and the wellbore wall. The wellbore system further comprises an annular body of a- resilient material arranged in said annular space and extending substantially the length of said portion of the tubular conduit surrounded by the salt layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Publication number: 20080156492Abstract: A wellbore system is provided including a wellbore formed in an earth formation, the wellbore extending into a salt layer of the earth formation. The wellbore system comprises a tubular conduit arranged in the wellbore whereby at least a portion of the tubular conduit is surrounded by the salt layer whereby an annular space is formed between said portion of the tubular conduit and the wellbore wall. The wellbore system further comprises an annular body of a resilient material arranged in said annular space and extending substantially the length of said portion of the tubular conduit surrounded by the salt layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2005Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Publication number: 20080149346Abstract: A method of installing an expandable tubular element in a wellbore comprises lowering the tubular element into the wellbore such that an annular space is formed between the tubular element and the wellbore wall, locating a first compound in the annular space, the first compound being adapted to cooperate with a second compound upon contact therewith so as to form an annular body anchoring the tubular element in the wellbore, radially expanding a section of the tubular element, and inducing the second compound to enter a portion of the annular space surrounding said expanded tubular section. An unexpanded section of the tubular element is disconnected from the expanded tubular section and removed from the expanded tubular section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2006Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Publication number: 20080135250Abstract: A method of sealing a space in a wellbore formed in an earth formation, the method comprising the steps of inserting a plurality of swelleable particles into said space, the particles being susceptible to swelling upon contact with a selected fluid, and inducing said selected fluid to contact the swelleable particles whereby the swelleable particles swell so as to form a body of swollen particles in said space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, John Alexander Gordon Dewar
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Patent number: 7380594Abstract: A method of installing an expandable tubular assembly in a wellbore, the tubular assembly including a plurality of expandable tubular elements, comprising: installing a first tubular element in the wellbore; installing a second tubular element in the wellbore such that an end part of the second tubular element extends into an end part of the first tubular element, arranging a radially deformable body around the overlapping portion; and radially expanding the end part of the second tubular element against the end part of the first tubular element such that the end part of the first tubular element becomes radially expanded and the deformable body becomes radially deformed, wherein a body of cement is present between the first tubular element and the wellbore wall, and wherein the deformable body is a fluidic volume that is pumped between the first tubular element and the wellbore wall before hardening of the cement.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Anthony Benzie, Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Mikhail Boris Geilikman, Andrei Gregory Filippov
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Publication number: 20080110628Abstract: A method is provided of sealing an annular space between an expandable tubular element arranged in a wellbore and a wall surrounding the expandable tubular element. A pressure difference occurs between a first location in the annular space and a second location in the annular space axially spaced from the first location. The method comprises: installing the tubular element in the wellbore; locating a body of fluid in the annular space between the first and second locations, the fluid having a yield strength selected such that the pressure difference is insufficient to induce axial flow of the body of fluid in the annular space after radial expansion of the tubular element; and radially expanding the tubular element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2005Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Mikhail Boris Geilikman
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Patent number: 7152657Abstract: A method is provided of in-situ casting well equipment wherein a metal is used which expands upon solidification. A body of such metal is placed in a cavity in a well. Before or after placing the metal in the cavity in the well, the body is brought at a temperature above the melting point of the metal. The metal of the body in the cavity is solidified by cooling it down to below the melting point of the metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Mike Peters, Robert Nicholas Worrall
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Patent number: 7133778Abstract: A method is provided for selecting a cementing composition for sealing a subterranean zone penetrated by a well bore. The method involves determining a group of effective cementing compositions from a group of cementing compositions given estimated conditions experienced during the life of the well, and estimating the risk parameters for each of the group of effective cementing compositions.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Krishna M. Ravi, Olivier Gastebled, Martin Gerard Rene Bosma
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Patent number: 7059415Abstract: A wellbore system having a borehole extending into an earth formation, a tubular element extending into the borehole whereby a cylindrical wall surrounds the tubular element in a manner that an annular space is formed between the tubular element and the cylindrical wall, at least one seal member arranged in the annular space, each seal member being movable between a retracted mode in which the seal member has a first volume and an expanded mode in which the seal member has a second volume larger than the first volume, wherein the seal member in the expanded mode thereof seals the annular space, and wherein the seal member includes a material which swells upon contact with a selected fluid so as to move the seal member from the retracted mode to the expanded mode thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Patent number: 7004260Abstract: A method is provided for activating a downhole system arranged in an annular space formed between a radially expandable tubular element extending into a borehole formed into an earth formation and a cylindrical wall surrounding the tubular element. The downhole system is arranged so as to be activated by movement of an annular movement device along the tubular element. The method involves arranging the annular moving device around the tubular element, the moving device having an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the tubular element in its unexpanded shape, and gradually expanding a portion of the tubular element by moving an expander through the tubular element in the direction of the moving device, whereby a transition zone of the tubular element is defined between the expanded an unexpanded portions of the tubular element.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Patent number: 6922637Abstract: A method is provided for selecting a cementing composition for sealing a subterranean zone penetrated by a well bore. The method involves determining a group of effective cementing compositions from a group of cementing compositions given estimated conditions experienced during the life of the well, and estimating the risk parameters for each of the group of effective cementing compositions.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Krishna M. Ravi, Olivier Gastebled, Martin Gerard Rene Bosma
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Publication number: 20040261990Abstract: A wellbore system having a borehole extending into an earth formation, a tubular element extending into the borehole whereby a cylindrical wall surrounds the tubular element in a manner that an annular space is formed between the tubular element and the cylindrical wall, at least one seal member arranged in the annular space, each seal member being movable between a retracted mode in which the seal member has a first volume and an expanded mode in which the seal member has a second volume larger than the first volume, wherein the seal member in the expanded mode thereof seals the annular space, and wherein the seal member includes a material which swells upon contact with a selected fluid so as to move the seal member from the retracted mode to the expanded mode thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Patent number: 6802375Abstract: A method for carrying out well construction, repair and abandonment operations, the method involves introducing a resin into a well and curing the same to form a seal, plug or connection, wherein the cured resin is expanded to at least the volume occupied by the resin prior to curing (compensating shrinkage), by cooling the well and curing the resin at a reduced temperature and subsequently allowing the well to reach its static bottom hole temperature. A method is also disclosed for analyzing the setting time, elastic properties, shrinkage/expansion, compressibility or coefficient of thermal expansion of thermosetting resins or oil well cements under simulated reservoir pressure and temperature conditions, which involves introducing a sample of a thermosetting resin or oil well cement into a pressure vessel that is equipped to provide the pressure and register the volume change to the analyzer used by this method.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Alexander Schwing
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Publication number: 20040182582Abstract: A method is provided for activating a downhole system arranged in an annular space formed between a radially expandable tubular element extending into a borehole formed into an earth formation and a cylindrical wall surrounding the tubular element. The downhole system is arranged so as to be activated by movement of an annular movement device along the tubular element. The method comprises arranging said annular moving device around the tubular element, the moving device having an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the tubular element in its unexpanded shape, and gradually expanding a portion of the tubular element by moving an expander through the tubular element in the direction of the moving device, whereby a transition zone of the tubular element is defined between the expanded an unexpanded portions of the tubular element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen
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Publication number: 20040149418Abstract: A method is provided of in-situ casting well equipment wherein a metal is used which expands upon solidification, the method comprising the steps of: placing a body of said metal in a cavity in the well; bringing said body at a temperature above the melting point of the metal; cooling down said body to below the melting point of the metal, thereby solidifying the metal of said body in the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Martin Gerard Rene Bosma, Erik Kerst Cornelissen, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Mike Peters, Robert Nicholas Worrall