Patents by Inventor Michael A. Greci
Michael A. Greci 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: 11988048Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a self-locking coupler, a method to couple adjacent tubing sections, and a self-locking coupling assembly. In one embodiment, the self-locking coupler includes a coupling shroud having an external interface proximate to a first end of the coupling shroud and a set of collet fingers that extends from the first end of the coupling shroud. The self-locking coupler also includes a locking sleeve having an internal interface that complements the external interface of the coupling shroud. The locking sleeve is movable from a first position on the external interface to a second position on the external interface. As the locking sleeve moves from the first position to the second position, the locking sleeve compresses the set of collet fingers into a cavity of a first seal ring coupled to a first tubing section to secure the coupling shroud to the first tubing section.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INCInventor: Stephen Michael Greci
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Publication number: 20240117718Abstract: A washpipe free feature may include a housing defining a chamber having a bypass portion and a securing portion. The housing has first and second bores to put the bypass portion in fluid communication with an annulus of a wellbore and a central bore of a downhole tubular, respectively. Further, the washpipe free feature includes a magnet secured in the bypass portion, a ferromagnetic ball disposed within the bypass portion, and a piston disposed within the chamber. A distal end of the piston blocks the ball from contacting the magnet in a run-in position such that the ball may plug the first bore in response to fluid flow from the tubular toward the annulus. Additionally, the piston is slideable to an open position such that the magnet may hold the ball out of a flow path between the first bore and the second bore in the bypass portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Stephen Michael Greci
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Patent number: 11952873Abstract: A washpipe free feature may include a housing defining a chamber having a bypass portion and a securing portion. The housing has first and second bores to put the bypass portion in fluid communication with an annulus of a wellbore and a central bore of a downhole tubular, respectively. Further, the washpipe free feature includes a magnet secured in the bypass portion, a ferromagnetic ball disposed within the bypass portion, and a piston disposed within the chamber. A distal end of the piston blocks the ball from contacting the magnet in a run-in position such that the ball may plug the first bore in response to fluid flow from the tubular toward the annulus. Additionally, the piston is slideable to an open position such that the magnet may hold the ball out of a flow path between the first bore and the second bore in the bypass portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Stephen Michael Greci
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Publication number: 20240076968Abstract: A flow control system for use in controlling flow of a fluid composition in a subterranean well is disclosed. The flow control system includes a flow chamber that includes an inlet and an outlet oriented such that the fluid composition flows circuitously through the chamber, forming a vortex at least at the outlet. The flow control system further comprises at least one flow control structure shaped and positioned in the flow chamber such that a velocity of the circuitous flow is reduced and the vortex is eliminated or substantially reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney, Michael Linley Fripp
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Patent number: 11898438Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include methods to monitor expansion of a metallic sealant deployed in a wellbore, methods to monitor downhole fluid displacement, and downhole metallic sealant measurement systems. The method to monitor expansion of a downhole metallic sealant includes deploying a metallic sealant deployed along a section of a wellbore. The method also includes exposing the metallic sealant to a reacting fluid to initiate a galvanic reaction. The method further includes measuring a change in temperature caused by the galvanic reaction. The method further includes determining an amount of expansion of the metallic sealant based on the change in the temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci, John Todd Broome
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Patent number: 11891874Abstract: A system for a wellbore can include a tubing string positioned downhole in a wellbore and a porous gravel pack. The porous gravel pack can be positioned in an annulus defined at least in part by a surface of the tubing string. The porous gravel pack can be made up of a plurality of grains. Each grain can include a core surrounded at least in part by a sheath. The core can comprise an expandable material that can expand in response to coming in contact with a fluid. The sheath can surround the core and can be deformable in response to the core expanding in response being exposed to a fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Cem Sonat, Stephen Michael Greci, Brandon Thomas Least
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Patent number: 11892096Abstract: A float for use with a fluid flow control device. The float, in at least one aspect, includes a fluid impermeable exterior, and a base material having one or more cavities positioned within the fluid impermeable exterior, the base material formed using an additive manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci, Michael Linley Fripp
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Patent number: 11891867Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects of an expandable metal wellbore anchor for use in a wellbore. The expandable metal wellbore anchor, in one aspect, includes one or more expandable members positionable on a downhole conveyance member in a wellbore, wherein the one or more expandable members comprise a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis, and wherein a combined volume of the one or more expandable members is sufficient to expand to anchor one or more downhole tools within the wellbore in response to the hydrolysis.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
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Publication number: 20240035372Abstract: Provided is a density sensor, a downhole tool, and a well system. The density sensor, in one aspect, includes one or more float chambers, and two or more floats located within the one or more float chambers. In one aspect, the two or more floats have a density ranging from 0.08 sg to 2.1 sg, and further a first of the two or more floats has a first known density (?1) and a second of the two or more floats has a second known density (?2) greater than the first known density (?1). The density sensor, according to this aspect, may further include one or more sensors located proximate the one or more float chambers, the one or more sensors configured to sense whether ones of the two or more floats sink or float within production fluid having an unknown density (?f).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
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Publication number: 20240035359Abstract: A controllable downhole scraper includes a fluid reservoir having a pressure wall positioned and movable within the fluid reservoir defining a first portion of the fluid reservoir including a first fluid. The pressure wall exerts a force on the first fluid to maintain a first pressure. A scraper blade is movable between a retracted and an extended position. A sleeve is positioned on a tubular and slidable between a first position engaging the scraper blade to move into the retracted position, and a second position engaging the scraper blade to move into the extended position. The sleeve is configured to move between the two positions through a reduction in the first pressure in the first fluid. A restrictor is fluidly coupled between the fluid reservoir and a pressure reservoir. A gas reservoir, fluidly coupled to the first fluid, is selectively operable to reduce the first pressure in the first fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Michael GRECI, Michael Linley FRIPP, Finn Gamble MCCARTHY
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Publication number: 20240035376Abstract: Provided is a downhole tool and a well system. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a tubular providing one or more production fluid flow paths for a production fluid. The downhole tool, according to this aspect, further includes one or more float chambers located within the tubular, and two or more floats located within the one or more float chambers. In one aspect, a first of the two or more floats has a first density (?1) between a density of gas (?g) and a density of oil (?o), and a second of the two or more floats has a second density (?2) between the density of oil (?o) and a density of water (?w). The downhole tool, according to this aspect, further includes two or more non-contact proximity sensors configured to sense a radial location of the two or more floats to determine a gas:oil ratio and oil:water ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
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Patent number: 11885203Abstract: A controllable downhole scraper includes a fluid reservoir having a pressure wall positioned and movable within the fluid reservoir defining a first portion of the fluid reservoir including a first fluid. The pressure wall exerts a force on the first fluid to maintain a first pressure. A scraper blade is movable between a retracted and an extended position. A sleeve is positioned on a tubular and slidable between a first position engaging the scraper blade to move into the retracted position, and a second position engaging the scraper blade to move into the extended position. The sleeve is configured to move between the two positions through a reduction in the first pressure in the first fluid. A restrictor is fluidly coupled between the fluid reservoir and a pressure reservoir. A gas reservoir, fluidly coupled to the first fluid, is selectively operable to reduce the first pressure in the first fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Michael Linley Fripp, Finn Gamble McCarthy
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Publication number: 20240011365Abstract: A system for a wellbore can include a tubing string positioned downhole in a wellbore and a porous gravel pack. The porous gravel pack can be positioned in an annulus defined at least in part by a surface of the tubing string. The porous gravel pack can be made up of a plurality of grains. Each grain can include a core surrounded at least in part by a sheath. The core can comprise an expandable material that can expand in response to coming in contact with a fluid. The sheath can surround the core and can be deformable in response to the core expanding in response being exposed to a fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Cem Sonat, Stephen Michael Greci, Brandon Thomas Least
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Publication number: 20230417128Abstract: A screen assembly for wellbore production wherein a base pipe is wrapped with a screen constructed one or more cables formed from a plurality of non-metallic fibers bonded to one another with a metal binder. The non-metallic fibers may be basalt fibers or another ceramic material. The metal binder forms a metal matrix that has a first diameter about a primary cable axis, with the metal matrix securing the non-metallic fibers so that they have a second diameter about the primary cable axis, where the second diameter is larger than the first diameter, minimizing exposure of the metal matrix to wellbore fluids.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael Linley FRIPP, Stephen Michael GRECI, Daniel D. GLEITMAN
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Publication number: 20230407717Abstract: Provided is a sealing/anchoring element, a sealing/anchoring tool, a well system, and a method for sealing/anchoring within a wellbore. The sealing/anchoring element, in one aspect, includes a circlet having an inside surface having an inside diameter (di), an outside surface having an outside diameter (do), a width (w), and a wall thickness (t), the circlet having one or more geometric features that allow it to mechanically deform when moved from a radially reduced mechanical state to a radially enlarged mechanical state, the circlet comprising an expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis to chemically deform the circlet from a radially reduced chemical state to a radially enlarged chemical state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Brandon T. Least, Stephen Michael Greci, Chris M. Pelto, Rutger Evers
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Publication number: 20230407718Abstract: Provided is a sealing/anchoring tool, a well system and a method for sealing/anchoring within a wellbore. The sealing/anchoring tool, in one aspect, includes a mandrel and a hydraulically deformable member positioned about the mandrel. The sealing/anchoring tool, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a sealing/anchoring element positioned about the hydraulically deformable member, the sealing/anchoring element including a circlet having an inside surface having an inside diameter (di), an outside surface having an outside diameter (do), a width (w), and a wall thickness (t), the circlet comprising an expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis to chemically deform the circlet from a radially reduced chemical state to a radially enlarged chemical state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Brandon T. Least, Stephen Michael Greci, Chris M. Pelto, Rutger Evers
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Patent number: 11846156Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a production valve. In one embodiment, a production valve includes a tubular having one or more first openings therein; a sliding member positioned within the tubular and having one or more second openings therein, configured to move between a first closed position wherein the first openings are offset from the second openings to close a fluid path and a second open position wherein the first openings are aligned with the second openings to open the fluid path; a remote open member positioned within the tubular, coupled to the sliding member in the first position and decoupled from the sliding member in the second position; and a first and second seal positioned between the tubular and at least one of the sliding member or remote open member, the first seal having a first seal area, and the second seal having a second greater seal area.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Luke Holderman, Ibrahim El Mallawany, Stephen Michael Greci
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Patent number: 11846165Abstract: Provided is a fluid flow control system and a well system. The fluid flow control system, in one aspect, includes a fluid nozzle operable to receive production fluid having a pressure (P3) and discharge control fluid having a control pressure (P2). The fluid flow control system, in accordance with this aspect, further includes an inflow control device having a production fluid inlet operable to receive the production fluid having the pressure (P3), a control inlet operable to receive the control fluid having the control pressure (P2) from the fluid nozzle, and a production fluid outlet operable to pass the production fluid to the tubing, the inflow control device configured to open or close the production fluid outlet based upon a pressure differential value (P3?P2). The fluid flow control system, in another aspect, includes a flow regulator coupled to the inflow control device, the flow regulator configured to regulate a pressure drop (P3?P1) across the production fluid inlet and the production fluid outlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Ryan Wesley McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci
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Publication number: 20230366289Abstract: A downhole sealing tool and method use a swellable material (e.g., a swellable rubber or a swellable metallic material) with increased surface area for faster reaction with an activation fluid. In one example, a swellable metallic sealing element and actuator are carried on a tool mandrel for lowering into a wellbore on a conveyance. The sealing element includes a plurality of expandable metal wires supported along the tool mandrel. The expandable metal wires comprise a swellable metallic material that swells in response to exposure to an activation fluid. The actuator is used to separate at least a portion of the expandable metal wires, to increase a surface area exposed to the activation fluid and thereby accelerate the reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Michael Linley Fripp, Brandon T. Least
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Publication number: 20230366291Abstract: A wireless flow control device includes a shiftable apparatus and a power source configured to provide power to shift the shiftable apparatus from a first position to a second position. The wireless flow control device also includes a valve that forms a first fluid flow path through the wireless flow control device while the shiftable apparatus is in the first position. The wireless flow control device further includes an actuation assembly, which, when actuated, forms a second fluid flow path through the wireless flow control device, and a turbine configured to recharge the power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael Linley FRIPP, Stephen Michael GRECI, Ibrahim EL MALLAWANY