Patents by Inventor Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache

Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache 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).

  • Publication number: 20240143564
    Abstract: A method and a system for well log data quality control is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a well log data regarding a geological region of interest, verifying an integrity and a quality of the well log data, determining the quality of the well log data based on a quality score of the well log data and making a determination regarding the access to the databases based on the quality of data. Additionally, the method includes performing the statistical analysis and the classification of well log data, a predictive and a prescriptive analysis of trends and predictions of the well log data, and generating an action plan for datasets with unsatisfactory quality scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
    Inventors: Chicheng Xu, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Tao Lin, Yuchen Jin, Weichang Li
  • Publication number: 20240133257
    Abstract: A method for logging in a well is disclosed. The method includes securing a passive logging while levitating (PLWL) assembly to a bottomhole assembly (BHA) to form a logging assembly and running the logging assembly into a wellbore of the well. The method further includes detecting a deviation in the wellbore, detecting a fluid flow direction around the logging assembly in the wellbore, activating the PLWL assembly based, at least in part, on the deviation in the wellbore and the fluid flow direction, and levitating the logging assembly in a center of the wellbore. The method also includes determining whether the logging assembly has reached a target depth and performing logging in the well while the logging assembly is levitating in the center of the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20240118241
    Abstract: A remote field eddy current, RFEC, system for detecting an azimuth location of a defect in a pipe includes a holder extending along a longitudinal axis X and shaped to flow through the pipe, a magnetic field generator located within the holder and configured to generate a first magnetic field B0, a 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer located within the holder, at a given distance away from the transmitter, along the longitudinal axis X, wherein the fluxgate magnetometer is configured to measure a second magnetic field B, which is a result of the first magnetic field B0 interacting with the defect in the pipe, and a controller located within the holder and configured to receive a value of the second magnetic field B and to determine an azimuth of the defect in the pipe by interpreting radial components of the measured field, and an extent of the defect based on the second magnetic field B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shehab AHMED, Hakan BAGCI, Moutazbellah A. KHATER, Mohamed LARBI ZEGHLACHE, Tarek Mahmoud Atia MOSTAFA, Guang An OOI, Mehmet Burak OZAKIN
  • Patent number: 11939850
    Abstract: A treatment system comprises a treatment bladder associated with a volume of a tubing-casing annulus of a wellhead system to be treated. The treatment bladder contains a treatment fluid and is at an elevated pressure. The treatment bladder is coupled to the tubing-casing annulus utilizing a fluid conduit through a lower fluid junction. The fluid conduit permits two-way fluid communication between the treatment bladder and the tubing-casing annulus. A method for treating the tubing-casing annulus includes coupling the treatment bladder containing the treatment fluid of the treatment system to the tubing-casing annulus of the wellhead system using the fluid conduit, establishing two-way fluid communication between the tubing-casing annulus and the treatment bladder though the fluid conduit, halting fluid communication though the fluid conduit, and decoupling the treatment bladder from the tubing-casing annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Salem H. Suwadi
  • Patent number: 11939860
    Abstract: A downhole tool includes a body configured to move in a wellbore formed from a terranean surface to a subterranean formation in a direction downhole of the terranean surface independent of a downhole conveyance attached to the body; one or more sensors positioned in the body, the one or more sensors configured to measure a value associated with at least one of the wellbore or the terranean surface; and at least one mass positioned in the body and configured to adjust an orientation of the body in response to one or more forces acting on the body as the downhole tool moves in the wellbore in the direction downhole of the terranean surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Huseyin Rahmi Seren, Max Deffenbaugh, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20240093602
    Abstract: An untethered device includes a housing, a magnetic actuator that is coupled to the housing, and a buoyancy device. The buoyancy device includes an attachment plate that is securable to the magnetic actuator, a degradable ballast weight that is coupled to the attachment plate, and a buoyancy-enhancing feature that is positioned adjacent to the attachment plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Huseyin Rahmi Seren
  • Publication number: 20240084697
    Abstract: An untethered device includes a housing, a chamber wall extending from the housing and defining a buoyancy chamber, and a discharge door. The discharge door is configured to be placed in a closed position that isolates a ballast weight within the buoyancy chamber and an open position that allows a release of the ballast weight from the untethered device to reduce a bulk density of the untethered device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Patent number: 11913329
    Abstract: An untethered device includes a housing, a magnetic actuator that is coupled to the housing, and a buoyancy device. The buoyancy device includes an attachment plate that is securable to the magnetic actuator, a degradable ballast weight that is coupled to the attachment plate, and a buoyancy-enhancing feature that is positioned adjacent to the attachment plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Huseyin Rahmi Seren
  • Publication number: 20240026784
    Abstract: A method to perform a field operation with rapid well log validation is disclosed. The method includes generating, by performing well logging of a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation in a field, a well log data file including a number of data channels, each data channel including a series of measurement data records representing a downhole property along a depth in the wellbore, analyzing, by a computer processor, the data channels to determine a quality level of said each data channel, categorizing, by the computer processor, the data channels according to respective values of the quality level to generate a validation summary of the well log data file, presenting, using a graphical user interface, the validation summary to a user, and facilitating, based on a user input in response to presenting the validation summary, the field operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
    Inventors: Chicheng Xu, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Tao Lin, Yuchen Jin, Weichang Li
  • Publication number: 20240026785
    Abstract: A method to perform a field operation with well log repeatability verification is disclosed. The method includes generating, by repeatedly performing well logging of a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation in a field, a set of well log data files each comprising a plurality of data channels, each data channel comprising a series of measurement data records representing a downhole property along a depth in the wellbore, analyzing, by a computer processor, a main log and a repeat log of the set of well log data files to determine a repeatability measure of the set of well log data files, presenting, using a graphical user interface, the repeatability measure to a user, and facilitating, based on a user input in response to presenting the repeatability measure, the field operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
    Inventors: Chicheng Xu, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Tao Lin, Yuchen Jin, Weichang Li, Olanrewaju Abudu
  • Patent number: 11859456
    Abstract: A method for logging in a cased well is disclosed. The method includes receiving well data comprising an orientation of the cased well, selecting a logging while levitating (LWL) assembly type based on the well data, running the LWL assembly into the well to a start depth, and activating the LWL assembly based on a downhole condition so that the LWL assembly levitates in a center of the cased well, wherein the activated LWL assembly moves downhole in the cased well while levitating. The method further includes determining whether the LWL assembly has reached a target depth and performing logging in the cased well while the LWL assembly is levitating in the cased well when the target depth is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Patent number: 11859486
    Abstract: A system and method use a sensor embedded in flexible tape to monitor for corrosion of a structure, such as a conveyance line in a well. The system comprises the structure, a spool, a flexible tape, a sensor, a spool driver, and a processor. The structure includes a window adjacent to an element under test. The flexible tape is retained by the spool. The sensor is embedded in the tape, with the sensor being configured to detect a corrosion of the element and to generate corresponding sensor data. The spool driver is coupled to the spool and advances the tape from the spool to position the sensor adjacent to the window, thereby to position the sensor adjacent to the element to detect the corrosion. The processor is configured by code stored therein to receive the sensor data and to generate and output an alert of the detected corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Wael O. Badeghaish
  • Publication number: 20230383615
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a ballast that is configured to couple to an untethered downhole tool. The ballast includes a composite material. The composite material includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes metallic particles. The first portion is configured to, while the ballast is coupled to the untethered downhole tool, provide weight to the untethered downhole tool to lower the untethered downhole tool into a well formed in a subterranean formation. The second portion includes a polymer matrix. The metallic particles of the first portion are distributed throughout the polymer matrix of the second portion. The second portion is configured to dissolve in response to being exposed to downhole fluid within the well at specified downhole conditions, thereby releasing the metallic particles of the first portions from the polymer matrix that has dissolved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Huseyin Rahmi Seren, Max Deffenbaugh, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20230304392
    Abstract: Techniques according to the present disclosure include moving an untethered downhole tool through a wellbore between a terranean surface and a particular depth in the wellbore; during the moving the untethered downhole tool through the wellbore, acquiring a set of sensed data from one or more sensors in the untethered downhole tool in a time domain; transforming the plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in the time-domain into a plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in a depth-domain based at least in part on at least one accelerometer output and the locations of a plurality of casing collars; and preparing the plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in the depth-domain for presentation on a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20230266497
    Abstract: A method for configuring a logging module for logging sensors deployment based on a sensing data acquisition objective includes selecting a tool body, selecting at least one type of sensor, and selecting at least one type of roller. The method also includes incorporating the at least one selected type of sensor onto the at least one selected type of roller to provide at least one sensor roller, and mounting the at least one sensor roller into a compressible mounting assembly provided in the tool body to provide the logging module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Patent number: 11702925
    Abstract: Techniques according to the present disclosure include moving an untethered downhole tool through a wellbore between a terranean surface and a particular depth in the wellbore; during the moving the untethered downhole tool through the wellbore, acquiring a set of sensed data from one or more sensors in the untethered downhole tool in a time domain; transforming the plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in the time-domain into a plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in a depth-domain based at least in part on at least one accelerometer output and the locations of a plurality of casing collars; and preparing the plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in the depth-domain for presentation on a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20230220753
    Abstract: A treatment system comprises a treatment bladder associated with a volume of a tubing-casing annulus of a wellhead system to be treated. The treatment bladder contains a treatment fluid and is at an elevated pressure. The treatment bladder is coupled to the tubing-casing annulus utilizing a fluid conduit through a lower fluid junction. The fluid conduit permits two-way fluid communication between the treatment bladder and the tubing-casing annulus. A method for treating the tubing-casing annulus includes coupling the treatment bladder containing the treatment fluid of the treatment system to the tubing-casing annulus of the wellhead system using the fluid conduit, establishing two-way fluid communication between the tubing-casing annulus and the treatment bladder though the fluid conduit, halting fluid communication though the fluid conduit, and decoupling the treatment bladder from the tubing-casing annulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache, Salem H. Suwadi
  • Patent number: 11675105
    Abstract: A method for configuring a logging module for logging sensors deployment based on a sensing data acquisition objective includes selecting a tool body, selecting at least one type of sensor, and selecting at least one type of roller. The method also includes incorporating the at least one selected type of sensor onto the at least one selected type of roller to provide at least one sensor roller, and mounting the at least one sensor roller into a compressible mounting assembly provided in the tool body to provide the logging module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20230175329
    Abstract: A method for logging in a cased well is disclosed. The method includes receiving well data comprising an orientation of the cased well, selecting a logging while levitating (LWL) assembly type based on the well data, running the LWL assembly into the well to a start depth, and activating the LWL assembly based on a downhole condition so that the LWL assembly levitates in a center of the cased well, wherein the activated LWL assembly moves downhole in the cased well while levitating. The method further includes determining whether the LWL assembly has reached a target depth and performing logging in the cased well while the LWL assembly is levitating in the cased well when the target depth is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Publication number: 20230167733
    Abstract: Techniques according to the present disclosure include moving an untethered downhole tool through a wellbore between a terranean surface and a particular depth in the wellbore; during the moving the untethered downhole tool through the wellbore, acquiring a set of sensed data from one or more sensors in the untethered downhole tool in a time domain; transforming the plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in the time-domain into a plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in a depth-domain based at least in part on at least one accelerometer output and the locations of a plurality of casing collars; and preparing the plurality of data values associated with the wellbore parameter in the depth-domain for presentation on a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache