Patents by Inventor Mohammad Aljubran
Mohammad Aljubran 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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Publication number: 20240117738Abstract: Systems and methods include techniques for using smart polymers. Units of smart polymers with heat sensitivity are inserted by a monitoring system into drilling fluid pumped into a well. The smart polymers are configured to be triggered by exposure to increasing levels of heat. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored. Each insertion timestamp indicates a time that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of returning mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymer are captured by a camera positioned at a sensing location and linked to the monitoring system. An estimate of temperatures at a drill bit of the drilling operation is determined using continuous images, observed characteristics, and insertion timestamps, based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Suggested changes to be made to drilling parameters are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Mohammed Albassam, Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Mohammad Aljubran, Peter Boul
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Publication number: 20240117737Abstract: Systems and methods include techniques for using smart polymers. Units of smart polymers with hydrogen sulfide (H2S) sensitivity are inserted by a monitoring system into drilling fluid pumped into a well. The smart polymers are configured to be triggered by increasing H2S concentrations. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored. Each insertion timestamp indicates a time that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of returning mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymer are captured by a camera positioned at a sensing location and linked to the monitoring system. An estimate of H2S levels at a drill bit of the drilling operation is determined using continuous images, observed characteristics, and insertion timestamps, and based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Changes to drilling parameters are suggested.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Mohammed Albassam, Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Mohammad Aljubran, Peter Boul
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Publication number: 20240118213Abstract: Systems and methods include techniques for using smart polymers. Units of smart polymers with chloride ion sensitivity are inserted into drilling fluid pumped into a well. The smart polymers are configured to be triggered by chlorine ion concentrations. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored. Each insertion timestamp indicates a time that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of returning mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymers are captured by a camera positioned at a sensing location and linked to the monitoring system. An estimate of salinity in the drilling fluid is determined using continuous images, observed characteristics, and insertion timestamps, and based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Changes to drilling parameters are suggested based on the estimate of the salinity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Mohammed Albassam, Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Mohammad Aljubran, Peter Boul
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Publication number: 20240110476Abstract: Systems and methods include techniques for using smart polymers. Units of smart polymers with per-hydrogen (pH) sensitivity are inserted into drilling fluid pumped into a well during drilling. The smart polymers are configured to be triggered by hydrogen ion concentrations. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored and indicates a time that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of returning mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymer are captured by a camera positioned at a sensing location and linked to the monitoring system. An estimate of pH values at a drill bit of the drilling operation is determined using the continuous images, observed characteristics, and insertion timestamps, and based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Changes to be made to drilling parameters are suggested.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Mohammed Albassam, Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Mohammad Aljubran, Peter Boul
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Publication number: 20240110451Abstract: Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for determining well pressure. Units of pressure-responsive smart polymers are inserted into drilling fluid pumped into a well during a drilling operation. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored indicating times that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of drilling mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymers are captured by a camera. An estimate of a bottom hole pressure (BHP) at a drill bit of the drilling operation is determined using the continuous images, the observed characteristics, and the insertion timestamps associated with each unit of smart polymer. Determining the estimate is based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Changes to be made to drilling parameters for the drilling operation are suggested based on the estimated BHP.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Mohammed Albassam, Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Mohammad Aljubran, Peter Boul
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Patent number: 11939827Abstract: Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for determining well pressure. Units of pressure-responsive smart polymers are inserted into drilling fluid pumped into a well during a drilling operation. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored indicating times that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of drilling mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymers are captured by a camera. An estimate of a bottom hole pressure (BHP) at a drill bit of the drilling operation is determined using the continuous images, the observed characteristics, and the insertion timestamps associated with each unit of smart polymer. Determining the estimate is based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Changes to be made to drilling parameters for the drilling operation are suggested based on the estimated BHP.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammed Albassam, Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Mohammad Aljubran, Peter Boul
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Publication number: 20240076951Abstract: A wellbore assembly includes a wellbore string disposed within a wellbore and a cement retainer coupled to a downhole end of the wellbore string. The cement retainer includes a housing, a packer, a valve, and a sleeve. The housing includes one or more fluid ports extending from an interior surface of the housing to the annulus. The housing defines a first fluid pathway extending from within the wellbore string to within the housing. The sleeve is movable between a first position, in which the sleeve blocks the one or more fluid ports, and a second position in which the sleeve exposes the one or more fluid ports to open a second fluid pathway extending from the annulus, through the one or more fluid ports, to the first fluid pathway. Opening the second fluid pathway allows mixing of a first fluid with a second fluid in the cement retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Carl D. Lindahl, Mohammad Aljubran, Abdulwahab S. Aljohar, Mohammed Alsheikh, Shehab Ahmed
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Publication number: 20230417122Abstract: A rig site may include a rotary table within a rig floor above a wellbore. A fabric sheet rolled into two symmetrical rolls is disposed on the rig floor. A pre-cut center hole of the fabric sheet is coaxial with the rotary table. A casing string, to be lowered in the wellbore, includes a first casing joint at a bottom of the casing string is a modified float joint. The pre-cut center hole of the fabric sheet is attached to a sleeve of the modified float joint. Union units are provided above the rotary table. The union units close the fabric sheet around the casing string to form a fabric-nested casing string within the wellbore. A cement slurry is pumped down the casing string and into a space between the fabric sheet and the casing string to cement the fabric-nested casing string to the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Amjad Shaarawi, Mohammad Aljubran, Mohammed Alsheikh, Abdulwahab Aljohar, Timothy Eric Moellendick, Ossama Sehsah
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Publication number: 20230367290Abstract: A method for a well includes obtaining a dynamic input parameter combination for the well, determining measurements for a rotating control device using a sensor, and predicting a rotating control device wear estimate using rotating control device estimation methods, the measurements, and the dynamic input parameter combination. The method for a well further includes maximizing an instantaneous rate of penetration, while reducing rotating control device failure, to determine an optimized average rate of penetration using the rotating control device wear estimate. Finally, the optimized average rate of penetration is executed for a well.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Zahrah Marhoon, Arturo Magana-Mora, Amjad Shaarawi, Ossama Sehsah, Hassan Malik
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Publication number: 20230203904Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir. One method for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir includes: positioning, a laser head at a first subterranean location, wherein the laser head is attached to a tubular inside of a wellbore; directing, by the laser head, a laser beam towards a leak on the wellbore; and sealing the leak using the laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Hussain AlBahrani, Sameeh Issa Batarseh, Timothy E. Moellendick
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Publication number: 20230184992Abstract: A method includes taking at least one image of a plurality of returned rock fragments from a wellbore using a camera, analyzing the at least one image with an image analysis program to detect a caving in the plurality of returned rock fragments, constructing a model of the caving, and incorporating the model of the caving into a finite element geomechanics model of the wellbore using a meshing program to create an adjusted model of the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Hussain Albahrani, Arturo Magana-Mora, Mohammad Aljubran, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne
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Publication number: 20230175380Abstract: A method for optimizing drilling performance is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Aramco Overseas Company UK Ltd.Inventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Arturo Magana-Mora, Krzysztof Karol Machocki, Zahrah Marhoon
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Patent number: 11624251Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir. One method for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir includes: positioning, a laser head at a first subterranean location, wherein the laser head is attached to a tubular inside of a wellbore; directing, by the laser head, a laser beam towards a leak on the wellbore; and sealing the leak using the laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Hussain AlBahrani, Sameeh Issa Batarseh, Timothy E. Moellendick
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Patent number: 11193052Abstract: Sealing composition for plugging and abandoning a wellbore and methods of plugging and abandoning a wellbore are disclosed. Embodiments of a method for plugging and abandoning a wellbore may include introducing a sealing composition into a wellbore and curing the sealing composition to form a plug. The sealing composition may include from 1 weight percent to 20 weight percent of a curing agent, based on the total weight of the composition, and from 20 weight percent to 97 weight percent of an epoxy resin system, based on the total weight of the composition. The epoxy resin system may include an epoxy resin having the formula (OC2H3)—CH2—O—R1—O—CH2—(C2H3O), where R1 is a linear or branched hydrocarbyl having from 4 to 24 carbon atoms; and a reactive diluent having the formula R—O—CH2—(C2H3O), where R is a hydrocarbyl having from 12 to 14 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Abrar Alshaikh, Mohammad Aljubran, Abdullah Al-Yami, Vikrant Wagle, Ali Al-Safran, Nassar Alhareth
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Publication number: 20210261849Abstract: Sealing composition for plugging and abandoning a wellbore and methods of plugging and abandoning a wellbore are disclosed. Embodiments of a method for plugging and abandoning a wellbore may include introducing a sealing composition into a wellbore and curing the sealing composition to form a plug. The sealing composition may include from 1 weight percent to 20 weight percent of a curing agent, based on the total weight of the composition, and from 20 weight percent to 97 weight percent of an epoxy resin system, based on the total weight of the composition. The epoxy resin system may include an epoxy resin having the formula (OC2H3)—CH2—O—R1—O—CH2—(C2H3O), where R1 is a linear or branched hydrocarbyl having from 4 to 24 carbon atoms; and a reactive diluent having the formula R—O—CH2—(C2H3O), where R is a hydrocarbyl having from 12 to 14 carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Abrar Alshaikh, Mohammad Aljubran, Abdullah Al-Yami, Vikrant Wagle, Ali Al-Safran, Nassar Alhareth
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Publication number: 20210156243Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir. One method for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir includes: positioning, a laser head at a first subterranean location, wherein the laser head is attached to a tubular inside of a wellbore; directing, by the laser head, a laser beam towards a leak on the wellbore; and sealing the leak using the laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Hussain AlBahrani, Sameeh Issa Batarseh, Timothy E. Moellendick
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Patent number: 10941644Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir. One method for downhole well integrity reconstruction in a hydrocarbon reservoir includes: positioning, a laser head at a first subterranean location, wherein the laser head is attached to a tubular inside of a wellbore; directing, by the laser head, a laser beam towards a leak on the wellbore; and sealing the leak using the laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Hussain AlBahrani, Sameeh Issa Batarseh, Timothy E. Moellendick
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Patent number: 10927618Abstract: A downhole drilling tool and methods for using the tool include a body with a wall that defines an internal volume, and at least one arm attached to the wall, the at least one arm comprising a channel within a body of each arm. The at least one arm provides fluid paths connecting the internal volume to outside the wall, and the at least one arm is displaceable relative to the wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Hussain AlBahrani, Mohammad Aljubran, Timothy E. Moellendick
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Publication number: 20200318447Abstract: The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for automating parameters used in drilling operations. A computer-implemented method includes the following steps. Real-time information associated with fluid density, drilling operational parameters, and rheology is received from devices installed on site and downhole at a managed pressure drilling (MPD) operation. The real-time information is processed to ensure accuracy of the real-time information, and the real-time information is stored in a database. Real-time measurements of equivalent circulating density (ECD) are determined from the stored real-time information using modeling techniques. Hydraulic calculations are performed to determine annular pressure losses (APL). Surface backpressure (SBP) is determined in real time based on the APL. The MPD operation is automatically updated based on the determined SBP.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Abdullah Saleh Hussain Al-Yami, Salem H. Al Gharbi
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Patent number: 10641079Abstract: In some aspects, a method includes imaging a casing, completed wellbore, or open wellbore. An integrity problem is with the casing, completed wellbore, or open wellbore is determined based on the imaging. A placement zone for a filler, a filler amount, and filler parameters for the integrity problem is determined. The filler in the filler amount is injected in the placement zone. The filler is solidified at the placement zone.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammad Aljubran, Hussain AlBahrani, Sameeh Issa Batarseh, Timothy E. Moellendick