Rotary Or Projectable Patents (Class 166/223)
  • Patent number: 11939843
    Abstract: Provided is a wellbore scraper assembly for use with a wireline. The wellbore scraper assembly, in one example, includes a tubular housing, a plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features associated with the tubular housing, the plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features configured to move from a first retracted state to a second radially extended state, and a hydraulic deployment system coupled to the plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features, the hydraulic deployment system configured to move the plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features from the first state to the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Craig Mlcak
  • Patent number: 11814925
    Abstract: A plug for sealing a wellbore includes a mandrel including a body having a longitudinal first end, a longitudinal second end opposite the first end, and an outer surface, wherein a plurality of ratchet teeth are positioned on the outer surface and formed of a fiber reinforced composite material, an annular seal positioned on the outer surface of the mandrel, wherein the seal includes a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end opposite the first end; and a body lock ring assembly positioned on the outer surface of the mandrel and located between the first end of the mandrel and the seal, wherein the body lock ring assembly includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced arcuate lock ring segments surrounding the mandrel, wherein an inner surface of each lock ring segment includes a plurality of ratchet teeth configured to matingly engage the ratchet teeth of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP
    Inventors: Timmothy Alain Lee, Joshua Magill
  • Patent number: 11131163
    Abstract: A plug for sealing a wellbore includes a slip assembly including a plurality of arcuate slip segments, a nose cone coupled to the slip assembly and including a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein at least one of the slip assembly and the nose cone includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced pockets, and wherein at least one of the slip assembly and the nose cone includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced protrusions configured to be received in the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP
    Inventors: Timmothy Alain Lee, Joshua Magill
  • Patent number: 11098568
    Abstract: A method of stimulating a formation containing two or more wellbores includes simultaneously stimulating a first region of each wellbore using a stimulation fluid so as to create a primary fracture in the first region of each wellbore, wherein the first region comprises a first opening or openings allowing fluid communication between each wellbore and the formation, wherein the first region has a first stimulated lateral length and wherein the flow rate of the stimulation fluid through the first opening or openings is greater than 1 barrel per minute per foot of the first stimulated lateral length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: STATOIL GULF SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Jason Bryant, Auristela Carolina Vasquez Quintero
  • Patent number: 11015417
    Abstract: Methods including providing a hydrajetting tool comprising a housing having a top end and a bottom end and having a plurality of jetting nozzles disposed thereon, the top end of the housing fluidly coupled to a tool string; positioning the hydrajetting tool adjacent to a substantially solid target; perforating or cutting the substantially solid target using a cement slurry injected through at least one of the plurality of jetting nozzles, thereby forming at least one perforation or cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja
  • Patent number: 10612354
    Abstract: A downhole hydra-jetting apparatus has a substantially cylindrical guide housing having an outer surface and an inner surface, and defining a cavity longitudinally extending through the guide housing; a plurality of retractable guide members attached radially around the guide housing; and a substantially cylindrical jet housing having an outer surface and an inner surface, and defining a cavity longitudinally extending through the jet housing, with a plurality of jetting nozzles defined in, and radially positioned about, the jet housing. Each of the plurality of jetting nozzles are adjustable relative to the guide housing to allow substantial alignment of projections from the plurality of jetting nozzles and the plurality of guide members when the guide members are extended radially from the outer surface of the guide housing and the apparatus is actively moved through a downhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Nikolayevich Martysevich, Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Timothy P. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 10557337
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing sand from fluid in a subterranean hydrocarbon development well include producing a cyclonic flow pattern of a sandy fluid of the subterranean well within a wellbore of a subterranean well with tangentially formed openings along a fluid flow path of the sandy fluid. The cyclonic flow pattern causes sand traveling in the sandy fluid to fall downhole as separated sand, and causes a de-sanded fluid stream to be directed uphole towards a production tubing. The de-sanded fluid stream is produced through the production tubing. The separated sand is collected proximate to a suction end of a progressing cavity pump. The progressing cavity pump is operated so that the separated sand flows through the progressing cavity pump and out a discharge end of the progressing cavity pump, to produce the separated sand through a sand discharge tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Muhammad Ayub, Rafael Adolfo Lastra
  • Patent number: 10544655
    Abstract: A method of severing a drill-string comprises reducing the load bearing cross-sectional area of the neck of a connection. The reduction in the area of the neck may be achieved using a precisely located flow-actuated cutter. The cutter may be pumped into the string to land on a seat above the connection. A bypass valve may be provided below the connection to facilitate fluid circulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Churchill Drilling Tools Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Philip Churchill
  • Patent number: 10480275
    Abstract: A tool and method to remove sand and other types of solid particulate materials and fluids from wellbores and conduits, resulting from well-drilling, well-production or both, and consequently to reactivate well production. The modular tool, composed of different subsystems, is connected to the end of concentric coil tubing, operates promoting the aggregates disintegration by using a spiral jet to impact these solids and suctioning the small particles and well fluids, simultaneously or later, by using jet pumps based on a set of several venturis. Changes between different operation modes are imposed by modifying surface pump pressure levels and the tool does not need to be removed from the wellbore between different stages, reducing the overall operation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: OIL & GAS TECH ENTERPRISES C.V.
    Inventors: Scott Vander Velde, Richard Castellano, Andrés Oliveros, Miguel Ochoa
  • Patent number: 10458204
    Abstract: A downhole tool comprises a body having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and configured to accelerate fluid flowing along a fluid flow path from the inlet to the outlet. The fluid outlet is configured to provide a radially directed and substantially circumferentially continuous stream of fluid. The stream of fluid may be used to clean or cut downhole tubing, such as casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Churchill Drilling Tools Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Philip Churchill
  • Patent number: 10302218
    Abstract: A drill stem safety valve actuator that eliminates the need for a hydraulic union. The actuator can include a mounting sleeve that can be affixed to the valve, that can further have a pinion gear that can rotate a ball valve. The actuator can include a rack sleeve slidably disposed on the mounting sleeve, having a rack configured to engage the pinion wherein sliding the rack sleeve linearly along the length of the mounting sleeve rotates the pinion, thus, the ball valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Hi-Kalibre Equipment Limited
    Inventors: Tony Charles Leon Standbridge, Jorge Pablo Chapital, Aaron Ben Ephraim, Hamidreza Ahmadimoghaddam, Amol Jagadish Sagare, Tod Michael Hohl, Patrick Rabby, Brian James Brisbane
  • Patent number: 10260311
    Abstract: A method is for the combined perforation, cleaning, and the subsequent plugging of a longitudinal section of a well. The well is provided with two pipe bodies placed substantially concentrically. The method includes lowering a perforation tool into the innermost pipe body to the longitudinal section, forming perforations in both pipe bodies along the longitudinal section with the perforation tool, cleaning the longitudinal section with a flushing tool which is attached to a lower portion of a string allowing through-flow, pumping a fluidized plugging material down the string and into the innermost pipe body at the longitudinal section, and placing the fluidized plugging material in the innermost pipe body, and thereby also into the entire cross section of the well via the perforations within the longitudinal section. A flushing tool is for cleaning the longitudinal section of the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HYDRA SYSTEMS AS
    Inventors: Morten Myhre, Arne Gunnar Larsen, Patrick Andersen, Roy Inge Jensen, Arnt Olav Dahl
  • Patent number: 10156110
    Abstract: A method of severing a tubing string of a well system comprising: positioning a jet cutter within the tubing string, wherein the jet cutter comprises: (A) a main explosive load, wherein upon detonation or deflagration of the main explosive load, a jet propagates radially outward in a circle from an apex of the main explosive load; and (B) a liner, wherein the liner is truncated at the apex, and wherein the amount of truncation is selected such that the jet has a greater tip velocity compared to a substantially identical jet cutter without the truncated liner; and causing the main explosive load to detonate or deflagrate, wherein the tubing string of the well system is severed due to the detonation or deflagration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve S. Lin
  • Patent number: 10119373
    Abstract: A cutting tool adapted to be deployed into a well casing for cutting through casing strings comprises a nozzle for directing a jet of an abrasive slurry at the wall of a well casing to sever the well casing and a mechanical locking arranged provided above the nozzle, said locking arrangement comprises radially expandable means selectively engageable with an inner wall of the well casing within which the tool is deployed, to prevent axial and/or rotational movement of the tool in the well during cutting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: PROSERV UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Adam James O'Leary, Mark Douglas Stephen, Richard James Taylor, Ross Richardson
  • Patent number: 9745813
    Abstract: Systems and methods usable in conduit cutting operations are disclosed. Specifically, an anchor assembly is configured to be attached to a cutting apparatus and to equalize the upward and downward forces on the cutting apparatus during performance of the cutting operation. In addition, the anchor assembly is configured to impart a rotational motion in the cutting apparatus to produce a clean and complete horizontal cut of the conduit at a desired location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Robertson Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Robertson, Douglas Streibich
  • Publication number: 20150090458
    Abstract: A system for use with a subterranean well can include a fluid oscillator which discharges pulsating fluid from a tubular string in a direction at least partially toward an end of the tubular string proximate a surface of the earth. A method can include discharging a fluid from the tubular string, thereby applying a reaction force to the tubular string, which reaction force biases the tubular string at least partially into the well. Another method can include discharging a pulsating fluid from a fluid oscillator in a direction at least partially toward an end of the tubular string, and drilling into an earth formation with a drill bit connected at an opposite end of the tubular string in the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Jim B. SURJAATMADJA, Timothy H. HUNTER, Robert L. PIPKIN
  • Patent number: 8939202
    Abstract: A fracturing jet nozzle assembly features a series of angles nozzles on a rotatably mounted plate that operates in conjunction with a central nozzle or nozzles. The slanted nozzles are aimed into the perforation where the central nozzle is aimed directly so that the rotation of the nozzle plate from the slanted nozzles results in cyclic impacts in the perforation from where the fractures will propagate. The cyclic loading results in greater fracture formation and propagation. In another variation, relatively movable plates employing slanted nozzles rotate one plate with respect to another to get the effect of cyclic pulses of jetting fluid impingement in the perforation to enhance formation and propagation of fractures from the perforation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Yingqing Xu, Steve Rosenblatt
  • Patent number: 8931558
    Abstract: A flow line cleanout device for a coiled tubing head of a coiled tubing string is comprised of a hydraulic vane motor assembly having a rotor configured for attachment to and rotation of a work tool such as a fluid ejecting nozzle to be inserted into a flow line. Seals around the device seal the flow line so that fluid pressure behind the coiled tubing head force fluid through the hydraulic vane motor assembly to rotate the rotor and the attached nozzle in response to pressure changes created by check valves. Jets of fluid from the rotating nozzle serve to wash and remove blockages in the flow line and facilitate the insertion and advancement of the coiled tubing string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Full Flow Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Tom M. Harper
  • Patent number: 8844651
    Abstract: A method of controlling a fluid jet can include discharging fluid through an outlet of a jetting device, thereby causing the fluid jet to be flowed in multiple non-coplanar directions, and the fluid jet being directed in the non-coplanar directions by a fluidic circuit of the jetting device. A jetting device can include a body having at least one outlet, and a fluidic circuit which directs a fluid jet to flow from the outlet in multiple non-coplanar directions without rotation of the outlet. A method of drilling a wellbore can include flowing fluid through a fluidic switch of a jetting device, thereby causing a fluid jet to be discharged in multiple non-coplanar directions from the jetting device, and the fluid jet cutting into an earth formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Fripp, Jason D. Dykstra
  • Patent number: 8726941
    Abstract: An exit assembly comprises: a fluid inlet; an exit chamber; a fluid outlet; and a fluid diverter, wherein the fluid diverter is connected to the fluid inlet and the exit chamber, and wherein the shape of the fluid diverter is selected such that the fluid diverter is capable of displacing the pathway of the fluid from the fluid inlet into a first fluid pathway, a second fluid pathway, or combinations thereof. The fluid diverter increasingly displaces the pathway of the fluid from the fluid inlet into the first fluid pathway as the viscosity or density of the fluid decreases, or as the flow rate of the fluid increases, and the fluid diverter increasingly displaces the pathway of the fluid from the fluid inlet into the second fluid pathway as the viscosity or density of the fluid increases, or as the flow rate of the fluid decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason D. Dykstra
  • Publication number: 20140076573
    Abstract: A downhole tool cleans debris from a subsea well with nozzle assemblies that selectively deploy from the tool. The nozzle assemblies are in fluid communication with an annulus of a drill pipe on which the downhole tool is mounted, so that fluid pumped into the drill pipe discharges from nozzles provided with the nozzle assemblies. The nozzle assemblies are strategically situated so that when deployed, a stream discharged from nozzles on the assemblies clears debris from a surface between a casing hanger and wellhead housing. The nozzle assemblies are coupled to an annular piston coaxially set on the tool; and sliding the piston axially along the tool deploys the nozzle assemblies. Axially spaced apart ports extend radially through the tool to opposing faces on a head of the piston. Blocking one of the ports with a ball dropped down the drill pipe moves the piston and deploys the assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: VETCO GRAY INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Peter Gette, Daniel Ralph Barnhart
  • Publication number: 20130220618
    Abstract: A method of stimulating or cleaning a fracture port and the proximate well bore area, includes the steps of inserting a downhole assembly on coiled tubing into a production tubing string comprising a fracture port. The downhole assembly includes a fluid pulse generator and jetting tool which is positioned adjacent the fracture port, and fluid is pumped through the tool to create fluid pressure pulses and jet streams of fluid. The method and apparatus does not require isolating the fracture port to be cleaned with packers or seals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: CANASONICS INC.
    Inventor: CANASONICS INC.
  • Publication number: 20130180721
    Abstract: A treatment device and method for use in delivering fluid treatment to a wellbore is described. The device includes a first treatment housing and a second treatment housing, mounted along a tubing string, each of the first and second housing defining a fluid pathway which is continuous with the tubing string and each of the first and second treatment housing defining a port for fluid communication between the tubing string and the wellbore. Fluid flow through the first housing may be selectively blocked by delivery of a deformable ball to the tubing string to seal against a ball seat disposed between the first and second housing. While the first pathway is blocked, fluid may be selectively delivered to the wellbore through the port on the second treatment housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: NCS Oilfield Services Canada Inc.
    Inventor: NCS Oilfield Services Canada Inc.
  • Patent number: 8469089
    Abstract: An anchor tool having a housing, a one-way restrictor device in fluid communication with the housing, and a stabilizer affixed to the housing. The one-way restrictor device is configured to allow restricted flow in a first direction, and to allow flow in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Maier, Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Fraser McNeil, Keith A. Rispler
  • Patent number: 8418725
    Abstract: A well tool can comprise a fluid input, a fluid output and a fluidic oscillator which produces oscillations in a fluid which flows from the input to the output. The fluidic oscillator can include a vortex chamber with inlets, whereby fluid enters the vortex chamber alternately via the inlets, the inlets being configured so that the fluid enters the vortex chamber in different directions via the respective inlets, and a fluid switch which directs the fluid alternately toward different flow paths in response to pressure differentials between feedback fluid paths. The feedback fluid paths may be connected to the vortex chamber. The flow paths may cross each other between the fluid switch and the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger L. Schultz, Robert Pipkin, Travis Cavender
  • Patent number: 8376254
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are described that can be used for cleaning wells using unfiltered fluids and fluids that contain solid matter. A spray head assembly mounted in a pumping station comprises a hydrodynamic mixing chamber configured to create turbulence in a fluid received from a pump. The pump draws a fluid from a well of the pumping station and provides a pressurized stream of the fluid to a pipe. A nozzle associated with an outlet of the mixing chamber, receives the mixed fluid from the hydrodynamic mixing chamber and the nozzle disperses the mixed fluid to the surface of a body of the fluid in the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Anue Water Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Hatten
  • Patent number: 8312930
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cleaning a water well is presented. The apparatus utilizes a tool body having a plurality of discharge nozzles for jetting streams of filtered water at high pressure on to the inside wall surface of a casing across a water zone having slots or perforations. The nozzle streams are offset from the tool body imparting a rotational force. A rotary coupling is also utilized to limit the maximum rotation. The apparatus is lowered by a pre-determined length of coiled tubing to cleaning depth after which it is raised at a slow rate across the water zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hydropressure Cleaning, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Glass
  • Patent number: 8267181
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for performing downhole operations. The apparatus can include a sealing mechanism having an inner bore formed therethrough; a check valve adjacent the sealing mechanism; a circulation device adjacent the check valve; and a rotatable nozzle adjacent the circulation device. The circulation device can include a first tubular member having a radial hole formed therethrough, and a second tubular member disposed about at least a portion of the first tubular member. The second tubular member can also have a radial hole formed therethrough, and the second tubular member can be adapted to longitudinally move about the first tubular member from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Luis Felipe Peixoto
  • Patent number: 8205676
    Abstract: A method and system for cleaning the perforations of well casings employs a non-rotating tubing string attached to a hydraulic jet carrier body. The carrier body has outwardly extending arms which terminate in spray nozzles, each of the nozzles expelling a stream of fluid under pressure against the well casing with an inertial force. The nozzles are oriented on the carrier body such that the reactive force for each jet is directionally offset with respect to the central axis of the carrier, thereby creating a twisting moment tending to rotate the carrier body about its central axis. The nozzles are located a fixed distance from the carrier body which is between about ½ and 1½ inches from the well casing perforations in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventors: Dan Nelson, Robert Nelson
  • Publication number: 20120152527
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an exit assembly comprises: a first fluid inlet; a first fluid outlet; and at least one fluid director, wherein the fluid enters the exit assembly in one direction, in another direction, or combinations thereof, and wherein the at least one fluid director induces flow of the fluid rotationally about the assembly when the fluid enters in the one direction and impedes flow of the fluid rotationally about the assembly when the fluid enters in the another direction. In another embodiment, the exit assembly includes two or more fluid inlets. According to another embodiment, a flow rate restrictor comprises: a fluid switch; and the exit assembly. According to another embodiment, the flow rate restrictor is for use in a subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jason D. DYKSTRA, Michael L. FRIPP
  • Patent number: 8151886
    Abstract: A fracturing method for preferably open hole uses fluid velocity impinging on the wellbore wall to initiate fractures. Telescoping members that extend using nozzles inside them but come out to a distance from the wellbore wall can be used. Fixed nozzles that do not extend are also another option. The nozzles can be eroded or corroded as the fracturing takes place or they can be made of sufficiently durable materials or have coatings to withstand the erosive effects of high velocity slurries pumped to impinge the wellbore wall to initiate fractures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Yang Xu, Michael H. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8127831
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing hydrocarbons including a wellbore that accesses a subsurface reservoir; a production tubing string disposed within the wellbore; and sand control devices coupled to the production tubing string. At least one of the sand control devices includes a first tubular member having a permeable section and a non permeable section; a second tubular member disposed within the first tubular member. The second tubular member has a plurality of openings and an inflow control device that provides a flow path to the interior. The sand control devices include a sealing mechanism disposed between the first tubular member and the second tubular member to provide pressure loss during gravel packing operations that is less than the pressure loss during production operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: David C. Haeberle, Charles Yeh, Timothy G. Benish, Michael D. Barry, Michael T. Hecker, Jon Blacklock
  • Patent number: 8074717
    Abstract: A method for drilling a well with a drilling apparatus comprising a drill string and a bit, comprising attaching a cleaning tool comprising a coaxial pipe and at least one vortex spinner to a portion of the drill string above the bit, inserting the drill string into a wellbore, extending the wellbore while simultaneously pumping fluid through the cleaning tool to create a fluid flow, and loosening debris attached to the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Azra Nur Tutuncu
  • Patent number: 8061426
    Abstract: A method of servicing a wellbore comprises running a toolstring into a wellbore to a first depth, actuating a controllably rotating sub-assembly of the toolstring to rotate, and activating a pressure activated bendable sub-assembly of the toolstring to bend, wherein actuating the controllably rotating sub-assembly to rotate and activating the pressure activate bendable sub-assembly are performed in any sequence or concurrently. The method also comprises running the toolstring into the wellbore beyond the first depth and stabbing the toolstring into a window in a wall of the wellbore to enter a lateral wellbore, wherein no whipstock is used to facilitate stabbing into the window. The method further includes running the toolstring into the lateral wellbore and performing a wellbore servicing operation in the lateral wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventor: Jim B. Surjaatmadja
  • Patent number: 8025101
    Abstract: A cyclic steam soak (CSS) stimulation method for producing heated hydrocarbons from a viscous hydrocarbon-containing formation comprises the steps of: a) drilling a well (1) having a substantially horizontal or inclined lower section (3) into the viscous hydrocarbon-containing formation (4) substantially along the trajectory of the minimum compressive horizontal stress Sh; b) cutting at selected intervals along the length of the lower well section (3) substantially disk-shaped cavities (5A-5D) into the viscous hydrocarbon-containing formation (4) by a rotating hydraulic jet cutting device (6); c) completing the well (1); d) injecting steam into the well (1) and disk-shaped cavities (5A-5D) at such an elevated pressure that the hydraulic pressure in at least one disk-shaped cavity 5A is above the formation fracturing pressure, thereby fracturing the formation (4) and permitting the steam to invade the formation surrounding the fracture and to heat hydrocarbons in the steam invaded zone; e) interrupting steam i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Kirk Samuel Hansen, Chia-Fu Hsu, Alexander Michiel Mollinger
  • Patent number: 7980299
    Abstract: Method of treating, especially, horizontally deviated wellbores where various treating solutions such as, acids, slurries, proppants, fracturing fluids, flushing fluids, or sealants are transferred into an annulus formed by a casing in the well and a working string. The working string has a seal member providing a sliding seal with the casing, a perforated nipple above the seal, and a check valve above the perforated nipple for preventing back flow through the working string to the surface. The working string has a seal element at the wellhead to avoid treating solutions leaking from the annulus out the wellhead. Treating solution of the desired make-up is pumped into the annulus, through the perforated nipple, down the working string, along the horizontal deviated wellbore, then into the strata or formation through a dispersing tool for the particular treating solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Inventor: Matthew C. Manulik
  • Publication number: 20110162843
    Abstract: An anchor tool having a housing, a one-way restrictor device in fluid communication with the housing, and a stabilizer affixed to the housing. The one-way restrictor device is configured to allow restricted flow in a first direction, and to allow flow in a second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Gary A. Maier, Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Fraser McNeil, Keith A. Rispler
  • Publication number: 20110147088
    Abstract: A jetting hose is conveyed downhole retracted on the end of a tubing string (coiled tubing) for jetting lateral boreholes from a main wellbore. The apparatus allows the operator to sense the speed at which the jetting hose and nozzle are penetrating the formation and adjust the coiled tubing feed-in rate accordingly, optimizing both the direction and length of the lateral borehole relative to the main wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Charles Brunet, Michel Bouchard, Kevin Mazarac
  • Publication number: 20110067877
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for performing downhole operations. The apparatus can include a sealing mechanism having an inner bore formed therethrough; a check valve adjacent the sealing mechanism; a circulation device adjacent the check valve; and a rotatable nozzle adjacent the circulation device. The circulation device can include a first tubular member having a radial hole formed therethrough, and a second tubular member disposed about at least a portion of the first tubular member. The second tubular member can also have a radial hole formed therethrough, and the second tubular member can be adapted to longitudinally move about the first tubular member from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Luis Felipe Peixoto
  • Publication number: 20100258299
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are described that can be used for cleaning wells using unfiltered fluids and fluids that contain solid matter. Spray nozzles cooperate with deflectors to direct and outflow of the apparatus to surfaces to be cleaned. The apparatus comprises a mixer having an inner chamber, an inlet and a plurality of outlets. Deflectors are attached to associated outlets. The inner chamber has an impact surface located opposite the inlet, the impact surface redirecting the flow of fluid proportionately to the outlets and minimizes eddies in the flow of fluid. The deflectors generate a force from the fluid flow that includes rotational and/or translational components sufficient to cause rotation about a first axis and/or translation along a second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventor: Paul Hatten
  • Patent number: 7726403
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for ratcheting a stimulation tool in a well in which the stimulation tool is movable from a first radial position to a second radial position without moving the tool string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Jim B. Surjaatmadja
  • Patent number: 7650941
    Abstract: An equalizing injection wash tool includes a plurality of interconnectable wash tool segments. Each of the segments provides a flow applicator nozzle for transmitting fluid/and or solid from the interior flowbore of the wash tool and into the surrounding formation. Each segment preferably features a plurality of nozzle pipes and nozzles which are oriented about the cross-sectional circumference of the segment in an angularly spaced orientation to provide for a flow pattern that is substantially equalized in an angular manner. In a preferred embodiment, the nozzle pipes have a length that extends into the flowbore of a neighboring wash tool segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Jacob M. Zachry
  • Publication number: 20090308595
    Abstract: A well cleaning apparatus comprises water jets rotating on a vertical feed conduit which is rotatably mounted at the top of the well and fed by a stream of fluid pumped from the well by a submersible pump. The apparatus has a housing attached above the inlet pipe to hold an atomizer which allows a deodorizing vapor to be drawn into the conduit by the feed stream. The water jets have deflectors mounted at the end of the jets to direct the effluent being pumped through them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Paul Robert Hatten
  • Patent number: 7617871
    Abstract: Of the many assemblies and methods provided herein, one assembly includes a conduit adapted for installation in a well bore in a subterranean formation; one or more fluid jet forming nozzles disposed about the conduit; and one or more windows formed in the conduit and adapted to selectively allow a flow of a fluid through at least one of the one or more fluid jet forming nozzles. Another assembly provided herein includes a conduit adapted for installation in a well bore in a subterranean formation; one or more fluid jet forming nozzles disposed about the conduit; a fluid delivery tool disposed within the conduit, wherein the fluid delivery tool is operable to move along the conduit; a straddle assembly operable to substantially isolate the fluid delivery tool from an annulus formed between the fluid delivery tool and the conduit; and wherein the conduit comprises one or more permeable liners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Matt Howell
  • Patent number: 7540327
    Abstract: An embodiment of a cutting tool positionable in a tubular for creating a cut in a tubular includes a body securable within the tubular and a cutting head having a nozzle for discharging a pressurized cutting fluid, wherein the cutting head is rotationally and axially moveable relative to the body. The cutting tool may further include one or more of a positioning mechanism, a linear actuator in connection with the cutting head, a rotary actuator in connection with the cutting head, a cutting fluid pump, a mechanism for mixing a fluid and an abrasive to form the abrasive cutting fluid, and reservoirs for storing the abrasive cutting fluid or for storing a fluid and the abrasive separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Billingham
  • Publication number: 20090114388
    Abstract: An equalizing injection wash tool includes a plurality of interconnectable wash tool segments. Each of the segments provides a flow applicator nozzle for transmitting fluid/and or solid from the interior flowbore of the wash tool and into the surrounding formation. Each segment preferably features a plurality of nozzle pipes and nozzles which are oriented about the cross-sectional circumference of the segment in an angularly spaced orientation to provide for a flow pattern that is substantially equalized in an angular manner. In a preferred embodiment, the nozzle pipes have a length that extends into the flowbore of a neighboring wash tool segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Jacob M. Zachry
  • Patent number: 7424912
    Abstract: A treatment apparatus and method for wellbore instability is described including a caliper with one or more radially extending arms which are capable of extending and retracting movement in a radial direction and a fluid supply facility to deliver treatment fluid from the ends of the arms to the wellbore wall, with a sensing and valve mechanism such that in use fluid is being delivered from the end of any extended arm to a breakout region of the wellbore where there is instability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Reid
  • Publication number: 20080179060
    Abstract: Of the many assemblies and methods provided herein, one assembly includes a conduit adapted for installation in a well bore in a subterranean formation; one or more fluid jet forming nozzles disposed about the conduit; and one or more windows formed in the conduit and adapted to selectively allow a flow of a fluid through at least one of the one or more fluid jet forming nozzles. Another assembly provided herein includes a conduit adapted for installation in a well bore in a subterranean formation; one or more fluid jet forming nozzles disposed about the conduit; a fluid delivery tool disposed within the conduit, wherein the fluid delivery tool is operable to move along the conduit; a straddle assembly operable to substantially isolate the fluid delivery tool from an annulus formed between the fluid delivery tool and the conduit; and wherein the conduit comprises one or more permeable liners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Matt Howell
  • Patent number: 7314083
    Abstract: A rotary jetting tool for connection to a hollow, fluid conducting workover string has a main tool body with a hollow central passageway and a rotatable jet carrier mounted on a depending central shaft. A rotor, with fluid conducting passageways is mounted on the central shaft for rotation and limited axial movement and has fluid flow reaction outlets to urge rotation and axial movement. A striking lug on the rotor cooperates with a reaction lug on the jet carrier to provide incremental rotation and a jet head, with jet orifices directed to impact mineral deposits in the well bore is connected to the jet carrier and houses the rotor, so as to receive and discharge workover string fluid flow through the jet orifices as the jet head rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Inventor: Leo A. Martini
  • Publication number: 20070246223
    Abstract: A flow control device for use in a wellbore which has a nozzle with an output to provide a jet of fluid and a structure proximate the nozzle. The structure is positioned a set distance away from the output of the nozzle, where the set distance is greater than a length of a potential core of the jet of fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Barbara J.A. Zielinska, Andrew C. Posluszny, David J. Reed