With Explosive Or Gas Generating Means In Well Patents (Class 166/63)
  • Patent number: 11846164
    Abstract: In one example, a downhole system includes a housing configured to be releasably connected to a tether, projectile fire control circuitry disposed within the housing, a block chamber connected to the housing, and the block chamber includes one or more reloadable chambers each configured to be loaded with a respective projectile, and a firing system operable to directly, or indirectly, control the firing of a projectile, in response to a command issued by the projectile fire control circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DEFIANT ENGINEERING LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Jon Blois, Lawrence Gene Griffin, Ian Graham Janke, Cullen Craig Keyes, Gareth Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11732554
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a universal plug in cartridge detonator capability in box-by-box perforating guns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Dyess, Jason Hoang Mai, Richard Wayne Bradley, Joshua Blake Howk
  • Patent number: 11733016
    Abstract: Pressure-isolating bulkhead structures with integrated selective electronic switches circuitry are provided. The pressure-isolating bulkhead structure may be a single unit having the integrated electronic switch circuitry, as well as an electrical connector that includes at least one of a wire and a pin contact. Such integrated selective electronic switch circuitry may be fashioned within a self-contained, inner pressure-isolating enclosure body. Such inner pressure-isolating enclosure body may be produced about the selective electronic switch circuitry such that the inner pressure-isolating enclosure body and switch circuitry are produced as a unit, which can be easily placed within a variety of bulkhead structures, and subsequently within a perforating gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Eitschberger, Thilo Scharf
  • Patent number: 11674361
    Abstract: A wireline conveyed, gas driven setting tool configured to set downhole tools including, without limitation, frac plugs, bridge plugs, cement retainers and packers. The setting tool is functioned by selectively igniting a power charge inside of a firing head. As the power charge burns, it generates gas that acts upon a piston area to stroke the setting tool. A dampening media, as well an optimized flow area at or near the distal end of the setting tool, act to slow the setting stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FORTRESS DOWNHOLE TOOLS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Robicheaux, Trey Falgout, M. Joseph Montgomery, Tyler Cook
  • Patent number: 11648513
    Abstract: A detonator positioning device for use with a detonator in a perforating gun assembly is described. The detonator positioning device is configured for electrically contactably forming an electrical connection within the perforating gun housing by contact. The detonator positioning device includes a body having a first end, a second end, and a central bore extending between the first and second ends. The central bore is adapted for receiving one or more electrically contactable components of a detonator. The detonator positioning device aligns at least one of the one or more electrically contactable components to form an electrical connection with a bulkhead assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Eitschberger, Gernot Uwe Burmeister, Thomas Keller Bradfield, Frank Haron Preiss, Thilo Scharf, Liam McNelis
  • Patent number: 11603728
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering an injection fluid into a subterranean well include an injection tool having an injection tool body with an internal cavity. A fluid chamber is located within the internal cavity. A heating chamber includes a pipe segment arranged parallel to the central axis. A one way valve provides a fluid flow path for the injection fluids to travel in a downhole direction through the one way valve, and prevents the flow of fluids through the one way valve in an uphole direction. A fiber optic cable extends to the pipe segment, the fiber optic cable operable to deliver a laser radiation to the pipe segment, heating the pipe segment. The injection tool body provides a fluid flow path from the one way valve to an outside of the injection tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bader Ghazi Al-Harbi, Norah Abdullah Aljeaban, Sameeh Issa Batarseh
  • Patent number: 11441374
    Abstract: A disposable setting tool includes a housing having a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a passage. A piston assembly is arranged in the passage. The piston assembly including a first piston portion and a second piston portion that extends axially outwardly of the second end of the housing. The first piston portion includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an intermediate section having an outer surface portion and an inner surface portion that extends between the first end portion and the second end portion. The inner surface portion defines a pressure passage. An atmospheric chamber is defined between the inner surface of the housing and the outer surface portion of the piston assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: YingQing Xu, Gregory Hern, Juan Carlos Flores Perez
  • Patent number: 11435170
    Abstract: A system and apparatus for providing an apparatus for use in a wellbore. The apparatus includes an apparatus body defining a volume, a propellant disposed within the volume, wherein the propellant has a first burn rate, and at least one propellant insert disposed within the propellant, wherein the propellant insert has a second burn rate, and the second burn rate is different than the first burn rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Suman Khatiwada, John Welch, Anil Sadana, Ramon Garza
  • Patent number: 11408237
    Abstract: A technique facilitates improved setting of downhole devices, e.g. frac plugs. The technique utilizes a setting tool, e.g. a disposable setting tool, which integrates the functionality of a wireline adapter kit to provide a compact disposable solution for setting downhole devices. The setting tool comprises a self metering system which slows an otherwise violent setting action to a controlled setting sequence. The self metering system enables avoidance of the use of slow burn charges sometimes used in conventional setting tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Norrid, Sidney Jasek, Michael Dardis, Isaac Aviles Cadena, Robert Matthew Graham, Roberto Jaime
  • Patent number: 11352847
    Abstract: A downhole chemical reactor can be placed in a downhole environment to generate gas in-situ. This gas can pressurize an inner pressure chamber of the downhole chemical reactor to create a pressure-on-demand source or to maintain a constant pressure reservoir, depending on the configuration of a reactor controller coupled to an inlet of the inner pressure chamber. The inner pressure chamber contains one or more desired chemical reactants and the reactor controller operates to permit well fluid to flow from the wellbore and into the inner pressure chamber. The well fluid reacts with the desired chemical reactants and generates one or more gases such as hydrogen or carbon dioxide. The generated gases pressurize the inner pressure chamber and a pressure regulator coupled to the inner pressure chamber maintains a maximum pressurization of the inner pressure chamber. For a constant pressure reservoir, the reactor controller repeats this cycle indefinitely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: James Dan Vick, Jr., Michael Linley Fripp
  • Patent number: 11338338
    Abstract: A drillhole plug includes a frame or housing of a corrosion-resistant material and sized to fit within a milled portion of a directional drillhole that includes a hazardous waste repository; and a material that fills at least a portion of the frame or housing. The material exhibits creep such that the material fills one or more voids between the frame or housing and a subterranean formation adjacent the milled portion of the directional drillhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • Patent number: 11313182
    Abstract: A centralizing perforating gun for perforating a tubular in a wellbore include a gun housing, perforating charges positioned within the gun housing and detonatable to perforate the tubular, and a centralizing system. The centralizing system includes an extendable member configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The extendable member is configured to engage a surface of the tubular in the extended position, thereby biasing the centralizing perforating gun away from the surface of the tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Harrigan, Adan Hernandez Herrera
  • Patent number: 11280143
    Abstract: A wireline conveyed, gas driven setting tool configured to set downhole tools including, without limitation, frac plugs, bridge plugs, cement retainers and packers. The setting tool is functioned by selectively igniting a power charge inside of a firing head. As the power charge burns, it generates gas that acts upon a piston area to stroke the setting tool. A dampening media, as well an optimized flow area at or near the distal end of the setting tool, act to slow the setting stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FORTRESS DOWNHOLE TOOLS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michael R. Robicheaux, Trey Falgout, M. Joseph Montgomery, Tyler Cook
  • Patent number: 11255152
    Abstract: An inner tube plug for plugging a diamond drill hole. The plug assembly comprises a compressible plunger component attached to one end of a body component, plug feet radially disposed around the body component, and a torsion spring disposed between pairs of adjacent plug feet. The inner tube plug is used to perform down-hole orientation correction of a drill bole, zone bypassing, and completion of a drill hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Curtis Johnson, Mark Seilstad, Alex Christie
  • Patent number: 11242747
    Abstract: A downhole fluid sampling system includes a tool body to attach to a tubing string, and multiple probe pads having a curved shape and disposed circumferentially about a section of the tool body in a helical gear pattern about a central longitudinal axis of the tool body. Each probe pad includes probes on an external surface of the respective probe pad, and each probe can contact and engage a wall of a wellbore and receive a flow of formation fluid from the wall of the wellbore. An outer surface of the tool body includes multiple channels disposed circumferentially about the section of the tool body and between the probe pads. The channels direct fluid flow along the tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bander S. Al-Malki, Faisal M. Sarwi, Ismail Adebiyi
  • Patent number: 11131162
    Abstract: A frac plug system, downhole tool and method of securing a frac plug system in a wellbore in a formation. A mandrel includes a first end and a second end. A setting assembly is coupled to the mandrel at the first end, and an anchor is arranged at the second end of the mandrel and receptive to the setting assembly. The anchor is settable to engage the wellbore. A bottom sub is arranged at the second end of the mandrel and includes a first member movable relative to the mandrel. A gas generates a pressure to shift the first member along the mandrel to move the anchor against the setting assembly, securing the setting assembly in the wellbore via radial deployment of the anchor. The mandrel is separated from the bottom sub to leave the setting assembly and the anchor in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hern, YingQing Xu, Juan Carlos Flores Perez
  • Patent number: 11078744
    Abstract: In wellbore completions it is sometimes desirable to seal the wellbore against fluid flow or to anchor a component within the wellbore. However, running such a plug into the wellbore has been problematic on occasion such as when the nose of the plug encounters an object within the wellbore such as a sand bridge or other obstruction. In those instances, the way of the tubular pushing the plug into the wellbore combined with the nose of the plug being unable to pass the instruction causes the plug to prematurely set. Such an instance the plug may need to be drilled out in order to proceed. In the present embodiment the tubular used to move the plug into the well is attached to the nose of the plug so that the force provided to the plug by the tubular is transmitted only to the nose of the plug preventing the plug from presetting and allowing the plug to push past or through an obstacle within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Shale Oil Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11053759
    Abstract: A compact setting tool that sets a packer or bridge plug in a wellbore and then self bleeds the pressure prior to pulling the string out of the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Johnny Covalt, Joseph Albert Henke, Roger Griffin
  • Patent number: 11047188
    Abstract: A tool string disposable in a wellbore includes a plug configured to seal against an inner surface of a tubular string disposed in the wellbore, and a setting tool coupled to the plug that includes a piston slidably disposed in a setting tool housing of the setting tool and including a central passage, and a combustible assembly disposed in the passage of the piston, wherein the combustible assembly includes a housing and combustible material disposed in the combustible assembly housing, wherein, in response to a pressurization of the central passage of the piston of the setting tool, the setting tool is configured to actuate the plug to seal against the inner surface of the tubular string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: G&H Diversified Manufacturing, LP
    Inventors: Joe Noel Wells, Clarence James Harris, Jr., William Ashby Dean
  • Patent number: 11015408
    Abstract: A system combining a setting tool and a frac plug into one assembly thus producing a much shorter and more reliable assembly. More specifically, a downhole assembly comprising a plug section, which itself comprises a top sub, a bottom sub, a slip, and an elastomeric element. The downhole assembly further comprises a power section comprising a body comprising a power charge and one or more ignitors, a firing head, a shearing pin, and a setting tool piston. Additionally, the downhole assembly comprises a check valve, wherein the check valve is positioned downhole from the power charge and inside the setting tool piston; a mandrel comprising a hydraulic chamber and a ball, wherein the mandrel is positioned inside and adjacent to the setting tool piston and the top sub; and a dog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: PetroQuip Energy Services, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Joe Coon, Roddie R. Smith, John Lee Emerson
  • Patent number: 10947812
    Abstract: A well abandonment tool comprising an elongate housing extending between top and bottom ends locatable within a wellbore having a longitudinal pumping cylindrical bore with a pumping piston therein. The apparatus further comprises a wellbore seal located around the housing operable to engage upon the wellbore and to be expanded into contact therewith upon an upward motion of the housing so as to seal an annulus between the housing and the wellbore and a bridge plug engagement connector adapted to secure a bridge plug thereto at a position below the bottom end of the housing. The pumping piston is suspended from a wireline wherein longitudinal movement of the pumping piston discharges a fluid into a bridge plug activation chamber having a movable cylinder adapted to draw the bridge plug engagement connector against the bottom end of the housing so as to expand the bridge plug into engagement with the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Grant George, Peter Knight
  • Patent number: 10934795
    Abstract: A tool string disposable in a wellbore includes a plug configured to seal against an inner surface of a tubular string disposed in the wellbore, a setting tool coupled to the plug, including a housing including a central passage, a mandrel slidably disposed in the housing, wherein the mandrel includes an outer surface including a planar surface, and a piston coupled to the mandrel and including a central passage, wherein, in response to a pressurization of the central passage of the piston of the setting tool, the setting tool is configured to actuate the plug to seal against the inner surface of the tubular string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP
    Inventor: Joe Noel Wells
  • Patent number: 10920543
    Abstract: A positioning device includes a shaped charge holder. A single shaped charge receptacle formed in the shaped charge holder is configured to arrange a single shaped charge in a desired orientation. The shaped charges are detonated by detonating cord in energetic communication with a detonator, in response to an initiation signal. The initiation signal may be electronically communicated from a first perforating gun module to a second perforating gun module without the use of a through-wire. The positioning device may be secured in a perforating gun module, with vertical and horizontal movement of the positioning device being inhibited in the perforating gun module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Eitschberger, Thilo Scharf, Gernot Uwe Burmeister
  • Patent number: 10794122
    Abstract: A releasable connection for a downhole tool string is provided, having a first part with a connection profile and a second part with a releasable engagement profile that releasably engages the connection profile of the first part. The second part also has a locking piston, the locking piston moving axially along the second part between a locking position that locks the releasable engagement profile into engagement with the connection profile of the first part and a release position that permits the releasable engagement profile to release the connection profile of the second part, an expansion chamber in fluid communication with the locking piston, and a source of fluid pressure in communication with the expansion chamber, wherein, upon activation, the source of fluid pressure applies fluid pressure to move locking piston from the locking position toward the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Tier 1 Energy Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Kitchen, Jeffrey Golinowski, Sylvain Hotte, Trevor Rosten
  • Patent number: 10781651
    Abstract: A downhole tool includes a setting cone having a body including an outer surface. The body has a first end, a second end and an intermediate portion. At least a portion of the body includes a taper at the second end. A passage extends through the body from the first end to the second end. An anchor is arranged at the second end. The anchor includes a first end section receptive of the setting cone and a second end section. A mandrel extends through the passage of the setting cone and the anchor. The mandrel includes a first end portion, a second end portion and an intermediate section. A bottom sub is arranged at the second end section of the anchor. The bottom sub includes a first member fixedly mounted to the mandrel and a second member that is shiftable relative to the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hern, YingQing Xu
  • Patent number: 10738579
    Abstract: An example method includes stimulating a wellbore using a plasma tool configured to operate in the wellbore. The method includes introducing the plasma tool into the wellbore and generating one or more first laser beams. The method includes directing the one or more first laser beams to one or more first points outside of the downhole unit and inside a volume of fluid at least partially confined by an acoustic mirror. The one or more first laser beams may create a plasma bubble at a first point resulting in one or more shock waves in the volume of fluid. The method includes deforming the acoustic mirror to produce, from the one or more shock waves, one or more destructive reflected waves directed to one or more second points outside of the downhole unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Sameeh Issa Batarseh, Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi
  • Patent number: 10544646
    Abstract: A downhole barrier delivery device is provided including a tubular housing having an outer surface, a first end having a fluid entrance aperture, a second end opposite the first end having a fluid exit aperture, and an inner bore extending from the fluid entrance aperture to the fluid exit aperture. A bypass channel extends along the length of the tubular housing between the outer surface of the tubular housing and the inner bore, wherein the central bore and the bypass channel are separated by an impermeable barrier. A first end of the bypass channel is fluidly coupled with the inner bore via a first bypass port. A second end of the bypass channel is fluidly coupled with the inner bore via a second bypass port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Earl Don Webb, Matthew Gabriel Eye
  • Patent number: 10520089
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette including a liquid supply, an air inlet, an inhalation port, and an atomizer. The liquid supply has a housing with a spiral container, having an outlet for directing a liquid held within the container out to the atomizer and at least one inlet sealed by a sealing agent to impede movement of the liquid. An air channel leads from the air inlet through the atomizer to the inhalation port for directing an aerosol generated at the atomizer to the inhalation port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FONTEM HOLDINGS 1 B.V.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Xinliang Tong
  • Patent number: 10458213
    Abstract: A positioning device includes a shaped charge holder. A plurality of shaped charge receptacles formed in the shaped charge holder are configured to arrange a plurality of shaped charges in a desired orientation. The shaped charges are detonated by a detonator in response to an initiation signal. The positioning device may be secured in a perforating gun module, with vertical and horizontal movement of the positioning being inhibited in the perforating gun module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: DynaEnergetics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Eitschberger, Arash Shahinpour, Gernot Uwe Burmeister, Thilo Scharf
  • Patent number: 10393482
    Abstract: A system and apparatus for providing an apparatus for use in a wellbore. The apparatus includes an apparatus body defining a volume, a propellant disposed within the volume, wherein the propellant has a first burn rate, and at least one propellant insert disposed within the propellant, wherein the propellant insert has a second burn rate, and the second burn rate is different than the first burn rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Suman Khatiwada, John Welch, Anil Sadana, Ramon Garza
  • Patent number: 10352120
    Abstract: A packer setting tool for setting a packer device within a wellbore. The packer setting tool includes an outer housing defining a piston chamber within. A piston member is disposed within the piston chamber and is moveable therein in response to ignition of a non-hydrocarbon liquid fuel source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Ewing, James C. Doane
  • Patent number: 10352119
    Abstract: A packer setting tool for setting a packer device within a wellbore. The packer setting tool includes an outer housing defining a piston chamber within. A piston member is disposed within the piston chamber and is moveable therein in response to ignition of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: James C. Doane, Daniel C Ewing
  • Patent number: 10240421
    Abstract: A “back-off” tool comprises a magazine cylinder having one distal end of a long mast rod secured to the lower end-face of a magazine cylinder. The magazine cylinder is attached to an electrically detonated firing head. A first plurality of blind hole cavities penetrate the magazine cylinder end-face around the mast rod junction. A second plurality of elongated detonation cord ends are inserted into high temperature grease filled magazine cylinder cavities. From the cavities, the detonation cord lengths are bound to the rod surface along the rod length by non-metallic cord. The tool assembly is secured to the end of a wireline or tubing string for downhole placement and detonation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Inventors: William T. Bell, James G. Rairigh
  • Patent number: 9983173
    Abstract: A group of inventions related to geophysical well logging, in particular to magnetic imaging defectoscopy of well casings including magnetized ones, that can be used to identify and classify defects in production and intermediate casing and tubing strings in oil and gas wells. An electromagnetic multi-sensor defectoscope for surveying casing pipes containing a source of the electromagnetic field in the form of a central exciter coil designed to transmit current pulses from a current pulse generator, a system of measuring elements placed on bow springs to be forced against the inner surface of a casing pipe, and a unit for signal recording, control and data processing connected to the system of measuring elements through communication lines. A method of multi-sensor electromagnetic defectoscopy for surveying casing pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: OBSCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOY OTVETSTVENNOSTIU “MIKS”
    Inventors: Artur Mihailovich Aslanyan, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Davydov, Andrey Aleksandrovich Arbuzov, Anatoliy Nikolaevich Pestov, Aleksandr Veniaminovich Klimochkin, Pavel Aleksandrovich Yakonovskiy, Vladimir Serafimovich Dolomanov
  • Patent number: 9732897
    Abstract: A sealing device is provided suitable for making at least partially fluid-tight a connection between a first pipe and a smaller second pipe, a part of the second pipe being able to be engaged in the first pipe while leaving an inter-pipes space between the two pipes in the radial direction. The sealing device is mounted on a supporting pipe and is adapted to spread out in the inter-pipes space from a guard position to a sealing position. It comprises at least one sealing set including substantially rigid movable sealing members which extend each along a predetermined angular sector in a circumferential direction and are individually guided in displacement between the guard position and the sealing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Electricite de France
    Inventor: Christophe Legendre
  • Patent number: 9726005
    Abstract: The invention relates to a positioning method for determining a position of a downhole tool moving at a velocity in a casing in a well, comprising the steps of measuring a magnitude and/or direction of a magnetic field by means of a first sensor several times over a time period while moving along a first part of the casing manufactured from metal, determining a manufacturing pattern of the casing along the first part from the measurement measuring a magnitude and/or direction of a magnetic field by means of the first sensor several times over a time period while moving along a second part of the casing manufactured from metal, determining the velocity of the tool along the second part, adjusting the determined velocity of the tool along the second part based upon the manufacturing pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: WELLTEC A/S
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Mathias Francke
  • Patent number: 9598942
    Abstract: An igniter assembly is disclosed for initiating an explosive charge in a setting tool. In an embodiment, the igniter assembly includes a longitudinal axis, and a holder including a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a through passage. In addition, the igniter assembly includes an igniter disposed within the through passage. The igniter comprises a single igniter system. Further, the igniter assembly includes a contact seal plug disposed at least partially within the through passage. The contact sealing plug is configured to sealingly engage the through passage to prevent fluid flow out of the through passage beyond the first end of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: G&H DIVERSIFIED MANUFACTURING LP
    Inventors: Joe Noel Wells, Benjamin Vascal Knight
  • Patent number: 9593574
    Abstract: A well completion system includes tubing, and packers that seal the annulus of the well outside the tubing. The packers are spaced to define voids in the annulus that are substantially free from hydrostatic pressure. Also included are hollow sleeve valves having upper and lower sealing elements, and that have closed and open positions. Each sleeve valve is positioned within the tubing at a depth corresponding to a void in the annulus. Ports extend through the sleeve valve and tubing, so that when the sleeve valve is closed, the port is closed, and when the sleeve valve is open, the port is open. Also included is a sampling tool having top and bottom sealing elements, the bottom sealing element for engaging the lower sealing element of a sleeve valve, and the top sealing element for engaging the upper sealing element of the sleeve valve when the sleeve valve is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: AlWaleed Abdullah AlGouhi
  • Patent number: 9422966
    Abstract: Shear member designs in various formats are presented with additional features for segment retention and subsequent removal after a shearing event and removal of the tool from a subterranean location. In some embodiments a portion of the shear member is retained by threads so that the segment stays in the part and then can be removed at the surface with putting a notch in the segment and removing it with a screwdriver. In another embodiment a retaining pin in an intersecting bore can hold onto a sheared remnant of the shear pin by pushing the remnant laterally in the bore that it is mounted. Another design for a shear ring uses a split design with the right angle portion of the ring that gets sheared appearing in segments so that the ring can be rapidly snapped into a groove at its outer periphery followed by a retaining cap facilitating removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Levi B. Oberg, Gregory L. Hern, Jim H. Roddy, Yingqing Xu, Douglas J. Lehr
  • Patent number: 9422794
    Abstract: The invention provides a system for lining a wellbore. The system comprises an expandable tubular element arranged in the wellbore, the tubular element having a first end part and a second end part whereby the second end part extends into a tubular wall located in the wellbore. An expander is arranged to radially expand the tubular element by movement of the expander through the tubular element in a direction from the first end part to the second end part, said direction defining an expansion direction. The system further comprises an anchor arranged to anchor said second end part to the tubular wall in a manner that the anchor substantially prevents movement of said second end part in the expansion direction and allows movement of said second end part in the direction opposite to the expansion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Daniele Di Crescenzo, Antonius Leonardus Maria Wubben, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Patent number: 9394754
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a kick over tool (5) for manipulating and installing devices into and removing devices from a side pocket mandrel (2), where the kick over tool is designed to enable multiple operations in the same run. The kick over tool comprises a tubular carrier housing (6) adapted for passage through a full opening bore of a production string, at least a first and second setting device (8,9) that is arranged in said carrier housing, the first and second setting device being pivotally connected to a first and second articulated linkage mechanism (12,13) comprising a coupling device for the well bore device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY COMPANY AS
    Inventors: Erling Kleppa, Ståle Pettersen
  • Patent number: 9376910
    Abstract: A downhole formation testing and sampling apparatus. The apparatus includes an expandable packer having a radially contracted running configuration and a radially expanded deployed configuration. At least one elongated sealing pad is operably associated with the expandable packer such that operating the expandable packer from the running configuration to the deployed configuration establishes a hydraulic connection between the at least one elongated sealing pad and the formation. The at least one elongated sealing pad has at least one opening establishing fluid communication between the formation and the interior of the apparatus. In addition, the at least one elongated sealing pad has an outer surface operable to seal a region along a surface of the formation to establish the hydraulic connection therewith. The at least one elongated sealing pad further has at least one recess operable to establish fluid flow from the formation to the at least one opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Inventors: Mark A. Proett, Clovis S. Bonavides
  • Patent number: 9376903
    Abstract: The method for enhancing of forming at least one fracture having a required width r and length L in the formation surrounding fracturing around a wellbore in the regime of resonance by means of applying vibrations to the formation which is undergoing pressurizing exceeding the fracture gradient pressure of the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Inventors: Sergey Kostrov, William Wooden
  • Patent number: 9175533
    Abstract: This invention particularly relates to improving the engagement of the slip elements within a casing or tubing. Particularly, the invention is directed to improving the penetration of anchors on slip elements to better set downhole tools. Generally, in one aspect, the invention relies on decreasing the contact surface of the cutting edge of the anchor during the initial penetration of the anchor into the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: William Ellis Standridge
  • Patent number: 9163477
    Abstract: An insert for a downhole plug for use in a wellbore. The insert can include a body having a bore formed at least partially therethrough. One or more threads can be disposed on an outer surface of the body and adapted to threadably engage an inner surface of the plug proximate a first end of the plug. One or more shearable threads can be disposed on an inner surface of the body. The one or more shearable threads can be adapted to threadably engage a setting tool that enters the plug through the first end thereof and to deform to release the setting tool when exposed to a predetermined force that is less than a force required to deform the one or more threads disposed on the outer surface of the body. At least one impediment can be disposed within the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Inventor: W. Lynn Frazier
  • Patent number: 9140087
    Abstract: A sealing means for debris chambers of a debris extraction tool and a method for dismantling and handling a debris extraction toll using such sealing means are disclosed. The sealing means for a debris chamber for a debris extraction tool may include a cylindrical body sealed at one end and open at the other end. The open end may be connectable to an end of the debris chamber. The method for dismantling a debris extraction tool, wherein the debris extraction tool comprises a plurality of connected debris chambers, may use the sealing means and may include connecting the sealing means to the topmost debris chamber of the debris extraction tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: M-I Drilling Fluids UK Limited
    Inventor: George Telfer
  • Patent number: 9038521
    Abstract: A geological perforating tool (gun) shape charges disposed at an angle that provides an improvement over other known embodiments by accurately securing the charges in the tool to facilitate reliable, reproducible focus of the shaped charges. Charges are disposed on metal strips fitted into slots that are precision cut at predetermined angles in a tool barrel circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: GEODYNAMICS, INC.
    Inventors: James A. Rollins, Kevin R. George, Nathan Clark
  • Publication number: 20150107819
    Abstract: A downhole tool comprising a first section having an internal sidewall defining at least a portion of a flowpath, and a ported outer sidewall and an explosive having at least a portion within said first section. An annular portion has at least one chamber having an end positioned adjacent to the explosive and an inlet providing a communication path to said flowpath. A detonator assembly is located within each chamber proximal to the explosive such that detonation of the assembly causes detonation of the explosive. A firing pin is propelled toward the detonation assembly by providing communication between the chamber and the flow path, causing a pressure differential between the pressure isolated ends of the firing pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Raymond Hofman, William Sloane Muscroft, Steve Jackson
  • Publication number: 20150090442
    Abstract: A reaction apparatus for providing reactants from a surface to a wellbore to create a generated gas when the reactants undergo a reaction in situ to affect the density of a fluid in the wellbore, the reaction apparatus comprises a reaction housing, the reaction housing comprises a first reactant cell configured to contain a first reactant, a second reactant cell configured to contain a second reactant, a mixing chamber, configured to allow the first reactant and the second reactant to mix, a first passage configured to allow the first reactant to pass from the first reactant cell to the mixing chamber, a second passage configured to allow the second reactant to pass from the second reactant cell to the mixing chamber, an outlet configured to allow the generated gas from the reaction to escape the mixing chamber, a line comprising a plurality of electric cables, and a reel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Rafael LASTRA, Mohammed Nabil NOUI-MEHIDI
  • Patent number: 8973657
    Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining fluid samples in a subterranean wellbore comprises a carrier assembly configured to be disposed in a subterranean wellbore; a sampling chamber operably associated with the carrier assembly; a pressure assembly coupled to the sampling chamber and configured to pressurize a fluid sample obtained in the sampling chamber, wherein the pressure assembly is configured to contain a pressure generating agent; an activation mechanism configured to activate the pressure generating agent; and a power device operably associated with the carrier assembly and configured to provide an impulse for activating the activation mechanism, wherein the power device is not disposed on the pressure assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott L. Miller, Cyrus A. Irani