Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for performing laser operations in boreholes and other remote locations, such operations including laser drilling of a borehole in the earth, and laser workover and completion operations. Systems, apparatus and methods for generating and delivering high power laser energy below the surface of the earth and within a borehole. Laser operations using such down hole generated laser beams.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 4, 2019
Publication date:
June 13, 2019
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian O. Faircloth, Yeshaya Koblick, Joel F. Moxley, Mark S. Zediker
Abstract: A high power laser system for providing laser beams in various laser beam patterns along a laser beam path that is positioned to provide for the in situ laser processing of materials in tubulars, such as pipes in a hydrocarbon producing well. Laser treating for providing flow assurance by direct and indirect laser processing of materials interfering with flow.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 2014
Date of Patent:
May 28, 2019
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Ronald A De Witt, James P. Nehlsen, Joel F. Moxley, Mark S. Zediker, Charles C. Rinzler, Brian O. Faircloth, Daryl L. Grubb, Paul D. Deutch
Abstract: There are provided high power laser perforation, hydraulic fracturing systems, tools and methods for the stimulation and recovery of energy sources, such as hydrocarbons, from a formation. These systems, tools and methods provide predetermined laser beam energy patterns, to provide for the down hole volumetric removal of custom geometries of materials, sealing of perforations, reperorations, refractures and other downhole actives.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 8, 2018
Publication date:
February 7, 2019
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Paul D. Deutch, Fred C. Kellermann, Tom Zimmerman, John Yearwood, Mark S. Zediker, Ronald A. De Witt, Brian O. Faircloth, John Ely
Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for performing laser operations in boreholes and other remote locations, such operations including laser drilling of a borehole in the earth, and laser workover and completion operations. Systems, apparatus and methods for generating and delivering high power laser energy below the surface of the earth and within a borehole. Laser operations using such down hole generated laser beams.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2015
Date of Patent:
February 5, 2019
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian O Faircloth, Yeshaya Koblick, Joel F. Moxley, Mark S. Zediker
Abstract: There are provided high power laser and laser mechanical earth removing equipment, and operations using laser cutting tools having stand off distances. These equipment provide high power laser beams, greater than 1 kW to cut and volumetrically remove targeted materials and to remove laser affected material with gravity assistance, mechanical cutters, fluid jets, scrapers and wheels. There is also provided a method of using this equipment in mining, road resurfacing and other earth removing or working activities.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 5, 2019
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Mark S. Land, John F. Volkmar, Mark S. Zediker, Shararth Kolachalam, Ryan J. Norton, Brian O. Faircloth, Daryl L. Grubb, Ronald A. De Witt
Abstract: There is provided a mobile high power laser system and conveyance structure for delivering high power laser energy to and for performing high power laser operations in remote and difficult to access locations. There is further provide such systems with high power laser, handling equipment and conveyance equipment that are configured to avoid exceeding the maximum bending radius of high power optical fibers used with the conveyance structures. There are also provided embodiments of the conveyance structures having channels, lines and passages for delivering materials such as fluids.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 28, 2018
Publication date:
November 15, 2018
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Daryl L. Grubb, Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth, Ronald A. DeWitt, Ryan P. McKay, William C. Gray, Joel F. Moxley, Charles C. Rinzler, Lance D. Underwood, Paul D. Deutch
Abstract: There are provided high power laser perforation, hydraulic fracturing systems, tools and methods for the stimulation and recovery of energy sources, such as hydrocarbons, from a formation. These systems, tools and methods provide predetermined laser beam energy patterns, to provide for the down hole volumetric removal of custom geometries of materials, sealing of perforations, reperforations, refractures and other downhole actives.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 21, 2018
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Paul D. Deutch, Fred C. Kellermann, Tom Zimmerman, John Yearwood, Mark S. Zediker, Ronald A. De Witt, Brian O. Faircloth, John Ely
Abstract: There is provided a system and apparatus for the transmission of high power laser energy over great distances without substantial power loss and without the presence of stimulated Raman scattering. There is further provided systems and optical fiber cable configurations and optical fiber structures for the delivering high power laser energy over great distances to a tool or surface to perform an operation or work with the tool or upon the surface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 13, 2016
Date of Patent:
June 19, 2018
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Mark S. Zediker, Charles C. Rinzler, Brian O. Faircloth, Joel F. Moxley
Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for performing laser operations in boreholes and other remote locations, such operations including laser drilling of a borehole in the earth. Systems, apparatus and methods for generating and delivering high power laser energy below the surface of the earth and within a borehole. Laser operations using such downhole generated laser beams.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 22, 2017
Publication date:
June 14, 2018
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian O. Faircloth, Ian Lee, Andrey Kuznetsov
Abstract: There are provided using deuterium oxide as a media for transmitting high power lasers to perform laser operations, such as cutting, boring and drilling, a target material. High power laser beams are transmitted through a deuterium oxide beam path to a target material, including material in a pressure containment vessel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2015
Date of Patent:
May 1, 2018
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Mark S. Zediker, Robert R. Rice, William F. Krupke, Brian O. Faircloth
Abstract: Nano-particle based mode strippers for removing undesirable laser energy for laser systems. Nano-particle mode strippers having matched indices of refraction to the outer cladding remove cladding light converting it into heat. There are provided fibers having evanescent mode strippers having annular outer cores and claddings.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 19, 2017
Publication date:
February 15, 2018
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Ian Lee, Andrey Kuznetsov, Brian O. Faircloth
Abstract: High power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these tools and systems for opening up damaged wells and for cutting, sectioning and removing structures objects, and materials, and in particular, for doing so in difficult to access locations and environments, such as offshore, underwater, or in hazardous environments, such as nuclear and chemical facilities. And, high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these systems and tools for providing rock-to-rock plugs for decommissioning of wells.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 23, 2017
Publication date:
February 15, 2018
Applicant:
FORO ENERGY, INC.
Inventors:
Paul D. Deutch, Scott A. Marshall, Daryl L. Grubb, Ronald A. De Witt, Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth
Abstract: There is provided systems, methods and apparatus for the use of directed energy, including high power laser energy, in conjunction with mechanical shearing, sealing and closing devices to provide reduced mechanical energy well control systems and techniques.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 30, 2013
Date of Patent:
December 19, 2017
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Daniel L. Wolfe, Andyle G. Bailey, Daryl L. Grubb, Sharath K. Kolachalam, Mark S. Zediker, Paul D. Deutch
Abstract: There are provided high power laser perforating tools and methods of delivering laser energy patterns that enhance the flow of energy sources, such as hydrocarbons, from a formation into a production tubing or collection system. These tools and methods precisely deliver predetermined laser beam energy patterns, to provide for custom geometries in a formation. The patterns and geometries are tailored and customized to the particular geological and structural features of a formation and reservoir.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 21, 2017
Publication date:
November 9, 2017
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker, Daryl L. Grubb, Sam N. Schroit, Ronald A. De Witt, Sharath K. Kolachalam, Paul D. Deutch, Eugene J. Linyaev
Abstract: There is provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these tools and systems for cutting, sectioning and removing structures objects, and materials, and in particular, for doing so in difficult to access locations and environments, such as offshore, underwater, or in hazardous environments, such as nuclear and chemical facilities. Thus, there is also provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these systems and tools for removing structures, objects, and materials located offshore, under bodies of water and under the seafloor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 2, 2017
Publication date:
September 21, 2017
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Eugene J. Linyaev, Scott A. Marshall, Daryl L. Grubb, Ronald A. De Witt, Paul D. Deutch, Brian O. Faircloth, Jason D. Fraze, Mark S. Zediker
Abstract: There is provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these tools and systems for cutting, sectioning and removing structures objects, and materials, and in particular, for doing so in difficult to access locations and environments, such as offshore, underwater, or in hazardous environments, such as nuclear and chemical facilities. Thus, there is also provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these systems and tools for removing structures, objects, and materials located offshore, under bodies of water and under the seafloor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 11, 2016
Publication date:
September 7, 2017
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Mark S. Zediker, Daryl L. Grubb, Ronald A. De Witt, Paul D. Deutch, Joel F. Moxley, Scott A. Marshall, Eugence J. Linyaev, Sam N. Schroit, Sharath K. Kolachalam
Abstract: There are provided high power laser perforating tools and methods of delivering laser energy patterns that enhance the flow of energy sources, such as hydrocarbons, from a formation into a production tubing or collection system. These tools and methods precisely deliver predetermined laser beam energy patterns, to provide for custom geometries in a formation. The patterns and geometries are tailored and customized to the particular geological and structural features of a formation and reservoir.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 1, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2017
Assignee:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Eugene J. Linyaev, Mark S. Zediker, Daryl L. Grubb, Sam N. Schroit, Ronald A. De Witt, Sharath K Kolachalam, Paul D. Deutch, Brian O. Faircloth
Abstract: High power lasers and high power laser systems that provide high power laser beams having preselected wavelengths and characteristics to optimize or enhance laser beam performance in predetermined environments, conditions and use requirements. In particular, lasers, methods and systems that relate to, among other things, Raman lasers, up conversion lasers, wavelength conversion laser systems, and multi-laser systems that are configured to match and create specific and predetermined wavelengths at specific points along an optical path having varying requirements along that path.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 7, 2013
Publication date:
July 27, 2017
Applicant:
FORO ENERGY, INC.
Inventors:
Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth, Charles C. Rinzler
Abstract: There is provided a system, apparatus and methods for the laser drilling of a borehole in the earth. There is further provided with in the systems a means for delivering high power laser energy down a deep borehole, while maintaining the high power to advance such boreholes deep into the earth and at highly efficient advancement rates, a laser bottom hole assembly, and fluid directing techniques and assemblies for removing the displaced material from the borehole.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 28, 2017
Publication date:
July 6, 2017
Applicant:
Foro Energy, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker, Mark S. Land, Joel F. Moxley, Charles C. Rinzler, Yeshaya Koblick
Abstract: There are provided high power laser perforating tools and methods of delivering laser energy patterns that enhance the flow of energy sources, such as hydrocarbons, from a formation into a production tubing or collection system. These tools and methods precisely deliver predetermined laser beam energy patterns, to provide for custom geometries in a formation. The patterns and geometries are tailored and customized to the particular geological and structural features of a formation and reservoir.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 1, 2013
Publication date:
June 29, 2017
Applicant:
Foro Energy Inc.
Inventors:
Eugene J. Linyaev, Mark S. Zediker, Daryl L. Grubb, Sam N. Schroit, Ronald A. De Witt, Sharath K. Kolachalam, Paul D. Deutch, Brian O. Faircloth