Patents Assigned to Foro Energy, Inc.
  • High power laser offshore decommissioning tool, system and methods of use
    Patent number: 9669492
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: 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
  • High power laser decomissioning of multistring and damaged wells
    Patent number: 9664012
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Deutch, Scott A. Marshall, Daryl L. Grubb, Ronald A. De Witt, Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth
  • OPTICS ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH POWER LASER TOOLS
    Publication number: 20170059854
    Abstract: There is provided a high power laser rotational optical assembly for use with, or in high power laser tools for performing high power laser operations. In particular, the optical assembly finds applications in performing high power laser operations on, and in, remote and difficult to access locations. The optical assembly has rotational seals and bearing configurations to avoid contamination of the laser beam path and optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jason D. Fraze, Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker
  • High power laser-mechanical drilling bit and methods of use
    Patent number: 9562395
    Abstract: An apparatus with a high power laser-mechanical bit for use with a laser drilling system and a method for advancing a borehole. The laser-mechanical bit has a beam path and mechanical removal devices that provide for the removal of laser-affected rock to advance a borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daryl L. Grubb, Sharath K. Kolachalam, Brian O. Faircloth, Charles C. Rinzler, Erik C. Allen, Lance D. Underwood, Mark S. Zediker
  • SYSTEMS, TOOLS AND METHODS FOR WELL DECOMMISSIONING
    Publication number: 20170016299
    Abstract: There are provided high power laser systems for performing decommissioning of structures in land based boreholes, and wells, offshore, and other remote and hazardous locations, and using those system to perform decommissioning operations. In particular embodiments the laser system is a Class I system and reduces emission of materials created during laser cutting operations. The laser systems can include lifting and removal equipment for removing laser sectioned material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian O. Faircloth, Daryl Grubb, Scott A. Marshall, Mark S. Zediker, Kenneth L. Havlinek
  • Long stand off distance high power laser tools and methods of use
    Patent number: 9545692
    Abstract: There are provided high power laser cutting tools, optics assembly and laser beam configurations having long stand off distances, which provide high power laser beams, greater than 1 kW, to cut and volumetrically remove targeted materials. There is also provided methods of using these tools using a beam delivery angle that provides for molten material to be removed by flowing out of the targeted material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker, Shararth K. Kolachalam, Daryl L. Grubb
  • Apparatus for performing oil field laser operations
    Patent number: 9534447
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and methods for delivering high power laser energy to perform laser operations in oil fields and to form a borehole deep into the earth using laser energy. A laser downhole assembly for the delivery of high power laser energy to surfaces and areas in a borehole, which assembly may have laser optics and a fluid path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Zediker, Mark S. Land, Charles C. Rinzler, Brian O. Faircloth, Yeshaya Koblick, Joel F. Moxley
  • Methods and apparatus for removal and control of material in laser drilling of a borehole
    Patent number: 9512679
    Abstract: The removal of material from the path of a high power laser beam during down hole laser operations including drilling of a borehole and removal of displaced laser effected borehole material from the borehole during laser operations. In particular, paths, dynamics and parameters of fluid flows for use in conjunction with a laser bottom hole assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles C. Rinzler, Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth, Joel F. Moxley
  • RUGGED PASSIVELY COOLED HIGH POWER LASER FIBER OPTIC CONNECTORS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20160341906
    Abstract: There are provided high power laser connectors and couplers and methods that are capable of providing high laser power without the need for active cooling to remote, harsh and difficult to access locations and under difficult and harsh conditions and to manage and mitigate the adverse effects of back reflections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles C. Rinzler, William C. Gray, Jason D. Fraze, Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker, Ryan P. McKay
  • Laser systems and apparatus for the removal of structures
    Patent number: 9492885
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: 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
  • OPTICAL FIBER CABLE FOR TRANSMISSION OF HIGH POWER LASER ENERGY OVER GREAT DISTANCES
    Publication number: 20160299304
    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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Zediker, Charles C. Rinzler, Brian O. Faircloth, Joel F. Moxley
  • HIGH POWER LASER FLOW ASSURANCE SYSTEMS, TOOLS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20160251940
    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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: 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
  • SYSTEMS AND CONVEYANCE STRUCTURES FOR HIGH POWER LONG DISTANCE LASER TRANSMISSION
    Publication number: 20160222763
    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: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Foro Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald A. DeWitt, Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth, Daryl L. Grubb, Ryan P. McKay, William C. Gray, Joel F. Moxley, Charles C. Rinzler, Lance D. Underwood, Paul D. Deutch
  • LONG STAND OFF DISTANCE HIGH POWER LASER TOOLS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20160221125
    Abstract: There are provided high power laser cutting tools, optics assembly and laser beam configurations having long stand off distances, which provide high power laser beams, greater than 1 kW, to cut and volumetrically remove targeted materials. There is also provided methods of using these tools using a beam delivery angle that provides for molten material to be removed by flowing out of the targeted material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker, Shararth K. Kolachalam, Daryl L. Grubb
  • Systems, tools and methods for high power laser surface decommissioning and downhole welding
    Patent number: 9399269
    Abstract: There are provided using high power laser systems for performing decommissioning welding and repair of structures in boreholes, off-shore, and other remote and hazardous locations. In a particular embodiment the laser system is a Class I system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Zediker, Daryl L. Grubb, Brian O. Faircloth, Kenneth L. Havlinek, Scott A. Marshall
  • ELECTRIC MOTOR FOR LASER-MECHANICAL DRILLING
    Publication number: 20160186497
    Abstract: A high power laser drilling system utilizing an electric motor laser bottom hole assembly. A high power laser beam travels within the electric motor for performing a laser operation. A system includes a down hole electrical motor having a hollow rotor for conveying a high power laser beam having a wavelength less than 1060 nm through the electrical motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: FORO ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Daryl L. Grubb, Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker
  • SUBSEA IN SITU LASER FOR LASER ASSISTED BLOW OUT PREVENTER AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20160186524
    Abstract: High power sub sea, and sub sea in situ laser beam generation, assemblies and cutting operations for use in riser blowout preventer systems for off shore exploration and production of energy resources, including hydrocarbons. The system utilizes high power sub sea lasers to provide laser beams to laser cutters that are associated with a riser, a blowout preventer, or other sub sea structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicants: FORO ENERGY, INC., CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker
  • SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLIES FOR TRANSFERRING HIGH POWER LASER ENERGY THROUGH A ROTATING JUNCTION
    Publication number: 20160187588
    Abstract: There are provided high power laser devices and systems for transmitting a high power laser beam across a rotating assembly, including optical slip rings and optical rotational coupling assemblies. These devices can transmit the laser beam through the rotation zone in free space or within a fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan J. Norton, Ryan P. McKay, Jason D. Fraze, Charles C. Rinzler, Daryl L. Grubb, Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker
  • HIGH POWER LASER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MERCURY, HEAVY METAL AND HAZARDOUS MATERIAL REMOVAL
    Publication number: 20160158817
    Abstract: There are provides systems, methods and tools for delivering high power laser beams to selectively vaporizing contaminates in the surface layers of materials, and to remove these contaminates with minimal effect on the underlying substrate material. In particular, mercury contaminates can be removed in this manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth, Daryl L. Grubb, Paul D. Deutch
  • Optics assembly for high power laser tools
    Patent number: 9360631
    Abstract: There is provided a high power laser rotational optical assembly for use with, or in high power laser tools for performing high power laser operations. In particular, the optical assembly finds applications in performing high power laser operations on, and in, remote and difficult to access locations. The optical assembly has rotational seals and bearing configurations to avoid contamination of the laser beam path and optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason D. Fraze, Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker