Patents Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
  • Method for wellbore sealing
    Patent number: 11891873
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for performing a sealing operation in a wellbore. An example method introduces a sealant composition into the wellbore while the sealant composition is under shear. The sealant composition comprises a thixotropic material, a conformance gel system, and an aqueous base fluid. The sealant composition is placed into a target location, and applied shear is reduced to the sealant composition when in the target location thereby allowing the sealant composition to thicken in the target location. Fluid flow across the target location is reduced by a fluid seal formed by the thickened sealant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Recio, III, Julio Estuardo Vasquez Estrada, Larry S. Eoff
  • Expandable metal wellbore anchor
    Patent number: 11891867
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects of an expandable metal wellbore anchor for use in a wellbore. The expandable metal wellbore anchor, in one aspect, includes one or more expandable members positionable on a downhole conveyance member in a wellbore, wherein the one or more expandable members comprise a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis, and wherein a combined volume of the one or more expandable members is sufficient to expand to anchor one or more downhole tools within the wellbore in response to the hydrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Additive manufactured floats for use in a downhole environment
    Patent number: 11892096
    Abstract: A float for use with a fluid flow control device. The float, in at least one aspect, includes a fluid impermeable exterior, and a base material having one or more cavities positioned within the fluid impermeable exterior, the base material formed using an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Hybrid electro-optic wireline cable
    Patent number: 11892695
    Abstract: A cable comprises a protective jacket and a plurality of conductor bundles symmetrically arranged within the protective jacket. The cable comprises optical fibers arranged within the protective jacket relative to the plurality of conductor bundles such that an orthogonal mode electrical field symmetry for the plurality of conductor bundles is retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Laureto Maida, Sudhir Kumar Gupta, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Arabinda Misra, Ramon Hernandez Marti
  • Methods and applications of wear resistant material enhanced via matrix and hard-phase optimization
    Patent number: 11891863
    Abstract: Hardfacing is used to protect wear surfaces of drill bits and other downhole tools. A hardfacing member can be formed by heating a metal matrix material, e.g., via a laser process, injecting a plurality of particles into the heated metal matrix material, disposing the mixture on at least a portion of a substrate thereby forming a hardfacing member having a particle-embedded metal matrix material, and attaching the hardfacing member to a main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Krutibas Panda, Brian Lee Doud
  • Dampening the actuation speed of a downhole tool
    Patent number: 11891866
    Abstract: An actuator of a downhole tool used in oil and gas exploration and production operations is operable to actuate a first implement in a first direction. A biasing device of the downhole tool is operable to actuate the first implement in a second direction, opposite the first direction. A dampener of the downhole tool is operable to slow an actuation speed of the first implement in the first direction, the second direction, or both. Actuating the first implement in the first direction also actuates a second implement of a flow control device (“FCD”) of the downhole tool, to which the first implement is connected, in the first direction, placing the FCD in a first (e.g., open) configuration. Actuating the first implement in the second direction also actuates the second implement of the FCD in the second direction, placing the FCD in a second (e.g., closed) configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Robin Passmore, Bruce Edward Scott, James D. Vick, Jr.
  • Pulsed-power drilling fluid property management using downhole mixer
    Patent number: 11891894
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pulsed-power drilling system that includes downhole mixers for restoring optimal electrical properties in drilling fluid. The downhole mixer may include a housing having an uphole and downhole end, a channel to convey the drilling fluid through the housing, and a flow restrictor including an orifice having a fixed diameter positioned in the channel between the entrance and the exit of the channel to create a pressure drop between the entrance and the exit of the channel during a drilling operation. The pressure drop increases shear stress in the drilling fluid to manage electrical properties, such as a dielectric constant, of the drilling fluid. The electrical properties of the drilling fluid facilitate the formation of an electrical arc on a drill bit of the pulsed-power drilling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William Walter Shumway
  • Self-assembling porous gravel pack in a wellbore
    Patent number: 11891874
    Abstract: A system for a wellbore can include a tubing string positioned downhole in a wellbore and a porous gravel pack. The porous gravel pack can be positioned in an annulus defined at least in part by a surface of the tubing string. The porous gravel pack can be made up of a plurality of grains. Each grain can include a core surrounded at least in part by a sheath. The core can comprise an expandable material that can expand in response to coming in contact with a fluid. The sheath can surround the core and can be deformable in response to the core expanding in response being exposed to a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Cem Sonat, Stephen Michael Greci, Brandon Thomas Least
  • Measuring formation properties and drilling mud properties using nuclear magnetic resonance in a wellbore
    Patent number: 11891888
    Abstract: A measurement tool may be positioned downhole in a wellbore for measuring formation properties and drilling mud properties during a drilling operation. The measurement tool may include a body and an antenna. The body may include magnets for generating a magnetic field and a transmitter for transmitting a radiofrequency pulse. The antenna may be positioned proximate to the body to measure properties using nuclear magnetic resonant frequencies. The antenna may measure formation properties in a first volume of a formation using a first frequency. The antenna may measure drilling mud properties in a second volume in a borehole using a second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Songhua Chen, Rebecca Jachmann
  • Use of halbach array in downhole debris retrieval magnets
    Patent number: 11891870
    Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is a downhole magnetic debris removal apparatus. The downhole magnetic debris removal apparatus, in one aspect, includes a housing having a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of magnets arranged as one or more Halbach arrays of magnets coupled to the housing, the one or more Halbach arrays of magnets having a strong side and a weak side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Reid Maher, Robert W. Bennett, David Allen Dockweiler
  • SENSOR AND ACTUATOR FOR AUTONOMOUSLY DETECTING RESISTIVITY DERIVATIVES OF WELLBORE FLUIDS AND CLOSING FLUID PATH
    Publication number: 20240035370
    Abstract: A sensor device can be used to detect the presence of a cement composition in a reverse cementing operation. The sensor device can include a resistivity sensor, an acquisition and measurement apparatus, and an actuator. The actual derivative of resistivity of the drilling mud, spacer fluid, and cement composition to be used can be pre-determined. The acquisition and measurement apparatus can be pre-programmed with a slope change derivative of resistivity profile for the fluids. The resistivity sensor can measure the resistivity of the fluids as they flow past the resistivity sensor in the wellbore. When the acquisition and measurement apparatus receives a desired slope change reading within the slope change derivative of resistivity profile, instructions can be sent to the actuator to close a valve and block fluid flow through the casing or tubing string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Jesus ELIZONDO, Ritesh Dharmendra PANCHAL, Jinhua CAO, Ishwar PATIL, Paul J JONES
  • MODULAR SKID-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE TREATMENT OR COMPLETION OPERATIONS AT A WELL
    Publication number: 20240035342
    Abstract: A modular skid-based system to provide treatment or competition operations at a well includes a main skid configured to be positioned on a trailer or ground in proximity to the well. A first modular skid is positioned on the main skid and includes a first primary system and a first support system. A second modular skid is positioned on the main skid and includes a second primary system and a second support system. At least one of the second primary system and the second support system is coupled to at least one of the first primary system and the first support system. The first modular skid, the first primary system and the first support system are removable as a whole from the main skid without removing the second modular skid, the second primary system or the second support system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Silas CLYBURN, Christopher C. POAGE, Jim Basuki SURJAATMADJA
  • Monitoring Drilling Conditions And Estimating Rock Properties
    Publication number: 20240035375
    Abstract: A method and a system for a confined compressive strength (CCS) and an unconfined compressive strength (UCS) for one or more bedding layers. The method may include identifying a depth interval during a drilling operation as a distance between a first depth and a second depth, measuring one or more drill bit responses within the depth interval using a sensor package disposed on the drill bit, identifying one or more torsional bit vibrations, and identifying one or more bedding layers of the formation within the depth interval from the one or more torsional bit vibrations. The method may further include identifying the (CCS) and the (UCS) for each of the one or more bedding layers and identifying a bit wear of the drill bit within each of the one or more bedding layers using the one or more drill bit responses and the one or more torsional bit vibrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Shilin Chen, Van Jordan Brackin, Jonathan Kollar
  • WELLBORE CASING SCRAPER
    Publication number: 20240035359
    Abstract: A controllable downhole scraper includes a fluid reservoir having a pressure wall positioned and movable within the fluid reservoir defining a first portion of the fluid reservoir including a first fluid. The pressure wall exerts a force on the first fluid to maintain a first pressure. A scraper blade is movable between a retracted and an extended position. A sleeve is positioned on a tubular and slidable between a first position engaging the scraper blade to move into the retracted position, and a second position engaging the scraper blade to move into the extended position. The sleeve is configured to move between the two positions through a reduction in the first pressure in the first fluid. A restrictor is fluidly coupled between the fluid reservoir and a pressure reservoir. A gas reservoir, fluidly coupled to the first fluid, is selectively operable to reduce the first pressure in the first fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael GRECI, Michael Linley FRIPP, Finn Gamble MCCARTHY
  • Low power consumption electro-hydraulic system with multiple solenoids
    Patent number: 11885200
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic control system for actuating a control valve includes a control module. The control module is coupled to the surface via at least one hydraulic line and two electrical power lines. The control module uses one of the hydraulic lines as a “supply” line and the other line as a “return” line if included. Each hydraulic line of the at least one hydraulic lines can be used as an “open” line or a “close” line to open or close the control valve. The control module includes two normally closed (NC) solenoid valves (SOVs) that are coupled to the electrical power lines and can be controlled from the surface to open or close. The opening or closing of the NC SOVs in cooperation with hydraulic pressure on a “supply” line of the hydraulic lines operates (i.e., closes or opens) the control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorenzzo Breda Minassa, Robert William Gissler
  • Automated precise constant pressure fracturing with electric pumps
    Patent number: 11885208
    Abstract: A method of controlling a pumping stage of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite with a set of electric frac pumps to deliver fracturing fluids into a target formation at a steady pressure value. An global control process on a computer system communicatively connected to the plurality of pumping units can communicate a unit setpoint to each pumping unit, monitor the sensor measurements, compare the periodic datasets to a target pressure, and modify the fluid output of the pump units to achieve the target pressure during the pumping operation. The global control process can direct at least one pumping unit to deliver a fracturing treatment at a pressure higher or lower than the target pressure in response to changing wellbore environment pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Madhur Kohli, Alexander Simon Chretien, Vladimir Nikolayevich Martysevich
  • Adaptive pulse waveform for channel estimation in mud pulse telemetry
    Patent number: 11885218
    Abstract: Downhole telemetry systems and related methods to adaptively adjust pulse waveform width through digitally controlled pulsing parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Joni Polili Lie, Mukul M. Agnihotri, Faisal Shah
  • System and methods for evaluating a formation using pixelated solutions of formation data
    Patent number: 11885925
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a subterranean formation includes a logging tool that includes transmitter and receiver antennae. The transmitter antenna transmits a first electromagnetic signal into the formation at a plurality of depths. The receiver antenna receives a plurality of second electromagnetic signals emitted by the formation in response to the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Ma, Clint Lozinsky, Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Li Pan
  • Substituted amine acid salt activation of furfuryl alcohol-based resins
    Patent number: 11884878
    Abstract: Methods and fluids for consolidating unconsolidated particulates. An example method introduces a furfuryl alcohol-based resin treatment fluid into a wellbore; wherein the furfuryl alcohol-based resin treatment fluid is a furfuryl alcohol-based resin and a diluent. The method contacts the unconsolidated particulates within the wellbore with the furfuryl alcohol-based resin treatment fluid to produce resin-contacted unconsolidated particulates. The method further introduces a substituted amine acid treatment fluid into the wellbore after the introduction of the furfuryl alcohol-based resin treatment fluid into the wellbore; wherein the substituted amine acid treatment fluid is a substituted amine acid salt and a solvent. The method further contacts the resin-contacted unconsolidated particulates with the substituted amine acid treatment fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Recio, III, Aaron M. Beuterbaugh, Josselyne Chano, Philip D. Nguyen, Michael Wayne Sanders
  • Silicate shale inhibitor additives
    Patent number: 11884851
    Abstract: Methods and compositions including silicate shale inhibitor additives. In some embodiments, the methods include introducing a shale inhibitor additive comprising a silicate anion and a quaternary ammonium cation into a treatment fluid; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation that comprises shale; and allowing the shale inhibitor additive to interact with the shale in the subterranean formation to at least partially inhibit the shale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Preston May