Patents Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services
  • Publication number: 20240134082
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for integrating laboratory generated nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and NMR logging data. An example method can include obtaining NMR logging data describing one or more downhole NMR measurements captured during a drilling operation in a borehole; modifying the NMR logging data to be compatible with a temperature correction algorithm, yielding modified NMR logging data, the temperature correction algorithm having been determined based on laboratory generated NMR data; and applying the temperature correction algorithm to the modified NMR logging data, yielding temperature corrected NMR logging data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Songhua CHEN, Wei SHAO, Gabriela SINGER, Shouxiang Mark MA, Gabor HURSAN
  • Patent number: 11965401
    Abstract: A downhole gas separator fluid mover assembly comprising a fluid mover having an inlet and an outlet, a separation device, a separation chamber, and a flow path separator located downstream of the fluid mover. The fluid mover comprising a centrifugal pump stage with an impeller and a diffuser moves production fluid comprising a high viscosity fluid portion and a gas portion to the separation device. The separation device produces a fluid motion that separates the gas phase from the liquid phase in response to the flow rate of production fluid from the fluid mover. A portion of the high viscosity fluid passes through the gas phase discharge port in response to the over-supply of high viscosity fluid to the liquid discharge port in response to the flow rate of the production fluid through the fluid mover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport
  • Patent number: 11965503
    Abstract: A pump comprising a bore pump fluid end having a reciprocating element bore, a discharge valve assembly comprising a discharge valve seat and a discharge valve body, and a suction valve assembly comprising a suction valve seat and a suction valve body; a hollow, cylindrical reciprocating element; a hollow reciprocating element adapter comprising a first end having a fluid inlet opposite a second end having a fluid outlet, wherein the second end of the reciprocating element adapter is connected to and in fluid communication with the fluid intake end of the reciprocating element; a pump power end having a push rod connected to the first end of the reciprocating element adapter; and a movable manifold comprising a reciprocating element end and a fluid intake end, wherein the reciprocating element end of the movable manifold is connected to and in fluid communication with the fluid inlet of the reciprocating element adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Beisel, Justin Lee Hurst, Dick C. Headrick, James Alan Olis
  • Patent number: 11965719
    Abstract: A shaped charge liner may include a plurality of liner segments for a shaped charge configured to perforate a sidewall of a wellbore upon detonation. The plurality of liner segments may include a tip liner segment comprising a first group of compacted metal powder having a hollow cone shape with a trailing interface end disposed opposite a tip end. The tip liner segment is configured to be disposed in a shaped charge casing of the shaped charge. The plurality of liner segments may also include a base liner segment comprising a second group of compacted metal powder having a truncated hollow cone shape with a trailing base end disposed opposite a leading base interface end. The trailing base end has a larger diameter than the leading base interface end, and the base liner segment is configured to be disposed at least partially within the shaped charge casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Hoelscher, Joseph Todd MacGillivray, James M. Barker
  • Patent number: 11966845
    Abstract: A method for creating generated formatted data, that includes receiving, by a sequential data generator, raw data, where the raw data includes formation data at a drilling environment, processing the raw data to obtain generated recommendation data, where the generated recommendation data includes a proposed drilling location, and creating the generated formatted data, where the generated formatted data includes the generated recommendation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mateusz Michal Dyngosz, Charles Benjamin Broaddus, Aidan Porter, Dale E. Jamison
  • Patent number: 11965397
    Abstract: A downhole apparatus has a sleeve body sleeve body defining a sleeve body inner surface. The sleeve body has an internal thread on at least a portion thereof. The internal thread defining having a thread minor diameter. A plug seat is pressed into the threaded portion of the sleeve body. The plug seat has an unthreaded outer surface defining a plug seat outer diameter. The plug seat outer diameter is greater than the thread minor diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Lonnie Carl Helms
  • Patent number: 11964815
    Abstract: A self-funneling flexible container may be used with a storage and transportation system to provide an efficient, effective and cost-efficient transfer of material to, from or about a site, for example, a hydrocarbon exploration, recovery, production or operation site. The self-funneling flexible container may comprise one or more bands about the bottom or the bottom and one or more sides of the self-funneling flexible container. The bands have an elasticity such that the weight of material disposed in the self-funneling flexible container transitions the bands to an expanded position. When the material is discharged, the bands transition to a contracted position to form a funnel or chute so that all material may be efficiently discharged. As the funnel or chute is only formed at discharge, the self-funneling flexible container may store more material than traditional rigid containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Kresse, Calvin L. Stegemoeller
  • Patent number: 11965394
    Abstract: A method of actuating a subsea tree comprising opening a valve assembly by transferring a first volume of fluid into a first chamber and closing the valve assembly from the open position to a shear position via a gas charged valve actuator in response to the transfer of fluid out of the first chamber. Shearing a workstring positioned within an axial bore of the valve assembly with the valve via the gas charged valve actuator. Closing the valve from the shear position to a closed position with one or more gas charged push rods to isolate the wellbore above from the wellbore below the closed valve. The shearing force generated from the gas charged valve actuator is greater than the closing force of the one or more push rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Anthony Turner, Kenneth L. Schwendemann, Darrin N. Towers
  • Patent number: 11965511
    Abstract: A bellows motor expansion chamber for electric submersible pumps (ESP). An ESP assembly includes an electric submersible motor between a thrust chamber and a motor expansion chamber, the motor expansion chamber including a bellows coupled to a releasable bellows anti-movement system including a heat-activated release and alterable between an immobilizing position, wherein the releasable anti-movement system prevents concertinaed movement of the bellows in the immobilizing position, and a released position, wherein the bellows is concertinaedly moveable in the released position, and wherein the releasable bellows anti-movement system is in the immobilizing position below a release temperature and in the released position above the release temperature. A filter section within a well fluid inlet of the bellows motor expansion chamber includes a least two concentric filters of varying porosity, and a housing surrounding the filters including angled ribs and flow holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry James Parmeter, Jeffrey G. Frey, Matthew Thomas King, Brett D. Leamy
  • Patent number: 11965402
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor; a seal section coupled to the electric motor; a fluid intake coupled to an uphole end of the seal section, wherein the fluid intake defines a plurality of inlet ports; a gas separator comprising a plurality of gas phase discharge ports, and at least one liquid phase discharge port, wherein the gas separator is located uphole of the fluid intake; a centrifugal pump comprising a fluid inlet at a downhole end, wherein the at least one liquid phase discharge port of the gas separator is fluidically coupled to the fluid inlet of the centrifugal pump; and an inverted shroud assembly, wherein a downhole end of the inverted shroud assembly is coupled to an outside of the gas separator downhole of the gas phase discharge ports of the gas separator and uphole of the fluid intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Andre Joseph Bernier
  • Patent number: 11965417
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a sensor assembly apparatus, system, and method. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a sensor assembly adapted to be integrated into a casing to be positioned in a wellbore, the sensor assembly comprising a housing; a magnet located within the housing; a magnetic sensor located within the housing to measure a magnetic measurement change resulting from a force between the magnet and magnetic particles flowing with a cement slurry inside the casing from a reverse cementing; and a sensor plug having a side with a non-flat shape that is to be in contact with the slurry flowing in the casing of the wellbore; a processor communicatively coupled to the magnetic sensor and configured to determine whether the magnetic measurement change exceeds a magnetic threshold; and determine that the slurry is flowing back up internal to the casing at or beyond a location in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Jesus Elizondo, Jinhua Cao
  • Patent number: 11965410
    Abstract: The disclosure presents processes to determine one or more recommendations to well construction operations, generated by analyzing impacts on well construction operations. The impacts can include impacts to the drilling assembly, impacts of the subterranean formation characteristics, impacts on cost, time and performance of the well construction operation, impacts on the service quality, impacts to system integrity, impacts to surface equipment, as well as other impact types, such as geological surveys, seismic surveys, stratigraphic analysis, or reservoir estimations. Each impact can be analyzed using an impact parameter and a softness parameter. An impact map can be computed for each of the parameters, and then the impact maps can be combined to compute one or more integrated impact maps from which the recommendations can be determined. The recommendations can be communicated to a well construction system, such as a geo-steering system, a user system, a well site controller, or other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bibek Kabi, Julien Christian Marck, Olivier Roger Germain
  • Patent number: 11965418
    Abstract: A system includes a discharge tool positioned within a wellbore and configured to generate an electrical discharge that interacts with a rock formation proximate to the discharge tool, wherein the interaction of the electrical discharge with the rock formation vaporizes a portion of the rock formation to generate a discharge plasma. The system further includes an optical emission spectroscopy (OES) sub-system configured to determine an elemental composition of the portion of the rock formation based on optical emission generated by the discharge plasma, wherein at least a portion of the OES sub-system is positioned within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Mathew Dennis Rowe
  • Patent number: 11966005
    Abstract: A telemetry system is disclosed for use in a wellbore extending from the surface. The telemetry system includes fiber optic cable locatable in the wellbore, the fiber optic cable including at least one optical fiber. The telemetry system also includes a telemetry device operable to transmit an optical telemetry signal over the fiber optic cable. An optical detector operably connected to the optical fiber and includes a single-photon detector operable to receive the optical telemetry signal transmitted over the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Stark, John L. Maida, Jr., Li Gao
  • Publication number: 20240125229
    Abstract: A method and non-transitory storage computer-readable medium for performing a neural operator on one or more wellbore measurements. The method may comprise o obtaining one or more measurements, performing a measurement normalization on the one or more measurements to form one or more normalized measurements, forming a material function with the one or more normalized measurements, and forming a neural operator generated physical response with a neural operator and the material function. The method may further comprise forming a beamforming map with the one or more measurements, and forming a neural operator leak source location map with a neural operator and the one or more measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai
  • Publication number: 20240125230
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to control of a downhole tool via at least one radio isotope. The radio isotope(s) is pumped from the surface to contact an isotopic analyzer of the tool. The isotopic analyzer reads the isotope and directs the tool to perform a specific action(s) in the wellbore based on the type of isotope read by the analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Gunasekaran, Mathusan Mahendran
  • Patent number: 11959368
    Abstract: A system for protecting an Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) string from gas slugs in a downhole well environment. The system comprises an intake tube having a first and second end and one of a packer having a bypass channel and an inverted shroud coupled to the intake tube and the ESP string. The intake tube is independent of a pump and a motor of the ESP string. The system can comprise a bypass tube for channeling the gas slug downstream of the pump. The bypass tube is integrated with the packer. The inverted shroud is coupled with the first end of the intake tube and a section of production tubing downstream from the pump and the motor. The inverted shroud forms a bypass path channel within a casing annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, David C. Beck, Trevor A. Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11959013
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods include introducing a treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid, at least one viscoelastic surfactant, a divalent salt, a metal salt; and a metal oxide into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and allowing the treatment fluid to at least partially set in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Waseem Abdulrazzaq, Ayoub Ibrahim Awaji, Siham Kamal Fatani, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11959376
    Abstract: A method and system for determining cement bonding, or other materials attached to a pipe string. A well measurement system for determining cement bonding or other materials attached to a pipe string may comprise an acoustic logging tool, wherein the acoustic logging tool comprises at least one receiver and at least one transmitter. The well measurement system may further comprise an information handling system, wherein the information handling system is configured to broadcast a signal with the transmitter, record the reflected signal with a receiver; and determine an integrity of a cement using a Quintero Wellbore Index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis F. Quintero, Reinaldo Jose AnguloYznaga, Ehab Abdel Rahman Ali Najm Abdel Rahman Najm
  • Patent number: 11959380
    Abstract: A method for detecting the occurrence of an event at a well comprising: recording a first set of measurements collected from the well; processing the recorded measurements to provide a first set of data; calculating a first score based on the first set of processed data; recording a second set of measurements collected from the well; processing the second set of recorded measurements to provide a second set of data; calculating a second score based on the second set of processed data; wherein the first set of processed data and the second set of processed data is the number median of absolute difference from normal; combining the first score and the second score using a weighted average; and comparing the combined scores to a predetermined rule based on a specified time frame; and allowing an operator to adjust parameters of the well operation based on the score comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC
    Inventors: Vitor Lopes Pereira, Aidan James Porter, Lawrence Joseph Herskowitz