Patents Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services
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Patent number: 11946369Abstract: A method comprises receiving a measurement of a pressure in a subsurface formation at a number of depths in a wellbore formed in the subsurface formation across a sampling depth range of the subsurface formation to generate a number of pressure-depth measurement pairs and partitioning the sampling depth range into a number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises performing a fitting operation over each of the number of fluid depth ranges to determine a fluid gradient for the type of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises generating a solution set of one or more solutions based on the fluid gradient of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges determined from performing the fitting operation, wherein each solution defines a partitioning of the sampling depth range and the fluid gradient of each fluid depth range.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Hamed Chok, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke
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Patent number: 11945993Abstract: A method may include: introducing a silane based aqueous soluble resin into a wellbore, wherein the silane based aqueous soluble resin comprises a glycidyl alkoxy silane containing resin and an amino alkoxy silane hardener. The silane based aqueous soluble resin may include 3-glycidoxypropyl trimethoxy silane and n-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)ethylenediamine.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Abhimanyu Pramod Deshpande, Rajender Salla, Shoy George Chittattukara, Sandip Prabhakar Patil, Rahul Chandrakant Patil
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Publication number: 20240102910Abstract: A system can include a filter assembly with a filter and a substance in the filter assembly, and at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element which receives electromagnetic radiation from the substance. A method can include receiving electromagnetic radiation from a substance in a filter assembly, the electromagnetic radiation from the substance being received by at least one optical computing device having an integrated computational element, and the receiving being performed while a filter is positioned in the filter assembly. A detector may receive electromagnetic radiation from the integrated computational element and produce an output correlated to a characteristic of the substance. A mitigation technique may be selected, based on the detector output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Samuel J. Maguire-Boyle, Robert P. Freese
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Publication number: 20240102781Abstract: A detonator housing facilitates assembly of detonator components of a perforating gun. In an example, the detonator housing comprises a housing body configured for coupling to a charge tube of a perforating gun. A detonator receptacle is formed on the housing body for receiving a detonator. A detonating cord receptacle is formed on the housing body adjacent the detonator receptacle for receiving an end portion of a detonating cord in an overlapping relationship with the detonator. A detonating cord stop is formed on the detonating cord receptacle to limit an insertion depth of the detonating cord within the detonating cord receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Courtney Ann Thain Roberts, Kevin Cook, Cynthia Anne Kane
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Publication number: 20240102374Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying a borehole correction factor for determining a true resistivity by selecting a model to apply in identifying the borehole correction factor and applying the model to an apparent resistivity to identify the borehole correction factor. To perform borehole correction, a multiplicative coefficient is needed to apply to the apparent resistivity. A database of this multiplicative coefficient, called the borehole correction factor, is generated based on the borehole correction model. The technology described herein allows operators to avoid time-consuming variable borehole diameter sweeps and complex borehole diameter inversion current used in resistivity logging software.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Xiang WU, Yi Jing Fan, Jing Jin
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Publication number: 20240103193Abstract: A method and system for generating an acoustic log. The method may comprise disposing an acoustic logging tool in a wellbore, broadcasting a shaped signal with the acoustic logging tool such that the shaped signal interacts with a boundary of a casing and a material, recording a result signal from the boundary with the acoustic logging tool, and decomposing the result signal into a resonance mode. The method may further comprise applying a bandpass filter to the resonance mode to form a filtered signal, selecting a baseline signal from the filtered signal, removing the baseline signal from the filtered signal, and generating a log from the filtered signal. The system may comprise an acoustic logging tool. The acoustic logging tool may comprise at least one transmitter and at least one receiver. The system may further comprise a conveyance and an information handling system communicatively connected to the acoustic logging tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yao Ge, Ruijia Wang, Xiang Wu
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Patent number: 11939838Abstract: An ingress-barrier assembly for use with pressure-operated downhole equipment can be used to limit hydraulic fluid flow in a wellbore environment for completions and operations through the life of a well. An assembly can comprise a first port to communicate hydraulic fluid with a first fluid conveyance line. The assembly can include a second port to communicate hydraulic fluid with a second fluid conveyance line. The assembly can further include a first-end stop, a second-end stop, and a moveable seal. The moveable seal can move within a bore of the assembly between the first-end stop and the second-end stop to communicate pressure between the first port and the second port.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Scott Gray
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Three-dimensional inversion of multi-component electromagnetic measurements using a fast proxy model
Patent number: 11939857Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for monitoring for monitoring and evaluating conditions associated with a wellbore and wellbore operations that use neural operators instead of computationally intensive iterative differential equations. Such systems and techniques allow for determinations to be made as operations associated with a wellbore are performed. Instead of having to wait for computationally intensive tasks to be performed or take risks of proceeding with a wellbore operation without real-time evaluations being performed, these wellbore operations may be continued while determinations are timely made, thus improving operation of computing systems that perform evaluations and that make decisions regarding safely and efficiently performing wellbore operations such as drilling a wellbore, cementing wellbore casings in place, or injecting fluids into formations of the Earth.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai -
Patent number: 11939833Abstract: A wiper plug can be used in wellbore operations. The wiper plug can include a fishing neck located at a rear portion of the plug. The fishing neck can be a male or female fishing neck. A corresponding male or female fishing tool can be used to retrieve the wiper plug from a tubing string. The wiper plug can include a nose that can land on a landing tool or a female fishing neck of another wiper plug. The wiper plug can be introduced into the tubing string before or after a cement composition. The wiper plug can include a rupture disk that allows an operator at a wellhead to observe a pressure change to indicate the location of the wiper plug and fluid within the tubing string.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Gunnar Lende, Khahlil Rehman
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Patent number: 11939866Abstract: A method and system for identifying a fluid sample. The method may comprise disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a wellbore fluid as a fluid sample through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, obtaining a fluid measurement of the fluid sample, comparing the fluid measurement to a plurality of fingerprints that populate a database, and identifying the fluid sample based at least in part on one of the plurality of fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Bin Dai, Zhonghuan Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
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Patent number: 11939840Abstract: A swellable metallic material is activated upon functional movement of a tubular member to lock the tubular member in place. In one example, a well tool includes a tubular member moveable within a through bore of a tool housing from a first position to a second position to perform a tool function. A swellable metallic material is captured in a cavity. The tubular member blocks flow to the cavity in the first position and opens the cavity for exposure of the swellable metallic material to an activation fluid in the second position. The swellable metallic material is configured to swell into engagement with the tubular member in response to the exposure to the activation fluid to hold the tubular member in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Newton
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Patent number: 11940583Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatus and methods implemented to take into consideration gauge length in optical measurements. In an embodiment, systems and methods are implemented to interrogate an optical fiber disposed in a wellbore, where the optical fiber is subjected to seismic waves, and to generate a seismic wavefield free of gauge length effect and/or to generate a prediction of a seismic wavefield of arbitrary gauge length, based on attenuation factors of a plurality of wavefields acquired from interrogating the optical fiber. In an embodiment, systems and methods are implemented to interrogate an optical fiber disposed in a wellbore, where the optical fiber is subjected to seismic waves, and to convert a seismic wavefield associated with a first gauge length to a seismic wavefield associated with a different gauge length that is a multiple of the first gauge length. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Xiang Wu, Mark Elliott Willis, David Andrew Barfoot
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Patent number: 11939819Abstract: A mill bit and a well system are covered. The mill bit, in one aspect, includes a tubular having an uphole end and a downhole end. The mill bit, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a first cutting section having one or more first cutting surfaces disposed about the tubular, the first cutting section having a first material removal rate and configured to engage with wellbore casing disposed within a wellbore. The mill bit, in accordance with this disclosure, further includes a second cutting section having one or more second cutting surfaces disposed about the tubular, the second cutting section having a second material removal rate less than the first material removal rate and configured to engage with a whipstock disposed within the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Wesley P. Dietz, David Joe Steele, Christopher Grace
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Patent number: 11939828Abstract: An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration that includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump that is mounted on the single pump trailer. A pump configuration includes a single VFD configuration, the single shaft electric motor, and the single shaft hydraulic pump mounted on the single pump trailer. The single VFD configuration converts the electric power at the power generation voltage level distributed from the power distribution trailer to a VFD voltage level and drives the single shaft electric motor to control the operation of the single shaft electric motor and the single hydraulic pump. The VFD voltage level is a voltage level that is required to drive the single shaft electric motor. The VFD configuration also controls operation of the auxiliary systems based on the electric power at the auxiliary voltage level.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: John Fischer, John J. Crosetto, David Kubricht, Richard Cheatham, Jeffrey Pollack, Chad Lawman, David Todd, Tyler Nolen
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Patent number: 11939837Abstract: Provided is a clutch assembly, a SSSV, and a method for operating an SSSV. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, includes an output coupler housing, an input shaft, and an electromagnet coupled to the input shaft. In at least one aspect, the electromagnet is configured to axially translate the output coupler housing from a de-coupled state to a coupled state when the electromagnet is energized. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, further includes one or more grooves located in one of an outer surface of the input shaft or an inner surface of the central opening, and one or more engagement members located in the other of the inner surface of the central opening or the outer surface of the input shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Robert Wood, Kevin Robin Passmore, Bruce Edward Scott, Jon-Howard Elliott Hanson
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Patent number: 11941085Abstract: A video clip showing a wellsite activity can be extracted from a video and then labeled for use in training a machine-learning model in some examples described herein. In one such example, a system can train a model with a set of training data to identify an object and a corresponding spatial location of the object in each image frame in a video depicting a wellsite activity. The system can analyze image frames in the video using the trained model to identify a target image frame in which the object is present in a predefined spatial area thereof, where the predefined spatial area is associated with the wellsite activity. The system can then generate a video clip that includes only a subpart of the video based on the target image frame, where the subpart includes a series of consecutive image frames containing the target image frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Daili Zhang, Varun Tyagi, Fahad Ahmad, Olivier Roger Germain, Julien Christian Marck
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Patent number: 11939152Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to a portable support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material and output bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. The portable support structure may include a frame for receiving and holding the one or more portable bulk material containers in an elevated position proximate the blender hopper, as well as one or more gravity feed outlets for routing the bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. In some embodiments, the portable support structure may be transported to the well site on a trailer, unloaded from the trailer, and positioned proximate the blender unit. In other embodiments, the portable support structure may be a mobile support structure that is integrated into a trailer unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Thomas W. Hawkins, Bryan John Lewis, Tori H. Miller, Wesley John Warren, Austin Carl Schaffner, Glenn Ray Fowler, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Calvin L. Stegemoeller
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Patent number: 11939518Abstract: Provided are methods and systems related to spacer fluids that include a spacer additive comprising a biopolymer polysaccharide gum, a modified cellulose, and a solid scouring material while being essentially free of clay and crystalline silica. These spacer fluids have improved compatibility with displaced fluids, such as oil-based drilling fluids. In addition, the combination of the biopolymer polysaccharide gum and modified cellulose imparts unique rheological characteristics to the spacer fluid as compared to the use of either of these materials alone.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Alejandro de la Cruz Sasso, Hassan Ali Ghadban, Paul J. Jones
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Patent number: 11939862Abstract: A wellbore pumping unit comprising a main pump, a power source, a controller, and a plurality of sensors is provided. A method of performing a diagnostic check of the unit controller and the plurality of sensors when power is applied to the unit controller. A diagnostic application executing in memory writes a status of the plurality of analog inputs of a plurality of valve position sensors, a status of a plurality of frequency inputs of a plurality of flowmeters, and a plurality of calibration data files that correlate to a plurality of sensors to a diagnostic report file. The status of the sensor inputs and calibration data files can be a pass or a fail. The status of the sensor inputs can be displayed on a human machine interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Derek R. Williams, Charles E. Neal, III
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Patent number: 11939843Abstract: Provided is a wellbore scraper assembly for use with a wireline. The wellbore scraper assembly, in one example, includes a tubular housing, a plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features associated with the tubular housing, the plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features configured to move from a first retracted state to a second radially extended state, and a hydraulic deployment system coupled to the plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features, the hydraulic deployment system configured to move the plurality of hydraulically deployable scraper features from the first state to the second state.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Craig Mlcak