Patents Assigned to Halliburton
  • Patent number: 11976524
    Abstract: An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump mounted on the single pump trailer. A controller associated with the single VFD and is mounted on the single pump trailer. The controller monitors operation parameters associated with an operation of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system as each component of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system operates to determine whether the operation parameters deviate beyond a corresponding operation parameter threshold. Each of the operation parameters provides an indicator as to an operation status of a corresponding component of the electric driven hydraulic fracking system. The controller initiates corrected actions when each operation parameter deviates beyond the corresponding operation threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Fischer, John J. Crosetto, David Kubricht, Richard Cheatham, Jeffrey Pollack, Chad Lawman, David Todd, Tyler Nolen
  • Patent number: 11976526
    Abstract: A guide having a tubular body with an inner and outer sleeve each coupled with the tubular body at their uphole end and a downhole end having a slanted face, each of the inner and outer sleeves being slideable relative one another. A hydraulic is formed between each of the first and second sleeves and containing a hydraulic fluid. The first and second sleeves are transitionable between a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration the downhole end of the second sleeve is extended beyond the downhole end of the first sleeve, and in the second configuration the downhole end of the first sleeve is extended beyond the lower end of the second sleeve. The slanted face of each of the first sleeve and the second sleeves oriented facing different circumferential directions to facilitate engagement with a downhole tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Luther Patterson
  • Patent number: 11976533
    Abstract: Float collar equipment can be bonded to an inside of a casing string via an adhesive. An annulus can be located around an outside of a float collar housing and the inside of the casing string where the adhesive can be injected. The float collar housing does not require external threads or packers to secure the housing to the inside of the casing string. An injection sub can be used to inject the adhesive into the annulus. After curing or drying, the adhesive bonds the housing to the casing string. A seat, seat housing, or float shoe nose can be attached to the float collar housing via an adhesive or threads. The float collar housing can house one or more float assemblies. The float collar equipment can be bonded to the casing string at a wellsite or remote location prior to use in a cementing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Reena Thomas, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal
  • Patent number: 11976546
    Abstract: Methods and systems for inspecting the integrity of multiple nested tubulars are included herein. A method for inspecting the integrity of multiple nested tubulars can comprise conveying an electromagnetic pipe inspection tool inside the innermost tubular of the multiple nested tubulars; taking measurements of the multiple nested tubulars with the electromagnetic pipe inspection tool; arranging the measurements into a response image representative of the tool response to the tubular integrity properties of the multiple nested tubulars; and feeding the response image to a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) to produce a processed image, wherein the DNN comprises at least one convolutional layer, and wherein the processed image comprises a representation of the tubular integrity property of each individual tubular of the multiple nested tubulars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Junwen Dai, Li Pan
  • Patent number: 11976550
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling a downhole tool by encoding a tool control signal in a fluid flow and obtaining a temperature response downhole. In an example, a system for controlling a downhole tool includes a signal transmitter, a signal receiver, and a controller. The signal transmitter is uphole of the tool to be controlled (e.g., at surface) and encodes the tool control signal by varying one or more fluid flow parameters of a fluid flow down a well. The signal receiver is positionable in the well in fluid communication with the fluid flow. The signal receiver detects a temperature response in the fluid flow resulting from varying the one or more fluid flow parameters. A controller controls the downhole tool according to the temperature response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Yun Chong Chang, Timothy Simmonds, Gavin Munro, Peter Reid Maher
  • Patent number: 11976553
    Abstract: A test tool attached to test string comprising a fluid conduit is deployed to a test position within a wellbore. The deployment includes hydraulically isolating a portion of the wellbore proximate the test tool to form an isolation zone containing the test position. A fluid inflow test is performed within the isolation zone and an initial formation property and a fluid property are determined based on the fluid inflow test. A fluid injection test is performed within the isolation zone including applying an injection fluid through the test string into the isolation zone, wherein the flow rate or pressure of the injection fluid application is determined based, at least in part, on the at least one of the formation property and fluid property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Anton Proett, Christopher Michael Jones, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
  • Publication number: 20240142422
    Abstract: A method and system for a fiber optic sensing (FOS) system. The system may include an interrogator that is marinized to be disposed on a sea floor, a fiber optic cable optically connected to the interrogator, and one or more downhole sensing fibers optically connected to the fiber optic cable. The method may include disposing the interrogator on the sea floor and connecting the interrogator to a fiber optic cable. The method may further include connecting one or more downhole sensing fibers to the fiber optic cable and taking one or more measurements using the interrogator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Wilson, Andreas Ellmauthaler, John Laureto Maida
  • Publication number: 20240141135
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for performing a wellbore operation in a subterranean formation. An example method introduces a resin-based material into a wellbore. The resin-based material is a resin and a boron nitride nanotube structure comprising a boron nitride nanotube having a hexagonal boron nitride structure epitaxial to the boron nitride nanotube. The example method performs the wellbore operation in the wellbore with the resin-based material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. JONES, Giorgio DEVERA, Samuel J. LEWIS
  • Publication number: 20240141765
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing hydrocarbons. An example method includes producing a non-hydrocarbon liquid from a first horizontal wellbore, the first horizontal wellbore extending from a vertical wellbore and through a hydrocarbon producing formation. The method further includes pumping the non-hydrocarbon liquid with a first pump into a second horizontal wellbore, the second horizontal wellbore extending from the vertical wellbore and disposed downhole and underneath the first horizontal wellbore. The method additionally includes pumping a hydrocarbon liquid uphole to a surface with a second pump disposed downhole of the first horizontal wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. BROWN, Trevor A. KOPECKY
  • Publication number: 20240142657
    Abstract: A method and system for correlating two or more logs. The method may include reviewing an openhole log to identify one or more depths within a wellbore for testing, disposing a fluid sampling tool into the wellbore, creating a correlation log with the fluid sampling tool, depth-matching the correlation log to the openhole log to create a relative shift table, and moving the fluid sampling tool to the one or more depths within the wellbore based at least in part on the relative shift table. The system may include a fluid sampling tool disposed in a wellbore to create a correlation log and an information handling system connected to the fluid sampling tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadeed Sayed, Ahmed Fouda, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20240141754
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to plug and abandonment operations for wells. A method comprises moving a sliding sleeve of a conduit to expose a meltable sealant that is pre-installed on an inner diameter (ID) of the conduit. The conduit is disposed in a wellbore, and the meltable sealant is configured to melt and flow upon heating. The meltable sealant is further configured to cool, solidify, and plug the conduit upon dissipation of heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lyall Mitchell, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Publication number: 20240142140
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to generating electricity by pumping fluid into a thermoelectric conduit that extends into a geothermal reservoir. A method includes pumping fluid into at least one thermoelectric conduit that extends into the geothermal reservoir. The method further includes generating electricity with the thermoelectric conduit due to a temperature differential between the fluid and the geothermal reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaoguang Allan Zhong
  • Patent number: 11970932
    Abstract: A method for ranging to locate a target borehole. The method may include disposing a bottom hole assembly (BHA) into an intercept borehole, disposing a downhole tool into a reference borehole, imaging a target borehole for the intercept borehole to get a first set of measurement, imaging the target borehole from the reference borehole to get a second set of measurements, and combining the first set of measurements and the second set of measurements to determine a direction and distance to the target borehole form the intercept borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler Milford
  • Patent number: 11970941
    Abstract: A formation tester comprises a body having an outlet; a probe extendable from the body and having a sealing pad; and a flow line within the body, wherein the flow line has an entry end connectable to the probe and has an exit end connectable to the outlet in the body; and a reactive filter material in the flow line downstream of the entry end of the flow line, wherein the reactive filter material sorbs and entraps an analyte in a wellbore fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Perkins, Christopher Michael Jones, Michael T. Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11970656
    Abstract: A device for forming one or more wellbore sealants in a wellbore can include a wellbore barrier and a cured polymer. The wellbore barrier can be positioned in the wellbore. The cured polymer can be positioned with respect to the wellbore barrier for swelling the device from a compressed configuration to a swelled configuration for forming one or more wellbore sealants in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Jones, William Cecil Pearl, Jr., Samuel J. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11971369
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a rock sample inspection method. The method may include preparing a sample of formation rock by encapsulating the sample, inserting the sample into a vessel body as part of a test assembly, enclosing the sample within an low compressibility fluid, applying pressure to an interior of the vessel body by tightening a compression screw employing a piston acting on said low compressibility fluid, monitoring the pressure, conducting a test on the sample, and recording results of the test for further analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Abraham S. Grader
  • Patent number: 11970658
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for use in the inhibition of the formation of gas hydrate agglomerates are provided. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: providing an emulsion drilling fluid including: a continuous phase including a non-oleaginous fluid; an internal phase including an oleaginous fluid; and a thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor; and drilling at least a portion of a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William Walter Shumway, Jay Paul Deville
  • Patent number: 11972581
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
  • Patent number: 11970931
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying bonding between a material and tubing. The method may include disposing an acoustic logging tool in a wellbore, wherein the acoustic logging tool comprises a transmitter, a receiver, or a transceiver, broadcasting a shaped signal with the transmitter such that the shaped signal interacts with a boundary of a casing and a material and recording a result signal from the boundary with the receiver. The method may further comprise identifying a cut-off time to be applied to the result signal, transforming the result signal from a time domain to a frequency domain, selecting one or more modes sensitive to a bonding at the boundary between the casing and the material, computing a decay rate of the one or more modes that were selected based at least one or more decay curves, and converting the decay rate to a bonding log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Yao Ge, Ho Yin Ma, Ruijia Wang, Jing Jin, Brenno Caetano Troca Cabella, Xiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11970923
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for implementing a downhole alternator assembly are disclosed. In some embodiments, a downhole alternator assembly comprises a casing; a turbine disposed within the casing and actuated by a drilling fluid flow; and a rotor disposed within the casing. The rotor includes a cylindrical rotor core rotated by the turbine; a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in the cylindrical rotor core; and a drilling fluid channel extending axially through the center of the cylindrical rotor core. The downhole alternator assembly includes a stator disposed within the casing. The stator includes a cylindrical stator core disposed concentrically between the cylindrical rotor core and the casing; conductor windings within the cylindrical stator core; and a plurality of radially distributed fluid channels extending axially within the cylindrical stator core between a front end of the cylindrical stator core and a back end of the cylindrical stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ana Beatriz Martins Aguiar, Thales Alexandre Carvalho Maia, Osvane Abreu Faria, Ricardo Lima de Pereira Martins, Nagaraja K. Pai