Patents Assigned to NCS Multistage, LLC
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Patent number: 10890057Abstract: A method and system for enhancing petroleum production are provided, in which a fracturing operation can be conducted in a formation through a string and then petroleum is displaced from the fractured formation by selectively injecting fluid into selected fractures in the formation while other non-selected fractures remain without fluid injection. The injected fluid flows out into the fractured formation and enhances recovery from the non-selected fractures. Petroleum is selectively collected from the non-selected fractures.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: NCS Multistage, LLCInventors: Warren Foster Peter MacPhail, Wolfgang Friedrich Johann Deeg
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Patent number: 9903182Abstract: A fracturing valve comprising a tubular mandrel having a through bore continuous with a tubing string, and a frac window through the side of the tubular mandrel. An outer sleeve is radially disposed around the tubular mandrel. The outer sleeve includes a sleeve port in a sidewall. The tubular mandrel slides relative to the sleeve by application and release of set down weight on a coiled tubing string. When the valve is closed, there is no fluid communication from the tubing string out of the frac window. When the valve is open, fluid communication from the tubing string is enabled. The valve may be installed in a downhole tool having a perforation device. The tool string can be used with one sealing element as the tool is pulled up the hole isolating lower perforations, or with two sealing elements to allow pin-point treatments isolating perforations both up and downhole.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: NCS Multistage, LLCInventors: Donald Getzlaf, John Ravensbergen, Douglas James Brunskill, Shawn Leggett
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Patent number: 9334714Abstract: A tool assembly and method for completing a well are provided. The tool includes debris relief features that enable use in solids-laden environments, for example in the presence of sand. Forward and reverse circulation pathways to the isolated interval are present to allow clearing of debris from the wellbore annulus while the sealing device remains set against the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: NCS Multistage, LLCInventors: Marty Stromquist, Donald Getzlaf, Robert Nipper
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Patent number: 9303486Abstract: A tool assembly including an equalization valve allowing for continuous equalization of pressure above and below a sealing element includes a housing having a fluid passageway that is fluidically continuous across a sealing element disposed on a mandrel. The mandrel is part of a sealing assembly that contains the sealing element. The equalization valve includes a valve plug moveable from an open to a seated position wherein the valve plug is seated against the sealing mandrel. The valve plug defines a conduit that provides minimal fluid flow across the sealing element when the valve plug is seated against the sealing mandrel. The equalization valve further includes an outer port for permitting lateral flow of fluid from the tubing string to the annulus defined between the tubing string and the wellbore. The equalization valve may be part of a downhole tool assembly which includes the equalization valve and a sealing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: NCS Multistage, LLCInventors: Donald Getzlaf, Marty Stromquist
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Patent number: 9234412Abstract: A ported tubular is provided for use in casing a wellbore, to permit selective access to the adjacent formation during completion operations. A system and method for completing a wellbore using the ported tubular are also provided. Ports within the wellbore casing may be opened, isolated, or otherwise accessed to deliver treatment to the formation through the ports, using a tool assembly deployed on tubing or wireline.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: NCS Multistage, LLCInventors: Donald Getzlaf, Marty Stromquist, Robert Nipper, Timothy H. Willems
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Patent number: 9140098Abstract: A depressurization tool is described for use downhole in depressurizing an isolated zone. A decompression chamber containing a compressible fluid volume is described. The opening of the chamber is sealed with a closure that is configured to open upon application of a pressure differential across the opening. When used downhole within an isolated and nonpermeable wellbore zone, excessive ambient pressure will cause the closure to open and allow the chamber to fill with fluid at increased pressure, depressurizing the wellbore zone. The tool is useful in wellbore completion systems that include sliding sleeves.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: NCS Multistage, LLCInventors: Donald Getzlaf, Marty Stromquist, John Edward Ravensbergen, Lyle Laun, Eric Schmelzl