Patents Assigned to Schlumberger Technology
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Patent number: 12291963Abstract: Methods and systems are provided characterizing a formation traversed by a wellbore, wherein the formation includes at least a flushed zone and an uninvaded zone, which involve obtaining well log data based on plurality of different well log measurements of the formation at multiple depths in the wellbore. The well log data is used by a computational model that solves for a set of petrophysical parameters that characterize a portion of the formation corresponding to the multiple depths in the wellbore, wherein the set of petrophysical parameters include a cementation exponent, a saturation exponent, and a flushed zone water resistivity. The solved-for set of petrophysical parameters can be used to determine a value of water saturation of the uninvaded zone for the portion of the formation corresponding to the multiple depths in the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Chang-Yu Hou, Lin Liang, Lalitha Venkataramanan, Harish Baban Datir, Austin Boyd, Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas
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Patent number: 12286839Abstract: A cutting element assembly includes a cutter support including a cutter bore. A cutting element is in the cutter bore and a resilient element is integral with the cutter support. The resilient element is longitudinally compressible and has a displacement of greater than 0.1 mm and optionally less than 2 mm. Another cutting assembly includes a cutter support coupled to multiple cutting elements. A resilient element of the cutter support is compressible based on a force applied to the cutter support through one or more of the cutting elements. The resilient element can include a slit in the cutter support. A slit may, for instance, extend perpendicular or transverse to an axis of the cutting elements and allow the cutter support to flex and close off or reduce a size of the slit when forces act on one or more of the cutting elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: David Robert Evan Snoswell, Ashley Bernard Johnson, Mauro Caresta, John Mervyn Cook
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Patent number: 12241345Abstract: An automated system for managing gas in an annulus of a production well at a well site, the automated system including: an electrically-controlled valve fluidly coupled to the annulus of the production well, wherein the valve is located at or near the surface at the well site; at least one well sensor configured to measure operational characteristics of the production well at or near the surface; and a gateway device, located at the well site and operably coupled to the valve and the at least one well sensor, wherein the gateway device is configured to collect first sensor data communicated from the at least one well sensor, and process the first sensor data in autonomous control operations that automatically generate and issue commands that are communicated from the gateway device to the valve to regulate the outflow of accumulated gas from the annulus of the production well over time.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Agustin Gambaretto, Attilio Pisoni
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Patent number: 12229696Abstract: A method can include receiving a request for field equipment data; responsive to the request, automatically processing the field equipment data using a trained machine learning model to generate a quality score for the field equipment data; and outputting the quality score.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Vipin Bisht, Shankar Shailesh, Sapna Deshmukh, Chandra Prakash Deep Ajmera
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Patent number: 12221881Abstract: An apparatus can have a seal module located at an upper portion thereof. The apparatus can also have a mud line formed through the upper portion of the apparatus and a mud outlet in fluid communication with the mud line. The apparatus can also include a mud pulser adjacent the mud outlet, wherein the mud pulser is configured to be actuated to open, partially close, and close the mud outlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Julien Toniolo
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Patent number: 12222461Abstract: A method for calibrating an electromagnetic measurement tool includes deploying a test loop about a first antenna in the electromagnetic measurement tool and electromagnetically coupling the test loop and the first antenna and measuring a first voltage. The test loop is then deploying about a second antenna in the electromagnetic measurement tool and electromagnetic ally coupling the test loop and the second antenna and measuring a second voltage. A ratio of the first voltage to the second voltages is computed that can be used to calibrate the first antenna with respect to the second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Kong Hauw Sarwa Bakti Tan, Qingyan He, Qing Zhang, Desheng Zhang, Kent Harms, Daniel Fernandez
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Patent number: 12158555Abstract: A method can include acquiring data associated with a field operation in a geologic environment; processing the data by partitioning operationally and representing symbolically; formulating a symbolic query for an operating procedure specification; performing a search of the symbolically represented data utilizing the symbolic query and a probabilistic chain model; receiving a search result responsive to the search; assessing compliance with the operation procedure specification utilizing the search result; and issuing a control signal to field equipment utilizing the assessment of compliance.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Sai Venkatakrishnan Sankaranarayanan, Oney Erge, Sylvain Chambon, Richard Meehan, Mohammad Khairi Hamzah, Darine Mansour, David Conn
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Patent number: 12157929Abstract: Methods and apparatus for integrated alkali metal extraction are disclosed. Various exchange media are used to separate a chosen alkali metal, usually lithium, from a source stream and render the alkali metal into a product. In some cases, absorption/desorption processes, using solid and/or liquid absorption media, are used to purify a brine stream into a concentrate stream having elevated concentration of the desired alkali metal. Various processes, which may include use of liquid absorbents, electrochemical processing, centrifugation, evaporation, electrical mixing and separation, or combinations thereof, are used to separate the chosen metal from the source, and aqueous streams are recycled among the processes to facilitate the various separations.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Ankur D. Jariwala, Gary W. Sams
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Patent number: 12152452Abstract: Disclosed is a multiple segment well tool (10), the multiple segment well tool comprising a first tool segment having a first shaft (32) rotatably supported in a first tool segment housing (30-1); a connector housing (30A) releaseably connected at one end to one end of the first tool segment housing, and a second tool segment housing (30-2) releaseably connected at one end to another end of the connector housing. The connector housing comprises a piston (34) disposed therein, the piston movable along a longitudinal dimension of the connector housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Calum Crawford
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Patent number: 12153183Abstract: A method includes training a proxy model to predict output from a reservoir model of a subterranean volume, receiving data representing an oilfield operation performed at least partially in the subterranean volume, predicting one or more performance indicators for the oilfield operation using the proxy model, and updating the reservoir model based at least in part on the one or more performance indicators predicted in the proxy model.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: David Rowan, Rajarshi Banerjee, Omer Gurpinar, Bulent Balci, Gino Camillus Thielens
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Patent number: 12146372Abstract: A technique facilitates control over the positioning of a well tool in a wellbore or other type of borehole. A well tool is combined with a centralizer system. The centralizer system has a plurality of extension members which are oriented to extend outwardly from the well tool. The extension members of the plurality of extension members are controllable to enable controlled positioning of the well tool within the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Mark Hofacker
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Patent number: 12147464Abstract: Systems, computer-readable media, and methods are provided. Relevant documents related to a specific entity are identified based on document metadata. Text and associated spatial coordinates are extracted based on relevant document pages. Significant document entities and associated spatial locations are identified. Page ranking is based on the extracted text and the spatial coordinates, the significant document entities, and image vector representations of the pages. A deep learning language model that utilizes the text and the spatial coordinates, layout information of the document entities, and the image vector representations of the pages is used to extract the user-defined attributes from the relevant document pages. First attribute values associated with the user-defined attributes are aggregated from the pages of one of the relevant documents into a single record. Second attribute values associated with the user-defined attributes are aggregated across the relevant documents.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Prashanth Pillai, Purnaprajna Raghavendra Mangsuli
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Patent number: 12146391Abstract: A wellhead container for a geothermal system includes a base configured to engage a bottom of a recess within a ground. The recess extends vertically from the bottom of the recess to a surface of the ground, the base includes at least one first opening, and the at least one first opening is configured to receive a drilling string. The wellhead container includes a top configured to support a load applied by a drilling machine to the wellhead container. The top includes second openings, and each second opening is configured to receive the drilling string. The wellhead container includes a sidewall extending along a vertical axis between the base and the top. The sidewall is configured to position an upper surface of the top substantially flush with the surface of the ground, and the sidewall is configured to transfer at least a portion of the load to the base.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Sylvain Thierry, Matthieu Simon, Cindy Demichel, Marco Alioto
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Patent number: 12146870Abstract: Systems and methods are described for developing a model to predict humidity (relative, absolute) values inside a closed housing with an absorbent filter. In an example, a methane sensor that includes an internal atmospheric sensor and an external atmospheric sensor can be placed at a site. A computing device can use measurements from the atmospheric sensors to calculate predicted relative and absolute humidity values inside the methane sensor. The computing device can train a gaussian process regression model to calibrate sensor data based on the external temperature and humidity. When the model predicts the ambient methane within a predetermined degree of allowance, the model can be applied to live readings from methane sensors in the field.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Speck, Aditi Chakrabarti, Mathieu Dauphin, Albert Ballard Andrews
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Patent number: 12147920Abstract: Multi-domain planning and execution systems and methods are disclosed whereby each planning component in a decomposed architecture is associated with its own domain, each planning component may supervise levels underneath it, and dependencies between domains are managed by the coordination of goals and constraints. For example, a computing device may be communicatively coupled to equipment; include a first-level component having a first-level planner component that generates a first-level plan associated with an operation using the equipment; and include second-level components, each associated with respective equipment and each including a second-level planner component that generates a second-level plan based on the first-level plan, wherein the second-level plan has instructions to perform a portion of the operation, and each second-level component instructs each respective equipment to execute a respective second-level plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Maria Fox, Derek Long
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Patent number: 12146375Abstract: An apparatus with a straddle packer for use within a wellbore. The straddle packer can include a tubular body comprising a first bore and a second bore and a first sealing element configured to seal against an inner surface of a casing installed within the wellbore. A second sealing element configured to seal against the inner surface of the casing, and the second bore can be located between the first sealing element and the second sealing element. An obstruction disposed in association with the tubular body, wherein the obstruction is movable between a first position in which the obstruction opens the second bore and a second position in which the obstruction closes the second bore.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Vincent Chatelet, Jean-Christophe Auchere, Dominique Sabina, Christophe Michaud, Fabio Cecconi
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Patent number: 12146395Abstract: Using a reservoir simulator, a reservoir model state is obtained. The reservoir model state is used to trace streamlines to obtain streamline trajectories and detect fluid fronts along the streamlines. Using the streamline trajectories, the streamlines are connected to wells. The streamlines are grouped for multiple granularity levels, into groups to obtain a grouping hierarchy. Through the granularity levels of the grouping hierarchy, fluid front time of flights are determined for the groups, and target flowrates assigned to completion devices based on the fluid front time of flights to obtain target flow rates. A completion design is presented that incorporates the target flowrates.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Shingo Watanabe, Frode Bratvedt, Matthew Worthington, Trevor Graham Tonkin
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Patent number: 12146775Abstract: An insertable flow meter assembly includes a flow measuring device configured to be inserted into a flow passage of a receiving structure. The flow measuring device is configured to enable determination of a flow rate of fluid through the flow passage, the flow measuring device is formed as a single continuous structure, and an outer cross-section of at least a portion of the flow measuring device is configured to be substantially the same as an inner cross-section of the flow passage. The insertable flow meter assembly also includes an end cap configured to engage an exterior surface of the receiving structure and to couple to the receiving structure at an end of the flow passage. The end cap is configured to block movement of the flow measuring device out of the end of the flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Kjetil Berntsen, Thomas McIlroy, Alexandre Lupeau, Phillip Rice
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Patent number: 12146406Abstract: Embodiments present a method for fluid type identification from a downhole fluid analysis that uses machine learning techniques that are trained and derived from a computer model using pressure, temperature and downhole optical characteristics of sampled fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Shahnawaz Hossain Molla, Farshid Mostowfi, John Nighswander, Adriaan Gisolf, Kai Hsu, Shunsuke Fukagawa, Thomas Pfeiffer
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Patent number: 12147579Abstract: A method including receiving, at a data distribution platform, a selection of a data package comprising a high fidelity data package. The method also includes filtering, automatically by a filtering application of the data distribution platform, the high fidelity data package to form a marketing data package. Filtering includes removing sufficient data from the high fidelity data package such that the marketing data package is a marketing data package. The method also includes publishing the marketing data package within the data distribution platform.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Alagappan Narayanan, Priya Soni, Julian Anigbogu