Patents Examined by Caroline N Butcher
  • Patent number: 12215557
    Abstract: Methods relate to recovering cores from downhole environments where downhole environmental parameters are measured during coring operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PROFESSIONAL CORING ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventors: Jamie Mark Alleman, Karen L. O'Neal, William Harold Scott, III
  • Patent number: 12203370
    Abstract: A tunneling device includes a body assembly, an expander coupled to the body assembly and extending along a longitudinal axis, and a tip coupled to the expander. The expander is disposed between a force transmitter and the tip. The expander is expandable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis between a first configuration having a first width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a second configuration having a second width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The tip has a width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The first width of the expander is equal to or less than the width of the tip. The force transmitter is configured to deliver a force through the expander to the tip to move the tip in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis with the expander in the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Cross, Christopher Walter Falcone, Deepak Trivedi
  • Patent number: 12196052
    Abstract: A wellbore assembly includes a pipe body and a chamber. The pipe body resides at a terranean surface of a wellbore and is fluidly coupled to a surface inlet of the wellbore. The chamber is coupled to the pipe body and has multiple slots each configured to house a wellbore component. Each slot revolves about a central axis of the chamber to align its respective wellbore component with a bore of the pipe body. The pipe body has a fluid inlet fluidly coupled to a pump that flows fluid to the pipe body. The fluid inlet is disposed upstream of the chamber. The pipe body directs the fluid from the fluid inlet to the inlet of the wellbore to push, from a first slot, a first wellbore component that is to be deployed downhole within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Victor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Daniel Thomas Scott
  • Patent number: 12188351
    Abstract: A magnetic ranging system for use with a drilling assembly in a borehole in a formation, the drilling assembly including a drill string, a drill bit and a bottomhole assembly (BHA) connected to the drill bit, the BHA including a measurement-while-drilling (MWD) system, a bi-directional MWD telemetry interface, and a steerable component, may comprise at least one ranging magnetometer incorporated into the BHA. The ranging magnetometer may be configured to collect ranging measurements from behind the drill bit and the ranging magnetometer may be configured to transmit measurement data. The magnetic ranging system may include at least two ranging magnetometers, with one ranging magnetometer positioned above the MWD system and one ranging magnetometer positioned below the MWD system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SCIENTIFIC DRILLING INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Ben Hawkinson, Jamie Dorey, Douglas Ridgway
  • Patent number: 12188313
    Abstract: A well tool device for transporting a heat generating mixture into a well pipe includes an upper connection section, a main housing section, and an anchoring device. The main housing section includes a compartment for the heat generating mixture. The anchoring device is connected between the upper connection section and the main housing section. The main housing section includes a compartment subsection and a distance subsection. The compartment is located within the compartment subsection. The distance subsection is located above the compartment subsection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Interwell Norway AS
    Inventor: Espen Hiorth
  • Patent number: 12174082
    Abstract: An integrated detection test device for a drill bit and a rotary blowout preventer and a detection method thereof are provided. The test device includes a support frame, a rotary shaft is mounted on the support frame, and an upper end of the rotary shaft is connected to a piston rod of a first hydraulic cylinder fixed on the support frame; and the rotary shaft is connected to a driving device through a rotary disc sleeved outside the rotary shaft. A pit sinking to a fixing plane of the support frame is arranged below the support frame; and an L-shaped track and a transport vehicle slidably connected to the track are mounted in the pit and used to transport the rotary blowout preventer or the drill bit test bench to a test position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Sichuan Hongda Security Technology Service Co., Ltd, Sichuan Kete Testing Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yonggang Deng, Shundong Tang, Gang Wang, Wenbin Chen, Yi Tang, Shanji Wang, Jiajie Ye, Tao Yuan, Qi Yang, Xudong Wang, Yuke You, Zhe Wang, Jian Zhang, Hanjun Liu, Heng Yang, Xun Cai
  • Patent number: 12173600
    Abstract: A downhole valve position sensing system includes a magnetic material that is shiftable by an actuation member of a downhole valve to a plurality of positions along a downhole valve from a first position of the plurality of positions along the downhole valve. The downhole valve position sensing system also includes a sensor assembly that is mechanically coupled to the downhole valve and comprising a magnetic sensor that is configured to detect a magnetic signal generated by the magnetic material at a set of positions of the plurality of positions along the downhole valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Luke William Holderman, David Allen Dockweiler
  • Patent number: 12158060
    Abstract: A dampening housing that may comprise a tubular structure, a chamber disposed within the tubular structure, and a first port disposed within the tubular structure about a first end of the chamber and providing fluid communication between the chamber to a wellbore. The dampening housing may further include a piston disposed within the chamber and configured to traverse the length of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brenden Grove, Jason Paul Metzger, Richard Ellis Robey
  • Patent number: 12158042
    Abstract: A device and method for reaming a flight gap of a drill flight of a drilling tool includes a base carriage displaceably mounted along a mast of a drilling apparatus. A reaming element engages the flight gap so soil adhering to the rotating drilling tool is scraped off by the reaming element. A support arm holding the reaming element is movably mounted between a retracted position where the reaming element is spaced apart from the drilling tool and a reaming position where the reaming element engages the flight gap. The support arm pivots about a pivot axle parallel to a longitudinal drilling axis of the drilling tool. The support arm is additionally mounted on the base carriage parallel to the longitudinal drilling axis of the drilling tool to be deflectable from a basic position, and is resiliently held in the basic position by means of a bias spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BAUER Maschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Dreier, Daniel Reil
  • Patent number: 12140027
    Abstract: A particle impact drill bit for a well system includes a central axis, a longitudinal first end, a longitudinal second end opposite the first end, and a feed passage extending into the drill bit from the first end, a pilot section located at the second end, the pilot section including one or more converging nozzles in fluid communication with the feed passage, and a reamer section located between the first end and the second end and including one or more reamer blades extending radially outwards from the central axis of the drill bit, and wherein the reamer section defines a maximum width of the drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Tony P. Pink, Tom S. Roberts, Jason R. Cunningham, Richard J. Sauvageau
  • Patent number: 12140015
    Abstract: A downhole assembly includes a tubular body having a bore and a downhole tool connected to the tubular body. The downhole assembly also includes a sensor assembly having a carrier and a sensor. A sensor adapter is used to couple the sensor assembly to the tubular body. The sensor adapter includes an adapter body disposed in the bore of the tubular body; an adapter shaft for connection with the carrier; and a plurality of channels formed between the adapter shaft and the adapter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: James H. Taylor, Jr., William Allen Schultz, Jr., Albert C. Odell, II, Glenn Iversen
  • Patent number: 12140017
    Abstract: Pressure sensing plugs are used to check pressure in various void or cavities of a wellhead or Xmas tree of an active hydrocarbon well. Pressure sensing plugs (51) are provided at various points in the wellhead or Xmas tree (50). Each plug incudes a pressure transducer (39) and associated electronics allowing the pressure to be read by a hand held reader device. Alternatively, the plugs may include a radio transmitter for transmitting sensed data to a monitoring system via a wifi network or similar to a central control room on a hydrocarbon producing platform. In this way, the pressure at the various points in the wellhead/Xmas tree may be checked without exposing the cavity or void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Oeystein Fossaa, Rune Romberg
  • Patent number: 12134941
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an electrical signal between a downhole device and a surface location is provided, the method including unwinding a flexible hose from a reel at the surface location and deploying the hose down a wellbore, wherein the downhole device is attached at a downhole end of the flexible hose, providing a conductive fluid inside the flexible hose as an electrical path, and transmitting the electrical signal through the conductive fluid from one of the downhole device and the surface location to the other of the downhole device and the surface location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Expro North Sea Limited
    Inventor: Jesus Minakata Esparza
  • Patent number: 12123261
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a drill bit, that includes a bit body, a plurality of cutters secured to the bit body, an axial reciprocating assembly, a lateral reciprocating assembly, and a sliding interface that includes a first contact surface and a second contact surface in direct sliding engagement with the first contact surface inside the bit body, such that an exposure of the first borehole engagement member varies with an exposure of the second borehole engagement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Clark, Kelley Plunkett, Curtis Lanning, Douglas Caraway
  • Patent number: 12116844
    Abstract: Interfacing surfaces of adjacent tiles in a downhole tool may combine to form a tortuous path therebetween. In various embodiments, this tortuous path may run generally parallel and/or perpendicular to a top surface of the tiles. One example of such a tortuous path may be created by a protrusion extending from an interfacing surface of one of the tiles that may fit snugly within a cavity receding into an interfacing surface of another of the tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David C. Hoyle, Scott S. Dahlgren, David R. Hall, Malcolm R. Taylor
  • Patent number: 12110759
    Abstract: Equipment for autonomous abandonment of wells is installed its position during the completion of the well. Such equipment melts the string, cables and accessories and the casing by means of an exothermic reaction (which may have thermite among its reagents). The start of this reaction is remotely triggered according to the interest of the well operator. As a product of the process, there is the formation of a permanent barrier (BIS) to abandon the well. This permanent barrier will be a product of the residual material from the heat release reaction, a molten material from the string and casing, as well as the material responsible for the formation of the BIS, which shall have eutectic characteristics, that is, after its solidification it shall have an expansion in order to ensure that it generates rock-to-rock adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: PetrĂ³leo Brasileiro S.A.—Petrobras
    Inventors: Luis Carlos Marques Pires, Danilo Colombo
  • Patent number: 12110774
    Abstract: An oil and gas downhole device is disclosed wherein the device separates the oil and gas from undesired water, which returns to the formation. The device includes a plurality of channels filled with elements fit tightly to a gas tight seal at atmospheric pressure with interstitial spaces. Under pressure the device allows oil and gas to pass but not water within its operating range of pressures. Also included is a method for using the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Clifford Wayne Hunter
  • Patent number: 12110754
    Abstract: A jarring tool used to dislodge a stuck tubular string or bottom hole assembly within an underground wellbore. A funnel element is placed underground either within, or as part of, a tubular string. A deformable ball may be seated within the funnel element to block fluid from passing within the tubular string. Hydraulic pressure may build within the tubular string until it exceeds the pressure the ball can withstand. This will cause the ball to deform and be expelled through the funnel element. With no ball to block its flow, fluid will be rapidly released through the funnel element. The rapid release of fluid will cause a powerful jarring or jolting to the tubular string or bottom hole assembly. Deformed balls may be captured in a cartridge chamber installed within the drill string and sized to create turbulent fluid flow within the drill string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HydraShock, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Kevin Dewayne Jones
  • Patent number: 12104441
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via movement of the completion stages into engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Keane, Gabriel Isaicu, Michael Elkomos, Marcelo Oblitas Ruiz, Carlos Emilio Webel, Saeed Molavi, Ernani Jeronimo
  • Patent number: 12104473
    Abstract: Provided is a gauge mandrel, a sensing system, and a well system. The gauge mandrel, in one aspect, includes a housing having a length (Lt), the housing having a main section and an upset section extending outward from the main section, and a primary fluid passageway located in the main section of the housing and extending along the length (Lt). In accordance with this aspect, the primary fluid passageway includes an uphole tubing coupling having an uphole tubing coupling centerline (CLTU) and a downhole tubing coupling having a downhole tubing coupling centerline (CLTD). In further accordance with this aspect, the uphole tubing coupling centerline (CLTU) and the downhole tubing coupling centerline (CLTD) are offset from one another by a distance (DT). The gauge mandrel may further include a gauge cavity located in the upset section of the housing and extending along at least a portion of the length (Lt).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Francis Lafleur