Patents Examined by David J. Bagnell
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Patent number: 10612311Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a body, blades extending longitudinally and generally radially from the body, and primary cutting elements located on each blade. The earth-boring tool may include a group of at least two adjacent blades comprising the primary cutting elements and one or more first shaped inserts located rotationally behind the primary cutting elements, and one or more additional blades comprising the primary cutting elements and one or more second shaped inserts located rotationally behind the primary cutting elements, the second shaped inserts exhibiting a greater exposure relative to the first shaped inserts. Distribution of the second shaped inserts relative to the longitudinal axis may be asymmetric with respect to the longitudinal axis of the body. Methods include drilling a subterranean formation including engaging a formation with the primary cutting elements, the first shaped inserts, and the second shaped inserts of the earth-boring tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Baker Hughes, A GE Company, LLCInventor: Ralf Duerholt
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Patent number: 10612378Abstract: A method for recovering room-mining coal pillars by solid filling in synergy with artificial pillars. Solid materials and cementing materials on the ground are conveyed through a feeding well and a pipeline to a room-and-pillar goaf, a plurality of artificial pillars is cast at an interval in a coal room area, and gangue is cast to fill other regions of the coal room using a gangue casting machine. Under joint support by the artificial pillars and the coal room filler, coal pillars are recovered using a continuous coal mining machine, artificial pillars are cast in the original coal pillar area after recovery, and gangue is cast to fill the original coal pillar area using the gangue casting machine. A system for recovering room-mining coal pillars by solid filling in synergy with artificial pillars mainly includes a material conveying system, a joint support system, and a coal pillar recovery system.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jixiong Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Xiancheng Mei, Kun Fang, Xiaole Han
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Patent number: 10605022Abstract: A wireline cable includes an electrically conductive cable core for transmitting electrical power, an inner armor layer disposed around the cable core, and an outer armor layer disposed around the inner armor layer, wherein a torque on the cable is balanced by providing the outer armor layer with a predetermined amount of coverage less than an entire circumference of the inner armor layer, or by providing the outer armor layer and the inner armor layer with a substantially zero lay angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Joseph Varkey
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Patent number: 10605030Abstract: The present invention provides an improved hydraulically activated clamping device for connecting a wellhead and or Christmas tree positioned on a wellhead to a fracing tree that may comprise a connector body; a mandrel body; two or more clamp segments; two or more actuating bolts; a seal ring to provide sealing engagement between said connector body and said mandrel body; one or more motors driving each of said two or more actuating bolts; and control means to reduce or retard the power to the first of said two or more actuating bolts to release and prevent its further movement until the other of said actuating bolts release also.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Reel Power Licensing Corp.Inventors: Benton Frederick Baugh, Christopher David Rekieta, Nathan Schmidt, James Mlodzianowski, Stephanie Tritchler
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Patent number: 10605061Abstract: A Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) tool and methods of downhole fluid management are disclosed. The BHA is deployed on a conveyance string to access a completion string and forming a tool annulus therebetween. A first assembly having a first bore fluidly connected to the conveyance string. A second assembly supports a packer for releasably sealing to the completion string, and a third assembly supporting a packer actuator thereon, the second assembly telescopically movable within the third assembly for forming a resettable packer releasably sealable to the completion string. A bypass valve is formed between the first and second assembly. Closing of the bypass valve directs fluid through a treatment port uphole of the resettable packer to the tool annulus and opening of the bypass valve bypasses fluid about the resettable packer. The packer actuator can further comprise an anchor for releasably anchoring to the completion string.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: KOBOLD CORPORATIONInventors: Mark Andreychuk, Per Angman, Allan Petrella
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Patent number: 10605031Abstract: A modular well containment cellar system having a bottom portion, two co-planar half-panels joined to the bottom portion and separated by a through-channel portion, and a one side wall joined to a bottom portion and to the half-panels, forming a closed container with an open top for mating to another cellar component at the half-panels, wherein a well pipe may be received into the through-channel. A plurality of drip diverters prevent downward-moving liquid from running between the mated half-panels and between the well pipe and the through-channel to capture dripped and running liquids from above the containment cellar system.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventor: Mikel R. Stierwalt
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Patent number: 10597965Abstract: A method of controllably disintegrating a downhole article comprises disposing the downhole article in a downhole environment, the downhole article containing a matrix material; a first chemical; and a second chemical physically isolated from the first chemical, and allowing the first chemical to contact and react with the second chemical generating an acid, a salt, heat, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing that accelerates the degradation of the matrix material in a downhole fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventor: Ryan Allen
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Patent number: 10597990Abstract: A gas lift valve for use in a hydrocarbon well includes an elongated valve housing including an inlet port for receiving a fluid from an annulus of a hydrocarbon well, and an outlet port for delivering the fluid to a production tubing of the hydrocarbon well, and an elongated, internal valve body, which is movable along a longitudinal, central axis of the valve housing between a first end position and a second end position. In the first end position, a sealing surface of the valve body is in sealing contact with a valve seat surface of the valve housing prohibiting the fluid to flow from the inlet port to the outlet port, and in the second end position the sealing surface is separated from the valve seat surface allowing the fluid to flow from the inlet port to the outlet port. The outlet port is positioned at a terminal end of the valve housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY COMPANY ASInventors: Erling Kleppa, Ståle Pettersen
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Patent number: 10597975Abstract: Downhole completion system (100) arranged in a borehole, comprising a production casing (2) having an axial extension with an opening (4) for providing fluid communication between the borehole and the inside of the casing, a sleeve (5) arranged at least partly movably along or rotatably around the axial extension for opening, choking or closing the fluid communication and a sleeve control (7) for moving the sleeve (5) to open, choke or close the opening (4), wherein the sleeve control comprises a first part having at least one member (9) engaging the profile, a second part having a fixation unit (11) fixating the sleeve control in the casing, an actuator (12) for moving the first part in relation to the second part, a power supply (14), such as a battery, supplying power to the actuator (12), and a first communication module (15) for receiving control signals from surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AGInventors: Ricardo Reves Vasques, Paul Hazel
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Patent number: 10598008Abstract: A method for drilling into the ground includes digging a longitudinal hole in the ground, and simultaneously lining the hole with a tube extending substantially over an entire longitudinal length of the hole. The tube includes an inner tube and an outer tubular sheath inserted between the inner tube and a wall of the hole. After digging the hole, the inner tube is removed from the hole, with the outer sheath remaining in place inside the hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: CALYFInventor: Francis Cour
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Patent number: 10596655Abstract: A method for installing a tool in a downhole system including running the tool to a target location within a tubular structure, creating a magnetic pulse, and urging the tool toward the tubular structure at a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second with the magnetic pulse. A method for actuating a downhole tool including creating a magnetic pulse, coupling the magnetic pulse to a workpiece and moving the workpiece with the pulse, the workpiece achieving a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing, John K. Wakefield, Partha Ganguly
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Patent number: 10594068Abstract: A wet connect apparatus operable in a down-hole environment includes an annular electrical contact, which includes a resilient outer member constructed of coiled spring having its ends fused together, and also includes an inner retention member constructed of a gift ring embedded or installed within the resilient outer member. The inner retention member provides a radial bias to retain the annular electrical contact within an electrically conductive groove during installation and assembly of the wet connect apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: PRIME DOWNHOLE MANUFACTURING LLCInventor: Khanh Anh Duong
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Patent number: 10590613Abstract: In an automotive milling machine, comprising a machine frame, comprising a controller for the travelling and milling operation, comprising a working drum, comprising a transport conveyor, where the transport conveyor is slewable, relative to the machine frame, about a first axis extending essentially horizontally under an elevation angle, and sideways about a second axis extending orthogonally to the first axis under a slewing angle, where the transport conveyor discharges the milled material onto a loading surface of a transport vehicle at a specified conveying speed, and where the controller continuously controls positioning of the milled material automatically via, as a minimum, the slewing angle of the transport conveyor, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: the controller specifies and monitors limit values for a maximum permissible slewing angle range for slewing the transport conveyor variable in accordance with the current operating situation.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christian Berning, Sebastian Winkels, Harald Kroell, Tobias Krista
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Patent number: 10590754Abstract: A sensor system includes interconnected and axially spaced apart sensor devices deployed along an outer surface of a downhole tool string. The sensor devices including a sensor disposed with a protective housing and control electronics located remote from the sensor devices and operationally connected to the sensors.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jia Tao, Christian Spring, Jeremy Morrison, Richard Lee Warns, Hikmet Andic, Jose Escudero
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Patent number: 10590740Abstract: A downhole isolation tool for insertion in a wellbore and seated engagement to a downhole assembly, for allowing, when a sliding sleeve thereof is slidably positioned in a first position and when coupled to a lower end of said pump apparatus, fluids within a hydrocarbon formation to be drawn through such tool and allowed to pass to the pump apparatus for pumping uphole, and when such sliding sleeve is positioned in a second position and decoupled from said lower end of the pump assembly, for preventing said fluids from passing therethrough and uphole.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Oil Rebel Innovations Ltd.Inventors: Peter Steven David Krawiec, Gregg J. Lacusta
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Patent number: 10584549Abstract: A method for completing a well includes extending coiled tubing into the well through a wellhead assembly, the coiled tubing having a lower end within the well and an upper end outside of the well. A tool is releasably attached to a central portion of the coiled tubing between the lower and upper ends. The tool has a tool body has an inner diameter surface sized to circumscribe the coiled tubing. A gripping feature is located on the inner diameter surface for limiting relative axial movement between the tool and the coiled tubing when the inner diameter of the tool circumscribes the coiled tubing. A tool feature extends from the tool body and is shaped to engage a well member. The tool is lowered into the well with the coiled tubing and the tool feature engages the well member. The tool is removed from the well with the coiled tubing.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LPInventors: Andrew Browne Helvenston, Eugene Allen Borak, Vanson Huynh
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Patent number: 10584581Abstract: An instrumented cutting element, an earth-boring drilling tool, and related methods are disclosed. The instrumented cutting element may include a substrate base, a diamond table disposed on the substrate base, a sensor disposed within the diamond table, a lead wire coupled to the sensor and disposed within a side trench formed within the substrate base, and a filler material disposed within the side trench. The earth-boring drilling tool may include securing the instrumented cutting element to a blade of a bit body. A related method may include forming the instrumented cutting element and earth-boring drilling tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Wanjun Cao, Steven W. Webb, Juan Miguel Bilen, Bo Yu, Xu Huang
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Patent number: 10584559Abstract: A sliding valve has a valve body, a sliding sleeve received in a longitudinal bore of the valve body, and a collet receivable in a longitudinal bore of the sliding sleeve. The valve body has one or more fluid ports on an uphole portion of the sidewall thereof. The sliding sleeve is movable between an uphole closed position closing the one or more fluid ports and a downhole open position opening the one or more fluid ports. The collet comprises a metal portion about an uphole end of the collet, and a ball seat having a ball-seat surface radially inwardly sloped from uphole to downhole at an acute slope angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the collet. The metal portion is radially outwardly expandable under a radially outward pressure to form a metal-to-metal seal at the interface between the collet and the sliding sleeve when the collet is received in the sliding sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: SC ASSET CORPORATIONInventor: Sean P. Campbell
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Patent number: 10584537Abstract: An over-bit backreamer. The backreamer is configured to be placed over a bit without detaching the bit from a drill string associated with a pilot bore. The backreamer has an internal surface that conforms to a steering surface of the bit. Rotation is transferred from the bit to the backreamer at the internal surface. The backreamer further defines a flange which interacts with a feature, such as a heel, on the bit. The flange and heel form a shoulder which transfers pullback force to the bit. The backreamer comprises a pullback eye that pulls a product pipe back through the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Radius HDD Direct LLCInventors: David G. Bullock, Ronald F. Wright, Jr.
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Patent number: 10584583Abstract: A method including positioning a downhole acquisition tool in a wellbore in a geological formation; performing a pretest sequence to gather at least one of pressure or mobility information based on downhole acquisition from a sample line, a guard line, or both while the downhole acquisition tool is within the wellbore. The pretest sequence includes controlling a valve assembly to a first valve configuration that may allow the fluid to flow into the downhole tool via one or more flowlines toward a pretest system. The one or more flowlines include the sample line only, the guard line only, or both the sample line and the guard line; and drawing in the fluid through the one or more flowlines. The method also includes controlling the valve assembly to a second valve configuration. The second valve configuration is different from the first valve configuration and may block the one or more flowlines from drawing in the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Adriaan Gisolf, Tudor Ioan Palaghita, Stephen Dennis Parks, Ashers Partouche