Patents Examined by Giovanna Wright
  • Patent number: 12291948
    Abstract: A well system includes a production string that extends in a wellbore from a terranean surface toward a reservoir formation; and a portable gas injection system configured to supply the fluid to the annulus to reduce a hydrostatic pressure of a wellbore fluid enclosed within at least one of the annulus or the production tubing downhole tool coupled within the production string. The downhole tool includes a mandrel that includes a top connection connected to the production string and a bottom connection connected to the production string to fluidly couple the mandrel to the production string, at least one gas injection port that fluidly couples the mandrel to an annulus of the wellbore, and a valve positioned to control a flow of a fluid from the annulus into the mandrel through the gas injection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Iyon Maryono, Fahmi Aulia
  • Patent number: 12291927
    Abstract: A coupler comprising a hub comprising a longitudinal hub axis and a chamber disposed therein. A shaft having a longitudinal shaft axis, a first end, and a second end, wherein the second end of the shaft is pivotally coupled to the hub. A positioning assembly disposed in the chamber of the hub that engages the second end of the shaft. The positioning assembly being configured to allow the longitudinal shaft axis to become laterally offset from the longitudinal hub axis. A lower coil plate assembly positioned adjacent to an end cap assembly. A floating coil assembly disposed in an open chamber having walls bounded by the coil plate assembly and the end cap assembly for electromagnetically communicating with an adjacent coil assembly of a tubular member connected to the hub. Seals between the floating coil assembly and walls of the chamber provide a sealed off portion of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Joe Fox
  • Patent number: 12291935
    Abstract: An apparatus for fitting to a wellbore is provided. The apparatus includes a battery-powered downhole tool for deployment within the wellbore. The downhole tool includes a battery for providing electrical power to one or more components of the downhole tool. The apparatus further includes a lubricator for fitting to a wellhead of the wellbore via a valve system providing communication between the lubricator and the wellbore, and for housing the downhole tool when in a stowed position. The lubricator includes a transmitter for receiving electrical power from a remote power source, and for transferring received electrical power to a receiver. The downhole tool includes a receiver for providing electrical power to the battery, and for receiving electrical power from the transmitter. A method of transferring power from a transmitter of a lubricator to a receiver of a downhole tool is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Expro North Sea Limited
    Inventor: Gordon Cunningham
  • Patent number: 12291955
    Abstract: A method for optimizing drilling performance of a drilling operation is discloses. The method includes determining, while advancing a drill bit during the drilling operation based on drilling parameters specified by a user, a rate of penetration (ROP), acquiring, using sensors disposed throughout a rig of a well, sensor measurement data related to circulation of drilling fluid, generating, using a drilling hydraulics model based on at least the sensor measurement data of the circulation of drilling fluid, modeled rig and bit hydraulics data, displaying, on a driller console of the rig, the modeled rig and bit hydraulics data as a real-time drilling hydraulics profile, in response to a user viewing the displayed real-time drilling hydraulics profile, receiving an adjustment to the drilling parameters from the user, and further performing the drilling operation based on the adjustment to optimize the ROP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohammed Murif Hassan Al-Rubaii, Saleh Mohammed Al-Harbi
  • Patent number: 12286870
    Abstract: A system for enhanced oil and gas recovery. The system can comprise a boiler. The system can further comprise at least two capillaries in fluid communication with the boiler. The at least two capillaries can be disposed in an injector pipe and each one of the capillaries can include a flow control device for controlling an injection of steam in at least one of a chamber and a well for enhanced oil and gas recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: HEAT IP HOLDCO, LLC
    Inventor: James Charles Juranitch
  • Patent number: 12281527
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed that use a control line to expand a piston that shears pins to disconnect a latching system for wellbore operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas James Wakerley, Krishna Trisal, Farid Afandiyev, Ilyana Sergeevna Afanasyeva
  • Patent number: 12281550
    Abstract: A controlled rate of propagation of the fluid saturation front or thermal front is desired in may oil and gas and geothermal operations. Natural fractures and fractures created during hydraulic stimulation may have heterogeneous hydraulic properties resulting in uneven flow distributions, therefore leading to short-circuiting and breakthrough issues. The present invention relates to wellbores connected hydraulically by multiple fracture zones; methods are directed to control for even flow distribution among fractures, regardless of heterogeneities in fracture hydraulic properties, and to control propagation of saturation fronts and thermal fronts in subsurface reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Fervo Energy Company
    Inventors: Jack Norbeck, Timothy Latimer
  • Patent number: 12281540
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a dissolvable gauge cutter, a temperature sensor, and a pressure sensor. The dissolvable gauge cutter is made of a dissolvable alloy. The dissolvable gauge cutter is configured to be disposed within and travel through a tubular installed within a wellbore. The dissolvable gauge cutter is configured to dislodge solids from an inner wall of the tubular as the dissolvable gauge cutter travels through the tubular down to a specified depth within the wellbore. The dissolvable gauge cutter is configured to completely dissolve after reaching the specified depth. The temperature is configured to measure a temperature of a surrounding fluid as the dissolvable gauge cutter travels downhole through the tubular to the specified depth. The pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure of the surrounding fluid as the dissolvable gauge cutter travels downhole through the tubular to the specified depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Abdullah M. Bin Ziad, Fehead M. Al-Subaie, Abdulmajeed M. Alotaibi, Ahmed H. Mahsoon
  • Patent number: 12265074
    Abstract: A fluid flow control device, a well system, and a method are provided. The fluid flow control device, in one aspect, may include an inlet port, allowing a downhole fluid of a borehole to flow into the fluid flow control device, and an outlet port, allowing the downhole fluid to flow out of the fluid flow control device. The fluid flow control device, in accordance with this aspect, may further include a fluid chamber positioned between the inlet port and the outlet port, wherein an electrokinetic film is located within the fluid chamber and is capable of generating a voltage as the downhole fluid flows over the electrokinetic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Patent number: 12258823
    Abstract: A drilling fluid temperature optimization system includes a receiving tank and one or more nozzle assemblies. Each nozzle assembly includes a housing enclosing an inner chamber fluidically connected to one or more nozzles. Each of the one or more nozzle assemblies is configured to receive within its respective inner chamber drilling fluid flowing from the wellbore. The system also includes an air compressor configured to inject compressed air into each inner chamber, forming a mixture of air entrained in drilling fluid flowing through the inner chamber to the one or more nozzles. The system is configured such that the receiving tank receives the mixture as it is expelled from the one or more nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Rami F. Saleh, Mahmoud Adnan Alqurashi
  • Patent number: 12252977
    Abstract: A drilling system, assembly, and method may help optimize drilling in a system that involves more than one rotary tool that engages the formation. A rotary tool may be a rotary cutting tool, such as a drill bit or reamer, or some other rotary tool (e.g. stabilizer or rotary steerable tool) that has the potential to drag on the wall of the hole being drilled and take energy away from cutting. In an example, a wellbore or portion thereof is formed by rotating a first rotary cutting tool having a first cutting structure in engagement with one portion of the formation together with a second rotary cutting tool having a second cutting structure in engagement with another portion of the formation. Forces are obtained above and below the second cutting structure. One or more drilling parameter or drill bit design parameter are adjusted in relation to a force differential between the forces above and below the second cutting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley David Dunbar, Matt Barnes, Brody Dunn, Van Jordan Brackin
  • Patent number: 12252945
    Abstract: A system and a method for pressure activation of a tool in a wellbore is disclosed. The system comprises one or more sealing seat for being set in the tool in a horizontal section of the wellbore. The system further comprises and one or more self-driven sealing ball for being activated to roll through the wellbore independently from fluid speed and motion and come to be in place in the sealing seat. The method comprises steps: setting at least one sealing seat in the tool in a horizontal section of the wellbore, activating a self-driven sealing ball to roll through the wellbore independently from fluid speed and motion and come to be in place in the sealing seat, and pressurizing the wellbore to function the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Hassan W. Otaif, Alexander Boers
  • Patent number: 12247456
    Abstract: A technique facilitates reliable operation of a blowout preventer (BOP) system. The reliable operation is achieved by utilizing a ram with improved strength so as to make it better able to resist the stresses from shearing without increasing the thickness of the ram blade. As a result, a high level of efficiency is maintained during a shearing action. According to an embodiment, a blowout preventer system comprises a blowout preventer shear ram assembly having a ram for shearing a tubular member. The ram comprises a main body and a blade extending from the main body. Additionally, a ramp buttress is secured to the blade to strengthen the blade and to improve the shearing action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miguel Urrutia
  • Patent number: 12241337
    Abstract: A downhole shifter tool assembly configured to operate a downhole tool. The shifter tool assembly comprises a anchor tool, an extension tool, a shifting key, and a standoff spacer. The standoff spacer is configured to locate the shifter tool assembly at a reference position by contacting an isolation member on the downhole tool. An anchoring mechanism within the anchor tool can anchor the shifter tool assembly in the reference position. An extend-retract mechanism within the extension tool can extend move the shifting key on a shifting tool into engagement with a shifting profile on the downhole tool and move the shifting profile to a second position. The downhole tool can be operated by the shifting key moving the shifting profile from an initial position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Whye Kwong Wai, Mark S. Holly
  • Patent number: 12241311
    Abstract: Provided is a two part drilling and running tool, a downhole tool, a well system, and a method for forming a well system. The two part drilling and running tool, in at least one aspect, includes a smaller assembly coupled to an end of a conveyance, the smaller assembly having a spline or slot located along an entire length (LS) thereof. The two part drilling and running tool, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a larger bit assembly slidably coupled to the conveyance, the larger bit assembly including an other of the slot or spline, wherein the spline or slot in the smaller assembly and the other of the slot or spline in the larger bit assembly are configured to engage one another to rotationally fix the smaller assembly relative to the larger bit assembly as the smaller assembly and the larger bit assembly slidingly engage one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: André Storskjær
  • Patent number: 12234702
    Abstract: Systems and methods for landing a tubing hanger in a wellhead and then orienting a tree (or spool, or flowline connection body) relative to the tubing hanger while landing the tree on the wellhead are provided. This alignment is accomplished without the use of either a tubing spool or a BOP stack with an orientation pin. The tubing hanger alignment devices may be used to orientate the tree as the tree is landed so that the couplings and stabs between the tree and the tubing hanger line up with each other just at the moment of landing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Innovex International, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake T. DeBerry, Morris B. Wade, Flavio Santos, Gregory Norwood, Robert Buxton, Justin Rye, Todd L. Scaggs
  • Patent number: 12234696
    Abstract: An untethered device includes a tool and a ballast weight. The ballast weight includes an attachment plate that is securable to the tool, a dissolvable ballast, and attachment elements that secure the dissolvable ballast to the attachment plate. At least one of the attachment elements is dissolvable to release the dissolvable ballast from the attachment plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Huseyin Rahmi Seren, Christopher Powell, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Patent number: 12234701
    Abstract: A tubing hanger includes a hanger connection profile positioned along a borehole of the tubing hanger and a first landing profile positioned along the borehole and above the hanger connection profile. The first landing profile includes first threads including a first thread feature configured to secure a first check valve to the tubing hanger for isolating a production tubing. The tubing hanger further includes a second landing profile positioned along the borehole and above the first landing profile, the second landing profile including second threads including a second thread feature. The second thread feature is larger than the first thread feature and is configured to secure a second check valve to the tubing hanger for further isolating the production tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Karakaya, Sohrat Baki, Wafaa Alnakhli
  • Patent number: 12234709
    Abstract: An apparatus to be positioned in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a flow control device to restrict a fluid flowing from the subsurface formation and into a tubular string positioned in the wellbore. The apparatus comprises a magnetic assembly positioned proximate the flow control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Service, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Srividhya Sridhar, Peter Reid Maher
  • Patent number: 12234691
    Abstract: A wellbore tool includes a wellhead to be installed at an entrance to a wellbore formed through a subterranean zone. The wellhead includes an uphole wellhead end that can extend upward from the entrance, and a downhole wellhead end that can extend downhole into the wellhead. The wellhead defines an opening extending from the uphole wellhead end to the downhole wellhead end. A spacer tool is attached to the downhole wellhead end, and includes an uphole spacer tool end and a downhole spacer tool end. The spacer tool defines a tapered opening tapering from end to end. The tool includes a master valve attached to the downhole spacer tool end of the spacer tool. The master valve defines a flow pathway fluidically coupled to the opening defined by the wellhead and the tapered opening defined by the spacer tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ali Jasim Al-Jasim, Ahmed Alabdulmohsen, Ibrahim M. Najie, Mohammad Abdurahman Nuaim, Sultan Abdulwahab AlShehri