Patents Examined by Marwan Bashir
  • Patent number: 8631864
    Abstract: An apparatus for downhole operation. The apparatus comprising a support body having a surface located in a borehole and a coating on an at least a portion of the surface of the support body. The coating is an inert material selected for reducing friction and corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Saenger, Jean Desroches, Natalia Quisel
  • Patent number: 8613312
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and method for stimulating a borehole of a well. The invention provides an apparatus that generates low-frequency seismic type elastic waves that propagate to the geologic formation and in order to enhance the movement of fluids in the geologic formation toward a well. The apparatus may operate automatically driven by a power source that may be located on the ground surface. The regime of operation may be determined by user input. Operation of the apparatus may carried out while production of a natural resource is ongoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Technological Research Ltd
    Inventor: Alfredo Zolezzi-Garreton
  • Patent number: 8544540
    Abstract: Well pump units for studying, repairing and developing of wells. The proposed well jet system comprises a logging instrument, a movable sealing unit, and a jet pump arranged in a flow string. The latter enables to create a series of different drawdown values in a well under-packer area, and thus to register parameters of the well and a medium pumped out of the well and to easily register a formation pressure restoration curve for the well under-packer area. When testing the formation, a pumping mode may be adjusted by changing pressure of an active working medium supplied to a jet pump nozzle. The provision of a channel for supplying the pumped out medium with a check valve helps avoiding a spontaneous flow of the working medium into the under-packer area. The system reveals increased operational reliability and productivity during the treatment of a productive formation and well testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Inventor: Zinoviy Dmitrievich Khomynets
  • Patent number: 8522867
    Abstract: Flow control systems and methods for use in hydrocarbon well operations include a tubular and a flow control apparatus. The tubular defines a well annulus and includes an outer member defining a flow conduit. Fluid communication between the well annulus and the flow conduit is provided by permeable portion(s) of the outer member. The flow control apparatus is disposed within the flow conduit and comprises conduit-defining and chamber-defining structural members. The conduit-defining structural member(s) is configured to divide the flow conduit into at least two flow control conduits. The chamber-defining structural member(s) is configured to divide at least one of the at least two flow control conduits into at least two flow control chambers. Each of the flow control chambers has at least one inlet and one outlet, each of which is adapted to allow fluid flow therethrough and to retain particles larger than a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Yeh, Bruce A. Dale, Scott R. Clingman
  • Patent number: 8522882
    Abstract: A pump system and method comprising a pump barrel adapted for use within a well. A reciprocating plunger disposed within the pump barrel and operatively engaging a connector between the plunger and a pumping unit. The connector operatively engages the pumping unit and further comprises an inner and outer portion with a groove between the inner and outer portions; one or more ports disposed between the inner and outer portions and accessing an inner cavity of the connector; and the inner portion further comprising one or more ports accessing the inner cavity of the connector. The pump system and method further comprising a cage valve to create hydraulic pressure to expel trapped debris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Jerry Rich