Patents Examined by Shane Bomar
  • Patent number: 11927059
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drill rod for transferring a torque comprising an elongate rod base body, along which runs at least one base line for a fluid and/or electric current and/or data, an upper suspension device for suspending the drill rod from a support element, a rotary bearing, which is arranged between the suspension device and the rod base body, wherein the rod base body is mounted rotatably relative to the suspension device about a rod longitudinal axis, and a rotary feedthrough, through which a line connection is formed between at least one feed line, which is fixed relative to the support element, and the at least one base line of the rotatably-mounted rod base body. The invention is characterized here in that the rotary bearing is arranged axially distanced from the rotary feedthrough, and in that the rotary bearing comprises an axial bearing which is arranged above or below the rotary feedthrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BAUER Maschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Siegmann
  • Patent number: 11927080
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a method that includes performing a geomechanical analysis for a wellbore for each of a plurality of sand screens. The method further includes selecting a sand screen from the plurality of sand screens based at least in part on the geomechanical analysis. The method further includes deploying the selected sand screen in a tubular of the wellbore to filter particulate passing through an opening of the tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Abbas Khaksar, Tarik Abdelfattah
  • Patent number: 11920450
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices to enhance fracturing fluid delivery to subsurface formations to enhance hydrocarbon production from the subsurface formations may include providing a manifold coupling having a manifold coupling passage with a manifold coupling axis. The manifold coupling may include a first inlet passage positioned to provide fluid flow between a first fracturing fluid output and the manifold coupling passage, and a second inlet passage positioned opposite the first inlet passage to provide fluid flow between a second fracturing fluid output and the manifold coupling passage. The first inlet passage may have a first inlet passage cross-section at least partially defining a first inlet axis extending transverse relative to the manifold coupling axis. The second inlet passage may have a second inlet passage cross-section at least partially defining a second inlet axis extending transverse relative to the manifold coupling axis and not being co-linear with the first inlet axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Nicholas Tew, William Nieuwenburg
  • Patent number: 11920416
    Abstract: A wellbore system includes an adapter configured to couple to a downhole component. The wellbore system also includes a retrieval tubular, having a bore extending therethrough. The wellbore system further includes a piston assembly coupled to the retrieval tubular, wherein the bore is in fluid communication with a cavity of the piston assembly. The wellbore system includes a stem configured to couple to a casing section, the casing section being supported by a hanger. The wellbore system also includes a sleeve forming at least a portion of the piston assembly, the sleeve configured to couple to the adapter such that, responsive to a force applied by the piston at the casing section, the sleeve applies an upward force to the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Cheng, Eugene Borak, Gajanan Hegde
  • Patent number: 11920408
    Abstract: A cutting element includes a base and a cutting face at opposite axial ends, a side surface extending between the base and the cutting face, an edge formed between the cutting face and the side surface, an edge chamfer having a uniform size around the entire edge, and a geometric shape formed on the cutting face and defined by a concave boundary with respect to a longitudinal axis of the cutting element. The concave boundary includes multiple rounded vertices, each rounded vertex located proximate to the edge chamfer and forming a cutting tip and multiple geometric shape sides connecting the rounded vertices, wherein the geometric shape sides are concave with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoge Gan, Youhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 11913295
    Abstract: A method for plugging a lost-circulation zone in a subsurface formation includes introducing a drillstem including a drilling stabilizer into a wellbore during drilling operations, the drilling stabilizer including at least stabilizer blades and a pressure sensor. Each stabilizer blade includes at least an inner chamber, a light source, and a window. The method further includes injecting a lost-circulation fluid, including a plurality of lost-circulation particles, into the wellbore. Each lost-circulation particle includes a lost-circulation additive encapsulated by a photo-sensitive coating. The method further includes measuring a pressure differential with the pressure sensor and providing a pressure signal to the light source of each stabilizer blade, thereby actuating the light source to produce a light beam, which allows the light beam to contact the photo-sensitive coatings of the lost-circulation particles to release the lost-circulation additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jothibasu Ramasamy, Chinthaka Gooneratne, Jianhui Xu
  • Patent number: 11913289
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drill rod coupling having a sleeve-shaped coupling receptacle, a pin-shaped coupling member which can be inserted axially into the coupling receptacle to form a torque proof connection, and at least one locking bolt which is directed transversely to the axial coupling direction and extends, in a locked coupling position, between the coupling receptacle and the coupling member into a locking recess, wherein the locking bolt is mounted so as to be radially adjustable between an unlocking position and a locking position. Efficient coupling is achieved in that a tensioning device is provided by means of which the locking bolt is pressed into its locking position with a predefined tensioning force, and in that the locking bolt is connected to a resetting member by means of which the locking bolt can be reset into the unlocking position when a resetting force is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BAUER Maschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Dreier
  • Patent number: 11913331
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein include sidewall coring tools used to return core samples of rock from a sidewall of a wellbore as part of a data collection exercise for exploration and production of hydrocarbons. In particular, the systems and methods presented herein perform sidewall coring of a subterranean formation using a combination of rotary and percussive coring. More specifically, the systems and methods presented herein rotate a coring cylinder of a sidewall coring tool back and forth less than a full rotation while pushing the coring cylinder of the sidewall coring tool against a bore wall of a wellbore, and push the coring cylinder of the sidewall coring tool into the subterranean formation to enable extraction of a core sample of the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Milkovisch, Amol Bhome, Joseph Casassa, Anish Kumar, Daniel De La Garza
  • Patent number: 11905795
    Abstract: A coiled tubing system includes an injector assembly configured to receive and longitudinally move coiled tubing through the injector assembly, a well control stack operatively coupled to the injector assembly and configured to receive the coiled tubing from the injector assembly, and a snap arrestor including one or more wheels configured to rotate as the coiled tubing moves longitudinally, a tachometer that measures rotations per minute (RPM), and a microprocessor that receives and converts the RPM into a real-time measured linear speed of the coiled tubing. When the real-time measured linear speed of the coiled tubing exceeds a predetermined linear speed threshold, a command signal is sent to the injector assembly to grippingly engage the coiled tubing and thereby cease longitudinal movement of the coiled tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali Qureshi, Arris Riagung Riskiawan, Abdullah Shabib Dossary
  • Patent number: 11898445
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a portable coring machine for penetrating a surface to install or repair sub-surface structures. Coring machine may include a frame assembly and a drilling device. Frame assembly may include a plurality of interconnected bars and facilitate operating drilling device in a generally horizontal position or in a generally vertical position. Further, frame assembly may accommodate core bits of different sizes for cutting an annular hole into asphalt, concrete or other hard surface. Support members of frame assembly may be configured to support a track including a plurality of teeth. The track may engage with a gear assembly of a mounting block configured to support the drilling device. Advantageously, coring machine may be moveable along track in response to an operator rotating a crank mechanically coupled to the gear assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Joyce
  • Patent number: 11891885
    Abstract: A fracturing device includes a power unit, and the power unit includes a muffling compartment, a turbine engine, and an air intake unit. The air intake unit is communicated with the turbine engine through an intake pipe and configured to provide a combustion-supporting gas to the turbine engine; the air intake unit is at a top of the muffling compartment and the muffling compartment has an accommodation space, the turbine engine is within the accommodation space. A fan is further provided to generate wither positive pressure or negative presser in the muffling compartment to facilitate a cooling of the turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Zhang, Rikui Zhang, Liang Lv, Xiaolei Ji, Chunqiang Lan, Yipeng Wu, Xincheng Li, Yuxuan Sun
  • Patent number: 11891886
    Abstract: The proposed technology relates to methods and devices for selective treatment of wellbores that allows treating several intervals of a productive formation in a single trip. The proposed device for implementing the method includes a mechanical anchor, hydraulic fracturing port, packers and a perforator disposed in the device's bottom part. It is lowered into a well casing to the depth of productive formation. Working fluid is supplied to the perforator via a tubing string, the well casing is perforated, and caverns are washed out. The device is positioned so that the perforation interval is situated between the packers, fixed in the well casing by the anchor, and working fluid is then cut off. Hydraulic fracturing fluid is supplied, and the productive formation's interval is isolated from the well casing's annulus by activation of the packers. Hydraulic fracturing is executed, and the device is removed from the well casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Salavat Anatolyevich Kuzyaev
  • Patent number: 11885192
    Abstract: A wireline jarring tool includes an elongate body having opposing upper and lower ends, a longitudinal channel defined in the elongate body and extending between the upper and lower ends and sized to loosely receive a wireline, and a jarring assembly housed within the elongate body and operable to generate a jarring force transmittable to a bottom hole assembly (BHA) once the wireline jarring tool is secured to the BHA within a wellbore. The wireline jarring tool is conveyable into the wellbore by translating longitudinally along the wireline, and actuating the jarring assembly is configured to release the BHA from a stuck position within a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Fouad A. Alsultan, Hathaal Mubarak A. Alburaik
  • Patent number: 11873696
    Abstract: A stage cementing tool for a wellbore comprises a tool body defining a flow port in a wall thereof. The tool body and wellbore define an annulus therebetween. A setting sleeve compresses a packer element as it moves from the first to the second position. The packer element expands radially outwardly to engage the wellbore as a result of the compression applied by the setting sleeve. A pump-out plug in the tool body is expellable into the annulus upon the application of pressure in the tool body after the packer element engages the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Saul Emmanuel Vazquez Niebla, Ahmad Rizal Maharam
  • Patent number: 11873704
    Abstract: A connection device, a control box component, and a fracturing apparatus are provided. The connection device includes: a fixation rack, configured to be fixedly connected with a mounting base; a box connection mechanism, configured to be connected with the control box, and drive the control box to move at least from a first position to a second position relative to the fixation rack. In a case that the control box is located at the first position, the control box is located at a side of the transmission component and a distance between the control box and the transmission component is less than a predetermined distance, and during the control box being moved from the first position to the second position, the control box is away from the transmission component to form an operation space for the transmission component at the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Zhang, Rikui Zhang, Liang Lv, Xiaolei Ji, Chunqiang Lan, Yipeng Wu, Xincheng Li, Yuxuan Sun
  • Patent number: 11873698
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a tubular body defining an outer wall. A port is defined in the outer wall and a plug is received in the port. The plug is detachably connected to the outer wall and expellable into an annulus between the tubular body and a wellbore in which the downhole tool is placed upon the application of pressure in an interior of the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Priyanshkumar Desai, Timothy James Weber
  • Patent number: 11867022
    Abstract: A well system includes a wellhead positionable at a surface of a wellbore. The well system also includes a ball valve for coupling to the wellhead. The ball valve is movable between an open position and a closed position. Further, the well system includes a hollow core electric motor positionable adjacent to the ball valve to move the ball valve between the open position and the closed position. Furthermore, the well system includes a power source that provides electric power to the hollow core electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Davis Wright, Darryl Kenneth Mackie
  • Patent number: 11867031
    Abstract: A sand removal system configured to remove sand from a casing installed within a producing wellbore. The system utilizes a bottom hole assembly comprising a check valve sub and at least one sand removal tool. A swab cup installed within a vertical section the casing is used to create a pressure differential around the bottom hole assembly, causing fluid and sand to flow at a high velocity into the sand removal tool. The sand is caused to flow upstream where is later removed from the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tenax Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Dewayne Jones, Jeremy W. Butler
  • Patent number: 11866997
    Abstract: A rotary percussive hydraulic drill comprises a body; a shank having female coupling splines and male coupling splines; a striking piston configured to strike the shank; a rotation drive device configured to drive the shank in rotation; a front abutment surface against which the shank is configured to come into abutment. The shank has an annular bearing flange which is provided on an outer surface of the shank and which has an annular bearing surface configured to come into abutment against the front abutment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MONTABERT
    Inventors: Michel Escolle, Gilbert Chervin
  • Patent number: 11867043
    Abstract: A pressure bleed-off system. The system includes a fluid bypass line having an inlet and an opposing outlet, wherein the inlet is in fluid communication with a high pressure frac line for a hydraulic fracturing operation. The system also includes a high pressure transducer located proximate the fluid inlet, a first plug valve residing along the fluid bypass line, and a first electric actuator residing on the first plug valve. The actuator is configured to rotate the first plug valve between close and open positions in response to command signals from a controller. The controller, in turn, sends the command signals in response to control signals delivered by an operator, remotely. Preferably, the command signals are wireless signals sent from outside of the red zone. The system may also include a second plug valve along the bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KLX ENERGY SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Dustin J. Adams, Jason A. Golden, Terry G. Wilcox