Patents Examined by Steven MacDonald
  • Patent number: 12270261
    Abstract: Wireline saver tool assemblies may be used for oil and gas operations. In some cases, the wireline saver tool assemblies may provide a mechanical catch for a wireline saver tool for minimizing and/or preventing the wireline tool from falling freely from a lubricator in the event of an operator and/or equipment failure. Operator input may not be required to catch and/or prevent falling of the wireline tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Ferro Supply LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Samuel Fitzhugh, Carter Oswalt, Timothy Wayne Raley
  • Patent number: 12264940
    Abstract: A method for calibrating the sensors present within a drilling tool, whereby the calibration occurs downhole and in-situ within the drilling tool. The calibration method may use the rotation of the drilling tool which typically occurs during drilling operations, whereby the drilling tool is rotating along the axis which follows the drilling trajectory. Direction and speed of rotation of the drilling tool may contribute to the in-situ calibration of the sensors, which may include angular rate sensors, magnetometers, and accelerometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OnTarget Drilling, LLC
    Inventor: Sylvain Bedouet
  • Patent number: 12258827
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a compression plate to be used with a slip hanger or a packoff in oilfield equipment is disclosed. The compression plate includes one or more grooves or slots extending circumferentially with respect to an axis of the slip hanger or the packoff. The compression plate is to be associated with an annulus seal gland of the slip hanger or the packoff and is to enable a gland volume of the annulus seal gland to change with temperature applied to the slip hanger or the packoff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Cheng, Paul Cody
  • Patent number: 12258828
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing/anchoring tool, a well system and a method for sealing/anchoring within a wellbore. The sealing/anchoring tool, in one aspect, includes a mandrel and a hydraulically deformable member positioned about the mandrel. The sealing/anchoring tool, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a sealing/anchoring element positioned about the hydraulically deformable member, the sealing/anchoring element including a circlet having an inside surface having an inside diameter (di), an outside surface having an outside diameter (do), a width (w), and a wall thickness (t), the circlet comprising an expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis to chemically deform the circlet from a radially reduced chemical state to a radially enlarged chemical state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon T. Least, Stephen Michael Greci, Chris M. Pelto, Rutger Evers
  • Patent number: 12252952
    Abstract: In some implementations, a clamshell packer for use in a wellbore proximate to a subsurface formation comprises an expandable non-elastomeric material and is configured to annularly envelop a non-compliant portion of a tubular in the wellbore, the non-compliant portion between one or more expandable screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon T. Least, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Patent number: 12252946
    Abstract: A selective anchor assembly for a downhole completion comprising an anchor sub and a seal assembly with at least one seal unit. The anchor sub comprises at least one button slip within a corresponding piston port that is fluidically coupled to an inner passage of the anchor. The selective anchor is configured to slidingly and sealingly engage a polish bore of a downhole completion. The selective anchor is configured to anchor to a shroud coupled to the polish bore in response to pressure applied to the inner passage of the anchor sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Angus Barron, Borisa Lajesic
  • Patent number: 12247468
    Abstract: An inflow control device, including a housing, a flow restrictor defined within the housing, an outflow area defined within the housing fluidly connected to the flow restrictor; and a disperser disposed within the outflow area. A method for reducing erosion in an inflow control device, including flowing a fluid through a flow restrictor, creating a jet of fluid leaving the flow restrictor, impinging the jet on a disperser in an outflow area for the flow restrictor, and dispersing the jetting fluid. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, an inflow control device disposed within the borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Becerra Moreno, Jai Kishan Koli, Alexander Kendall
  • Patent number: 12241317
    Abstract: A disconnect tool can include an electrical motor and a weak link. The electrical motor can be configured to part the weak link in response to electrical power applied to the electrical motor. A method of disconnecting sections of a tool string from each other in a well can include connecting a disconnect tool in the tool string, the disconnect tool including an electrical motor and a weak link, conveying the tool string into the well, and then applying electrical power to the electrical motor, thereby parting the weak link and disconnecting the tool string sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KING SOUTHWEST & CONSULTING OF CYPRESS
    Inventors: Santos D. Ortiz, George R. King
  • Patent number: 12234700
    Abstract: A system for performing a mechanical operation on a wireline is described including: a motor; a gear train coupled to the motor, the gear train including a first and a second rotational output, the first and second rotational outputs having different rotational speeds relative to each other; a fluid pump coupled to both the first and second rotational outputs, the fluid pump including: a pump housing coupled to the first rotational output, and a pump input coupled to the second rotational output; and a milling bailer coupled to the housing of the fluid pump and configured to rotate with the fluid pump housing, the milling bailer including: a bailer portion shaped to intake fluid and allow the fluid to flow through a filter and the fluid pump; and a milling face including a bit and configured to perform a milling operation while fluid is flowing through the bailer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Todor Sheiretov, Robert Kyle Wiesenborn
  • Patent number: 12228013
    Abstract: A technique facilitates application of increased force on a downhole tool, such as a shifting tool. According to an embodiment, a shifting tool is sized for deployment along the interior of a well string to enable shifting of a sliding sleeve. The shifting tool comprises a plurality of keys which are movably mounted for actuation between a contracted position and an extended position engaging the sliding sleeve. A plurality of pads may be actuated with the plurality of keys so as to form a flow restriction between the shifting tool and the surrounding well string. As a result, fluid pumped down between the shifting tool and the well string establishes a pressure differential across the flow restriction which helps move the shifting tool and the sliding sleeve to a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sean Gray Borschneck, Matthew Carroll McCarthy
  • Patent number: 12221856
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for regulating pressure within a well tool. In some aspects, the well tool may include a cylinder, a setting chamber, and a first flow metering device and a second flow metering device installed in the cylinder. The first flow metering device having a first pressure threshold and the second flow metering device having a second pressure threshold may be configured to regulate an internal chamber pressure inside the setting chamber to reduce a collapse pressure or a pressure differential at the cylinder. The first flow metering device may be configured to allow an external pressure greater than a first pressure threshold to enter the setting chamber during a hydrocarbon recovery operation, and the second flow metering device may be configured to allow the internal chamber pressure greater than a second pressure threshold to exit the setting chamber after the hydrocarbon recovery operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jalpan P. Dave, Shanu Thottungal Eldho, Ryan T. Humphrey, Sooriyah Thangarajoo
  • Patent number: 12209477
    Abstract: A casing pressure test tool assembly includes a well extending from a top end to a downhole end, the well having a receptacle; a wireline tool to run into the well; a casing test plug positioned downhole of the wireline tool, the casing test plug having a plug body extending from a first end to a second end; and a wireline setting tool adapter connecting the wireline setting tool and the casing test plug; the casing test plug releases from the wireline setting tool upon application of a separation force between the wireline setting tool adapter and the plug body; the casing test plug seals within the receptacle of the well; and the casing test plug, once sealed within the receptacle, allows for casing pressure testing operations of the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Lee Schmidt, Todd Anthony Stair, Chris Champeaux
  • Patent number: 12209463
    Abstract: An apparatus, which is for connecting a first tubular and a second tubular in a downhole environment, includes a first component having a first component uphole end and a first component downhole end. The first component uphole end includes an uphole connection configured to connect to the first tubular. The apparatus includes a second component having a second component uphole end and a second component downhole end. The second component uphole end includes an extending portion and the second component downhole end includes a downhole connection configured to connect to the second tubular. The apparatus includes a weak point connection releasably connecting the first component downhole end to the second component uphole end. The weak point connection is releasable by applying uphole force on the first tubular, and the extending portion of the second component is exposed uphole by release of the weak point connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Oscar David Bautista Sayago, Suliman M. Azzouni
  • Patent number: 12209474
    Abstract: A lubricator for a well system comprises at least one piston and at least one piston plug. The at least one piston is axially slidable within the lubricator along a lubricator axis. The at least one piston comprises a piston alignment contour of a surface of the at least one piston. The at least one piston plug is configured to limit an extent of axial displacement of the at least one piston, and comprises a piston plug alignment contour of a surface of the piston plug. The piston alignment contour and the piston plug alignment contour are configured to mate and automatically circumferentially align the at least one piston and the at least one piston plug about the axis upon travel of the at least one piston along the axis toward the at least one piston plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HESHKA OIL
    Inventor: Malcolm Perschke
  • Patent number: 12188333
    Abstract: Provided is a frac window system, a well system, and a method. The frac window system, in at least one aspect, includes an elongated tubular having a first end and a second end with an opening defined in a wall of the elongated tubular between the first end and the second end, the wall having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the opening in the wall is configured to align with a window of a first wellbore casing, and a spacer window sleeve positioned within the elongated tubular, the spacer window sleeve including a tubular having a first tubular end and a second tubular end with a second opening defined in a second wall of the tubular between the first tubular end and the second tubular end, the second wall having a second inner surface and a second outer surface, wherein the second opening in the second wall is configured to at least partially align with the opening in the wall of the elongated tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: David Joe Steele
  • Patent number: 12173575
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide in situ treatment and flow diversion of contaminated groundwater without the need for an external energy source. The primary means by which contaminated groundwater is treated in situ within a subsurface environment is through the use of the use of the modular SubflowRx and interrelated components that work together or independently to control groundwater flow outside the system as well as diverting contaminated groundwater inside the system for extended treatment. The present disclosure provides embodiments, examples, and advantages of how the components work to achieve this common purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Alexander Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: W. Joseph Alexander
  • Patent number: 12173572
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a ballast that is configured to couple to an untethered downhole tool. The ballast includes a composite material. The composite material includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes metallic particles. The first portion is configured to, while the ballast is coupled to the untethered downhole tool, provide weight to the untethered downhole tool to lower the untethered downhole tool into a well formed in a subterranean formation. The second portion includes a polymer matrix. The metallic particles of the first portion are distributed throughout the polymer matrix of the second portion. The second portion is configured to dissolve in response to being exposed to downhole fluid within the well at specified downhole conditions, thereby releasing the metallic particles of the first portions from the polymer matrix that has dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Huseyin Rahmi Seren, Max Deffenbaugh, Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache
  • Patent number: 12173574
    Abstract: A wellbore tubular flotation device comprises a housing having a locking element disposed thereon. The housing is shaped to move through an interior of a wellbore tubular segment. The locking element is shaped to engage the interior of the wellbore tubular segment. The locking element comprises a locking mechanism configured to urge the locking element into contact with the interior of the wellbore tubular. A burst disk is engaged with the housing and is shaped to close the tubular segment to fluid flow. A release mechanism is configured to reverse the urging of the locking mechanism when a release tool is moved through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Deep Casing Tools, Ltd.
    Inventors: David John Stephenson, Tomasz Jozef Walerianczyk
  • Patent number: 12173580
    Abstract: A well tool performs an operation in an oil/gas well. The well tool is insertable into a bore including a guide groove in an inner surface of the bore. The well tool includes: a mandrel having a longitudinal direction and a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and an orientation system for longitudinal and rotational orientation of the well tool with respect to the bore. The well tool further includes an outer housing arranged radially outside the mandrel. The orientation system includes: a radial opening provided in the outer housing; a finger sleeve including a longitudinally extending resilient finger with a distal part and a proximal part connected to the finger sleeve. The finger sleeve is arranged radially between the mandrel and the outer housing. The distal part includes a first wedge-shaped portion and a second wedge-shaped portion both extending in the outwards radial direction and tapering away from each other in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Interwell Norway AS
    Inventor: Petter Thorrud Larsen
  • Patent number: 12173573
    Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is an anchoring subassembly, a well system, and a method. The anchoring subassembly, in one aspect, includes a mandrel, and an isolation element positioned about the mandrel, the isolation element configured to move between a radially retracted state, a fully radially expanded state, and a relaxed radially expanded state. The anchoring subassembly, in one aspect, further includes a ratch latch body coupled to the isolation element, the ratch latch body configured to hold the isolation element in the fully radially expanded state, and a relief feature coupled to the ratch latch body, the relief feature configured to shear to release stored energy in the isolation element and thereby allow the isolation element to move from the fully radially expanded state to the relaxed radially expanded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Aihua Liang, Wesley P. Dietz, Alireza Yazdanshenas