Patents Examined by To Shane Bomar
  • Operation method of a turbine fracturing device and a turbine fracturing device
    Patent number: 11572775
    Abstract: An operation method of a turbine fracturing device and a turbine fracturing device are provided. The turbine fracturing device includes a turbine engine, a speed reducer, a brake mechanism, and a fracturing pump, the method includes: driving, by the turbine engine, the fracturing pump to perform a fracturing operation through the speed reducer so as to keep the fracturing pump in an operating state, the fracturing pump being configured to suck fluid of a first pressure and discharge fluid of a second pressure, the second pressure being greater than the first pressure; and in response to an idling instruction, the turbine engine entering an idling state and triggering a brake operation so as to keep the fracturing pump in a non-operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuqing Mao, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jianwei Wang, Jihua Wang, Xiaolei Ji, Xincheng Li, Yuxuan Sun, Yipeng Wu, Chunqiang Lan, Liang Lv
  • Weep-hole drilling
    Patent number: 11572741
    Abstract: A method for creating a weep hole is disclosed. The weep hole is drilled in an uncured, concrete, hollow core structural component having one or more external surfaces and one or more internal surfaces. The weep hole is drilled using a drilling apparatus comprising a drill, a rotating drill bit with an internal fluid passageway, a power source, and a pressurized fluid source. Loose, uncured concrete material deposited near the weep hole on the one or more internal surface as a result of drilling the weep hole is removed by releasing pressurized fluid which flows from the pressurized fluid source, through the drill and the rotating drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Concore BV
    Inventors: C. G. van Veldhuisen, Sven Vallgren
  • Well tool
    Patent number: 11566482
    Abstract: A well tool for removing metal debris from a well bore has a magnet element, an anti-torque anchor, a debris removal unit, a debris container and a first connecting end for a rotatable well string. The magnet element has a cylinder-shaped housing. The removal unit has a helix-shaped longitudinal guide element arranged on the housing. The anchor is connected to the housing or the guide element such that actuation of the anchor during use will prevent rotation of the housing or the guide element, respectively, relative the well-bore. The container has an opening at the end of the housing. The housing and the guide element are rotatable relative each other, and configured such that metal debris accumulating on the housing during use is guided by the guide element towards the opening of the container when the anchor is actuated and the first connecting end is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Swarfix AS
    Inventor: Geir Magne Langeland
  • Tri-axtal oscillator for stuck pipe release
    Patent number: 11566483
    Abstract: Systems and methods for oscillating a string within a subterranean well include a motor assembly having an output shaft extending along a central axis. A translation coupling is in mechanical communication with the output shaft. An inertia sleeve is in mechanical communication with the translation coupling. The translation coupling is operable to translate a rotation of the output shaft to an oscillating movement of the inertia sleeve. A spring assembly is in mechanical communication with the inertia sleeve. The spring assembly is positioned along the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Youniss Mahmoud Naffaa, Opeyemi Adewuya, Abdulsalam Alwarthan
  • Operation method of a turbine fracturing device and a turbine fracturing device
    Patent number: 11560779
    Abstract: An operation method of a turbine fracturing device and a turbine fracturing device are provided. The turbine fracturing device includes a turbine engine, a speed reducer, a brake mechanism, and a fracturing pump, the method includes: driving, by the turbine engine, the fracturing pump to perform a fracturing operation through the speed reducer so as to keep the fracturing pump in an operating state, the fracturing pump being configured to suck fluid of a first pressure and discharge fluid of a second pressure, the second pressure being greater than the first pressure; and in response to an idling instruction, the turbine engine entering an idling state and triggering a brake operation so as to keep the fracturing pump in a non-operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuqing Mao, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jianwei Wang, Jihua Wang, Xiaolei Ji, Xincheng Li, Yuxuan Sun, Yipeng Wu, Chunqiang Lan, Liang Lv
  • Variable-length axial linkage for tubular running tools
    Patent number: 11560761
    Abstract: An axial linkage acting between the main body and the gripping assembly of a tool for gripping tubular workpieces includes a drive cam body that coaxially engages an intermediate cam body via a drive thread, with the intermediate cam body coaxially engaging a driven cam body via a driven thread, and with the drive thread and the driven thread having opposite orientations. The linkage includes a latch mechanism for preventing relative axial displacement of the drive cam body and the driven cam body. In operation while unlatched, the linkage converts bi-directional relative rotation into relative axial movement of the drive cam body and the driven cam body, thus increasing or decreasing the overall length of the linkage according to the rotational direction. The linkage can be re-latched using any of multiple operational sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Noetic Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Maurice William Slack
  • Drill feed system
    Patent number: 11555360
    Abstract: A gear feed system includes a carrier and a mast mounted on the carrier. The mast includes a pair of panels forming opposing sides of the mast along a central axis of the mast. Each of the pair of panels includes a fixed rack attached to an interior surface of the each of the panels. A gear carrier pair includes a gear, a movable rack assembly, and a cylinder. Each of the gear is coupled to one of the panels and each of the gear couples one of the fixed racks to one of the movable rack assemblies (hoist tubes). The cylinder and the movable rack assembly are coupled via the gear wherein an axial movement of the cylinders causes a corresponding axial displacement of the movable rack assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Foremost Industries LP
    Inventor: Gary R. Callander
  • Azimuth determination while rotating
    Patent number: 11549362
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining azimuth of a wellbore while drilling. A method of drilling a wellbore that includes rotating a drill bit to extend the wellbore into a subterranean formation. The method may further include measuring magnetic toolface with a first magnetometer while rotating the drill bit. The method may further include obtaining a cross-axial magnetic field measurement. The method may further include determining azimuth at a point in the wellbore using at least the magnetic toolface and the cross-axial magnetic field measurement. The method may further include using the azimuth as feedback in the drilling the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Svetozar Dimitrov Simeonov
  • Measurement system with disposable fiber with strain coupling in lateral wells
    Patent number: 11549369
    Abstract: A wellbore optical fiber measurement system for measuring data in a lateral wellbore that includes a flexible optical fiber. The optical fiber includes a waveguide coated with a coating, wherein the optical fiber has an effective density ?efffiber and an effective axial Young modulus Eefffiber and wherein the product ( ? eff f ? i ? b ? e ? r E eff f ? i ? b ? e ? r ) ยท ( 1 - ? w ? a ? t ? e ? r ? eff f ? i ? b ? e ? r ) is greater than 50 kg/m3/GPa. The system also includes a data acquisition unit with a processor operable to obtain strain measurement data of the wellbore from the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel LeBlanc, Mikko K Jaaskelainen
  • Ball seat release apparatus
    Patent number: 11542782
    Abstract: Provided, in one aspect, is a ball seat release apparatus. The ball seat release apparatus, according to this embodiment, includes a shear sleeve, and a ball seat body located at least partially within the shear sleeve, a shear feature releasably coupling the ball seat body to the shear sleeve. The ball seat release apparatus according to this aspect further includes a ball seat slidingly engaged within the ball seat body, the ball seat configured to move from a first linear position to a second linear position, and further wherein a locking dog releasably couples the ball seat with the ball seat body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdolreza Gharesi, Alan Tancel Jackson, Richard Paul Noffke
  • Compact setting tool
    Patent number: 11542766
    Abstract: A compact setting tool that sets a packer or bridge plug in a wellbore and then self bleeds the gas pressure prior to pulling the string out of the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: Johnny Covalt, Joseph Albert Henke, Roger Griffin
  • Modular boost system for a jack
    Patent number: 11536099
    Abstract: A modular boost system can be added to a jack to enable greater lift capacity of the jack. One example can involve a jack that is positionable at a well surface for moving a tubing string through a wellbore in a subterranean formation. The jack can include a frame and an adjustable plate that is alternately (i) attachable at a stationary location in the frame for fixing the adjustable plate at the stationary location or (ii) detachable from the stationary location in the frame to enable the adjustable plate to vertically move within the frame. A boost cylinder can be removably coupled to the adjustable plate and a base for selectively supplying an additional lift capability to the jack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Herwig Michael Sredensek
  • Fluid flow activated rotational cleaning tool
    Patent number: 11536114
    Abstract: A system to clean well casing in a downhole well operation. The system comprises an inner collar having flow ports and an out collar having jet ports in fluid communication with the flow ports. The inner collar couples with a section of a tool string and the outer collar rotates about the inner collar in response to fluid flow through the tool string. The inner collar can include a sleeve. The sleeve can be moved from a first position to a second position causing the jet ports to be in fluid communication with the flow ports. The inner collar remains relatively stationary with respect to the rotation of the outer collar. In addition, the jet ports are angled in a way that a portion of force generated by the fluid flow through the jet ports induce rotation of the outer collar in the opposite direction of the fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl William Nelson
  • Acoustic sensor systems and methods
    Patent number: 11525350
    Abstract: Disclosed is an acoustic sensor system comprising an electrical connector, at least one transducer connected to the electrical connector, a fluid compensating piston connected to the electrical connector, a housing having the electrical connector, the at least one transducer, and the fluid compensating piston arranged in a linear arrangement, and a collar having the housing mounted along an interior surface of the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian David Breaux
  • Telescopic stage cementer packer
    Patent number: 11519242
    Abstract: A stage cementing tool has a mandrel defining a central flow passage and a plurality of cementing passages in a wall thereof. A packer is disposed about the mandrel. A closing sleeve is detachably connected to and movable relative to the mandrel. An opening sleeve defining a plurality of fully open cement flow ports therethrough is telescopically movable relative to the closing sleeve and movable relative to the mandrel. The opening sleeve is movable to move the packer to the set position, and thereafter movable to open a cement flow path between the central flow passage and an annulus defined by the stage cementing tool and the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Avinash Gopal Dharne, Lonnie Carl Helms, Ishwar Dilip Patil, Frank Vinicio Acosta
  • Inflow control system
    Patent number: 11512575
    Abstract: A technique facilitates the production of well fluid. According to an embodiment, an inflow assembly may be deployed downhole with, for example, completion equipment used in the production of well fluid. The inflow assembly comprises a first inflow control device and a second inflow control device disposed in series along a flow path routed between an exterior and an interior of the inflow assembly. As well fluid flows into an interior of the inflow assembly along the flow path, the first inflow control device and the second inflow control device perform different tasks with respect to controlling fluid flow. The different tasks may be selected to, for example, facilitate production of well fluid while protecting the completion equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashutosh Dikshit, Glenn Woiceshyn, Amrendra Kumar
  • Downhole strain sensor
    Patent number: 11512589
    Abstract: A device for measuring strain on the exterior of a pipe includes a body comprising a top portion and a bottom portion; one or more elastically deformable members coupled between the top portion and the bottom portion, wherein each of the one or more elastically deformable members have an outer contact surface and an inner non-contact surface. One or more sensors are disposed on the inner non-contact surface of one or more of the elastically deformable members. The sensors, during use, provide data that can be used to determine changes in strain on the exterior of the pipe. In another embodiment, one or more sensors are embedded in, or attached to, a casing disposed in a wellbore. In an embodiment, a method includes pressurizing or depressurizing the wellbore with a fluid and measuring the strain induced in the casing (or in an open wellbore) in response to this change in wellbore pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Rodney Thompson Russell, Mukul Sharma
  • Remotely controllable reel with conveyance for a well
    Patent number: 11506005
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a system to manage a tool on a conveyance from a surface of a wellbore. The system includes a remotely controllable reel to receive the conveyance about the reel and remotely controllable to distribute the conveyance into or out of the wellbore. The system also includes a crane positionable to support the conveyance between the reel and the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc
    Inventors: Ben L. Lubojasky, Jr., Rami Yassine, William G. Dillon, Darrell Lancaster, Jonathon J. Saner, Pedro R. Soriano Jaquez, Michael E. Malone
  • Top down cement plug and method
    Patent number: 11506015
    Abstract: A cementing plug including a wiper portion, an engagement section attached to the wiper portion, the engagement section including an engagement feature configured to release at a selected threshold pressure related to cement forming an annular structure about a fracturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Gabriel Casanova
  • Method, apparatus, and system for enhanced oil and gas recovery with super focused heat
    Patent number: 11506036
    Abstract: A system for improving a steam oil ratio (SOR) includes a boiler fluidly coupled with a downhole portion of a steam system via at least a boiler conduit, wherein the boiler is configured to schedule super-heat delivered to the downhole portion to optimize the SOR associated with the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: XDI Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: James C. Juranitch