Patents by Inventor Ahmed FOUDA

Ahmed FOUDA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240142657
    Abstract: A method and system for correlating two or more logs. The method may include reviewing an openhole log to identify one or more depths within a wellbore for testing, disposing a fluid sampling tool into the wellbore, creating a correlation log with the fluid sampling tool, depth-matching the correlation log to the openhole log to create a relative shift table, and moving the fluid sampling tool to the one or more depths within the wellbore based at least in part on the relative shift table. The system may include a fluid sampling tool disposed in a wellbore to create a correlation log and an information handling system connected to the fluid sampling tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadeed Sayed, Ahmed Fouda, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20240125229
    Abstract: A method and non-transitory storage computer-readable medium for performing a neural operator on one or more wellbore measurements. The method may comprise o obtaining one or more measurements, performing a measurement normalization on the one or more measurements to form one or more normalized measurements, forming a material function with the one or more normalized measurements, and forming a neural operator generated physical response with a neural operator and the material function. The method may further comprise forming a beamforming map with the one or more measurements, and forming a neural operator leak source location map with a neural operator and the one or more measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai
  • Patent number: 11914098
    Abstract: A borehole imaging tool may include a plurality of resonator antennas for taking one or more downhole measurements disposed on a supporting structure of the borehole imaging tool. Additionally, each of the plurality of resonator antennas are separated into two or more groups of resonator antennas and each of the two or more groups of resonator antennas operate at a resonance frequency different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Baris Guner, Michael S. Bittar
  • Patent number: 11914096
    Abstract: A method for identifying a collar using machine learning may include acquiring one or more measurements from one or more depth points within a wellbore including a tubular string, training a machine learning model using a training dataset to create a trained machine learning model, and identifying at least one hyperparameter using the trained machine learning model. The method may further include creating a synthetic model, wherein the synthetic model is defined by one or more pipe attributes, minimizing a mismatch between the one or more measurements and the synthetic model utilizing the at least one hyperparameter, updating the synthetic model to form an updated synthetic model, and repeating the minimizing the mismatch with the updated synthetic model until a threshold is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Junwen Dai, Xusong Wang
  • Patent number: 11892586
    Abstract: Methods for determining water-filled porosity using a general volumetric mixing law and the measurements of a dielectric tool are described. The water-filled porosity estimates are used to obtain water salinity estimates and the optimal parameters of the volumetric mixing law. These estimates are in turn used to generate novel quality indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Junsheng Hou, Baris Guner, Ahmed Fouda
  • Patent number: 11885924
    Abstract: A method and system may include disposing an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool in a wellbore. The EM logging tool may include a transmitter disposed on the EM logging tool and a receiver disposed on the EM logging tool. The method may further include transmitting an electromagnetic field from the transmitter into one or more, measuring the eddy current in the one or more tubulars with the receiver, and forming an EM log from the plurality of measurements. Additionally, the method may include identifying a representative signature of a collar from the EM log, locating a plurality of signatures that are similar to the representative signature, iteratively locating a collar signature based at least in part on the representative signature, the plurality of signatures that are similar to the representative signature, and a joint length; and displaying a depth for each of the one or more collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Sadeed Sayed, Radompon Sungkorn
  • Publication number: 20240027644
    Abstract: A method and system for azimuthal direction detection of a cable. The method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool into a wellbore, transmitting a primary electromagnetic field from the one or more transmitters, recording one or more secondary electromagnetic fields at the one or more receivers, and identifying a direction to the cable from the one or more secondary electromagnetic fields. The system may comprise one or more transmitters disposed on the electromagnetic logging tool and configured to transmit a primary electromagnetic field. The system may further comprise one or more receivers disposed on the electromagnetic logging tool and configured to record one or more secondary electromagnetic fields. Additionally, the system may further comprise an information handling system configured to identify a direction to an azimuthally localized reduction in metal of the conductor or increase in the metal of the conductor from the secondary electromagnetic fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Baris Guner, Ahmed Fouda, Kristoffer Thomas Walker, Stuart Michael Wood
  • Patent number: 11814945
    Abstract: Electromagnetic logging tools to inspect nested pipes using hybrid frequency- and time-domain logging techniques are disclosed. The disclosed logging system and processing workflows combine frequency-domain and time-domain techniques to overcome the disadvantages of using frequency-domain or time domain tools in isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Junwen Dai
  • Publication number: 20230358914
    Abstract: A borehole imaging tool may include a plurality of resonator antennas for taking one or more downhole measurements disposed on a supporting structure of the borehole imaging tool. Additionally, each of the plurality of resonator antennas are separated into two or more groups of resonator antennas and each of the two or more groups of resonator antennas operate at a resonance frequency different from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Baris Guner, Michael S. Bittar
  • Patent number: 11719097
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a downhole fluid. The system may include at least one electrode station that is disposed on a non-conductive material and at least two electrodes coupled to the at least one electrode station. The system may further include at least one acquisition unit that is configured to measure a voltage across the two electrodes of the at least one electrode station and an information handling system connected to the at least one acquisition unit. The method may include injecting a current into a sensing domain with at least two electrodes disposed on at least one electrode station, measuring a voltage across the at least two electrodes at the at least one electrode station using an acquisition unit, and sending the measured voltage to an information handling system connected to the acquisition unit by at least one communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230221456
    Abstract: Methods for determining water-filled porosity using a general volumetric mixing law and the measurements of a dielectric tool are described. The water-filled porosity estimates are used to obtain water salinity estimates and the optimal parameters of the volumetric mixing law. These estimates are in turn used to generate novel quality indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Junsheng Hou, Baris Guner, Ahmed Fouda
  • Publication number: 20230213681
    Abstract: A method for identifying a collar using machine learning may include acquiring one or more measurements from one or more depth points within a wellbore including a tubular string, training a machine learning model using a training dataset to create a trained machine learning model, and identifying at least one hyperparameter using the trained machine learning model. The method may further include creating a synthetic model, wherein the synthetic model is defined by one or more pipe attributes, minimizing a mismatch between the one or more measurements and the synthetic model utilizing the at least one hyperparameter, updating the synthetic model to form an updated synthetic model, and repeating the minimizing the mismatch with the updated synthetic model until a threshold is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Junwen Dai, Xusong Wang
  • Publication number: 20230184984
    Abstract: A method and system may include disposing an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool in a wellbore. The EM logging tool may include a transmitter disposed on the EM logging tool and a receiver disposed on the EM logging tool. The method may further include transmitting an electromagnetic field from the transmitter into one or more, measuring the eddy current in the one or more tubulars with the receiver, and forming an EM log from the plurality of measurements. Additionally, the method may include identifying a representative signature of a collar from the EM log, locating a plurality of signatures that are similar to the representative signature, iteratively locating a collar signature based at least in part on the representative signature, the plurality of signatures that are similar to the representative signature, and a joint length; and displaying a depth for each of the one or more collars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Sadeed Sayed, Radompon Sungkorn
  • Publication number: 20230168225
    Abstract: Reconfigurable electromagnetic pipe inspection tools are designed and assembled using optimized parameters determined using modeling. The reconfigurable tools include multiple modules connected to one another in a stackable fashion guided by optimized tool parameters customized based on well diagrams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Junwen Dai
  • Publication number: 20230168226
    Abstract: Electromagnetic logging tools are optimized using synthetic logs for the purpose of pre-job planning and accuracy/resolution estimation. One, two and three-dimensional forward modeling are used to generate accurate inspection tool responses. A radial one-dimensional (R1D) electromagnetic forward model is also used to compute an approximate log. By constructing non-linear mapping functions between the R1D model-based log and the 2D model-based log, and mapping the R1D synthetic log using the non-linear mapping functions, a quasi 2D log is computed. The quasi 2D log is processed using model-based inversion, thereby providing estimates of pipe parameters. By analyzing the estimates of pipe parameters, tool performance metrics are obtained and analyze to determine the performance of the tool. The tool parameters are adjusted in order to optimize the performance metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Junwen Dai, Ahmed Fouda
  • Publication number: 20230160294
    Abstract: Electromagnetic logging tools to inspect nested pipes using hybrid frequency- and time-domain logging techniques are disclosed. The disclosed logging system and processing workflows combine frequency-domain and time-domain techniques to overcome the disadvantages of using frequency-domain or time domain tools in isolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Junwen Dai
  • Publication number: 20230133939
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a downhole fluid. The system may include at least one electrode station that is disposed on a non-conductive material and at least two electrodes coupled to the at least one electrode station. The system may further include at least one acquisition unit that is configured to measure a voltage across the two electrodes of the at least one electrode station and an information handling system connected to the at least one acquisition unit. The method may include injecting a current into a sensing domain with at least two electrodes disposed on at least one electrode station, measuring a voltage across the at least two electrodes at the at least one electrode station using an acquisition unit, and sending the measured voltage to an information handling system connected to the acquisition unit by at least one communication line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230092035
    Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining a calibrated permittivity dispersion measurements of a subsurface formation by measuring an impedance of the subsurface formation using a borehole imager at a first one or more frequencies; measuring a permittivity of the subsurface formation using a reference tool at a second one or more frequencies; calculating a first dispersion curve of the permittivity of the subsurface formation based at least in part on the measured impedance of the subsurface formation at the first one or more frequencies; extrapolating the permittivity of the subsurface formation to the second one or more frequencies using the calculated first dispersion curve of the permittivity of the subsurface formation; calibrating the permittivity of the subsurface formation based at least in part on the extrapolated permittivity of the subsurface formation and the measured permittivity of the subsurface formation; and generating a second dispersion curve of the permittivity of the subsurface formation based at
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Ahmed Fouda, Baris Guner, Mahmoud Eid Hussein Selim
  • Publication number: 20230091767
    Abstract: A method and assembly for calibrating downhole imaging tools includes a calibrator mechanism with a known electromagnetic response, whereby the calibrator mechanism is simultaneously engaged with a plurality of injector electrodes and the at least one return electrode carried on a pad of the downhole imaging tool. A current is injected into the calibrator mechanism by the injector electrodes and the response of the tool is measured. The calibrator mechanism if formed of a homogenous material or fluid so that the electromagnetic response is uniform throughout. The measured electromagnetic response can be compared to the known electromagnetic response and a calibration adjustment can be determined. The calibration adjustment can then be applied to future downhole measurements obtained during an imaging operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Baris Guner, Ahmed Fouda
  • Publication number: 20220000864
    Abstract: The invention encompasses the novel class of compounds represented by the Formula (I), (II), (III) and (IV) below, which are modulators of ROR?t: The invention also encompasses pharmaceutical compositions which include the compounds shown above and methods of treating or preventing autoimmune diseases and antibody mediated rejection in a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Jean TCHERVENKOV, Ahmed FOUDA, Steven PARASKEVAS, Sarita NEGI