Patents by Inventor Akram Ahmadi
Akram Ahmadi 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).
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Publication number: 20190218905Abstract: A method and system for identifying a target well. A system for identifying a target well may comprise placing an electromagnetic ranging tool in a wellbore, transmitting an electromagnetic field into a formation, inducing an eddy current within a target well, measuring a second electromagnetic field from the target well, calculating a position or an orientation of a transmitter or a receiver relative to another position, and calculating at least one parameter of the target well. An electromagnetic ranging system may comprise an electromagnetic ranging tool and an information handling system. The information handling system may be operable to calculate a position and/or an orientation of a transmitter or a receiver relative to another position on the electromagnetic ranging tool disposed on a borehole assembly, and calculate at least one parameter of a target well from the calculated position or orientation of the transmitter and the receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Burkay Donderici, Baris Guner, Ilker R. Capoglu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20190078432Abstract: A rotating coil antenna tool apparatus includes a transmitter coil and a receiver coil that are used for ranging to a target well. The transmitter coil transmits a first electromagnetic signal and the receiver coil receives second electromagnetic signal. At least one of the transmitting coil or the receiver coil is rotating while transmitting or receiving their respective signals. The receiver coil is inhibited from receiving the first electromagnetic signal. A relative distance and/or direction to the target well is determined based on the second electromagnetic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2016Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Burkay Donderici
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Patent number: 10227863Abstract: A method includes cementing a target well with a target well cement comprising resistive cement having resistivity that is greater than a resistivity of a subsurface formation through which the target well passes. The method includes injecting an injected signal into a conductive casing material at least partially surrounded by the target well cement. The method also includes receiving a resulting signal that results from the injecting at a signal receiver disposed within at least one of the target well and a drilling well separated from the target well.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yijing Fan, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20190032472Abstract: Systems and methods for active ranging-while-drilling (ARWD) for collision avoidance and/or well interception. A method for electromagnetic ranging of a target wellbore may include disposing an electromagnetic ranging tool in a wellbore, wherein the electromagnetic ranging tool comprises an electromagnetic transmitter and an electromagnetic receiver; exciting a subterranean formation with the electromagnetic transmitter; adjusting at least one orientation of the electromagnetic transmitter, the electromagnetic receiver, or both the electromagnetic transmitter and the electromagnetic receiver; exciting the target wellbore with the electromagnetic transmitter; measuring at least one component of an electromagnetic signal from the target wellbore with the electromagnetic receiver; and determining at least one ranging parameter of the target wellbore based, at least in part, on the at least one component of the electromagnetic field measured by the electromagnetic receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Burkay Donderici, Hsu-Hsiang Wu
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Publication number: 20190033442Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting static objects and broadside objects in a vehicular radar system is presented. Detection data within a field of view for a host vehicle is acquired. A histogram process is used to determine a presence of at least one of a static object and a broadside vehicle. The histogram process includes generating ratios of a relative velocity of an object (Vr) to host velocity (Vh) from acquired detection data and determining a number of detections which occur at an angle ? corresponding to an intersection of two lines with a first line represented by Vr/Vh=0 and a region of a second line within the FOV along which Vr/Vh?0. The detections are filtered to identify only those detection points at a first and second predetermined values of ?, wherein the identified detections indicate a presence of a static object and/or a broadside vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: VALEO RADAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Millar, Wilson J. Wimmer, Akram Ahmadi, David Insana
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Publication number: 20180334899Abstract: Systems and methods for active ranging-while-drilling (ARWD) for collision avoidance and/or well interception. A method for ranging while drilling may comprise employing a rotating magnet assembly to induce a changing magnetization and/or electric current in a conductive member disposed in a target wellbore, wherein the rotating magnet assembly may be employed in a second wellbore; measuring at least one component of a magnetic gradient tensor using receivers; and calculating a relative location of the conductive member based at least in part on the measurements of the at least one component of the magnetic gradient tensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2017Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Glenn Andrew Wilson, Paul F. Rodney, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Hsu-Hsiang Wu
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Publication number: 20180328165Abstract: A system includes a gradient sensor arrangement deployed in a first borehole, the gradient sensor arrangement having a plurality of spaced sensors at a single measured depth position. The system also includes an electromagnetic (EM) transmitter deployed in a second borehole. The system also includes a processor configured to determine a distance or direction of the EM transmitter relative to the gradient sensor arrangement based on EM field measurements collected by the gradient sensor arrangement in response to an EM field emitted by the EM transmitter. The system also includes a directional drilling controller configured to update a trajectory for either the first borehole or the second borehole in response to the determined distance or direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh AHMAD, Burkay DONDERICI
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Publication number: 20180156028Abstract: A method includes cementing a target well with a target well cement comprising resistive cement having resistivity that is greater than a resistivity of a subsurface formation through which the target well passes. The method includes injecting an injected signal into a conductive casing material at least partially surrounded by the target well cement. The method also includes receiving a resulting signal that results from the injecting at a signal receiver disposed within at least one of the target well and a drilling well separated from the target well.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yijing Fan, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20180142548Abstract: A system for well comparison, comprising at least one electromagnetic field generator shaped for insertion into a first well and capable of generating an electromagnetic field; at least one detector capable of measuring in the second well the field generated in the first well; wherein the first well is substantially perpendicular to the second well; and wherein measurements of the field of the at least one generator are capable of being used to calculate a distance, direction or curvature of the second well with respect to the first well.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Burkay DONDERICI, Akram AHMADI KALATEH AHMAD
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Patent number: 9963963Abstract: A series of electromagnetic field strength measurements is acquired from a sensor at multiple depths in a first well, responsive to an electromagnetic field originating at a second well, via at least one of a direct transmission and a backscatter transmission. A drilling phase associated with drilling operations conducted in the first well is determined. A sensor separation depth associated with the drilling phase is selected. An approximate range between the first well and the second well is calculated, based on the series of electromagnetic field strength measurements and the sensor separation depth.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20180112515Abstract: A series of electromagnetic field strength measurements is acquired from a sensor at multiple depths in a first well, responsive to an electromagnetic field originating at a second well, via at least one of a direct transmission and a backscatter transmission. A drilling phase associated with drilling operations conducted in the first well is determined. A sensor separation depth associated with the drilling phase is selected. An approximate range between the first well and the second well is calculated, based on the series of electromagnetic field strength measurements and the sensor separation depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20180081076Abstract: A magnetic ranging system, in some embodiments, comprises: a wellbore in a formation; a conductive casing in said wellbore; and excitation and return electrodes electrically coupled to the conductive casing, the excitation electrode positioned downhole relative to the return electrode, the excitation and return electrodes generating a current in the casing, said current resulting in an electromagnetic signal that propagates through said formation toward a sensor in another wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Burkay Donderici
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Patent number: 9903195Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to detect and determine a relative distance and/or azimuthal direction of nearby target well conductors such as pipes, well casing, etc., from within a borehole of a drilling well.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Yijing Fan, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20180045034Abstract: A surface excitation ranging method includes selecting a first well with a metal casing as a target well and selecting a second well with a metal casing as a ground well. The method also includes installing a supplemental grounding arrangement for a power supply located at earth's surface, wherein the ground well and the supplemental grounding arrangement fulfill an impedance criteria or ranging performance criteria. The method also includes conveying an electrical current output from the power supply along the target well. The method also includes sensing electromagnetic (EM) fields emitted from the target well due to the electrical current. The method also includes using distance or direction information obtained from the sensed EM fields to guide drilling of a new well relative to the target well.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20180038219Abstract: A surface excitation ranging method includes installing a customized grounding arrangement for a power supply located at earth's surface, wherein the customized grounding arrangement fulfills an impedance criteria or ranging performance criteria. The method also includes conveying an electrical current output from the power supply along a target well with a metal casing. The method also includes sensing electromagnetic (EM) fields emitted from the target well due to the electrical current. The method also includes using distance or direction information obtained from the sensed EM fields to guide drilling of a new well relative to the target well.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Hsu-Hsiang Wu
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Patent number: 9874085Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to acquire a series of electromagnetic field strength measurements from a single sensor at multiple depths in a first well, responsive to an electromagnetic field originating at a second well, via direct transmission or backscatter transmission. Further activities include determining a drilling phase associated with drilling operations conducted in the first well, selecting a sensor separation depth associated with the drilling phase, and calculating an approximate range between the first well and the second well, based on the series of electromagnetic field strength measurements and the sensor separation depth. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Patent number: 9709693Abstract: A well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to detect and determine a relative distance and/or azimuthal direction of nearby target well conductors such as pipes, well casing, etc., from within a borehole of a drilling well. An electromagnetic signal receiver is rotated in a first borehole. During the rotating, an electromagnetic ranging signal is received at the electromagnetic signal receiver. The electromagnetic ranging signal originates from an electromagnetic source in the first borehole or a second borehole. A null in an Earth electromagnetic signal spectrum associated with a signal induced by the rotating within a magnetic field of the Earth is determined. The electromagnetic source to is set to operate at an excitation frequency that is selected based, at least in part, on the determined null.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Burkay Donderici
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Publication number: 20160273342Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to acquire a series of electromagnetic field strength measurements from a single sensor at multiple depths in a first well, responsive to an electromagnetic field originating at a second well, via direct transmission or backscatter transmission. Further activities include determining a drilling phase associated with drilling operations conducted in the first well, selecting a sensor separation depth associated with the drilling phase, and calculating an approximate range between the first well and the second well, based on the series of electromagnetic field strength measurements and the sensor separation depth. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20160273344Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to receive normal and tangential components of electromagnetic field strength measurements within a first well as a set of field strength components from at least one sensor, wherein the at least one sensor is used to take multiple azimuthal field strength measurements at a single depth. Further activities include determining an approximate range from the at least one sensor to a second well that serves as a source of an electromagnetic field, via direct transmission or backscatter transmission, when a ranging direction associated with a housing upon which the at least one sensor is mounted is unknown. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad
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Publication number: 20160041296Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to detect and determine a relative distance and/or azimuthal direction of nearby target well conductors such as pipes, well casing, etc., from within a borehole of a drilling well.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Akram Ahmadi Kalateh Ahmad, Burkay Donderici