Patents by Inventor Angus Mackay Barron

Angus Mackay Barron 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: 20230258048
    Abstract: Provided is a buoyant guide sub for use with a downhole oilfield conveyance. The buoyant guide sub, in one aspect, includes a hollow tubular structure, the hollow tubular structure including one or more tubular walls. The buoyant guide sub, according to at least one aspect, further includes a housing coupled to and slidable relative to the hollow tubular structure, the hollow tubular structure and the housing operable to form a pressurized chamber, the hollow tubular structure and housing having a combined mass per unit volume less than a specific gravity of 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Morten Falnes, Angus Mackay Barron, Mark C. Glaser, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Publication number: 20230212939
    Abstract: A borehole geometry sensor and running tool assembly includes a borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly configured to determine a borehole geometry of a wellbore. The borehole geometry sensor and running tool assembly also includes a running tool assembly that is initially detachably engaged to the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly and configured to run the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly into a borehole, and disengage the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly after the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly is run into the borehole. The borehole geometry sensor and running tool assembly further includes a pulse sub-assembly configured to supply power to the running tool assembly, and transmit data obtained by a borehole geometry sensor of the borehole geometry sensor sub-assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Angus Mackay Barron
  • Publication number: 20220412192
    Abstract: In one or more examples, a method comprises advancing a tubing string along a primary wellbore toward a junction having a low-side exit to a secondary wellbore, with a guide sub positioned at a leading end of the tubing string. The guide sub has a buoyancy within a well fluid external to the guide sub. The buoyancy of the guide sub is used to bias the guide sub toward a high-side of the primary wellbore while moving the guide sub across the low-side exit to a downstream portion of the primary wellbore. Subsequently, the guide sub is used to guide a fluid or tubular component between the tubing string and the downstream portion of the primary wellbore across the low-side exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Christopher Glaser, Angus Mackay Barron, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Patent number: 11466545
    Abstract: In one or more examples, a method comprises advancing a tubing string along a primary wellbore toward a junction having a low-side exit to a secondary wellbore, with a guide sub positioned at a leading end of the tubing string. The guide sub has a buoyancy within a well fluid external to the guide sub. The buoyancy of the guide sub is used to bias the guide sub toward a high-side of the primary wellbore while moving the guide sub across the low-side exit to a downstream portion of the primary wellbore. Subsequently, the guide sub is used to guide a fluid or tubular component between the tubing string and the downstream portion of the primary wellbore across the low-side exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Christopher Glaser, Angus Mackay Barron, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Publication number: 20220275709
    Abstract: In one or more examples, a method comprises advancing a tubing string along a primary wellbore toward a junction having a low-side exit to a secondary wellbore, with a guide sub positioned at a leading end of the tubing string. The guide sub has a buoyancy within a well fluid external to the guide sub. The buoyancy of the guide sub is used to bias the guide sub toward a high-side of the primary wellbore while moving the guide sub across the low-side exit to a downstream portion of the primary wellbore. Subsequently, the guide sub is used to guide a fluid or tubular component between the tubing string and the downstream portion of the primary wellbore across the low-side exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Christopher Glaser, Angus Mackay Barron, Michael Linley Fripp