Patents by Inventor Anthony Thomas Cole

Anthony Thomas Cole 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).

  • Patent number: 7774917
    Abstract: Tubular ends are heated to a predetermined temperature above 1200 degrees Celsius and surrounded by a shield gas when the tubular ends are pressed together to form forge welded tubular ends. The forge welded tubular ends are then cooled down rapidly from said temperature above 1200 to at most 600 degrees Celsius within 3 minutes after the forge welding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Tubefuse Applications B.V.
    Inventors: Mark Wilson Anderson, Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Jan Erik Vollebregt, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Patent number: 7474221
    Abstract: An improved method of permanently marking the location of a tubular joint, the method including creating a cavity into the end surface of one of the tubular ends that are to be joined by a forge weld or screw thread connection, inserting a marker into said cavity and subsequently joining the tubular ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Publication number: 20080237308
    Abstract: A method of joining tubulars includes the step of joining the tubulars by forge welding. The tubular ends that are to be welded together may be shaped into a sloping configuration, such that when the tubular ends are heated during the forge welding process the heated tubular ends deform as a result of thermal expansion into a substantially longitudinally oriented cylindrical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Johannis Josephus DEN BOER, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Bjorn Halmrast, Per Thomas Moe, Kjell Magne Rabben, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Patent number: 7282663
    Abstract: An automated method for forge welding tubulars including heating the tubular ends to be joined in a welding chamber while the heated tubular ends are maintained aligned and parallel relative to each other and at a small spacing, whereupon the heated tubular ends are pressed together while a reducing shield gas is injected into the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Alford, Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Michalakis Efthymiou, Rama Krishna Siva Gunturi, Robert Nicholas Worrall, Djurre Hans Zijsling, Ali Joseph Cox
  • Patent number: 7199325
    Abstract: A method for interconnecting tubulars by forge welding involves arranging the tubular ends that are to be interconnected at a distance, up to a few millimeters from each other in a shield gas chamber, into which a reducing non-explosive flushing fluid mixture (e.g. N2+H2) is injected; heating each tubular end within the space by means of at least three electrodes that are pressed at circumferentially spaced intervals against the wall of each tubular, adjacent to the tubular end such that a high frequency electrical current is transmitted in a substantially circumferential direction through the tubular segments between the electrodes; and moving the thus uniformly heated tubular ends towards each other until a forge weld is formed between the heated tubular ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Alford, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis
  • Patent number: 7181821
    Abstract: A method of joining expandable tubulars includes joining the tubulars by forge welding and flushing a reducing flushing gas around the heated tubular ends during at least part of the forge welding operation such that oxides are removed from the forge welded tubular ends and the amount of irregularities between the forge welded tubular ends is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Mark Wilson Anderson, Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Jan Erik Vollebregt, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Publication number: 20060169752
    Abstract: A method of joining heavy duty oilfield, well, or other tubulars includes the step of joining the tubulars by forge welding and flushing a reducing flushing gas around the heated tubular ends during at least part of the forge welding operation such that oxides are removed from the forge welded tubular ends and the amount of oxide inclusions and irregularities between the forge welded tubular ends is limited. The tubular ends may have a teethed sinusoidal or other non-planar shape to inhibit any abrupt variations of the wall strength in the welding area and/or to reduce shear forces to the forge weld when the tubulars are twisted and/or radially expanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Djurre Hans Zijsling
  • Patent number: 7004247
    Abstract: An oil shale formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. Hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation from one or more heat sources to raise a temperature of a portion of the formation to a desired temperature. Some of the heat sources may be conductors placed within conduits. The conductors may be resistively heated so that the conductors radiantly heat the conduits. The generated heat may transfer to the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Anthony Thomas Cole, Lawrence James Bielamowicz, Fredrick Gordon Carl, Jr., John Matthew Coles, Eric Pierre de Rouffignac, Bruce Gerard Hunsucker, John Michael Karanikas, James Louis Menotti, Christopher Arnold Pratt, Harold J. Vinegar, Scott Lee Wellington
  • Patent number: 6896171
    Abstract: A method for inspecting welds between welded tubular ends includes arranging a series electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) assemblies in circumferential direction adjacent to an inner and/or outer surface of at least one of the welded tubular ends and inducing the EMAT assemblies to transmit sequentially or simultaneously acoustic shear wave signals towards the weld and to detect the shear waves reflected by and/or passing through the weld while the EMAT assemblies are maintained in a substantially fixed position relative to the weld such that at least a substantial part of the weld is scanned by the EMAT assemblies instantly after the weld is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Dirk Arie Kronemeijer, Jan Erik Vollebregt
  • Publication number: 20040232207
    Abstract: An automated method for forge welding tubulars including heating the tubular ends to be joined in a welding chamber while the heated tubular ends are maintained aligned and parallel relative to each other and at a small spacing, whereupon the heated tubular ends are pressed together while a reducing shield gas is injected into the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Alford, Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Michalakis Efthymiou, Rama Krishna Siva Gunturi, Robert Nicholas Worrall, Djurre Hans Zijsling, Ali Joseph Cox
  • Publication number: 20040211557
    Abstract: An oil shale formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. Hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation from one or more heat sources to raise a temperature of a portion of the formation to a desired temperature. Some of the heat sources may be conductors placed within conduits. The conductors may be resistively heated so that the conductors radiantly heat the conduits. The generated heat may transfer to the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Anthony Thomas Cole, Lawrence James Bielamowicz, Fredrick Gordon Carl, John Matthew Coles, Eric Pierre de Rouffignac, Bruce Gerard Hunsucker, John Michael Karanikas, James Louis Menotti, Christopher Arnold Pratt, Horold J. Vinegar, Scott Lee Wellington
  • Publication number: 20040134970
    Abstract: A method for inspecting welds between welded tubular ends includes arranging a series electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) assemblies in circumferential direction adjacent to an inner and/or outer surface of at least one of the welded tubular ends and inducing the EMAT assemblies to transmit sequentially or simultaneously acoustic shear wave signals towards the weld and to detect the shear waves reflected by and/or passing through the weld while the EMAT assemblies are maintained in a substantially fixed position relative to the weld such that at least a substantial part of the weld is scanned by the EMAT assemblies instantly after the weld is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Johannis Josephus Den Boer, Anthony Thomas Cole, Klisthenis Dimitriadis, Dirk Arie Kronemeijer, Jan Erik Vollebregt