Patents by Inventor Bruce Tunget

Bruce Tunget 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: 9797240
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for deploying at least one repeatable signal to empirically measure cement bonding before and after operating a tool string assembly comprising a selectively arrangeable tool assembly of a downhole drive tool usable for operating a downhole placement tool with shaft and axial displacement member extendable and retractable therefrom to radially deploy and operate at least one conduit and downhole coupling tool for placing cement and at least one inner conduit proximally concentrically within a surrounding bore, wherein said drive coupling tool is further usable for transmitting or receiving, through a conductance well element into a memory tool, to measure cement bonding about said surrounding bore before and after concentrically cleaning and coupling cement to at least one conduit and surrounding bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Patent number: 9777554
    Abstract: Systems and methods usable to operate on a plurality of wells through a single main bore are disclosed herein. One or more chamber junctions are provided in fluid communication with one or more conduits within the single main bore. Each chamber junction includes a first orifice communicating with the surface through the main bore, and one or more additional orifices in fluid communication with individual wells of the plurality of wells. Through the chamber junctions, each of the wells can be individually or simultaneously accessed. A bore selection tool having an upper opening and at least one lower opening can be inserted into the chamber junction such that the one or more lower openings align with orifices in the chamber junction, enabling selected individual or multiple wells to be accessed through the bore selection tool while other wells are isolated from the chamber junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Patent number: 9366126
    Abstract: Apparatus for solution mining and gas storage in a salt cavern formed by solution mining comprises a flow diverting conduit string that is provided in fluid communication with two or more concentric conduits within the single main bore, with at least one lateral opening from an internal passageway with an outer annular passageway communicating with the surface under a single valve tree. Flow control devices, flow diverters and/or isolation conduits can be inserted into the flow diverting conduit string, enabling a dissolution zone in the salt cavern to be varied to control the shape of the cavern. Furthermore the flow diverting conduit string used to form the cavern can also be used for dewatering and gas storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Patent number: 9200504
    Abstract: System and method of well space provision for forming a geologic testing space for proving an operation of an unproven downhole apparatus (78, 92), generally referred to as new technology, within an aged geology, during the rig-less abandonment of an aging well to, in use, reallocate operation of said unproven downhole apparatus from unproven to proven operation within a proximally similarly aged geology of said aging well, another aging well (79), a new well (80), or a field of said wells (79, 80) generally referred to as Brownfields and Greenfields, wherein said unproven downhole apparatus comprises a hydrodynamic bearing boring apparatus (1A, 1E, 1BM, 9AA, 92D) or a bore hole piston apparatus (1A, 1AF, 92A-92C, 92E-92G).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Publication number: 20140241803
    Abstract: Apparatus for solution mining and gas storage in a salt cavern formed by solution mining comprises a flow diverting conduit string that is provided in fluid communication with two or more concentric conduits within the single main bore, with at least one lateral opening from an internal passageway with an outer annular passageway communicating with the surface under a single valve tree. Flow control devices, flow diverters and/or isolation conduits can be inserted into the flow diverting conduit string, enabling a dissolution zone in the salt cavern to be varied to control the shape of the cavern. Furthermore the flow diverting conduit string used to form the cavern can also be used for dewatering and gas storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Publication number: 20140123779
    Abstract: System and method of well space provision for forming a geologic testing space for proving an operation of an unproven downhole apparatus (78, 92), generally referred to as new technology, within an aged geology, during the rig-less abandonment of an aging well to in use, reallocate operation of said unproven downhole apparatus from unproven to proven operation within a proximally similarly aged geology of said aging well, another aging well (79), a new well (80), or a field of said wells (79, 80) generally referred to as Brownfields and Greenfields, wherein said unproven downhole apparatus comprises a hydrodynamic bearing boring apparatus (1A, 1E, 1BM, 9AA, 92D) or a bore hole piston apparatus (1A, 1AF, 92A-92C, 92E-92G).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Patent number: 8397819
    Abstract: Systems and methods usable to operate on a plurality of wells through a single main bore are disclosed herein. One or more chamber junctions are provided in fluid communication with one or more conduits within the single main bore. Each chamber junction includes a first orifice communicating with the surface through the main bore, and one or more additional orifices in fluid communication with individual wells of the plurality of wells. Through the chamber junctions, each of the wells can be individually or simultaneously accessed. A bore selection tool having an upper opening and at least one lower opening can be inserted into the chamber junction such that the one or more lower openings align with orifices in the chamber junction, enabling selected individual or multiple wells to be accessed through the bore selection tool while other wells are isolated from the chamber junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget
  • Publication number: 20100126729
    Abstract: Systems and methods usable to operate on a plurality of wells through a single main bore are disclosed herein. One or more chamber junctions are provided in fluid communication with one or more conduits within the single main bore. Each chamber junction includes a first orifice communicating with the surface through the main bore, and one or more additional orifices in fluid communication with individual wells of the plurality of wells. Through the chamber junctions, each of the wells can be individually or simultaneously accessed. A bore selection tool having an upper opening and at least one lower opening can be inserted into the chamber junction such that the one or more lower openings align with orifices in the chamber junction, enabling selected individual or multiple wells to be accessed through the bore selection tool while other wells are isolated from the chamber junction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Bruce Tunget