Patents by Inventor Carsten NESGAARD

Carsten NESGAARD 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: 11414935
    Abstract: An intervention system is provided. The intervention system comprises a cable being configured to be lowered into a wellbore, said cable having an inner tube enclosing one or more electrical conductors, and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube. The intervention system further comprises a downhole tool being connected to a distal end of the cable and being configured to pull the cable into the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Welltec A/S
    Inventor: Carsten Nesgaard
  • Patent number: 10883362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole transfer system for transferring data through a well tubular metal structure arranged in a borehole of a well, comprising a well tubular metal structure having an axial direction and being arranged in the borehole providing an annulus between the borehole and the well tubular metal structure, a transceiver assembly comprising a tubular metal part mounted as part of the well tubular metal structure, the tubular metal part having an inner face, an outer face and a wall, an assembly conductive winding, such as a copper ring, connected with the inner face, a power consuming device, such as a sensor, arranged in the annulus and connected with the outer face and the power consuming device is connected to the assembly conductive winding by means of an electrical conductor, a downhole tool comprises a tool body, a tool body outer face and a tool conductive winding, wherein the assembly conductive winding has an axial extension along the axial direction and a radial extensio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG
    Inventor: Carsten Nesgaard
  • Patent number: 10774619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole completion system for completing a well having a borehole, said downhole completion system comprising a well tubular metal structure arranged in the borehole forming an annulus and comprising a wall and a plurality of sensor units forming a mesh network, wherein at least a number of said sensor units is provided with a self-powering device configured to harvest energy downhole. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a sensor unit for use with a downhole completion system according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG
    Inventor: Carsten Nesgaard
  • Publication number: 20200263538
    Abstract: A method for determining one or more downhole characteristic(s) in a production well, comprising: measuring a physical property of the production well using at least one sensor; pre-processing the measured values of the physical property using feature scaling or automatic gain control techniques; and determining one or more downhole characteristic(s) using a supervised machine learning method. The supervised machine learning method comprises: cross-validating a predictive analytics algorithm with training data that are previously measured physical properties and applying one or more algorithms to the measured values of the physical property to converge on an estimate for the determined downhole characteristic(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20200115964
    Abstract: An intervention system is provided. The intervention system comprises a cable being configured to be lowered into a wellbore, said cable having an inner tube enclosing one or more electrical conductors, and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube. The intervention system further comprises a downhole tool being connected to a distal end of the cable and being configured to pull the cable into the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20200018155
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for downhole data communication in a downhole communications system. The method is performed by a communication equipment configured to be arranged to transmit and receive signals via an associated wireline at a bitrate. The method comprises the steps of, determining, at one or more frequencies, one or more characteristics of the wireline associated with each of the one or more frequencies, and adjusting the bitrate based on the determined one or more characteristics. Also, a downhole data communications system, comprising at least one communication equipment configured to perform the method is presented. Further to this, a communication equipment configured to be arranged to perform the method is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20190383136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole transfer system for transferring data through a well tubular metal structure arranged in a borehole of a well, comprising a well tubular metal structure having an axial direction and being arranged in the borehole providing an annulus between the borehole and the well tubular metal structure, a transceiver assembly comprising a tubular metal part mounted as part of the well tubular metal structure, the tubular metal part having an inner face, an outer face and a wall, an assembly conductive winding, such as a copper ring, connected with the inner face, a power consuming device, such as a sensor, arranged in the annulus and connected with the outer face and the power consuming device is connected to the assembly conductive winding by means of an electrical conductor, a downhole tool comprises a tool body, a tool body outer face and a tool conductive winding, wherein the assembly conductive winding has an axial extension along the axial direction and a radial extensio
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Patent number: 10502029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole power supply device for supplying power in situ to a power consuming device arranged in a well, comprising a fuel cell producing electricity and water and having a fuel inlet, an oxidising inlet, an electric output and a water outlet, a fuel container fluidly connected to the fuel inlet, and an oxidising agent container fluidly connected to the oxidising inlet, wherein the fuel cell has an internal pressure which is at least 1.0 bar for increasing a boiling temperature of the water produced in the fuel cell. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a downhole system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: WELLTEC OILFIELD SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventor: Carsten Nesgaard
  • Publication number: 20190363580
    Abstract: A downhole charging system comprising a primary side and a secondary side is provided. The primary side comprises a power transmit coil arranged to receive power from a power source with a source frequency and the secondary side comprises a power receive coil arranged to deliver power to a load. The power transmit coil and the power receive coil are further arranged such that they are inductively coupled. The primary side and/or the secondary side comprises at least one tunable element connected to the coil on the same side as the tunable element. The system further comprises at least one controller configured to control the impedance of the tunable element such that the impedance of the tunable element and the coil on the same side as the tunable element is optimised in view of power transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20180274336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole completion system for completing a well having a borehole, said downhole completion system comprising a well tubular metal structure arranged in the borehole forming an annulus and comprising a wall and a plurality of sensor units forming a mesh network, wherein at least a number of said sensor units is provided with a self-powering device configured to harvest energy downhole. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a sensor unit for use with a downhole completion system according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20180274353
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole sensor system, comprising a plurality of sensor units forming a mesh network, providing for a reliable data path even though at least some of the sensor units are out of range from the data collection provided at surface level or at seabed level, wherein each one of said sensor units is positioned in a cemented annulus formed between a casing and a borehole wall, and at least one of said sensor units is provided with a detector for detecting cement characteristics of the cement in the annulus. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for providing a downhole sensor system and to a method for determining cement characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20180274354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole drilling system, comprising: a drill string having a drill head configured to drill a borehole having a borehole wall forming an annulus between the drill string and the borehole, a plurality of sensor units forming a mesh network, wherein each one of said sensor units is distributed in a drilling fluid flowing in the annulus and in the drill string, and at least one of said sensor units is provided with a detector for measuring position data. The present invention also relates to a method for providing a downhole drilling system according to the present invention and to a method for determining drilling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD
  • Publication number: 20170350216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole power supply device for supplying power in situ to a power consuming device arranged in a well, comprising a fuel cell producing electricity and water and having a fuel inlet, an oxidising inlet, an electric output and a water outlet, a fuel container fluidly connected to the fuel inlet, and an oxidising agent container fluidly connected to the oxidising inlet, wherein the fuel cell has an internal pressure which is at least 1.0 bar for increasing a boiling temperature of the water produced in the fuel cell. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a downhole system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Carsten NESGAARD