Patents by Inventor Christopher Michael Jones

Christopher Michael Jones 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: 11976553
    Abstract: A test tool attached to test string comprising a fluid conduit is deployed to a test position within a wellbore. The deployment includes hydraulically isolating a portion of the wellbore proximate the test tool to form an isolation zone containing the test position. A fluid inflow test is performed within the isolation zone and an initial formation property and a fluid property are determined based on the fluid inflow test. A fluid injection test is performed within the isolation zone including applying an injection fluid through the test string into the isolation zone, wherein the flow rate or pressure of the injection fluid application is determined based, at least in part, on the at least one of the formation property and fluid property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Anton Proett, Christopher Michael Jones, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
  • Publication number: 20240142657
    Abstract: A method and system for correlating two or more logs. The method may include reviewing an openhole log to identify one or more depths within a wellbore for testing, disposing a fluid sampling tool into the wellbore, creating a correlation log with the fluid sampling tool, depth-matching the correlation log to the openhole log to create a relative shift table, and moving the fluid sampling tool to the one or more depths within the wellbore based at least in part on the relative shift table. The system may include a fluid sampling tool disposed in a wellbore to create a correlation log and an information handling system connected to the fluid sampling tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadeed Sayed, Ahmed Fouda, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11970941
    Abstract: A formation tester comprises a body having an outlet; a probe extendable from the body and having a sealing pad; and a flow line within the body, wherein the flow line has an entry end connectable to the probe and has an exit end connectable to the outlet in the body; and a reactive filter material in the flow line downstream of the entry end of the flow line, wherein the reactive filter material sorbs and entraps an analyte in a wellbore fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Perkins, Christopher Michael Jones, Michael T. Pelletier
  • Publication number: 20240125229
    Abstract: A method and non-transitory storage computer-readable medium for performing a neural operator on one or more wellbore measurements. The method may comprise o obtaining one or more measurements, performing a measurement normalization on the one or more measurements to form one or more normalized measurements, forming a material function with the one or more normalized measurements, and forming a neural operator generated physical response with a neural operator and the material function. The method may further comprise forming a beamforming map with the one or more measurements, and forming a neural operator leak source location map with a neural operator and the one or more measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai
  • Publication number: 20240118446
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to signal attenuation for acoustic logging tools. An acoustic logging tool includes acoustic transducers. Each acoustic transducer includes a body, a piezoelectric element disposed on a first end of the body to receive or transmit at least one signal, and a wedge-cut disposed on an opposite end of the body. The wedge-cut defines a sloped portion operable to attenuate signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jichun Sun, Jing Jin, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Gennady Koscheev
  • Publication number: 20240117727
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a fluid within a subterranean formation. The method may comprise obtaining one or more pressure measurements at one or more depths with a downhole fluid sampling tool, forming a depth-pressure measurement set form the one or more pressure measurements, creating a solution novelty threshold from at least the depth-pressure measurement set, constraining a solution space with the solution novelty threshold, and finding a solution-space-inscribed simplex within the solution novelty threshold. The method may further comprise generating a simplicial decomposition for a convex hull of the solution-space-inscribed simplex up to the solution novelty threshold, identifying at least one inscribed simplex within the convex hull of the solution-space-inscribed simplex, determining a novel simplex interior with the at least one inscribed simplex, and forming a plurality of solutions with the novel simplex interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamed Chok, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke
  • Publication number: 20240110452
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a downhole logging tool configured for placement in a wellbore comprises a first magnet configured to activate a first volume of ferromagnetic fluid disposed between the downhole logging tool and the wellbore to achieve a first seal between a primary analysis region of the downhole logging tool and a wellbore fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Xiang Wu, Jichun Sun
  • Patent number: 11946368
    Abstract: A system to determine a contamination level of a formation fluid, the system including a formation tester tool to be positioned in a borehole, wherein the borehole has a mixture of the formation fluid and a drilling fluid and the formation tester tool includes a sensor to detect time series measurements from a plurality of sensor channels. The system includes a processor to dimensionally reduce the time series measurements to generate a set of reduced measurement scores in a multi-dimensional measurement space and determine an end member in the multi-dimensional measurement space based on the set of reduced measurement scores, wherein the end member comprises a position in the multi-dimensional measurement space that corresponds with a predetermined fluid concentration. The processor also determines the contamination level of the formation fluid at a time point based the set of reduced measurement scores and the end member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Dai, Dingding Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11946369
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a measurement of a pressure in a subsurface formation at a number of depths in a wellbore formed in the subsurface formation across a sampling depth range of the subsurface formation to generate a number of pressure-depth measurement pairs and partitioning the sampling depth range into a number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises performing a fitting operation over each of the number of fluid depth ranges to determine a fluid gradient for the type of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises generating a solution set of one or more solutions based on the fluid gradient of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges determined from performing the fitting operation, wherein each solution defines a partitioning of the sampling depth range and the fluid gradient of each fluid depth range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamed Chok, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke
  • Patent number: 11946361
    Abstract: Quality factors associated with formation pressure measurements at various depths in the geologic formation are determined based on one or more well logs of formation properties in a geologic formation. A formation testing tool with two or more probes is positioned in a borehole of the geologic formation based on the quality factors. The two or more probes in the borehole perform respective formation pressure measurements, where each formation pressure measurement is performed at a different depth. The formation pressure measurements and the given distance between the two or more probes indicate a formation pressure gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom
  • Patent number: 11939857
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for monitoring for monitoring and evaluating conditions associated with a wellbore and wellbore operations that use neural operators instead of computationally intensive iterative differential equations. Such systems and techniques allow for determinations to be made as operations associated with a wellbore are performed. Instead of having to wait for computationally intensive tasks to be performed or take risks of proceeding with a wellbore operation without real-time evaluations being performed, these wellbore operations may be continued while determinations are timely made, thus improving operation of computing systems that perform evaluations and that make decisions regarding safely and efficiently performing wellbore operations such as drilling a wellbore, cementing wellbore casings in place, or injecting fluids into formations of the Earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Xusong Wang, Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang, Junwen Dai
  • Patent number: 11939866
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a fluid sample. The method may comprise disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a wellbore fluid as a fluid sample through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, obtaining a fluid measurement of the fluid sample, comparing the fluid measurement to a plurality of fingerprints that populate a database, and identifying the fluid sample based at least in part on one of the plurality of fingerprints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Dai, Zhonghuan Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20240093591
    Abstract: A system for inspecting a tubular may comprise an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool and information handling system. The EM logging tool may further include a mandrel, one or more sensor pads attached to the mandrel by one or more extendable arms, and one or more partial saturation eddy current sensors disposed on each of the one or more sensor pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Elsayed Fouda, Junwen Dai, Freeman Lee Hill, III, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20240093595
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying scale. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a formation fluid, as a fluid sample, through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, perturbing the formation fluid, and analyzing the fluid sample in the fluid sampling tool for one or more indications of scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom, Rohin Naveena-Chandran
  • Patent number: 11933171
    Abstract: Light from a light source that has interacted with a sample of downhole fluid provided in a downhole optical tool is sequentially passed through a plurality of groups of light filters, each of the groups of light filters including of one or more light filters, to generate a data set for each of the groups of light filters, also referred to as a simultaneous channel group. The data generated for each of the simultaneous channel groups is then analyzed to determine if the data from that simultaneous channel groups is effective in providing information useful for the analysis of the sample of downhole fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhonghuan Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240084699
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a measurement of a pressure in a subsurface formation at a number of depths in a wellbore formed in the subsurface formation across a sampling depth range of the subsurface formation to generate a number of pressure-depth measurement pairs and partitioning the sampling depth range into a number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises performing a fitting operation over each of the number of fluid depth ranges to determine a fluid gradient for the type of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises generating a solution set of one or more solutions based on the fluid gradient of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges determined from performing the fitting operation, wherein each solution defines a partitioning of the sampling depth range and the fluid gradient of each fluid depth range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hamed Chok, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke
  • Patent number: 11927716
    Abstract: A method may comprise forming a data matrix, extracting chromatographs of a mud filtrate and a formation fluid, extracting concentration profiles of the mud filtrate and the formation fluid, and decomposing a data set on an information handling machine using a bilinear model. A system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool and an information handling tool. The downhole fluid sampling tool may comprise one or more multi-chamber sections, one or more fluid module sections, one or more gas chromatographers, wherein the one or more gas chromatographers are disposed in the one or more fluid module sections, and an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20240068366
    Abstract: A microsampling device for taking fluid samples in a wellbore. The microsampling device may comprise a microsampling tube in which one or more microsamplers disposed in the microsampling tube. Additionally, the microsampling device may comprise a fluid flow line connected to the microsampling tube in which a fluid sample traverses and a secondary fluid flow line in which at least a part of the fluid sample may traverse from the microsampling tube through the secondary fluid flow line and into a wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom
  • Publication number: 20240060415
    Abstract: A method and system for performing a pressure test. The method may include inserting a formation testing tool into a wellbore to a first location within the wellbore based at least in part on a figure of merit. The formation testing tool may include at least one probe, a pump disposed within the formation testing tool and connect to the at least one probe by at least one probe channel and at least one fluid passageway, and at least one stabilizer disposed on the formation testing tool. The method may further include activating the at least one stabilizer, wherein the at least one stabilizer is activated into a surface of the wellbore and performing the pressure test and determining at least one formation property from the pressure test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai, James M. Price, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Darren George Gascooke
  • Patent number: 11905830
    Abstract: A system and method for a fluid sampling tool. The fluid sampling tool may include a probe section. The probe section may include one or more probes, one or more stabilizers, and a housing that houses a bi directional piston pump. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore at a first depth, pressing the one or more probes into a surface of the wellbore, drawing a reservoir fluid from the wellbore through the one or more probes, placing the reservoir fluid into the housing, isolating the housing from the one or more modules of the fluid sampling tool with one or more shut in valves, depressurizing the housing with the bi directional piston pump, and measuring the asphaltene precipitation of the reservoir fluid within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohin Naveena-Chandran, Syed Muhammad Farrukh Hamza, Gibran Mushtaq Hashmi, Jason A. Rogers, Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom