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: 11774623
    Abstract: A method and microfluidic device to perform reservoir simulations using pressure-volume-temperature (“PVT”) analysis of wellbore fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Michael T. Pelletier, Robert S. Atkinson, Jr., Songhua Chen
  • Patent number: 11767755
    Abstract: A method and system for estimating clean fluid composition and properties. A method may comprise disposing a downhole fluid sampling tool into a wellbore, wherein the downhole fluid sampling tool comprises optical instrumentation, obtaining a fluid sample with the downhole fluid sampling tool, wherein the fluid sample comprises a reservoir fluid contaminated with a well fluid, identifying input parameters from at least one sensor response on the optical instrumentation, and predicting a clean fluid sample of the reservoir fluid using an asymptote of a dimensional reduction analysis and equation of state. A system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool and a processing unit. The downhole fluid sampling tool may further comprise an optical instrumentation operable to obtain fluid samples of a reservoir fluid contaminated with a well fluid while the downhole fluid sampling tool is disposed in a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11761330
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a subsurface sensor to be positioned in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation, wherein the subsurface sensor is to detect subsurface measurements. The apparatus includes a processor and a machine-readable medium having program code executable by the processor to cause the processor to generate a combination of functions based on the subsurface measurements, wherein the combination of functions is a subset of functions from a library of functions. The program code is executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine at least one function parameter of at least one function of the combination of functions and determine at least one formation property of the subsurface formation based on the at least one function parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Bin Dai
  • Patent number: 11761332
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include methods to perform an in-situ determination of a formation property of a downhole formation, methods to operate a tool to perform an in-situ determination of formation properties of a downhole formation, and in-situ formation property measurement tools. In one embodiment, a method to perform an in-situ determination of a formation property includes deploying a tool into a borehole that is drilled through a formation. The method also includes isolating a source zone from an injection zone. While the source zone is isolated from the injection zone, the method further includes withdrawing a fluid that partially fills the source zone; flowing the fluid into the injection zone; injecting the fluid into a first portion of the formation that is along the injection zone; and determining at least one formation property of the first portion based on an injection of the fluid into the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke, Anthony Herman Van Zulekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
  • Patent number: 11739635
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring drilling fluid filtrate. The method may comprise disposing a downhole fluid sampling tool into a wellbore at a first location, activating a pump to draw a solids-containing fluid disposed in the wellbore into the downhole fluid sampling tool, drawing the drilling fluid with the pump across the at least one filter to form a drilling fluid filtrate, drawing the drilling fluid filtrate with the pump through the channel to the at least one sensor section, and measuring the drilling fluid filtrate with the at least one sensor. A system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool. The downhole fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one multi-chamber section, at least one sensor section, at least one filter, a pump, and a channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Michael Thomas Pelletier, Darren George Gascooke
  • Patent number: 11732537
    Abstract: A downhole probe can be utilized in a wellbore to accurately determine a relative depth between measurement locations. The downhole probe includes a measurement unit for taking downhole measurements and a detachable anchor that can grip a wellbore wall to maintain a fixed location. The measurement unit may be moved relative to anchor between the measurement locations to unspool a tether coupled between the anchor and the measurement unit. The length of the tether unspooled may provide a more accurate indication of the relative distance between the measurement locations than surface-based measurements. The detachable anchor may be retrieved for deployment at additional measurement locations or may be abandoned in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom
  • Patent number: 11719096
    Abstract: A method may comprise positioning a downhole fluid sampling tool into a wellbore; performing a pressure test operation within the wellbore; performing a pumpout operation within the wellbore; identifying one or more formation parameters at least in part from the at least one pressure test operation or the at least one pumpout operation; building a correlation model that relates a pumpout trend to the one or more formation parameters; determining a time when the downhole fluid sampling tool takes a clean fluid sample utilizing at least the correlation model; and acquiring the clean fluid sample with the downhole fluid sampling tool from the wellbore. Additionally, a system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool configured to: perform a pressure test operation within a wellbore; and perform a pumpout operation within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Dingding Chen, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom
  • Publication number: 20230243258
    Abstract: Downhole tool is provided that includes a body, an intake port for receiving fluid from external the body, a pump, a filtration device, and an exit port. The pump is in fluid communication with the intake port for withdrawing fluid through the intake port. The filtration device has a particulate removing filter, and a flow line extending from the intake port to the filtration device. The filtration device is contained within the body and is in fluid communication with the intake port. The exit port is in fluid communication with the filtration device for ejecting the fluid to external the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. PELLETIER, Christopher Michael JONES, Darren GASCOOKE, David L. PERKINS
  • Publication number: 20230243634
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to techniques for correcting logging depth of a well bore. A process of the disclosed technology can include receiving a first sensor measurement from a first sensor disposed in a wellbore, receiving a second sensor measurement from a second sensor disposed in the wellbore, wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are disposed on a wireline with a predetermined distance between the first sensor and the second sensor, generating a correlation function based on the first sensor measurement and the second measurement, and determining, based on the correlation function, whether the measurements indicate a perceived distance between the first sensor and the second sensor deviating from the predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Bin DAI, Christopher Michael JONES
  • Publication number: 20230220771
    Abstract: Fluid holdups within a downhole sampling tool are identified by comparing high- and low-resolution measurements of fluid samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Zhonghuan Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230221459
    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: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11698337
    Abstract: A method including generating integrated computational element (ICE) models and determining a sensor response as the projection of a convolved spectrum associated with a sample library with a plurality of transmission profiles determined from the ICE models. The method includes determining a regression vector based on a multilinear regression that targets a sample characteristic with the sensor response and the sample library and determine a plurality of regression coefficients in a linear combination of ICE transmission vectors that results in the regression vector. The method further includes determining a difference between the regression vector and an optimal regression vector. The method may also include modifying the ICE models when the difference is greater than a tolerance, and fabricating ICEs based on the ICE models when the difference is within the tolerance. A device and a system for optical analysis including multiple ICEs fabricated as above, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Price, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11697992
    Abstract: A method and system can obtain real time property measurements of a fluid comprising a formation fluid downhole, real time measurements of an amount of an interactive component of the fluid downhole, and real time measurements of an amount of a non-interactive component of the fluid downhole. The method and system further includes determining a total amount of the interactive component in the fluid or a contamination level of the formation fluid at a time of interest based on the real time property measurements of the fluid downhole and the real time measurements of the amounts of the interactive component and non-interactive component downhole. The real time measurements of the amount of the interactive component downhole are real time measurements of the amount of the interactive component in its free form downhole, and the property can be scaled with the contamination level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Ralph Piazza, Anthony H. Van Zuilekom, Megan Renee Pearl, Luiz Alexandre Sacorague, Alexandre Jaime Mello Vieira
  • Publication number: 20230212946
    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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Zhonghuan Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230213675
    Abstract: A model is used to generate corrections to mitigate ideal condition artifacts in acoustic property values of an annular material in a cased wellbore. A mathematical model that generates acoustic property values at ideal conditions introduces artifacts into the acoustic property values. Acoustic measurements of an annular material are used to generate features that represent wellbore conditions and are not accounted for in the mathematical model that generates acoustic property values. A model will generate corrections for acoustic property values of an annular material with the features to yield a more accurate acoustic property profile for the annular material of a cased hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Amit Padhi, Christopher Michael Jones, Xiang Wu, James Martin Price
  • Patent number: 11693144
    Abstract: A system may include an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool for inspecting downhole tubulars. The EM logging tool may include a mandrel, at least one low-frequency transmitter coil disposed on the mandrel, at least one-low frequency receiver coil disposed on the mandrel, and at least one-high frequency sensor configured to measure one or more electromagnetic properties of a tubular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Junwen Dai, Ahmed E. Fouda, Freeman Lee Hill, III, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11692438
    Abstract: A method including, without removing a BHA from a wellbore of a well extending into a formation, extending, into an interior flow bore of the BHA, a first component of a wet latch assembly to provide an extended first component of the wet latch assembly, conveying downhole via a wireline cable, from a surface through an interior flow bore provided by a drill string, a second component of the wet latch assembly, and coupling the second component of the wet latch assembly with the extended first component of the wet latch assembly such that an electrical connection is established between the first component and the second component and between the BHA and the surface via the wireline cable, and testing the formation with a formation tester of the BHA, while providing power and/or data telemetry for the formation tester via the wet latch assembly and the wireline cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Darren George Gascooke, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Publication number: 20230203945
    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: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Anton Proett, Christopher Michael Jones, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
  • Patent number: 11686193
    Abstract: A method includes positioning a formation tester tool into a borehole formed within a formation and radially expanding a first and second radially extendable packers of the formation tester tool out from the formation tester tool to the formation to form a sealed volume between the first radially extendable packer and the second radially extendable packer. The method includes radially extending a pad of the formation tester tool that is positioned between the first radially extendable packer and the second radially extendable packer to form a sealed connection volume between the formation and a pressure sensor within the pad. The method includes acquiring a first pressure measurement, using the pressure sensor, from fluids in the sealed connection volume and extracting fluid from the sealed volume to reduce pressure around the pad. The method includes acquiring a second pressure measurement, using the pressure sensor, from fluids in the sealed connection volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom, Mehdi Alipour Kallehbasti
  • Publication number: 20230184108
    Abstract: This disclosure presents systems and processes to collect elemental composition of target fluid and solid material located downhole of a borehole. Waveguides can be utilized that include capillary optics to deliver emitted high energy into a container or a conduit and then to detect the high energy. A source waveguide can be used to emit the high energy into the target fluid and a detector waveguide can collect resulting measurements. Each waveguide can include a protective sheath and a pressure cap on the end of the capillary optics that are proximate the target fluid, to protect against abrasion and target fluid pressure. In other aspects, a pulsed neutron tool can be utilized in place of the waveguides to collect measurements. The collected measurements can be utilized to generate chemical signature results that can be utilized to determine the elemental composition of the target fluid or of the solid material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Jeffrey James Crawford, Anthony Herman van Zulekom, Darren George Gascooke