Patents by Inventor Colby Munro Ross
Colby Munro Ross 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).
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Patent number: 11933125Abstract: A plug retrieval tool includes a mandrel lowerable into a wellbore. A retrieval head is coupled to the mandrel for selectively latching onto a plug. A shroud is telescopically coupled to the mandrel about the retrieval head and moveable repeatedly between an extended position below the retrieval head for displacing debris on the plug and a retracted position for moving the retrieval head closer to the plug to latch onto the plug. A resistance mechanism provides a resistance to moving the shroud each time the shroud is moved toward the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Reid Maher, Colby Munro Ross, Jhess Menard
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Publication number: 20230417115Abstract: A plug retrieval tool includes a mandrel lowerable into a wellbore. A retrieval head is coupled to the mandrel for selectively latching onto a plug. A shroud is telescopically coupled to the mandrel about the retrieval head and moveable repeatedly between an extended position below the retrieval head for displacing debris on the plug and a retracted position for moving the retrieval head closer to the plug to latch onto the plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Reid Maher, Colby Munro Ross, Jhess Menard
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Patent number: 11566490Abstract: Disclosed is a gravel pack service tool that utilizes an internal closure device to set a packer. One disclosed system includes a completion string including at least one packer, a service tool configured to be arranged within the completion string and having an interior that provides a flow path for fluids and a crossover tool, and a closure device arranged within the flow path and being actuatable between an open position and a closed position in response to a signature pressure pulse detected by the closure device, wherein, when the closure device is in the open position, the fluids are able to bypass the closure device and flow to lower portions of the service tool, and wherein, when the closure device is in the closed position, the fluids are prevented from bypassing the closure device and a pressure within the service tool is increased to set the at least one packer.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Colby Munro Ross
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Patent number: 10920526Abstract: Hydraulic setting tools, packer setting systems, and methods thereof are provided. The hydraulic setting tool includes a mandrel containing a main flow path, a piston housing surrounding at least a portion of the mandrel, and a piston disposed between the piston housing and the mandrel. A cavity is defined at least partially between the piston, the piston housing, and the mandrel. The tool also includes a port passing through the mandrel and configured to provide fluid communication between the main flow path and of the cavity, and an isolation sleeve located within the mandrel and movable along the main flow path between a closed position and an opened position to control the fluid communication between the main flow path and the cavity via the port. A remotely activated valve is located downstream from the isolation sleeve along the main flow path and controls the fluid passing therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Abdel Hamid Rawhi Abeidoh, Colby Munro Ross
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Patent number: 10443372Abstract: A method and apparatus that includes positioning a completion string that has an internal passageway and that has an external surface that at least partially defines an external region within a wellbore; isolating a zone of the external region from a wellbore hydrostatic pressure; measuring a pressure within the external region of the isolated zone; determining whether the pressure within the external region of the isolated zone is within a predetermined pressure range; and operating a valve that controls a flow of a fluid through a flow path from the internal region to the external region of the isolated zone when the pressure within the external region is outside of the predetermined pressure range.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Tyson Harvey Eiman, Syed Hamid, Gregory William Garrison, Colby Munro Ross, William Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell
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Patent number: 10435968Abstract: A method and apparatus that includes an elongated base pipe having an external surface at least partially defining an external region and an internal surface at least partially defining an internal region; and a pressure maintenance device disposed in the base pipe and comprising: a flow path that extends between the internal region and the external region; and a valve having a gas charged chamber, the valve allowing the flow of a fluid from the internal region to the external region through the first flow path when a pressure differential between a pressure associated with the internal region and a pressure associated with the gas charged chamber is less than a maximum pressure threshold and when a pressure differential between the external region and the pressure associated with the gas charged chamber is greater than a minimum pressure threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: William Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell, Gregory William Garrison, Tyson Harvey Eiman, Syed Hamid, Colby Munro Ross
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Patent number: 10408005Abstract: A setting tool for setting a packer in a wellbore includes a housing defining a hydraulic chamber, a piston disposed in the chamber, a pump coupled to the chamber via a flowline, and a setting sleeve directly or indirectly coupled to the piston. The pump may be used to pump pressurized fluid into the hydraulic chamber for pushing the piston in a direction, and the setting sleeve may be used to apply a compressive force to a packer element of the packer in response to the piston being pushed in that direction. The setting tool may include a sensor used to collect a measurement relating to a force on the workstring, in addition to a controller designed to receive a signal from the sensor and to provide a control signal to the pump based on the sensor signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Mark Richards, Colby Munro Ross, Thomas Owen Roane, William David Henderson
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Publication number: 20190264536Abstract: Hydraulic setting tools, packer setting systems, and methods thereof are provided. The hydraulic setting tool includes a mandrel containing a main flow path, a piston housing surrounding at least a portion of the mandrel, and a piston disposed between the piston housing and the mandrel. A cavity is defined at least partially between the piston, the piston housing, and the mandrel. The tool also includes a port passing through the mandrel and configured to provide fluid communication between the main flow path and of the cavity, and an isolation sleeve located within the mandrel and movable along the main flow path between a closed position and an opened position to control the fluid communication between the main flow path and the cavity via the port. A remotely activated valve is located downstream from the isolation sleeve along the main flow path and controls the fluid passing therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Abdel Hamid Rawhi Abeidoh, Colby Munro Ross
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Publication number: 20190195051Abstract: A borehole packer includes a shunt tube and a fluid chamber coupled to the shunt tube. The fluid chamber includes a release assembly that releases fluid stored in the fluid chamber into the shunt tube. The fluid includes magnetically responsive particles. The packer also includes one or more magnetic field generators that generate one or more magnetic fields that arrest released fluid within the shunt tube by activating the magnetically responsive particles, thereby plugging the shunt tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Gustavo Dias de Castro Cervo
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Patent number: 10041331Abstract: An exemplary downhole system includes a completion string positioned within a wellbore and providing at least an upper seal bore and a downhole device that includes a sliding sleeve. A service tool is extendable within the completion string and includes a shifting tool assembly and provides a mandrel, a shifting tool coupled to the mandrel, and upper equalization seals arranged on the mandrel and sealingly engageable with the upper seal bore. The shifting tool is engageable with the sliding sleeve to move the downhole device at least partially between a closed position, where a pressure differential between a subterranean formation and an interior of the completion string is assumed by primary sealing elements of the downhole device, and an open position, where the pressure differential is assumed by at least the upper equalization seals.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Gregory William Garrison
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Patent number: 10024147Abstract: A method and apparatus that includes an elongated base pipe having an external surface at least partially defining an external region and an internal surface at least partially defining an internal region; and a pressure maintenance device disposed in the base pipe and includes a first flow path that extends between an opening in the external surface and an opening in the internal surface; a first valve that controls the flow of a first fluid through the first flow path; a first pressure differential sensor that controls the actuation of the first valve and is in fluid communication with the external region; and a pressurized fluid source in fluid communication with the first pressure differential sensor; wherein a first pressure differential threshold associated with the first pressure differential sensor is the difference between a pressure within the external region and the pressurized fluid source.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Syed Hamid, Tyson Harvey Eiman, Gregory William Garrison, Colby Munro Ross, William Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell
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Publication number: 20170328155Abstract: A method and apparatus that includes an elongated base pipe having an external surface at least partially defining an external region and an internal surface at least partially defining an internal region; and a pressure maintenance device disposed in the base pipe and comprising: a flow path that extends between the internal region and the external region; and a valve having a gas charged chamber, the valve allowing the flow of a fluid from the internal region to the external region through the first flow path when a pressure differential between a pressure associated with the internal region and a pressure associated with the gas charged chamber is less than a maximum pressure threshold and when a pressure differential between the external region and the pressure associated with the gas charged chamber is greater than a minimum pressure threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: William Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell, Gregory William Garrison, Tyson Harvey Eiman, Syed Hamid, Colby Munro Ross
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Publication number: 20170268327Abstract: A method and apparatus that includes positioning a completion string that has an internal passageway and that has an external surface that at least partially defines an external region within a wellbore; isolating a zone of the external region from a wellbore hydrostatic pressure; measuring a pressure within the external region of the isolated zone; determining whether the pressure within the external region of the isolated zone is within a predetermined pressure range; and operating a valve that controls a flow of a fluid through a flow path from the internal region to the external region of the isolated zone when the pressure within the external region is outside of the predetermined pressure range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Tyson Harvey Eiman, Syed Hamid, Gregory William Garrison, Colby Munro Ross, William Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell
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Publication number: 20170081938Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a setting tool for setting a packer in a wellbore includes a housing defining a hydraulic chamber, a piston disposed in the chamber, a pump coupled to the chamber via a flowline, and a setting sleeve directly or indirectly coupled to the piston. The pump may be used to pump pressurized fluid into the hydraulic chamber for pushing the piston in a direction, and the setting sleeve may be used to apply a compressive force to a packer element of the packer in response to the piston being pushed in that direction. In some embodiments, the setting tool may include a sensor used to collect a measurement relating to a force on the workstring, in addition to a controller designed to receive a signal from the sensor and to provide a control signal to the pump based on the sensor signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: William Mark Richards, Colby Munro Ross, Thomas Owen Roane, William David Henderson
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Publication number: 20160362960Abstract: An exemplary downhole system includes a completion string positioned within a wellbore and providing at least an upper seal bore and a downhole device that includes a sliding sleeve. A service tool is extendable within the completion string and includes a shifting tool assembly and provides a mandrel, a shifting tool coupled to the mandrel, and upper equalization seals arranged on the mandrel and sealingly engageable with the upper seal bore. The shifting tool is engageable with the sliding sleeve to move the downhole device at least partially between a closed position, where a pressure differential between a subterranean formation and an interior of the completion string is assumed by primary sealing elements of the downhole device, and an open position, where the pressure differential is assumed by at least the upper equalization seals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Gregory William Garrison
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Publication number: 20160356133Abstract: A method and apparatus that includes an elongated base pipe having an external surface at least partially defining an external region and an internal surface at least partially defining an internal region; and a pressure maintenance device disposed in the base pipe and includes a first flow path that extends between an opening in the external surface and an opening in the internal surface; a first valve that controls the flow of a first fluid through the first flow path; a first pressure differential sensor that controls the actuation of the first valve and is in fluid communication with the external region; and a pressurized fluid source in fluid communication with the first pressure differential sensor; wherein a first pressure differential threshold associated with the first pressure differential sensor is the difference between a pressure within the external region and the pressurized fluid source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICE, INC.Inventors: Syed Hamid, Tyson Harvey Eiman, Gregory William Garrison, Colby Munro Ross, William Mark Richards, Thomas Jules Frosell
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Publication number: 20160102525Abstract: Disclosed is a gravel pack service tool that utilizes an internal closure device to set a packer. One disclosed system includes a completion string including at least one packer, a service tool configured to be arranged within the completion string and having an interior that provides a flow path for fluids and a crossover tool, and a closure device arranged within the flow path and being actuatable between an open position and a closed position in response to a signature pressure pulse detected by the closure device, wherein, when the closure device is in the open position, the fluids are able to bypass the closure device and flow to lower portions of the service tool, and wherein, when the closure device is in the closed position, the fluids are prevented from bypassing the closure device and a pressure within the service tool is increased to set the at least one packer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventor: Colby Munro Ross
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Patent number: 6953094Abstract: A subterranean well completion has a tubular structure in which a remote controlled robot is permanently disposed. The robot is self-propelled, programmable, receives instructions from and communicates data to the surface, and is adapted to receive power from a downhole source and perform a variety of well tasks such as, for example, positioning valves and other well tools and sensing the values of predetermined downhole parameters and relaying the sensed information to the surface. The robot, which is operable without physical intervention through the tubular structure to the robot, propels itself to a location in the tubular structure at which a desired well task is to be performed, performs the task and then parks itself in the tubular structure until another well task is to be performed by the robot.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Robert L. Thurman, Syed Hamid, Clifford David Wohleb, Jr., Ronald W. McGregor
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Publication number: 20040055746Abstract: A subterranean well completion has a tubular structure in which a remote controlled robot is permanently disposed. The robot is self-propelled, programmable, receives instructions from and communicates data to the surface, and is adapted to receive power from a downhole source and perform a variety of well tasks such as, for example, positioning valves and other well tools and sensing the values of predetermined downhole parameters and relaying the sensed information to the surface. The robot, which is operable without physical intervention through the tubular structure to the robot, propels itself to a location in the tubular structure at which a desired well task is to be performed, performs the task and then parks itself in the tubular structure until another well task is to be performed by the robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2002Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Colby Munro Ross, Robert Lester Thurman, Syed Hamid, Clifford David Wohleb
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Patent number: 6675891Abstract: An apparatus for gravel packing a production interval (42) of a wellbore (32) comprises first and second sand control screen assemblies (56, 58) connected downhole of a packer assembly (46) and a cross-over assembly (40) that provides a communication path (74) downhole of the packer assembly (46) for a gravel packing fluid and a communication path (92) uphole of the packer assembly (46) for return fluids. A wash pipe assembly (66) extends into the first and second sand control screen assemblies (56, 58) forming an annulus (84) therebetween. A valve (70) is positioned within the wash pipe assembly (66) in a location between the first and second sand control screen assemblies (56, 58). The valve (70) is actuatable from a closed position to an open position when the beta wave (100) is proximate the location of the valve (70).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Travis T. Hailey, Jr., Colby Munro Ross, Robert Lester Thurman, Robert Craig Hammett, David Leslie Lord, Imre I. Gazda