Patents by Inventor Dallas Tubbs

Dallas Tubbs 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: 8914267
    Abstract: Systems and methods for diagnosing production problems in oil field operations are provided. A first video monitor displays an oil field diagnosis process flow chart that includes selectable objects such as Review Well Test Differences, Review Sliders, Review Bad Actors, and Perform Steam Flood Performance Check. Each selectable object is associated with one or more incompatible domain-specific software applications. One or more of the selectable objects are selected and one or more additional video monitors display reports extracted by a middle-ware software code segment layer from the associated domain-specific software applications. Oil wells having production problems are listed and problem oil wells are displayed on an oil field map. Any commonalities among the displayed problem oil wells indicative of a common cause of the production problems are visually identified. Work is scheduled in the associated domain-specific software applications sufficient to remedy the common cause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: James Lee Brink, Dallas Tubbs, Kenan Oran, James Richard Ouimette
  • Publication number: 20090125367
    Abstract: Systems and methods for diagnosing production problems in oil field operations are provided. A first video monitor displays an oil field diagnosis process flow chart that includes selectable objects such as Review Well Test Differences, Review Sliders, Review Bad Actors, and Perform Steam Flood Performance Check. Each selectable object is associated with one or more incompatible domain-specific software applications. One or more of the selectable objects are selected and one or more additional video monitors display reports extracted by a middle-ware software code segment layer from the associated domain-specific software applications. Oil wells having production problems are listed and problem oil wells are displayed on an oil field map. Any commonalities among the displayed problem oil wells indicative of a common cause of the production problems are visually identified. Work is scheduled in the associated domain-specific software applications sufficient to remedy the common cause.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: James Brink, Dallas Tubbs, Kenan Oran, James Richard Ouimette
  • Publication number: 20090024442
    Abstract: Systems and methods for increasing safety and efficiency in oil field operations are provided. A monitor displays a map of an oil field that includes oil well objects, oil field facility objects, surface work crew objects, sub-surface work crew objects, and safety zones objects and work equipment rig objects. Each of the objects includes a date and location attribute. Each of the work crew objects are coded by a visual indicator to indicate a type of work, and selection of a work crew object produces a text box with a description of the associated work. A safety zone object is associated with the work crew objects and has a radius attribute that can be used to identify scheduling conflicts. A scheduling conflict is identified, and at least one work crew object is rescheduled via a domain-specific software application from which the crew object was extracted to remove the conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: James Lee Brink, Dallas Tubbs, Kenan Oran, James Richard Ouimette