Patents by Inventor Eric Bivens

Eric Bivens 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: 12098600
    Abstract: A reel assembly is provided. The reel assembly includes a housing, a drum core disposed within the housing, and a splitter flange separating the drum core into a first partition and a second partition. A first conduit is wound on the first partition of the drum core, and a second conduit is wound on the second partition of the drum core. A conduit handler system is utilized to make a connection or test a connection between the first conduit and the second conduit using actuating pistons to apply a compressive or an opposing tensile force on the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11898409
    Abstract: A system for deploying downhole components includes a housing apparatus comprising a tool chamber configured to house a plurality of downhole tools and a conveyance configured to run the housing apparatus along the wellbore. The housing apparatus is secured to an end of the conveyance. The system for deploying downhole components also includes an actuation mechanism configured to selectively eject individual downhole tools of the plurality of downhole tools from the housing apparatus at respective locations in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Bivens, Philippe Quero
  • Publication number: 20240035345
    Abstract: A reel assembly is provided. The reel assembly includes a housing, a drum core disposed within the housing, and a splitter flange separating the drum core into a first partition and a second partition. A first conduit is wound on the first partition of the drum core, and a second conduit is wound on the second partition of the drum core. A conduit handler system is utilized to make a connection or test a connection between the first conduit and the second conduit using actuating pistons to apply a compressive or an opposing tensile force on the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Haliburton Energy Sercices, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe QUERO, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11851958
    Abstract: A pivoting guide arch is provided. The guide arch includes a guide having a curved portion to receive a coiled tube and to guide the tube as the tube traverses between a reel and a wellbore. The guide arch also includes a support structure extending from a first end of the guide that is configured to mechanically support the guide, and a swivel mount that is rotatably coupled to a wellhead to enable the guide and support structure to pivot about an axis of the wellhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11821270
    Abstract: A reel assembly is provided. The reel assembly includes a housing, a drum core disposed within the housing, and a splitter flange separating the drum core into a first partition and a second partition. A first conduit is wound on the first partition of the drum core, and a second conduit is wound on the second partition of the drum core. A conduit handler system is utilized to make a connection or test a connection between the first conduit and the second conduit using actuating pistons to apply a compressive or an opposing tensile force on the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11795761
    Abstract: A positive displacement motor (PDM) is provided comprising an outer housing, a thermoplastic stator and a rotor. The PDM may additionally include a mechanism that allows the stator to be removable from the PDM when the PDM is not in operation and resists rotational movement of the stator with reference to a longitudinal axis of the stator and axial movement of the stator along the longitudinal axis of the stator when the PDM is operating, and a rotor disposed within the stator and configured to rotate within the stator when a fluid flows through the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Carson Edward Riggins, Harley Jones, II, Earl Webb, Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11732535
    Abstract: A downhole treatment system, apparatus, and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments a treatment apparatus includes a first conduit configured to transport a first fluid from a first fluid source through a first enclosed channel to a first outlet. A second conduit is configured to transport a second fluid from a second fluid source through a second enclosed channel to a second outlet. The treatment apparatus further comprises a mixing applicator that includes the first outlet positioned to provide a discharge path for the first fluid that at least partially intersects a flow path of the second fluid within a confluence region within or external to the second conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Publication number: 20230228152
    Abstract: A positive displacement motor (PDM) is provided comprising an outer housing, a thermoplastic stator and a rotor. The PDM may additionally include a mechanism that allows the stator to be removable from the PDM when the PDM is not in operation and resists rotational movement of the stator with reference to a longitudinal axis of the stator and axial movement of the stator along the longitudinal axis of the stator when the PDM is operating, and a rotor disposed within the stator and configured to rotate within the stator when a fluid flows through the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Carson Edward Riggins, Harley Jones, II, Earl Webb, Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Publication number: 20230151703
    Abstract: A pivoting guide arch is provided. The guide arch includes a guide having a curved portion to receive a coiled tube and to guide the tube as the tube traverses between a reel and a wellbore. The guide arch also includes a support structure extending from a first end of the guide that is configured to mechanically support the guide, and a swivel mount that is rotatably coupled to a wellhead to enable the guide and support structure to pivot about an axis of the wellhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe QUERO, Eric BIVENS
  • Publication number: 20230125895
    Abstract: A reel assembly is provided. The reel assembly includes a housing, a drum core disposed within the housing, and a splitter flange separating the drum core into a first partition and a second partition. A first conduit is wound on the first partition of the drum core, and a second conduit is wound on the second partition of the drum core. A conduit handler system is utilized to make a connection or test a connection between the first conduit and the second conduit using actuating pistons to apply a compressive or an opposing tensile force on the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe QUERO, Eric BIVENS
  • Publication number: 20230100469
    Abstract: A system for deploying downhole components includes a housing apparatus comprising a tool chamber configured to house a plurality of downhole tools and a conveyance configured to run the housing apparatus along the wellbore. The housing apparatus is secured to an end of the conveyance. The system for deploying downhole components also includes an actuation mechanism configured to selectively eject individual downhole tools of the plurality of downhole tools from the housing apparatus at respective locations in the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Bivens, Philippe Quero
  • Patent number: 11613933
    Abstract: A hydrate remediation system and method utilizing a concentric coiled tubing downline is provided. The concentric coiled tubing downline includes an outer coiled tubing and an inner coiled tubing, the inner coiled tubing disposed within the outer coiled tubing and extending at least partially through the outer coiled tubing. The concentric coiled tubing downline may be deployed from a single surface reel housed on a surface vessel. A bottom hole assembly (BHA) including a subsea connector is disposed at a distal end of the concentric coiled tubing. The subsea connector of the BHA is configured to be connected to the subsea interface that will be depressurized via the concentric coiled tubing downline. The concentric coiled tubing downline may provide two flow paths. Pressurized gas flows down one flow path, and effluent from the hydrate remediation flows up to the surface via the other flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Galen Roy Hebert, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11530594
    Abstract: A wellbore isolation assembly has an outer housing having an inner bore having a treatment port formed therein, and a floating inner mandrel disposed within the inner bore. The floating inner mandrel can have an inner bore formed therethrough with a fluid port formed therein. One or more fluid chambers, disposed in an annulus formed between the outer housing and the floating inner mandrel, having a working fluid operably disposed therein and one or more inflatable elements operable to receive the working fluid therein. A plunger disposed in the annulus and coupled with the floating inner mandrel and operable to urge the working fluid from the one or more fluid chambers to the one or more inflatable elements. The floating inner mandrel operable to transition between a first position and a second position and the treatment port and the fluid port substantially aligned in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11530579
    Abstract: In the general context of oilfield equipment and, in particular, in the context of downhole tools, the systems and methods relate to characterizing flow in a wellbore using data collection devices, which may be temporarily attached on the outside of a work string to be run into the wellbore. More particularly, the systems and methods may be used for obtaining flow data at a plurality of different locations and correlated with wellbore depth for evaluation of production profiles of wellbores. A system may be provided that comprises a work string, multiple external support devices temporarily secured to an exterior of the work string at a plurality of different locations, and at least one data collection device such as a resistivity gauge, flow meter, and/or Doppler sensor, coupled to the external support devices. This data, once recovered on surface, could be incorporated into an overall production profile model of the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Neha Sahdev, Eric Bivens, Philippe Quero
  • Patent number: 11313186
    Abstract: Provided is a method for connecting coiled tubing strings, and a coiled tubing working connector, in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure. The method for connecting coiled tubing strings, in one aspect, includes lowering a downhole end of a first coiled tubing string within a wellbore, an uphole end of the first coiled tubing string remaining outside of the wellbore. The method, in one aspect, further includes coupling the uphole end of the first coiled tubing string to a downhole end of a second coiled tubing string while the uphole end of the first coiled tubing string remaining outside of the wellbore to form a combined coiled tubing string, and lowering the combined coiled tubing string within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Radovan Rolovic, Shubhangi Dalavi, Eric Bivens
  • Patent number: 11299938
    Abstract: Provided is a method for connecting coiled tubing strings, as well as a flexible stabbing snake. In one aspect, the method for connecting coiled tubing strings includes lowering a downhole end of a first coiled tubing string within a wellbore, and coupling an uphole end of the first coiled tubing string to a downhole end of a second coiled tubing string at a location between a coiled tubing injector and the wellbore to form a combined coiled tubing string. In at least one aspect, the method further includes lowering the combined coiled tubing string within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens, Robert Gordon Howard, Harley Jones, II, Peter Gainey, Malcolm Richard
  • Patent number: 11280155
    Abstract: A method includes deploying a downhole tool within a wellbore. While the downhole tool is within the wellbore, the method also includes slotting or perforating a casing of the wellbore at the target interval to expose formation surrounding the wellbore. Further, the method includes flushing the target interval to remove wellbore debris from the target interval. Furthermore, the method includes pacing a cement or sealant plug at the target interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210404284
    Abstract: A wellbore isolation assembly has an outer housing having an inner bore having a treatment port formed therein, and a floating inner mandrel disposed within the inner bore. The floating inner mandrel can have an inner bore formed therethrough with a fluid port formed therein. One or more fluid chambers, disposed in an annulus formed between the outer housing and the floating inner mandrel, having a working fluid operably disposed therein and one or more inflatable elements operable to receive the working fluid therein. A plunger disposed in the annulus and coupled with the floating inner mandrel and operable to urge the working fluid from the one or more fluid chambers to the one or more inflatable elements. The floating inner mandrel operable to transition between a first position and a second position and the treatment port and the fluid port substantially aligned in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe QUERO, Eric BIVENS
  • Publication number: 20210404312
    Abstract: A system is provided which includes a bottomhole assembly, a cable assembly, and a controller. The bottomhole assembly is disposed in a wellbore traversing a subterranean formation from a surface of the earth, and includes a drill tool. The cable assembly includes a fiber optic line coupled with the bottomhole assembly. The fiber optic line has a length that traverses a length of the wellbore from the bottomhole assembly to the surface. The fiber optic line is a distributed sensor and measures one or more downhole parameters along the length of the fiber optic line during the drilling of the wellbore. The controller is coupled with the cable assembly, and receives data from the fiber optic line during the drilling of the wellbore by the drill tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Philippe QUERO, Eric BIVENS
  • Publication number: 20210254412
    Abstract: Provided is a method for connecting coiled tubing strings, as well as a flexible stabbing snake. In one aspect, the method for connecting coiled tubing strings includes lowering a downhole end of a first coiled tubing string within a wellbore, and coupling an uphole end of the first coiled tubing string to a downhole end of a second coiled tubing string at a location between a coiled tubing injector and the wellbore to form a combined coiled tubing string. In at least one aspect, the method further includes lowering the combined coiled tubing string within the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Philippe Quero, Eric Bivens, Robert Gordon Howard, Harley Jones, II, Peter Gainey, Malcolm Richard