Patents by Inventor Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal
Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal 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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Publication number: 20240110457Abstract: A stand-alone packer has a compressible packer element having an upper end and a lower end disposed about a packer body. A setting sleeve is disposed about the packer body above the compressible packer element. A packer stop having a flat annular upper face is positioned on the packer body below the compressible packer element and a sliding sleeve is disposed in the packer body and detachably connected to the setting sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Saul Emmanuel Vazquez Niebla, Ahmad Rizal Maharam
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Patent number: 11920436Abstract: A downhole tool can be used as a fill valve to circulate a fluid, such as a spacer fluid, through the tool. The tool can include a top and bottom flapper valve and an inner and outer sliding sleeve. The sliding sleeves can be shifted together to allow the top flapper valve to close. Continued shifting of the inner sleeve can cause the bottom flapper valve to close. A cementing operation can then be performed through the tool. Sealing elements can be located between the outside of the inner sleeve and inside of the outer sleeve. Sealing elements can also be located between the outside of the outer sleeve and the inside of a tool mandrel. The sealing elements can prevent debris from becoming lodged within the tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal
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Patent number: 11885197Abstract: A stage cementing tool for use in a wellbore comprises a mandrel having a plurality of circumferentially spaced first longitudinal slots and a plurality of circumferentially spaced second longitudinal slots. An opening sleeve is disposed in the mandrel in a first position and movable relative thereto. A setting sleeve disposed about the mandrel is connected to the opening sleeve and movable therewith. A drive sleeve disposed in the mandrel above the opening sleeve is connected to and movable with a closing sleeve disposed about the mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ishwar Patil, Priyanshkumar Desai, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Handoko Tirto Santoso
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Publication number: 20240026753Abstract: A stage cementing tool for a wellbore comprises a tool body defining a flow port in a wall thereof. The tool body and wellbore define an annulus therebetween. A setting sleeve compresses a packer element as it moves from the first to the second position. The packer element expands radially outwardly to engage the wellbore as a result of the compression applied by the setting sleeve. A pump-out plug in the tool body is expellable into the annulus upon the application of pressure in the tool body after the packer element engages the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Saul Emmanuel Vazquez Niebla, Ahmad Rizal Maharam
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Publication number: 20240026751Abstract: Provided is an inner sleeve, a downhole tool, and a method for cementing. The inner sleeve, in at least one aspect, includes a tubular having an inside tubular surface and an outside tubular surface. The inner sleeve, according to this aspect, further includes a collet including two or more collet fingers coupled to one end of the tubular, the collet having an inside collet surface and an outside collet surface, and further wherein the inside collet surface flares outward from the inside tubular surface by an angle (?0) when the collet is in its natural state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Lonnie Carl Helms, Maithri Muddasani, Charles David Slavin, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal
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Patent number: 11873696Abstract: A stage cementing tool for a wellbore comprises a tool body defining a flow port in a wall thereof. The tool body and wellbore define an annulus therebetween. A setting sleeve compresses a packer element as it moves from the first to the second position. The packer element expands radially outwardly to engage the wellbore as a result of the compression applied by the setting sleeve. A pump-out plug in the tool body is expellable into the annulus upon the application of pressure in the tool body after the packer element engages the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Saul Emmanuel Vazquez Niebla, Ahmad Rizal Maharam
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Patent number: 11873698Abstract: A downhole tool has a tubular body defining an outer wall. A port is defined in the outer wall and a plug is received in the port. The plug is detachably connected to the outer wall and expellable into an annulus between the tubular body and a wellbore in which the downhole tool is placed upon the application of pressure in an interior of the tubular body.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Priyanshkumar Desai, Timothy James Weber
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Publication number: 20240011369Abstract: Provided is an inner sleeve, a downhole tool, and a method for cementing. The inner sleeve, in at least one aspect, includes a tubular having an uphole end, a downhole end, an inside tubular surface and an outside tubular surface. The inner sleeve, in accordance with this aspect, further includes two or more plug seat openings circumferentially positioned about the tubular and extending from the outside tubular surface to the inside tubular surface, the two or more plug seat openings configured to engage with two or more associated plug seats and allow the two or more associated plug seats to move between a radially retracted state and a radially extended state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta VIllarreal
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Publication number: 20230399920Abstract: A downhole tool can be used as a fill valve to circulate a fluid, such as a spacer fluid, through the tool. The tool can include a top and bottom flapper valve and an inner and outer sliding sleeve. The sliding sleeves can be shifted together to allow the top flapper valve to close. Continued shifting of the inner sleeve can cause the bottom flapper valve to close. A cementing operation can then be performed through the tool. Sealing elements can be located between the outside of the inner sleeve and inside of the outer sleeve. Sealing elements can also be located between the outside of the outer sleeve and the inside of a tool mandrel. The sealing elements can prevent debris from becoming lodged within the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2022Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Frank Vinicia Acosta VILLARREAL
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Publication number: 20230392472Abstract: A downhole tool has a tool body with a tool body outer diameter. A liner with a liner outer diameter is connected to the tool body. The tool body has a plurality of diverter ports defined in a wall thereof. A closing sleeve is movable in the tool body to close the diverter ports. A closing seat attached to the closing sleeve is a frangible closing seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Nathan Barrett Wyatt, Lonnie Carl Helms, Tor Sigve Saetre, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal
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Publication number: 20230139858Abstract: A stage cementing tool for use in a wellbore comprises a mandrel having a plurality of circumferentially spaced first longitudinal slots and a plurality of circumferentially spaced second longitudinal slots. An opening sleeve is disposed in the mandrel in a first position and movable relative thereto. A setting sleeve disposed about the mandrel is connected to the opening sleeve and movable therewith. A drive sleeve is disposed in the mandrel above the opening sleeve is connected to and movable with a closing sleeve disposed about the mandrel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Ishwar Patil, Priyanshkumar Desai, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Handoko Tirto Santoso
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Publication number: 20230092656Abstract: A valve housing has a first flapper moveable from an open position in the housing in which two-way flow is allowed to a closed position in which only one-way flow is permitted. A first collet sleeve is moveable from a first position to a second position in the valve housing. The first collet sleeve in the first position retains the flapper valve in the open position. The collet sleeve is moveable from a first position to a second position which allows the flapper to move to a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Rajesh Parameshwaraiah, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Maithri Muddasani, Saul Emmanuel Vazquez Niebla
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Patent number: 11377920Abstract: A method of anchoring a housing to an inner diameter of a tubing string can include: installing an anchoring assembly at an end of the tubing string, the anchoring assembly comprising: a body; the housing; an installation sleeve; a rotating sleeve in threaded connection with the housing and the installation sleeve; and a plurality of anchoring buttons located within a plurality of cutouts on the housing; causing movement of the body along a longitudinal axis of the tubing string towards the end of the tubing string that causes the plurality of anchoring buttons to circumvolve around a pin and an edge of the anchoring buttons lockingly engages with the ID of the tubing string after circumvolving; releasing both of the installation sleeve and the rotating sleeve from engagement with the tubing string, the body, and the housing; and removing the installation sleeve and the rotating sleeve from the anchoring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Rajesh Parameshwaraiah, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Maithri Muddasani
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Publication number: 20220065059Abstract: A method of anchoring a housing to an inner diameter of a tubing string can include: installing an anchoring assembly at an end of the tubing string, the anchoring assembly comprising: a body; the housing; an installation sleeve; a rotating sleeve in threaded connection with the housing and the installation sleeve; and a plurality of anchoring buttons located within a plurality of cutouts on the housing; causing movement of the body along a longitudinal axis of the tubing string towards the end of the tubing string that causes the plurality of anchoring buttons to circumvolve around a pin and an edge of the anchoring buttons lockingly engages with the ID of the tubing string after circumvolving; releasing both of the installation sleeve and the rotating sleeve from engagement with the tubing string, the body, and the housing; and removing the installation sleeve and the rotating sleeve from the anchoring assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Rajesh Parameshwaraiah, Lonnie Carl Helms, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Maithri Muddasani
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Patent number: 11174701Abstract: Remedial wellbore operations can be performed using metal material coated with a layer that is controllably activated to release the metal material downhole in a wellbore. At least a portion of the wellbore can be plugged or sealed using the metal material.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Cecil Pearl, Jr., Samuel J. Lewis, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Lonnie Carl Helms
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Publication number: 20210222512Abstract: Remedial wellbore operations can be performed using metal material coated with a layer that is controllably activated to release the metal material downhole in a wellbore. At least a portion of the wellbore can be plugged or sealed using the metal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: William Cecil Pearl, JR., Samuel J. Lewis, Frank Vinicia Acosta Villarreal, Lonnie Carl Helms