Patents by Inventor Frederic Nicolas Felten

Frederic Nicolas Felten 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: 10738573
    Abstract: Fluid flow control systems are configured to resist erosion-corrosion and minimize wall shear stress during injection or production. A fluid flow control system includes a base pipe with an internal passageway. A housing is positioned around the base pipe to define a fluid flow path between the filter component and the internal passageway. A flow control component is positioned within the fluid flow path in order to control fluid flow. A flow-induced erosion resistance component, which may take a variety of forms, is positioned within the fluid flow path to reduce and/or eliminate wall shear stress along the base pipe. As a result, erosion-corrosion of the bases pipe is reduced and/or eliminated altogether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Weiqi Yin, Frederic Nicolas Felten, Georgina Corona Cortes, Caleb Thomas Warren, Bryon David Mullen, Richard Hancock Merrill
  • Publication number: 20200011153
    Abstract: A system for providing autonomous flow control of a fluid from a wellbore to an interior of a tubing string by using a variable flow resistance system. The system can include a body, with a chamber that can be configured to induce rotational flow in a fluid that flows through the chamber. The chamber can include an inlet for fluid entering the chamber and an outlet for fluid exiting the chamber. A cross-sectional area of the chamber can be reduced along a central axis of the chamber toward the outlet, with the cross-sectional area being perpendicular to a central axis. A well screen assembly may utilize one or more of the variable flow resistance systems to provide a determined flow resistance and/or flow rate of the fluid through the screen assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci, Frederic Nicolas Felten
  • Patent number: 10344565
    Abstract: A downhole chemical injection system that may include at least a first and a second injection port. The first injection port may be fluidically coupled with a chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with a production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may be fluidically coupled with the chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with the production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. The first injection port may include at least a first radially extending injection nozzle, extending injection nozzle extending in a first radial direction relative to a central axis of the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may include at least a second radially extending injection nozzle, extending in a second radial direction relative to the central axis of the production tubing string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Nicolas Felten, Paul Anthony Haines, Ammar Abdilghanie Mohammed
  • Publication number: 20190112903
    Abstract: Fluid flow control systems are configured to resist erosion-corrosion and minimize wall shear stress during injection or production. A fluid flow control system includes a base pipe with an internal passageway. A housing is positioned around the base pipe to define a fluid flow path between the filter component and the internal passageway. A flow control component is positioned within the fluid flow path in order to control fluid flow. A flow-induced erosion resistance component, which may take a variety of forms, is positioned within the fluid flow path to reduce and/or eliminate wall shear stress along the base pipe. As a result, erosion-corrosion of the bases pipe is reduced and/or eliminated altogether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Weiqi Yin, Frederic Nicolas Felten, Georgina Corona Cortes, Caleb Thomas Warren, Bryon David Mullen, Richard Hancock Merrill
  • Patent number: 10208571
    Abstract: A well screen assembly includes a tubing including a center bore and at least one aperture through the tubing between an outer radial surface of the tubing and an inner radial surface of the tubing; a filtration screen positioned around the tubing; a housing positioned around the tubing and including a fluid chamber in fluid communication with an outlet of the filtration screen; and a flow control device positioned in fluid communication with the outlet of the filtration screen and the at least one aperture to reduce a wall shear stress on at least one of the tubing or the at least one aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Weiqi Yin, Frederic Nicolas Felten, Stephen Michael Greci, Brandon Thomas Least
  • Publication number: 20180371872
    Abstract: A downhole chemical injection system that may include at least a first and a second injection port. The first injection port may be fluidically coupled with a chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with a production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may be fluidically coupled with the chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with the production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. The first injection port may include at least a first radially extending injection nozzle, extending injection nozzle extending in a first radial direction relative to a central axis of the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may include at least a second radially extending injection nozzle, extending in a second radial direction relative to the central axis of the production tubing string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Nicolas FELTEN, Paul Anthony HAINES, Ammar ABDILGHANIE MOHAMMED
  • Patent number: 10072479
    Abstract: A downhole chemical injection system that may include at least a first and a second injection port. The first injection port may be fluidically coupled with a chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with a production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may be fluidically coupled with the chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with the production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. The first injection port may include at least a first radially extending injection nozzle, extending injection nozzle extending in a first radial direction relative to a central axis of the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may include at least a second radially extending injection nozzle, extending in a second radial direction relative to the central axis of the production tubing string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Nicolas Felten, Paul Anthony Haines, Ammar Abdilghanie Mohammed
  • Publication number: 20170260833
    Abstract: A downhole chemical injection system that may include at least a first and a second injection port. The first injection port may be fluidically coupled with a chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with a production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may be fluidically coupled with the chemical injection line and fluidically coupled with the production tubing string to inject the chemical into the production tubing string. The first injection port may include at least a first radially extending injection nozzle, extending injection nozzle extending in a first radial direction relative to a central axis of the production tubing string. Similarly, the second injection port may include at least a second radially extending injection nozzle, extending in a second radial direction relative to the central axis of the production tubing string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Nicolas FELTEN, Paul Anthony HAINES, Ammar ABDILGHANIE MOHAMMED
  • Publication number: 20160341016
    Abstract: A well screen assembly includes a tubing including a center bore and at least one aperture through the tubing between an outer radial surface of the tubing and an inner radial surface of the tubing; a filtration screen positioned around the tubing; a housing positioned around the tubing and including a fluid chamber in fluid communication with an outlet of the filtration screen; and a flow control device positioned in fluid communication with the outlet of the filtration screen and the at least one aperture to reduce a wall shear stress on at least one of the tubing or the at least one aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Weiqi Yin, Frederic Nicolas Felten, Stephen Michael Greci, Brandon Thomas Least