Patents by Inventor Hifzi Ardic
Hifzi Ardic 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: 20240133662Abstract: A liner for a shaped charge. The liner, when the associated shaped charge is detonated, does not create a plug, carrot, or residue in the created perforation tunnel. The liner is made of a material that includes one or more of a bulk metallic glass complex (BMGC) or a high entropy alloy (HEA). The liner can include super-hard materials. The liner can be produced using one or more of a severe plastic deformation process, a cold isostatic pressing process, or a spark plasma sinter process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: DamorpheInventors: TIng Chen, Indranil Roy, Kamel Bennaceur, Hifzi Ardic
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Publication number: 20230040156Abstract: A top drive that can include a main body portion having a quill that is rotatable relative to the main body portion, a rotary portion that rotates relative to the main body portion and relative to the quill, and a component coupled to the rotary portion, wherein the component rotates with the rotary portion, and wherein the component is electrically actuated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Hifzi Ardic, Faisal Yousef, Edward Bluestone, James M. Hall, Ryan Belanger
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Publication number: 20220397376Abstract: A liner for a shaped charge having integrated tracers. The liner, when the associated shaped charge is detonated, does not create a plug, carrot, or residue in the created perforation tunnel. The liner includes integrated tracers that, after detonation, are scattered into the perforation tunnel and then begin to flow back in formation fluid flow and are identifiable in the flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: DamorpheInventors: Ting Chen, Indranil Roy, Kamel Bennaceur, Hifzi Ardic
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Patent number: 8726980Abstract: A technique facilitates the employment of an electric submersible pumping system or other well system downhole into a wellbore. The electric motor system is coupled with a signal carrying cable for conveyance to a desired downhole location in the wellbore. The signal carrying cable is constructed with sufficient strength to solely support the electric motor system during deployment and use in the wellbore without addition of a separate supporting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Joseph Varkey, Allan D. Ross, Hifzi Ardic, Willem A. Wijnberg, Jushik Yun, Jose Ramon Lozano-Gendreau
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Patent number: 8697992Abstract: A cable assembly for use in a hydrocarbon well of extensive depth. The cable assembly may be effectively employed at well depths of over 30,000 feet. Indeed, embodiments of the assembly may be effectively employed at depths of over 50,000 feet while powering and directing downhole equipment at a downhole end thereof. The assembly may be made up of a comparatively high break strength uphole cable portion coupled to a lighter downhole cable portion. This configuration helps to ensure the structural integrity of the assembly in light of its own load when disposed in a well to such extensive depths. Additionally, the assembly may be employed at such depths with an intervening connector sub having a signal amplification mechanism incorporated therein to alleviate concern over telemetry between the surface of the oilfield and the downhole equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Peter Gillan, Joseph Varkey, Jose Ramon Lozano-Gendreau, Vladimir Hernandez-Solis, Jan W. Smits, Hifzi Ardic
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Patent number: 8544339Abstract: A well access line monitor. The monitor may be employed to directly interface and establish the current yield strength of a plastically deformable line such as coiled tubing or slickline. Such interfacing may take place in advance of, or during an application. Thus, the fitness of the line for the application may be established in real-time. Further, with comparison to a reference log of projected yield strength for the line over the course of multiple bend cycles, the remaining life of the line may also be established.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: L. Michael McKee, Robert Michael Ramsey, Hifzi Ardic
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Publication number: 20110240312Abstract: A technique facilitates the employment of an electric submersible pumping system or other well system downhole into a wellbore. The electric motor system is coupled with a signal carrying cable for conveyance to a desired downhole location in the wellbore. The signal carrying cable is constructed with sufficient strength to solely support the electric motor system during deployment and use in the wellbore without addition of a separate supporting mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Varkey, Allan D. Ross, Hifzi Ardic, Willem Wijnberg, Jushik Yun, Jose Ramon Lozano-Gendreau
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Publication number: 20110154908Abstract: A well access line monitor. The monitor may be employed to directly interface and establish the current yield strength of a plastically deformable line such as coiled tubing or slickline. Such interfacing may take place in advance of, or during an application. Thus, the fitness of the line for the application may be established in real-time. Further, with comparison to a reference log of projected yield strength for the line over the course of multiple bend cycles, the remaining life of the line may also be established.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: L. Michael Mckee, Robert Michael Ramsey, Hifzi Ardic
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Patent number: 7874372Abstract: An assembly for positioning a well access line in a well. The assembly is located between a supply of well access line and a well, with the line running through the assembly and to the well. Multiple pulleys are incorporated into the assembly about which a well access line such as a conventional wireline may be wrapped. The pulleys are biased to one another such that slack in the line may be stored at the assembly and drawn on in the event of line tension spiking up to a predetermined amount. As such, tension in the line may be kept to a minimum so as to avoid damage to the line during a well access operation. Furthermore, should the tension in the line fail to come back down to below the predetermined amount, the well access operation may be halted in an automated manner. Halting may proceed while continuing to allow take-up of the slack in the line until completed halting of the operation is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Joseph Varkey, Peter Fitzgerald, Hifzi Ardic
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Publication number: 20090194296Abstract: A cable assembly for use in a hydrocarbon well of extensive depth. The cable assembly may be effectively employed at well depths of over 30,000 feet. Indeed, embodiments of the assembly may be effectively employed at depths of over 50,000 feet while powering and directing downhole equipment at a downhole end thereof The assembly may be made up of a comparatively high break strength uphole cable portion coupled to a lighter downhole cable portion. This configuration helps to ensure the structural integrity of the assembly in light of its own load when disposed in a well to such extensive depths. Additionally, the assembly may be employed at such depths with an intervening connector sub having a signal amplification mechanism incorporated therein to alleviate concern over telemetry between the surface of the oilfield and the downhole equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Peter Gillan, Joseph Varkey, Jose Ramon Lozano-Gendreau, Vladimir Hernandez-Solis, Jan W. Smits, Hifzi Ardic
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Publication number: 20090020294Abstract: An assembly for positioning a well access line in a well. The assembly is located between a supply of well access line and a well, with the line running through the assembly and to the well. Multiple pulleys are incorporated into the assembly about which a well access line such as a conventional wireline may be wrapped. The pulleys are biased to one another such that slack in the line may be stored at the assembly and drawn on in the event of line tension spiking up to a predetermined amount. As such, tension in the line may be kept to a minimum so as to avoid damage to the line during a well access operation. Furthermore, should the tension in the line fail to come back down to below the predetermined amount, the well access operation may be halted in an automated manner. Halting may proceed while continuing to allow take-up of the slack in the line until completed halting of the operation is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Joseph Varkey, Peter Fitzgerald, Hifzi Ardic