Patents by Inventor Jose Luis Sanchez Flores

Jose Luis Sanchez Flores 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).

  • System and method for controlling drilling process
    Patent number: 10400573
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing automated drilling processes are disclosed. Such techniques include modeling a formation and selecting a drilling trajectory in the formation. Measurements of rate of penetration (ROP), revolutions per minute (RPM), weight-on-bit (WOB) and torque-on-bit (TOB) of a drilling string at a position on the drilling trajectory in the formation are received. A functional relationship between depth of cut (DOC), WOB, and TOB for the modeled formation is determined. Operating constraints defining a safe operating envelope as a function of RPM and WOB along the selected drilling trajectory are determined, and an optimal RPM and WOB is determined based on operating constraints. A cost function of RPM and WOB is determined, and a path from current RPM and WOB to optimal RPM and WOB is determined based on the cost function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: CuiLi Yang, James P. Belaskie, Jose Luis Sanchez Flores, Richard Harmer
  • Dynamic phase machine automation of oil and gas processes
    Patent number: 9540920
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product facilitate the automation of an oil & gas process, e.g., a drilling process, through the use of a dynamic phase machine incorporating multiple autonomous agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Clinton D. Chapman, Mochammad Faisal Wingky, Jacques Bourque, Jan Morley, Han Yu, Hector Arismendi Sanchez, Jose Luis Sanchez Flores
  • System and Method for Controlling Drilling Process
    Publication number: 20150369031
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing automated drilling processes are disclosed. Such techniques include modeling a formation and selecting a drilling trajectory in the formation. Measurements of rate of penetration (ROP), revolutions per minute (RPM), weight-on-bit (WOB) and torque-on-bit (TOB) of a drilling string at a position on the drilling trajectory in the formation are received. A functional relationship between depth of cut (DOC), WOB, and TOB for the modeled formation is determined. Operating constraints defining a safe operating envelope as a function of RPM and WOB along the selected drilling trajectory are determined, and an optimal RPM and WOB is determined based on operating constraints. A cost function of RPM and WOB is determined, and a path from current RPM and WOB to optimal RPM and WOB is determined based on the cost function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: CuiLi Yang, James P. Belaskie, Jose Luis Sanchez Flores, Richard Harmer
  • DYNAMIC PHASE MACHINE AUTOMATION OF OIL & GAS PROCESSES
    Publication number: 20130231787
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product facilitate the automation of an oil & gas process, e.g., a drilling process, through the use of a dynamic phase machine incorporating multiple autonomous agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Clinton D. Chapman, Mochammad Faisal Wingky, Jacques Bourque, Jan Morley, Han Yu, Hector Arismendi Sanchez, Jose Luis Sanchez Flores