Patents by Inventor Joseph J. Beaman, JR.

Joseph J. Beaman, JR. 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).

  • Method and apparatus for early detection of kicks
    Patent number: 10920579
    Abstract: A well monitoring system particularly useful in detecting kicks in the well includes a well, a well system, and a computing apparatus. The well defines a wellbore and the well system includes at least one sensor measuring at least one well condition. The computing apparatus hosts a well monitoring software component that performs a method to detect a kick in a well. The method includes: storing a set of real-time data from a measurement of a well condition by the sensor, the measurements being correlative to an unplanned fluid influx into the well; modeling the operation of the well with a physics-based, state space model of the well system to obtain an estimate of the well condition; and applying the real-time data set and the estimate to a probabilistic estimator to yield a probability of an occurrence of a kick and a confidence measure for the probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Beaman, Jr., Scott Fish, David A. Foti, Warren J. Winters
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF KICKS
    Publication number: 20160237810
    Abstract: A well monitoring system particularly useful in detecting kicks in the well includes a well, a well system, and a computing apparatus. The well defines a wellbore and the well system includes at least one sensor measuring at least one well condition. The computing apparatus hosts a well monitoring software component that performs a method to detect a kick in a well. The method includes: storing a set of real-time data from a measurement of a well condition by the sensor, the measurements being correlative to an unplanned fluid influx into the well; modeling the operation of the well with a physics-based, state space model of the well system to obtain an estimate of the well condition; and applying the real-time data set and the estimate to a probabilistic estimator to yield a probability of an occurrence of a kick and a confidence measure for the probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph J. Beaman, JR., Scott Fish, David A. Foti, Warren J. Winters