Patents by Inventor Kevin Karl Waddell

Kevin Karl Waddell 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).

  • Mono-diameter wellbore casing
    Patent number: 7516790
    Abstract: A mono-diameter wellbore casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring, William J. Dean, Kevin Karl Waddell
  • Methods for Expanding a Pipeline
    Publication number: 20090013516
    Abstract: A method of repairing a damaged portion of an underground pipeline positioned within a subterranean formation below the surface of the earth and having a flowbore. In some embodiments, the method includes inserting one or more pipe sections into the flowbore, the one or more pipe sections coupled and forming a throughpassage, positioning the one or more pipe sections within a damaged portion of the pipeline, disposing an expansion device within the throughpassage, and displacing the expansion device along the throughpassage, wherein the one or more pipe sections are radially expanded into engagement with at least the damaged portion of the pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Kevin Karl Waddell, Mark Shuster, Anthony Cole, Robert Lance Cook, R. Bruce Stewart, Richard Carl Haut, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Robert Donald Mack, Serge Roggeband
  • Seal receptacle using expandable liner hanger
    Patent number: 7290605
    Abstract: The end of an expandable liner hanger (120) provides a receptacle for another tubular liner (135).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology
    Inventors: Kevin Karl Waddell, Michael Dennis Bullock, Joel Gray Hockaday, Tance Alan Jackson
  • Liner hanger with sliding sleeve valve
    Patent number: 7172021
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming or repairing a wellbore casing, a pipeline, or a structural support. An expandable tubular member is radially expanded and plastically deformed by an expansion cone that is displaced by hydraulic pressure. Before or after the radial expansion of the expandable tubular member, a sliding sleeve valve within the apparatus permit a hardenable fluidic sealing material to be injected into an annulus between the expandable tubular member and a preexisting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: David Paul Brisco, Edwin Arnold Zwald, Chan Lawrence Daigle, Gregory Marshall Noel, William Joseph Dean, Andrei Gregory Filippov, Ronald D. Nida, Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring, Kevin Karl Waddell, William Rusty Stephenson, Rune T. Gusevik
  • Isolation of subterranean zones
    Patent number: 7121352
    Abstract: One or more subterranean zones are isolated from one or more other subterranean zones using a combination of solid tubulars and perforated tubulars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Enventure Global Technology
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Kevin Karl Waddell, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco, Vikram Rao
  • Isolation of subterranean zones
    Publication number: 20040123983
    Abstract: One or more subterranean zones are isolated from one or more other subterranean zones using a combination of solid tubulars and perforated tubulars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: Enventure Global Technology L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Kevin Karl Waddell, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco, Vikram Rao