Patents by Inventor Khalid M. Alruwaili
Khalid M. Alruwaili 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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Patent number: 11994009Abstract: Methods and systems for perforating a downhole formation which include attaching a CO2 perforating device to a wireline, where the CO2 perforating device may include one or more CO2 filled perforating units. The methods and systems may further include disposing the CO2 perforating device at a depth within a wellbore and detonating the one or more CO2 filled perforating units to perforate one or more surfaces selected from the group consisting of the wellbore casing, cement, and the downhole formation.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Khalid R. Alnoaimi, Khalid M. Alruwaili
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Patent number: 11867053Abstract: The shear head device includes a monitoring head having geophones and transmitters inside a cylindrical body. A shear head is coupled to the monitoring head from below. The shear head has a tubular structure with a plurality of apertures formed around an outer surface of the tubular structure. A plurality of cones are coupled with modified tips and disposed within the plurality of apertures. A sheet supports the plurality of cones inside the shear head. The sheet is selectively movable between a first radial position and a second radial position for the modified tips to apply radial force to the rock by adjustment of an internal pressure of the shear head. The transmitters transmit the recorded acoustic emission to a computing system for determining properties of the rock while the shear head device is testing the rock in the bore.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, INTEGRITY INSITUInventors: Khalid M. Alruwaili, Cory Fehr
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Patent number: 11828168Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include obtaining well logs data pertaining to a well of interest. The method may further include training a physics-constrained machine learning (PCML) model using the obtained well logs data as inputs. The method may further include outputting one or more sonic logs and mechanical properties of interest determined by using the trained PCML model and the obtained well logs data for the well of interest. The method may further include updating the determined sonic logs and mechanical properties of interest based on a breakout model and field breakout data for the well of interest. The method may further include outputting the final sonic logs for the well of interest. The method may further include determining one or more mechanical properties for well planning based on the final sonic logs for the well of interest.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Murtadha J. AlTammar, Weichang Li, Khalid M. Alruwaili, Osman Hamid
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Patent number: 11761864Abstract: A method includes preparing a rocklike core sample for compressive testing, the rocklike core sample defining a longitudinal axis and having first and second axial ends. Preparing the rocklike core sample includes providing a throughhole in the rocklike core sample, the throughhole extending between a first opening at the first axial end and a second opening at the second axial end, wherein the first opening and the second opening are dimensioned differently. The rocklike core sample is mounted in a compressive testing apparatus, and a compressive test is performed on the rocklike core sample in the compressive testing apparatus. The compressive test includes compression in axial and radial directions. A related system includes a compressive testing apparatus and a sample preparation apparatus which prepares a rocklike core sample for compressive testing in the compressive testing apparatus, via providing a throughhole in the rocklike core sample.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Khalid M. Alruwaili, Yanhui Han, Murtadha J. AlTammar
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Publication number: 20230194400Abstract: A method includes preparing a rocklike core sample for compressive testing, the rocklike core sample defining a longitudinal axis and having first and second axial ends. Preparing the rocklike core sample includes providing a throughhole in the rocklike core sample, the throughhole extending between a first opening at the first axial end and a second opening at the second axial end, wherein the first opening and the second opening are dimensioned differently. The rocklike core sample is mounted in a compressive testing apparatus, and a compressive test is performed on the rocklike core sample in the compressive testing apparatus. The compressive test includes compression in axial and radial directions. A related system includes a compressive testing apparatus and a sample preparation apparatus which prepares a rocklike core sample for compressive testing in the compressive testing apparatus, via providing a throughhole in the rocklike core sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANYInventors: Khalid M. Alruwaili, Yanhui Han, Murtadha J. AlTammar
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Publication number: 20230193752Abstract: A method for developing a procedure for pretreating a section of a wellbore prior to hydraulic fracturing stimulation of the section of the wellbore includes determining an optimized notch geometry and determining an optimized chemical treatment for the section of the wellbore. The optimized notch geometry is determined by modeling a notch in the section of the wellbore using a computing system, simulating a pressure increase in the section of the wellbore and on the notch from a hydraulic fracturing stimulation, identifying breakdown pressure in the section of the wellbore, and repeating the modeling, simulating, and identifying to determine the optimized notch geometry in the wellbore as the notch having a lowest breakdown pressure. The optimized chemical treatment is determined by determining a rock type in the section of the wellbore and determining a conditioning fluid that reduces the tensile strength of the rock type.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Yanhui Han, Feng Liang, Khalid M. Alruwaili
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Publication number: 20230193751Abstract: A method may include obtaining well log data for various wells regarding a geological region of interest. The well log data may correspond to various well logs with different logging types. The method may include assigning, using a grouping algorithm, subsets of the well log data to various groups based on one or more geological attributes. The method may include determining, using the groups and a machine-learning algorithm, various well zones for different portions of a respective well among the wells. The method may include determining interpolated log data using the well log data, the well zones, and an intrawell interpolation process. The method may include generating a formation property volume based on the interpolated log data and the well log data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Weichang Li, Murtadha J. AITammar, Khalid M. Alruwaili, Osman Hamid
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Publication number: 20230003118Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include obtaining well logs data pertaining to a well of interest. The method may further include training a physics-constrained machine learning (PCML) model using the obtained well logs data as inputs. The method may further include outputting one or more sonic logs and mechanical properties of interest determined by using the trained PCML model and the obtained well logs data for the well of interest. The method may further include updating the determined sonic logs and mechanical properties of interest based on a breakout model and field breakout data for the well of interest. The method may further include outputting the final sonic logs for the well of interest. The method may further include determining one or more mechanical properties for well planning based on the final sonic logs for the well of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANYInventors: Murtadha J. AlTammar, Weichang Li, Khalid M. Alruwaili, Osman Hamid
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Publication number: 20220163689Abstract: The shear head device includes a monitoring head having geophones and transmitters inside a cylindrical body. A shear head is coupled to the monitoring head from below. The shear head has a tubular structure with a plurality of apertures formed around an outer surface of the tubular structure. A plurality of cones are coupled with modified tips and disposed within the plurality of apertures. A sheet supports the plurality of cones inside the shear head. The sheet is selectively movable between a first radial position and a second radial position for the modified tips to apply radial force to the rock by adjustment of an internal pressure of the shear head. The transmitters transmit the recorded acoustic emission to a computing system for determining properties of the rock while the shear head device is testing the rock in the bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicants: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, INTEGRITY INSITUInventors: Khalid M. Alruwaili, Cory Fehr
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Publication number: 20210301633Abstract: Methods and systems for perforating a downhole formation which include attaching a CO2 perforating device to a wireline, where the CO2 perforating device may include one or more CO2 filled perforating units. The methods and systems may further include disposing the CO2 perforating device at a depth within a wellbore and detonating the one or more CO2 filled perforating units to perforate one or more surfaces selected from the group consisting of the wellbore casing, cement, and the downhole formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Khalid R. Alnoaimi, Khalid M. Alruwaili
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Patent number: 10752828Abstract: A method for extracting natural gas or petroleum-based products, including: introducing shape memory alloy beads into a wellbore with hydraulic fracturing fluid to form a bridge comprising shape memory alloy beads in a tertiary path, where the shape memory alloy beads forming the bridge have a first phase, and the hydraulic fracturing fluid has an initial hydraulic fracturing fluid flow rate across the bridge; applying a pressure to transform the shape memory alloy beads to a second phase, where deforming the shape memory alloy beads causes the hydraulic fracturing fluid to have a second hydraulic fracturing fluid flow rate across the bridge.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Ahmed M. Gomaa, Khalid M. Alruwaili, Ghaithan A. Muntasheri
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Publication number: 20200024507Abstract: A method for extracting natural gas or petroleum-based products, including: introducing shape memory alloy beads into a wellbore with hydraulic fracturing fluid to form a bridge comprising shape memory alloy beads in a tertiary path, where the shape memory alloy beads forming the bridge have a first phase, and the hydraulic fracturing fluid has an initial hydraulic fracturing fluid flow rate across the bridge; applying a pressure to transform the shape memory alloy beads to a second phase, where deforming the shape memory alloy beads causes the hydraulic fracturing fluid to have a second hydraulic fracturing fluid flow rate across the bridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Ahmed M. Gomaa, Khalid M. Alruwaili, Ghaithan A. Muntasheri