Patents by Inventor Max O. Duncan

Max O. Duncan 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).

  • Publication number: 20220205340
    Abstract: A system for designing a casing string for an oil well, a gas well, an oil and gas well, and/or a geothermal well. The system comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory storing a casing string design, wherein the casing string design comprises at least one section of UOE-type pipe, a downhole environment simulation application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor determines downhole conditions based on the casing string design, wherein the downhole conditions comprise a downhole temperature, and a casing collapse strength modeling application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor, analyzes collapse strength of the casing string based on the downhole temperature and based on a UOE-type pipe collapse strength model and presents a collapse strength report on the casing string design based on analyzing the collapse strength of the casing string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Zhengchun LIU, Robello SAMUEL, Adolfo GONZALES, Max O. DUNCAN, Jenny XIE, Yongfeng KANG
  • Publication number: 20220178243
    Abstract: A well operation simulator predicts temperature and pressure profiles of a multi-tubing completion well for well design. The simulator is comprised of modules, which when executed, determine a first set of design limits based on stress conditions arising from the temperature and pressure profiles from a multi-tubing drilling module and a multi -tubing production module for drilling and production operations. A multi-tubing multi-string module predicts the annular fluid expansion (AFE) and annular pressure buildup (APB) of the multi-tubing well from the previously calculated temperature profile, pressure profile, and stress conditions and determines a second set of design limits with the AFE/APB effects in addition to the temperature profile and pressure profile predicted from multi-tubing drilling module and multi-tubing production module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yongfeng Kang, Adolfo Gonzales, Robello Samuel, Zhengchun Liu, Jun Jiang, Max O. Duncan