Abstract: A system and method for managing a parking area of a rental complex is provided. Generally, a user may use the user interface of the system to input data pertaining to individual units of a rental complex, wherein each individual unit is associated with at least one parking space of a parking area. The parking space may have a specific location within a parking area or generally refer to one parking space of a plurality of parking spaces within a parking area. Preauthorization rules of the system dictate the maximum number of parking spaces a user of the system may be allocated at a given time. Users may manipulate user interfaces of the system to generate parking passes. In some embodiments, scanning devices may be used to help monitor parking areas by scanning parking passes generated by the system.

Abstract: A method for hazard detection and fire prevention during mobile refueling operation includes: accessing a geospatial position of a mobile refueling platform; detecting the geospatial position within a geospatial region as a first condition in a set of conditions, the geospatial region permitted for refueling operation; accessing a distance between the mobile refueling platform and a surface of an object proximal the mobile refueling platform; detecting the distance exceeding a distance threshold as a second condition in the set of conditions; accessing a concentration of a gas proximal the mobile refueling platform; detecting the concentration falling below a concentration threshold as a third condition in the first set of conditions; and in response to the set of conditions corresponding to a set of target conditions for mobile refueling operation, transmitting a control signal to open a fuel valve of the mobile refueling platform.

Abstract: An orientable perforating gun of a downhole tool and method. The orientable perforating gun includes a housing, a downhole component, and an orienting bearing assembly. The downhole component includes a detonation assembly positioned in the housing. The detonation assembly includes a charge assembly carrying shaped charges, and a detonator assembly carrying a detonator to ignite the shaped charges. The orienting bearing assembly includes a rotational bearing and an orienter. The rotational bearing is coupled to the downhole component, and supports the downhole component within the downhole tool. The orienter includes an offset counterweight coupled to the downhole component. The orienter gravitationally urges a portion of the downhole component to a weighted position within the downhole tool whereby the downhole component is positioned in a pre-determined oriented direction within the downhole tool.

Abstract: A wellsite tracker includes a tracker housing, location antenna, location unit, and tracker communicator. The location antenna is coupled to satellites to receive location data. The location unit includes a clock and a location processor to infer tracking data based on the location data and the time. The tracker communicator includes a communication unit and a communication antenna. The communication antenna is coupled to the location unit by the communication unit to receive the tracking data and to transmit the tracking data about the wellsite. Wellsite monitoring involves using the wellsite tracker to receive location data from satellites as the wellsite equipment moves about the wellsite, to inferring tracking data for the wellsite equipment based on the location data over time, and to confirm wellsite operations by comparing the tracking data for the wellsite equipment with predetermined specifications.

Abstract: A drive axle with a bevel gear differential having a differential cage as an input and two drive shafts as differential outputs. The differential cage is driven by a planet carrier of a planetary gear set, the planet carrier providing a plurality of planet shafts, each forming a stiff unit with two planet wheels stepped in diameter. The planet carrier is driven by a sun wheel and counter-acts with a static ring wheel. While the planet carrier drives the differential cage and orbits around the differential in its entirety, the differential is compactly disposed between the planet shafts.

Abstract: An orientable weight bar for a downhole tool includes a weight housing fixedly connectable to the downhole tool; an eccentric weight, and a weight lock. The eccentric weight is positioned in the weight housing. The eccentric weight has an offset mass along a radial portion thereof. The eccentric weight is rotationally and gravitationally movable within the weight housing to allow the offset mass to move to a weighted position within the weight housing. The weight lock is operatively connectable between the eccentric weight and the weight housing to secure the offset mass in the weighted position within the weight housing whereby, as the downhole tool advances through the wellbore, the eccentric weight gravitationally urges a portion of the downhole tool toward the bottom of the wellbore.

Abstract: A self-orienting swivel of a downhole tool and method. The swivel includes a top sub, a bottom sub, and a bearing assembly. The bearing assembly includes a bearing housing, bearings, and a lock member. The bearing housing has an uphole end operatively connectable to a second end of the top sub and a passage therethrough shaped to receive a bearing end of the bottom sub. The bearings are rotatably positioned in the passage of the bearing housing between the bottom sub and an inner surface of the bearing housing. The lock member is positioned in the passage of the bearing housing, and is fixedly connectable about the bottom sub. The lock member is receivably positionable in a receptacle of the top sub and rotatably movable therein whereby the bottom sub is rotatably positioned about the top sub.

Abstract: A wellbore gun assembly includes a chuck assembly for assembling a wellbore gun. The chuck assembly includes a chuck housing, a rotating gun chuck, and an axial gun chuck. The gun chucks have chuck jaws radially movable about a hole in the gun chucks to selectively grip a portion of the wellbore gun. The holes of the gun chucks are aligned to define a passage for receiving the wellbore gun therethrough. The rotating gun chuck is rotationally positioned about the axial gun chuck to selectively rotate the portion of the wellbore gun as the axial gun chuck moves axially about the axial gun chuck whereby the portions of the wellbore gun are threadedly connected together. The chuck assembly also includes a gantry loader loads gun components onto a feed assembly, and the feed assembly feeds gun components into the chuck assembly.

Abstract: A ballistic plug for sealing a wellbore includes a plug housing, a sealing element, a flow plug, and a bullet plug. The plug housing has a ballistic passage therethrough. The sealing element is positioned about an outer surface of the plug housing, and is expandable for sealing engagement with a wall of a wellbore. The flow plug is positioned in the plug housing, and sealingly positioned in the ballistic passage and removable therefrom upon application of pressure into the ballistic passage. The bullet plug is sealingly insertable in the ballistic passage, and has a release passage therethrough. The bullet plug includes a plug body and a fluid pin removably positionable in the release passage whereby, upon removal of the fluid pin, fluid is permitted to pass through the release passage.

Abstract: A setting tool fora downhole tool includes a setting housing, a setting assembly, and an integrated igniter. The setting housing has a passage therethrough. The setting assembly is positioned in the passage, and includes a drive portion and a deployment portion. The drive portion has an elongate body with a propellant chamber. The deployment portion has an opening defining a drive cavity shaped to slidingly receive an end of the drive portion. The deployment portion includes a deployment end connectable to the downhole component. The integrated igniter is positioned in the propellant chamber, and includes an integrator housing, an internal propellant, and a switch assembly connected to the internal propellant. Upon triggering the switch, the internal propellant is ignited to release an ignition fluid under ignition pressure to move the deployment portion and the downhole component connected thereto to an activated position.

Abstract: An igniter for activating a downhole component of a downhole tool includes an igniter housing, a switch assembly, and a propellant. The igniter is positionable in the downhole tool, and includes an igniter portion and a nose portion. The igniter portion has a switch chamber therein. The nose portion has a propellant opening therethrough. The switch assembly is positioned in the switch chamber, and includes a switch movable between an untriggered and a triggered position. The propellant is supported by the nose portion. The propellant is connected to the switch and is ignitable thereby when the switch is moved to the triggered position whereby the propellant releases a pressurized fluid through the propellant opening to activate the downhole component.

Abstract: A release tool for releasing a downhole portion a downhole tool, including a release housing, top and bottom subs, a release assembly, and an integrated igniter. The top sub and bottom subs connected to the downhole tool. The release assembly including a release mandrel and a locking mechanism. The release mandrel is operatively connected to the top sub and the bottom sub, and releasably secures the release assembly to the bottom sub. The integrated igniter includes an integrator housing, a switch assembly, and an internal propellant. The switch assembly is operatively connected to the internal propellant whereby, upon triggering the switch, the internal propellant is ignited to release an ignition fluid under ignition pressure to unlock the locking mechanism and release the downhole portion of the downhole tool from the uphole portion of the downhole tool.

Abstract: A component connector is positioned in downhole tool. The downhole component includes a bulkhead and a receiver positioned in a housing. The component connector includes a contact member positioned in the bulkhead and a connector member in a receiver of the downhole tool. The contact member has an elongate body with a coupling end and a contact end. The connector member has another elongate body having a coupler end and a receptacle end. The connector member has an engager positioned about an outer surface of the connector member to provide selective engagement with the receiver. The coupling end of the contact member and the coupler end of the connector member are connected to electronics in the housing and wherein the receptacle end of the contact member is shaped to electrically receive the contact end of the contact member whereby electronics in adjacent components of the downhole tool are electrically coupled.

Abstract: A charge assembly includes a charge tube, shaped charges, and propellant charges. The charge tube is positionable in a downhole perforating tool. The shaped charges and the propellant charges are receivably supported in the charge tube. Each of the shaped charges includes a charge jacket and a charge material. The charge material has a detonation rate of greater than one microsecond. Each of the propellant charges includes a propellant jacket and a propellant material. The propellant charges have a detonation rate of less than one microsecond. An uphole portion of the propellant charges are positioned uphole from the shaped charges and a downhole portion of the propellant charges are positioned downhole from the shaped charges. The shaped charges are positioned between the uphole and the downhole portion. The shaped and the propellant charges are electrically connectable to a detonator for activation thereby.

Abstract: A thread protection system for a wellbore tubular includes a thread protector and a self-aligning bit. The thread protector has an insert portion at one end and a drive portion at an opposite end. The insert portion is engageable with an end of the wellbore tubular. The drive portion has a central cavity axially positioned about the thread protector and a plurality of pockets radially disposed about the central cavity. The self-aligning bit includes a platform with a central hub and a plurality of fingers extending perpendicularly from a driven side of the platform. The fingers are radially disposed about the central hub. The central hub is slidingly receivable in the central cavity. Each finger has a tapered tip slidingly receivable into the plurality of pockets. The self-aligning bit is rotationally drivable by a driver whereby the thread protector is removably connectable to the wellbore tubular.

Abstract: A loaded perforating gun and/or downhole perforating tool are assembled and used for perforating a wellbore. The loaded perforating gun includes a gun housing, a detonator assembly, and a plunging charge assembly. The plunging charge assembly includes a charge tube, a shaped charge, and a plunger. The plunger includes a receiving cap, and a detonator cord supported in the receiving cap. The shaped charge is operatively connected to the detonator cord. The detonator is selectively connected to the detonator cord by the plunger. The plunging charge assembly is movable between a disarmed position with the detonator cord disconnected from the detonator assembly and an armed position with the detonator cord operatively connected to the detonator assembly whereby, when the detonator can selectively pass a detonation signal via the detonator cord to the shaped charges.

Abstract: A component connector is positioned in downhole tool. The downhole component includes a bulkhead and a receiver positioned in a housing. The component connector includes a contact member positioned in the bulkhead and a connector member in a receiver of the downhole tool. The contact member has an elongate body with a coupling end and a contact end. The connector member has another elongate body having a coupler end and a receptacle end. The connector member has an engager positioned about an outer surface of the connector member to provide selective engagement with the receiver. The coupling end of the contact member and the coupler end of the connector member are connected to electronics in the housing and wherein the receptacle end of the contact member is shaped to electrically receive the contact end of the contact member whereby electronics in adjacent components of the downhole tool are electrically coupled.

Abstract: An integrated tool processing system and a wellsite monitoring system for a wellsite. The integrated tool processing system includes a tool assembler, a tool lift, and a tool transporter. The tool assembler includes a tool conveyor and a gun builder. The tool lift is connected by a tool stager to the tool assembler. The tool lift includes a lift base to receive the downhole tool and a lift arm to lift the downhole tool. The tool transporter includes a vehicle and a boom for connection to the downhole tool. The vehicle and the boom carry the downhole tool into position for delivery at the wellsite. The wellsite monitoring system includes wellsite sensors to collect wellsite data, wellsite monitors to receive and analyze the wellsite data, and a central station to collect and further analyze the wellsite data and to operate the tool processing system based on the combined wellsite data.