Patents by Inventor Robert Lance Cook

Robert Lance Cook 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).

  • Apparatus for radially expanding a tubular member
    Patent number: 6684947
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding a tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Michael Bullock
  • Expandable connector
    Publication number: 20030222455
    Abstract: An expandable threaded connection includes a first tubular member, a second tubular member and a threaded connection for coupling the tubular members that includes one or more sealing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Forming a wellbore casing while simultaneously drilling a wellbore
    Patent number: 6640903
    Abstract: A wellbore casing is formed simultaneously with the drilling out of the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell, Andrei Filippov
  • Isolation of subterranean zones
    Patent number: 6634431
    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: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Kevin Waddell, Lev Ring, David Paul Brisco
  • Forming a wellbore casing while simultaneously drilling a wellbore
    Publication number: 20030192705
    Abstract: A wellbore casing is formed simultaneously with the drilling out of the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell
  • Method of operating an apparatus for radially expanding a tubular member
    Patent number: 6631769
    Abstract: A method of operating an apparatus for radially expanding a tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Michael Bullock
  • Apparatus for radially expanding a tubular member
    Patent number: 6631759
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding atubular member that includes a support member having an exterior surface, a tubular member having an interior surface coupled to the support member, an annular expansion cone having a continuous outer surface movably coupled to the exterior surface of the support member and the interior surface of the tubular member for radially expanding the tubular member, and a preload assembly coupled to the support member for applying an axial force from the support member to the annular expansion cone to preload the annular expansion cone against the tubular member. The preload assembly including a compressed spring coupled to the support member for applying the axial force to the annular expansion cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Michael Bullock
  • Tie back liner for a well system
    Patent number: 6631760
    Abstract: A tie back liner for a well system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack
  • Lubrication and self-cleaning system for expansion mandrel
    Publication number: 20030173090
    Abstract: An expansion mandrel includes a lubrication system for lubricating the trailing edge portion of the interface between the expansion mandrel and a tubular member during the radial expansion of the tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Reece E. Wyant, Lev Ring, James Jang Woo Nahm, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Expandable connector
    Patent number: 6604763
    Abstract: An expandable threaded connection includes a first tubular member, a second tubular member and a threaded connection for coupling the tubular members that includes one or more sealing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Apparatus for releasably coupling two elements
    Publication number: 20030121669
    Abstract: An apparatus for releasably coupling two elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Michael Bullock
  • Radial expansion of tubular members
    Publication number: 20030121558
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure. The tubular member is anchored to the preexisting structure and an expansion member is pulled through the tubular member to radially expand the tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Richard Carl Haut, Lev Ring, Thomas Patrick Grant, Edwin Arnold Zwald, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Liner hanger with standoffs
    Publication number: 20030116325
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming or repairing a wellbore casing by radially expanding a tubular liner having standoffs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Lev Ring
  • System and method for driving pipe
    Patent number: 6575240
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a wellbore casing. A mandrel is used to position a tubular member within a wellbore. The mandrel is then driven into the bottom of the wellbore. The tubular member is then radially expanded by the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, Richard Carl Haut
  • Apparatus for radially expanding tubular members
    Publication number: 20030098154
    Abstract: An apparatus for radially expanding tubular members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Robert Donald Mack, Alan B. Duell, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Method of inserting a tubular member into a wellbore
    Publication number: 20030098162
    Abstract: A method of inserting a tubular member into a wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Robert Lance Cook
  • Liner hanger
    Patent number: 6568471
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a wellbore casing. An annular piston is displaced in the axial direction by pressurizing an annular piston chamber. The axial displacement of the piston radially expands a tubular member into contact with a preexisting tubular member. The radially expanded liner hanger is then decoupled from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Michael Bullock
  • Expansion cone for radially expanding tubular members
    Publication number: 20030094277
    Abstract: An expansion cone for radially expanding tubular members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Alan Duell, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Expansion cone for radially expanding tubular members
    Publication number: 20030094278
    Abstract: An expansion cone for radially expanding tubular members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: Shell Oil Co.
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, Lev Ring, Alan B. Duell, Andrei Gregory Filippov
  • Wellbore casing
    Patent number: 6561227
    Abstract: A wellbore casing formed by extruding a tubular liner off of a mandrel. The tubular liner and mandrel are positioned within a new section of a wellbore with the tubular liner in an overlapping relationship with an existing casing. A hardenable fluidic material is injected into the new section of the wellbore below the level of the mandrel and into the annular region between the tubular liner and the new section of the wellbore. The inner and outer regions of the tubular liner are then fluidicly isolated. A non hardenable fluidic material is then injected into a portion of an interior region of the tubular liner to pressurize the portion of the interior region of the tubular liner below the mandrel. The tubular liner is then extruded off of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Lance Cook, David Paul Brisco, R. Bruce Stewart, Lev Ring, Richard Carl Haut, Robert Donald Mack