Patents by Inventor Roland May
Roland May 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: 11352883Abstract: Examples of techniques for performing a wellbore construction operation in a wellbore are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes: performing a rheology test on a test fluid, the test fluid being representative of a fluid pumped through the wellbore, to generate test fluid data; performing, by the processing device, a data analysis on the test fluid data to generate at least one parameterized correlation; measuring a first property of the fluid to generate measured data; calculating, by the processing device, a second property of the fluid in the wellbore by using the parameterized correlations and the measured data to generate calculated data; and changing a parameter of the wellbore construction operation based at least in part on the calculated data.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Thomas Dahl, Roland May, Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Rosa Swartwout, Dennis Clapper
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Publication number: 20210140299Abstract: A drilling system and method of obtaining a flow pattern in a wellbore. The drilling system includes a device for adjusting an operational parameter of the drilling system, and a processor. The processor trains a machine learning program to identify a flow boundary in parameter space between a first flow pattern region related to a first flow pattern for a multiphase flow and a second flow pattern region related to a second flow pattern for the multiphase flow. The processor identifies the flow boundary for a flow of the multiphase flow in the wellbore and adjusts an operating parameter of the drilling system in the wellbore based on the identified flow boundary to operate the drilling system in one of the first flow pattern region and the second flow pattern region to obtain one of the first flow pattern and the second flow pattern in the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Thomas Dahl, Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Roland May, Roger Aragall, Charles Anthony Thompson
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Publication number: 20210017847Abstract: An earth-boring system for generating a fluid flow model of a borehole may include a drill string, and a model generation system. The model generation system may include a memory device and a processor. The memory device may store a plurality of mathematical simulations of a borehole. The processor may receive real-time operational data, analyze the real-time operational data via one or more of the mathematical simulations, identify a mathematical simulation that most closely matches the real-time operational data, and generate a simplified mathematical fluid flow model utilizing both the mathematical simulation and the real-time operational data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Roger Aragall, Roland May, Thomas Dahl, Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Yaroslav Sergeyevich Ignatenko
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Patent number: 10287855Abstract: An embodiment of a method of performing an energy industry operation includes storing one or more sets of instructions at a storage location accessible by a controller configured to control aspects of an energy industry operation, the one or more sets of instructions retrieved from a library of sets of instructions, each set of instructions prescribing a standard procedure for performing a process forming part of the energy industry operation, the standard procedure based on best operating practices developed from previously performed operations independent of the process to be performed. The method also includes deploying a carrier in a borehole in an earth formation and performing an energy industry operation, monitoring the operation and, in response to detecting a condition associated with the process, automatically retrieving the set of instructions corresponding to the process, and automatically performing the process by the controller according to the retrieved set of instructions.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: David Alexander Curry, Dmitriy Dashevskiy, Roland May
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Publication number: 20180334905Abstract: Examples of techniques for performing a wellbore construction operation in a wellbore are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes: performing a rheology test on a test fluid, the test fluid being representative of a fluid pumped through the wellbore, to generate test fluid data; performing, by the processing device, a data analysis on the test fluid data to generate at least one parameterized correlation; measuring a first property of the fluid to generate measured data; calculating, by the processing device, a second property of the fluid in the wellbore by using the parameterized correlations and the measured data to generate calculated data; and changing a parameter of the wellbore construction operation based at least in part on the calculated data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Thomas Dahl, Roland May, Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Rosa Swartwout, Dennis Clapper
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Patent number: 10100580Abstract: A method of drilling a borehole in an earth formation includes deploying a drilling assembly including a drill bit and a drill string, and performing a drilling operation according to one or more operational parameters to advance the drilling assembly through the formation, wherein performing the drilling operation includes rotating the drill bit and at least a portion of the drill string. The method also includes, during the advancing, monitoring a downhole condition, determining whether the downhole condition indicates at least one of a cuttings accumulation in the borehole and wear of a downhole component, and in response to the downhole condition indicating the cuttings accumulation or the wear, adjusting at least one operational parameter to induce or adjust an oscillating motion in the drill string, the oscillating motion causing at least one of a reduction in the cuttings accumulation and a reduction of wear of the downhole component.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Hanno Reckmann, Thomas Dahl, Roland May
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Patent number: 9951607Abstract: A method for estimating a time at which a pressure window relevant observation occurred relating to an event that occurred in an open borehole penetrating an earth formation includes: receiving with a processor a pressure window relevant observation that provides input to adjusting a pressure window for drilling fluid for drilling the borehole; and estimating with the processor a time window in which a physical parameter, a chemical parameter, or a process that caused the pressure window relevant observation to occur, the time window having a start time and an end time.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, LLCInventors: Stefan Wessling, Jianyong Pei, Roland May, Andreas Hartmann, Thomas Dahl
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Publication number: 20170292327Abstract: A method of drilling a borehole in an earth formation includes deploying a drilling assembly including a drill bit and a drill string, and performing a drilling operation according to one or more operational parameters to advance the drilling assembly through the formation, wherein performing the drilling operation includes rotating the drill bit and at least a portion of the drill string. The method also includes, during the advancing, monitoring a downhole condition, determining whether the downhole condition indicates at least one of a cuttings accumulation in the borehole and wear of a downhole component, and in response to the downhole condition indicating the cuttings accumulation or the wear, adjusting at least one operational parameter to induce or adjust an oscillating motion in the drill string, the oscillating motion causing at least one of a reduction in the cuttings accumulation and a reduction of wear of the downhole component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Hanno Reckmann, Thomas Dahl, Roland May
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Publication number: 20170122076Abstract: An embodiment of a method of performing an energy industry operation includes storing one or more sets of instructions at a storage location accessible by a controller configured to control aspects of an energy industry operation, the one or more sets of instructions retrieved from a library of sets of instructions, each set of instructions prescribing a standard procedure for performing a process forming part of the energy industry operation, the standard procedure based on best operating practices developed from previously performed operations independent of the process to be performed. The method also includes deploying a carrier in a borehole in an earth formation and performing an energy industry operation, monitoring the operation and, in response to detecting a condition associated with the process, automatically retrieving the set of instructions corresponding to the process, and automatically performing the process by the controller according to the retrieved set of instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: David Alexander Curry, Dmitriy Dashevskiy, Roland May
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Publication number: 20140214325Abstract: A method for estimating a time at which a pressure window relevant observation occurred relating to an event that occurred in an open borehole penetrating an earth formation includes: receiving with a processor a pressure window relevant observation that provides input to adjusting a pressure window for drilling fluid for drilling the borehole; and estimating with the processor a time window in which a physical parameter, a chemical parameter, or a process that caused the pressure window relevant observation to occur, the time window having a start time and an end time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Stefan Wessling, Jianyong Pei, Roland May, Andreas Hartmann, Thomas Dahl
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Patent number: 8600679Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of locating and quantifying friction between a drillstring and a wellbore. The method includes, positioning a plurality of sensors within a wellbore, communicatively coupling the plurality of sensors, monitoring signals from the plurality of sensors, logging the sensed signals versus time versus depth of each of the plurality of sensors, locating at least one friction zone along the drillstring within the wellbore based on the logging and quantifying friction in the at least one friction zone based on the logging.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Ralf Zaeper, Roland May, John D Macpherson, Thomas Dahl
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Publication number: 20090216453Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of locating and quantifying friction between a drillstring and a wellbore. The method includes, positioning a plurality of sensors within a wellbore, communicatively coupling the plurality of sensors, monitoring signals from the plurality of sensors, logging the sensed signals versus time versus depth of each of the plurality of sensors, locating at least one friction zone along the drillstring within the wellbore based on the logging and quantifying friction in the at least one friction zone based on the logging.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Ralf Zaeper, Roland May, John D. Macpherson, Thomas Dahl
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Patent number: 6854532Abstract: The present invention provides drilling systems for drilling subsea wellbores. The drilling system includes a tubing that passes through a sea bottom wellhead and carries a drill bit. A drilling fluid system continuously supplies drilling fluid into the tubing, which discharges at the drill bit bottom and returns to the wellhead through an annulus between the tubing and the wellbore carrying the drill cuttings. A fluid return line extending from the wellhead equipment to the drilling vessel transports the returning fluid to the surface. In a riserless arrangement, the return fluid line is separate and spaced apart from the tubing. In a system using a riser, the return fluid line may be the riser or a separate line carried by the riser. The tubing may be coiled tubing with a drilling motor in the bottom hole assembly driving the drill bit.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2003Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Deep Vision LLCInventors: Roger W. Fincher, Roland May, Peter Fontana, Larry Watkins, James W. Macfarlane
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Publication number: 20040124008Abstract: The present invention provides drilling systems for drilling subsea wellbores. The drilling system includes a tubing that passes through a sea bottom wellhead and carries a drill bit. A drilling fluid system continuously supplies drilling fluid into the tubing, which discharges at the drill bit bottom and returns to the wellhead through an annulus between the tubing and the wellbore carrying the drill cuttings. A fluid return line extending from the wellhead equipment to the drilling vessel transports the returning fluid to the surface. In a riserless arrangement, the return fluid line is separate and spaced apart from the tubing. In a system using a riser, the return fluid line may be the riser or a separate line carried by the riser. The tubing may be coiled tubing with a drilling motor in the bottom hole assembly driving the drill bit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Roger W. Fincher, Roland May, Peter Fontana, Larry Watkins, James W. Macfarlane
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Patent number: 6648081Abstract: The present invention provides drilling systems for drilling subsea wellbores. The drilling system includes a tubing that passes through a sea bottom wellhead and carries a drill bit. A drilling fluid system continuously supplies drilling fluid into the tubing, which discharges at the drill bit bottom and returns to the wellhead through an annulus between the tubing and the wellbore carrying the drill cuttings. A fluid return line extending from the wellhead equipment to the drilling vessel transports the returning fluid to the surface. In a riserless arrangement, the return fluid line is separate and spaced apart from the tubing. In a system using a riser, the return fluid line may be the riser or a separate line carried by the riser. The tubing may be coiled tubing with a drilling motor in the bottom hole assembly driving the drill bit.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Deep Vision LLPInventors: Roger W. Fincher, Roland May, Peter Fontana, Larry Watkins, James W. Macfarlane
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Publication number: 20020092655Abstract: The present invention provides drilling systems for drilling subsea wellbores. The drilling system includes a tubing that passes through a sea bottom wellhead and carries a drill bit. A drilling fluid system continuously supplies drilling fluid into the tubing, which discharges at the drill bit bottom and returns to the wellhead through an annulus between the tubing and the wellbore carrying the drill cuttings. A fluid return line extending from the wellhead equipment to the drilling vessel transports the returning fluid to the surface. In a riserless arrangement, the return fluid line is separate and spaced apart from the tubing. In a system using a riser, the return fluid line may be the riser or a separate line carried by the riser. The tubing may be coiled tubing with a drilling motor in the bottom hole assembly driving the drill bit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Applicant: Deep Vision LLCInventors: Roger W. Fincher, Roland May, Peter Fontana, Larry Watkins, James W. MacFarlane
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Patent number: 6415877Abstract: The present invention provides drilling systems for drilling subsea wellbores. The drilling system includes a tubing that passes through a sea bottom wellhead and carries a drill bit. A drilling fluid system continuously supplies drilling fluid into the tubing, which discharges at the drill bit bottom and returns to the wellhead through an annulus between the tubing and the wellbore carrying the drill cuttings. A fluid return line extending from the wellhead equipment to the drilling vessel transports the returning fluid to the surface. In a riserless arrangement, the return fluid line is separate and spaced apart from the tubing. In a system using a riser, the return fluid line may be the riser or a separate line carried by the riser. The tubing may be coiled tubing with a drilling motor in the bottom hole assembly driving the drill bit.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Deep Vision LLCInventors: Roger W. Fincher, Roland May, Peter Fontana, Larry Watkins, James W. Macfarlane