Patents by Inventor Ronald van Petegem

Ronald van Petegem 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).

  • Patent number: 11767725
    Abstract: A roll-out apparatus, method, and system is disclosed for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The roll-out apparatus, method, and system includes a load ring and an energizing ring. The load ring may include an outer surface having an outer circumference and a slot extending through the entire wall thickness that follows a circuitous path from a front face to a back face of the load ring. The energizing ring includes an outer surface configured to contact an inner surface of the load ring to enlarge the outer circumference of the load ring in a radial direction. This causes the outer surface of the load ring to seal to an inner surface of the subterranean well at the setting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Patent number: 11629580
    Abstract: A multi-zone, one trip completion system for a wellbore is described. A plurality of isolation packers is installed in borehole to isolate a plurality of zones of the annulus between a tubing string and a wellbore. Each tubing string section is positioned in a zone and comprises a selectively openable stimulation port to provide stimulation fluid to its zone and a selectively openable production port to receive fluid from its zone. The system also comprises a circulation system with a plurality of circulation tubes and circulation tube valves, being configurable in a plurality of configurations to selectively connect, via a circulation flow path, the central bore or the borehole annulus of a wellbore at each of the plurality of sections, to an upper circulation flow path open to an annulus above an uppermost of the plurality of isolation packers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Packers Plus Energy Service, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Van Petegem, John Greff, Kelly Ireland
  • Patent number: 11473389
    Abstract: A tumbler ring apparatus, method, and system for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The tumbler ring may have a generally oval shape with a major axis and a minor axis. The major axis defining a major diameter of the ring and the minor axis defining a minor diameter of the ring. The major diameter of the ring being larger than the inner diameter of the subterranean well at the setting location, and the minor diameter of the ring being smaller than the inner diameter of the subterranean well at the setting location. The ring is further configured to substantially deform to the inner circumference of the subterranean well at the setting location when tumbled by reducing the major diameter of the ring to cause the ring to generally take the shape of the inner circumference of the subterranean well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Publication number: 20220316292
    Abstract: A roll-out apparatus, method, and system is disclosed for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The roll-out apparatus, method, and system includes a load ring and an energizing ring. The load ring may include an outer surface having an outer circumference and a slot extending through the entire wall thickness that follows a circuitous path from a front face to a back face of the load ring. The energizing ring includes an outer surface configured to contact an inner surface of the load ring to enlarge the outer circumference of the load ring in a radial direction. This causes the outer surface of the load ring to seal to an inner surface of the subterranean well at the setting location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Publication number: 20220316291
    Abstract: A roll-out apparatus, method, and system is disclosed for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The roll-out apparatus, method, and system includes a load ring and an energizing ring. The load ring may include an outer surface having an outer circumference and a slot extending through the entire wall thickness that follows a circuitous path from a front face to a back face of the load ring. The energizing ring includes an outer surface configured to contact an inner surface of the load ring to enlarge the outer circumference of the load ring in a radial direction. This causes the outer surface of the load ring to seal to an inner surface of the subterranean well at the setting location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Patent number: 11401762
    Abstract: A roll-out apparatus, method, and system is disclosed for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The roll-out apparatus, method, and system includes a load ring and an energizing ring. The load ring may include an outer surface having an outer circumference and a slot extending through the entire wall thickness that follows a circuitous path from a front face to a back face of the load ring. The energizing ring includes an outer surface configured to contact an inner surface of the load ring to enlarge the outer circumference of the load ring in a radial direction. This causes the outer surface of the load ring to seal to an inner surface of the subterranean well at the setting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Patent number: 11199065
    Abstract: A system and method for conveying a tool to a target sub within a tubular string having a number of subs. Each sub may include at least one ledge or shoulder in or on its interior surface that can be used as a latch stopper or stopper, for receiving and engagement with a latch. The subs may also have a latch deflector or deflector. In one embodiment, the latch deflector is a latch-deflection shoulder protruding into the internal diameter (ID) of the string for deflecting a latch, to be subsequently introduced, out of or into the latch-stopping shoulder. The distance between the latch stopper and the latch deflector, referred to as the “deflection radius,” may be used as an address that uniquely identifies each sub, and can vary from sub to sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Publication number: 20210381351
    Abstract: A multi-zone, one trip completion system for a wellbore is described. A plurality of isolation packers is installed in borehole to isolate a plurality of zones of the annulus between a tubing string and a wellbore. Each tubing string section is positioned in a zone and comprises a selectively openable stimulation port to provide stimulation fluid to its zone and a selectively openable production port to receive fluid from its zone. The system also comprises a circulation system with a plurality of circulation tubes and circulation tube valves, being configurable in a plurality of configurations to selectively connect, via a circulation flow path, the central bore or the borehole annulus of a wellbore at each of the plurality of sections, to an upper circulation flow path open to an annulus above an uppermost of the plurality of isolation packers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Ronald Van Petegem, John Greff, Kelly Ireland
  • Publication number: 20210301613
    Abstract: A roll-out apparatus, method, and system is disclosed for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The roll-out apparatus, method, and system includes a load ring and an energizing ring. The load ring may include an outer surface having an outer circumference and a slot extending through the entire wall thickness that follows a circuitous path from a front face to a back face of the load ring. The energizing ring includes an outer surface configured to contact an inner surface of the load ring to enlarge the outer circumference of the load ring in a radial direction. This causes the outer surface of the load ring to seal to an inner surface of the subterranean well at the setting location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Patent number: 11125060
    Abstract: A multi-zone, one trip completion system for a wellbore is described. A plurality of isolation packers is installed in borehole to isolate a plurality of zones of the annulus between a tubing string and a wellbore. Each tubing string section is positioned in a zone and comprises a selectively openable stimulation port to provide stimulation fluid to its zone and a selectively openable production port to receive fluid from its zone. The system also comprises a circulation system with a plurality of circulation tubes and circulation tube valves, being configurable in a plurality of configurations to selectively connect, via a circulation flow path, the central bore or the borehole annulus of a wellbore at each of the plurality of sections, to an upper circulation flow path open to an annulus above an uppermost of the plurality of isolation packers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Packers Plus Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Van Petegem, John Greff, Kelly Ireland
  • Patent number: 10844691
    Abstract: An adjustable and fixed inflow control device is provided. According to one embodiment, the adjustable inflow control device comprises a set of flow path walls defining a flow path that extends from an inlet to an outlet. The inlet may be open to the outer surface of a tubular and the outlet may be fluidly connected to an inner diameter of the tubular. The flow path may be adapted to control flow of fluid between the outlet and the inlet. The inflow control device further comprises a movable regulator that is movable to alter the flow path. The movable regulator may be movable between a number of positions. The inflow control device may be modular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventors: Ronald Van Petegem, John Lee Emerson
  • Publication number: 20200149378
    Abstract: A multi-zone, one trip completion system for a wellbore is described. A plurality of isolation packers is installed in borehole to isolate a plurality of zones of the annulus between a tubing string and a wellbore. Each tubing string section is positioned in a zone and comprises a selectively openable stimulation port to provide stimulation fluid to its zone and a selectively openable production port to receive fluid from its zone. The system also comprises a circulation system with a plurality of circulation tubes and circulation tube valves, being configurable in a plurality of configurations to selectively connect, via a circulation flow path, the central bore or the borehole annulus of a wellbore at each of the plurality of sections, to an upper circulation flow path open to an annulus above an uppermost of the plurality of isolation packers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ronald VAN PETEGEM, John GREFF, Kelly IRELAND
  • Patent number: 10526870
    Abstract: An actuation ball for a downhole tool, the actuation ball includes an outer annular body encircling a bore; and a core releasably installed in the bore, such that the core can be removed to permit back flow through the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventors: Ronald Van Petegem, John Lee Emerson
  • Patent number: 10502025
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to injecting steam into a wellbore using a device. The device includes a body having a bore configured to communicate steam through the body. The device also includes a sleeve movable in the bore of the body between a first position and a second position, wherein the sleeve in the first position blocks steam from exiting an opening of the body and the sleeve in the second position allows steam to exit the opening of the body. The device can be activated by an activation device conveyed down a tubing string and can include a seat on which the activation device. The seat is expandable to allow the activation device to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventors: Ronald van Petegem, Craig Skeates, John Lee Emerson, Chris Desranleau
  • Publication number: 20190368303
    Abstract: A tumbler ring apparatus, method, and system is disclosed for deployment in a subterranean well at a setting location. The tumbler ring may have a generally oval shape with a major axis and a minor axis. The major axis defining a major diameter of the ring and the minor axis defining a minor diameter of the ring. The major diameter of the ring being larger than the inner diameter of the subterranean well at the setting location, and the minor diameter of the ring being smaller than the inner diameter of the subterranean well at the setting location. The ring is further configured to substantially deform to the inner circumference of the subterranean well at the setting location when tumbled by reducing the major diameter of the ring to cause the ring to generally take the shape of the inner circumference of the subterranean well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Publication number: 20190360287
    Abstract: A system and method for conveying a tool to a target sub within a tubular string having a number of subs. Each sub may include at least one ledge or shoulder in or on its interior surface that can be used as a latch stopper or stopper, for receiving and engagement with a latch. The subs may also have a latch deflector or deflector. In one embodiment, the latch deflector is a latch-deflection shoulder protruding into the internal diameter (ID) of the string for deflecting a latch, to be subsequently introduced, out of or into the latch-stopping shoulder. The distance between the latch stopper and the latch deflector, referred to as the “deflection radius,” may be used as an address that uniquely identifies each sub, and can vary from sub to sub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Patent number: 10428608
    Abstract: A system and method for conveying a tool to a target sub within a tubular string having a number of subs. Each sub may include at least one ledge or shoulder in or on its interior surface that can be used as a latch stopper or stopper, for receiving and engagement with a latch. The subs may also have a latch deflector or deflector. In one embodiment, the latch deflector is a latch-deflection shoulder protruding into the internal diameter (ID) of the string for deflecting a latch, to be subsequently introduced, out of or into the latch-stopping shoulder. The distance between the latch stopper and the latch deflector, referred to as the “deflection radius,” may be used as an address that uniquely identifies each sub, and can vary from sub to sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventor: Ronald van Petegem
  • Publication number: 20190186235
    Abstract: An adjustable and fixed inflow control device is provided. According to one embodiment, the adjustable inflow control device comprises a set of flow path walls defining a flow path that extends from an inlet to an outlet. The inlet may be open to the outer surface of a tubular and the outlet may be fluidly connected to an inner diameter of the tubular. The flow path may be adapted to control flow of fluid between the outlet and the inlet. The inflow control device further comprises a movable regulator that is movable to alter the flow path. The movable regulator may be movable between a number of positions. The inflow control device may be modular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Ronald Van Petegem, John Lee Emerson
  • Patent number: 10309172
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating formation intervals including forming a low permeability layer on a surface of the interval and pumping a sand control treating solution through the layer, which diverts the flow into the formation permitting improved treatment uniformity and improved overall internal treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald van Petegem, Andrew Duncan, Alfredo Mendez Zurita, Kern L. Smith, Leonid Vigderman, Rajesh K. Saini
  • Patent number: 10280718
    Abstract: A device and method allows a bore valve in the washpipe and in certain instances a port valve or sliding sleeve to open or close upon command from the surface so that gravel slurry may be placed in a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: John P. Broussard, Christopher A. Hall, Ronald van Petegem