Patents by Inventor Songming Huang
Songming Huang 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: 7994932Abstract: An acoustic telemetry apparatus and method for communicating encoded digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface is described including an acoustic channel terminated at a down-hole end by a reflecting terminal (133, 134), an acoustic wave generator (140) located at the surface and providing an acoustic wave carrier signal through said acoustic, channel, a modulator (162, 163) located down-hole to modulate amplitude and/or phase of said carrier wave in response to an encoded digital signal and one or more sensors (150) located at the surface adapted to detect amplitude and/or phase related information of acoustic waves traveling within said acoustic channel to determine the encoded digital data.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent
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Patent number: 7990282Abstract: An acoustic telemetry apparatus and methods for communicating digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface or between locations within the borehole are described including a receiver and a transmitter linked by an acoustic channel (210) wherein acoustic channel has a cross-sectional area of 58 cm2 or less and the transmitter comprises an electro-active transducer generating a modulated continuous waveform.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2004Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont
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Publication number: 20110138928Abstract: A method and system for measuring a property of a multiphase fluid comprising a mixture of at least an oil phase and a water phase travelling through a conduit, the method comprising measuring the thickness of the liquid mixture, measuring the permittivity of a portion of the multiphase fluid, combining the thickness measurement with the permittivity measurement to obtain a derived value for the permittivity of the liquid mixture, and using at least the derived permittivity of the liquid mixture and a relationship between a single phase liquid property and a corresponding two-phase property of the liquid mixture, to obtain a calculated water-to-liquid ratio of the liquid mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Cheng-gang Xie, Songming Huang
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Publication number: 20110098938Abstract: Methods and systems are described that provide for measuring flow properties of multiphase mixtures within a pipe carry gas-liquid hydrocarbons and water produced from oil-gas wells. The methods and systems may provide for a combination of a clamp-on ultrasonic gas flow meter to measure flow characteristics of a gas phase in a pipeline and a pulsed ultrasonic Doppler sensor(s) and/or an RF/microwave electromagnetic sensor(s) to measure flow characteristics of a liquid phase. The combination of sensors may provide for multiphase flow measurements under certain flow conditions, such as when the gas-liquid is flowing in a substantially horizontal pipeline, when the flow is stratified or is caused to be stratified and/or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Cheng-gang Xie, Ian Atkinson
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Publication number: 20100299088Abstract: A multiphase flowmeter for determining at least one characteristic of a first phase flowing in a pipe with at least a second phase being also present in the pipe is disclosed. The multiphase flowmeter includes a processor configured to determine the at least one characteristic of the first phase, a first transducer configured to emit a first pulse signal into the first phase at a first incident angle with respect to a straight line that is perpendicular to an interior pipe wall; the first pulse signal is in an ultrasonic range and is configured to be coupled to an exterior pipe wall; and the absolute value of the first incident angle in the first phase is configured to be at least 10 degrees and at most 80 degrees and a second transducer configured to emit a second pulse signal into the first phase at a substantially normal incidence.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Schlomberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Ian Atkinson, Cheng-gang Xie
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Publication number: 20100192703Abstract: Methods of measuring flow properties and flowmeters having an upstream transceiver and a downstream wave transceiver, each positioned with a wave emitting surface exposed to a fluid flowing in a conduit are described, the transceiver being separated by a length L along the conduit and adapted to receive wave signals traveling in flow direction and opposite to the flow direction, respectively, and an electronic processor for extracting from travel time measurements of the wave signals flow characterizing parameters, the transceivers being adapted to generate tube waves, particularly in the audible frequency range, in the conduit and used to determine the travel time of the tube waves between the upstream transceiver and the downstream wave transceiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Gary Oddie
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Patent number: 7673525Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reliable and accurate flow assurance and pipeline monitoring. More specifically but not by way of limitation, systems and methods of the present invention provide for using Doppler profiles through a pipeline section to monitor and/or measure depositing on and corrosion of a pipeline configured for flowing one or more hydrocarbons. In other embodiments of the present invention, thermal probe sensors may be used to monitor the depositing on and corrosion of the section of the pipeline. And in still further embodiments, combinations of Doppler sensors, thermal sensors and/or acoustic impedance sensors are provided with outputs from one or more of the sensors used to control one or more of the sensors or to provide for determination of flow assurance or pipeline monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Songming Huang
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Publication number: 20100000820Abstract: A pressure-balanced electromechanical converter is described including a structure that converts displacement into electrical energy or electrical energy into displacement, said structure designed to separate an enclosed volume for an outside pressure wave channel, wherein said enclosed volume has a filtering pressure transparent connection to said outside pressure wave channel with said filtering connection be pressure transparent to static pressure or low frequency pressure waves and filtering pressure waves at higher frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Mommont
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Patent number: 7562580Abstract: A ruggedized pressure sensor is described for high pressure applications having a top part of hard material with a surface adapted to deform when exposed to pressure, transducers to transform deformation of the surface into a signal proportional to the pressure, and a base part of hard material, wherein the base part has one or more openings.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2007Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Fadhel Rezgui, Songming Huang
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Publication number: 20090033176Abstract: A technique is provided by which energy is physically/mechanically transmitted down through a wellbore. The transmitted energy is directed downhole along a fluid channel and impinges on an energy converter positioned in the wellbore or at another subterranean location. The energy converter converts the physical energy into electrical energy that can be supplied to a downhole device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Thomas D. MacDougall, Benjamin P. Jeffryes
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Publication number: 20080163700Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reliable and accurate flow assurance and pipeline monitoring. More specifically but not by way of limitation, systems and methods of the present invention provide for using Doppler profiles through a pipeline section to monitor and/or measure depositing on and corrosion of a pipeline configured for flowing one or more hydrocarbons. In other embodiments of the present invention, thermal probe sensors may be used to monitor the depositing on and corrosion of the section of the pipeline. And in still further embodiments, combinations of Doppler sensors, thermal sensors and/or acoustic impedance sensors are provided with outputs from one or more of the sensors used to control one or more of the sensors or to provide for determination of flow assurance or pipeline monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Songming Huang
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Publication number: 20080163692Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for flow assurance and pipe condition monitoring in a pipeline for flowing hydrocarbons using at least one thermal sensor probe, which at least one thermal sensor probe may be used in conjunction with one or more other sensors to manage the sensing process and for data fusion to accurately determine flow properties and/or pipeline condition. By way of example, but not by way of limitation, in an embodiment of the present invention, a network of noninvasive sensors may provide output data that may be data-fused to determine properties of the pipeline and/or flow through the pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Yan Kuhn de Chizelle
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Patent number: 7397388Abstract: A system that is usable with a subterranean well includes an assembly and a telemetry tool. The system includes an assembly that performs a downhole measurement. The system also includes a downhole telemetry tool to modulate a carrier stimulus that is communicated through a downhole fluid to communicate the downhole measurement uphole.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent, Matthew Hackworth, Craig Johnson
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Patent number: 7348893Abstract: A technique that is usable with a well includes using at least one downhole sensor to establish telemetry within the well. The sensor(s) are used as a permanent sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Bruno Jean Monmont, Robert W. Tennent, Randolph J. Sheffield
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Publication number: 20080066555Abstract: A ruggedized pressure sensor is described for high pressure applications having a top part of hard material with a surface adapted to deform when exposed to pressure, transducers to transform deformation of the surface into a signal proportional to the pressure, and a base part of hard material, wherein the base part has one or more openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Fadhel Rezgui, Songming Huang
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Patent number: 7345594Abstract: A surface mud pipeline system is described with a mechanical acoustic filter (1245) tuned to a predetermined frequency band so as to attenuate pump noise (132) within this band. The filter can be combined with a Venturi constriction to provide enhanced attenuation and is used to improve signal transmission of a mud pulse telemetry system (113-2).Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2003Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Benoit Froelich
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Publication number: 20070227776Abstract: An acoustic telemetry apparatus and methods for communicating digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface or between locations within the borehole are described including a receiver and a transmitter linked by an acoustic channel wherein acoustic channel has a cross-sectional area of 58 cm2 or less and the transmitter comprises an electro-active transducer generating a modulated continuous waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2004Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont
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Publication number: 20070194947Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to power and communicate with downhole sensors are presented. Preferred embodiments of the present invention includes energizing a downhole sensor with a surface pressure wave generator and a downhole mechanical to electrical energy converter. Preferred embodiments of the present invention also include transmitting data measured from a downhole sensor to a surface unit through modulation of surface-generated pressure waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2004Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Kasim Sadikoglu
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Publication number: 20070030762Abstract: An acoustic telemetry apparatus and method for communicating encoded digital data from a down-hole location through a borehole to the surface is described including an acoustic channel terminated at a down-hole end by a reflecting terminal (133, 134), an acoustic wave generator (140) located at the surface and providing an acoustic wave carrier signal through said acoustic, channel, a modulator (162, 163) located down-hole to modulate amplitude and/or phase of said carrier wave in response to an encoded digital signal and one or more sensors (150) located at the surface adapted to detect amplitude and/or phase related information of acoustic waves traveling within said acoustic channel to determine the encoded digital data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Songming Huang, Franck Mommont, Robert Tennent
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Publication number: 20060131014Abstract: A technique that is usable with a well includes using at least one downhole sensor to establish telemetry within the well. The sensor(s) are used as a permanent sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Songming Huang, Franck Monmont, Robert Tennent, Randolph Sheffield