Patents by Inventor Stephen M. Bergman
Stephen M. Bergman 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: 9441430Abstract: A drilling rig having continuous gas analysis can include a substructure, base, mast, pipe handler, mud pump, drilling rig power source, drawworks, cabling, rotating head, blowout preventer, drill string, and drill bit. A rig server of the drilling rig can have a rig processor and rig data storage for implementing rig operations. Piping can be in fluid communication between the blowout preventer and a gas analyzer system for real-time measurement of a concentration of gases in a drilling fluid. The gas analyzer system can include a sample chamber, means for agitating and creating a vortex, gas capturing chamber for receiving liberated fluid, gas analyzer for providing real-time gas speciation of the liberated fluid, suction pump for pulling the liberated fluid, filtration means, exhaust port, and exhaust line for flowing non-analyzed fluid to a drilling fluid storage chamber, drilling fluid conduit, or both.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Patent number: 9442218Abstract: A gas trap with a gas analyzer for continuous gas analysis can include a sample chamber, means for agitating and creating a vortex, gas capturing chamber for receiving liberated gas, gas analyzer for providing real-time gas speciation of the liberated gas. A suction pump can pull the liberated fluid, a filtration means can condition the liberated fluid, and an exhaust port can exhaust analyzed fluid. An exhaust line can flow non-analyzed fluid to a drilling fluid storage chamber, drilling fluid stream, or both.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Patent number: 9244047Abstract: A method for gas analysis can include continuously diverting a portion of drilling fluid into a sample chamber from a drilling fluid stream, creating a bidirectional drilling fluid circulation to liberate gas from the drilling fluid, applying a suction to a gas capturing chamber, and allowing a sample of the liberated fluid to continuously flow through the gas capturing chamber, continuously be filtered, and continuously flow into a gas analyzer. The method can include maintaining the sample chamber in an open configuration or decompressing the gas capturing chamber by closing off one or more sample inlets and sample outlets and exhausting portions of the liberated fluid that do not flow to the gas analyzer. The method can include simultaneously providing analysis data to client devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Publication number: 20130269411Abstract: A method for gas analysis can include continuously diverting a portion of drilling fluid into a sample chamber from a drilling fluid stream, creating a bidirectional drilling fluid circulation to liberate gas from the drilling fluid, applying a suction to a gas capturing chamber, and allowing a sample of the liberated fluid to continuously flow through the gas capturing chamber, continuously be filtered, and continuously flow into a gas analyzer. The method can include maintaining the sample chamber in an open configuration or decompressing the gas capturing chamber by closing off one or more sample inlets and sample outlets and exhausting portions of the liberated fluid that do not flow to the gas analyzer. The method can include simultaneously providing analysis data to client devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Publication number: 20130275053Abstract: A computer implemented, real-time, continuous, electromagnetic, spectroscopic, high sensitivity, digital method for analyzing a gas sample can include using an inline gas component analyzer to receive the gas sample. An electromagnetic beam generator can generate a beam to pass through a filter in a sample chamber and into the sample gas to form a sample wavelength. The sample wavelength can pass into an electromagnetic beam detector. A processor and data storage can be in communication with each component of the inline gas component analyzer for monitoring and controlling thereof. The processor can be in communication with client devices through a network for remote monitoring and controlling thereof. The inline gas component analyzer can be calibrated with a calibration gas sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Publication number: 20130275047Abstract: A gas trap with a gas analyzer for continuous gas analysis can include a sample chamber, means for agitating and creating a vortex, gas capturing chamber for receiving liberated gas, gas analyzer for providing real-time gas speciation of the liberated gas. A suction pump can pull the liberated fluid, a filtration means can condition the liberated fluid, and an exhaust port can exhaust analyzed fluid. An exhaust line can flow non-analyzed fluid to a drilling fluid storage chamber, drilling fluid stream, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Publication number: 20130270006Abstract: A drilling rig having continuous gas analysis can include a substructure, base, mast, pipe handler, mud pump, drilling rig power source, drawworks, cabling, rotating head, blowout preventer, drill string, and drill bit. A rig server of the drilling rig can have a rig processor and rig data storage for implementing rig operations. Piping can be in fluid communication between the blowout preventer and a gas analyzer system for real-time measurement of a concentration of gases in a drilling fluid. The gas analyzer system can include a sample chamber, means for agitating and creating a vortex, gas capturing chamber for receiving liberated fluid, gas analyzer for providing real-time gas speciation of the liberated fluid, suction pump for pulling the liberated fluid, filtration means, exhaust port, and exhaust line for flowing non-analyzed fluid to a drilling fluid storage chamber, drilling fluid conduit, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Patent number: 8132452Abstract: A low maintenance adjustable method for sampling fluid from a well using a gas analyzer, a fluid conditioner, and a gas trap. The gas trap can have a plurality of couplings, a plurality of hammer unions, a plurality of base manifold pipes, a base manifold flow line, a chimney pipe connected to the base manifold flow line, a controllable valve, a reducer connected to the chimney, an expansion chamber component connected to the reducer, a restrictor mounted to the expansion chamber component, and a conduit connection connected to the restrictor for engaging a conduit to flow a gas sample from the gas trap to a gas analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Selman and Associates, LtdInventors: Thomas H. Selman, Juanita C. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Richard James Gonzales, Brian A. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Patent number: 7957903Abstract: A low maintenance adjustable gas trap with a plurality of couplings, each coupling securing to a flow line of a drilling rig; a plurality of hammer unions each engaging a coupling; a plurality of base manifold pipes, each engaging a hammer union; a base manifold flow line engaging the base manifold pipes, a chimney pipe connected to the base manifold flow line with a controllable valve, a reducer connected to the chimney opposite the base manifold flow line; an expansion chamber component connected to the reducer; a restrictor mounted to the expansion chamber component opposite the reducer, wherein the restrictor has a diameter no more than ?rd a diameter of the expansion chamber component; and a conduit connection connected to the restrictor for engaging a conduit to flow a gas sample from the gas trap to a gas analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Selman and Associates, Ltd.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Juanita C. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Richard James Gonzales, Brian A. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman
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Patent number: 7844400Abstract: A low maintenance adjustable system for sampling gas from a well using a gas analyzer; a conditioning and filtering device; a gas trap having a plurality of couplings, a plurality of hammer unions, a plurality of base manifold pipes, a base manifold flow line, a chimney pipe connected to the base manifold flow line, a controllable valve, a reducer connected to the chimney, an expansion chamber component connected to the reducer, a restrictor mounted to the expansion chamber component, and a conduit connection connected to the restrictor for engaging a conduit to flow a gas sample from the gas trap to a gas analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Selman and Associates, Ltd.Inventors: Thomas H. Selman, Juanita C. Selman, Matthew J. Jennings, Richard James Gonzales, Brian A. Jennings, Stephen M. Bergman