Patents by Inventor Tore AARSLAND

Tore AARSLAND 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).

  • Publication number: 20180209236
    Abstract: A method for conducting a subsea well intervention at a subsea well, and a related system. In particular embodiments, an assembly is provided comprising a wireline drum pressure container unit, a lubricator package having a lock chamber tube enclosing a tool string and having at least one valve in a vertical bore, and a connector used to connect the assembly to a well control package on a well head of the well. In such an embodiment, the method can include displacing well fluid in a cavity between the valve of the lubricator package and a valve of the well control package, using a clean fluid, while the valve of the lubricator package is closed. The assembly can then be disconnected from said well control package at the connector and retrieved to the surface, whereby contamination of seawater due to disconnection can be reduced or minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: CapWell AS
    Inventors: Morten Talgø, John Helvik, Tore Aarsland
  • Patent number: 9828813
    Abstract: A fiber composite rod intervention cable includes a central electrical cable portion; a bonding layer; a generally unidirectional carbon fiber composite mantle layer; a protective, balanced braided fiber composite layer. The central electrical cable portion includes a generally central electrical conductor with a first cross-section conductive area; an inner insulation layer on the central electrical conductor; and a coaxial electrical conductor layer having a second cross section conductive area equal to the first cross-section conductive area. The fiber composite rod intervention cable is arranged for being injected into a well from a drum unit via an injection unit at the wellhead and may carry an intervention tool, a logging tool, a well tractor with or without an energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: C6 TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Wenting Zhang, Tore Aarsland
  • Patent number: 9482064
    Abstract: A drum unit for an intervention string for a well includes a drum with a drum axis and with a radius, arranged in a structural frame and rotatable by a motor and a tension compensator. The tension compensator includes a guide arch displaceable in a direction generally along the intervention string, orthogonal to the drum axis, using a first force device connected to the structural frame for keeping the intervention string in tension. At least a first end of the guide arch is laterally displaceable in a direction generally orthogonal to the intervention string, parallel with the drum axis. The intervention string runs between the guide arch to or from the first end to the drum. The intervention string runs via a second, opposite end of the guide arch via a second, fixed guide at the structural frame, directly or indirectly to or from the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: C6 TECHNOLOGIES AS, STIMLINE AS
    Inventors: Tore Aarsland, Mads Bjørnenak, Kenny Armstrong, Erik Zachariassen
  • Patent number: 9458684
    Abstract: A petroleum well injection system is provided for an intervention cable with a well tool ran into or out of a well during a well operation. The system includes a blow out valve BOP connected to a well head at a well, a lock chamber at the BOP arranged to contain the well tool before and after the well operation, an injector for the intervention cable, with drive belts driven by an electric motor, and a sensor for measuring the injector force or the tension that the drive belts applies to the intervention cable, a guide arch at the injector, wherein the intervention cable runs taut over the guide arch to a first end of the closed bending restrictor channels, a guide arch load cell arranged to measure the backward tension between an intervention cable the first end of the bending restrictor channel, and wherein the other end of the bending restrictor channel is connected to a drum frame with a motor running a drum for the intervention cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: C6 TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Kenny Armstrong, Tore Aarsland
  • Publication number: 20160017675
    Abstract: A petroleum well injection system is provided for an intervention cable with a well tool ran into or out of a well during a well operation. The system includes a blow out valve BOP connected to a well head at a well, a lock chamber at the BOP arranged to contain the well tool before and after the well operation, an injector for the intervention cable, with drive belts driven by an electric motor, and a sensor for measuring the injector force or the tension that the drive belts applies to the intervention cable, a guide arch at the injector, wherein the intervention cable runs taut over the guide arch to a first end of the closed bending restrictor channels, a guide arch load cell arranged to measure the backward tension between an intervention cable the first end of the bending restrictor channel, and wherein the other end of the bending restrictor channel is connected to a drum frame with a motor running a drum for the intervention cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: C6 TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Kenny ARMSTRONG, Tore AARSLAND
  • Patent number: 9228395
    Abstract: A conduit device for a petroleum well intervention string includes a first end connected to an intervention string drum unit with a drum and a second end connected to an injector head of a wellhead assembly. The conduit device, at any point between said first end and said second end, has a radius of curvature larger than or equal to a given smallest allowable radius of curvature for the intervention string. The conduit device forms a substantially incompressible fixed length path for the portion of said intervention string at any time present between the first end and the second end. The conduit device constitutes a tubular path for the intervention string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: C6 TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Kenny Armstrong, Tore Aarsland, Mats Bjørnenak
  • Patent number: 9169102
    Abstract: A drum unit for an intervention string for a well includes a drum with a radius for the intervention string, arranged in a structural frame and rotatable by a motor, the drum being arranged translating along a drum axis and driven by a translation motor, for controlled winding of the intervention string onto the drum relative to a first, fixed guide in the structural frame. A compensator includes a guide arch, the guide arch being displaceable in a direction orthogonal to the drum axis using a force device at the structural frame. The intervention string runs between the guide arch and the first fixed guide to or from a first end of the guide arch to the drum. The intervention string runs via a second, opposite end of the guide arch via a second, fixed guide at the structural frame, to or from the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: C6 Technologies AS, Stimline AS
    Inventors: Mads Bjørnenak, Kenny Armstrong, Tore Aarsland, Erik Zachariassen, Rune Moen
  • Publication number: 20150226021
    Abstract: The fibre composite rod intervention cable is for a petroleum well, and has a length of at least 2 to 10 km or more with the following sequence: a central electrical cable portion, a bonding layer, a generally unidirectional carbon fibre composite mantle layer, a protective, balanced braided fibre composite layer; the central electrical cable portion includes a generally central electrical conductor with a first cross-section conductive area an inner insulation layer on the central electrical conductor, and a coaxial electrical conductor layer having a second cross section conductive area equal to the first cross-section conductive area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: C6 TECHNOLOGIES AS
    Inventors: Wenting Zhang, Tore Aarsland
  • Publication number: 20140014317
    Abstract: A drum unit for an intervention string for a well includes a drum with a drum axis and with a radius, arranged in a structural frame and rotatable by a motor and a tension compensator. The tension compensator includes a guide arch displaceable in a direction generally along the intervention string, orthogonal to the drum axis, using a first force device connected to the structural frame for keeping the intervention string in tension. At least a first end of the guide arch is laterally displaceable in a direction generally orthogonal to the intervention string, parallel with the drum axis. The intervention string runs between the guide arch to or from the first end to the drum. The intervention string runs via a second, opposite end of the guide arch via a second, fixed guide at the structural frame, directly or indirectly to or from the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: Stimline AS, C6 Technologies AS
    Inventors: Tore AARSLAND, Mads BJORNENAK, Kenny ARMSTRONG, Erik ZACHARIASSEN