Patents by Inventor Trevor Alan Kopecky
Trevor Alan Kopecky 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: 11916450Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 11916451Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 11719086Abstract: A reverse flow gas separator having a housing having a housing intake and a first void space within the housing. The reverse flow gas separator further includes a driveshaft disposed adjacent to the first void space. The drive shaft is hollow and comprises a second void space disposed within the interior of the drive shaft. The second void space is continuous from a driveshaft intake to an opening in a terminal end of the driveshaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Casey L. Newport
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Patent number: 11629574Abstract: The disclosure provides a pump system including a pump, a gas relief valve coupled to the pump, a motor configured to turn the pump, and a sensor configured to measure a parameter of at least one of a fluid or the pump system. The gas relief valve includes an actuator and a rotary disk system, and the rotary disk system includes a stationary disk and a rotary disk. The actuator is rotationally coupled to the rotary disk, and in a first position, the gas relief valve directs a flow of a fluid into a production tubing and in a second position, the gas relief valve directs the flow of the fluid into an annulus of a wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Donn Jason Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Publication number: 20230019875Abstract: The disclosure provides a pump system including a pump, a gas relief valve coupled to the pump, a motor configured to turn the pump, and a sensor configured to measure a parameter of at least one of a fluid or the pump system. The gas relief valve includes an actuator and a rotary disk system, and the rotary disk system includes a stationary disk and a rotary disk. The actuator is rotationally coupled to the rotary disk, and in a first position, the gas relief valve directs a flow of a fluid into a production tubing and in a second position, the gas relief valve directs the flow of the fluid into an annulus of a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Donn Jason Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Publication number: 20230014297Abstract: A downhole gas separator assembly. The gas separator comprises a drive shaft; a first fluid mover mechanically coupled to the drive shaft having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; a fluid reservoir concentrically disposed around the drive shaft and located downstream of the first fluid mover, wherein an inside surface of the fluid reservoir and an outside surface of the drive shaft define a first annulus that is fluidically coupled to the fluid outlet of the first fluid mover; a second fluid mover having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, wherein the second fluid mover is located downstream of the fluid reservoir, and wherein the fluid inlet of the second fluid mover is fluidically coupled to the first annulus; and a gas flow path and liquid flow path separator having a gas phase discharge port open to an exterior of the assembly and a liquid phase discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Donn Jason BROWN, Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Casey Laine NEWPORT, Trevor Alan KOPECKY
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Patent number: 11371510Abstract: A fluid pump test system. The fluid pump test system comprises a plurality of fluid tanks, each different fluid tank holding a different test fluid, a fluid plumbing, a plurality of valves coupling the fluid tanks to the fluid plumbing, and a compressed air source coupled to the fluid plumbing.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Vance Lee Fielder, Bryan Don Mullins, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Donn J. Brown
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Patent number: 11319786Abstract: The disclosure provides a pressure escape system comprising: an intake port, wherein the intake port receives a downhole fluid; a sliding sleeve, wherein the sliding sleeve comprises fluid ports disposed through a portion of the sliding sleeve that is within a fluid flow path of the downhole fluid travelling from the intake port; a spring, wherein the spring is disposed within a housing and coupled to the sliding sleeve; and one or more exit ports, wherein the one or more exit ports are disposed through the housing and through the sliding sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Publication number: 20220065091Abstract: A reverse flow gas separator having a housing having a housing intake and a first void space within the housing. The reverse flow gas separator further includes a driveshaft disposed adjacent to the first void space. The drive shaft is hollow and comprises a second void space disposed within the interior of the drive shaft. The second void space is continuous from a driveshaft intake to an opening in a terminal end of the driveshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Casey L. Newport
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Patent number: 11255177Abstract: An apparatus for testing of downhole multiphase fluid handling systems used in oil and gas production allows test personnel to visually observe the testing. The apparatus is constructed from housings and/or casings made partly or entirely of a see-through material. The see-through material allows for unaided visual observation of the flow regime of the fluid flowing through fluid handling equipment. This eliminates most all of the assumptions that typically need to be made about how well the equipment operates. The ability to clearly observe the flow regimes unassisted allows for accurate study of individual equipment effects, vortices interactions and formation, the effects of different velocities of fluid flow, the optimization of flow paths, remixing and flow regimes external of a system, slug creation, and other parameters known to those skilled in the art.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Trevor Alan Kopecky, Donn J. Brown, Bryan Don Mullins, Vance Lee Fielder
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Patent number: 11215183Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises a first actuator having a first member that is configured to extend and retract radially with respect to a central axis of the ESP assembly in response to receiving a control input, wherein the first actuator is mechanically coupled to an electric motor, to a seal section, or to a centrifugal pump of the ESP assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 11149535Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor, a centrifugal pump mechanically coupled to the electric motor, and a gas handling inverted shroud assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Casey Laine Newport
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Publication number: 20210320578Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Donn J. BROWN, Robert Charles de LONG, Trevor Alan KOPECKY
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Publication number: 20210320549Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Donn J. BROWN, David Christopher BECK, Robert Charles de LONG, Trevor Alan KOPECKY
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Publication number: 20210317729Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Donn J. BROWN, David Christopher BECK, Robert Charles de LONG, Trevor Alan KOPECKY
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Publication number: 20210320577Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Donn J. BROWN, David Christopher BECK, Robert Charles de LONG, Trevor Alan KOPECKY
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Publication number: 20210320563Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Donn J. BROWN, David Christopher BECK, Robert Charles de LONG, Trevor Alan KOPECKY
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Publication number: 20210270119Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor, a centrifugal pump mechanically coupled to the electric motor, and a gas handling inverted shroud assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Donn J. BROWN, Ketankumar Kantilal SHETH, Trevor Alan KOPECKY, Casey Laine NEWPORT
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Publication number: 20210238968Abstract: The disclosure provides a pressure escape system comprising: an intake port, wherein the intake port receives a downhole fluid; a sliding sleeve, wherein the sliding sleeve comprises fluid ports disposed through a portion of the sliding sleeve that is within a fluid flow path of the downhole fluid travelling from the intake port; a spring, wherein the spring is disposed within a housing and coupled to the sliding sleeve; and one or more exit ports, wherein the one or more exit ports are disposed through the housing and through the sliding sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Publication number: 20210172310Abstract: An apparatus for testing of downhole multiphase fluid handling systems used in oil and gas production allows test personnel to visually observe the testing. The apparatus is constructed from housings and/or casings made partly or entirely of a see-through material. The see-through material allows for unaided visual observation of the flow regime of the fluid flowing through fluid handling equipment. This eliminates most all of the assumptions that typically need to be made about how well the equipment operates. The ability to clearly observe the flow regimes unassisted allows for accurate study of individual equipment effects, vortices interactions and formation, the effects of different velocities of fluid flow, the optimization of flow paths, remixing and flow regimes external of a system, slug creation, and other parameters known to those skilled in the art.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Trevor Alan KOPECKY, Donn J. BROWN, Bryan Don MULLINS, Vance Lee FIELDER