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).

  • Patent number: 12264679
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly comprising an electric motor, a seal section disposed uphole of the electric motor, a gas separator disposed uphole of the seal section, a downhole transmission assembly disposed uphole of the gas separator, comprising a flow passage fluidically coupled to a liquid phase discharge port of the gas separator, a first drive shaft coupled to a drive shaft of the gas separator, a second drive shaft, and a transmission that mechanically couples the first drive shaft to the second drive shaft, wherein the transmission is configured to turn the second drive shaft at a slower angular speed than the angular speed of the first drive shaft, and a centrifugal pump assembly disposed uphole of the downhole transmission assembly, having a fluid inlet coupled to a fluid outlet of the downhole transmission assembly, and having a drive shaft coupled to the second drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth
  • Publication number: 20250092769
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises having an electric motor a stator, a rotor, and a first drive shaft, wherein the rotor is coupled to the first drive shaft; a seal section having a second drive shaft coupled to the first drive shaft; a pump assembly having a third drive shaft coupled to the second drive shaft; and an angular position instrument that is configured to determine an angular position of the rotor and to transmit an indication of the angular position of the rotor to an electric motor controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Jeffrey Frey, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Donn J. Brown
  • Patent number: 12000258
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn Jason Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11916451
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11916450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11719086
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Casey L. Newport
  • Patent number: 11629574
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn Jason Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Publication number: 20230019875
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Donn Jason Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11371510
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Vance Lee Fielder, Bryan Don Mullins, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Donn J. Brown
  • Patent number: 11319786
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Publication number: 20220065091
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Casey L. Newport
  • Patent number: 11255177
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Alan Kopecky, Donn J. Brown, Bryan Don Mullins, Vance Lee Fielder
  • Patent number: 11215183
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11149535
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Casey Laine Newport
  • Publication number: 20210238968
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 7726997
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a cable having a plurality of insulated conductors comprises a body having a respective recess for receiving a terminating pin each of the conductors. A respective spigot sealingly engages within each of the recesses and has a passage for receiving an associated one of the terminating pins. Furthermore a seal is associated with each of the spigots for sealing the spigot relative to the associated terminating pin. The provision of a separate spigot for each of the conductors and for sealing engagement within a respective recess in the body enables the spigots to be sealingly fitted to the conductors prior to each spigot being introduced into its recess and sealingly engaged therein. This provides improved insulation of the conductor and increased creepage distance between the mating electrical parts and the outer surface of the housing of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Oilfield Equpiment Development Center Limited
    Inventors: Steven Charles Kennedy, Michael Andrew Yuratich, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Alan Thomas Fraser
  • Patent number: 7632124
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a cable having a plurality of insulated conductors comprises a body having a respective recess for receiving a terminating pin each of the conductors. A respective spigot sealingly engages within each of the recesses and has a passage for receiving an associated one of the terminating pins. Furthermore a seal is associated with each of the spigots for sealing the spigot relative to the associated terminating pin. The provision of a separate spigot for each of the conductors and for sealing engagement within a respective recess in the body enables the spigots to be sealingly fitted to the conductors prior to each spigot being introduced into its recess and sealingly engaged therein. This provides improved insulation of the conductor and increased creepage distance between the mating electrical parts and the outer surface of the housing of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Premier Business Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Charles Kennedy, Michael Andrew Yuratich, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Alan Thomas Fraser
  • Publication number: 20080293280
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a cable having a plurality of insulated conductors comprises a body having a respective recess for receiving a terminating pin each of the conductors. A respective spigot sealingly engages within each of the recesses and has a passage for receiving an associated one of the terminating pins. Furthermore a seal is associated with each of the spigots for sealing the spigot relative to the associated terminating pin. The provision of a separate spigot for each of the conductors and for sealing engagement within a respective recess in the body enables the spigots to be sealingly fitted to the conductors prior to each spigot being introduced into its recess and sealingly engaged therein. This provides improved insulation of the conductor and increased creepage distance between the mating electrical parts and the outer surface of the housing of the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Steven Charles Kennedy, Michael Andrew Yuratich, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Alan Thomas Fraser
  • Patent number: 7264494
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a cable having a plurality of insulated conductors comprises a body having a respective recess for receiving a terminating pin each of the conductors. A respective spigot sealingly engages within each of the recesses and has a passage for receiving an associated one of the terminating pins. Furthermore a seal is associated with each of the spigots for sealing the spigot relative to the associated terminating pin. The provision of a separate spigot for each of the conductors and for sealing engagement within a respective recess in the body enables the spigots to be sealingly fitted to the conductors prior to each spigot being introduced into its recess and sealingly engaged therein. This provides improved insulation of the conductor and increased creepage distance between the mating electrical parts and the outer surface of the housing of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Charles Kennedy, Michael Andrew Yuratich, Trevor Alan Kopecky, Alan Thomas Fraser