Patents by Inventor William David Bethancourt

William David Bethancourt 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: 11972581
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
  • Patent number: 11874420
    Abstract: A cross sectional representation of a geological surface is displayed on a display screen. A segment of the cross-sectional representation is edited, and a pseudo log of formation properties based on the edited segment is displayed on the display screen. A determination is made whether formation properties associated with the pseudo log match actual formation properties measured during drilling of a well and a signal is output indicative of the match. A drill operator may use a structural model determined based on the edited geological surface to drill for hydrocarbons in the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Kastenbaum, William David Bethancourt, Yang Miao, Jeremy Combs
  • Patent number: 11367248
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to evaluate formation resistivity. The method includes obtaining, from a downhole tool deployed in a borehole, a plurality of values of formation resistivity of a downhole formation proximate the borehole. The method also includes generating a plurality of two-dimensional renderings of the formation resistivity based on the plurality of values, wherein each two-dimensional rendering of the plurality of two-dimensional renderings illustrates an inversion of the formation resistivity along a plane of the downhole formation. The method further includes generating a volumetric rendering of the formation resistivity of the downhole formation from the plurality of two-dimensional renderings, wherein the volumetric rendering comprises a plurality of two-dimensional planes, and wherein each two-dimensional plane of the plurality of two-dimensional planes illustrates an inversion of formation resistivity along the respective plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Miao, William David Bethancourt, Jeremy James Combs, Juan Carlos Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20210327077
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
  • Publication number: 20210278559
    Abstract: A cross sectional representation of a geological surface is displayed on a display screen. A segment of the cross-sectional representation is edited, and a pseudo log of formation properties based on the edited segment is displayed on the display screen. A determination is made whether formation properties associated with the pseudo log match actual formation properties measured during drilling of a well and a signal is output indicative of the match. A drill operator may use a structural model determined based on the edited geological surface to drill for hydrocarbons in the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Kastenbaum, William David Bethancourt, Yang Miao, Jeremy Combs
  • Patent number: 9967153
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to retrieve a parsing instructions file and a binary configuration file stored in a housing, parse the binary configuration file according to the parsing instructions file to determine configuration information, display at least some of the configuration information as part of a graphical user interface, receive a selection of some of the configuration information and corresponding changed parameter values of the configuration information, transform the binary configuration file into a transformed version of the binary configuration file, and transmit the transformed version of the binary configuration file to the housing as a replacement for the binary configuration file. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William David Bethancourt, Ranganathan Sridharan, James Lin, Andre Krisna, Christopher Golla, Bhargav Patel, Svetozar Simeonov
  • Publication number: 20150304172
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to retrieve a parsing instructions file and a binary configuration file stored in a housing, parse the binary configuration file according to the parsing instructions file to determine configuration information, display at least some of the configuration information as part of a graphical user interface, receive a selection of some of the configuration information and corresponding changed parameter values of the configuration information, transform the binary configuration file into a transformed version of the binary configuration file, and transmit the transformed version of the binary configuration file to the housing as a replacement for the binary configuration file. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: William David Bethancourt, Ranganathan Sridharan, James Lin, Andre Krisna, Christopher Golla, Bhargav Patel, Svetozar Simeonov
  • Publication number: 20140209317
    Abstract: An example method for mobile workflow orchestration and job execution for a hydrocarbon recovery operation may include generating a workflow corresponding to the hydrocarbon recovery operation and providing the workflow to a first information handling system located at the site of the hydrocarbon recovery operation. The workflow may also be provided to a second information handling system remote from the site of the hydrocarbon recovery operation. Information regarding the workflow may be received from the first information handling system, and the workflow at the second information handling system may be updated based, at least in part, on the information received from the first information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ron Dirksen, Ben Musgrave, Bhargav Hariprasad Patel, Victor Alexander Artiga, Kiran Gopala Reddy Sunanda, William David Bethancourt, Cili Sun, Marcus Leo Avery