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).
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Publication number: 20250085453Abstract: A method which may comprise disposing a bottom hole assembly (BHA) into a wellbore, wherein the BHA comprises a measurement assembly configured to record one or more measurements. The method may further comprise identifying one or more operating depths; forming a telemetry table based at least on one or more operating depths; acquiring a pseudo log by converting one or more measurements into telemetry values with the telemetry table and back to scientific values with the telemetry table; comparing the pseudo log to the one or more measurements to form a comparison; and publishing the telemetry table based at least in part on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: William David Bethancourt
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Publication number: 20240218787Abstract: A computer-implemented method/arrangement for rapidly assessing operable conditions of each constituent tool of a MWD tool string between two consecutive downhole runs of a drill string. The method includes filtering binary data downloaded from a recently pulled MWD tool string for data sets that each represent conditions indicative of the operational condition of each of the several tools of the MWD tool string. For each of the data sets, a processing algorithm is selected from a store of predetermined algorithms, based on characteristics of the respective data set. Each data set is substantially simultaneously processed with the algorithm selected for that data set. Based on respective tool-condition data output by each algorithm-processed data set, determining whether the tool that corresponds to the respective data set meets a predetermined operational capability requirement or threshold to be operated in a subsequent run downhole with the drill string.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William David BETHANCOURT, Paul D. BEENE, Mary Tadros SHATBY, Rus KOLESNIK, Wanfeng MOU
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Patent number: 11972581Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
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Patent number: 11874420Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Martin Kastenbaum, William David Bethancourt, Yang Miao, Jeremy Combs
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Patent number: 11367248Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yang Miao, William David Bethancourt, Jeremy James Combs, Juan Carlos Fernandez
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Publication number: 20210327077Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, William David Bethancourt, Renata Da Gama Saintive, Clinton Keith Bates, Robert Grant Gillson, III
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Publication number: 20210278559Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Martin Kastenbaum, William David Bethancourt, Yang Miao, Jeremy Combs
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Patent number: 9967153Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William David Bethancourt, Ranganathan Sridharan, James Lin, Andre Krisna, Christopher Golla, Bhargav Patel, Svetozar Simeonov
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Publication number: 20150304172Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: William David Bethancourt, Ranganathan Sridharan, James Lin, Andre Krisna, Christopher Golla, Bhargav Patel, Svetozar Simeonov
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Publication number: 20140209317Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: 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