Patents Issued in March 7, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190071917
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an assistance device for loading a motor vehicle, having at least one detection device by means of which an item that is to be loaded into the motor vehicle is detectable, and having a door opening device by means of which at least one access opening to a cargo area of the motor vehicle is releasable in accordance with this detection of the item. The disclosure further relates to a method for operating an assistance device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Ansgar NEUDECKER
  • Publication number: 20190071918
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include extruded articles, building components and methods of making the same. In an embodiment, an extruded article is included. The extruded article can include a body member including a first portion comprising a first composition, the first composition comprising a polymer resin. The extruded body member can also include a second portion comprising a second composition different than the first composition. The second composition can include a polymer resin, fibers, and at least one component selected from the group consisting of at least 1% by weight particles and at least 5 phr impact modifier. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Patrick Jerome Gronlund, Jessica Kathryn Ehrlichmann, Trevor Dean Peterson, Katherine April Stephan Graham
  • Publication number: 20190071919
    Abstract: A spacer frame for use in fabricating a window and a method of fabrication thereof is disclosed. The spacer frame for separating first and second glass lites from each other in window. The spacer frame includes a frame forming a multi-sided form comprising a first outwardly facing surface for supporting a first glass lite that is contiguous with a first intermediate wall portion and a second outwardly facing surface for supporting a second glass lite that is contiguous with a second intermediate wall portion. The first and second intermediate wall portions comprise a first material and are linked to each other and spaced from each other by a thermal interruption strip. The first and second intermediate wall portions and the thermal interruption strip comprise an intermediate wall that bridges the first and second outwardly facing surfaces. The spacer frame further includes a film overlaying the intermediate wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Timothy B. McGlinchy, William A. Briese
  • Publication number: 20190071920
    Abstract: A vacuum insulating glazing unit (VIGU) comprises two or more glass lites (panes) spaced apart from one another and hermetically bonded to an edge seal assembly therebetween. The resulting cavity between the lites is evacuated to create at least one insulating vacuum cavity within which are disposed a plurality of stand-off members to maintain separation between the lites. The edge seal assembly is preferably compliant in the longitudinal (i.e., edgewise) direction to allow longitudinal relative motion between the two lites (e.g., from thermal expansion). The longitudinal compliance may be obtained by imprinting a three-dimensional pattern into the edge seal material. The edge seal assembly is preferably bonded to the lites with a first bond portion that is hermetic and a second bond portion that is load-resistant. Methods for producing VIGUs and/or compliant edge seal assemblies and VIGU and edge seal apparatus are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: William H. Francis, IV, Gregg E. Freebury, Neal J. Beidleman, Michael Hulse
  • Publication number: 20190071921
    Abstract: An insulated glass assembly line generally includes a first and second automated lite picker, a washer, a vertical gas filling and wetting station, a robot, and an applicator station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Morgan Donohue
  • Publication number: 20190071922
    Abstract: An adhesive barrier system for enhancing privacy in bathroom stall includes a bathroom stall that has a wall and a door that is hingedly coupled to the wall. A strip is selectively positioned to extend vertically between the door and the wall. The strip is comprised of an opaque material to obstruct vision between the door and the wall. A plurality of adhesive pads is provided. Each of the adhesive pads is coupled to the strip. Each of the adhesive pads adheres to the wall and the door to retain the strip on the wall and the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Sheila Peterson
  • Publication number: 20190071923
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a safe high speed roll-up door with spiral brackets. To enable a high speed operation, robust spiral brackets having efficient spacing are provided to guide the plurality of sectional slats. Durable and low noise signature rollers are used. A unique assembly configuration of the slats and the tracks guiding the rollers enable quick replacement of each individual roller without disassembling the door. A double-belt counter weight mechanism balances the door and incorporates safety sensors that prevent loosening the belts when the door is jammed. The belts are further adjustable using ratchets such that adjustment for the horizontal balance as well as weight position is made effortless. In all, the high speed roll-up door using sectional slats performs faster and quieter, withstands greater loads, and lasts longer than other existing roll-up doors with spiral brackets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Overhead Door Corporation
    Inventors: Ruiping Ouyang, Thomas Joseph Steckbeck, Kazuo Mita, Toru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190071924
    Abstract: A self-adhesive blackout shade for controlling the amount of external light sources allowed into a room or workspace. The self-adhesive blackout shade includes a panel having a first side designed to face an incoming light source and reflect a first portion of the incoming light ay from the panel and a second side designed to absorb a second non-reflected portion of light from the incoming light source and prevent any non-reflected light from passing through the panel. Additional structural support for the panel ca be provided by a rigid member extending around a perimeter of the panel between the first side and second side. The panel further includes a plurality of magnets disposed between the first side and second side of the panel are designed to interact with a plurality of metallic anchors, such that the panel can be removably secured to a surface via the plurality of metallic anchors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Beth Seaman
  • Publication number: 20190071925
    Abstract: A window blind includes a first rail, a second rail, a plurality of slats, a modulation mechanism, and an adjustment unit. The modulation mechanism includes a modulation shaft which can drive two warps of the ladder tape to make a relative movement in a vertical direction, whereby to modulate the slats to turn. When the slats are turned from a first position to a second position, the adjustment unit moves a rear cord which is used to move the second rail, whereby to change a length of a segment of the rear cord between a bottom edge of the first rail and a top edge of the second rail. In this way, the second rail could be turned along with the slats which are driven by the modulation shaft, and the problem of light leakage could be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: De-Jun Zhang, Lin Chen, Keng-Hao Nien
  • Publication number: 20190071926
    Abstract: A window covering system is described herein. The system includes one or more motorized window coverings, and includes both local and cloud based control facilitated by motors or actuators in each window covering that are actuated by a controller. Each window covering further includes a processor with settings stored in memory that direct the controller. Sensors send both local and remote sensor data along with real time weather data to the processor. The processor uses this sensor data to update charts and schedules in memory, then sends commands to the controller based on these updated charts and schedules according to user defined and factory set parameters. Additionally, the window coverings each have a network device and wireless transmitters enabling connection via a mesh network, the network controlled by one or more mobile devices which receive user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Austin Benjamin Carlson, Aaron Myer, Seth Myer, Emily Brimhall
  • Publication number: 20190071927
    Abstract: A power assist module for use in roller tube driven product such as roller shades. The module may be pre-wound prior to installation in a roller tube and retains its pre-wound condition, even after use, when removed from the roller tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen R. Haarer, Richard N. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20190071928
    Abstract: A telescopically extendable and collapsible ladder assembly includes a top ladder section, a bottom ladder section, and one or more intermediate ladder sections. The assembly may include sliding automatic release actuators, having a slanted actuating surface for interaction with actuator surfaces of spacers provided at each end of a rung of an adjacent ladder section, such that, when a rung is moved towards the rung of an adjacent lower ladder section, the activation surfaces of the spacers push the release actuators into an unlocking position and subsequently position the rung at an anti-finger pinching distance. The top rung of the bottom ladder section may be provided with a centrally arranged grip element that forms a housing for manually operable release actuators provided at the bottom side of the rung.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Lampe Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Caspar Bernard Lampe
  • Publication number: 20190071929
    Abstract: An apparatus having a skid, a boom having a first end attached to the skid and pivotable around an axis proximate the first end such that a second end of the boom raises and lowers relative to the skid, and a room mounted on the skid. The apparatus may further include a raisable apparatus supported by the second end of the boom and having one or more plug panels configured to connect to one or more first cables. The apparatus may also include second cables routed from the raisable apparatus and attached to and supported at least in part by the boom, wherein the second cables may be configured to provide electrical power to the raisable apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Jacques Orban
  • Publication number: 20190071930
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool having a tool body insertable into a drill string with a plurality of projecting or extendable cutter assemblies at positions distributed azimuthally around the longitudinal axis of the tool body. Each cutter assembly includes a support structure bearing a plurality of cutters with exposed hard cutting surfaces facing in a direction of rotation of the tool. The support structure may have a surface positioned to contact a conduit wall and may be made as a body of particulate material infiltrated with a metal binder, where the particulate material may include material such as tungsten carbide having a Knoop hardness of at least 1000. The support structure may have a functionally graded composition with hard material to contact the wall and steel in a region which will be machined during manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Hird, Ashley Bernard Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190071931
    Abstract: A drill bit comprising a body that includes a metal matrix composite (MMC). The MMC comprises a mixture comprising a plurality of particles and another plurality of particles, wherein each of the other plurality of particles is softer than each of the plurality of particles. The MMC comprises a metallic binding material that is metallurgically bonded to each of the plurality of particles and the other plurality of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Zhongming WANG, Andrew BELL, Robert HORSWELL, Ramamurthy VISWANADHAM
  • Publication number: 20190071932
    Abstract: A cutter for use with a drill bit includes: a substrate for mounting in a pocket of the drill bit and made from a cermet material; a cutting table made from a polycrystalline superhard material and mounted to the substrate; and a shield disposed in an outer recess of the substrate adjacent to the cutting table, mounted to the substrate, extending from the cutting table along a partial length of the substrate, and made from a composite material comprising the polycrystalline superhard material and a ceramic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Federico Bellin
  • Publication number: 20190071933
    Abstract: A cutting element includes a body, a non-planar cutting face formed on a first end of the body, and an edge formed around a perimeter of the cutting face. The cutting face includes a central raised portion, and the edge has an edge angle defined between the cutting face and a side surface of the body. The edge angle varies around the perimeter of the cutting face and includes an acute edge angle defined by a portion of the cutting face extending downwardly from the edge to a depth from the cutting angle. The portion of the edge defining the acute edge angle may be directly adjacent: a side surface of the cutting element; a bevel of the cutting element; or a flat region at the perimeter of the cutting element or bevel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaoge Gan, Anjie Dong, Gerard Johnson, Michael George Azar, Huimin Song, Youhe Zhang, Venkatesh Karuppiah
  • Publication number: 20190071934
    Abstract: A rotary shoulder connection comprising: a box connection, wherein the box connection has a box outer radius, a box counter bore radius and a box inner radius, and box threads having a box thread form cut along a box taper; a pin connection, wherein the pin connection has a pin nose inner radius, a pin outer radius, a pin cylinder radius and a pin nose radius, and pin threads having a pin thread form cut along a pin taper to align with the box threads inside the box connection; and a primary shoulder connection comprising: a curved primary box shoulder; a curved primary pin shoulder and/or a curved secondary box shoulder and a curved secondary pin shoulder is disclosed. Methods of using the rotary shoulder connection are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Black Diamond Oilfield Rentals LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Biggerstaff, Charles G. Kibbe, Jerrod B. Olivier
  • Publication number: 20190071935
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a rotating flow coupler that is configured to couple multiple sections of a casing for a horizontal well, wherein the rotating flow coupler is configured to rotate relative to the casing allowing an additional degree of freedom for equipment being lowered into the well. This may allow for equipment such as coil tubing, drilling string, casings strings, etc. to reach a total distance of deeper laterals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Hossam Elbadawy
  • Publication number: 20190071936
    Abstract: A simple centralizer, comprising a mandrel extending between box couplings, a rotor receiving surface between the box couplings, a shoulder on the mandrel defining a first end of the rotor receiving surface; and a collar receiving surface on a second end of the rotor receiving surface. The collar receiving surface may be un-threaded. In use, a collar is press fit on to the collar receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Plainsman Mfg. Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Makelki
  • Publication number: 20190071937
    Abstract: A centraliser comprises two collars that are connected by asymmetric spring bows. The spring bows each comprise two arcs, where the curvature of one arc is inverted with respect to the curvature of the other arc, one being concave and the other convex. The spring bows are in sets that are equidistantly spaced around the circumference of the collars, each set having the same configuration, and the opposite configuration to the spring bows in the other set. Upon insertion into a wellbore, one set of spring bows is therefore compressed before the other set. Upon compression, the deformation of the concave arc leads to mutual deformation of the convex arc, and the spring bows adopt a flatter configuration, enhancing the rotational freedom of the tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: ANDREW KIRK, NATHAN JAMES KIRK
  • Publication number: 20190071938
    Abstract: A heave compensation and riser tensioning system and method for an offshore drilling or production operation. The system includes at least one motor assembly, wherein the motor assembly further includes at least one motor; a drum assembly bracket; at least one wire drum; and at least one wire rope. The at least one wire rope having has a first end fixedly attached to the wire drum, and a second end fixedly attached to a riser tension ring. The at least one motor is coupled to the at least one wire drum via a gear assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Paal Anders TARALDRUD, Øyvind VAAGLAND REITEN, Christian Bertil VON DER OHE, Tommy SKIBELID, Øyvind HAUGEN, Runar BIRKELAND
  • Publication number: 20190071939
    Abstract: Method and system for pipe conveyed logging (PCL) operations in which the drillpipe conveys a logging tool. The method and system coordinate operation of a wireline winch and drilling rig control systems to synchronize their operation, and/or the method and system attenuate the pull force applied to an upper end of the cable and transmit the attenuated force toward a lower end of the cable to reduce the risks of premature cable release and cable damage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shunfeng Zheng, Vishwanathan Parmeshwar
  • Publication number: 20190071940
    Abstract: A tubular gripping die is presented, the die comprising one or more axial load teeth and one or more torqueing teeth. A method of manufacturing a tubular gripping die is also presented. The method includes forming one or more axial load teeth extending from a base of the die; forming one or more torqueing teeth extending from the base of the die; and defining a gripping front face of the die, at least a portion of the gripping front face having a concave curvature to align with an outside diameter of the tubular to be gripped. The portion of the gripping front face formed with the curvature comprises any one of said axial load teeth, said torqueing teeth or both. A method of making up a tubular string from a plurality of tubular joints is also presented. A tubular handing tool comprising one of more tubular gripping dies, each die comprising one or more axial load teeth and one or more torqueing teeth arranged thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Gareth Dustin Sonnier, Bin Ma
  • Publication number: 20190071941
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method for controlling a coiled tubing unit at a well site is provided. The method includes receiving, by a processing device, wellbore data. The method further includes generating, by the processing device, an automated coiled tubing control plan for the coiled tubing unit based at least in part on the wellbore data. The method further includes controlling, by the processing device, the coiled tubing unit using the automated coiled tubing control plan to cause coiled tubing to run into a wellbore at the well site to a target depth, wait a waiting period of time, and cause the coiled tubing to run out of the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Ken P. Dobkins, William A. Aitken, Bo Wu, Jeffrey Martinez, Christopher P. Sartori, Peter Shcheredin, Timothy T. Ramsey, Stuart J. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20190071942
    Abstract: A downhole tool having a flapper valve assembly for controlling the backflow of fluid into a tubing string that includes at least one flapper. The downhole tool also includes a deformable element that maintains the at least one flapper in an open position after the deformable portion is deformed. A downhole tool having a flapper valve assembly for controlling the backflow of fluid into a tubing string that includes at least one flapper. The downhole tool also includes a sleeve slidably disposed within at least a portion of the flapper valve assembly and the downhole tool. The downhole tool includes a deformable and dissolvable seat disposed uphole and adjacent to the sleeve and a dissolvable fluid blocking member to engage with the seat to shift the sleeve from first position to a second position within the downhole tool. Methods of using these downhole tools are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Brock Watson, Roger Schultz, Andy Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20190071943
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an anchoring and sealing tool. In one aspect, downhole tool for use in a wellbore is provided. The tool includes a tubular having a tapered outer surface. The tool further includes an expandable annular member disposed on the tubular. The expandable member has an anchor portion. The tool further includes a seal member disposed in a groove of the expandable annular member. The seal member has one or more anti-extrusion bands, wherein the seal member and the anchor portion are configured to be expandable radially outward into contact with the wellbore as the expandable annular member moves along the tapered outer surface of the tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: George GIVENS, Rocky A. TURLEY
  • Publication number: 20190071944
    Abstract: A method and system for obtaining orientation of a core sample core drilled from underlying rock. A core orientation recording device (116) records its orientation at random and/or non-predetermined time intervals from a reference time during a drilling operation. The time intervals are generated to be within a range of minimum and maximum time intervals. After a time interval elapsed from the reference time plus a wait time of at least the minimum random or non-predetermined time interval, the core sample is separated from the underlying rock and brought to the surface and its original orientation is determined from orientation data recorded closest in time to the elapsed time plus the minimum time interval. A remote communicator (160) having the elapsed time interrogates the core orientation recordal device (116) to identify the required orientation data and requires the core orientation recordal device to identify a correct orientation of the core sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Khaled Mufid Yousef Hejleh
  • Publication number: 20190071945
    Abstract: A downhole jarring apparatus for use in jarring an object in a bore comprises a first jarring portion including a first impact surface and a second jarring portion including a second impact surface. The apparatus includes a rotatable jarring arrangement operable to translate a rotational drive movement to cause relative axial movement of the first and second impact surfaces to establish axial impact therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Rotojar Limited
    Inventor: Peter Barnes Moyes
  • Publication number: 20190071946
    Abstract: A system for distributing pressurized fluid during wellbore operations can include a pressure vessel having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The system can also include a conduit rotatably connected to the fluid outlet of the pressure vessel for coupling to one or more wellbores. Also, a method for distributing pressurized fluid during wellbore operations can include receiving pressurized fluid in a pressure vessel. The method can also include distributing to one or more wellbores the pressurized fluid from the pressure vessel through a conduit rotatably connected to the pressure vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jay Painter, Christopher Champeaux, Doug Scott
  • Publication number: 20190071947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a riserless intervention system for offshore intervention of a well from a vessel by means of a tool string, the vessel having a waterline and the well having a top, the riserless intervention system comprising a lubricator pipe comprising a first end and a second end, the second end being configured to connect with the top of the well, the first end having a first opening and the second end having a second opening, and the tool string configured to be arranged in the lubricator pipe, wherein a closing part is arranged at the second end and configured to close a fluid communication through the second opening of the second end of the lubricator pipe in order to allow the lubricator pipe to be filled with fluid before being connected to the top of the well. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a riserless intervention method for offshore intervention of a well from a vessel by means of a riserless intervention system according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Kim JOHNSEN
  • Publication number: 20190071948
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include a retrievable bridge plug assembly. The retrievable bridge plug assembly includes a sealing element that is elastically deformable to expand radially outward when the sealing element experiences axial compression and at least one anti-extrusion device positioned downhole from the sealing element. The at least one anti-extrusion device includes a shoulder that in operation maintains contact with the sealing element. Also included in the at least one anti-extrusion device is a plurality of anti-extrusion petals positioned downhole from the shoulder that expand radially outward from the anti-extrusion device. Additionally, the at least one anti-extrusion device includes an expandable sleeve surrounding the plurality of anti-extrusion petals that covers extrusion gaps of the plurality of anti-extrusion petals when the plurality of anti-extrusion petals expand radially outward from the anti-extrusion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony PHAN, Jack Gammill CLEMENS, Mark HOLLY
  • Publication number: 20190071949
    Abstract: A downhole system, such as a packer or a bridge plug, isolates zones in a wellbore. Each downhole system includes a mandrel, a sealing member, ring members, and support rings. Each support ring has an extended configuration to position the support ring between the respective ring member and sealing member during deployment and before installation and a collapsed configuration to prevent extrusion of the ring member and sealing member after installation. Ring caps can be added between the support rings and ring members for additional support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Perry M. BATSON, JR., Jeff MAYNARD, Anthony TRAN, Jie LI, Qiang YIN, Chenggang YU
  • Publication number: 20190071950
    Abstract: Apparatus, in the form of a eutectic alloy plug (1) and a deployment heater (10) are provided. The plug (1) and the deployment heated (10) are provided with means (5, 13) for releasably retaining the deployment heater (10) within a cavity (4) in the plug (1). The nature of the retaining means is such that once the plug (1) is secured in a well the heater (10) can be recovered without the plug (1). An extraction heater (20), which is also receivable within the cavity (4) of the plug (1), is provided to re-melt the eutectic alloy and thus enable the extraction of the plug from a well. Various method of plugging abandoned wells are made possible by the control that the provided apparatus gives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: BiSN Tec Ltd
    Inventors: Paul Carragher, Leo Richards
  • Publication number: 20190071951
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device for a hydraulic fracturing system includes a fluid conduit having a fracking fluid outlet configured to be fluidly connected to a well head for delivering a fracking fluid to the well head. The fluid conduit includes a base fluid inlet configured to be fluidly connected to the outlet of a frac pump such that the fluid conduit is configured to receive a flow of base fluid from the frac pump. An injection system is fluidly connected to the fluid conduit downstream from the base fluid inlet and upstream from the fracking fluid outlet. The injection system is configured to be fluidly connected to a material source. The injection system is configured to inject at least one material of the fracking fluid from the material source into the fluid conduit downstream from the frac pump to generate the fracking fluid within the fluid conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Gideon Nathaniel Junqueira Spencer, Justin Lane Poehls, Jeffrey Haiderer, Connor Landrum, Scott Alan Skurdalsvold, Paul Steele, Trever Dean Stewart
  • Publication number: 20190071952
    Abstract: A rechargeable power system comprising: a drill string configured to operate in a well bore, the drill string comprising: a fuel cell system; a generator in electrical communication with the fuel cell system; a turbine, configured to rotate due to an impingement of drilling mud on one or more turbine blades, the turbine in operable communication with the generator; and where the fuel cell system is configured to provide power at least when drilling mud is not circulating in the well bore, and further configured to be recharged by the generator when drilling mud is circulating in the well bore. A method for operating a rechargeable downhole fuel cell. The method comprises: monitoring a fluid supply pressure; determining whether the fluid supply pressure is below a threshold value; and stopping a fuel cell discharge if the fluid supply pressure is below the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Wenlin Zhang, Terizhandur S. Ramakrishnan, Joseph Walter, Albert Perez, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190071953
    Abstract: Example of the present disclosure relate to frac sleeve with set of inner sleeves that allow selective open and close of such sleeves, where clusters of the same frac sleeves to be treated top to bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Mohamed Ibrahim Saraya, Jarle Trones, Kristoffer Brække
  • Publication number: 20190071954
    Abstract: An elongated shroud includes a perforated exterior surface, having rows of holes extending into an interior of the elongated shroud; each row of the have holes of a same width; and the width of the holes associated with each row decrease in each row out from a center row of holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Edward F. Blackburne, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190071955
    Abstract: System and methods for providing a fluid flow path through a lower casing and a cement of a subterranean well includes a plurality of perforation tubes extending through a sidewall of a lower casing, the perforation tubes moveable from a retracted position to an extended position. In the retracted position a minor length of the perforation tubes is located outside of an outer diameter surface of the lower casing. In the extended position, a major length of the perforation tubes is located outside of the outer diameter surface of the lower casing, the major length being greater than the minor length. In the extended position, the perforation tubes extend radially outward from the outer diameter surface of the lower casing. Each of the plurality of perforation tubes is positioned axially along the lower casing to be moveable to an extended position in a formation zone of the subterranean well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Hamoud Ali Al-Anazi
  • Publication number: 20190071956
    Abstract: An artificial lift system can include an actuator operable to reciprocate a rod string in the well, the actuator including a piston reciprocably disposed in a cylinder, and a piston rod connected to the piston, and a rod rotator that continuously rotates the piston rod relative to the cylinder as the piston displaces in a longitudinal direction relative to the cylinder. A method of rotating a rod string can include connecting the rod string to a piston rod of an actuator, longitudinally reciprocating the piston rod relative to a cylinder of the actuator and a mandrel of a rod rotator, and rotating the piston rod relative to the mandrel in response to the reciprocating, the mandrel being disposed at least partially within the piston rod during the rotating. A rod rotator can include a mandrel having a helical external profile configured to attached to a cylinder of a hydraulic actuator, an internal profile complementarily shaped relative to the external profile, and a one-way clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Michael C. RAMSEY
  • Publication number: 20190071957
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to, according to some embodiments, an extraction process for recovering an oil from an oil reservoir comprising a mobile water. The extraction process includes the step of injecting a first solvent into the oil reservoir through the at least one injection well to form a first mixture, the first mixture comprising the first solvent, a first portion of mobile water, and a first portion of oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Apostolos Kantzas, Jonathan Bryan, Robert Richardson, Donald E.H. Jones
  • Publication number: 20190071958
    Abstract: A process and system for in situ electrical heating of a hydrocarbon bearing formation includes a tool capable of being lowered down a well casing. The tool has a plurality of metal arms capable of extending radially within a secondary well casing. Each of the metal arms includes an injection electrode, a bucking electrode, and first and second monitoring electrodes. An insulating member is mounted to each metal arm. The insulating member is arranged and designed to make contact with the casing and prevent the metal arm from directly contacting the casing. A switch is provided that is capable of being electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes of one metal arm at a time. A logging cable having a plurality of wires connected at one end to the switch and a second end to instrumentation at the ground surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Rama Rau YELUNDUR
  • Publication number: 20190071959
    Abstract: A method of producing temperature and pressure conditioned fluids using a fuel cell. The fuel cell generates an anode exhaust stream of water vapour and carbon dioxide. The water in the exhaust stream is condensed and separated to produce a stream of water and a stream of carbon dioxide. A first portion of the stream of water is heated to produce a stream of steam, which is combined with the fuel to form the anode input stream. A stream of condensed carbon dioxide is obtained by condensing at least a portion of the carbon dioxide in the stream of carbon dioxide. At least one fluid is heated and compressed to a target temperature and pressure for each fluid, the at least one fluid comprising a second portion of the stream of water or at least a portion of the condensed carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jose Lourenco, Mackenzie Millar
  • Publication number: 20190071960
    Abstract: Systems and method for injection a chemical into a wellbore. A chemical injection system may comprise a first valve, a chemical line, a pilot line, an injection line, and a backflow prevention valve disposable in the injection line. A production fluid recovery system may comprise a chemical injection system, a first valve, a pilot line, an injection line, a backflow prevention valve, a production tree, a wellhead, and production tubing. A method for actuating a valve in a chemical injection system may comprise pushing a fluid into a chemical line, pressurizing a pilot line to open a first valve, pushing the fluid through the first valve, increasing pressure in the pilot line to open a second valve, pushing the fluid through the second valve, pushing the fluid through a chemical line, and injecting fluid into a wellbore from the chemical line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Gregory James, Ibrahim El Mallawany
  • Publication number: 20190071961
    Abstract: A method for cleaning flowback water in oil or gas production operations includes passing the flowback water tangentially across a membrane arranged spirally around a collection pipe, and allowing water contained in the flowback water to collect in the collection pipe while excluding certain constituents of the flowback water from the collection pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Jarid Byron HUGONIN
  • Publication number: 20190071962
    Abstract: An apparatus for using acoustic energy to provide operational power to a sensor of a subsea installation, such as a subsea well installation, is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a subsea installation in a body of water, with the subsea installation including a sensor and an acoustic receiver. The apparatus also includes an acoustic transmitter for transmitting acoustic waves to the acoustic receiver using the body of water as a transmission medium. The acoustic receiver is coupled to the sensor so that the sensor can be powered with electricity generated from the acoustic waves received at the acoustic receiver from the acoustic transmitter. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Emanuel Gottlieb, Rolf Rustad, Alek Cywinski
  • Publication number: 20190071963
    Abstract: An interlock system for use in a wellbore and method of using same, including a plurality of sensors configured to detect physical conditions within a wellbore. The sensors may be absolute locational sensors or relative locational sensors. Electronic signals are generated when sensors detect corresponding physical conditions. A processor derives location information from the electronic signals, and verifies location by comparison to pre-programmed reference information for each sensor. A trigger signal is generated when at least two location information have been verified, which is used to activate a downhole event. A timer may also be set with a calculated time delay before the trigger signal is generated. The interlock system operates independent of connection to any device at the surface of a wellbore, and may be attached to any equipment for deployment down a wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: IdeasCo LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Sites
  • Publication number: 20190071964
    Abstract: A mechanical casing collar locator is disclosed. The casing collar locator has an outermost, locator leaf spring cage, and one or more radially stacked reinforcement leaf spring cages. Each leaf spring cage has a plurality of flexible leaf spring beam members, each having a locator dog thereon for engage collar recesses, or other recesses, in the wellbore casing. The leaf spring beam members of the reinforcement leaf spring cages radially support the leaf spring beam members and the locator dogs of the locator leaf spring cage for providing enhanced radially outward spring force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Mark ANDREYCHUK, Per ANGMAN
  • Publication number: 20190071965
    Abstract: A system is described for reliably detecting leaks in a distributed manner in intermittent use pipelines by making use of thermal or acoustic events triggered by the leak. The system can work in pressurized or unpressurized pipelines and in high flow or no flow conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Mikko Jaaskelainen, Brian V. Park
  • Publication number: 20190071966
    Abstract: An apparatus having a skid, a boom having a first end attached to the skid and pivotable around an axis proximate the first end such that a second end of the boom raises and lowers relative to the skid, and a room mounted on the skid. The apparatus may further include a raisable apparatus supported by the second end of the boom and having one or more plug panels configured to connect to one or more first cables. The apparatus may also include second cables routed from the raisable apparatus and attached to and supported at least in part by the boom, wherein the second cables may be configured to provide electrical power to the raisable apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Jacques Orban