Patents Issued in December 13, 2022
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Patent number: 11525308Abstract: A drilling device includes a drill basic body and a conveying helix which runs helically around the drill basic body. The conveying helix is subdivided into a plurality of conveying helix segments that are disposed next to one another. The conveying helix segments may be disposed loosely next to one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Roland Foser, Pierre Pallmer, Jens Kondratiuk
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Patent number: 11525309Abstract: Embodiments relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) including a polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) table in which a metal-solvent catalyst is alloyed with at least one alloying element to improve thermal stability of the PCD table. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a PCD table bonded to the substrate. The PCD table includes diamond grains defining interstitial regions. The PCD table includes an alloy comprising at least one Group VIII metal and at least one metallic alloying element that lowers a temperature at which melting of the at least one Group VIII metal begins. The alloy includes one or more solid solution phases comprising the at least one Group VIII metal and the at least one metallic alloying element and one or more intermediate compounds comprising the at least one Group VIII metal and the at least one metallic alloying element.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: US Synthetic CorporationInventors: Cody William Knuteson, Paul Douglas Jones, Brandon P. Linford, Brent R. Eddy, Kenneth E. Bertagnolli, Debkumar Mukhopadhyay
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Patent number: 11525310Abstract: A method of assembling an optical fiber cable on production casing includes positioning the optical fiber cable against a production casing at a hole of a well site, and affixing the optical fiber cable against the production casing by applying an adhesive to the production casing to secure the optical fiber cable against the production casing. The method further includes applying pressure to the adhesive to adhesively bond the optical fiber cable to the production casing along a length of the production casing while the production casing is being run-in-hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Brian Vandellyn Park, Mikko Jaaskelainen
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Patent number: 11525311Abstract: A system and method for hydraulic isolation of a downhole powered system. The system and method include a sliding sleeve, venting assemblies with venting ports, and check valves associated with a vent body, and an isolation sleeve, isolation valve, and integral packer for controlling fluid flow through the motor and pump assembly of the powered system. Also disclosed is a wet connect mandrel modified to receive the isolation sleeve, the isolation sleeve preferably capable of permitting the passage of tools therethrough and capable of preventing fluid through the inlet of the mandrel. The mandrel may also be outfitted with a built in sliding sleeve. The sleeves, valves and packer can be actuated mechanically, hydraulically or electrically. Electrical actuation can be facilitated using the power from an adjacent wet connect mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: ACCESSESP UK LIMITEDInventors: Dwayne Leismer, Rogelio Cantu
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Patent number: 11525312Abstract: An oilfield casing centralization tool allows a user to center the casing to install the casing hanger into the bowl profile of a wellhead to support the weight of the casing which can exceed over one million pounds. The oilfield casing centralization tool includes a push jack assembly, an anchoring jack assembly, and an elongated structural member. The anchoring jack assembly allows a user to fully secure the oilfield casing centralization tool to a bolt hole of the wellhead. With the oilfield casing centralization tool fully secured to the wellhead, the push jack assembly allows a user to push the casing a desired distance in order to center the casing within a wellbore. The elongated structural member serves as a rigid hub for the push jack assembly and the anchoring jack assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventor: John Barry Desormeaux, Sr.
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Patent number: 11525313Abstract: A hard facing is preferably accomplished with laser clad beads applied to horizontal directional drilling (HDD) component(s). These components may be subject to recirculating fluid regions associated to stepped geometries along a drill string, including various drill string coupling members. For example, laser cladding can be applied to a step region of the sonar housing and starter rod. A method applies a hard face coating such as laser cladding or other suitable hard facing in areas of tight geometric tolerances.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Kondex CorporationInventors: Mark More, Casey Placek, Tina Giese, James Wessing
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Patent number: 11525314Abstract: A polished rod elevator has a top lift platform defining a polished rod passage and a mouth to laterally receive a polished rod into the polished rod passage; a plurality of linear actuators depending below the top lift platform and radially spaced from an axis of the polished rod passage to define a production tree receiving gap; and a plurality of arcuate wellhead flange mounting base plates connected to base ends of the plurality of linear actuators. Related methods of use and kits are discussed.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Richard K Young, Alan D Voth
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Patent number: 11525315Abstract: A method of connecting or disconnecting a first tubular to a second tubular includes engaging the first tubular with a power tong; engaging the second tubular with a backup tong; and rotating the first tubular relative to the second tubular. The method also includes, while rotating, monitoring a distance between the backup tong and the power tong and comparing the distance to a first threshold value; and stopping rotation of the first tubular when the distance equals to the first threshold value. According to one embodiment, a tong assembly includes a power tong, a backup tong, a sensor configured to measure a distance between the power tong and the backup tong, and a controller configured to compare the distance to a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLCInventors: Martin Helms, Jan Rothe
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Patent number: 11525316Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe deployment system that includes pipe deployment equipment, in which a pipe drum having spooled thereon a pipe segment is to be loaded on the pipe deployment equipment, and a pulling device to be secured to an unspooled section of the pipe segment. The pulling device includes a device body having a first body arm and a second body arm, in which the device body is to be disposed around the unspooled section of the pipe segment, the first body arm is to be secured to a first cable branch, and the second body arm is to be secured to a second cable branch. The pulling device includes a first pipe grabber secured to the first body arm and a second pipe grabber secured to the second body arm such that the second pipe grabber and the first pipe grabber open towards one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLCInventors: Christopher Sean Lee, John Paul Leger, Alexander Lee Winn
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Patent number: 11525317Abstract: A fluid flow system may comprise an input line connected to a drilling system, one or more fluid flow lines connected to the input line, and an output line connected to the one or more fluid flow lines. The system may further include one or more valves disposed in each of the one or more fluid flow lines and one or more pressure sensors disposed in each of the one or more fluid flow lines. A method for controlling a fluid flow system may comprise moving a drilling fluid from a borehole into an input line of the fluid flow system, directing the drilling fluid through the input line into a fluid flow line, measuring a first pressure at a first pressure sensor in the fluid flow line, and measuring a second pressure at a second pressure sensor in the fluid flow line.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Mathew Dennis Rowe
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Patent number: 11525318Abstract: A motor bypass valve diverts drilling fluid away from a downhole motor when the motor is off bit. Bypassing the downhole motor reduces the shock and vibration on the BHA caused by the downhole motor, thereby reducing the damage to the BHA. The motor bypass valve may divert fluid out of a housing or into a bore through the rotor of the downhole motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuelin Shen, Zhengxin Zhang, Wei Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Maria Neves Carrasquilla
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Patent number: 11525319Abstract: A gas operated setting tool comprising a piston rod and an outer tool assembly having a hollow interior within which the piston rod is disposed coaxially. The outer tool assembly comprises a top cap connected to the cylinder's upper end and a bottom connector connected to the cylinder's lower end. The piston rod comprises an upper section to which a firing head attaches and a lower section to which a setting adapter attaches. The piston section's exterior surface fits within and is sealed against the cylinder's interior surface. The piston rod has a hollow power charge chamber and port holes that open into the bottom connector's upper surface. A shear ring engages a counterpart surface feature to prevents axial movement of the outer tool assembly relative to the piston rod until the power charge has fired and sheared the shear ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Kingdom Downhole Tools, LLCInventors: Trea Baker, Justice Baker
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Casing-protective horizontal directional drilling coaxial coring device for geological investigation
Patent number: 11525320Abstract: A casing-protective horizontal directional drilling coaxial coring device for geological investigation includes a casing pipe, a coring tube and a conversion adapter. Both the casing pipe and the coring tube are tubular, and the coring tube is coaxially set within the casing pipe. The conversion adapter, having a cylindrical structure fitted with the casing pipe, is coaxially set at a back end portion of the casing pipe and is slidably connected with an inner wall of the casing pipe. A screw motor is located between the conversion adapter and the coring tube, two ends of the screw motor are fixedly connected with the conversion adapter and the coring tube, respectively. Under an action of an external force, the screw motor drives the coring tube to move along an axial direction of the casing pipe till the coring tube extends out of or retracts into the casing pipe.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)Inventors: Xuefeng Yan, Cong Zeng, Peng Zhang -
Patent number: 11525321Abstract: Apparatus and methods for controlling release of torsional energy from a drill string having a lower portion that is stuck against a subterranean formation and a top end rotated by a top drive. The method may include decreasing a rotational speed set-point of the top drive, decreasing a torque set-point of the top drive, and/or decreasing flow rate of drilling mud being pumped downhole via the drill string, thereby decreasing torque output by a mud motor rotating a drill bit. The method may further include lifting the drill string to free the drill string. Decreasing the torque set-point of the top drive may comprise decreasing the torque set-point of the top drive to a minimum torque level that the top drive can output. Decreasing the rotational speed set-point of the top drive may comprise decreasing the rotational speed set-point of the top drive to zero.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Justo Elias Matheus Valero, Jan Alvaer, Juan-Carlos Yepez
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Patent number: 11525322Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, engagement slips, a tubular, a taper tap, a pin, and a slip activation member. The housing includes a profile that defines a path including a first end and a second end. The engagement slips are attached to the housing. The tubular passes through an opening of the housing. The taper tap is rotatable and connected to the housing. The pin is connected to the tubular and received by the profile of the housing. The tubular is translatable with respect to the housing based on the pin translating along the path defined by the profile. The slip activation member is connected to the tubular. The slip activation member is configured to move each of the engagement slips radially outward with respect to the housing when the pin translates to the second end of the path.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Marius Neacsu, Ahmed A. Al-Ramadhan, Ahmed Al-Mousa
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Patent number: 11525323Abstract: An annular seal configured to prevent fluid from outside the wellbore from entering a well head stuffing box and tripping an anti-pollution control device. The seal comprising an elastomeric material and having a seam configured to allow the seal to installed on or in a stuffing box without dismantling well-head equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: AWA Oilfield Services, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Semlinger, Harold E Armstrong
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Patent number: 11525324Abstract: A clamp assembly device for connecting a rotating control device bearing assembly to a main body of a rotating control device. The device includes clamp members configured to retain the bearing assembly in place on the main body, a clamp actuator for driving clamping and unclamping of the clamp members and a lock pin controlled by a lock pin actuator. The lock pin actuator is configured to lock and unlock the clamp assembly device by moving the pin between locked and unlocked positions along an axis substantially parallel with the axis of rotation of the bearing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Reform Energy Services Corp.Inventors: Ronald James Downie, Joel Victor-David Dunbar
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Patent number: 11525325Abstract: A collet comprising a collet ring, a plurality of collet fingers, and an object seat (e.g., ball seat), wherein the object seat comprises a surface (e.g., a curved surface) configured to interface with a correspondingly sized blocking object (e.g., a ball, dart, etc.) to form a seal therebetween, wherein each of the plurality of collet fingers has a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is proximate the collet ring, and wherein the second end of at least a portion of the plurality of collet fingers comprises a key (e.g., a tab) that is configured to engage a corresponding latch of a downhole structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Zachary William Walton, Haoyue Zhang
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Patent number: 11525326Abstract: An oil or gas well downhole fishing tool has a receptacle that is open at one end. The tool also has deployment tool engaging means, located on the opposite end of the receptacle to the one end. The tool further has a layer of an alloy provided on the interior surface of the receptacle. The alloy is a eutectic alloy and/or bismuth alloy. The tool further comprises heating means to heat the alloy so that it melts and can flow over any object received within the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Bisn Tec. Ltd.Inventor: Paul Carragher
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Patent number: 11525327Abstract: Apparatus and method for securing and sealing a tubular portion to another tubular to provide a liner hanger in oil and gas wells. At the top of the liner string, a sleeve is arranged on the liner to create a chamber therebetween. A port provides fluid access through the liner to the chamber. When fluid is introduced into the chamber the sleeve is morphed to secure it to the cemented casing. A lower fluid pressure is required to morph the sleeve than if the liner itself was to be morphed. Embodiments are provided for securing and sealing arrangements to increase the metal to metal seal and the load capability between the liner string and casing.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew John Joseph Gorrara, Kevin Stewart
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Patent number: 11525328Abstract: A straddle packer has a floating auto-J sleeve that automatically shifts the straddle packer from a run-in condition to a stay-set condition after pumping of high-pressure fluid into the straddle packer in excess of a predetermined pump rate is terminated. In the stay set condition, packer elements of the straddle packer remain in sealing contact with a well casing or well bore into which the straddle packer has been run.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Exacta-Frac Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Joze John Hrupp
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Patent number: 11525329Abstract: A plug for plugging wells, and in particular oil and gas wells, is provided. The plug has a plug body formed from an outer metal tube of a reduced thickness. The plug also has reinforcement means, attached to an inner surface of the outer tube, that give the plug a cross-sectional structural strength that is at least equivalent to that of a thicker metal tube. The plug has a central heater receiving void located along the axis of the plug to enable a plug deployment heater to be received therein. Also provided is a plug assembly with a variable cross-sectional area in a plane perpendicular to the plane in which the assembly is deployed during the plugging of underground conduits.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: BiSN Tec. Ltd.Inventor: Paul Carragher
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Patent number: 11525330Abstract: Methods and systems for diverting the flow of fluids within a wellbore are disclosed. The methods and systems use a flow conveyed diverter pack, which includes a package portion and a wing portion. The package portion may contain a ball (a.k.a. a diverter ball) and may contain additional components. The diverter pack may be formed by sandwiching a diverter ball between films of a flexible material, for example, films of a dissolvable polymer. The diverter pack may be deployed in a wellbore, whereby the pack is conveyed by fluid flow to an opening to be sealed. The diverter pack seats upon the opening, thereby diverting flow from the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Workover Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Carl Andrew Rosenholm
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Patent number: 11525331Abstract: A system for establishing a bypass flow path includes a plug assembly having bypass ports extending from the exterior to the interior; a wiper dart to engage and seal the first flow path and bypass flow path, and initiate release of the plug assembly from a first position, the plug assembly having a dart nose attached to the dart body; once the plug has moved to a second position, pressure applied through the bypass ports communicates to the dart nose to cause detachment of the dart nose from the dart body; a first flow path extends through the central bore of the plug assembly when the wiper dart is not present; and a second flow path extends through the bypass ports on the plug assembly below the dart body to the detachable dart nose, once detached, the bypass flow path is established thru the bore below the dart body.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Citadel Casing Solutions LLCInventors: Daniel Schmidt, Todd Stair
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Patent number: 11525332Abstract: A hydraulic fracturing tree wing is formed with a studded hydraulic valve next to a manual valve. The stud-to-flange connection allows for a shorter, lighter wing. The studded hydraulic valve may be a gate valve that includes a T-slot coupling between an operating stem and the gate. A bonnet seal ridge may be formed to withstand undue deformation during operation that wears or destroys seals. A method for forming a hydraulic fracturing tree assembly includes using a flanged manual valve with a studded hydraulic valve. Other valves and methods are presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: BESTWAY OILFIELD, INC.Inventors: Gassan Dwairy, Ronny Gassan Dwairy, Mark D. Albert
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Patent number: 11525333Abstract: An apparatus and a method of controlling flow communication with an apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a flow communicator, a flow control member, an uphole-disposed flow interference effector uphole of the flow communicator, and a downhole-disposed flow interference effector downhole of the flow communicator. While each of the uphole-disposed flow interference effector and the downhole-disposed flow interference-effector, independently, is contacting the flow control member, the flow communicator is closed. Displacement of the flow control member, relative to the flow communicator, in the downhole direction, opens the flow communicator.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NCS Multistage Inc.Inventor: Juan Miguel Montero Fernandez
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Patent number: 11525334Abstract: A method, system and apparatus of optimizing operation of one or more tubing strings in a hydrocarbon well are provided. Each tubing string is located in a hydrocarbon well and has a plurality of valves. Each valve is actuatable between a fully open position and a fully closed position and is in communication with a respective zone of a formation defining a reservoir containing hydrocarbon material. The method includes characterizing an injectivity of one or more zones of the formation and determining an optimal operating schedule in accordance with the characterization. The optimal operating schedule comprises one or more valve configurations and an operating duration for each of the one or more valve configurations.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Masoud Kalantari, Timothy Johnson, Warren MacPhail, Lyle Laun, John Ravensbergen, Siamak Arbatani
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Patent number: 11525335Abstract: A remotely operated device for inspecting and/or cleaning a subsea flexible pipe joint comprises a support assembly. In addition, the device comprises a tool positioning assembly coupled to the support assembly. The tool positioning assembly includes a rotating member disposed about a central axis. The tool positioning assembly is rotatable relative to the support assembly about the central axis. Further, the device comprises a cleaning assembly including a cleaning device adapted to clean the flexible pipe joint. The cleaning device is axially moveable relative to the rotating member. Still further, the device comprises a clamping assembly coupled to the support assembly. The clamping assembly has an open position disengaged with the section of the flexible pipe joint and a closed position engaging the section of the flexible pipe joint.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Christopher Eric Angel, Eric Lee Harden, Stuart Douglas Partridge, Andrew J. Guinn
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Patent number: 11525336Abstract: A nozzle for mitigating against solvent flashing in a solvent-assisted hydrocarbon extraction process comprises a fluid passage extending between an inlet and an outlet, wherein the fluid passage comprises a converging region, a throat, and a diverging region, and wherein at least the converging region is provided with a gradually reducing internal diameter. Preferably, the angle of convergence of the converging region is equal to or less than about 5 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: VARIPERM ENERGY SERVICES INC.Inventor: Da Zhu
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Patent number: 11525337Abstract: A nozzle for controlling the flow of fluids into and/or out of a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir comprises a fluid passage extending between first and second openings. The passage comprises a flow adjusting region for increasing the velocity of fluids injected into the reservoir and for choking steam produced from the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Variperm Energy Services Inc.Inventor: Da Zhu
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Patent number: 11525338Abstract: A system for tethering a subsea blowout preventer (BOP) or well head is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system comprises an interface associable with the BOP, and more than one anchors disposed about the BOP. Each anchor is configured to carry or support a tensioning system arranged in operable association with a respective tether. Each tether is arranged so as to link a respective anchor with a respective operable means associated with the BOP. Furthermore, each of the respective operable means are configured in operable association with the interface such that tension in the tethers can be adjustable either individually or together as a group of two or more tethers, by way of the interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Daniel Forster, David Archibald Cree, Timothy Reginal Marshall, Alex Paul Taylor, Matthew Douglas Brown
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Patent number: 11525339Abstract: A technique facilitates a gravel packing operation in a well. The system may utilize a Y-manifold having a manifold body through which or along which a gravel slurry may be flowed. A plurality of exit end shunt connectors extends from the manifold body to enable connection with corresponding exit end shunt tubes at a position separated from the manifold body. Additionally, a plurality of entrance end shunt connectors extends from the manifold body in a direction generally opposite the exit end shunt connectors. The extended entrance end shunt connectors enable connection with corresponding entrance end shunt tubes at a position separated from the manifold body.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Ernani Jeronimo, Marcelo Oblitas Ruiz, Abdulali Aliyev, Carlos Emilio Webel, Michael Dean Langlais
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Patent number: 11525340Abstract: A technique facilitates formation of a gravel pack along relatively lengthy wellbores. According to an embodiment, a completion system comprises a plurality of screen assemblies. The completion system also has an alternate path system disposed along the plurality of screen assemblies. The alternate path system includes shunt tubes, e.g. transport tubes, coupled together by jumper tubes. An anti-buckling structure is coupled to each jumper tube to prevent buckling when high operational pressures, e.g. operating pressures of 9000 psi or higher, are applied to the alternate path system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Dean Langlais, Michael Robbins
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Patent number: 11525341Abstract: A fluid control device includes a support structure configured to be deployed in a borehole and a filtration component disposed at the support structure. The filtration component includes a porous medium made from a shape memory epoxy, the shape memory epoxy including a soft segment monomer and a hard segment monomer, the porous medium configured to be compacted from an initial shape to a compacted shape, deployed in the borehole, and subsequently expanded due to a downhole temperature to conform to a surface of the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Anton Kovalchuk, Anil Sadana, Soumya Vinod
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Patent number: 11525342Abstract: A technique facilitates formation of a gravel pack along relatively lengthy wellbores. According to an embodiment, a completion system comprises a screen assembly and an alternate path system disposed along the screen assembly. The alternate path system may include a transport tube and a packing tube placed in fluid communication at a manifold. The manifold is disposed along the screen assembly. In some embodiments, the completion system may comprise multiple screen assemblies with multiple corresponding manifolds. The packing tube is protected against erosion by a liner and a surrounding housing which are positioned to conduct fluid flow from the manifold as fluid flow moves from the transport tube, through the manifold, and into the packing tube during a gravel packing operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Dean Langlais
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Patent number: 11525343Abstract: An open tip downhole expansion tool including a frustoconical member having a base at a diametrically smaller portion of the frustoconical member and a tip at a diametrically larger portion of the frustoconical member, the member having a radially outer zone and a radially inner zone and having an axial length extending from the base to the tip; an outer void in a material of the member along a length of the radially outer zone; and an inner void in a material of the member along a length of the radially inner zone, the outer and inner voids being located at different positions along the axial length of the frustoconical member, the outer and inner voids each causing the frustoconical member to present a first resistance to deformation when the voids are open and a higher resistance to deformation of the frustoconical member when the voids are collapsed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Larry Urban, Gary Anderson, Tyler Shirk, Tanner Welch
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Patent number: 11525344Abstract: A perforating gun module may include a gun housing including a housing chamber and a shaped charge positioning device provided in the housing chamber. The shaped charge positioning device may include a shaped charge holder and a detonator holder provided axially adjacent to the shaped charge holder. The shaped charge positioning device may be a singular and monolithic piece of non-metal material. A perforating gun module string may include a first perforating gun module directly coupled to a second perforating gun module. Each perforating gun module may include a gun housing with a housing chamber, a shaped charge holder provided in the housing chamber, and a detonator holder provided axially adjacent to the shaped charge receptacle. The shaped charge holder and the detonator holder may comprise a singular and monolithic piece of non-metal material.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbHInventors: Christian Eitschberger, Gernot Uwe Burmeister, Thilo Scharf
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Patent number: 11525345Abstract: A method for modeling hydrocarbon recovery workflow is disclosed. The method involves obtaining, by a computer processor, stimulation data and reservoir data regarding a region of interest, wherein the stimulation data describe a water flooding process performed in the reservoir region of interest by one or more enhanced-recovery wells. The method may include determining, by the computer processor, a multi-phase Darcy model for the reservoir region of interest using the reservoir data and the stimulation data. The multi-phase Darcy model determines a fluid phase flow rate using a pressure gradient, an absolute permeability value, and a relative permeability value. The method may include determining, by the computer processor, a plurality of relative permeability values for the reservoir region of interest based on a plurality of fluid-fluid interface correlations and an interpolating parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Moataz Abu AlSaud, Subhash Ayirala, Ali Yousef
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Patent number: 11525346Abstract: A method of improving natural gas recovery from a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir includes at least one renewable energy source that is electrically coupled with a heat conducting element. The heat conducting element is positioned in a perforated section of a wellbore that traverses into the subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir. A temperature of the subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir is maintained above a cricondentherm temperature so that liquid condensation may be prevented at a final production time. In order to maintain the temperature within a required temperature range, an internal temperature, an internal pressure, and a set of reservoir properties are monitored and then utilized to plot a phase diagram that can be used to detect liquid condensation. If liquid condensation is detected, an electrical output of the renewable energy source is adjusted in order to control the temperature of the subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir at a producing end of a production tubing.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Saad Al Afnan, Murtada Al Jawad, Fahad Al-Ismail, Abdulaziz Al Majed
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Patent number: 11525347Abstract: An apparatus may include an inlet and an enclosure includes a container that is coupled to the inlet. The container may receive water from the inlet. The apparatus may further include various check valves coupled to the container. The apparatus may further include a laser head coupled to the container. The laser head may receive a laser signal that converts the water inside the container into steam. The check valves may release the steam outside the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventor: Abdullah M. Alharith
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Patent number: 11525348Abstract: A solids collector is disposed at an end of a tubing in a wellbore. At a top of the solids collector, a reservoir fluid stream carrying solids is separated into a solids-liquid stream that is reversed into an annulus in the solids collector and a gas stream that continues to move uphole in the wellbore. At an end of the annulus in the solids collector, the solids-liquid stream is separated into a liquid stream that moves up the tubing and solids that are accumulated in the solids collector.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Chidirim Enoch Ejim
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Patent number: 11525349Abstract: A method and system for visualizing data to detect a collar. A method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool downhole; emitting an electromagnetic field from the transmitter; energizing a casing with the electromagnetic field to produce an eddy current; recording the eddy current from the casing with the receiver; creating a variable-density-log from the recorded eddy current; selecting a wrapping period for the variable-density-log; creating a wrapped-variable-density-log from the variable-density-log using the wrapping period; and determining at least one collar location and a pipe index with the wrapped-variable-density-log. A system for to detect a collar may comprise an electromagnetic logging tool. The electromagnetic logging tool may comprise a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be a coil. The system may further comprise an information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Burkay Donderici, Ilker R. Capoglu
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Patent number: 11525350Abstract: Disclosed is an acoustic sensor system comprising an electrical connector, at least one transducer connected to the electrical connector, a fluid compensating piston connected to the electrical connector, a housing having the electrical connector, the at least one transducer, and the fluid compensating piston arranged in a linear arrangement, and a collar having the housing mounted along an interior surface of the collar.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Brian David Breaux
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Patent number: 11525351Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring position and magnitude of downhole mechanical friction. The apparatus comprises sensors that reside along, or in-line with, a section of equipment that is installed or removed from a wellbore. The sensing device is configured measure relative to the wellbore during a work-over or other well intervention procedures where said section of equipment (tubing, rods, drill pipe, etc.) is installed in, or removed from, the wellbore. Recorded measurements are then processed to correct for dynamic forces to provide a measure of friction through the portions of the wellbore where said equipment travels. The sensing can be done near the source of friction, or at some distance through a mechanical connection. A method for determining depth and magnitude of downhole friction is also provided. Additionally, a method for applying the map of wellbore friction to the design and analysis of a rod actuated pump is presented.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventor: Walter Phillips
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Patent number: 11525352Abstract: A method may include obtaining a request to determine automatically a depth of a formation top for a well in a geological region of interest. The method may include obtaining various well logs regarding the well and various wells in the geological region of interest. The method may include determining various depth values using the various well logs and a statistical interpolation method. The method may further include determining a final depth of the well using the various depth values and a searching method.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Marwah Al Ismail, Mokhles M. Mezghani
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Patent number: 11525353Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a subterranean earth formation as well as a method of steering a drill bit in a subterranean earth formation. The system comprises a logging tool that is operable to measure formation data and locatable in a wellbore intersecting the subterranean earth formation. The system also comprises a processor that is in communication with the logging tool. The processor is operable to calculate multiple distance-to-bed-boundary (DTBB) solutions using the measured formation data, identify DTBB solutions that satisfy a threshold, convert the identified solutions into pixelated solutions by dividing the identified solutions into pixels, generate a formation model based on the pixelated solutions, and evaluate the formation using the generated formation model.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Rencheng Song, Li Pan, Hsu-Hsiang Wu
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Patent number: 11525354Abstract: Apparatus and method for reducing pressure pulsations within drilling mud being pumped downhole by a plurality of pumps to thereby improve quality of mud-pulse telemetry. The apparatus may include a position sensor disposed in association with each pump and operable to generate a position signal indicative of operational timing of a corresponding one of the pumps, a surface telemetry device fluidly connected with the drilling mud and operable to output a telemetry quality signal indicative of the quality of mud-pulse telemetry, and a controller communicatively connected with the pumps, the position sensors, and the surface telemetry device. The controller may be operable to receive the position signal and the telemetry quality signal, and cause the pumps to change relative operational timing of the pumps based on the position signal and the telemetry quality signal to improve the quality of mud-pulse telemetry.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Alejandro Camacho Cardenas
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Patent number: 11525355Abstract: A mud pulse telemetry valve assembly and method including a mud valve sub and a mud pulse telemetry valve. The mud pulse telemetry valve having a flow tube positioned within the mud valve sub in a way that at least a portion of an outer surface of the flow tube is spaced a distance from at least a portion of an inner surface of the mud valve sub to form a hydraulic passageway having an upstream end and a downstream end. The mud pulse telemetry valve further having a control valve assembly and a pilot valve assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Bench Tree Group, LLCInventors: Pedro R. Segura, John R. Menconi
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Patent number: 11525356Abstract: A system can identify a type of contamination for drilling fluid based on measured fluid properties of the drilling fluid and fluid properties of a reference drilling fluid. A system can measure a first plurality of fluid properties for a drilling fluid sample contaminated from a wellbore drilling operation. A system can select a predicted model in relation to one or more types of contamination by comparing the first plurality of fluid properties and a second plurality of fluid properties measured from a reference fluid sample. A system can analyze the first plurality of fluid properties and a third plurality of fluid properties generated from the predicted model to determine a first type of contamination in the drilling fluid sample.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, Sandeep Dileep Kulkarni, Lalit Narayan Mahajan
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Patent number: 11525357Abstract: An unloading type sinking rescue device of a subsea mining vehicle and a use method thereof are provided. The unloading type sinking rescue device includes an assembly support, an unloading system, an ejection system and a control system. The assembly support is box-shaped, fixed to a subsea mining vehicle, and provided with a plurality of enclosed cavities. The unloading system includes a counterweight, a counterweight cable, a counterweight fixing bracket and a counterweight recovery cavity. The ejection system includes an anchor, an ejection cavity, an anchor cable, an anchor recovery shaft, a pulley, a spring and a boosting device. The control system controls the operation of the unloading system and the ejection system. The use method includes: (1) unloading; (2) ejection; (3) recovery of a part of counterweights; (4) recovery of the anchor; and (5) recovery of remaining counterweights.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINAInventors: Xuguang Chen, Xiaodong Niu, Lizhen Wang, Guangkun Lu