Combined (e.g., With Non-electrical Indicating) Patents (Class 166/113)
  • Patent number: 11761325
    Abstract: A gauge carrier protective housing is provided including attributes that improve the overall structural integrity and minimizes the likelihood of damage to the sensors, including shock absorbing elements, and a protective tubular structure encasing a gauge carrier holding the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Mutrik M. Al-Dawsari
  • Patent number: 11352865
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various implementations of a downhole-blower system that can be used to boost production in a wellbore. The downhole-blower system includes a blower and an electric machine coupled to the blower that can be deployed in a wellbore, and that can, in cooperation, increase production through the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Upwing Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Herman Artinian, Archie A. T. Andonian, Venkateshwaran Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11346207
    Abstract: A system for gathering downhole measurements includes a drill bit, at least one nozzle receptacle located on the drill bit, and a sensor system. The sensor system has a sensor housing, a flow path extending through the sensor housing, wherein the flow path allows fluid to flow through the sensor housing, and an internal cavity provided within the sensor housing separate from the flow path. The internal cavity contains components that include at least one sensor for gathering data about drill bit conditions and downhole conditions, a powering unit, a printed circuit board, and an electrical conductor, wherein the sensor housing is installed in the at least one nozzle receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Abrar Alshaikh, Bodong Li, Guodong Zhan, Timothy Eric Moellendick
  • Patent number: 11199079
    Abstract: Systems and methods for neutralizing a hydrogen sulfide within a subterranean well include a hydrogen sulfide neutralizing tool having a tubular member. A tool shell circumscribes the tubular member, defining tool annular space between an outer diameter surface of the tubular member and an inner diameter surface of the tool shell. A sacrificial rod is located within the tool annular space and is formed of a material that produces metal sulfide when exposed to the hydrogen sulfide. An uphole perforation has an opening extending through a sidewall of the tubular member, defining a fluid flow path between the tool annular space and the internal bore of the tubular member. A downhole perforation is located downhole of the uphole perforation and hays an opening extending through the sidewall of the tubular member, defining a fluid flow path between the tool annular space and the internal bore of the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Shrikant Tiwari
  • Patent number: 10801298
    Abstract: A downhole tool having a mandrel, a first slip, a second slip, a lower sleeve, and a tethered ball assembly. The mandrel includes a proximate end; a distal end; a bore having a ball seat associated therewith; and an outer surface. The first slip is disposed around the mandrel. The second slip is disposed around the mandrel. The lower sleeve is proximate to the first slip, and engaged with the outer surface at the distal end. The tethered ball assembly includes a ball; a drag; and at least one tether coupled between the ball and the drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The WellBoss Company, LLC
    Inventors: David Hughes, Evan Lloyd Davies, Luis Miguel Avila
  • Patent number: 10712007
    Abstract: A flow modulator for a fuel nozzle, including: a fixed outer tube, the fixed outer tube including a set of apertures; a movable inner tube concentrically positioned within the fixed outer tube, the movable inner tube including a set of apertures; and a pneumatically actuated component for displacing the movable inner tube within the fixed outer tube to selectively align the set of apertures of the fixed outer tube with the set of apertures of the movable inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Stanley Kevin Widener
  • Patent number: 10697296
    Abstract: There are described methods and apparatus for determining the condition of a barrier in a well infrastructure, for example. In some examples, sensor data that has been derived from a sensor arrangement at a barrier positioned at a location in a well infrastructure in received. That sensor data may be associated with measured conditions at the barrier, or the like. Composition data derived from measurements of fluid composition within the well may also be received. Such composition data may be indicative of the location at which fluid has been in the well. Analyzing such received sensor data and composition data may help determine the condition of the barrier. In some examples, there is described well apparatus comprising a barrier for zonal isolation, a sensor arrangement configured to monitor conditions at the location of the barrier; and one or more tracer elements configured to interact with fluid at the location of the barrier so as to impart identifiable properties to the composition of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Expro North Sea Limited
    Inventors: Iain D. Farley, Brian P. Champion
  • Patent number: 10605021
    Abstract: A method can include latching a well pressure control device releasable assembly in an outer housing, and then rotating a tubular string, thereby disengaging an engagement lug from an engagement profile. A well system can include a pressure control device including a releasable assembly and an outer housing, and a running tool including an engagement lug releasably engaged with an engagement profile of the releasable assembly, and a clutch device that resists relative rotation between the engagement lug and an inner mandrel. A pressure control device can include a bearing assembly that rotatably supports an annular seal relative to an outer case, and an extension attached to the outer case, the extension having an engagement profile including at least two longitudinally elongated sections, one section extending to an end of the extension, and another section being blocked from the end of the extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Tuong T. Le
  • Patent number: 10597942
    Abstract: A steering assembly configured for circumferential disposition about a drill string above a drill head and having top and bottom surfaces, an under-gauge peripheral section, and an over-gauge peripheral section substantially opposing the under-gauge peripheral section, where the maximum under-gauge on the top surface in the under-gauge peripheral section is greater than the maximum over-gauge on the bottom surface in the over-gauge peripheral section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mauro Caresta
  • Patent number: 10590753
    Abstract: A survey tool for attachment to a drill string for inserting the survey tool into a borehole, the survey tool comprising a housing having a proximal end adapted for attachment to the drill string and a bore traversing the housing adapted to receive fluid from the drill string, and a piston adapted to be received within the bore, the piston being adapted to be selectively displaced between at least a first condition and a second condition, wherein in the first condition the fluid exists the housing at a first location and in the second condition the fluid exists the housing at a second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Dale Parker
  • Patent number: 10584533
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various implementations of a downhole-blower system that can be used to boost production in a wellbore. The downhole-blower system includes a blower and an electric machine coupled to the blower that can be deployed in a wellbore, and that can, in cooperation, increase production through the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Upwing Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick McMullen, Venkateshwaran Krishnan, Larry Hawkins
  • Patent number: 10564142
    Abstract: Quantifying an amount of sulfur in a petroleum sample includes sequential extraction and quantification of inorganic and organic sulfur species. An exemplary process includes extracting inorganic sulfur components from the sample to yield extracted inorganic sulfur components and a residual sample, and reducing the sulfur in the extracted inorganic sulfur components to yield a first quantity of hydrogen sulfide. The organic sulfur components are extracted from the residual sample to yield extracted organic sulfur components, and the sulfur in the extracted organic sulfur components is reduced to yield a second quantity of hydrogen sulfide. The amount of sulfur in the first quantity of hydrogen sulfide and the amount of sulfur in the second quantity of hydrogen sulfide are combined to yield a total amount of sulfur in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Harry Daniel Oduro
  • Patent number: 10519761
    Abstract: A technique facilitates monitoring of parameters along the exterior of a tubing/casing deployed in a borehole. An array of sensors is positioned outside of the tubing/casing and within a borehole wall. The array of sensors is coupled to a surface via a communication line routed through an inductive coupler system. The inductive coupler system has a first inductive coupler member located at an outside position and a second inductive coupler member located at an inside position with respect to the tubing/casing. The arrangement enables real-time monitoring of events outside of the tubing/casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dinesh Patel
  • Patent number: 10502049
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring hydraulic fracturing in well formation and fracture characterization using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). The method involves interrogating an optic fiber arranged down the path of a borehole to provide a distributed acoustic sensor and also monitoring flow properties of fracturing liquid pumped into the well where the acoustic data from the distributed acoustic sensor is processed together with the flow properties data to provide an indication of at least one fracture characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Optasense Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Magnus McEwen-King, David John Hill, Menno Mathieu Molenaar
  • Patent number: 10443354
    Abstract: A well system can include a deployment apparatus including at least one propeller that propels the deployment apparatus through a wellbore. A deployment apparatus for use in a well can include a sealing device that sealingly engages a seal surface in the well, and at least one propeller that propels the deployment apparatus in the well. A deployment method can include disposing a deployment apparatus in a wellbore of a well, the deployment apparatus including at least one propeller, and the propeller propelling the deployment apparatus in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary R. Murphree, Michael L. Fripp, Thomas J. Frosell
  • Patent number: 10436014
    Abstract: A well advisor system and console for monitoring and managing pressure testing operations at a well site. The system may be accessed through one or more workstations, or other computing devices, which may be located at a well site or remotely. The system is in communication with and receives input from various sensors. It collects real-time sensor data sampled during operations at the well site. The system processes the data, and provides nearly instantaneous numerical and visual feedback through a variety of graphical user interfaces (“GUIs”), which are presented in the form of an operation-specific console. The input and data provides information related to pressure testing at a well site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventors: Per Arild Andresen, Mark Adrian Honey, Rune Arnt Skarbo, Stephen Tean Edwards, Nigel Charles Last, Colin James Mason, Trond Waage, Paulo Jorge Da Cunha Gomes, Randall Vashishta Sant, Sankarrappan Periyasamy, Thomas Hestenes Jakobsen, Jan Kare Igland, Kevin Perry Richardson, Sigurd Tjostheim
  • Patent number: 10408039
    Abstract: A portion is sectioned from an outer jacket of a cable. The sectioned portion exposes an insulator layer within the outer jacket. The cable includes a conduit within the insulator layer. The insulator layer in the sectioned portion is pierced with a terminal to contact the conduit. A transducer is connected to the terminal. The housing is sealed to the cable around the transducer and the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Savio Saldanha, Matthew Scogin
  • Patent number: 10392935
    Abstract: There are described methods and apparatus for determining the condition of a barrier in a well infrastructure, for example. In some examples, sensor data that has been derived from a sensor arrangement at a barrier positioned at a location in a well infrastructure in received. That sensor data may be associated with measured conditions at the barrier, or the like. Composition data derived from measurements of fluid composition within the well may also be received. Such composition data may be indicative of the location at which fluid has been in the well. Analyzing such received sensor data and composition data may help determine the condition of the barrier. In some examples, there is described well apparatus comprising a barrier for zonal isolation, a sensor arrangement configured to monitor conditions at the location of the barrier; and one or more tracer elements configured to interact with fluid at the location of the barrier so as to impart identifiable properties to the composition of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Expro North Sea Limited
    Inventors: Iain D. Farley, Brian P. Champion
  • Patent number: 10370916
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in a wellbore. The apparatus includes a locating device having a locating collet configured to engage with a locating profile on a housing and disengage from the locating profile when a first pull load is applied to the locating collet, a delay device that prevents application of the first pull load on the locating collet when it is engaged with the locating profile until the delay device has been activated, and a locking device configured to prevent activation of the delay device until a second pull load less than the first is applied on the locking device for a selected period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. O'Brien, Jason A. Allen, Andrew James Cayson, Geoffrey York Powers
  • Patent number: 10344584
    Abstract: Provided in some embodiments are systems and methods for transient-pressure test of an oil reservoir water injection well system. Embodiments provide for determining a fracturing injection rate for the well, setting a test injection rate preferably below the fracturing injection rate, conducting a stabilized injection of water into a wellbore of the well at the test injection rate for a prescribed period, and conducting a fall-off test including shutting-in the well for a prescribed fall-off period, and acquiring test data indicative of fluid pressure in the wellbore of the well during the injection and the fall-off periods. Embodiments also provide for generating a model prediction, comparing the model to the test data to determine whether it is a match for the well, and associating the parameter values with the well, including the severity and the location of the shallow damage, if the reservoir model is a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Noor M. Anisur Rahman, Saud A. Bin Akresh
  • Patent number: 10329862
    Abstract: A coiled adaptive seat is held to a smaller diameter for delivery with a tool that can feature a locating lug for desired alignment of the seat with an intended groove in the inner wall of a tubular. The release tool retracts a cover from the seat allowing its diameter to increase as it enters a groove. Alternatively the adaptive seat is released near the groove and pushed axially in the string to the groove for fixation. Once in the groove the inside diameter of the string is a support for a blocking object so that sequential treatment of parts of a zone can be accomplished. The blocking object is removed with pressure, dissolving, milling or disintegration leaving a narrow ledge in the tubular bore from the seat that can simply be left in place or milled as well. An E4#10 from Baker Hughes is modified for adaptive seat delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Stephen L. Crow
  • Patent number: 10246975
    Abstract: A technique facilitates mitigation of shock loads. Subterranean communication systems may comprise components susceptible to various shock loads. A shock mitigation system is physically coupled with the subterranean communication system to mitigate such shock loads. The shock mitigation system comprises components selected to enable reduction of various effects of shock loads, e.g. shock loads resulting from perforating procedures, which could otherwise be detrimental to continued operation of the subterranean communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian C. Spring, Allan Goldberg, Sheryl Raezer, Christophe Rayssiguier
  • Patent number: 10151189
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a system (1) and tool(s) (300, 2, 3) for single trip through drill pipe proppant fracturing of subterranean formations (130) surrounding oil and/or gas production wells (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: DRECO ENERGY SERVICES ULC
    Inventors: Paul David Busengdal, Tore Sørheim, Tom Rune Koløy, Ståle Granberg, Pål Zon Rafdal, Nicolai Isaak Stubbrud, Jarle Trones
  • Patent number: 10138690
    Abstract: An apparatus for gripping a tubular for use with a top drive includes a connector at one end for rotationally fixing the apparatus relative to the top drive; one or more gripping members at a second end for gripping the tubular; an actuator configured to move and hold the gripping members in contact with the tubular; and a lock coupled to the connector for preventing the apparatus and the top drive from rotating independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Albert C. Odell, II, Richard Lee Giroux, Tuong Thanh Le, Gary Thompson, Karsten Heidecke, Joerg Lorenz, Doyle Fredric Boutwell, Jr., Michael Hayes
  • Patent number: 10066478
    Abstract: An indicating tool includes a mandrel including a support, an indicator housing surrounding the mandrel, and a member movable radially with respect to the housing. The mandrel is movable longitudinally with respect to the indicator housing, and the indicator housing is at least substantially rotationally locked with respect to the mandrel. The member is engageable with an inner profile of an outer tubular in which the indicating tool is employed, and the member has a substantially helical side. The member is movable radially inward towards the mandrel when the support is longitudinally displaced from the member, and the member is blocked from movement radially inwards when the support is longitudinally aligned with the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Zachary S. Silva, James Smith, Robert O'Brien
  • Patent number: 10012047
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing debris from a wellbore, comprising providing a surface pump for supplying a fluid stream, a work string fluidly connected to the surface pump for passing the fluid stream from the surface pump, a tool body fluidly connected to the work string, including a plurality of tool body exit ports for passing the fluid stream from the work string into an annular space of the wellbore, and a collection chamber fluidly connected to and downhole from the tool body, for accepting uphole flow of the fluid stream including entrained wellbore debris. The fluid stream including entrained wellbore debris is drawn upward through the collection chamber, and the fluid stream from the work string and the fluid stream from the collection chamber are passed into the annular space of the wellbore. In addition, a cartridge may be inserted into the tool body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventors: Mark F. Alley, Bobby Sam
  • Patent number: 9976407
    Abstract: A logging tool or logging tool sub (10) for downhole use comprises an elongate cylindrical body (11) having supported thereby one or more movable landing extensions (12) that are movable between an extended position in which part of each said movable landing extension protrudes beyond the exterior of the cylindrical body (11) so as to define one or more exposed landing surfaces that are engageable with one or more landing surfaces (21) of a further component; and a retracted position in which each said movable landing extension (12) protrudes externally of the cylindrical body no further than the exterior thereof (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Reeves Wireline Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Simon Christopher Ash, Michael John Chaplin
  • Patent number: 9957760
    Abstract: A seal bore protector for protecting a seal bore of a rotating control device (RCD) is provided. The seal bore protector includes a cylindrical body, a throughbore extending through the cylindrical body, and a sealing element disposed around an external surface of the cylindrical body. The sealing element includes a first sealing ring, a second sealing ring, and a sealed area between the first sealing ring and the second sealing ring. The sealed area is fluidly coupled with a port when the seal bore protector is installed in the rotating control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis David Watters, Owen Ransom Clark, Joseph Michael Karigan, Anton Kelley Arnt
  • Patent number: 9926773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole system for a well producing hydro-carbon-containing fluid. The downhole system comprises a casing comprising a first casing part and a second casing part, the second casing part having a casing thickness and comprising at least one sleeve having an inner face, and the second casing part being substantially a monobore in that the second casing part has an inner diameter which varies by less than twice the casing thickness; and a drop device for being immersed into the casing having at least one sleeve having an inner face. The drop device comprises a body having a width; a leading end; and a trailing end. The body further comprises an expandable sealing element arranged between the leading end and the trailing end, moving from a first position in which fluid is allowed to pass the device and a second position in which the sealing element abuts the inner face of the sleeve and seals off a first zone in the well from a second zone in the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: WELLTEC A/S
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Christian Krüger
  • Patent number: 9926783
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a parameter of a production fluid in a wellbore by providing an initially blocked isolated communication path between a sensor and an aperture formed in a sleeve. The isolated communication path is subsequently unblocked to allow measurements of the parameter of the production fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Lembcke, Charles D. Parker, Jason Scott Kiddy, Iain Greenan
  • Patent number: 9920574
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing pressurized fluid to a formation that includes a power source body configured to contain a gas-generating fuel and a tool body comprising a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber is configured to hold a fluid, and the second chamber is configured to receive gas from the gas-generating fuel within the power source body. The apparatus further comprises a piston sealed between the first chamber and the second chamber and configured to stroke through the first chamber in response to a pressure increase within the second chamber, and a hose configured to generate a high-pressure jet of the fluid and to extend from the tool body or a diverter sub into the formation when the piston strokes through the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Robertson Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventor: Michael C. Robertson
  • Patent number: 9890631
    Abstract: A device, system, and method for locating collars along a casing string. The device includes a casing collar locator (CCL) and a valve in communication with the CCL connected to a work string. Fluid is pumped down the work string as the device is used to locate collars along a string. Upon detection of a collar, the CCL sends a signal to the valve, which causes the actuation of the valve to decreases a flow area within a work string. The decrease in flow area causes a pressure increase within the work string, which may be detected at the surface to indicate the detection of a collar. The device may include an amplifier and power source to amplify the signal from the CCL to the valve. The CCL may detect collars by a change in magnetic flux or by the detection of a signal emitted by individual collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Juan Carlos Flores Perez
  • Patent number: 9869788
    Abstract: A technique facilitates seismic wave detection with a seismic receiver. The seismic receiver has a tool body, a vibrationally isolated sensor package mounted in the tool body, and a plurality of contact shoes. The contact shoes are mounted around the sensor package in a distribution which enables three-point contact with a surrounding wellbore wall regardless of the azimuthal orientation of the sensor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ikegami, Ryo Imai, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9863221
    Abstract: Components of a downhole integrated well management system, and its method of use, can be deployed through tubing, a liner, or casing in existing wells without the need to deploy new pipe or remove and re-install pipe in the well. The system can seal the flow of hydrocarbon fluid and re-direct it into the claimed internal flow control module which, in embodiments, comprises a mandrel comprising one or more ports providing fluid communication between the interior of the mandrel and the outside of the mandrel and corresponding controllable port covers and/or seals that are adapted to open, partially open, or fully close a corresponding port; a flow controller; one or more sensor modules adapted to monitor a predetermined set of activities in a well; one or more communications module; and one or more power electronic modules. A surface module may be present and adapted to generate and transmit commands to the flow control modules and receive information from them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TUBEL ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: Paulo Tubel, Rogelio Cantu, Jorge Laurent, Sagar Shinde, Richard Lee Tilotta, James Kendall Warren, Sergio Cornejo, John Batiste Laine, Amanda Lauren Tubel
  • Patent number: 9850719
    Abstract: An apparatus enables modifying a riser's operating parameters for transporting production fluids from a subsea well to an offshore production facility after an initial period of production to address changes over time in the conditions of the reservoir and/or the riser without removing the original riser. An insert riser having a smaller diameter is inserted into the riser after the initial period. The original riser has a recessed seal face for receiving seal element(s) and a recessed lock groove for receiving a locking ring. An intervention coiled tubing having a sleeve removal tool is inserted into the riser to engage a protective sleeve covering the recessed seal face. The tubing is pulled to the floating structure thereby removing the protective sleeve and the temporary retaining ring from the production riser, exposing the recessed seal face. The insert riser can then be inserted into the riser and locked into place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Brian Ferrier, Alireza Mazaheri
  • Patent number: 9745838
    Abstract: A tubular assembly is disclosed for use in a wellbore (5) of an oil, gas or water well, typically for landing a downhole device in the wellbore. The assembly has a sleeve (1) adapted to receive the body of the downhole device. The sleeve is deployed into a conduit in the wellbore and expanded, so that the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve is radially expanded against the inner surface of the conduit. The sleeve has a bore with an inner circumferential surface comprising an inwardly facing formation adapted to engage with an outwardly facing formation on the body of the downhole device when the body of the downhole device is disposed in the bore of the sleeve. The sleeve is typically deployed in the wellbore at the desired location and is radially expanded by an expander device (2) that is deployed within the bore of the sleeve. The expanded sleeve plastically deforms and retains its expanded configuration after the radial expansion force is removed from the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPOATION
    Inventors: Andrew Gorrara, Peter Wood
  • Patent number: 9702249
    Abstract: A well testing device for conducting well test operations on an oil, gas, or water well including a production flowline. A conduit guides fluids from the production flowline to the well test device and then back to the flowline. The well test device may include, in various combinations, one or more of a flow measurement device, a sampling device, a sampling chamber to collect sampled fluids from the production flowline, a particle separator, a particle detector, a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a controller or data storage module, a choke, and other components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: OneSubsea IP UK Limited
    Inventors: Alexandre Gordon, Graham Hall, John Reid
  • Patent number: 9644479
    Abstract: The invention is a device for sampling fluids under pressure from a well which comprises a chamber for retaining the fluid within a sample chamber (01). The chambers includes a first piston which allows or prevents fluid inflow into the lower part of the chamber. The first piston is displaced by means comprising an elastic element (20) disposed in a chamber filled with oil and connected to the piston by a rod (04). Sampled fluid transfer means allows control of the descent of a second piston (02) from the upper part to the lower part of the chamber so that the fluid remains at constant pressure in chamber during the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Bruno Garcia, Miguel Garcia, Claudio Fernandes-Marto, Virgile Rouchon
  • Patent number: 9631674
    Abstract: A method and apparatus according to which the optimal radius of a thrust bearing in a well tool is determined. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving inputs representing a plurality of geometric characteristics and material properties of the well tool, the well tool including a housing, a shaft extending within the housing, and the thrust bearing, which includes convex and concave surfaces that define an interface having a radius; determining, based on the inputs, an expected value of the bending moment of the well tool in the vicinity of the thrust bearing; determining, based on the expected value of the bending moment, one or more expected values of the radial reaction force at the interface, which values depend upon the radius of the interface; and selecting, based on the one or more expected values of the radial reaction force, an optimal radius of the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Kennedy J. Kirkhope, Alben D'Silva
  • Patent number: 9618156
    Abstract: A motor control system for a lubricant pump motor comprises a pump system power input, a motor drive, a current sensor, a lubrication controller, and a drive controller. The pump system power input is configured to supply system power. The motor drive is configured to drive the lubricant pump motor using the system power. The current sensor is disposed between the pump system power input and the motor drive to sense an input current of the system power. The lubrication controller configured to provide motor activation signals. The drive controller is disposed to receive the motor activation signals via an isolated digital input, and to control the motor drive as a function of the sensed input current and a user-defined current set-point, in response to the activation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Klaphake, Eric J. Mjolhus, Suresha S. Nijaguna, Jesse L. Lanie
  • Patent number: 9550247
    Abstract: A cathodic protection device enclosing a reference cell and a conductive media and having two coupon assemblies mounted, facing opposing direction, on an exterior surface. The coupon assemblies each have a disc-shaped coupon seated in a coupon jacket and are electrically coupled to a wire. The coupon jacket defines a pocket in a first surface and a groove in a second, opposing surface thereof. The disc-shaped coupon is seated in the pocket and the wire is seated in the groove with the electrical junction therebetween aligned with an aperture connecting the pocket to the groove. A sealing material is used to form a watertight seal between the disc-shaped coupon and the pocket and fills the groove. The device includes a hydrophilic porous member having a first surface in communication with the conductive media and a second surface in communication with an external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: APS MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventor: Gregory P. Smith
  • Patent number: 9518455
    Abstract: Disclosed are improved flow control devices and methods of use thereof. One flow control device includes a body arranged within a cavity defined in a housing coupled to a base pipe, the housing defining a perforation and the base pipe defining one or more flow ports aligned with the perforation to allow fluid communication therethrough, and a flow chamber defined within the body and having a longitudinal portion and a radial portion, the radial portion being fluidly coupled to the perforation such that a fluid flowing through the flow chamber is conveyed directly to or from the perforation and the one or more flow ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Earl Franklin, Stephen M. Greci
  • Patent number: 9470073
    Abstract: A method for lifting fluids within a subterranean well includes lowering an elongated plunger to a lower region of a bore of the subterranean well. The plunger includes a motor assembly operably connected to a propeller. A seal can be created between the plunger and an inner surface of the bore of the subterranean well. A thruster, such as motor assembly connected to a propeller, generates thrust to lift the plunger to a plunger retainer located proximate to a wellhead of the subterranean well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Jinjiang Xiao, Abubaker Saeed
  • Patent number: 9255456
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of a drill string that includes drilling pipe, a dump valve, a positive displacement motor and a rotary drill bit driven by the motor utilize a dump valve that does not depend upon a pressure loss to maintain the dump valve in a position which closes communication between the drilling string and the annulus between the drilling string and the well bore or casing. The dump valve includes a flow sleeve that is axially moved to close outlet passages to the annulus by the flow of fluid through the outlet passages rather than a pressure drop across the flow sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Inventor: Robert W. Evans
  • Patent number: 9217101
    Abstract: An encapsulated composition for polymerization includes an initiator composition for initiating a polymerization reaction, and a capsule prepared from an elemental metal or fusible alloy having a melting temperature from about 20° C. to about 200° C. A fluid for polymerization includes the encapsulated composition and a monomer. When the capsule melts or breaks open, the initiator is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventor: Robert E. Hermes
  • Patent number: 9194204
    Abstract: Device for carrying a replacement safety valve in a well tube, with a straddle structure for placement inside a damaged “Down Hole Safety Valve” nipple seal area. It is comprising a pair of sealing assemblies (15, 16) to be activated upon setting of the device to seal said nipple seal area, and a locking dog assembly (17) for locking the device in the well tube, said elements being carried by a tubular mandrel (12). At least one of the sealing assemblies (15, 16) comprises a expandable element (22; 34) being activated by a pair of annular press elements (19, 20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Interwell Technology AS
    Inventors: Espen Hiorth, Terje Stormo
  • Publication number: 20150136385
    Abstract: A well logging system that includes a tool which is deployed within the well. The tool has a housing in which imaging hardware is stored, and on which sensors are located, where the sensors detect and measure electrical signals that have been induced in the formation surrounding the well. A wiper system is also mounted on the housing for clearing mud and other debris from outer surfaces of the sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Logging Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James David RATCLIFFE, Timothy Gill, Charles William Donkin
  • Patent number: 9033036
    Abstract: Embodiments may take the form of a tool string sub. The tool string sub may include a longitudinally extending tubular housing having an outside surface and an inside surface. A stepped circumferential portion of the inside surface of the housing bisects the interior surface of the housing. A degradation part is connected adjacent to the stepped portion of the housing and is supported by the housing and at least one moveable support part protruding inward and beyond the inner surface of the housing. The support part has a first position where the degradation part is at first stress and a second position where the degradation part is at a second stress greater than the first stress. At least one end of the tool string sub is adapted to connect with a tool string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Wilkinson, Indranil Roy, Stephane Hiron
  • Publication number: 20150107855
    Abstract: A method of performing an operation in a wellbore using a device, the method comprises: introducing the device into the wellbore, wherein the device initially comprises a body and a weight; causing or allowing the weight to become disassociated from the body, wherein after disassociation, the device comprises the body, and wherein the specific gravity of the device decreases after the weight becomes disassociated from the body; and causing or allowing at least the body to move towards a wellhead of the wellbore after the weight is disassociated from the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Zachary R. MURPHREE, Michael L. FRIPP, Zachary W. WALTON
  • Publication number: 20150107825
    Abstract: A downhole system including a downhole device for data acquisition during fracing operations is disclosed. It includes a bypass device (102) operatively coupleable to for instance a frac plug (10) and is adapted to allow downhole fluid flow through the bypass device (102) and frac plug (10) but also permits the closure of that path whilst providing at least one second fluid path (120) for fluid communication between at least one data acquisition device (108) provided to detect at least one physical property such as pressure and a region inside the wellbore located uphole of the bypass device (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: OMEGA WELL MONITORING LIMITED
    Inventors: James Lewellyn Miller, Douglas R. Berrett