Abstract: A downhole tool system includes an electrical submersible pump (ESP) assembly configured to couple to a downhole conveyance that includes a production fluid flow path for a production fluid from a subterranean formation; and a logging sub-assembly directly coupled to a downhole end of the ESP assembly and including a length of logging cable spoolable off a cable spool of the logging sub-assembly within a wellbore.
Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for determining cement barrier quality of a cementing process. Systems and methods are provided for receiving data from a distributed acoustic sensing fiber optic line positioned proximate to cement barrier of a wellbore, determining at least one zonal isolation in the cement barrier based on the data received from the distributed acoustic sensing fiber optic line, and compiling a cement bond log based on the determining of the at least one zonal isolation in the cement barrier.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 30, 2023
Assignee:
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Inventors:
John Paul Bir Singh, Mikko Jaaskelainen, John L. Maida, Krishna Babu Yerubandi
Abstract: An inline inspection vehicle includes an auto-adjustable, self-adaptive structure. The inline inspection vehicle includes a plurality of self-adjustable carrier racks carrying inspection device carts with positioning rollers, and self-adaptive driving turbine wheels at a front part and a back end for auto-adjustable driving speeds. The inline inspection vehicle also includes intelligent self-control mechanisms implemented using self-adaptive schema and algorithms for a finite set of control states to integrate the adaptive controller and actuators. Furthermore, it may conduct virtual pressure tests by carrying intelligent inline data acquisition devices to converge the Pipeline Integrity Management with SCADA monitoring system.
Abstract: System and methods for simulating fluid flow during downhole operations are provided. Measurements of an operating variable at one or more locations within a formation are obtained from a downhole tool disposed in a wellbore within the formation during a current stage of a downhole operation being performed along the wellbore. The obtained measurements are applied as inputs to a hybrid model of the formation. The hybrid model includes physics-based and machine learning models that are coupled together within a simulation grid. Fluid flow within the formation is simulated, based on the inputs applied to the hybrid model. A response of the operating variable is estimated for a subsequent stage of the downhole operation along the wellbore, based on the simulation. Flow control parameters for the subsequent stage are determined based on the estimated response. The subsequent stage of the operation is performed according to the determined flow control parameters.
Abstract: A multi-vessel reservoir assembly is provided. The multi-vessel reservoir assembly comprises a first fluid vessel, a second fluid vessel, and at least one linkage positioned between the first and second fluid vessels. The at least one linkage serves to maintain the first and second fluid vessels in fixed and spaced-apart relationship relative to one another. The first and second fluid vessels are independent and separately operable.
Abstract: Systems and methods for exchanging fracturing components of a hydraulic fracturing unit and may include an exchangeable fracturing component section to facilitate quickly exchanging a fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit. The fracturing component section may include a section frame including a base, and a fracturing component connected to the base. The fracturing component section also may include a component electrical assembly and a component fluid assembly connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section further may include a coupling plate connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section also may include one or more of a plurality of quick-connect electrical couplers or a plurality of quick-connect fluid couplers connected to a coupling plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 21, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 18, 2023
Assignee:
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
Inventors:
Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
Abstract: Embodiments of an enclosure assembly to enhance cooling of a hydraulic fracturing direct drive unit (DDU) during operation are included. The enclosure assembly may include an enclosure body extending at least partially around an enclosure space to house the DDU for driving a fluid pump. The enclosure assembly may include one or more heat exchanger assemblies connected to the enclosure body for cooling a process fluid associated with one or more of the DDU and the fluid pump, and which may be configured to draw air into the enclosure space from and external environment, toward one or more radiator assemblies to cool the process fluid, and along an airflow path through the enclosure space. One or more outlet fan assemblies may be operative to discharge air from the enclosure space to the external environment to maintain a desired temperature of the enclosure space.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 11, 2023
Assignee:
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
Inventors:
Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Guillermo Rodriguez
Abstract: Various apparatus or methods are arranged to determine a first isotope ratio of an effluent drilling fluid, wherein the effluent drilling fluid is a drilling fluid after the drilling fluid has interacted with a plasma discharge produced via one or more electrodes of a drill bit of a pulsed power drill string disposed in a borehole. A second isotope ratio is estimated based on the first isotope ratio and a downhole reaction generated by the plasma discharge.
Abstract: System and methods of controlling fluid flow during reservoir stimulation treatments are provided. A flow distribution of treatment fluid injected into formation entry points along a wellbore path is monitored during a current stage of a multistage stimulation treatment. Upon determining that the monitored flow distribution meets a threshold, a remainder of the current stage is partitioned into a plurality of treatment cycles and at least one diversion phase for diverting the fluid to be injected away from one or more formation entry points between consecutive treatment cycles. A portion of the fluid to be injected into the formation entry points is allocated to each of the treatment cycles of the partitioned stage. The treatment cycles are performed for the remainder of the current stage using the treatment fluid allocated to each treatment cycle, wherein the flow distribution is adjusted so as not to meet the threshold.
Abstract: The present invention considers bringing a mobile unit closer to the site of interest and conduct the quantification of the tracers by performing the detection methods in situ and in real time at the wellhead, and that can be moved to the site on numerous occasions for the preparation of results during the test where the quantification of tracers is necessary, helping to speed up and reduce times that, until now, have not been achieved with stationary laboratories and that depending on the laboratory can last up to three months providing results.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 6, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 28, 2023
Assignee:
INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO
Inventors:
Jetzabeth Ramirez Sabag, Jose Francisco Trejo Reyes
Abstract: A subsurface monitoring system and method is provided for measuring a rate of change in an amount of a reactive material within a subsurface formation using measurements of thermal parameters at one or more positions within the subsurface without the need for background correction which may lead erroneous calculations and require additional monitoring equipment. The measured thermal parameters may be used to determine the heat generated by the degradation of the reactive material. The method may include measuring a first temperature near the surface of a subsurface region and a second temperature further from the surface. In some instances, an estimated location of a planar subsurface heat source/sink due to exothermic degradation reactions within the subsurface may be selected. With the derived thermal parameters and the estimated location of the subsurface heat source/sink, change rates for the reactive materials in the subsurface region may be determined or estimated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 14, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 21, 2023
Assignee:
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Abstract: A wellbore tool includes a body having a longitudinal axis and an outer circumferential surface. The wellbore tool includes moveable arms, housings, actuators, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, and a heat source, such as a microwave source. Each moveable arm is coupled to a respective actuator and a respective housing. Each actuator is configured to move the respective moveable arm. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the subterranean formation. The pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure of the subterranean formation. The microwave source is configured to generate microwave radiation. Methods of analyzing acquired transient temperature and transient pressure data for formation evaluation are also described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 30, 2020
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2023
Assignee:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Inventors:
Mustafa A. Al-Huwaider, Shouxiang Mark Ma
Abstract: The systems and method described in this specification relate to a method for determining a residual oil saturation of a reservoir. The method includes obtaining a plurality of rock samples from the reservoir; determining a permeability of each of the rock samples; measuring a fluid viscosity of oil in the reservoir; estimating a location-specific permeability of the reservoir across the reservoir based on the permeability of each of the rock samples; determining a location-specific displacing velocity of the reservoir based on a function of the location-specific permeability and the fluid viscosity of the oil; determining the residual oil saturation of the reservoir based on the location-specific displacing velocity using Franklin's equation; and predicting a recovery of the oil from the reservoir using the residual oil saturation in a computational model of the reservoir.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 31, 2023
Assignee:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Inventors:
Hassan Mohammed Alhussain, Noor A. Saif
Abstract: A tubular string formed by one or more tubulars with a central flow passage for an internal fluid therethrough and an external surface. The tubular having a wall thickness defined between external surface and the central flow passage and at least one sensor port disposed along a longitudinal length of the tubular. At least one sensor includes a main body and=nipple extending from the main body and inserted into the sensor port of the tubular. The nipple extends through the wall thickness sufficient to detect a property of an internal fluid within the central flow passage.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 8, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 31, 2023
Assignee:
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES
Inventors:
Clint Adam Brown, Suzi Marie Marcuccio, Michael Linley Fripp, Thomas Jules Frosell
Abstract: A system for use in hydraulic fracturing of at least one reservoir. The system including at least one pump for injecting a friction modifier into a wellbore, at least one friction modifier controller for controlling an amount of friction modifier channeled through at least one well bore, and at least one injector. The friction modifier controller is configured to monitor at least one of a fluid flow rate and pressure associated with each wellbore, compare the at least one of the fluid flow rate and the pressure with at least one of a desired flow rate and desired pressure, and adjust a friction modifier level for at least one wellbore based on results of the comparison. The injector is configured to control the pump to deliver an amount of a friction modifier into the wellbore based on the friction modifier level.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 10, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 10, 2023
Assignee:
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Timothy Holiman Hunter, Stanley V. Stephenson, Ubong Akpan Inyang
Abstract: A computer system and method for analyzing effectiveness of applied treatments or characterizing landing zones. The method includes, for respective one or more wells, receive production data, determining oil, gas, and/or water production data from the production data, determining an effective fluid production time for production of the oil and/or gas, combining the oil, gas, and/or water production data per to obtain a fluid production per time interval, calculate a fluid production rate per time interval as a function of the effective fluid production time and the fluid production of the time interval, and normalize the fluid production rate per time interval using a normalization factor that is available in the production data received. The method further includes analyzing effectiveness of treatments applied to one of the wells using the well's normalized fluid production rate associated with the plurality of time intervals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 3, 2023
Assignee:
Landmark Graphics Corporation
Inventors:
Pablo Esteban Johanis, Jose Rafael Vielma, Santiago Miguel Casala
Abstract: A method for producing a well includes receiving production information associated with wells within a field; deriving a field specific model from the production information; receiving production information associated with the well; projecting production changes associated with installing artificial lift at the well at a projected date, the projecting using a production analysis engine applied to the field specific model, the projecting including determining a set of artificial lift parameters; and installing the artificial lift at the well in accordance with the artificial lift parameters.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 24, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 27, 2022
Assignee:
DataInfoCom USA, Inc.
Inventors:
Atanu Basu, Daniel Mohan, Chun Wang, Frederick Venter
Abstract: Systems and methods for exchanging fracturing components of a hydraulic fracturing unit and may include an exchangeable fracturing component section to facilitate quickly exchanging a fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit. The fracturing component section may include a section frame including a base, and a fracturing component connected to the base. The fracturing component section also may include a component electrical assembly and a component fluid assembly connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section further may include a coupling plate connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section also may include one or more of a plurality of quick-connect electrical couplers or a plurality of quick-connect fluid couplers connected to a coupling plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 10, 2022
Date of Patent:
November 29, 2022
Assignee:
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
Inventors:
Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to monitoring, evaluating, and controlling fracture geometry during a hydraulic fracturing operation, in real time. A method comprises measuring a signal representing a condition in a wellbore; inputting the signal into a model for estimating a dimension of a dominant fracture; determining the dimension of the dominant fracture; determining a target dimension for the dominant fracture; and minimizing a difference between the dimension of the dominant fracture and the target dimension in real time, by adjusting at least an injection pressure or flow rate of a hydraulic fracturing fluid into the wellbore.
Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a well system environment communication system comprising of an acoustic communicator capable of communicating encoded data with a first wireless transceiver through a fluid medium and the first wireless transceiver capable of communicating encoded data with a second transceiver through a non-fluid medium. In one example, an acoustic communicator is communicatively coupled with a downhole tool allowing the downhole tool to communicate indirectly with a well system controller. In another aspect of the disclosure, a method is described wherein an acoustic communicator located in a wellbore can encode data from a downhole tool and communicate the data through a fluid medium to a first wireless transceiver and the first wireless transceiver can communicate with a second transceiver through a non-fluid medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 1, 2022
Assignee:
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Linley Fripp, Thomas Jules Frosell, Richard Decena Ornelaz, Donald Kyle
Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing and improving a drilling and completions process at a hydrocarbon extraction site, and to optimizing resource allocation at a hydrocarbon extraction site/region. In one scenario, a computer system accesses data generated by hardware sensors implemented by drilling and completion equipment at a hydrocarbon extraction site. The computer system formats the sensor data into a form readable by a data mining algorithm, and mines the formatted sensor data to identify characteristics related to the drilling and completion process. The computer system also accesses and integrates historical data related to the drilling and completion equipment at the hydrocarbon extraction site. The computer system then computes drilling and completion performance indicators that identify inefficiencies based on the characteristics identified for the equipment and based on the accessed historical data. Then, a remediation step is performed to resolve the identified inefficiency.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2022
Assignee:
QRI GROUP, LLC
Inventors:
Ali Karimi Vajargah, David Castineira, Zheren Ma, Cedric Gael Fraces Gasmi, Hamed Darabi
Abstract: Described herein is a method and techniques for subsurface monitoring. The system includes a downhole including a casting with a lumen, a wireless power transmitter within the casting, a micro-sensor cement mixture including a plurality of micro-sensors mixed with a cement, the micro-sensor cement mixture on a surface of the casting opposite from the lumen, a relay system including a plurality of relays, each of the plurality of relays including a charging component and a surface receiver. The wireless power transmitter configured to transmit a wireless power signal. At least one micro-sensor of the plurality of micro-sensors is configured to receive the wireless power signal, sense at least one attribute, and transmit a sensed signal. A series of relays are configured to receive the sensed signal and re-transmit the sensed signal and a surface receiver is configured to receive the sensed signal at a third time after the second time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 5, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2022
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Institute
Inventors:
Ashwin Pasumarti, Joel Sminchak, Mark Moody
Abstract: Fluid is produced from a well that is equipped with a plunger lift system. The plunger lift system includes a plunger that is inserted into production tubing that is installed in the well. Liquid from a surrounding formation accumulates on top of the plunger. The liquid accumulation on the plunger is monitored. Lift gas is injected into the production tubing below the plunger to lift the plunger and accumulated liquid to surface. A wellhead assembly at surface directs the accumulated liquid away from the well, and injection of the lift gas is suspended to allow the plunger to drop back to its initial position. The timing of the lift gas injection is based on monitoring liquid accumulation, and also to maximize production from the well.
Abstract: A well system includes a fiber optic cable positionable downhole along a length of a wellbore. The well system also includes a reflectometer communicatively coupleable to the fiber optic cable. The reflectometer injects optical signals into the fiber optic cable and receives reflected optical signals from the fiber optic cable. Further, the reflectometer identifies strain detected in the reflected optical signals generated from seismic waves of a microseismic event. Additionally, the reflectometer identifies a focal mechanism of the microseismic event and velocities of the seismic waves. The reflectometer also determines a position of the microseismic event using the strain detected in the reflected optical signals, the focal mechanism of the microseismic event, and the velocities of the seismic waves.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 31, 2019
Date of Patent:
September 20, 2022
Assignee:
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Aleksandar Jeremic, Henry Clifford Bland, Timur Mukhtarov
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to mitigate flaring of natural gas. A natural gas processing system may process raw natural gas into a fuel gas stream that may be used to power any number of on-site power generation modules. In turn, the power generation modules may convert the fuel gas stream into an electrical output, which may be employed to power any number of distributed computing units housed within one or more mobile data centers. In certain embodiments, the distributed computing units may be adapted to mine cryptocurrency or perform other distributed computing tasks to generate revenue.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 13, 2022
Date of Patent:
September 20, 2022
Assignee:
CRUSOE ENERGY SYSTEMS LLC
Inventors:
Charles Cavness, Chase Lochmiller, Kenneth Parker
Abstract: An exploration method starts from cuttings associated with sampling intervals and well data for a well in a subsurface formation. The cuttings are prepared and analyzed to extract textural and chemical/mineralogical data for plural fragments in each sample that is made of the cuttings in one sampling interval. The method then includes matching lithotypes of rock defined according to the textural and chemical/mineralogical data for each fragment with segments of the well data in the corresponding sampling interval to obtain correspondences between the lithotypes and depth ranges. The correspondences between the lithotypes and the depth ranges may be used as constraints for seismic data inversion.
Abstract: Provided is a method for inspecting at least a portion of a downhole conveyance device. The method, in one embodiment, includes providing a downhole conveyance device, and providing an ultrasonic defect inspection system adjacent the downhole conveyance device. The method, in this embodiment, further includes detecting defects in the downhole conveyance device using the ultrasonic defect inspection system, wherein the detecting includes transmitting ultrasonic waves from the ultrasonic defect inspection system toward the downhole conveyance device, and obtaining defect data by sensing disruptions in the reflected ultrasonic waves caused by defects in the downhole conveyance device.
Abstract: A method includes creating a digital description of the well construction system, wherein the digital description of the well construction system describes the locational relationship of components in the well construction system, collecting multiple types of data from a well construction system, and tagging the collected data with an identification indicating at least one of a location of a source of collected data and a component in the well construction system from which the data is collected. The multiple types of data include sensor data collected from one or more sensors disposed along the well construction system and operational state data indicating an on/off status of one or more components in the well construction system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 17, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 23, 2022
Assignee:
Schlumberger Technology Corporation
Inventors:
Shunfeng Zheng, Benjamin Peter Jeffryes
Abstract: A mobile fracking pump trailer 100 includes a gas turbine engine 102 and fracking pump 104, and torque converter 114 that fluidly couples the gas turbine engine 102 to the fracking pump 104. The mobile fracking pump trailer 100 further includes a first reduction gearing 118 connected between the gas turbine engine 102 and the torque converter 114 and a first power takeoff 120 connected to first reduction gearing 118. An electrical machine 128 is connected to the first power takeoff 120 for selectively starting the gas turbine engine 102 and generating electrical power to power the mobile fracking pump trailer 100 after the gas turbine engine 102 has been started.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 24, 2020
Date of Patent:
August 9, 2022
Assignees:
SPM Oil & Gas Inc., Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
Inventors:
Udo Reckels, Dalia El Tawy, Wesley P. Clark, Charles Benjamin Shuck, Bryan C. Wagner
Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring a parameter of interest in a borehole in an earth formation are provided. The systems include a downhole sensor having a first sensor component with a first temperature and a second sensor component with a second temperature, the downhole sensor disposed on a downhole component. A temperature control system is configured with a thermal control mechanism operatively connected to at least one of the first and second sensor components. The thermal control mechanism is configured to maintain a temperature difference between the first temperature and the second temperature below a pre-determined temperature difference. The downhole sensor is configured to measure the parameter of interest when the temperature difference is below the pre-determined temperature difference.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 21, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 26, 2022
Assignee:
BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
Inventors:
Gunnar Tackmann, Tobias Kischkat, Thomas Kruspe, Peter Rottengatter
Abstract: Methods for producing proppants with a fluorinated polyurethane proppant coating are provided. The methods include coating the proppant particles with a strengthening agent, a strengthening agent, and a resin to produce proppants with fluorinated polyurethane proppant coating. Additionally, a proppant comprising a proppant particle and a fluorinated polyurethane proppant coating is provided. The fluorinated polyurethane proppant coating includes a strengthening agent, a strengthening agent, and a resin. The fluorinated polyurethane proppant coating coats the proppant particle. Additionally, a method for increasing a rate of hydrocarbon production from a subsurface formation through the use of the proppants is provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 26, 2022
Inventors:
Rajesh Kumar Saini, Mohammad Haque, Mohammed Sayed
Abstract: Disclosed are a monitoring, prevention and management method for preventing a drilling pump from pump suffocation and misoperation, and a pump pressure protection system therefor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 3, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 19, 2022
Assignee:
Puyang Baifu Reide Petroleum Science and Technology Company Limited
Inventors:
Gang Zhao, Chen Chen, Jianfeng Jin, Zhitao Zhang, Chun Yu, Yulong Xia, Yingdong Zhang
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure can include systems and methods for formation fluid sampling. In one embodiment, a method can include monitoring a relationship between a first characteristic of a formation fluid extracted from a formation and a second characteristic of the formation fluid extracted from the formation, determining, based at least in part on the monitoring, that a linear trend is exhibited by the relationship between the first characteristic of the formation fluid extracted from the formation and the second characteristic of the formation fluid extracted from the formation, and determining a reservoir fluid breakthrough based at least in part on the identification of the linear trend, wherein the reservoir fluid breakthrough is indicative of virgin reservoir fluid entering a sampling tool.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 6, 2014
Date of Patent:
July 12, 2022
Assignee:
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Inventors:
Kai Hsu, Adriaan Gisolf, Youxiang Zuo, Yong Chang, Beatriz E. Barbosa
Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein enable coordinated pumping operations. An example system may include a treatment fluid system configured to pump a treatment fluid into a wellbore, a pump-down system configured to pump a pump-down fluid into the wellbore to convey a perforating tool, a fluid valve system configured to selectively fluidly connect and disconnect the treatment fluid system and the pump-down system to and from the wellbore, and a controller communicatively connected to the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system. The controller may be configured to monitor operational status of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system, and control operations of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system based at least in part on the operational status of the treatment fluid system, the pump-down system, and the fluid valve system.
Abstract: A method of creating a horizontal wellbore section comprises drilling the section in at least two stages. The method comprises drilling a first horizontal bore section. The first horizontal bore section is then provided with a first liner having a wall including initially-closed flow ports. The first liner isolates the wall of the first bore section. A second horizontal bore section is then drilled beyond the first horizontal bore section. The second horizontal bore section is provided with a second liner. Stimulation fluid is then directed into the first and second liners so that the stimulation fluid passes through the wall of the second liner to stimulate the second horizontal bore section. The flow ports in the wall of the first liner are then opened so that the stimulation fluid passes through the wall of the first liner to stimulate the first horizontal bore section.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 1, 2017
Date of Patent:
June 14, 2022
Assignee:
Total E&P Danmark A/S
Inventors:
Hans-Henrik Kogsboll, Michael Dermot Mulrooney
Abstract: System and methods for detecting a composition in a wellbore during a cementing operation. An electrochemical cell can be disposed towards an end of a wellbore. The electrochemical cell can generate electrical energy in response to a physical presence of a composition at the electrochemical cell. The composition can be pumped from a surface of the wellbore during a cementing operation of the wellbore. Further, a telemetry signal indicating the physical presence of the composition at the electrochemical cell can be generated based on the electrical energy generated by the electrochemical cell. As follows, the telemetry signal can be transmitted to the surface of the wellbore.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 23, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 7, 2022
Assignee:
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Inventors:
John Paul Bir Singh, John L. Maida, Mikko Jaaskelainen, Krishna Babu Yerubandi
Abstract: A downhole plug for well completion is provided, which rapidly degrades after hydraulic fracturing, so that the flow path is recovered in a short time. A downhole plug (10) is provided, which includes: a mandrel (1) made of a degradable material; and a plurality of peripheral members (2, 3, 4, 5, 6a, 6b, 8a, 8b) made of a degradable material and disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the mandrel (1), where at least one of the plurality of peripheral members (6a, 6b) includes: a hollow portion (64) through which a fluid flowing along an axial direction of the mandrel (1) can pass; or a groove in at least a portion of, a surface serving as an outer surface of the downhole plug (10), or a surface in contact with the mandrel (1).
Abstract: Systems and methods for conducting a well intervention operation in a well include positioning a conveyance into the well for the well intervention operation, calculating a predicted force based at least in part on a length of the conveyance that is positioned at a depth in the well, measuring a measured force for the conveyance at the depth in the well, and comparing a predicted force for the conveyance at the depth in the well with the measured force in real time to determine if the predicted force is within a predetermined range of the measured force in real time. The method further includes generating an alert if the predicted force is not within the predetermined range of the measured force in real time, and continuing with the well intervention operation if the predicted force is within the predetermined range of the measured force.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system having an inner structure, wherein the inner structure comprises at least one inner tube made of stainless steel and at least one sensor device with at least one sensor to measure at least one condition of the system. Under an aspect of the present disclosure a system of this type is suggested, wherein the inner structure is coated with at least one layer of at least one plastic material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 28, 2018
Date of Patent:
May 24, 2022
Assignee:
Sandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH
Inventors:
Thomas Froböse, Christofer Hedvall, Leandro Finzetto
Abstract: Systems and methods for exchanging fracturing components of a hydraulic fracturing unit and may include an exchangeable fracturing component section to facilitate quickly exchanging a fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit. The fracturing component section may include a section frame including a base, and a fracturing component connected to the base. The fracturing component section also may include a component electrical assembly and a component fluid assembly connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section further may include a coupling plate connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section also may include one or more of a plurality of quick-connect electrical couplers or a plurality of quick-connect fluid couplers connected to a coupling plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2022
Date of Patent:
May 24, 2022
Assignee:
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
Inventors:
Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
Abstract: Safe dynamic handover between MPD and well control operations provides the ability to automate MPD, well control, and transitions therebetween while maintaining the wellbore in a dynamic fluid state at all times. In the event a kick is taken, a safe dynamic handover from MPD to well control operations is made, unknown formation fluids within the wellbore are circulated out of the wellbore, and a safe dynamic handover from well control operations to MPD is made while maintaining the wellbore in dynamic fluid state, without ever going static with respect to fluids within the wellbore. Because the wellbore remains dynamic, the formation of gels is prevented, thereby preventing pressure spikes during the start-up of the mud pumps and improving pressure transmission throughout the well system. Pressure may be more precisely managed during all phases of MPD, well control, and transitions therebetween.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 11, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 17, 2022
Assignee:
SAFEKICK AMERICAS LLC
Inventors:
Mario Ledes Mascarenhas Resende Teixeira, Helio Mauricio Ribeiro dos Santos
Abstract: Effective prediction of downhole mixing and channeling at an interface between two or more wellbore fluids may prevent the unnecessary consumption of resources at a well site and enhance the performance of wellbore operations, including drilling operations, completion operations, and reservoir management. A model for a length and a volume of the interface between two wellbore fluids may be used to characterize the amount of mixing and channeling. The model may use known properties of the wellbore fluids before mixing and channeling occurs. The model may account for eccentricity in an annulus of the wellbore by partitioning a three dimensional flow profile in the wellbore into a plurality of segments for separate analysis. Outputs from the model may be used to determine one or more locations of the interface at one or more intervals of time as the wellbore fluids circulate through the wellbore.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides for generating multiphase flow properties of porous media based on one or more input parameters. For instance, the multiphase flow properties may be a capillary pressure-saturation relationship for the porous media. The one or more input parameters include an interfacial tension along an interface between a wetting fluid and a non-wetting fluid, a contact angle between the interface and a pore wall of the porous media, and a pore throat size. The pore throat size is based on subparameters including a saturation of the wetting fluid, a saturation of the non-wetting fluid, a porosity of the porous media, and an orientation angle between a representative pore body size and a representative pore throat size.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 2019
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2022
Assignee:
QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Inventors:
Harris Sajjad Rabbani, Thomas Daniel Seers, Dominique Guerillot
Abstract: A method for generating a well completion plan includes: evaluating a plurality of different well completion plans using a reservoir simulator to calculate dynamic flows of fluid through a subsurface formation, each well completion plan having a flow control device with location and associated flow setting or rating, and optionally a packer and location to provide output data for each well completion plan evaluation; developing a surrogate reservoir model using the output data and input data for each well completion plan evaluation; using intelligent sequential sampling of the output and input data for each well completion plan evaluation to provide intelligent sequential sampling data in response to the surrogate reservoir model not meeting a validation criterion; updating the surrogate reservoir model using the intelligent sequential sampling data; and iterating the using and the updating using a latest surrogate reservoir model until the latest surrogate reservoir model meets the validation criterion.
Abstract: Determining distance and direction from a first borehole to a second borehole including generating a time-varying magnetic field by axially reciprocating magnets of opposed polarity, at a first location in a second borehole, and detectable in the region of the first borehole. First and second sensors positioned at an observation point in the first borehole measure the amplitude and relative phase of components of the magnetic field. From these measurements, the direction, relative to the sensors, from an observation point to the first location is determined. The distance between these points is determined by measuring amplitude variations with depth of the magnetic field at observation points in the first borehole and computing theoretical variations in the amplitude for different assumed distances between the observation points and the location of the magnetic field source which are compared with theoretical variations to determine the distance between the first and second boreholes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 12, 2022
Assignee:
VECTOR MAGNETICS, LLC
Inventors:
Arthur F. Kuckes, Rahn Pitzer, David Mohler, Mariano S Garcia
Abstract: An autonomous intervention system configured to perform an intervention operation in a wellbore comprises a tool housing having a tool storage compartment configured to house an intervention tool. A valve arrangement permits selective communication of tools and fluid between the tool housing and the wellbore. The intervention system is configured to move in response to an activation event between a tool storage configuration in which the tool housing is isolated from the wellbore by the valve arrangement and an activated configuration in which the valve arrangement is open and the tool housing communicates with the wellbore to permit deployment of the intervention tool by a tool deployment arrangement.
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for transmitting information to and from a downhole tool for detonation at a specified location. Perforating systems and methods may use a digital slickline unit and a telemetry module to autonomously operate within a wellbore. A well system may comprise: a downhole perforating system comprising: at least one perforating gun; a setting tool; and a control unit coupled to the at least one perforating gun and the setting tool in a tool string for conveyance downhole, wherein the control unit comprises a battery pack, electronics, at least one sensor, wherein the electronics are operable to send one or more actuation signals to the at least one perforating gun and the setting tool.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 17, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 29, 2022
Assignee:
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Edward Harrigan, Francis Michael Heaney, Wei Sun
Abstract: A method of recovering oil embedded in an underground matrix adjacent a depleted oil reservoir includes injecting a mixture of polymeric material into the depleted oil reservoir through an injection borehole, applying a pressure to the mixture to free the oil from the matrix and move the oil towards a production well, and drawing the oil from the depleted oil reservoir through the production well. The method additionally includes modeling a shear thickening of the polymeric mixture and an onset of the shear thickening. The model can be incorporated into commercial numerical simulators for predicting the injectivity and recovery due to viscoelastic thickening independently and thereby assist in quick screening polymers for oil recovery applications.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 23, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 8, 2022
Assignee:
The Governors of the University of Alberta
Abstract: Systems and methods for exchanging fracturing components of a hydraulic fracturing unit and may include an exchangeable fracturing component section to facilitate quickly exchanging a fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit. The fracturing component section may include a section frame including a base, and a fracturing component connected to the base. The fracturing component section also may include a component electrical assembly and a component fluid assembly connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section further may include a coupling plate connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section also may include one or more of a plurality of quick-connect electrical couplers or a plurality of quick-connect fluid couplers connected to a coupling plate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 6, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 1, 2022
Assignee:
BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
Inventors:
Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
Abstract: A method may comprise obtaining a formation sample, scanning the formation sample to form a data packet, loading the data packet on an information handling machine, performing a digital porous plate experiment with the data packet, and determining geometry of a pore throat in the formation sample. A system may comprise a computer tomographic machine configured to scan a formation sample and create a data packet from the scan and an information handling system. The information handling system may be configured to configured to perform a digital porous plate experiment with the data packet and determine geometry of a pore throat in the formation sample.