With Indicating, Testing, Measuring Or Locating Patents (Class 166/250.01)
  • Patent number: 11105185
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device for a hydraulic fracturing system includes a fluid conduit having a fracking fluid outlet configured to be fluidly connected to a well head for delivering a fracking fluid to the well head. The fluid conduit includes a base fluid inlet configured to be fluidly connected to the outlet of a frac pump such that the fluid conduit is configured to receive a flow of base fluid from the frac pump. An injection system is fluidly connected to the fluid conduit downstream from the base fluid inlet and upstream from the fracking fluid outlet. The injection system is configured to be fluidly connected to a material source. The injection system is configured to inject at least one material of the fracking fluid from the material source into the fluid conduit downstream from the frac pump to generate the fracking fluid within the fluid conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: S.P.M Flow Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Gideon Nathaniel Junqueira Spencer, Justin Lane Poehls, Jeffrey Haiderer, Connor Landrum, Scott Alan Skurdalsvold, Paul Steele, Trever Dean Stewart
  • Patent number: 11105186
    Abstract: A system for injecting a portion of a fluid waste into a well includes a fluid waste processor configured to receive the fluid waste and process the fluid waste for storage in the well, a primary sensor coupled to the fluid waste processor at a primary location, the primary sensor being configured to measure a fluid flow rate of the fluid waste, a hydrocarbon content of the fluid waste at or proximal to the primary location of the primary sensor being determined, and a data processor configured to determine an amount of carbon sequestered in the well based at least in part on a combination of the fluid flow rate and the hydrocarbon content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MILESTONE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel Rio, Jason Larchar, Steve Bills
  • Patent number: 11106185
    Abstract: A method for determining geological formation characteristics involves driving a bottom hole assembly (BHA) in a borehole. At least one mechanical drilling parameter generated is detected responsive to operation of the BHA in the borehole. At least one geological formation characteristic is identified responsive to the detected at least one mechanical drilling parameter. The identified at least one geological formation characteristic is provided to a surface steerable drilling system. Operation of the surface steerable drilling system is controlled responsive to the at least one geological formation characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Todd W. Benson, Teddy Chen
  • Patent number: 11105187
    Abstract: A controller for controlling apparatus for performing a wellbore intervention or process, a corresponding processing device and method for simulating and/or controlling consecutive flow of a plurality of fluids in a wellbore of arbitrary geometry, the method involving forming, using or providing a model or simulation of the wellbore, the model or simulation representing the wellbore as a plurality of segments or portions; determining and/or providing one or more friction pressure drop components associated with at least one portion or segment of the wellbore for the plurality of fluids; and calculating pressure drop values for at least one segment or portion and/or between segments or portions using the one or more friction pressure drop components. Preferably, the method involves determining a pressure response during acid stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MAERSK OLIE OG GAS A/S
    Inventors: Kristian Mogensen, Jens Henrik Hansen
  • Patent number: 11091968
    Abstract: Automated choke control apparatus and methods are disclosed herein. An apparatus for automatically controlling a choke valve comprises a controller. The controller is to control a choke position of the choke valve via a first control loop in response to selection of a first one of a plurality of operation modes being detected. The controller is further to control a wellhead pressure of a wellhead via a second control loop in response to selection of a second one of the plurality of operation modes being detected, the wellhead being operatively coupled to the choke valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luis Astudillo, Tiago Albrecht de Freitas, Henrique Duarte Moser, Wasim Azem
  • Patent number: 11084075
    Abstract: A subsurface soil purification method includes a first process of injecting a cleaning liquid, that separates a contaminant in subsurface soil from the subsurface soil and that has been warmed to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, into an injection well provided in the ground, and a second process of pumping up groundwater containing the cleaning liquid, in which the contaminant separated from the subsurface soil has been dissolved, from a pumping well that is provided in the ground so as to be spaced apart from the injection well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: TAKENAKA CORPORATION, TAKENAKA CIVIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamazaki, Takaaki Shimizu, Nobuyasu Okuda, Yasuhide Furukawa, Tomohiro Nakashima, Haruka Kiyotomo, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kaoru Inaba, Koudai Mae, Masafumi Funakawa, Ai Hasegawa, Keisuke Omura, Kota Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11085281
    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 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 11072979
    Abstract: A cable clamp, modified tubular, and method for securing a cable to a tubular. The cable clamp includes a first base that is configured to be attached to the tubular by a bonding material, and a cover that is configured to be placed on the first base. At least one of the first base or the cover defines a groove extending therein, for receiving a cable through the cable clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: X-Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Iain Levie, David Levie, Greg Roger
  • Patent number: 11066895
    Abstract: A plug which does not cause an adverse effect such as failure of a member constituting the plug when a wellbore is plugged. A downhole plug (10) includes a mandrel (1) having a hollow structure, an annular sealing member (2) attached to an outer circumferential surface of the mandrel (1) and being deformable by exerted pressure, and an annular socket (3) attached, adjacent to the annular sealing member (2), onto the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel (1), downstream of where a pressure is exerted on the sealing member (2). The annular socket (3) is configured to include a socket-inner portion (31) which comes into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel (1), and a socket-outer portion (32) in an annular shape having an inner diameter equivalent to or larger than that of the socket-inner portion (31) and movably attached to the socket-inner portion (31). The socket-outer portion (32) includes a face facing the sealing member (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seishiro Kobayashi, Teruaki Yoshii
  • Patent number: 11060395
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are methods and systems related to processes for injection wells generally utilized in the oil and gas industry. More particularly, disclosed herein are methods and systems related to improving the accuracy of profiling and determining individual cumulative fluid injection profiles for an injection period for multiple zones of an injection well in reservoir systems utilizing conventional warmback models. The methods herein allow for proper modeling and allocation of all injection zones, including zones experiencing a cooldown phenomena during shut-in by transforming the cooldown zonal temperature profiles into temperature profiles which can be utilized in a conventional warmback analysis. These methods are particularly useful in mature reservoir systems where the background reference temperature profile is no longer governed by the geothermal reference temperature profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sri Venkata Tapovan Lolla, Badrinarayanan Velamur Asokan, Jerome Lewandowski
  • Patent number: 11053768
    Abstract: A seal assembly for use in a pressure containment device for containing a fluid pressure in an annular space around a drill string whilst allowing the drill string to rotate in the pressure containment device. The seal assembly includes a seal with an inner surface and a tubular body, and a wear sensor embedded in the tubular body of the seal. The wear sensor emits an alert signal when the inner surface of the seal has been worn away by a first preset amount. The alert signal includes a pressure signal and/or a chemical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MANAGED PRESSURE OPERATIONS PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Christian Leuchtenberg, Austin Johnson, Patrick David Savage
  • Patent number: 11053791
    Abstract: A method of detecting sand inflow into a wellbore is disclosed. The method can include obtaining a sample data set, detecting a broadband signal within the sample data set, comparing the broadband signal with a signal reference, determining that the broadband signal meets or exceeds the signal reference, and determining the presence of sand inflow into the wellbore based on determining that the broadband signal meets or exceeds the signal reference. The sample data set can be a sample of an acoustic signal originating within a wellbore comprising a fluid, and the broadband signal at least includes a portion of the sample data set at frequencies above 0.5 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tommy Langnes, Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan
  • Patent number: 11054405
    Abstract: The invention discloses a testing device and method for simulating the flowback in the shut-in period of fractured wells, comprising a fracturing fluid tank, a flowback fracturing fluid tank, a hydraulic fracturing pump, a flowback fluid collection beaker, and a shut-in flowback testing system; the shut-in flowback testing system is composed of a box body and an acoustic wave testing device, a temperature control device, a fracturing string and a square rock block arranged in the box body; a stress loading plate and a hydraulic block are successively arranged between the four surfaces of the square rock block and the inner walls of the box body; the acoustic wave testing device consists of an acoustic wave transmitting probe and an acoustic wave receiving probe; the four outer surfaces of the box body are provided with hydraulic tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongquan Hu, Chaoneng Zhao, Jinzhou Zhao, Pengju Song, Qiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11041371
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring health of systems and components of an oil rig are disclosed. Monitoring usage parameters allows for a probabilistic way to determine when rig equipment will fail. A failure probability curve based on past performance of the equipment can be used. Multiple usage metrics allow for increased accuracy and certainty of a time of failure for the equipment. Using a sufficiently high number of usage metrics allows the failure probability range to be very narrow and therefore the certainty of the prediction is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Alejandro Camacho Cardenas, Edwin Sutrisno
  • Patent number: 11041380
    Abstract: A method of pressure testing a casing system (12) comprising deploying an apparatus (110) with a container (68) formed from drill pipe or production tubing, on a string of drill pipe or production tubing into a well, such that a port (61) thereof is provided in an isolated section of the well. The isolated section of the well has a higher pressure than the pressure of a gas sealed in the container (68). The port (61) is opened and pressure in the isolated section is monitored to assess its integrity. Communication with the apparatus is achieved by wireless means sending pressure data, control signals for controlling the port and/or other data or commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: METROL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaun Compton Ross, Leslie David Jarvis
  • Patent number: 11029445
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for determining an oil output quantity and a gas output quantity of a shale oil in-situ conversion, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a plurality of groups of shale samples of a target stratum of a target area; determining, according to the plurality of groups of shale samples, a first retained oil quantity, a first retained gas quantity, a Ro parameter, an oil output quantity, a gas output quantity, a second retained oil quantity, and a second retained gas quantity of each group of shale samples in the plurality of groups of shale samples under each preset temperature; building an oil output quantity model and a gas output quantity model according to the above data to determine an oil output quantity and a gas output quantity of the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: PetroChina Company Limited
    Inventors: Lianhua Hou, Xia Luo, Jinghong Wang
  • Patent number: 11021944
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods regarding a processing system operable to implement an arbiter. The arbiter receives commands from non-prioritized and prioritized actors, and repeatedly issues an earliest received, non-issued command received from the non-prioritized actor. Execution of an immediately preceding issued command is completed or terminated by a sending actor of the immediately preceding issued command before a subsequent earliest received, non-issued command is issued. The arbiter also issues a command received from the prioritized actor upon receipt of the command received from the prioritized actor. Issuance of the command received from the prioritized actor interrupts issuance and execution of a command received from the non-prioritized actor. The commands from the non-prioritized and prioritized actors are issued to equipment controllers operable to control equipment of a well construction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shunfeng Zheng, Juan Jose Rojas
  • Patent number: 11022596
    Abstract: A well testing apparatus includes a separator, a well control assembly upstream of the separator, and a fluid management assembly downstream of the separator. At least one of the well control assembly or the fluid management assembly can include flow control equipment, a controller for controlling actuation of the flow control equipment, and a human-machine interface that enables an operator to monitor or control operation of the well control assembly or the fluid management assembly. The human-machine interface can be positioned with the flow control equipment so as to enable an operator to directly sense contextual clues about operation of the well control assembly or the fluid management assembly independent of the human-machine interface while using the human-machine interface. Additional systems, methods, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francis Dominique Allouche, Mathilde Jan, Ibrahim El Alami, Pierre Chaigne, Mahesh Shenoy, Gilbert Conort
  • Patent number: 11015996
    Abstract: A new approach to pipeline pigging using electro acoustic technology (EAT) is described in which the data from a pigging operation can be transmitted in real time to optical fiber on the outside of the pipeline and detected using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) techniques, including the precise location, velocity and acceleration of the pig using the DAS technique. Thus the sensor data can easily be mapped to its precise location in real time. The EAT sensors use the DAS fiber as a data transmission line by converting electrical or optical signals to acoustic signals which excite the fiber and can be detected by an interrogator at the pig launch site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikko Jaaskelainen, Brian V. Park
  • Patent number: 11015423
    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: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 11000885
    Abstract: A contaminated soil purification system for decomposing a contaminant in contaminated soil E. The contaminated soil purification system includes: injecting, into contaminated soil through a water injection well, an injection liquid containing a purification agent to decompose a contaminant or an activator to stimulate biological decomposition by the purification agent; a process of measuring a concentration of the purification agent or the activator in groundwater in an observation well or in a pumping well, the observation well or the pumping well being provided at a location spaced apart from the water injection well; and a process of, based on the concentration that has been measured, automatically controlling an addition amount of the purification agent or the activator to the injection liquid or automatically controlling a pumping amount of water from the pumping well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Takenaka Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakashima, Takaaki Shimizu, Haruka Kiyotomo, Yamato Shimizu, Nobuyasu Okuda, Yasuhide Furukawa, Yuji Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kaoru Inaba
  • Patent number: 10995606
    Abstract: Methods arc provided for using sonic tool data to investigate a multi-string wcllbore. The sonic data is processed to obtain indications of phase slowness dispersions for multiple locations in the wellbore. The dispersions are aggregated. The aggregated dispersions are compared with a plurality of cut-off mode templates to identify the presence of cut-off modes or the lack thereof in the aggregated phase slowness dispersions. Features of the multi-string wellbore are identified based on the presence of the cut-off modes or the lack thereof. In another method, the sonic data is processed to obtain indications as a function of depth of at least one of an energy spectrum, a semblance projection, a slowness dispersion projection, an attenuation dispersion projection, and a wavenumber dispersion projection. The indications are inspected to locate a shift at a particular depth indicat- ing a transition in at least oneannulus of the multi-string wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Maja Skataric, Sandip Bose, Smaine Zeroug, Bikash Kumar Sinha, Ram Sunder Kalyanaraman, Erik Wielemaker
  • Patent number: 10976909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an operating module for dynamically creating the user interface on the operating module for controlling and operating a machine of the food industry, in particular the beverage industry. The operating module comprises a plurality of operating elements having attributes, which can assume the value of a parameter and can be activated or deactivated depending on the user. By means of an operating module context, operating elements having certain attributes and values can be selected in order to be displayed on the operating module. The invention further relates to a method for dynamically creating and displaying an operating interface for operating a machine of the food industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Theodor Bielmeier, Sebastian Vogl, Raymon Seidl, Timo Pronold, Thomas Stauber, Johannes Boehm, Stefan Schmidt, Pino-Giuseppe Palumbo
  • Patent number: 10962354
    Abstract: The invention relates to a selection method of loss control materials for lost circulation control in fractured reservoirs based on photoelastic experiments. By using the photoelastic material to simulate rigid lost circulation material, obtaining photoelastic images and load curves during a loading process of plugging zones formed by the lost circulation material, selecting the lost circulation material according to structure stability of plugging zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Chengyuan Xu, Xiaopeng Yan, Yili Kang, Hao Zhang, Haoran Jing, Jingyi Zhang, Chong Lin, Lijun You, Xiaoqing Qiu
  • Patent number: 10954770
    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: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 10955279
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of measuring a level of fluid in a container and of enhancing reliability of an ultrasonic fluid measurement probe. A base comprises a transducer chamber, wherein the transducer chamber comprises a transducer chamber floor, a transducer chamber edge, and transducer chamber walls extending from the transducer chamber floor to the transducer chamber edge. An ultrasonic transducer is attached to the transducer chamber floor. A cap is welded to the transducer chamber edge such that the cap, along with the transducer chamber floor and the transducer chamber walls, encloses the transducer chamber to form an enclosed air space between the ultrasonic transducer and the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Sigvard Johann Wahlin
  • Patent number: 10947833
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus are provided for improved diagnostics of downhole dynamometer data for control and troubleshooting of reciprocating rod lift systems. A method for pump fillage determination for a reciprocating rod lift system is provided. The method generally includes measuring downhole data during a pump cycle, wherein the downhole data comprises a first plurality of data points associated with an upstroke of the pump cycle and a second plurality of data points associated with a downstroke of the pump cycle, each data point comprising a rod position value and an associated rod load value; converting the data points to non-dimensional data points, calculating non-dimensional slope values between non-dimensional data points; and determining pump fillage based, at least part, on the calculated non-dimensional slope values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Victoria M. Pons, Anthony P. Allison, Jeremy M. Gomes
  • Patent number: 10934811
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment of a computer implemented method for analyzing a flood operation for a hydrocarbon reservoir having a plurality of zones is provided. The embodiment includes receiving injection profile data (ILT) and injection rates. The embodiment also uses the received injection profile data and injection rates to split each injection well into multiple zonal level injectors. The embodiment also includes running capacitance resistance modeling treating each zonal level injector as a single injector, where running capacitance resistance modeling includes generating interwell connectivities at the zonal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Morteza Sayarpour, Tiantian Zhang, Carmen C. Hinds
  • Patent number: 10920546
    Abstract: An exemplary method of the present disclosure includes causing, by a processing system proximate to the wellbore, injection of the lift gas into the wellbore at a first gas injection rate; obtaining, by the processing system, a first indication of a parameter associated with the wellbore, an arrival of a first fluid at a wellhead associated with the wellbore, or a composition of the first fluid; determining, by the processing system and based on the first indication, at least one of: a second gas injection rate of the intermittent gas lift system, a first period to inject the lift gas with the intermittent gas lift system, or a second period, subsequent to the first period, with no injection of the lift gas by the intermittent gas lift system; and operating, by the processing system, the intermittent gas lift system according to the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Moffett, Ashish David Rakhit, Stephen Long, Michael S. Juenke, Stephen E. Cannon
  • Patent number: 10907427
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a battery controller of a battery system, a timer value. The method also includes enabling, via the battery controller, the battery system to provide power to a release device in a wellbore upon receiving the timer value. Moreover, the method includes receiving, via the battery controller, an updated timer value, and the updated timer value changes the timer value, and the battery system continues to provide power to the release device at least until the updated timer value expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Claire Bellicard, Stephanie Elstrop, Caroline Stephan Rivas, Todor Sheiretov, Adebayo Taiwo
  • Patent number: 10907088
    Abstract: Methods for servicing a hydrocarbon well using natural gas in a well intervention operation can include preparing a working fluid having a composition containing about 10 wt % to 100 wt % of a gas phase natural gas, where the quantity and composition of the natural gas is selected so that under specified well intervention conditions, the natural gas and a liquid phase recovery target material form a mixture in the condensing vapor-gas or vapor-gas part of the mixture's phase envelope. During the well intervention operation and at the specified well intervention conditions, the method can include injecting the working fluid into the well, contacting the working fluid with the liquid phase recovery target material, vaporizing the recovery target material, and forming a homogeneous gas phase well mixture of the recovery target material and natural gas. At least a portion of the homogenous gas phase well mixture can be recovered at surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Grant W Nevison
  • Patent number: 10895543
    Abstract: A primary drainage process, a core aging process, a water flooding process, an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) flooding process, and a core cleaning process is conducted on a rock sample. For each of the primary drainage process, core aging process, water flooding process, EOR flooding process, and core cleaning process, an equilibrium sample magnetization distribution and a spatially resolved spin-spin relaxation time spectrum are measured across multiple locations along a longitudinal length of the rock sample. One or more hydrocarbon saturation distributions of the rock sample are determined based on the equilibrium sample magnetization distributions. One or more wettability distributions of the rock sample are determined based on the spatially resolved spin-spin relaxation time spectrums and the one or more hydrocarbon saturation distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Quan Chen, Sultan Muhammad Al Enezi, Ali Abdallah Al-Yousef
  • Patent number: 10890063
    Abstract: A method includes deploying a tool in a well. The method also includes providing a conductive path with a segmentation module in the well. The method also includes conveying power and telemetry signals from a surface or uphole interface to the tool via the conductive path, where conveying the power and telemetry signals includes the segmentation module decoupling and later coupling power and telemetry signals conveyed along the conductive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Gunasekaran, Pranay Asthana, Paul Gregory James
  • Patent number: 10865632
    Abstract: Apparatus and method of sensing tension downhole, such as a tension sensing tool for coupling between opposing first and second portions of a tool string conveyable within a wellbore. The tension sensing tool may include a tension-bearing member, a load cell connected along the tension-bearing member and operable to generate information indicative of tension applied to the tension sensing tool, and electronic equipment communicatively connected with the load cell. The electronic equipment may be operable to record the information generated by the load cell and/or transmit the information generated by the load cell to a wellsite surface from which the wellbore extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Impact Selector International, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Harrigan
  • Patent number: 10858934
    Abstract: A device for measuring a parameter of interest downhole, includes a downhole component configured to be disposed in a borehole formed in an earth formation, and at least one module configured to be removably connected to the downhole component. The at least one module at least partially encloses a sensor configured to measure the parameter of interest. The at least one module at least partially encloses a communication device for wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Marion Fischer
  • Patent number: 10858936
    Abstract: Techniques for determining geologic formation permeability include determining particular permeability values from an NMR log permeability data and particular permeability values of the core permeability measurements; determining a selected NMR permeability transform that includes inputs including the determined particular permeability values; minimizing a cost function to optimize the selected NMR permeability transform; calculating new permeability values for the wellbore between the terranean surface and a true vertical depth of the wellbore with the optimized NMR permeability transform; comparing the calculated new permeability values at particular depths between the terranean surface and the true vertical depth that match depths of the core permeability measurements; based on the comparison meeting a particular threshold, generating a user interface that renders one or more graphical representations of the optimized NMR permeability transform and the calculated new permeability values; and transmitting d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jin-Hong Chen, Stacey M. Althaus, Hui-Hai Liu
  • Patent number: 10851648
    Abstract: A suspended fluid sampling and monitoring system includes a BOP, the BOP attached to a wellhead. The BOP is positioned above a wellbore. The suspended fluid sampling and monitoring system further includes a TEC, the TEC connected to a sensor package. The TEC and sensor package extend through the BOP into the wellbore. The suspended fluid sampling and monitoring system also includes a fluid sample line, the fluid sample line extending through the BOP into the wellbore. The suspended fluid sampling and monitoring system also includes a fluid sample intake and filtration device, the fluid sample intake and filtration device mechanically coupled to the fluid sample line within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: GAS SENSING TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Michael Siefert
  • Patent number: 10822943
    Abstract: A system and methods for providing optical, downhole data communication without requiring a light source in the downhole tool is disclosed. A carrier signal generated at the surface is sent to the downhole tool using an optical fiber. An optical modulator of the downhole tool uses data signals from a sensor to modulate the carrier signal based on the data signals. The modulated signal is transmitted to one or more optical receivers. The optical modulator can be coupled to the one or more optical receivers through the same optical fiber as the carrier signal generator, or one or more additional optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen E. Tilghman, Oladeji B. Akanbi
  • Patent number: 10822914
    Abstract: A diverter for obstructing and temporarily sealing a perforation in a well casing in a subterranean formation during hydraulic fracturing. The diverter comprises an outer surface and circuitry within the outer surface for determining a pressure proximate the diverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Zipfrac LLC
    Inventor: Frederic D. Sewell
  • Patent number: 10808492
    Abstract: A downhole tool has a setting cone including a body having an outer surface having a first end, a second end. At least a portion of the body includes a taper at the second end. A passage extends through the body. The passage includes a first portion having a first diameter and a second portion having a second diameter that is less than the first diameter. An anchor is arranged at the second end of the setting cone. The anchor includes a central passage that aligns with the passage through the setting cone. A mandrel extends through the passage of the setting cone and the central passage of the anchor. The mandrel includes a first end portion, a second end portion and an intermediate section. A conduit extends from the first end portion toward the second end portion. A portion of the conduit defines an actuation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hern, Kent Meyer
  • Patent number: 10794157
    Abstract: A method, a device and a system for activating a running/setting tool are provided. The method includes: 1) detecting a wellbore condition at the running tool, 2) based on a signal from surface equipment received at the running tool, initiating an isolation of pressure below the running tool from pressure above the running tool, and 3) if the signal is not received at the running tool, initiating the isolation of pressure below the running tool from the above at a predefined time based on the wellbore condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Allen Kohn, Emile Edmund Sevadjian, Irvine Cardno Brown, Michael John Christie, Michael Adam Reid
  • Patent number: 10787877
    Abstract: the present invention relates to a blowout preventer system comprising, a lower blowout preventer (BOP) stack comprising a number of hydraulic components, and a lower marine riser package (LMRP) comprising a first control pod and a second control pod adapted to provide, during use, redundant control of hydraulic components of the lower blowout preventer stack where the first and the second control pods are adapted to being connected, during use, to a surface control system and to be controlled, during use, by the surface control system, wherein the blowout preventer system further comprises at least one additional control pod connected to at least one additional surface control system and to be controlled, during use, by the additional surface control system. In this way, an improved blowout preventer system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: MAERSK DRILLING A/S
    Inventors: John Pedersen, Michal Bury, Kenneth Cameron Murphy
  • Patent number: 10760390
    Abstract: Methods for servicing a hydrocarbon well using natural gas are provided. The method can include preparing a working fluid comprising about 5 vol % to about 100 vol % of natural gas. A quantity of the natural gas in the working fluid can be sufficient to form a heterogeneous phase well servicing mixture of a gaseous phase natural gas and a solid or liquid phase recovery target material under specified well intervention conditions. During the well servicing operation and under the specified well intervention conditions, the working fluid can be injected into the well and mixing the working fluid with the recovery target material in the well to form the heterogeneous phase well servicing mixture. The natural gas can be in a gas phase and can serve as a carrier fluid for the recovery target material. At least a portion of the heterogeneous phase well servicing mixture can be recovered at surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Grant W. Nevison
  • Patent number: 10753152
    Abstract: A rotor catch assembly includes a rotor catch housing and a rotor catch stem. The rotor catch housing is tubular and includes a landing ring formed on an inner surface thereof. The rotor catch stem is tubular and includes an annular landing flange about the rotor catch stem. The landing flange is positioned within the bore of the rotor catch housing above the landing ring. The interior of the rotor catch stem defines a rotor catch stem bore, which is coupled to the bore of the rotor catch housing below the landing ring by a rotor catch nozzle. The rotor catch stem includes a piston assembly, burst disk assembly, or nozzle assembly positioned to reduce or stop flow through the rotor catch stem bore through the rotor catch nozzle until the landing flange of the rotor catch stem lands on the landing ring of the rotor catch housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: TURBO DRILL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sheldon Ritchie, Chad Feddema
  • Patent number: 10724362
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are described herein for transmission of measurement while drilling (MWD) data from a MWD tool to a receiver. Such apparatuses, methods, and systems may modify MWD data to allow for transmission of the modified MWD data in a manner that conserves electrical power of the MWD tool. For example, the MWD data can be modified to allow for effectively slower transmission of the data while adhering to existing transmission settings. Furthermore, a MWD tool can communicate data to modify transmission settings between the MWD tool and a rig controller. The rig controller can then adjust settings of the rig and transmit corresponding communications to the MWD tool to modify settings of the MWD tool. Such techniques allow for MWD data to be conveyed in an electrically efficient manner, reducing maintenance and recharging requirements of the MWD tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA, INC.
    Inventors: Bosko Gajic, Keith Batke
  • Patent number: 10724340
    Abstract: Downhole tools, methods, and systems related thereto. An example downhole tool includes a body comprising a degradable core and a chelating agent or a chelating agent/scale inhibitor mixture integrated therein. The chelating agent and scale inhibitors help to direct and control the degradation of the degradable core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Zachary William Walton, Aaron Beuterbaugh, Enrique Reyes
  • Patent number: 10718204
    Abstract: Given a number of temperature measurements, such as from a Distributed Temperature Sensing System (DTS), at various depths in a wellbore, a derivative of temperature with respect to depth can be calculated. A fluid boundary can then be identified where the depths below the boundary corresponds to the presence of fluid and a low fluctuation regime in the derivative of temperature with respect to depth, and the depths above the boundary correspond to the absence of fluid and a high fluctuation regime in the derivative of temperature with respect to depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongyan Duan, Mikko Jaaskelainen
  • Patent number: 10711591
    Abstract: An umbilical having a plurality of sensors (single, multi-component, or distributed) disposed in a sealed encapsulant, optionally with “accessories” or connectors at the ends, and the methods or manufacturing and deploying such an umbilical for seismic imaging in geological formations and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventors: Audrius Berzanskis, Matthew T Begg, Larry Allan Walter, Scott Michael John Taylor
  • Patent number: 10704347
    Abstract: A system for analyzing gas extracted from drilling fluid is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a gas extractor having a gas extraction chamber within a gas extractor housing and a gas outlet for gas separating from the drilling fluid within the gas extraction chamber. Further, the system includes a gas analyzer, which has an optical analyzer and an optical source that are situated outside of the gas extractor. A gas analysis zone is in fluid communication with the gas extraction chamber and is optically connected via at least one fiber optic cable to the optical source and the optical analyzer. Additional methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Nassim Bentamy, Paul Bertrand, Mahdi Ammar
  • Patent number: 10699822
    Abstract: The present disclosure introduces apparatus and related methods pertaining to a first electrical power cable, a second electrical power cable, and a set of breakers. The first and second electrical power cables each extend a variable distance between a static system at a wellsite and a movable system at the wellsite. The breakers are operable to select either of the first and second electrical power cables to couple electrical power from a stationary electrical power source at the static system to a load at the movable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jacques Orban, Joe Rodney Berry, Joseph Hope