Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Luke William Holderman

Michael Linley Fripp

Jean-Marc Lopez

Stephen Michael Greci

John C Gano

Jason Daniel Dykstra

Jean Marc Lopez

Brandon Thomas Least

Liang Zhao

Orlando Dejesus

Floyd Randolph Simonds

Nicholas A Kuo

Ronald Glen Dusterhoft

William Mark Richards

Tommy Frank Grigsby

Jan Veit

Andrew Penno

Kim Vance Thornton

Maxime Coffin

Bradley Leon Todd

Thomas Donovan Welton

Thomas Jules Frosell

Aswin Balasubramanian

Frank David Kalb

Brad Richard Pickle

Clint Adam Brown

Gireesh K Bhat

Andrew David Penno

Matthew Franklin

Carl Bismarck Ferguson

Suzi Marie Marcuccio

Ivan M Suleiman

Alf Kolbjorn Sevre

John Charles Gano

Ashok K Santra

Richard Decena Ornelaz

Travis Thomas Hailey, Jr

Gregory Scott Cunningham

Aaron James Bonner

Anindya Ghosh

James Jun Kang

Caleb Thomas Warren

Liam Andrew Aitken

Haoyue Zhang

Frank Giusti, Jr

Todd Richard Agold

David Alexander Smart

Matthew Brian Roseman

Jacob R Shoemate

Deborah Fripp

Carl Bismark Ferguson

Matthew Earl Franklin

Frank Giusti

Floyd R Simonds

Provided is a method for setting a downhole tool, and a downhole tool, and a well system employing the same. The method, in at least one aspect, includes positioning a downhole tool within a wellbore, the downhole tool including expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis, and subjecting the expandable metal to a wellbore fluid to expand the expandable metal into contact with one or more surfaces. The method, in at least one aspect, further includes applying a voltage to the expandable metal while the expandable metal is being subjected to the wellbore fluid.

Voltage to accelerate/decelerate expandable metal

Provided is a support structure and a method for manufacture thereof. The support structure, in one aspect, includes first and second expanded metal structural pillars positioned within the ground by a distance (d), the first and second expanded metal structural pillars comprising a metal that has expanded in response to hydrolysis. In at least one other aspect, the support structure includes one or more beams spanning the first and second expanded metal structural pillars.

Expanding metal used in forming support structures

Apparatuses and methods for setting posts of columns in to the ground are provided. Expandable metals in response to hydrolysis that tend to fill in spaces and cavities, even over time, which is a useful feature when setting columns into the ground. A hydrolyzing fluid can be supplied, as necessary, to cause the hydrolysis of the expanding metal, or supplied by ground water. Upon hydrolysis, the expanding metal expands around the column to adhere and grip the column securely, while the metal may also expand outwardly to increase cross-sectional bulk lending to a more overall stabilization of a set column. The expandable metal may be provided as a solid sleeve drivable into the ground with a post, as an auger that can be used to turn a column into the ground or, as a rod that can be driven through the interior of a column into the ground.

Expandable metal for anchoring posts

A spoolable array of sensors may be deployed within a wellbore and external a tubular string for measuring properties of a fluid in the central flow passage of the tubular string. A flow port may be made in the tubular string passing from the central flow passage to the external surface. Sensors of the spoolable array of sensors may be covered with a shroud and placed proximate the flow port, or such sensors may be isolated in a zone with packers along with the flow port. The spoolable array of sensors may additionally obtain pressure data to calculate a flow rate from a production zone. The spoolable array of sensors may also be employed in a non-flowing wellbore for monitoring nearby wellbores.

Determining downhole properties with sensor array

A shunt tube entry device comprises one or more inlet ports, a shroud disposed at least partially about a wellbore tubular, and a shunt tube in fluid communication with the chamber. The shroud defines a chamber between the shroud and the wellbore tubular, and the chamber is in fluid communication with the one or more entry ports.

Shunt tube assembly entry device

A device can include a collar positioned in a wellbore that can include an outer wall. The outer wall can define an inner area of the collar and can prevent fluid flow between the inner area of the collar and an outer area of the collar during a hydraulic fracturing process. The collar can be removed or dissolved to form a flow path to allow production fluid to flow between the inner area of the collar and the outer area of the collar subsequent to the hydraulic fracturing process.

Well tool having a removable collar for allowing production fluid flow

A well screen assembly residing in a well bore has a base pipe and a filtration screen carried on the base pipe. The screen is radially extended with force from fluid while maintaining the base pipe radially unextended.

Well screen assembly with extending screen

A wellbore subassembly includes a device having a production flow path toward a production tubing. The production flow path can include a superhydrophobic coating for restricting the production of an unwanted fluid towards the production tubing.

Superhydrophic flow control device

An expandable well screen can include a filter section which is displaced outward when the well screen is positioned downhole, the filter section including an outer surface that is recessed relative to a raised boundary of the filter section adjacent the recessed outer surface. Another filter section can include an outer surface having one more structures thereon which space the outer surface away from a well surface when the filter section is displaced outward. Another filter section can include one or more structures on an interior thereof which space apart inner and outer sides of a wall of the filter section, a telescoping tubular connector which provides fluid communication between the filter section and a base pipe of the well screen, and a filter media being positioned in the tubular connector.

Expandable well screen having enhanced drainage characteristics when expanded

A well production device includes a production tubing with a fluid passage between the exterior of the tubing and a center bore of the tubing. A fluid barrier is provided sealing the fluid passage. The device has a chamber comprising a dissolving fluid adapted to dissolve the fluid barrier when in contact with the fluid barrier and an actuator configured to release the dissolving fluid into contact with the fluid barrier in response to a signal.

Well flow control with acid actuator

Certain aspects of the present invention are directed to a distributed inflow control device that can be disposed in a wellbore through a fluid-producing formation. The distributed inflow control includes a shroud that can be disposed in the fluid-producing formation. The shroud circumferentially covers a section of a tubing string. The shroud includes a profile having multiple flow paths between the fluid-producing formation and an inner volume of the section of the tubing string. Each flow path restricts a fluid flow through the flow path and is independent of each other flow path. The distributed inflow control device also includes a seal over the profile including the flow paths. The seal causes fluid to flow from an inlet to an outlet of each flow path and prevents fluid from entering or exiting each flow path at a point other than the respective inlet or the respective outlet.

Distributed inflow control device

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Plano, TX, United States of America

Luke William Holderman