Shell Oil Comapny

Enventure Global Technology Inc.

Michael Bullock

Robert Lance Cook

Lev Ring

David Paul Brisco

Kevin Karl Waddell

Joel Gray Hockaday

Larry A Kendziora

Scott Costa

Tance Jackson

A tubular sleeve overlaps the threaded connection between a pair of adjacent tubular members that are to receive an expansion device for radial expansion and plastic deformation of the threaded tubular connection.

Sleeve for expandable tubular threaded connection and method of expanding tubular thereof

A tubular sleeve is coupled to and overlaps the threaded connection between a pair of adjacent tubular members.

Protective sleeve for threaded connections for expandable liner hanger

A flow control system for an apparatus for radially expanding tubular members.

Flow control system for an apparatus for radially expanding tubular members

The end of an expandable liner hanger () provides a receptacle for another tubular liner ().

Seal receptacle using expandable liner hanger

A method of applying an axial force to a first piston positioned within a first piston chamber including applying an axial force to the first piston using a second piston positioned within the first piston chamber.

Method of applying an axial force to an expansion cone

An apparatus for coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure.

Apparatus for coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure

An apparatus for coupling two elements including an outer tubular member defining one or more outer tubular member slots, an inner tubular member defining one or more inner tubular member slots positioned within the outer tubular member, and a coupling assembly for releasably coupling the outer tubular member to the inner tubular member, including a tubular coupling body movably coupled to the inner tubular member, a coupling arm extending from the tubular coupling body, and a coupling element extending from the coupling arm, the coupling element adapted to mate with at least one outer tubular member slot and at least one inner tubular member slot.

Apparatus for releasably coupling two elements

An apparatus comprising a first tubular member; a second tubular member positioned within and coupled to the first tubular member; a first annular piston chamber defined by the space between the first and second tubular members; an annular piston movably coupled to the second tubular member and positioned within the first annular piston chamber; and a third tubular member for receiving the first and second tubular members coupled to the first tubular member. The third tubular member comprises a radially expandable and plastically deformable tubular member.

Apparatus for actuating an annular piston

A method of coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure.

Method of coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure

A wellbore casing is formed simultaneously with the drilling out of the wellbore.

Forming a wellbore casing while simultaneously drilling a wellbore

One or more subterranean zones are isolated from one or more other subterranean zones using a combination of solid tubulars and slotted tubulars.

Isolation of subterranean zones

An apparatus and method for forming a wellbore casing. An annular piston is displaced in the axial direction by pressurizing an annular piston chamber. The axial displacement of the piston radially expands a tubular member into contact with a preexisting tubular member. The radially expanded liner hanger is then decoupled from the apparatus.

Wellbore casing

An apparatus for radially expanding a tubular member.

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Michael Bullock