Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

University of Texas System

Michael Linley Fripp

Stephen Michael Greci

Zachary William Walton

Zachary R Murphree

Jason Daniel Dykstra

John C Gano

Thomas Jules Frosell

Donald Kyle

Luke William Holderman

Richard Decena Ornelaz

Roger Lynn Schultz

Orlando Dejesus

Gregory Thomas Werkheiser

Jean-Marc Lopez

James Dan Vick, Jr

Adam Davis Wright

Matthew James Merron

Syed Hamid

Liang Zhao

Neal Gregory Skinner

John Patrick Rodgers

Xiaoguang Allan Zhong

Brandon Thomas Least

Matthew Todd Howell

Mark Christopher Glaser

Aaron James Bonner

Jean Marc Lopez

Ryan Wesley McChesney

Mehdi Sebdani Mazrooee

John Hudson Hales

Ronald Glen Dusterhoft

Lonnie Carl Helms

Cyrus A Irani

Bruce H Storm, Jr

Adan Hernandez Herrera

Ibrahim El Mallawany

Andrew Penno

Brock Wayne Watson

Paul David Ringgenberg

Wei Zhang

Jimmie Robert Williamson

Daniel David Gleitman

Kenneth L Schwendemann

Walter E Voit

Paul Gregory James

Scott Cunningham

Gregory Scott Cunningham

Donald H Perkins

Christopher Michael Jones

Michael Thomas Pelletier

Larry Steven Eoff

David Joe Steele

Ashok K Santra

Feng Liang

Aaron Michael Beuterbaugh

Batakrishna Mandal

Paul Joseph Jones

Vimal Vinod Shah

Bruce Edward Scott

Frank Vinicio Acosta

James R Longbottom

Nicholas Frederick Budler

Timothy Rather Tips

Sean Gregory Thomas

Christopher C Hoelscher

Juanita M Cassidy

Mark D Kalman

Darrin N Towers

Dwight David Fulton

Ricky Layne Covington

Philip D Nguyen

Paul F Rodney

William Mark Richards

Enrique Antonio Reyes

Donn Jason Brown

John Laureto Maida, Jr

Etienne M Samson

Darren George Gascooke

Mathew Dennis Rowe

Xiang Wu

Jack Gammill Clemens

Dipti Singh

James Marshall Barker

Sean Carroll

Eric James Davis

YiJing Fan

Chad Adam Fisher

Andy Cheng Chang

Ian Bradford Mitchell

James C Tucker

Wesley Neil Ludwig

Marthinus Van Schoor

Tommy Frank Grigsby

Richard Ellis Robey

Marco Serra

Timothy S Glenn

Simon David Turton

Sudhir Kumar Gupta

John P Singh

Daniel Keith Moeller

Method of manufacturing a wellbore downhole tool, including providing a pre-polymer resin and processing the pre-polymer resin. Processing the pre-polymer resin includes applying directed energy from a directed energy source such that the pre-polymer resin is at least partially polymerized to form a polymer seal of the wellbore downhole tool, the polymer seal having one of more mechanical properties that differ along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal.

Manufacture of a polymer seal for a wellbore downhole tool with dimensional mechanical property grading

Systems and methods for wireless downhole telemetry are provided. The system includes a tubular located in a wellbore; a pressure controller located at or near a surface of the wellbore to send a digital command via a change in a pressure applied to the tubular; and a receiver disposed in the wellbore, wherein the receiver includes a mechanical pressure switch to detect the change in the pressure applied to the tubular.

Wireless telemetry using a pressure switch and mechanical thresholding of the signal

Provided is a downhole tool, a well system, and a method. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a mandrel, a sliding element positioned radially about the mandrel, and a pressure intensifier positioned radially about the mandrel and coupled to the sliding element. In one aspect, the pressure intensifier includes a first piston having a first pressure receiving end with a larger piston surface area (A) and a first pressure output end with a smaller piston surface area (A). In one aspect, the pressure intensifier includes a second piston coupled to the first piston, the second piston having a second pressure receiving end with a larger piston surface area (A). In one aspect, a fluid chamber is defined between the first pressure output end and the second pressure receiving end. In one aspect, the pressure intensifier is configured to move the sliding element with an applied force.

Downhole tool employing a pressure intensifier

Provided is a downhole device, a well system, and a method. The downhole device, in one aspect, includes an electromagnetic assembly, as well as a magnetic target positioned proximate the electromagnetic assembly, wherein one of the magnetic target or the electromagnetic assembly is coupled with a movable feature of the downhole device, the movable feature configured to move to physically couple or physically decouple the electromagnetic assembly and the magnetic target. The downhole device, according to this aspect, further includes a sensor electrically coupled to the electromagnetic assembly, the sensor configured to sense for a change in a DC power parameter powering the electromagnetic assembly as the electromagnetic assembly and magnetic target physically couple to or physically decouple from one another, the sensed change representative of a change of impedance within a coil of the electromagnetic assembly and employable to estimate the status or health of the downhole device.

Sensing a DC power parameter of an electromagnetic assembly of a downhole device to estimate the status or health thereof

Systems and methods for creating seals that expand during temperature drops. The seals may include a negative CTE material that is either internal or external to the sealing element; shape memory alloys (SMA) which exhibit negative CTE during a phase change; and/or external lattice structures with positive CTE components but negative overall CTE.

Volumetric compensation for sealing performance under large temperature swing conditions

Provided is a seal assembly, a method for sealing, and a well system. The seal assembly, in one aspect, includes a pipe having an outer tubular positioned thereabout, the outer tubular and pipe forming an enclosed seal gland. The seal assembly, according to this aspect, further includes expanded metal positioned within the enclosed seal gland, the expanded metal comprising a metal that has expanded in response to hydrolysis to assist in sealing the enclosed seal gland.

Using expandable metal as an alternate to existing metal to metal seals

Provided is a wellbore tractor, a well system and a method. The wellbore tractor, in one aspect, includes a tractor drive module, the tractor drive module configured to propel the wellbore tractor within a wellbore extending through one or more subterranean formations, and well as a tractor electronics module coupled to the tractor drive module, the tractor electronics module including one or more batteries. The wellbore tractor, according to this aspect, further includes a tractor power transfer module coupled to the tractor electronics module, the tractor power transfer module configured to receive power from a wellbore tractor charging station located within the wellbore and transfer it to the one or more batteries.

Wellbore tractor including a tractor power receive module

Safety valves and methods of using safety valves. The safety valve is provided to a wellbore having a hydrostatic pressure. The safety valve is configured to operate at tubing well pressure. Pressure is applied to the safety valve with a single control line. The safety valve uses an accumulator in fluidic communication with the control line such that pressure acting on the accumulator is fluidically connected to pressure in the control line. The safety valve is insensitive to the hydrostatic pressure.

Tubing and control line hydrostatic-insensitive single control line safety valve

Provided is a flow control valve, a well system, and a method. The flow control valve, in one aspect, includes a tubular configured to be positioned downhole in a wellbore, the tubular having a central longitudinal axis, and a piston located in the tubular, the piston configured to separate injection fluid located within the tubular from a working fluid located in a sealed working fluid chamber. The flow control valve, according to this aspect, further includes a valve assembly located within the tubular and coupled with the piston, wherein the piston is configured to axially slide within the tubular to move the valve assembly between an open position that provides a fluid passageway for the injection fluid from the tubular into a subterranean formation and a closed position that closes the fluid passageway for the injection fluid from the tubular into the subterranean formation, based upon a density of the injection fluid.

Autonomous injection flow control valve

A method comprising transmitting, by an electric conductor disposed in a wellbore, a time-varying electric signal to a first reflector wirelessly coupled to the electric conductor and a sensor, wherein the sensor is wirelessly coupled to the electric conductor via the first reflector, receiving a first reflected signal from the first reflector, analyzing the first reflected signal to determine a sensor value for the sensor, and determining, based on the sensor value, one or more downhole parameters.

Distributed sensing with tubing encased conductors (TEC)

A flow control system for a well may include a valve body sized to fit in a wellbore and defining a valve body through bore. A valve closure is movably coupled to the valve body and moveable about a rotational axis between an open position allowing flow through the valve body through bore and a closed position closing flow through the valve body through bore. A rotational sensor generates a signal responsive to a rotational position of the valve closure relative to the valve body.

Downhole valve with rotational position sensor

Provided is a wellbore tractor and method for operating a well system. The wellbore tractor, in one aspect, includes a base member, and one or more turbines fixed to the base member for rotating the base member in a first rotational direction based upon a first direction of fluid flow. The wellbore tractor, according to this aspect, further includes one or more wellbore engaging devices radially extending from the base member, the one or more wellbore engaging devices contactable with a surface of a wellbore for displacing the base member and one or more turbines axially downhole as the one or more turbines rotate in the first rotational direction.

Autonomous tractor using counter flow-driven propulsion

The disclosure presents processes to locate one or more quantum gravimeters at a hydrocarbon well site, with at least one quantum gravimeter at a surface location. One or more additional gravimeters, whether quantum gravimeters or non-quantum gravimeters, can be located downhole a wellbore of the well site. Gravitational data collected from various gravimeters can be analyzed to produce analyzed gravitational parameters and subterranean formation parameters. In some aspects, the gravitational data can be processed, such as by an inversion algorithm or a noise reduction algorithm. The generated results can be used to calibrate non-quantum gravimeters located proximate the well site or downhole the wellbore, identify a depth and direction of a water front, identify the fluid flow of hydrocarbons or water in the subterranean formation, to identify orphaned hydrocarbon reservoirs, or other characteristics of fluid flow or subterranean formation parameters, such as subterranean formation damage.

Quantum gravimeters for hydrocarbon reservoir analysis

An apparatus for supplying clean fluid to a component in a well may include a filter. The filter may include a housing having an outlet, a conical permeable element disposed at least partially inside the housing, and a tapered helical coil disposed at least partially inside the permeable element. A first opening may be formed at a first axial end of the permeable element, and a second opening may be formed at a second axial end of the permeable element. The apparatus may further include first conduit fluidly coupling the outlet and the component, and a second conduit fluidly coupling the second opening and a tubular of the well.

Vortex filtration for debris-sensitive components in a well

Provided is a sealing/anchoring element, a sealing/anchoring tool, and a method for sealing/anchoring within a wellbore. The sealing/anchoring element, in one aspect, includes a circlet having an inside surface having an inside diameter (d), an outside surface having an outside diameter (d), a width (w), and a wall thickness (t). In one aspect, the circlet has one or more geometric features that allow it to elasto/plastically deform when moved from a radially reduced state to a radially enlarged state, and the circlet comprises an expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis.

Expandable metal sealing/anchoring tool

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