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International Drilling Systems, Inc.

Tuboscope Vetco (france) Sas

Roger D Chancey

Wayne A Kovar

Thomas R Bishop

Archie W Peil

Scott Granger

Joseph Stephen Williamson

Robert J Champagne, Jr

Scott L Granger

A jar for use in a downhole environment comprises an hydraulic timing device which allows pressure to be controllably increased to a desired level and, on firing, a near-instantaneous release of that pressure, and which allows for selective bi-directional firing of the jar.

Hydraulic timing device

A double shoulder drill stem connection for high torque applications includes a thread taper within a range between about 1.0 and 1.2 inch per foot. The thread form is characterized by a stab angle between about 35 and 42 and a load angle between about 25 and 34 degrees and by a short thread height with elliptical roots and with crests having an angle which slopes in an opposite direction with respect to the joint centerline from the thread taper. A drill string includes a tool joint having different inner diameters for a substantial axial length to provide enhanced strength in the threaded portion of the joint.

Drill stem connection

A hydraulic well jar accelerator used in a fishing string in conjunction with a well jar. The well jar accelerator includes inner and outer cylindrical assemblies movable longitudinally relative to each other and having an annular space between the cylindrical assemblies. An annular seal and an expansion sleeve disposed between the cylindrical assemblies are longitudinally spaced relative one another to form an annular liquid chamber in the annular space. The annular liquid chamber confines a hydraulic operating fluid. The volume of the annular liquid chamber can be adjusted by spring-loading the expansion sleeve without relative longitudinal movement of the inner and outer assemblies. The annular liquid chamber is operatively segregated into a main liquid chamber and an expansion liquid chamber. An annular seal body and an annular piston are disposed between the cylindrical assemblies in the annular liquid chamber. The seal body is attached to one of the cylindrical assemblies and has a first end surface. The piston has a first end surface capable of contacting the first end surface of the seal body such that the first and second liquid chambers are in non-fluid communication with each other.

Well jar accelerator with expansion chamber

An improved mud motor system for drilling or workover down hole which includes an upper stator portion housed within a stator body connectedly engaged to a drill or workover string. The stator receives a flow of drilling mud through the drill or workover string, and flow of mud through a continuous bore of a certain profile within the stator, imparts rotation to the rotor. The lower end of the rotor is engaged to a first upper drive shaft, which is in turn connected to an upper and lower output shaft. Rotation of the rotor likewise imparts rotation to the drive and output shafts. There is provided a drill bit or specialty bit secured to the lower end of the lower output shaft which, when rotation is in effect, drills into the formation or performs various workover operations. There is further provided fluid bearings within the assembly to provide a quantity of fluid to bear against the lower (or upper) output shaft, so that the shaft contacts the fluid bearing when the shaft is forced upward or down depending on the type of operation taking place.

Improved mud motor system incorporating fluid bearings

Disclosed is a circle thread form for threadably engaging the wellhead valve assembly and the riser tensioner to the riser top joint of a marine riser of a floating tension leg platform or similar drilling or production platform. The male thread form is located on the cylindrically shaped riser pipe, wherein the male thread form comprises a series of annular substantially circularly shaped convex protrusions that are substantially equally spaced from one another and extend outwardly from a predetermined pitch line, and between and abutting each of the protrusions a series of annular and substantially circularly shaped concave grooves that extend inwardly from said pitch line. The female thread forms are located on the wellhead valve assembly and the riser tensioner, and comprise a second series of protrusions and grooves, said second grooves shaped complimentary to the pipe protrusions, and the second protrusions shaped to engage the riser pipe grooves no further than about 3/4 of the depth into the riser pipe grooves.

Circle threadform for marine riser top joint

A shock absorber assembly adapted to be used with a drill string dampening intermittent shocks and vibrational forces encountered with a drill string, the shock absorber assembly including a mandrel, a tubular body reciprocally mounted with respect to the mandrel, and a dampening device including an annular chamber adapted to be filled with a compressible fluid and a flexible wall with the mandrel adjacent the annular chamber for permitting flexure of the mandrel as needed for dampening.

Shock absorber assembly

A shock absorber assembly for absorbing shocks encountered by a drill string wherein the shock absorber assembly is for use with a drill string having a working fluid therein and includes a body member affixed to the drill string, a mandrel mounted for reciprocal longitudinal movement with respect to the body member and a fluid dampening member floated within the central bore of the body member in engagement with the body member and the mandrel for absorbing shocks transmitted between the body member and the mandrel.

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Humble, TX, United States of America

Roger D Chancey