Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Stephen Michael Greci

Michael Linley Fripp

Brandon Thomas Least

Thomas Jules Frosell

Ryan Wesley McChesney

Jean-Marc Lopez

Richard Decena Ornelaz

Luke William Holderman

Jean Marc Lopez

Gregory Scott Cunningham

John C Gano

Ibrahim El Mallawany

Ryan Michael Novelen

Jan Veit

Zachary William Walton

Aaron James Bonner

Christopher Michael Pelto

Gary John Geoffroy

Matthew Franklin

Weiqi Yin

Andrew Penno

James Jun Kang

Abdel Hamid R Abeidoh

Scott Cunningham

Pete Clement Dagenais

Caleb Thomas Warren

Austin Lee Wright

Maxime P M Coffin

Maxime Coffin

Abdel Hamid Abeidoh

James Dan Vick, Jr

Daniel David Gleitman

William David Henderson

Travis Thomas Hailey, Jr

Paul Gregory James

Liang Zhao

Nicholas A Kuo

Emile Edmund Sevadjian

Srividhya Sridhar

John Todd Broome

Abdolreza Gharesi

Liam Andrew Aitken

David Symon Grant

Rutger Evers

Jacob Zachariah

Hadi Arabnejad Khanouki

Chris M Pelto

Edmund Christopher Williamson

Finn Gamble McCarthy

Kanishk Parmar

Uriel Arias

Maxime Pm Coffin

Matthew Earl Franklin

Donald Kyle

Larry Steven Eoff

Mikko K Jaaskelainen

William Mark Richards

Donn Jason Brown

Mathew Dennis Rowe

Paul Joseph Jones

Mark Christopher Glaser

Xiaoguang Allan Zhong

Peter Besselink

Jon Troy Gosney

Brad Robert Bull

Graham Baines

Aswin Balasubramanian

Brian Williams Cho

Frederic Nicolas Felten

Andrew David Penno

Gordon McLeary

Wilfried Van Moorleghem

Matthew Arran Willoughby

Cem Sonat

Fraser Murray

Terapat Apichartthabrut

Peter C Dagenais

Celso Max Trujillo, Jr

Matthew Ryan Gommel

Darrell Adkins

Ping Chew Chay

Richard Decene Ornelaz

Terapat Apicharthabrut

Bryan Ping Chew Chay

Scott Crowley

Steven R Hernandez, Jr

Julia Mosina

Jyotsana Verma

Onyema C Oyeka

James Dan Vick

John Charles Gano

Ryan Wesley Mcchesney

Darrell Wayne Adkins

Celso Max Trujillo

Thomas J Frosell

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 fluid flow control system and a well system. The fluid flow control system, in one aspect, includes a valve having a fluid inlet operable to receive fluid, a control inlet operable to receive a control fluid, and a fluid outlet operable to pass the fluid to the tubing, the valve configured to open or close the fluid outlet based upon the control fluid. The fluid flow control system according to this aspect further includes a density control valve having an inlet conduit operable to receive the fluid and an outlet conduit coupled to the control inlet of the valve, the density control valve operable to send the control fluid to the valve to open or close the fluid outlet based upon a density of the fluid.

Fluid flow control system employing gravity driven floats and a valve

Some implementations include a flow control device positioned in a tubing string within a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation, the flow control device configured to produce a liquid or a gas. The flow control device may comprise a movable restrictor configured to move, in response to the liquid at a first velocity from the subsurface formation, from a closed position to an open position and a pilot-operated valve configured to attenuate a flow of the liquid through the flow control device when the movable restrictor is in the open position.

Restrictor and bridge valve for restricting water and producing gas

Provided is a sealing tool, a method for sealing an annulus within a wellbore, and a well system. The sealing tool, in at least one aspect, includes a sealing assembly positioned about a mandrel. In at least one aspect, the sealing assembly includes one or more elastomeric sealing elements having a width (W), the one or more elastomeric sealing elements operable to move between a radially relaxed state and a radially expanded state. In at least this aspect, the sealing assembly includes a pair of expandable metal features straddling the one or more elastomeric sealing elements, each of the pair of expandable metal features comprising a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis and having a width (W), and further wherein the width (WSE) is at least three times the width (W).

Expandable metal as backup for elastomeric elements

A downhole sealing tool and method use a swellable material (e.g., a swellable rubber or a swellable metallic material) with increased surface area for faster reaction with an activation fluid. In one example, a swellable metallic sealing element and actuator are carried on a tool mandrel for lowering into a wellbore on a conveyance. The sealing element includes a plurality of expandable metal wires supported along the tool mandrel. The expandable metal wires comprise a swellable metallic material that swells in response to exposure to an activation fluid. The actuator is used to separate at least a portion of the expandable metal wires, to increase a surface area exposed to the activation fluid and thereby accelerate the reaction.

Fast-acting swellable downhole seal

Provided is a downhole tool, a method for sealing within a well system, and a well system. The downhole tool, in at least one aspect, includes a tubular, and a collection of individual separate chunks of expandable metal positioned about the tubular, the collection of individual separate chunks of expandable metal comprising a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis.

Individual separate chunks of expandable metal

Provided is a downhole tool, a method for sealing within a well system, and a well system. The downhole tool, in at least one aspect, includes a tubular, and one or more expandable metal seal elements placed about the tubular. In at least one aspect, the one or more expandable metal seal elements comprise a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis and have a surface-area-to-volume ratio (SA:V) of at least 2 cm.

Rapid setting expandable metal

A flow control system for use in controlling flow of a fluid composition in a subterranean well is disclosed. The flow control system includes a flow chamber that includes an inlet and an outlet oriented such that the fluid composition flows circuitously through the chamber, forming a vortex at least at the outlet. The flow control system further comprises at least one flow control structure shaped and positioned in the flow chamber such that a velocity of the circuitous flow is reduced and the vortex is eliminated or substantially reduced.

Flow control system for use in a subterranean well

An apparatus to be positioned in a geothermal wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises one or more components to inject a supercritical fluid into the subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a flow control assembly configured to control flow of the supercritical fluid into the geothermal wellbore based on a density of the supercritical fluid in the subsurface formation.

Density dependent fluid flow control to maximize thermal recovery in geothermal wells utilizing supercritical working fluid

A downhole power generation system may include a downhole tubular having a generator recess. The generator recess is radially offset from a central bore of the downhole tubular, and the generator recess is connected to the central bore via an opening. The system may further include a generator disposed at least partially within the generator recess. Additionally, the system may include at least one turbine blade configured to drive rotation of the rotor in response to fluid flow through the central bore with the at least one turbine blade in an extended position. The at least one turbine blade is disposed at least partially within the central bore in the extended position, and the at least one turbine blade is configured to move at least partially into the generator recess toward a retracted position in response to contact with a downhole tool moving along the central bore.

Flexible turbine for power generation in straight pipe

A magnet shield for use with a magnetic scale inhibitor includes a barrier configured for positioning at a location between the magnetic scale inhibitor and a flowbore for at least a first time period. The flowbore is configured for flow of a fluid. The barrier is: degradable in the fluid, such that, after the first time period, the barrier is no longer present at the location; and/or shiftable, such that, after the first time period, the barrier can be shifted away from the location. During the first time period, the barrier reduces or eliminates attraction of ferromagnetic particles to magnets of the magnetic scale inhibitor. A magnetic scale inhibitor tool comprising the magnet shield and a methods of utilizing the magnet shield and the magnetic scale inhibitor tool comprising the magnet shield are also provided herein.

Removable covers for magnetic scale inhibitors

A downhole shunt tube isolation system having a fluid channel and a piston hydraulic chamber disposed within a valve actuator housing, wherein the fluid channel is sealed via a plug to hydraulically lock a valve in an open position, wherein a gravel slurry is configured to flow from a first tube segment through the valve to a second tube segment when the valve is in the open position. A portion of the plug is displaced to open a fluid path through the plug to the piston hydraulic chamber, wherein opening the fluid path to the piston hydraulic chamber hydraulically unlocks the valve, closing the valve via a biasing force to block the flow of the gravel slurry from a first tube segment through the valve to a second tube segment.

Downhole shunt tube isolation valve system

A transition in the fluid composition of a production fluid is detectable downhole based on a rotational response of a rotor through which flow is directed. The transition is detectable, at least in part, based on different rotational speeds of different fluid compositions. The transition may be detected or confirmed by an anomaly in the rotational response (e.g., a temporary dip) due to an emulsion between two or more fluid components. The non-Newtonian behavior of the emulsion makes its presence easily detectable in a rotor chamber. These principles may enable a rotor to act not only as a power source but as a water cut sensor.

Impulse turbine used to measure production fluid properties downhole and detect water breakthrough

Provided is a fluid flow control device, a well system, and method. The fluid flow control device, in one aspect, includes an inlet port, an outlet port, and a fluid chamber positioned between the inlet and outlet ports. The fluid flow control device, in one aspect, may further include a float positioned within the fluid chamber, the float having a net density that is between a first density of a desired fluid and a second density of an undesired fluid, such that the float may control fluid flow through the fluid flow control device when encountering the desired fluid or undesired fluid. The fluid flow control device, in one aspect, may further include a fluid mixer positioned uphole of the fluid chamber, the fluid mixer configured to receive unmixed or partially mixed fluid and turn it to mixed inlet fluid prior to the mixed inlet fluid encountering the fluid chamber.

Method to create a fluid mixture with uniform properties prior to flowing into a fluid flow control device

Provided is a sealing/anchoring element, a sealing/anchoring tool, a well system, 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), the circlet having one or more geometric features that allow it to mechanically deform when moved from a radially reduced mechanical state to a radially enlarged mechanical state, the circlet comprising an expandable metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis to chemically deform the circlet from a radially reduced chemical state to a radially enlarged chemical state.

Sealing/anchoring tool employing an expandable metal circlet

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Little Elm, TX, United States of America

Stephen Michael Greci