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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2005
Jeffrey L Moore, Houston, TX (US);
Vimal V. Shah, Sugarland, TX (US);
Wallace R. Gardner, Houston, TX (US);
Donald G. Kyle, The Colony, TX (US);
Malcolm Douglas Mcgregor, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Randal Thomas Beste, Houston, TX (US);
Jesse Kevin Hensarling, Cleveland, TX (US);
Sergei a Sharonov, Houston, TX (US);
Jeffrey L Moore, Houston, TX (US);
Vimal V. Shah, Sugarland, TX (US);
Wallace R. Gardner, Houston, TX (US);
Donald G. Kyle, The Colony, TX (US);
Malcolm Douglas McGregor, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Randal Thomas Beste, Houston, TX (US);
Jesse Kevin Hensarling, Cleveland, TX (US);
Sergei A Sharonov, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for wireless communications in a drilling operations environment can include an instrument hub that is inline with drill pipe of a drill string. The instrument hub includes a sensor to receive downhole communications from downhole. The instrument hub also includes a transmitter to wireless transmit data representative of the downhole communications to a data processor unit.