Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selective untethered drone string for downhole oil and gas wellbore operations
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Application No.: US17059205Application Date: 2019-04-12
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Publication No.: US11591885B2Publication Date: 2023-02-28
- Inventor: Christian Eitschberger , Andreas Robert Zemla , Liam McNelis , Thilo Scharf , Shmuel Silverman , Arash Shahinpour , Gernot Uwe Burmeister
- Applicant: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Troisdorf
- Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
- Current Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Troisdorf
- Agency: Moyles IP, LLC
- International Application: PCT/IB2019/000526 WO 20190412
- International Announcement: WO2019/229520 WO 20191205
- Main IPC: E21B43/1185
- IPC: E21B43/1185 ; E21B43/117 ; E21B43/119

Abstract:
According to some embodiments, devices, systems, and methods for autonomously or semi-autonomously conveying downhole oil and gas wellbore tools and performing downhole oil and gas wellbore operations are disclosed. The exemplary devices, systems, and methods may include an untethered drone that substantially disintegrates and/or dissolves into a proppant when shaped charges that the untethered drone carries are detonated. Two or more untethered drones, wellbore tools, and/or data collection devices may be connected in an untethered drone string and selectively detonated for efficiently performing wellbore operations and reducing the amount of debris left in the wellbore after such operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210198983A1 SELECTIVE UNTETHERED DRONE STRING FOR DOWNHOLE OIL AND GAS WELLBORE OPERATIONS Public/Granted day:2021-07-01
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