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公开(公告)号:US11808146B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-07
申请号:US17157256
申请日:2021-01-25
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Ayrat Gizzatov , Karim Ismail , Mohammed Sayed , Amy J. Cairns
CPC classification number: E21B49/005 , E21B49/06 , G01N33/241
Abstract: Testing apparatuses and their methods of use for testing core samples with treatment fluids, such as reactive fluids, such as acidic fluids, are provided. The testing apparatuses include a top and a base housing coupled together having a sample recess, a viewing window, and a primary distribution hole. Within the sample recess a core sample assembly is secured and immobilized. The core sample assembly in the testing apparatus is viewable through the viewing window and fluidly accessible through the primary distribution hole. Optionally, a light connector coupled to the testing apparatus provides light into the core sample assembly. Methods of using the testing apparatus include providing a testing apparatus with a core sample assembly secured and immobilized within the sample recess of the testing apparatus, introducing a treatment fluid to the core sample, and detecting the interaction within the testing apparatus of the core sample with the treatment fluid.
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公开(公告)号:US20230340843A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US17727330
申请日:2022-04-22
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Dung T. Phan , Chao Liu , Younane N. Abousleiman
IPC: E21B21/06
CPC classification number: E21B21/062 , E21B2200/20 , E21B2200/22
Abstract: A system and method for determining a mud-weight window is disclosed. The method includes determining, for each of a plurality of borehole-formation training models, a fracture mud weight using a first physics-based method and a collapse mud weight using a second physics-based method, and training, using the plurality of borehole-formation training models, an artificial intelligence (AI) network to predict the fracture and collapse mud weights for a borehole formation model. The method further includes determining, using the trained AI network, an AI fracture and an AI collapse mud weight from an observed borehole-formation model, and a search window surrounding each AI mud weight. The method further includes predicting a final fracture mud weight within the fracture search window using the first physics-based method and a final collapse mud weight within the collapse search window using the second physics-based method, and determining the mud-weight window bounded by the two final mud weights.
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公开(公告)号:US11754023B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US17462904
申请日:2021-08-31
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Alexander K. Voice , Andrew Baur , Xin Yu
CPC classification number: F02M26/36 , F01N13/10 , F01N2240/30 , F01N2340/06 , F01N2610/03 , F01N2610/08 , F01N2610/146 , F01N2900/08 , F01N2900/1411 , F02M26/05 , F02M26/06 , F02M26/07 , F02M26/10 , F02M26/21 , F02M26/22
Abstract: A method of operating an engine includes igniting a combustible mixture in a combustion chamber of the engine, which produces exhaust gases. The exhaust gases are ejected into an exhaust manifold of the engine to create a primary exhaust stream. A portion of the exhaust gases is separated from the primary exhaust stream to create a secondary exhaust stream. Air and fuel are then mixed with the secondary exhaust stream to form a reformer feed mixture. The reformer feed mixture is reacted in a catalytic reformer to create a reformate exhaust stream, which is then mixed with an intake air stream to create a mixed air stream. The mixed air stream is the fed to the combustion chamber of the engine as the combustible mixture.
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公开(公告)号:US11739247B1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-29
申请号:US17650804
申请日:2022-02-11
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Peter Boul
IPC: C04B28/04 , C09K8/467 , C04B24/42 , E21B33/14 , C04B40/00 , C04B103/32 , C04B103/00
CPC classification number: C09K8/467 , C04B24/425 , C04B28/04 , C04B40/0046 , E21B33/14 , C04B2103/0093 , C04B2103/32
Abstract: A precursor cement slurry includes a cement powder, water, and an additive. The additive includes a cement bond enhancer and a non-aqueous fluid additive. The non-aqueous fluid additive is an internal phase and the cement bond enhancer stabilizes the non-aqueous fluid additive in the form of a Pickering emulsion within the precursor cement slurry. The cement bond enhancer is comprised of the reaction product of graphene oxide with an anchoring functionality. A method of forming the precursor cement slurry and a method of cementing an annular space within a wellbore are also provided.
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公开(公告)号:US11732185B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-22
申请号:US17371736
申请日:2021-07-09
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Wenwen Li , Rajesh Saini , Shawn Rimassa
IPC: C09K8/90 , C08F251/00
CPC classification number: C09K8/90 , C08F251/00 , C09K2208/28
Abstract: A friction reducer includes a polysaccharide-graft-water-soluble polymer is provided. A polysaccharide in an amount of from about 0.1 to 50% by weight (wt. %) may make up the polysaccharide-graft-water-soluble polymer. A wellbore treatment fluid is provided that includes an aqueous base fluid and the friction reducer in an amount up to about 10% of the wellbore treatment fluid. A method of using a wellbore treatment fluid includes the step of introducing the wellbore treatment fluid as previously provided into a wellbore.
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公开(公告)号:US11719923B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-08
申请号:US16901620
申请日:2020-06-15
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Shannon Lee Eichmann , Gary Eppler , Joshua Brothers , David Jacobi
Abstract: A mounting device for holding a sample mounted to a sample holder for use in an inverted microscope. The mounting device includes a platen; a mounting located on a sample side of the platen; a sample holder removably coupled to the mounting so the sample is along an optical axis of the inverted microscope; and a spacer shaped as a hollow prism or a hollow cylinder having a height and defining a through hole. The platen is disposed on the spacer with the sample side facing toward the spacer and the sample holder positioned within the through hole. The height of the spacer arranges the sample within a focal plane of the inverted microscope.
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公开(公告)号:US20230220265A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-13
申请号:US17647428
申请日:2022-01-07
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Ashok Santra , Carl J. Thaemlitz
IPC: C09K8/34 , C08F292/00
CPC classification number: C09K8/34 , C08F292/00 , C09K2208/34
Abstract: A composition that includes a polymer-grafted graphene particle and oil-based drilling fluid is provided. At least one side of the graphene particle comprises a grafted polymer. A method of using an oil-based drilling fluid is also provided. The method includes introducing the oil-based drilling fluid into a wellbore and circulating the oil-based drilling fluid during drilling operations. The drilling fluid includes a polymer-grafted graphene particle and oil-based drilling fluid. At least one side of the graphene particle comprises a grafted polymer. The oil-based drilling fluid includes a range of from about 0.01 ppb to 10 ppb of the polymer-grafted graphene particle.
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公开(公告)号:US11697755B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US17375417
申请日:2021-07-14
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Chengzhe Gao , Shitong Sherry Zhu , Marta Antoniv , Nouf AlJabri
CPC classification number: C09K8/08 , E21B49/005 , G01N33/2882
Abstract: Degradable polymer additives are provided. The degradable polymer additives include a tracer functional group that is bonded to a base polymeric component by a hydrolysable covalent bond. The base polymeric component is a polysaccharide. The tracer functional group is selected from the group comprising a halogen-containing functional group, a substituted heterocyclic aromatic group, and combination thereof. A method utilizing the degradable polymeric additives in an altered drilling fluid is provided. Such a method includes introducing the altered drilling fluid into a wellbore and recovering an associated wellbore cutting from a depleted drilling fluid.
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公开(公告)号:US20230193744A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US17644697
申请日:2021-12-16
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Yanhui Han , Kaiming Xia
IPC: E21B47/022 , E21B7/04 , E21B47/06 , E21B49/00
CPC classification number: E21B47/022 , E21B7/046 , E21B47/06 , E21B49/003 , E21B2200/20
Abstract: A system for determining a direction for drilling a well is disclosed. The system has a device in a portion of a conveyance mechanism comprising a cylindrical housing with at least one sensor that tracks a position of the portion during a drilling operation, the device being configured to obtain a plurality of drilling parameters, and a control system coupled to the device and configured to perform at least one reservoir simulation, and prepare a plurality of required parameters while drilling. The device uses an optimization box to simulate increasing an angle between a drilling direction and a maximum horizontal stress by calculating a minimum mud pressure required to prevent borehole collapse. The control system generates an engineering curve representative of each angle simulated and a corresponding mud weight or pressure, and the device and the control system identify an optimal direction corresponding to a minimum drilling mud pressure parameter.
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公开(公告)号:US20230184075A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-15
申请号:US18046351
申请日:2022-10-13
Applicant: ARAMCO SERVICES COMPANY
Inventor: Amy J. CAIRNS , Frank F. CHANG , Mohammed SAYED
Abstract: Formation treatment compositions may include a surfactant and an aqueous acid solution or mixture. The surfactant may include one or more of C6-C20-fluoroalkylsulfonate, C6-C20-alkylarylsulfonate, C6-C20-alkylcycloalkylsulfonate, C6-C20-arylsulfate, C6-C20-alkylphosphonate, C6-C20-arylphosphonate, C6-C20-alkylpolyetherphosphate, C6-C20-alkylpolyetherphosphonate, C6-C20-alkylcarboxylate, C6-C20-arylcarboxylate, and polyoxyethyleneamine. In the formation treatment compositions, the surfactant may be configured to partially or fully adsorb on a carbonate formation to accelerate the partial dissolution of the formation. Methods of treating a formation may include introducing the formation treatment composition into a wellbore such that that the formation treatment composition contacts the formation.
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