DEFORMATION MONITORING MECHANISM WITH MULTI-PXIEL ANGLE-SENSITIVE LASER RANGING

    公开(公告)号:US20230184086A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US17643487

    申请日:2021-12-09

    IPC分类号: E21B47/002 E21B47/007

    CPC分类号: E21B47/002 E21B47/007

    摘要: A monitoring device monitors deformation of a casing installed in a wellbore and housing a production tubing, and includes: a packer installed within an annulus between the casing and the production tubing; a deformable substrate that is disposed at an outer side of the annulus and contacts an inner surface of the casing to deform along with casing deformation; a light source that is disposed on the deformable substrate and emits light towards an inside of the annulus; an imaging device that is disposed in the packer to be opposite to the light source across the annulus and detects the light emitted from the light source; and a processor that produces a signal from the detected light, processes the produced signal, and transmits the processed signal to a surface control device that monitors the deformation of the casing based on the signal.

    CONTACTLESS REAL-TIME 3D MAPPING OF SURFACE EQUIPMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220372868A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-24

    申请号:US17328159

    申请日:2021-05-24

    摘要: Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for providing a photonic sensing system to perform an automated method to characterize displacement of equipment surfaces and monitor changes in real-time. A three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of one or more objects is generated by an analysis and presentation system using light information collected through structured light illumination by an array of structured-light sensors (SLSes) directed toward the one or more objects. Generating the point cloud includes defining points of the 3D point cloud that are relative to reference points on the one or more objects. Real-time contactless 3D surface measurements of the one or more objects are performed using the 3D point cloud. Changes in one or more parts of the one or more objects are determined by the an analysis and presentation system by analyzing the real-time contactless 3D surface measurements.

    4D CHEMICAL FINGERPRINT WELL MONITORING

    公开(公告)号:US20220316331A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17217069

    申请日:2021-03-30

    摘要: A sensing system for monitoring a composition of a downhole fluid in a well, where the sensing system includes: a light source, an optical waveguide, an evanescent field sensing element that is indirect contact with a downhole fluid, and a detector. The light source is operable for emitting a beam and includes a frequency comb generator configured to modify at least a portion of the beam into a sensing comb beam. The evanescent field sensing element provides attenuated internal reflection of the sensing comb beam at the interface between the evanescent field sensing element and the downhole fluid, and the portion of the sensing comb beam interacts with the fluid to form at least a portion of an interacted beam. The detector obtains a spectral distribution of the interacted beam.

    4D chemical fingerprint well monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US11867629B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US17217069

    申请日:2021-03-30

    摘要: A sensing system for monitoring a composition of a downhole fluid in a well, where the sensing system includes: a light source, an optical waveguide, an evanescent field sensing element that is indirect contact with a downhole fluid, and a detector. The light source is operable for emitting a beam and includes a frequency comb generator configured to modify at least a portion of the beam into a sensing comb beam. The evanescent field sensing element provides attenuated internal reflection of the sensing comb beam at the interface between the evanescent field sensing element and the downhole fluid, and the portion of the sensing comb beam interacts with the fluid to form at least a portion of an interacted beam. The detector obtains a spectral distribution of the interacted beam.

    PHOTOCATALYTIC CONVERSION OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE TO HYDROGEN

    公开(公告)号:US20240327211A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18193183

    申请日:2023-03-30

    IPC分类号: C01B3/06 C01B3/50 C01B17/04

    摘要: A system for photocatalytic conversion includes a flowline, in which a production flow travels in a flow direction; and a reactor module. The reactor module includes a waveguide; a photocatalyst coupled to the waveguide, configured to convert hydrogen sulfide in the production flow to hydrogen and sulfur; a heater configured to heat a bottom of the reactor module, such that the sulfur is in liquid phase; and a sulfur collector configured to collect the sulfur. A method for photocatalytic conversion includes introducing a production flow from a flowline to a reactor module, the production flow including hydrogen sulfide and traveling in a flow direction; directing a light from a light source to a photocatalyst through a waveguide; converting the hydrogen sulfide into hydrogen and sulfur using the photocatalyst; and heating a portion of the reactor module to an elevated temperature, the sulfur in a liquid phase under the elevated temperature.

    CONTACTLESS MEASUREMENT OF ROCK WETTABILITY BY PHOTONIC TECHNIQUES

    公开(公告)号:US20240201079A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18082186

    申请日:2022-12-15

    摘要: Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for analyzing rock samples. Rock and oil electromagnetic baselines are determined for rock samples in at least a section of an electromagnetic spectrum ranging from ultraviolet to long terahertz radiation. An aging process is conducted on each rock sample, initially starting with the rock and oil electromagnetic baselines. The aging process is repeated using spectrometry on the rock sample and measured wettabilities of the rock sample until changes in spectra are less than a predetermined threshold. Aging information including the spectra and wettabilities are stored in a machine learning database. Spectra are obtained from an unknown rock sample. The spectra are mapped to clusters in the machine learning database. Wettability ranges are determined for the unknown rock sample based on a mapping of the spectra of the unknown rock sample to clusters in the machine learning database.

    Methods and apparatus for printing a wellbore casing

    公开(公告)号:US11840904B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-12

    申请号:US17652798

    申请日:2022-02-28

    摘要: A method includes introducing a drill string including a bottom hole assembly into a wellbore, wherein the bottom hole assembly includes a mounted 3D printing sub-assembly. A wellbore is drilled with the bottom hole assembly, and at least a portion of a casing is printed with the 3D printing sub-assembly while drilling the wellbore. A related system includes a drill string having a length of drill pipe and a bottom hole assembly disposed at a distal end of the length of drill pipe. A 3D printing sub-assembly is mounted on the bottom hole assembly, wherein the printing sub-assembly includes a printer housing and a 3D printing head mounted at the printer housing. A control guides the 3D printing head to print at least a portion of a casing at a location radially away from the central longitudinal axis of the drill string.