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公开(公告)号:US11555381B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-17
申请号:US17647486
申请日:2022-01-10
IPC分类号: E21B43/01
摘要: A method of conveying a production fluid from an offshore subsea well to an offshore vessel includes deploying an inflatable bladder from the offshore vessel, the inflatable bladder including a bladder valve, and fluidly connecting the inflatable bladder to an offloading port positioned at a seafloor, wherein the offloading port includes a port valve and is in fluid communication with one or more subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formations. The method further includes opening the bladder and port valves to discharge the production fluid from the offloading port into the inflatable bladder, and thereby resulting in a substantially filled bladder, closing the bladder and port valves, and fluidly disconnecting the substantially filled bladder from the offloading port.
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公开(公告)号:US11512572B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US17227696
申请日:2021-04-12
IPC分类号: E21B43/26 , E21B43/267
摘要: Methods of stimulating a hydrocarbon well are disclosed herein. The hydrocarbon well includes a wellbore that extends within a subterranean formation and a tubular that extends within the wellbore and defines a tubular conduit. The methods include retaining a sealing structure within the tubular conduit and, during the retaining, stimulating a zone of the subterranean formation. Subsequent to the stimulating, the methods include fluidly isolating the zone of the subterranean formation from the uphole region by at least partially sealing the plurality of perforations. Subsequent to the fluidly isolating, the methods include moving the sealing structure in a downhole direction within the tubular conduit. The methods also include repeating the retaining, the stimulating, the fluidly isolating, and the moving a plurality of times to stimulate a plurality of corresponding zones of the subterranean formation.
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公开(公告)号:US11506042B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-22
申请号:US17077910
申请日:2020-10-22
发明人: Mauro Lo Cascio , Andrey A. Troshko , Michael T. Hecker , Matthew S. Jackson , Dragan Stojkovic
IPC分类号: E21B43/38 , E21B33/124
摘要: An oil-water fractionation system is positioned within a wellbore on a subsurface end of a production tubing proximate to a production region. The fractionation system includes a permeable hydrophobic media for preferentially conveying an oil-enriched stream (reduced water-cut presence) from the production region into the production tubing, and a permeable oleophobic media for preferentially conveying a water-enriched stream (reduced oil-cut presence) into a second flow path. The permeable hydrophobic media and the permeable oleophobic media are in simultaneous hydraulic communication with the production region. The permeable hydrophobic media is manufactured with a relatively high effective permeability to oil, allowing the oil-enriched stream to flow through the permeable hydrophobic media into the production tubing. In contrast, the permeable oleophobic media is manufactured with a relatively high effective permeability to water, allowing the water-enriched stream to flow through the permeable oleophobic media into the second flow path.
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公开(公告)号:US11340366B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-24
申请号:US16571950
申请日:2019-09-16
申请人: Anatoly I. Baumstein , Gboyega Ayeni , Carey M. Marcinkovich , Jaewoo Park , Sirui Tan , Peter Traynin
发明人: Anatoly I. Baumstein , Gboyega Ayeni , Carey M. Marcinkovich , Jaewoo Park , Sirui Tan , Peter Traynin
摘要: Iterative methods for inversion of seismic data to update a physical property model are disclosed. Such methods may comprise iteratively updating the model until a first predetermined resolution is achieved, using full wavefield inversion of the seismic data up to a first frequency threshold and assuming the seismic data is free of attenuation effects; extracting geobodies from the updated model; obtaining a Q model using the geobodies; and updating the physical property model using an inversion process, wherein the Q model is incorporated into the inversion process. These steps may be repeated until a second predetermined resolution of the physical property model is achieved, wherein the first frequency threshold is progressively increased in each repetition. The Q model may be updated with seismic data at all available frequencies to obtain a full-band Q model; and the physical property model may be updated using full-band migration and the full-band Q model.
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公开(公告)号:US11331620B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-17
申请号:US16252975
申请日:2019-01-21
IPC分类号: B01D53/047 , B01D53/04 , C10L3/10 , B01D53/02
摘要: Provided are apparatus and systems for performing a swing adsorption process. This swing adsorption process may involve performing dampening for fluctuations in the streams conducted away from the adsorbent bed unit. The process may be utilized for swing adsorption processes, such as rapid cycle TSA and/or rapid cycle PSA, which are utilized to remove one or more contaminants from a gaseous feed stream.
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公开(公告)号:US11320551B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-03
申请号:US16685707
申请日:2019-11-15
发明人: Kuang-Hung Liu , Wei D. Liu , Huseyin Denli , Cody J. MacDonald
摘要: A method and apparatus for seismic interpretation including machine learning (ML). A method of training a ML system for seismic interpretation includes: preparing a collection of seismic images as training data; training an interpreter ML model to learn to interpret the training data, wherein: the interpreter ML model comprises a geologic objective function, and the learning is regularized by one or more geologic priors; and training a discriminator ML model to learn the one or more geologic priors from the training data. A method of hydrocarbon management includes: training the ML system for seismic interpretation; obtaining test data comprising a second collection of seismic images; applying the trained ML system to the test data to generate output; and managing hydrocarbons based on the output. A method includes performing an inference on test data with the interpreter and discriminator ML models to generate a feature probability map representative of subsurface features.
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公开(公告)号:US11318410B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-03
申请号:US16709510
申请日:2019-12-10
IPC分类号: B01D53/047 , B01D53/04
摘要: Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for modulating fluid flow in a cyclical swing adsorption system that includes multiple adsorption bed vessels that are in fluid communication. When opening a valve to transition an adsorption bed vessel into a blowdown stage or a re-pressurization stage of a cyclical swing adsorption process, the valve is partially lifted from a closed position prior to being fully lifted. The valve includes a flow restriction aid positioned to restrict flow through the valve when the valve is in the partially lifted position.
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公开(公告)号:US11260342B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-01
申请号:US15949613
申请日:2018-04-10
摘要: A fractionation system for removing heavy hydrocarbons in a gas stream. A stripping section receives a predominantly liquid phase of the feed gas stream. A co-current contacting system receives a predominantly vapor phase of the feed gas stream. The co-current contacting system includes a compact contacting bundle disposed within a vessel and including a plurality of substantially parallel contacting units, each of the plurality of contacting units having a droplet generator, a mass transfer section, and a separation system. Each droplet generator generates droplets from a liquid disperses the droplets into a gas stream. Each mass transfer section provides a mixed, two-phase flow having a vapor phase and a liquid phase. Each separation system separates the vapor phase from the liquid phase such that the concentration of heavy hydrocarbons in the vapor phase is lower than in the liquid phase.
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公开(公告)号:US11231514B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-25
申请号:US17247527
申请日:2020-12-15
发明人: Sirui Tan , Junzhe Sun
摘要: A method and apparatus for generating attenuation-compensated images of subsurface region, including: computing an image of the region utilizing elastic wave propagation, based on field data and subsurface model; generating forward-modeled data utilizing forward viscoelastic wave propagation, based on the image; computing secondary image by migration; computing NMF based on the images; and applying the NMF to the image to generate the attenuation-compensated image. A method and apparatus includes: iteratively computing attenuation-compensated gradient of the region utilizing an elastic wave propagation operator in the back-propagation and a viscoelastic wave propagation operator in the forward modelling, based on field data and subsurface model; computing search direction based on the attenuation-compensated gradient, searching for an improved model, and checking the improved model for convergence.
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公开(公告)号:US11163081B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-02
申请号:US15913447
申请日:2018-03-06
申请人: Rick A. Box
发明人: Rick A. Box
摘要: A method including: obtaining intercept and gradient stacks and an effective stress volume that correspond to seismic data for a subsurface region; determining Chi angles as a function of effective stress; and generating a seismic volume with the Chi angles that vary as a function of effective stress.
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