NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL PATENTS GRANTED/ALLOWED: 33
​NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL PATENTS PENDING: 39

CURRENTLY PUBLISHED PATENT GRANTS AND APPLICATIONS

 
AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF VISULAZING TARGET OBJECTS IN A FLUID-CARRYING PIPE (Granted 2006)
Norway, Brazil, Canada, China, UK, Mexico, Russia, USA
Teaches of an apparatus for recording and displaying images of and identifying material types in a target object in a fluid carrying conduit includes a downhole unit. The downhole unit includes a controllable x-ray source, the controllable x-ray source structured to emit high energy photons. The downhole unit further includes a sensor unit structured to detect the high energy photons that are backscattered from the target object and to generate signals in response to the detected high energy photons.

DOWNHOLE LOGGING TOOL COMPONENT COOLING WITH REMOTE COLD SOURCE (Granted 2016)
Norway, Brazil, Canada, China, UK, Mexico, Russia, USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia.
Teaches of a downhole tool that is thermally coupled to a rechargeable cold source comprising a solid cold source body being contained in an insulated cooling medium vessel, and wherein the downhole tool is thermally coupled to the cold source by means of a cooling circuit comprising a first heat exchanger arranged at the downhole tool and in a fluid communicating manner being interconnected with a second heat exchanger arranged in the solid cold source body, wherein a refrigeration system is thermally coupled to the cold source during a downhole operation of the cooling device.

APPARATUS FOR REGISTRATION OF PHOTONS AND IONIZING PARTICLES WITH SIMULTANEOUS DIRECTIONAL DEFINITION, FOR EACH PHOTON OR IONIZING PARTICLE, OF A POINT OF ORIGIN IN A FLUID-FILLED CONDUIT (Granted 2013)
Norway, UAE, Angola, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Russia, USA.
Teaches of a detection apparatus for photons or ionizing particles, in which a detector system is provided with several detecting units, each including a scintillator connected to a reader surface on an electronic charge reader, the scintillator being arranged to generate cellular charges on the reader surface when capturing the photons or the ionizing particles, there being a collimator arranged, connected to the scintillator opposite the electronic charge reader , the collimator being arranged to capture photons or ionizing particles exhibiting a direction of motion coinciding with a longitudinal axis of the collimator, and to reject photons or ionizing particles exhibiting a direction of motion deviating from the direction of the longitudinal axis of the collimator.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLABLE DOWNHOLE PRODUCTION OF IONIZING RADIATION WITHOUT THE USE OF RADIOACTIVE CHEMICAL ISOTOPES (Granted 2011)
Norway, UAE, Angola, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Iraq, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, USA.
Teaches of an apparatus for the controllable downhole production of ionizing radiation, the apparatus including at least a thermionic emitter which is arranged in a first end portion of an electrically insulated vacuum container, and a lepton target which is arranged in a second end portion of the electrically insulated vacuum container; the thermionic emitter being connected to a series of serially connected negative electrical-potential-increasing elements, each of said electrical-potential-increasing elements being arranged to increase an applied direct-current potential by transforming an applied, driving voltage, and to transmit the increased, negative direct-current potential and also the driving voltage to the next unit in the series of serially connected elements, and the ionizing radiation exceeding 200 keV with a predominant portion of the spectral distribution within the Compton range.

METHOD AND MEANS FOR CREATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL BOREHOLE DATA (Granted 2017)
USA, EU, Canada.
Teaches of method of creating three-dimensional borehole data, including illuminating a borehole using collimated beams of electromagnetic radiation; rotating the collimated beams in a sweep of at least 360 degrees; detecting backscattered electromagnetic radiation returned from surfaces of associated illumination planes using electromagnetic radiation sensors; converting detected radiation into a corresponding set of volume image data; analyzing the volume image data using computational visualization processing techniques; and creating a three-dimensional image representative of the volume data. Imaging methodologies include a complete, radial conic-shaped surface while the imaging system remains stationary; a plurality of scans performed while longitudinally moving the imaging system a distance d through the borehole between image capture operations; and a plurality of scans performed while longitudinally moving the imaging system a distance d, where d is a distance less than or equal to the collimated beam thickness, so that adjacent scans partially overlap.

METHODS AND MEANS FOR AZIMUTHAL NEUTRON POROSITY IMAGING OF FORMATION AND CEMENT VOLUMES SURROUNDING A BOREHOLE (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of an azimuthal neutron porosity tool for imaging formation and cement volumes surrounding a borehole, the tool including at least an internal length comprising a sonde section, wherein said sonde section further comprises one sonde-dependent electronics; a slip-ring and motor section; and a plurality of tool logic electronics and PSU

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY OF AN OBJECT EMBEDDED WITHIN A SCATTERING MEDIUM (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of methods of reconstructing the surface topography of an object embedded in a scattering medium are provided, with example methodologies including: imaging an object embedded in a signal scattering medium using a scattered signal detector; detecting changes in the magnitude of a plurality of scattered signals obtained from multiple fields of view within the medium; and constructing an image of the surface topography of the object based on said plurality of detected signal magnitude changes.

X-RAY BACKSCATTER IMAGING OF AN OBJECT EMBEDDED IN A HIGHLY SCATTERING FLUID (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of an apparatus and associated method for obtaining a three-dimensional representation of a target object within a fluid-carrying conduit, such as a hydrocarbon exploration or production well, using high energy photons is provided. The representation is essentially a three-dimensional image that achieves visualization of the shape of the target object despite the intervening opaque fluids located between the imaging tool and the object. In one specific though non-limiting embodiment, a narrow, pencil-shaped beam of radiation is scanned in coordination with a similarly narrow detector field-of-view in order to sample the radiation-scattering properties of only a small volume of material at any given time. The result is a clearer to visualization with a greater viewing depth.

METHOD FOR NON-INVADED FORMATION DENSITY MEASUREMENT AND PHOTOELECTRIC EVALUATION USING AN X-RAY SOURCE (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of methods and means to perform an x-ray based density measurement that runs at a speed at least 4x that of conventional methods, while providing an additional measurement of the non-mud-invaded formation directly.

METHODS FOR REAL-TIME CORRECTION OF CALIBRATION CONSTANTS OF A BORE-HOLE LOGGING TOOL BY MEANS OF A REFERENCE DETECTOR (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of methods and means to automatically correct density data by using a reference detector to measure variations in the source output.

METHODS FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN THE ANNULAR MATERIALS OF SINGLE AND DUAL CASING STRING ENVIRONMENTS (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of methods and means to create three-dimensional data-sets of variations in cement-filled annuli surrounding the multiple strings of a borehole.

METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE RESOLUTION OF DETECTION OF AN AZIMUTHAL DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS IN A MULTI CASING WELLBORE ENVIRONMENT (Pending)
USA, PCT.
Teaches of methods and means to create three-dimensional data-sets of variations in cement-filled annuli surrounding the multiple strings of a borehole using light-house type source collimation techniques, in addition to source-angle variations, to significantly increase the special resolution of the tool.