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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350569 | Separable plug for use in a wellbore The invention generally relates to an apparatus and a method for conveying and operating tools in a wellbore. In one aspect, a method of performing an operation in a wellbore is provided. The method includes running a selectively separable plug member accommodating ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7258167 | Method and apparatus for storing energy and multiplying force to pressurize a downhole fluid sample A method and apparatus store energy in an energy storage medium located in an energy storage chamber. As a sampling tool descends into the borehole, the energy storage medium is pressurized with hydrostatic pressure. A sample is collected in a sample chamber by pump... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7025318 | Container support A container (10) having a plurality of panels (12–18) joined together to form a sleeve (64). The panels (12–18) each have an end edge that cooperate to define an imaginary plane (P) at one end of the sleeve (64). The container ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6834727 | Emergency deflate mechanism and method for inflatable packer assemblies Devices and methods are provided that permit a packer element to be deflated in the event of an emergency wherein power to the inflating pump is lost. An inflatable packer assembly having packer elements are selectively inflated by fluid pumped from the wellbore thr... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6755252 | Downhole surge pressure reduction and filtering apparatus The present invention provides a downhole cementing apparatus run into a borehole on a tubular. The apparatus is constructed on the pipe in such a way that pressure surge during run-in is reduced by allowing fluid to enter the pipe and utilize the fluid pathway of t... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6598682 | Reservoir communication with a wellbore A method and apparatus for improving reservoir communication includes, in one arrangement, use of one or more chambers to create an underbalance condition and/or a fluid surge in the wellbore. In another arrangement, a tool string comprises a packer, a ci... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6325145 | Pressure pulse attenuator A downhole in-line tubular accumulator for the attenuation of pressure pulses generated by operation of a downhole vibratory apparatus in an oil or gas well. An inner tube is positioned within a hollow housing, with the inner tube being attached to the ho... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6196319 | Hydraulic sand removal tool An apparatus and method for removing sand and other debris from a wellbore. The apparatus is particularly suited for wireline operation, and requires minimal surface equipment. A housing is lowered into the wellbore until the housing is proximate to the s... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6148914 | Sampling hydrocarbons in a well using a flexible bag To take a sample of liquid and/or gaseous hydrocarbon at the surface or down an oil well, use is made of a flexible bag suspended by a tube from a top region of a wall of a closed receptacle. The bag and the tube are made of a flexible material that is le... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5957196 | Apparatus for enhanced bioremediation of underground contaminants A tall cylindrical silicone rubber gas permeable tube is adapted to fit in an injection well at least partly below the water table for the bioremediation of organic contaminants and to contain pressurized oxygen and/or other gases supportive of the anaero... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5609205 | Well fluid sampling tool A well fluid sampling tool and method for retrieving chemically accurate hydrocarbon samples from new wells. The sampling tool is provided with a chemically inert sample chamber and lowered to the required depth in the well where a well fluid sample is ad... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5584954 | Apparatus and method for attaching elastic at an angle This disclosure relates to a machine which receives a strip or strips of material, rotates the strip or strips, and transfers the strip or strips to sheet material. The machine comprises a plurality of tables including first and second adjacent tables, an... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5513704 | Flow back fracture stimulation system The invention relates to fluid flow separators for use with high velocity production fluid flow. The separator has an expansion chamber provided with a flow barrier mounted within the chamber. The barrier is formed from an impact deformable material, such... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5358057 | Modular device for collecting multiple fluid samples from soil using a cone penetrometer An improved module and assembly for sampling liquids and gases within the ground is characterized by module housings containing sampling cavities having lateral openings to the exterior of the housings. Within each lateral opening a removable insert and p... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5259451 | Down hole well tool with pressure relief chamber A down hole well tool for use in operating another well tool against the resistance of incompressible well bore fluid. The down hole tool includes a pressure chamber that communicates through an adjustable pressure relief valve with the well bore fluids b... | 11/09/1993 |
| 4760884 | Air chamber actuated dual tubing release assembly An apparatus and method of operation for the release of concentric tubing strings used in well operations. In the preferred embodiment, the apparatus includes a tubing release assembly and an air chamber assembly as an actuating tool. The tubing release a... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4717473 | Apparatus for time-averaged or composite sampling of chemicals in ground water The ground-water sampler collects a time-averaged or composite sample of the ground water. The sampling system was designed to be self-contained and all sources of power being contained within the well casing. The sampler collects the sample on a sorptive... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4597439 | Full-bore sample-collecting apparatus In the representative embodiments of the new and improved apparatus disclosed herein, a string of full-bore well tools are arranged to be suspended from a pipe string in a well bore penetrating an earth formation in flow communication with the well bore. ... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4069865 | Bottom hole fluid pressure communicating probe and locking mandrel A well bottom hole fluid pressure measuring structure including external to internal pressure transducer fluid passage communicating structure with pressure balancing on engaged probe members to prevent undesired pressure lift separation of one probe sect... | 01/24/1978 |
