Boring or penetrating the earth inventions 07/08

20080179090 - Cuttings processing system: A method for using a vessel assembly including two or more vessels in multiple drilling unit operations, the method including using a vessel in the container assembly for cuttings storage, and operating at least one vessel in the container system in at least two of a slurrification system, a drilling... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080179091 - Suction coring device and method: Devices and methods for obtaining cores from a sea bed. A corer device includes one or more core barrels for retaining a cores and one or more pressure barrels. Fluid pressure within the pressure barrels is selectively varied to cause the corer device to be drawn into and released from... Agent: Shawn Hunter Law Office Of Shawn Hunter

20080179092 - High density slurry: A module for slurrifying drill cuttings that includes a skid, a programmable logic controller disposed on the skid, and a blender. The blender including a feeder for injecting drill cuttings, a gate disposed in fluid communication with the feeder for controlling a flow of the drill cuttings, and an impeller... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080179093 - Measurement while drilling pulser with turbine power generation unit: Disclosed are a system, device, and method for generating pulse signals that correlate to geological information in a wellbore. The system and method comprises a pulse generating device longitudinally and axially positioned within an annular drill collar flow channel such that the drilling fluid flows through the annular drill collar... Agent: Guerry Leonard Grune

20080179094 - System and method for performing oilfield drilling operations using visualization techniques: The invention relates to a method of performing a drilling operation for an oilfield, which has a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs. The method includes collecting oilfield data, at least a portion of the oilfield data being generated from a wellsite of the oilfield, selectively manipulating the oilfield... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080179097 - Use of cuttings tank for in-transit slurrification: A system for preparing a slurry in-transit including a first cuttings storage vessel disposed on a transport vehicle, a module configured to operatively connect to the first cuttings storage vessel, and a fluid supply line in fluid communication with the first cuttings storage vessel, the module including, a grinding device... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080179096 - Use of cuttings tank for slurrification on drilling rig: A system for preparing slurry on a rig including a first cuttings storage vessel, a module, and a fluid supply line in fluid communication with the first cuttings storage vessel, the module including a grinding device configured to facilitate the transfer of fluids, an inlet connection configured to connect to... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080179095 - Use of cuttings vessel for tank cleaning: A tank cleaning system for use at a drilling location, including a first cuttings storage vessel comprising an inlet and an outlet, at least one tank cleaning machine configured to clean a tank, a disposal vessel, and a module including a pump configured to facilitate the transfer of fluids from... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080179098 - Drill bit assembly for directional drilling: In one aspect of the invention a drill bit assembly has a body portion intermediate a shank portion and a working portion, the working portion having at least one cutting element. A shaft is supported by the body portion and extends beyond the working portion. The shaft also has a... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080179099 - Portable golf hole cutting device: A golf hole cutting device includes an impact portion and a cutting portion. The impact portion preferably takes the form of a portable impact hammer, while the cutting portion includes a cutting head and a shaft having a terminal portion that connects with the portable impact portion. The cutting head... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20080179100 - Downhole drilling tool: A downhole drilling tool 136 comprises a drillstring 138, a drilling head 140, and a freewheel 144 for transferring drive from the drillstring to the drilling head. The freewheel 144 is positioned between the drillstring 138 and the drilling head 140.... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080179101 - Auger: A tool for boring has an axle for drivingly linking at a first end to a portable rotatable machine. At a second end, the axle has a shaft-receiving bore into which a nose shaft is inserted. The nose has a cutting tip and a flight cutter that aligns with a... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20080179102 - Drill bits having optimized cutting element counts for reduced tracking and/or increased drilling performance: A roller cone drill bit for drilling earth formation may include rows arranged on each of the cones such that when viewed in routed profile, cutting element profiles partially overlap with other cutting element profiles and at least the first three interior rows adjacent a gage row each have a... Agent: Smith International Inc.

20080179103 - Magnetic earth bit seal: An earth bit seal includes a magnetic ring that determines how strongly the earth bit seal engages a lug and/or cone of an earth bit. The earth bit seal also includes a flexible ring positioned away from any dynamic sealing surfaces that engage the lug or cone. The flexible ring... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080179104 - Nano-reinforced wc-co for improved properties: A drill bit that includes a bit body; and at least one cutting element for engaging the formation disposed on the bit body, the at least one cutting element comprising: a ductile phase; a plurality of carbide particles dispersed in the ductile phase; and a plurality of nanotubes integrated into... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080179105 - Hole coring system with lever arm: A hole coring system is provided that greatly stabilizes a tubular core drill bit for drilling into concrete or other materials enabling large diameter holes to be drilled with a handheld tool. The drill bit is guided by a mandrel which is attached to the concrete. The mandrel serves as... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080179106 - Rotary drag bit: A rotary drag bit includes a primary cutter row comprising at least one primary cutter and a multiple backup cutter group. The multiple backup cutter group comprises a first and second trailing cutter row, each comprising at least one cutter positioned to follow the at least one primary cutter. The... Agent: Trask Britt

20080179107 - Rotary drag bit and methods therefor: A rotary drag bit includes a bit body having a face and an axis, a plurality of blades extending radially and longitudinally outward from the face, and at least one split cutter set. The split cutter set includes a plurality of cutters, where at least two of the cutters are... Agent: Trask Britt

20080179108 - Rotary drag bit and methods therefor: A rotary drag bit includes a primary cutter row comprising at least one primary cutter, and at least two additional cutters configured relative to one another. In one embodiment, the cutters are backup cutters of a cutter group located in respective first and second trailing cutter rows, oriented relative to... Agent: Trask Britt

20080179109 - Cutting elements formed from ultra hard materials having an enhanced construction: Cutting elements of this invention include an ultra hard body joined with a metallic substrate. The body includes an uppermost layer comprising a plurality of bonded ultra hard crystals and interstitial regions, and that form a body working surface. The uppermost layer includes a thermally stable outer region that is... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080173480 - Method, device and system for drilling rig modification: A method, device and system for augmenting a traditional drilling or workover rig with automated operational, monitoring and reporting systems. The automation system comprises integratable components of various automated operational systems, combined in a device easily adapted to install into the operational area of a drilling or workover rig, wherein... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080173481 - Drill bit configurations for parked-bit or through-the-bit-logging: Disclosed drilling systems offer multiple methods providing access to the open borehole without first tripping the drill string. In some embodiments, a drill bit has a tool port that is blocked by a plug during normal drilling operations. When a tool is deployed through the interior of the drill string,... Agent: Krueger Iselin LLP (1391)

20080173482 - Drill bit: In one aspect of the present invention, a rotary drag drill bit has a body intermediate a shank and a working face. The working face has a plurality of blades converging towards a center of the working face and diverging towards a gauge of the working face. A carbide section... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080169128 - Remote drill fluid supply system and method: A drill fluid supply device includes a drill fluid container. A pump is fluidly coupled to the drill fluid container. The pump configured to move drill fluid from within the container. A drill fluid supply receiver is configured to receive wireless signals to control at least the pump.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080169129 - Drill stem guide and wrench apparatus: A drill stem centralizer and/or breakout wrench includes a frame with opposed hydraulic cylinder actuators mounted on the frame and engaged in with jaw support members for movement toward and away from each other for centralizing or breakout of drill stem sections. The hydraulic actuators are mounted on trunnions which... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080169130 - Wellbore fluids for casing drilling: A method of drilling a subterranean hole that includes mixing a base fluid and a micronized weighting agent having a particle size d90 of less than about 50 microns to form a wellbore fluid; providing a drilling assembly that includes a casing as at least a portion of a drill... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080164062 - Drilling components and systems to dynamically control drilling dysfunctions and methods of drilling a well with same: Drilling tools that may detect and dynamically adjust drilling parameters to enhance the drilling performance of a drilling system used to drill a well. The tools may include sensors, such as RPM, axial force for measuring the weight on a drill bit, torque, vibration, and other sensors known in the... Agent: Trask Britt

20080164063 - Device and method for measuring a property in a downhole apparatus: A method and device for measuring a property, such as torque, includes a plurality of sensors, and a measuring device. The sensors attach to a downhole apparatus at a distance from one another. The sensors provide signals indicating their positions. A logic circuit may calculate an angle between the sensors.... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080164064 - Drill pipe handling and moving system: A pipe handling system includes a frame removably coupled to a drilling mast, a gripping arm moveably coupled to the frame, and a grip jaw extending from the gripping arm to engage a drill pipe, wherein the gripping arm and the grip jaw are operable to move a drill pipe... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080164065 - Construction of a tubular at a downhole location: A method for constructing a lateral hole (303) departing from a main well (302) at a determined depth, the lateral hole (303) having a direction of elongation forming a determined angle with the main well (302), comprises positioning a drilling machine (301) at the determined depth in the main well... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080164066 - Method and device for producing a cased string bore: In a method for producing a cased string bore (5) extending from a well shaft (1) in the horizontal direction for the installation of a filter string, a starter drill pipe (13) and subsequently further drill pipes are driven into the rock mass (6) surrounding the well shaft through an... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080164067 - Method for reducing aqueous content of oil-based fluids: A method for reducing the aqueous content of oil-based drilling fluid includes contacting an invert emulsion wellbore fluid with a water absorbing polymer, interacting the water absorbing polymer with the wellbore fluid for a sufficient period of time so that the water absorbing polymer absorbs at least a portion of... Agent: Legal Dept.,IPGroup M-i L.L.C.

20080164068 - System and method for cleaning drill cuttings with degassed water: A system for cleaning drill cuttings is disclosed, the system including a degassing module configured to substantially degas water; a washing module in fluid communication with the degassing module configured to wash drill cuttings with a washing fluid containing the degassed water; a gassing module in fluid communication with the... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080164069 - Drill bit and cutter element having chisel crest with protruding pilot portion: A rolling cone drill bit includes a cutter element having a cutting portion with a chisel crest and a pilot portion extending beyond the chisel crest. The pilot portion includes a cutting surface that may be generally conical, or form a second chisel crest. The cutting tip of the pilot... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080164070 - Reinforcing overlay for matrix bit bodies: A drill bit that includes a matrix bit body having a reinforcing overlay thereon and having at least one blade thereon; at least one cutter pocket disposed on the at least one blade; at least one cutter disposed in the at least one cutter pocket; and a braze material disposed... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080164071 - Superabrasive cutting elements with enhanced durability and increased wear life, and drilling apparatus so equipped: A cutting element for use in drilling subterranean formations. The cutting element includes a superabrasive table mounted to a supporting substrate. The superabrasive table includes a two-dimensional cutting face having a cutting edge along at least a portion of its periphery, and a surface comprising a chamfer extending forwardly and... Agent: Trask Britt

20080164072 - Degradation assembly: In one aspect of the invention, a tool has a working portion with a least one impact tip brazed to a carbide extension. The carbide extension has a cavity formed in a base end and is adapted to interlock with a shank assembly of the cutting element assembly. The shank... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080164073 - Degradation assembly: In one aspect of the invention, a tool has a working portion with at least one impact tip brazed to a carbide extension. The carbide extension has a cavity formed in a base end and is adapted to interlock with a shank assembly of the cutting element assembly. The shank... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080156530 - Separation device for material from a drilling rig situated on the seabed: A drilling rig device (1) situated on the seabed (11), where the drilling rig (1) is sealingly enclosed against the surroundings, wherein the drilling rig (1) is liquid-filled and provided with a separator (16) arranged to separate material (17) from the liquid.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080156531 - Automated mse-based drilling apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus for MSE-based drilling operation and/or optimization, comprising detecting MSE parameters, utilizing the MSE parameters to determine MSE, and automatically adjusting drilling operational parameters as a function of the determined MSE.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080156532 - Flow density tool: A flow density tool having a flow housing with an inflow orifice and outflow window and a sensor tube inserted from an end opposite inflow orifice. Two symmetrically placed nuclear sources are covered with a lead blanket from the outside so that the sensors are exposed only to the given... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, Plc

20080156533 - Spectrograph tool: An expanding auger axis with a hollow end adapted to receive an unmovable sensor tube in which gamma ray, gamma spectrograph, and/or neutron sensors may be placed, the auger adapted to rotate or circulate a discrete media about the sensors.... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, Plc

20080156534 - Integrated electrode resistivity and em telemetry tool: An integrated electrode resistivity and EM telemetry tool and obtaining both formation resistivity and telemetry data from the integrated tool. An integrated electrode resistivity and EM telemetry tool having a drill collar including a first portion and a second portion separated by an insulated gap and telemetry cartridge carrying telemetry... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080156535 - Wellbore treatment apparatus and method: A treatment apparatus and method for wellbore instability is described including a caliper with one or more radially extending arms which are capable of extending and retracting movement in a radial direction and a fluid supply facility to deliver treatment fluid from the ends of the arms to the wellbore... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20080156536 - Apparatus and method for vibrating a drill bit: In one aspect of the invention a drill bit comprises an axis of rotation a body and a working face. The body comprises a fluid passageway with a first seat and houses a jack element substantially coaxial with the axis. A stop element is disposed within the passageway and has... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080156537 - Core barrel capacity gauge: A core barrel capacity gauge for use on a core barrel assembly having a barrel for receiving a core sample. The core barrel capacity gauge includes a core sample marker located within the barrel such that the core sample marker rests against the top of the drilled core sample and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080156538 - Water treatment pad for core drill: A water treatment pad for core drill, attached on a drilling surface in performing drilling work while supplying cutting water with a core drill, wherein the water treatment pad for core drill comprises: a roughly cylindrical pad main body 10 mounted to surround the core drill and having a drain... Agent: Richard S. Roberts Roberts & Roberts, L.l.p.

20080156540 - Backhead and drill assembly with backhead: In representative embodiments, a backhead for a drill assembly comprises an elongate member having a proximal end connectible to a source of pressurized fluid, a side wall defining an axial bore and an open distal end. A portion of the bore extending proximally from the distal end has an inner... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080156541 - Downhole hammer assembly: A drill bit assembly comprises a bit body intermediate a shank and a working face. The shank is adapted for connection to a drill string. The drill string comprising a fluid passage at least partially disposed within the body. A hammer assembly is movably disposed within the fluid passage along... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20080156539 - Non-rotating drill system and method: A pneumatically operated, deep hole rock drilling system for non-rotating drilling includes a pneumatically operated drive, a hammer sleeve with hammer mechanisms therein/connected thereto, a hammer bit below the hammer sleeve and a tube string above the hammer sleeve. The pneumatically operated drive includes a pneumatic pressure delivery mechanism and... Agent: Kenneth P. Glynn

20080156542 - Rock bit and inserts with wear relief grooves: A rolling cone drill bit includes at least one cutter element comprising a base portion and a cutting portion extending from the base portion. The cutting portion includes a cutting surface with an apex defining an extension height and at least one rib extending from the apex toward the base... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080156543 - Rock bit and inserts with a chisel crest having a broadened region: A drill bit for cutting a borehole comprises a bit body. In addition, the drill bit comprises a rolling cone cutter mounted on the bit body and adapted for rotation about a cone axis. Further, the drill bit comprises at least one insert having a base portion secured in the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080156544 - Drill bit with cutter element having crossing chisel crests: A drill bit for cutting a borehole comprises a bit body including a bit axis. In addition, the drill bit comprises a rolling cone cutter mounted on the bit body. Further, the drill bit comprises a cutter element having a base portion with a diameter and a cutting portion extending... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080156545 - Method, system, and apparatus of cutting earthen formations and the like: A cutter element is provided for use on a rotary drill bit of a drilling string to cut earthen formation and the like. The cutter element includes a cutting portion formed from cutting material adapted to cut into the earthen formation, and a substrate positioned adjacent the cutting portion. The... Agent: Todd D. Mattingly Bracewell & Giuliani LLP