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5448281 Print head pressure adjustment mechanism  
A printing pressure adjustment system and a method for adjusting the pressure applied by a print head against a backup member are disclosed. The adjustment system includes an elongated member that...
5373346 Data gathering computer and analysis display computer interface system and methodology  
A data gathering computer and host data display computer interface system, methodology and protocol are described that utilize a shared control program. The data gathering computer uses this...
5184692 Retrievable radiation source carrier  
A retrievable radiation source carrier assembly for a logging while drilling tool is disclosed. The carrier includes a solid rod or member of high strength and low elastic modulus that connects the...
5159499 Logging cable magnetic remark apparatus  
A magnetic mark on a cable is subject to loss of intensity. The present disclosure provides for remarking. It utilizes a detector which responds to passage of a magnetic mark on the cable. A coil...
5157392 Telemetry network for downhole multistation seismic recording tools  
A seismic logging system for VSP or cross well data capture set forth. It is comprised of M duplicate recording stations connected serially below a main structure suspended on a logging cable. Each...
5103178 Method using a pluraliyt of electrode, including a reference electrode, for recording a spontaneous potential curve in a borehole while drilling  
An apparatus and method for obtaining a spontaneous potential curve, which pparatus is comprised of: (a) an elongated body: (b) a series of vertically spaced electrodes for measuring electrical...
5062084 Borehole digital geophone tool  
A method and apparatus for acquiring acoustical data from a borehole and is especially useful in carrying out tomogrphy surveys. The borehole digital geophone (BDG) tool of the present invention is...
5038378 Method and apparatus for smoothing measurements and detecting boundaries of features  
A method and apparatus are described for removing noise by smoothing fine resistivity measurements made with a tool from inside a borehole penetrating an earth formation. Pixel values...
4747060 Data acquisition module and method  
A data acquisition apparatus includes two microcomputers interconnected by a shared dual access digital storage device. One microcomputer obtains the data related to the monitored condition, stores...
4661932 Dynamic downhole recorder  
A method and apparatus allows dynamic data to be recorded in a drill string for later playback at the surface. The system includes a transducer located in a sub in the drill string which provides...
4622635 Portable display and control terminal for wells  
A portable terminal for plugging into a well production control system for displaying data from the control system and for entering data into the control system. A liquid crystal display module on...
4607352 Method and apparatus for obtaining a display of a characteristic of the periphery of a well  
The apparatus and method of the present invention pertain to visual presentation systems employing scan lines, wherein each scan line is divisible into sets of points respectively corresponding to...
4594665 Well production control system  
Apparatus for detecting fluid pound in a sucker-rod oil well, using values of sucker-rod position and of sucker-rod load to calculate a reference position and a selected load value. The apparatus...
4570234 Oilfield monitor and recorder  
An oilfield monitor and recorder system providing marker positioning using a leadscrew, a stepper motor, a position sensor, driver and control. The control provides zero, span, slew and range...
4551730 Method and apparatus for entering control points relative to a dynagraph of a well pumping unit  
Method and apparatus for entering control points relative to a dynagraph of a well pumping unit using the position of a beam and a pen holder of an XY plotter. The beam and/or the pen holder is...
4542488 Method and system for producing a PPI display  
A borehole logging tool employs an energy transmitter and receiver for scanning a borehole with energy pulses. An orientation pulse is produced each time the tool rotates past a predetermined...
4538248 Recording system for a borehole logging tool  
A borehole logging system includes a borehole logging tool, a logging tool depth encoder for indicating rate of movement of the logging tool, a moving recording medium, and a recording encoder for...
4483188 Method and apparatus for recording and playback of dynagraphs for sucker-rod wells  
Method and apparatus for recording and subsequent playback of selected dynagraphs for wells employing sucker-rod pumping units to determine well faults which cause well shutdown. Calibration data...
4456983 System and method for visual display of well logging data  
An improved well logging system and method is provided for deriving and visibly displaying a recordable representation of a comprehensive lithological profile of the earth materials traversed by a...
4428072 Seismic well log display method and apparatus  
Apparatus and method for recording seismic signals on a logging chart as a function of the depth of a logging sonde within a well bore includes apparatus for analyzing the seismic signals. The...
4387774 Time recorder for in-hole motors  
Real time responsive devices are mounted at the inlet to an in-hole motor to measure the interval of time during which drilling fluid circulates through the motor.
4367477 Rate of penetration recorder  
An apparatus for measuring the rate of movement of one object with respect to another, such as a drilling rate recorder used to measure the rate of penetration of a drill bit during drilling...
4355378 Logging system depth recorder  
A logging tool recording system counts and converts depth pulses into a digital coded format. Such digital coded format is converted to a serial digital word for recording on an analog recorder....
4338664 Method of evaluating formations traversed by a borehole  
A method which determines output parameters (such as porosity φ or water saturation Sw of formations) from a set of logging measurements taken at each level of a borehole is proposed.Measurement ...
4307395 Method of and apparatus for recording, storing and replaying dynamometer data from a liquid well pump  
A method and apparatus for accepting analog voltage signals from a reciprocating liquid well pump and digitizing the signals and storing the signals for playback at a later time. A receiving...
4298572 Mud logging system  
A system (10) for continuously analyzing drilling mud circulating through a borehole comprises a sampling chamber (12) through which flows the return mud, a sensor (16) mounted in the sampling...
4293934 Circumferential acoustic device  
A method and apparatus for acoustical logging wherein a plurality of transducers are spaced circumferentially in a plane perpendicular to the borehole and in close proximity to the wall of the...
4293309 Method of obtaining and recording seismic and geochemical data  
A method is disclosed for determining the location of hydrocarbon reservoirs which comprises the steps of drilling boreholes along a linear path to a depth below the weathered zone, sampling the...
4208966 Methods and apparatus for selectively operating multi-charge well bore guns  
In the representative embodiments of the new and improved methods and apparatus disclosed herein for controlling multicharge perforating guns or core-sampling guns, the gun-control system of the...
4208665 Dynamometer for monitoring sucker rod strings  
A dynamometer for monitoring the tension in a pair of spaced, elongated members. A pen, actuated by a sensor means, measures the tension in the pair of spaced, elongated members, and places indicia...
4099410 Rate of penetration recorder  
A latching control circuit for a rate of penetration recorder providing an output indication in response to the vertically downward movement of a drilling swivel a predetermined penetration distance.
4043191 Dynanometer for a pump-off control  
A dynamometer for measuring the tension in a pair of spaced, elongated members. The dynamometer includes a spring member having distal ends spaced from a medial portion, and a clamp means by which...
4030064 Methods and apparatus for recording well logging measurements  
According to one embodiment, distinctive indicia having a "three-dimensional" appearance and representative of well logging data is produced by a CRT (Cathode-ray tube) recorder by modulating both...
4001774 Method of transmitting signals from a drill bit to the surface  
A system for performing wellbore telemetry operations wherein a communication link between a subsurface location in a well and the location substantially at the surface is established and...
3978588 Magnetic wire line marking, erasing and detecting method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for providing a signal when equipment being run into or out of a well on a magnetizable wire line reaches a previously visited point in the well below the surface. With the...
3979714 Two-receiver, variable-density logging system  
An acoustic velocity logging tool employs a transmitter and a pair of receivers. Acoustic pulses from the transmitter pass through the formation surrounding the borehole to the receivers. The...
3967235 Acoustic velocity logging system  
An acoustic velocity logging tool employs a transmitter and a pair of receivers. Acoustic pulses from the transmitter pass through the formation surrounding the borehole to the receivers. The...
3916372 Methods and apparatus for recording well logging measurements  
According to one embodiment, distinctive indicia having a "three-dimensional" appearance and representative of well logging data is produced by a CRT (Cathode-ray tube) recorder by modulating both...
3842507 RECORDING INSTRUMENT FOR DETERMINING RATE OF PENETRATION IN A BOREHOLE  
A measuring instrument for monitoring the rate of penetration of a borehole comprising a shaft having a drum thereon which is turned in proportion to movement of the drill string. The shaft has an...
3839712 DIFFERENTIAL PRINT-OUT SHADING TECHNIQUE FOR DIGITAL SYSTEMS  
One embodiment of the invention provides a circuit that switches the control of a graphical reproduction device between two input signals in order to produce a trace that shifts back and forth...
3835953 ACOUSTIC CALIPER LOGGING  
Acoustic pulses transmitted horizontally from a unit in a borehole are reflected at the borehole walls and the reflections are detected. Time functions representative of travel time of the...
3823407 DEPTH PENETRATION DRILLING RECORDER  
A recorder for monitoring the depth of penetration and downtime of a drill during drilling operations with respect to drilling time. The recorder includes a chart carried by a rotating drum...
3781783 BOREHOLE LOGGING SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED DISPLAY AND RECORDING APPARATUS  
Improved borehole logging apparatus for use with a borehole tool obtaining a transmitter for periodically generating an acoustic signal at varying depths within a borehole and a receiver spaced...
3747060 SIGNAL GENERATING AND RECORDING APPARATUS WITH TIME DELAY  
Two signal generators, such as sonic logging transmitters, are actuated sequentially by a circuit which includes an oscillator and a pulse generator. The delay between the actuations is established...
3739888 APPARATUS FOR DRIVING A RECORDING INSTRUMENT  
Mechanism for driving an odometer for logging footage drilled by an oil well drill or the like, and including a clutch driven by a measuring line, a shaft driven through the clutch, a sleeve...
3714623 MEMORIZER  
A system is disclosed for individually storing dc voltage values of an applied continuous voltage sampled at controlled intervals, extracting the dc voltage samples at predetermined intervals...
3710448 RECORDING INCLINOMETER  
A well bore inclinometer comprises an instrument mounted in a flow tube forming a part of a drill string. The instrument includes a record tape cartridge that is reciprocated each time the pump...
3684872 MEANS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING THE INTERFACE POSITIONS OF AN INJECTION FLUID IN A PETROLEUM OR GAS RESERVOIR USING AN ELECTROLYTIC MODEL OF THE RESERVOIR  
An insulated grid, having four electrode probes at each intersection, overlays an analog model, using an electrolytic solution, of a petroleum or gas reservoir so that some or all of the probes are...
3680042 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING WELL LOGGING DATA  
In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a recording and displaying apparatus is adapted to record or display well logging signals derived from a well tool in a...
3660649 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING DRILLING COSTS  
Apparatus and method for computing the cost per unit length of borehole drilled by a drilling apparatus, as for example, the cost per foot of borehole drilled. First signals representative of...
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