Oddie, GB
Gary M. Oddie, St. Neots GB
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20080236839 | CONTROLLING FLOWS IN A WELL - A technique includes providing equipment in a well and downhole in the well, regulating a ratio of flows provided to the equipment. | 10-02-2008 |
Gary M. Oddie, Cambridgeshire GB
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20130020097 | DOWNHOLE FLUID-FLOW COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE - A method of wireless communication with a downhole assembly in absence of pressure pulse or hard wired communications. Tools and techniques for achieving such wireless communications are directed fluid-flow communication which may be utilized in circumstances where a completions assembly is open to the well in a pressure sense. Notably, a trigger is included with detection equipment which may be utilized to detect fluid-flow generated by surface equipment. In certain embodiments, such equipment may even be mounted exterior of completions equipment tubing through which fluid-flow communication is directed. Thus, wireless downhole communication capacity may even be provided without the need for obstructing tubing with such detection equipment. | 01-24-2013 |
Gary Martin Oddie, St Neots GB
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20080236258 | Methods and Apparatus For Sampling and Diluting Concentrated Emulsions - Methods and apparatus are described for sampling and diluting concentrated emulsions, which may be oil-in-water emulsions, water-in-oil emulsions, or other concentrated emulsions. One method embodiment of the invention comprises obtaining a sample of a concentrated emulsion comprising a dispersed phase and a continuous phase fluid; measuring droplet concentration of the dispersed phase in the sample; and for droplet concentration of the sample greater than about 1000 ppm, diluting the sample with substantially pure continuous phase fluid, forming a first diluted emulsion. Methods of the invention include those wherein the obtaining of a sample comprises opening a fluid connection to a flowing stream comprising the concentrated emulsion, wherein the obtaining and diluting steps occur in real time. This abstract complies with rules requiring an abstract. It should not be used to limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 10-02-2008 |
20090266175 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING TWO PHASE FLUID FLOW - An apparatus (and corresponding method) for characterizing the fluid properties of a two phase fluid includes a restriction element (e.g., orifice plate or nozzle) along the flow path of the two phase fluid. At least one temperature sensor measures temperature of the two phase fluid flowing through the restriction element. A pressure sensor measures the pressure downstream of the restriction element. Time-of-flight measurements of pulses passing through the two phase fluid are made. The speed of sound within the two phase fluid is calculated from the time-of-flight measurements. At least one fluid property (e.g., a vapor phase fraction) of the two phase fluid is calculated from the measured pressure, the measured temperature, and the calculated speed of sound. | 10-29-2009 |
20090271129 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING TWO PHASE FLUID FLOW IN AN INJECTION WELL - A method and corresponding system is provided for determining fluid properties of a two phase fluid flowing through various portions of a wellbore. Specifically, the method and corresponding system determines fluid properties (e.g. enthalpy flux) of the two phase fluid flowing upstream of the injector portion of the wellbore as well as fluid properties (e.g., mass flow rate and enthalpy flux) of the two phase fluid at various measurement locations along the injector. | 10-29-2009 |
20100108314 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOWNHOLE SAMPLING OR SENSING OF CLEAN SAMPLES OF COMPONENT FLUIDS OF A MULTI-FLUID MIXTURE - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for downhole sampling or sensing of clean samples of component fluids of a multi-fluid mixture. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, embodiments of the present invention provide for, amongst other things, separating downhole multi-fluid mixtures into an oil-based fluid, a water-based fluid and/or the like and sampling and/or sensing of the clean separated fluids. Such sampling or sensing may be provided by a downhole tool in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention and the downhole tool may be used for production logging, formation testing and/or the like. | 05-06-2010 |
20140144225 | MULTIPHASE FLOWMETER - A multiphase flow meter comprising two Venturis separated by a choke. The choke may be varied to adjust the properties of the multiphase fluid flow being measured. The two Venturis may be identical and may be arranged horizontally with respect to the multiphase fluid flow. The choke may be a choke in a return line of a managed pressure drilling system. | 05-29-2014 |
20140251026 | Coriolis Flow Meter - A Coriolis flow meter for measuring a liquid volume fraction of a multiphase flow. The Coriolis meter includes a vibrating measurement conduit through which the multiphase flow, a wet gas flow or the like, is flowed and measured and/or analyzed. Operation of the Coriolis flow meter includes obtaining a measure of the input energy required to vibrate the conduit and a measure of the vibrational energy of the conduit, and determining the liquid volume fraction of the wet gas flow from the input energy and the vibrational energy. The liquid volume fraction may be used to correct other measurements made by the Coriolis flow meter such as density or mass flow rate. | 09-11-2014 |
John Oddie, Heathfield GB
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20100208729 | Method and System for Receiving Market Data Across Multiple Markets and Accelerating the Execution of Orders - Systems and methods for utilizing a hardware acceleration solution that are capable of providing ultra-low latency with ultra-high throughput while maintaining consistent performance under a diverse range of market conditions. One or more data packets arrive at a network interface are read and passed through a protocol processing pipeline. At each protocol layer, the headers of the received data packets are inspected to assess whether the source IP address is a known source of financial message data. When the inspected data packet is not from a source of financial data, the inspected data packet may be discarded or processed as if received by a standard network interface. When the inspected packet is from a source of financial data, the data packet is forwarded to a filter. The packet is filtered in accordance with parameters established by a system user to select specific information of relevance to the system user. A low-latency data transfer application programming interface is used to transfer the relevant data through a high speed peripheral bus to a software subsystem of a host system. | 08-19-2010 |
20100211520 | Method and System for Accelerating the Decoding and Filtering of Financial Message Data Across One or More Markets with Increased Reliability - A method and system for accelerating the decoding and filtering of market data to provide reduced latency of the message data while maintaining or increasing throughput and mining market data for subsequent reporting. One or more financial market data streams are directed to one or more portals for introduction to a multiplexing switch. The financial market data streams are combined at the multiplexing switch and provided to a hardware line handler to de-multiplex the combined data stream into first and second streams. The first and second data streams are processed in first and second filter stacks in parallel to identify packets originating from sources of market data. The first and second streams comprising data packets originating from the sources of market data are combined and then decoded to obtain a financial data stream. The financial data stream may be further processed. The financial data stream may then be evaluated in accordance with rules established by a user. A hardware based smart router may be used to facilitate the execution of trades based on embedded routing rules. | 08-19-2010 |
20100241758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HARDWARE ACCELERATED MULTI-CHANNEL DISTRIBUTED CONTENT-BASED DATA ROUTING AND FILTERING - Systems and methods for hardware accelerated multi-channel content-based data routing and filter. Data packets are received at a filtering circuit from one or more sources. The packets are filtered in accordance with parameters established by a system user to select specific information of relevance to the system user. The filtering may be facilitated by the assignment of a content identifier to a data element and routing data elements with the assigned content identifier to a memory associated with a processor core for collection and processing. The filtering, collection and processing is performed without calls to an operating system. The data are then distributed to data consumers over a network for further processing and use. | 09-23-2010 |
Max Edward Oddie, London GB
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20130106165 | UNDERGROUND MINING | 05-02-2013 |