Richard Degner

US Patent:

20100265793, Oct 21, 2010

Filed:

Apr 18, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/426233

Inventors:

Thomas J. Fleure - Missouri City TX, US
Richard Degner - Houston TX, US
Jonathan Nelson - Missouri City TX, US

Assignee:

Global Geophysical Services Incorporated - Houston TX

International Classification:

G01V 1/38
G01V 1/16

US Classification:

367 20, 367 56

Abstract:

A method for acquiring three-dimensional seismic data for sub-surface geologic features wherein a seismic source array is moved along a survey pattern having a plurality of source lines of unequal lengths that are substantially parallel to each other and intersect a receiver line. The survey pattern can be repeated in an overlapping and interleaved fashion to survey a larger area.

US Patent:

20130100772, Apr 25, 2013

Filed:

Oct 19, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/277181

Inventors:

Kirk Girouard - Houston TX, US
Richard Degner - Bellaire TX, US
Thomas John Fleure - Missouri City TX, US
David Martin Flentge - Sugar Land TX, US

Assignee:

Global Geophysical Services, Inc. - Missouri City TX

International Classification:

G01V 1/20

US Classification:

367 56

Abstract:

Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and systems for a D seismic data acquisition array, comprising: a first plurality of receiver positions, substantially equally spaced along a first plurality of substantially parallel and substantially equally spaced receiver lines; a second plurality of receiver positions, substantially equally spaced along a second plurality of substantially parallel and substantially equally spaced receiver lines, wherein the receiver lines in the second plurality of receiver lines are substantially orthogonal to the receiver lines in the first plurality of receiver lines; a plurality of source positions, the source positions being located along a plurality of substantially parallel and substantially equally spaced source lines that are substantially parallel to one of the diagonals of the rectangles formed by the first plurality of receiver lines and the second plurality of receiver lines.

US Patent:

20210254307, Aug 19, 2021

Filed:

Feb 12, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/175153

Inventors:

- Bellaire TX, US
Sean Clancy - Houston TX, US
Robert Hauser - Frisco TX, US
Richard Degner - Bellaire TX, US

International Classification:

E02F 9/20
G05D 1/00
E02F 3/32
G05D 1/02

Abstract:

A sensor retrieval system includes a self-propelled unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) having a control system including a navigation controller, an excavator controller and an extractor controller. The navigation controller has instructions to move the UGV to proximate a geodetic position of a sensor disposed proximate a surface of the ground. The UGV further comprises a sensor position locator arranged to determine distance, direction and relative elevation of the sensor with respect to the UGV. An extractor is in signal communication with the extractor controller. The extractor comprises means for lifting the sensor from the ground to a predetermined depth. An excavator is in signal communication with the excavator controller. The excavator comprises means for removing overburden from above the sensor to leave the overburden to at most the predetermined depth. The navigation controller has instructions to position the UGV such that the extractor is disposed above the sensor when the relative elevation is at most the predetermined depth and to position the UGV such that the excavator is disposed above the sensor when the relative elevation is above the predetermined depth. The navigation controller, the extractor controller and the excavator controller have instructions to position the UGV, operate the extractor and operate the excavator to remove excess overburden and extract the sensor based on the relative elevation.

US Patent:

20170184744, Jun 29, 2017

Filed:

Mar 15, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/459011

Inventors:

- Bellaire TX, US
Richard A. Degner - Bellaire TX, US

International Classification:

G01V 1/16
G01V 1/22

Abstract:

A geophysical sensor deployment sleeve includes an electrically non-conductive fiber woven into a shape of a tube open at one end and closed at the other end. The fiber has a tensile strength such that upward force applied to the open end of the tube is capable of removal of a sensor or sensor recording node disposed in the tube in a hole below a ground surface irrespective of consolidated materials infiltrating and/or covering the tube below ground level.