Patents Assigned to Baker-Hughes
  • Publication number: 20230295998
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for an electrical submersible pump (ESP) of a wellbore is disclosed. The system includes a spool and a tubing insert valve to be associated with the wellbore. The spool is to be located above an Xmas tree and is to retain a coil, cable, or wireline that passes through a wellbore and through the tubing insert valve. The coil, cable, or wireline is to be associated with the ESP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoines, Austin Cookson, Mahesha Udipi, Loy Peng Koh, Luis Castro
  • Publication number: 20230296019
    Abstract: A downhole fluid analysis system includes an optical sensor comprising, which includes a light source configured to emit light comprising a plurality of wavelengths, a light detector, and an optical tip through which at least a portion of the light travels and returns to the detector, wherein the incident angle of the light causes total internal reflection within the optical tip. The system further includes a piezoelectric helm resonator that generates a resonance response in response to an applied current, and an electromagnetic spectroscopy sensor positioned symmetrically with respect to the piezoelectric helm resonator in at least one direction. The light may be reflected in the optical tip at one or more reflection points, and each reflection point may generate an evanescent wave in a medium surrounding the optical tip. The light may be internally reflected in the optical tip at a plurality of reflection points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sandip Maity, Otto Fanini, Dwight Swett, Rocco DiFoggio, Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi, Jana Mohamed Aljindan
  • Publication number: 20230295486
    Abstract: A method for inhibiting corrosion of metal surfaces, such as carbon steel tubing, that are in contact with a fluid, such as brine in an oil and gas production fluid containing acid gases (e.g., CO2 and H2S) is accomplished by introducing a corrosion-inhibiting blend of two components into the fluid, where blend is glycolipids and quaternized amines, glycolipids and phosphate-containing compounds, quaternized amines and imidazoline-like compounds, quaternized amines and phosphate-containing compounds, or combinations of these blends. Each of the two components of the blends are present in an amount effective to synergistically inhibiting the corrosion of the metal surface when used together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Carlos M. Menendez, Sunder Ramachandran, Tracey Jackson
  • Patent number: 11762120
    Abstract: A system for performing downhole logging operations includes a conductor coil configured to alternate between producing a magnetic field and measuring a magnetic field induced in a formation, a power supply couplable to the conductor coil for providing an electrical control current to conductor coil, and a signal acquisition system couplable to the conductor coil. The system further includes a permanent magnet coupled to the conductor coil, and a multi-state switch operable in a first state and a second state. In the first state, the conductor coil is coupled to an output of the power supply and decoupled from an input of the signal acquisition system. In the second state, the conductor coil is coupled to the input of acquisition electronics and decoupled from the output of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Stanislav Forgang, Babak Kouchmeshky, Sushant Dutta, Randy Gold
  • Patent number: 11761303
    Abstract: An object includes a housing, a cone received in the housing, a piston body attached to the cone, a gas evolution compound disposed in the object, an interface between the housing and the piston body, an interface feed fluidly connecting the gas evolution compound with the interface, and a trigger to evolve gas from the compound at a selected circumstance. A method for moving a tool including running an object into a borehole, counting features in the borehole using a sensor in the object, evolving gas from the gas evolution compound at a selected count, pressurizing the interface with the evolved gas, driving the piston body, and moving a shoulder member toward a larger diameter end of the cone. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string disposed in the borehole, and an object disposed within or as a part of the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: YingQing Xu, Todd C. Jackson, Eugene Stolboushkin, Matthew D. Solfronk
  • Patent number: 11761277
    Abstract: A method of activating an anchor with an anchor activation system including a housing having an outer surface and an inner surface defining an internal chamber includes introducing a first activation force to a trigger comprising a piston arranged in a piston cylinder extending radially through the outer surface to the internal chamber, sensing that the first activation force did not activate the anchor, and introducing a second activation force to the trigger without reconfiguring the anchor activation system to break a shear element retaining the piston with the first activation to release the piston and activate the anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Tuan Nguyen, Philip M. Gregurek
  • Patent number: 11761280
    Abstract: A downhole tool including a mandrel having a first surface, and opposing second surface defining a flow path, a lock support zone provided one of the first and second surfaces, and a passage extending between the flow path and the first surface. A tool is supported on one of the first and second surfaces. A sleeve is selectively shiftable on the one of the first and second surfaces into engagement with the tool. The sleeve includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion. The second surface portion includes a latch section. A lock system is arranged between the first surface and the second surface portion in the lock support zone. The lock system includes a lock member selectively supporting a lock element in the latch section. The lock element constrains movement of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hern, Christopher Hern
  • Publication number: 20230287772
    Abstract: A pumping system is designed for deployment and retrieval through the production tubing in a live well intervention. The pumping system includes a pump driven by a motor, which may be an integrated motor or a separated motor in which the stator and rotor are separated by the production tubing. The pumping system can be provided power through a reinforced power cable that is capable of supporting the weight of some combination of the motor and pump, or through a standard power cable that is not designed to carry the weight of additional downhole components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Randal Perisho, Shawn Gunter, Risa Rutter, Sean Cain
  • Publication number: 20230288378
    Abstract: A buffer rod for an acoustic measurement device including a ceramic nonmetallic body, a window plate disposed at one longitudinal end of the body, an opposite end of the body configured to interact with a transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Navin Sakthivel, Aaron Avagliano, Baskaran Ganesan, Wei Chen
  • Publication number: 20230286936
    Abstract: A method for direct synthesis of cyclic carbonates is achieved by reacting at least one epoxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of a choline catalyst, such as choline chloride, under mild conditions such as a temperature between about 25° C. to 150° C. and a pressure of from about atmospheric to 75 psi (0.52 MPa), in a cyclic carbonate solvent. The choline catalyst may be the only catalyst used, and a co-catalyst or hydrogen bond donor is not necessary. The concentration of choline catalyst in the solvent ranges from about 0.5 mol % to about 10 mol %, based on the epoxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Analette Carrasco, Jerry J. Weers, Catherine C. Blackwell, Sankaran Murugesan, Xiaofeng Wang, Douglas Nugent, Corby A. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20230288396
    Abstract: A system and method for determining reservoir fluid contamination of a reservoir is disclosed. The system includes one or more sensors to detect field measures from reservoir fluid of the reservoir and includes memory and at least one processor to execute instructions from the memory to cause the system to perform further steps. A step by the at least one processor is to simulate relationship data having purity levels correlated to volumes or times associated with extraction of an applied or simulated fluid for varying modeled rock formations. A further step is to fit one or more of the relationship data to the field measures to generate errors. Yet another step is to determine the reservoir fluid contamination from one of the purity levels that is associated with the relationship data that is within a threshold error value or error range of the errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sefer Coskun, Anup Hunnur, Alireza Shahkarami, Junjie Yang, Emiliano Hall
  • Publication number: 20230287770
    Abstract: A system and method for a fully-integrated flow control module (FI-FCM) in a hydrocarbon reservoir is disclosed. The FI-FCM is a unibody structure or a single-piece machined body having a flow meter integrated to the unibody structure. A choke is to be associated within a provision of the FI-FCM that also has an entry flow path for reservoir fluid and an exit flow path for the reservoir fluid. The entry flow path and the exit flow path inside the unibody structure or the single-piece machined body. Fluid communication is enabled between the flow meter, which is upstream relative to the choke, and an entry flow path. The choke is to control flow between the entry flow path and the exit flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
    Inventors: Scott Macdonald, Stephen Mackin, Emma Stewart
  • Patent number: 11754190
    Abstract: A valve assembly includes a valve body and a valve member extending through at least a portion of the valve body. The valve assembly also includes a seat pocket forming an annular recess in the valve body and a seat arrangement positioned at least partially within the seat pocket. The seat arrangement includes a lower seat extending radially inward from the annular recess toward the valve cavity axis. The seat arrangement also includes an upper seat at least partially overlapping the lower seat, the upper seat extending radially inward toward the valve cavity axis to contact the valve member along a seat face. The seat arrangement further includes an interface seal positioned along an interface between the upper seat and the lower seat, the interface seal receiving a fluid pressure to drive the lower seat radially outward and into the annular recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Lauren Valera, Jeremy Choate, Keith Adams, Mahesha Udipi
  • Patent number: 11753891
    Abstract: A casing mill including a first milling configuration having a first blade for milling a first casing section, and a second milling configuration having a second blade, the second blade being an ultra-high expansion blade for milling a second casing section. A wellbore system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, two nested casings disposed within the borehole, a string disposed within the casings, a casing mill disposed within or as a part of the string and including a first milling configuration having a first blade for milling a first casing section, and a second milling configuration having a second blade, the second blade being an ultra-high expansion blade for milling a second casing section, the second casing section being radially outwardly disposed of the first casing section, and a stroking tool disposed between the first milling configuration and the second milling configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: David Alexander, Andrew Ponder, Knut Inge Dahlberg
  • Patent number: 11753934
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a downhole sampling method that includes receiving fluid data from a fluid downhole in a wellbore operation. The method further includes defining a subset of the fluid data and a remaining subset of the fluid data. The method further includes iteratively generating, by a processing device, a plurality of curves fit to the subset of the fluid data. The method further includes performing, by the processing device, a validation on the plurality of curves as applied to the remaining subset of the fluid data to determine one or more best fit curves from the plurality of curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Anup Hunnur, Sefer Coskun
  • Patent number: 11754211
    Abstract: A tubular connection system includes a connector coupled to a tubular segment, the connector having a first bore with a first bore diameter and a mating connector coupled to the connector, the mating connector having a second bore with a second bore diameter. The connector includes a plurality of connector lugs extending into the first bore. The connector also includes a plurality of gaps, respective gaps of the plurality of gaps are arranged between adjacent connector lugs of the plurality of connector lugs in a first alternating pattern. The plurality of connectors lugs are arranged in connector lug rows. The mating connector includes a plurality of mating lugs radially outward. The mating connector also includes a plurality of openings, respective openings of the plurality of openings are arranged between adjacent mating lugs of the plurality of mating lugs. The plurality of mating lugs are arranged in mating lug rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Choate, Keith Adams, Mahesha Udipi, Brian N. Munk, Blanca Estela Montoya
  • Patent number: 11753925
    Abstract: A method for estimating a parameter relating to solids recovered from a wellbore includes drilling a wellbore using a bottomhole assembly; conveying solids in the wellbore to the surface using drilling fluid; separating the drilling fluid from the solids; and continuously dropping the solids into a solids evaluator positioned above a dryer. The solids evaluator includes a chute having a vertically aligned bore in which the dropped solids reach a constant velocity, a sensor assembly generating a microwave field, and a control unit. The control unit estimates a mass flow rate of the solids based on the generated signals. The method may further include generating the signals representative of a mass flow rate of the dropped solids using the sensor assembly and using the control unit to estimate the mass flow rate of the solids based on the generated signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Stuart E. Hardeman, William Metcalf, Robert Guidry, Kassie E. Mobley, Sean Oliver, Joshuah A. Granados, Michael L. Paul
  • Patent number: 11753904
    Abstract: A valve includes a body having a wall including an outer surface, an inner surface defining a passage, an opening extending from the passage through the outer surface. The outer surface includes a recess. A valve sleeve is arranged in the passage and is selectively positioned over the opening. A valve actuator module is detachably mounted in the recess. The valve actuator module includes a housing having an inlet fluidically exposed to the passage, an outlet fluidically exposed to the valve sleeve, and a valve member arranged between the inlet and the outlet. The valve member includes an actuator delay mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Taylor Broussard
  • Patent number: 11753892
    Abstract: A system for a downhole tubular includes a tubular having an outer surface and an inner surface. An anchor setting system is disposed in the tubular. The anchor setting system includes a motor system. An anchor assembly is disposed on the tubular. The anchor assembly includes slip and a setting system having a piston assembly. A window cutting system is arranged along the tubular. An actuator extends from the motor system, through the window cutting system, to the piston assembly. The motor system is selectively activated through a signal to deploy the slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Tuan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11753932
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating pulses in a drilling fluid are described. The systems are configured to be positioned along a tubular string through which a drilling fluid flows. The systems include a housing supported along the string. A valve stator is supported by the housing and has at least one flow path that extends from an upstream end to a downstream end of the valve stator. A valve rotor is positioned adjacent the valve stator and configured to selectively obstruct the at least one flow path. An axial gap is present between the valve rotor and the valve stator. A motor is coupled to the valve rotor to rotate the valve rotor relative to the valve stator and an axial release assembly having a rotational element is configured to adjust the axial gap between the valve rotor and the valve stator based on a rotation of the rotational element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Bastian Sauthoff