Patents Assigned to Baker-Hughes
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Patent number: 11869052Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium may include executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide for a non-destructive testing (NDT) ecosystem. The NDT ecosystem includes a repository of digital content, and a store configured to sell the digital content to a customer, wherein the digital content is executable by a NDT device and wherein the digital content is created by a plurality of entities.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Sekhar Soorianarayanan, Robert Carroll Ward, Michael Christopher Domke, Scott Leo Sbihli, Francois Xavier De Fromont, Jason Howard Messinger
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Publication number: 20240004098Abstract: A system includes a carrier and a sound emitting member secured to the carrier. The sound emitting member includes a first mass coupled to the carrier by a first spring and a second mass coupled to the first mass by a second spring. The system also includes an actuator configured to transmit energy to the sound emitting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Tobias Colista, Karsten Fuhst
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Publication number: 20240003228Abstract: A cross-over tool including a housing having an extension port therein, a gravel pack port sleeve having a gravel pack port structure and a seal disposed at a radially inward surface of the port structure, and an activation sleeve having an opening therein, the activation sleeve being in dynamic sealing contact with the seal of the port structure. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a completion string in the borehole, and a tool disposed in the completion string. A method for gravel packing a borehole including releasing the housing from a latch connected to a workstring, applying tension to the activation sleeve with the workstring, and aligning the opening of the activation sleeve with the gravel pack port.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Wilfred Provost
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Publication number: 20240003462Abstract: An interval control valve actuator includes an electrohydraulic pressure generator and an actuation pressure line extending between the generator and a valve. A hydraulic junction disposed in the actuation pressure line is selectively hydraulically joins the actuation pressure line to a backup pressure line. An interval control valve including a housing, a valve disposed in the housing, an electrohydraulic actuator hydraulically connected to the valve by an actuation pressure line. A hydraulic junction disposed between the electrohydraulic actuator and the valve and a backup pressure line hydraulically connected to the hydraulic junction, the backup pressure line being selectively hydraulically connectable to the actuation pressure line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Thomas McClain Scott, Marc Samuelson, David Schneider
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Publication number: 20240004100Abstract: A system herein includes one or more processors to determine asymmetric compensation measurements from at least one receiver antenna pair and at least one transmitter antenna pair on a tool body in an underground formation. The asymmetric compensation measurements are to be used with symmetric compensation measurements from the plurality of antenna pairs. The asymmetric compensation measurements are associated with signals from individual transmitter antennas that are at asymmetric or unequal distances from individual receiver antennas that receive a version of the signals. The individual receiver antennas are part of the at least one receiver antenna pair having symmetrically located receiver antennas with respect to a midpoint of the tool body and the individual transmitter antennas are part of the at least one transmitter antenna pair having symmetrically located transmitter antennas with respect to a midpoint of the tool body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Thomas Kruspe, Martin Folberth, Sushant M. Dutta, Andreas Hartmann, Holger F. Thern
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Publication number: 20240003217Abstract: A metal-to-metal seal for sealing an annular space between a well casing and a wellbore. The seal includes a first end, a second end, and a central seal portion. The central seal portion has a concave shape in a de-energized state which curves towards the centerline of the seal and is capable of flexing radially outward towards surface of the annular space when energized. The central seal portion further includes at least one outer ridge extending outward away from the centerline of the seal and sealingly engages with the outer annular surface when energized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Laura Walker, Keith Adams, Brian Munk, Lauren Valera, Mahesha Udipi
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Publication number: 20240003198Abstract: A downhole assembly that includes tubulars rotationally coupled to one another. An interface is between adjacent tubulars that makes up at least a portion of the rotational coupling. Certain surfaces of adjacent tubulars come into contact with one another when adjacent tubulars are rotationally coupled; and which are defined as contact surfaces. Each contact surface is profiled with facets that are complementary to facets on a corresponding contact surface of an adjacent tubular. The profiling of the contact surfaces is such that when a contact surface is brought together with a corresponding contact surface; facets on the contact surface abut facets on the corresponding contact surface along planes that are oblique or parallel with an axis of the tubular. At least some of a rotational torque transmitted between adjacent tubulars occurs across the abutting facets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Detlev Benedict, Volker Peters, Hanno Reckmann, Ingo Roders
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Publication number: 20240003213Abstract: A compression plate to be used with a slip hanger is disclosed in at least one embodiment along with embodiments of methods to prepare and use such a compression plate. The compression plate includes at least one bolt hole and includes at least one split in the at least one bolt hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Samuel Cheng
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Publication number: 20240003216Abstract: An expandable annular seal tool including a cone having an actuation surface, a seal member disposed in the actuation surface, and an annular seal element disposed on the actuation surface. An embodiment of a borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, and a tool disposed in the borehole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Andrew Duggan
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Patent number: 11859470Abstract: Examples of techniques for extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir based on an artificial lift plan are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method includes performing, by a processing device, an evaluation of an artificial lift approach that can be operated at a well having a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir, the evaluation being based at least in part on a static factor associated with operating the artificial lift approach in the well and a dynamic factor associated with operating the artificial lift approach at a operating condition. The method further includes generating, by the processing device, an artificial lift plan based at least in part on the evaluation. The method further includes extracting the hydrocarbons from the subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir based on the artificial lift plan by operating, at the well, the artificial lift approach.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventor: Jeremy Daniel Van Dam
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Patent number: 11859452Abstract: A latch system including a plurality of rocker latches, a rocker support, supporting the plurality of rocker latches, and a movement restrictor in operative connection with each rocker latch of the plurality of rocker latches, the movement restrictor allowing or restricting movement of each rocker latch of the plurality of rocker latches relative to the rocker support. A downhole tool including a sleeve movable relative to other portions of the tool, the sleeve having a profile at an uphole end thereof, an actuator runnable into contact with the sleeve, the actuator including the latch. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a latch system disposed within or as a part of the string.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: David Bishop, Ronald J. Garr
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Publication number: 20230416586Abstract: The aqueous phase of a drilling fluid can be provided with self-adjusting alkalinity by introducing a buffering system, where the buffering system includes a buffering agent, an acid or a base, and an inorganic salt, and where the pH of the aqueous phase is in the range of from about 8 to about 12. In one non-limiting embodiment, the pH does not vary by more than about 0.5 pH units after a variation in temperature of the drilling fluid of at least about 175° C. for at least about 200 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Helmuth Sarmiento Klapper
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Patent number: 11851972Abstract: A wellhead annulus packoff and an associated method of energizing and de-energizing are disclosed. The wellhead annulus packoff includes at least one seal element, a hanger lockdown ring, a hanger lockdown energizing ring, a seal lockdown ring, a seal lockdown energizing ring, and one or more mechanical conditional operators, where the at least one seal element adapted to be energized with a first energizing force applied through a seal lockdown energizing ring and with the one or more mechanical conditional operators being engaged, where the seal lockdown ring is adapted to be energized with the first energizing force and with the one or more mechanical conditional operators being disengaged, and where the hanger lockdown ring is adapted to be energized with a second energizing force applied through a hanger lockdown energizing ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Samuel Cheng, Xichang Zhang, Prashant Patel
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Patent number: 11851969Abstract: The present disclosure is for an inverted diffuser usable in wellheads and other wellsite equipment. The inverted diffuser includes at least one first section having a first vertical inner surface, a first inclined inner surface relative to the first vertical inner surface, and one or more channels supporting one or more releasable fasteners between the at least one first section and a wall of a wellhead or of a wellsite equipment. At least one second section is press-fitted or fastened adjacent to the at least one first section. A method for application of the inverted diffuser in a wellhead and in other wellsite equipment is also disclosed, along with a method of manufacture of the inverted diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Fabio O. Tanaka, Jonathan Powell, Mahesha Udipi, Timothy D. Fuller, Bryan Leach
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Patent number: 11851967Abstract: A downhole assembly includes a disintegrable article, which contains a polymer matrix comprising a polymer having an oxygen content of about 2 wt % to about 30 wt %; an energetic material configured to generate heat upon activation to facilitate a chemical decomposition of the polymer; and at least one of a reinforcing fiber or a filler. The disintegrable article is disintegrated by disposing the downhole assembly in a downhole environment; performing a downhole operation; exposing the polymer in the polymer matrix to the generated heat to chemically decompose the polymer producing a decomposed product containing a small molecule in a supercritical state; and disintegrating the disintegrable article with the small molecule in the supercritical state.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Zhihui Zhang, Emerson Nunez
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Patent number: 11852807Abstract: A system for downhole optical analysis includes a housing forming at least part of a pressure barrier. The system also includes a window, formed at an end of the housing, the window being at least semi-transparent to permit light to travel through the window. The system further includes at least one light source, arranged within the housing, wherein the at least one light source is configured to emit a beam of light at a wavelength to enable non-contact, optical cleaning of the window, the wavelength being selected to reduce interaction with the window while heating a fluid film formed on the window outside the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Rocco DiFoggio
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Patent number: 11851971Abstract: A wellbore system includes a hanger lock energizing ring, a hanger lock ring, and a shoulder ring. The wellbore system further includes a seal energizing ring coupled to the shoulder ring. The wellbore system also includes a seal element being driven into an energized position by the seal energizing ring. The wellbore system further includes a seal lock energizing ring being driven to move via one or more extensions. The wellbore system includes a seal lock ring being supported, at least in part, by the seal energizing ring. Both the hanger lock ring and the seal lock ring are set, substantially simultaneously, responsive to movement of the one or more extensions.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Samuel Cheng, Prashant Patel, Xichang Zhang
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Publication number: 20230407715Abstract: A method for managing carbon containing gases, including conveying the carbon containing gas to a reactor vessel, conveying propylene oxide to the vessel, reacting the carbon containing gas with the propylene oxide to create propylene carbonate (PC), applying the propylene carbonate to a cuttings stream from a borehole in a subsurface drilling operation and dissolving residual oil from cuttings of the stream into the propylene carbonate. A system for managing carbon containing gas emissions from a borehole drilling operation, including a carbon containing gas emitter, a reactor vessel fluidly connected to the emitter, a propylene oxide supply fluidly connected to the reactor vessel and an applier connected to the reactor vessel, the applier configured to apply propylene carbonate (PC) created in the reactor vessel to a cuttings stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Mehrdad Gharib Shirangi, Qusai A. Darugar, Charles A. Thompason, JR.
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Patent number: 11846178Abstract: A method of determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well; a subsea well; and a system for determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK LimitedInventors: Mario Alonso Rincon, Anthony Vangasse, Dean Arnison
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Patent number: 11846152Abstract: A mechanical jar including a housing, a piston disposed in the housing and responsive to applied fluid pressure to move in a first direction relative to the housing, a biasing arrangement disposed in the housing and configured to bias the piston in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a restraint configured to prevent movement of the piston in the second direction until a threshold force is applied to the restraint by the piston, whereafter the piston suddenly moves in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventor: James Smith