Patents Assigned to Baker Hughes Holding, LLC
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Patent number: 11579097Abstract: A localization method and system for mobile remote inspection and/or manipulation tools in confined spaces are provided. The system comprises a mobile remote inspection and/or manipulation device including a carrier movable within the confined space and an inspection and/or manipulation tool, such as an inspection camera, pose sensors arranged on the movable carrier for providing signals indicative of the position and orientation of the movable carrier, and distance sensors arranged on the movable carrier for providing signals indicative of the distance to interior surfaces of the confined space. The localization method makes use of probalistic sensor fusion of the measurement data provided by the pose sensors and the distance sensors in order to precisely determine the actual pose of the movable carrier and localize data generated by the inspection and/or manipulation tool.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Moritz Oetiker, Tobias Neukom, Nitish Jha
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Patent number: 11566488Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of delaying viscosification of a well treatment fluid within a well or within a subterranean formation penetrated by a well by introducing into the well a hydratable viscosifying agent of particulates having a minimum of 40% retention on a 60 mesh screen and a minimum of 1% retention on a 20 mesh screen.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Andreas Brandl, Christina Magelky, Angela Anh Doan, Windal Scott Bray
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Patent number: 11548098Abstract: A method of forming a cutting element for an earth-boring tool may include directing at least one energy beam at a surface of a volume of polycrystalline superabrasive material including interstitial material disposed in regions between inter-bonded grains of polycrystalline superabrasive material. The method includes ablating the interstitial material with the at least one energy beam such that at least a portion of the interstitial material is removed from a first region of the volume of polycrystalline superabrasive material without any substantial degradation of the inter-bonded grains of superabrasive material or of bonds thereof in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Rocco DiFoggio
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Patent number: 11549082Abstract: A cleaning agent comprising a polyacrylate terpolymer and a maleic olefin compound may be added to an aqueous system having a metal surface, such as a metal surface of a heat exchanger, in a concentration sufficient to remove fouling deposits from the metal surface in neutral or alkaline conditions. The removal of fouling deposits with the application of the cleaning agent may occur while the system is shut down or in service.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Mary Jane Legaspi Felipe, Montgomery Pifer, Ramakrishna Ponnapati, Joey Dacula Mangadlao, Anthony Taglione, David N. Fulmer, Sara Hartranft
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Patent number: 11536091Abstract: A cutting element comprises a supporting substrate, and a cutting table attached to an end of the supporting substrate. The cutting table comprises inter-bonded diamond particles, and a thermally stable material within interstitial spaces between the inter-bonded diamond particles. The thermally stable material comprises a carbide precipitate having the general chemical formula, A3XZn-1, where A comprises one or more of Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Hg, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Ac, Th, Pa, and U; X comprises one or more of Al, Ga, Sn, Be, Bi, Te, Sb, Se, As, Ge, Si, B, and P; Z comprises C; and n is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.75. A method of forming a cutting element, an earth-boring tool, a supporting substrate, and a method of forming a supporting substrate are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holding LLCInventors: Wanjun Cao, Marc W. Bird
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Patent number: 11536946Abstract: A high temperature cooling tube for use with an inspection device is provided. The cooling tube permits operation of the inspection device in environments having a temperature of greater than about 302° F. (150° C.). By providing the capability to inspect equipment in a relatively hot condition, cooling time required before inspection is reduced, overall turnaround time for such inspections is reduced, inspected equipment is placed back into service more quickly, and revenues are increased. In an exemplary embodiment, the cooling tube includes an inner sleeve for protecting the inspection device, a middle sleeve for insulation and air flow, and an outer sleeve for protecting the cooling tube and the inspection device from damage. The middle sleeve can include expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (EPTFE), which protects the inspection device from extreme high temperature working environments, and which permits flexibility. Related apparatuses, systems, techniques and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Andrew Bard Radcliffe, Randy H. Roberts
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Publication number: 20220403736Abstract: Optic fibers are embedded within the body of a casing section making up a wellbore casing string. The optic fibers are used to detect damage or deformation of the casing string over the lifespan of a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Silviu Livescu, Pierre-Francois Roux
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Patent number: 11512554Abstract: A segmented backup ring including a plurality of individual segments each having curved surfaces that define an arcuate portion of the ring, each segment including a body section having the arcuate profile and defining a receptacle therein having a circumferential dimension, a projection section having a head portion and a neck portion and extending from the body section in a circumferential direction of the ring, the projection section being receivable and retainable in the receptacle of an adjacent segment body section, and the head portion having a dimension in line with the circumferential direction of the ring that is shorter than the circumferential dimension of the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Guijun Deng, Kevin Holmes, Daniel Ewing, Keith J. Murphy
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Patent number: 11506196Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling downhole linear motors to minimize connections to surface equipment. In one embodiment, an ESP system is coupled by a power cable to equipment at the surface of a well. The ESP system includes a linear motor and a reciprocating pump. The motor has a set of position sensors that sense the position of a mover in the motor. Combining circuitry (E.G., XOR gate) combines the outputs of the position sensors into a single composite signal in which signal components corresponding to the position sensors are indistinguishable. A single channel carries the composite signal from the ESP system to the surface equipment. A control system determines a starting position of the motor and determines its subsequent position based on transitions in the composite signal. The motor is then operated based on the position determined from the composite signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Gary Williams, Evan G. Mackay
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Patent number: 11506197Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling downhole linear motors to minimize connections to surface equipment. In one embodiment, an ESP system is coupled by a power cable to equipment at the surface of a well. The ESP system includes a linear motor and a reciprocating pump. The motor has a set of position sensors that sense the position of a mover in the motor. Combining circuitry (E.G., XOR gate) combines the outputs of the position sensors into a single composite signal in which signal components corresponding to the position sensors are indistinguishable. A single channel carries the composite signal from the ESP system to the surface equipment. A control system determines a starting position of the motor and determines its subsequent position based on transitions in the composite signal. The motor is then operated based on the position determined from the composite signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Gary Williams, Evan G. Mackay
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Patent number: 11492866Abstract: A downhole tool for controlling the flow of a fluid in a wellbore includes a component that comprises: a cementitious material; an aggregate; and a ductility modifying agent comprising one or more of the following: an ionomer; a functionalized filler; the functionalized filler comprising one or more of the following: functionalized carbon; functionalized clay; functionalized silica; functionalized alumina; functionalized zirconia; functionalized titanium dioxide; functionalized silsesquioxane; functionalized halloysite; or functionalized boron nitride; a metallic fiber; or a polymeric fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Rostyslav Dolog, Oleg A. Mazyar, Juan Carlos Flores Perez, Valery N. Khabashesku
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Patent number: 11493049Abstract: A test skid for a pumping system is configured to evaluate the performance of a pump. The test skid includes a motor and a torque-thrust chamber connected between the motor and the pump. The torque-thrust chamber has a torque meter and a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing is positioned between the torque meter and the motor such that the torque meter is connected directly to the pump through a pump input shaft. In this configuration, the torque meter measures the torque applied directly to the pump without the need to account for losses through an intermediate thrust bearing.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventor: Jeff Tiller
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Patent number: 11485915Abstract: Ionic liquid containing compositions may be used in the production, recovery and refining of oil and gas. In addition, they may be used to treat cooling water and/or to inhibit and/or prevent corrosion of metals.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Jerry Weers, Mary Jane Felipe
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Patent number: 11486241Abstract: The flow of well treatment fluids may be diverted from a high permeability zone to a low permeability zone within a fracture network within a subterranean formation by use of a mixture comprising a dissolvable diverter and a proppant. At least a portion of the high permeability zone is propped open with the proppant of the mixture and at least a portion of the high permeability zone is blocked with the diverter. A fluid is then pumped into the subterranean formation and into a lower permeability zone of the formation farther from the wellbore. The diverter in the high permeability zones may then be dissolved at in-situ reservoir conditions and hydrocarbons produced from the high permeability propped zones of the fracture network. The mixture has particular applicability in the enhancement of production or hydrocarbons from high permeability zones in a fracture network located near the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Scott G. Nelson, Harold Dean Brannon, Jimie Devon Lemons, Thomas Ray Starks, II, D. V. Satyanarayana Gupta
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Patent number: 11480706Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for taking multi-component induction tool measurements of a three-dimensional space from an interior of a plurality of nested tubulars in a borehole in an earth formation and estimating the property for each of the at least two tubulars using the multi-component induction tool measurements. The multicomponent induction tool measurements may be responsive to a property corresponding to at least two conductive tubulars of the plurality of nested tubular. Taking multi-component induction tool measurements may include taking three-dimensional low-frequency sinusoidal frequency domain waveform resistivity measurements and taking three-dimensional transient EM measurements with the multi-component induction tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Otto N. Fanini, Babak Kouchmeshky, Daniel Joseph Ratigan, Mohamed Daoud
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Patent number: 11473838Abstract: An apparatus and method for flow management and CO2-recovery from a CO2 containing hydrocarbon flow stream, such as a post CO2-stimulation flowback stream. The apparatus including a flow control zone, a gas separation zone, a pretreatment zone, and a CO2-capture zone. The CO2-capture zone is in fluid communication with the pretreatment zone to provide CO2-capture from a pretreated flowback gas stream and output a captured CO2-flow stream. The CO2-capture zone includes a first CO2-enricher and at least one additional CO2 enricher disposed downstream of the first CO2 enricher and in cascading relationship to provide a CO2-rich permeate stream, the CO2-capture zone further including at least one condenser to condense the enriched CO2-stream and output the captured CO2-flow stream.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Harish Radhakrishna Acharya, Roger Allen Shisler
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Patent number: 11452950Abstract: A demulsifying additive comprising a branched aliphatic compound may be introduced to a stream containing mixtures of or emulsions of oil and water in an effective amount to separate water from the oil in the stream, such as separating oil from emulsified oil-in-water and/or separating water from emulsified water-in-oil in a production fluid. The branched aliphatic compound may be grafted with a polyether via a crosslinking reaction. Alternatively, branched aliphatic compounds may be crosslinked together.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Joey D. Mangadlao, Wojciech Jakubowski, Bruce O. Horne, Mary Jane Legaspi Felipe, Jorge E. Ramos
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Patent number: 11454623Abstract: The impact of a stabilizing additive for treating oil-based fluids having destabilized solids, such as asphaltenes and polynuclear aromatics, may be quantitatively assessed, by determining the settling rate of flocculated destabilized solids in samples of untreated oil-based fluids and oil-based fluids treated with the stabilizing additive through the use of a turbidity meter or nephelometer while the field and quantifying the difference between the two settling rates to determine if a change in the amount of stabilizing additive applied to the oil-based fluid is necessary.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Carl E. Weaver, Roger D. Metzler, Koushik Gumaste
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Patent number: 11448360Abstract: A system for mounting an inspection device to a case are provided. The system can include a case including a mounting base configured on a side of the case. The system can also include an adjustable stand removably coupled to the case via the mounting base. The adjustable stand can include a receiving portion removably coupled to the mounting base. The adjustable stand can also include a telescopic structure. The telescopic structure can have a plurality of segments. At least one segment can extend longitudinally from a second segment via at least one adjustment mechanism configured on the second segment. The adjustable stand can also include a device holder removably coupled to the second end of the telescopic structure. The device holder can be configured to removably couple with an inspection device. Apparatus and methods of mounting an inspection device to a case are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Andrew Tang, Gerard Frederick Beckhusen, Jeffrey Quesnel, Jason Pennell
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Patent number: D979627Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Jeffrey Quesnel, Johanna Vrabel