Patents Assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
  • Patent number: 11746616
    Abstract: A frac plug system for use in a wellbore, including a frac plug; and a plug member configured to set the frac plug in the wellbore and to control a flow of fluid through the frac plug once the frac plug is set in the wellbore. A method of controlling a flow of fluid within a wellbore, including conveying a frac plug system in the wellbore, the frac plug system including a frac plug and a plug member; setting the frac plug in the wellbore using the plug member; and control the flow of fluid through the frac plug using the plug member once the frac plug is set in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Seth Burke, Eugene Stolboushkin
  • Patent number: 11747506
    Abstract: A resistivity imaging device and a method of operating the resistivity imaging device in a wellbore. The resistivity imaging device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a circuit electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode. An impedance is measured of a formation surrounding the wellbore. Based on the impedance, the circuit is configured into one of a first circuit configuration for operating the resistivity imaging device in a first mode and a second circuit configuration for operating the resistivity imaging device in a second mode. The resistivity imaging device is operated using the circuit in the one of the first circuit configuration and the second circuit configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Youssef Boulaknadal, Stanislav Forgang, Peter Withers
  • Patent number: 11746609
    Abstract: A pressure compensator including a housing, an electroactive polymer (EAP) disposed in the housing and defining a volume therein, the volume being changeable upon application of an electric signal. A method for managing pressure in a tool including applying an electrical signal to the pressure compensator and changing a shape of the EAP to change the volume of the compensator whereby the pressure in the tool is altered. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, a pressure compensator disposed within or as a part of the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yuh Loh, Zhihui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11746620
    Abstract: An injection valve including a housing having a port, an insert movably disposed in the housing, a seal and a diffuser disposed on the insert, the seal and diffuser being movable with the insert. A method for injecting in a borehole including pumping fluid into the borehole, pressurizing an inside diameter of an insert of an injection valve, moving the insert of the injection valve to a position that is not fully closed, diffusing fluid flowing from the inside diameter of the insert; and then flowing the diffused fluid past a seal on the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Nudo
  • Patent number: 11739758
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump assembly has a motor lead extending alongside the pump housing to the motor for supplying electrical power to the motor. At least one standoff wedges between the pump housing and the motor lead. The standoff has a channel in which the motor lead is received. The standoff has legs extending inward from the channel into contact with the pump housing. The legs space the channel of the standoff from the pump housing by a gap to enable well fluid flow between the motor lead and the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Forsberg, Leslie C. Reid
  • Patent number: 11739634
    Abstract: A drilling system and a method of drilling a wellbore in an earth formation. A first antenna is disposed at a first location near a drill string. A second antenna is disposed at a second location of the drill string. The first antenna has a first specific moment. One of the first antenna and the second antenna is operated as a transmitter that transmits a transmitted signal, and the other is operated as a receiver that receives a received signal in response to the transmitted signal. The processor determines a property of an earth formation from the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Hartmann, Jens Behnsen, Kersten Kraft, David Boesing
  • Patent number: 11739632
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for establishing a secure communication link between a first member and a second member in a wellbore. The apparatus includes a strain sensor and at least one processor. The strain sensor is at a mating end of the second member and measures a strain at the mating end. The at least one processor determines, from the strain, when a first force applied between the first member and the second member exceeds a first force threshold that indicates that the first member and the second member are in a first mating position in which a testable communication link is established between the first member and the second member. The at least one processor tests the testable communication link between the first member and the second member at the first mating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Marc Samuelson
  • Patent number: 11739742
    Abstract: An electrical submersible well pump assembly has first and second permanent magnet motors. The first motor drive shaft is connected to a coupling that has internal splines for receiving an externally splined end of the second motor drive shaft. Alignment devices rotationally align magnetic poles of the first drive shaft with the magnetic poles of the second drive shaft prior to securing the housings of the first and second motors together. The alignment devices may be a coupling irregularity in the internal splines that is at a controlled orientation relative to the magnetic poles of the first shaft and a shaft irregularity in the external splines that prevents the second drive shaft from fully engaging the coupling unless the shaft irregularity is in a specified rotational position relative to the coupling irregularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: James C. Clingman
  • Publication number: 20230264973
    Abstract: A method of increasing a solubility of a manganese oxide includes contacting the manganese oxide with an acid component in the presence of a dissolution accelerator that includes at least one of hydrazine, a hydrazine derivative, or a hydrazide. Also disclosed is a drilling fluid containing a carrier; MnO2; and at least one of a viscosifier, a rheology modifier, a dispersant, a weighting agent, a defoamer, a fluid loss agent, bentonite, or a lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel P. Vollmer, Dorianne A. Castillo
  • Publication number: 20230265931
    Abstract: A rotary valve including a port housing, a port, an axially actuated rotary sleeve disposed within the port housing, the sleeve having a plurality of apertures in fluid communication with the port; and an insert disposed within the sleeve, the insert having an opening, the sleeve being rotatable to align one of the plurality of apertures with the opening. A rotary valve including a port housing, having a port, an axially actuated rotary sleeve disposed within the port housing, the sleeve having an aperture; and an insert disposed within the sleeve, the insert having a plurality of openings of distinct size from one another, the aperture of the sleeve being selectively alignable with one of the plurality of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Hai Hoang Nguyen, Michael Andrew Palmer
  • Publication number: 20230265737
    Abstract: A backup including a resister articulated to a mounting ring, a support articulated to a support ring and the resister, the resister moving upon one of the mounting ring and the support ring moving away from the other. A seal including a mandrel, an element and a backup disposed on the mandrel adjacent the element. A borehole system including a borehole in a formation, a string in the borehole, a backup disposed within or as a part of the string. A backup including a deformable ring, a resister disposed adjacent the deformable ring, the resister being articulated to a ring mount through a pivot pin having a frustoconical geometry. A backup including a resister articulated to a ring, the resister including a borehole wall engager. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, a backup within or as a part of the string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Sequera, Dennis Jiral, Larry Urban, Chee Kong Yee
  • Patent number: 11732536
    Abstract: A setting and retrieval mechanism for a well tool including a mandrel, a body lock ring disposed on the mandrel, a body lock ring engagement member engaged and disengagable with the body lock ring, and a setting load and retrieval sleeve disposed on the mandrel and having an engagement member support region and an engagement member release region. A method for retrieving a downhole tool including moving a setting and retrieval sleeve to position an engagement member release region of the setting and retrieval tool to allow disengagement of an engagement member with a body lock ring, placing a tensile force on the setting and retrieval sleeve, disengaging the engagement sleeve from the body lock ring under the impetus of the tensile force on the setting and retrieval sleeve, and releasing captured energy in the downhole tool by the disengaging and the tensile force on the setting and retrieval sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Wilfred Provost
  • Patent number: 11732539
    Abstract: A window cutting system includes a whipstock connector, and a window mill selectively rotationally constrained to the whipstock connector. The window mill including an outer surface, an inner surface, a passage defined between the outer surface and the inner surface, and a recess formed in the outer surface. A locking pin is arranged in the recess. A motor arranged in the passage. An actuator is operatively connected between the motor and the locking pin. The motor being selectively activated through a signal to retract the locking pin releasing the window mill from the whipstock connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Tuan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11733111
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an output of a torsional vibration transducer can include: providing a torsional vibration transducer proximate to a body of a shaft configured to rotate along an axis of rotation, the torsional vibration transducer configured to measure a torsional vibration of the shaft; actuating the shaft to cause rotation of the shaft; while the shaft rotates, acquiring, using the torsional vibration transducer, a plurality of zero-stress measurements of the shaft across a plurality of gaps between the torsional vibration transducer and the shaft; calculating at least one calibration coefficient using the plurality of zero-stress measurements; and calibrating the output of the torsional vibration transducer according to the at least one calibration coefficient to reduce a sensitivity of the torsional vibration transducer to changes in gap between the torsional vibration transducer and the shaft when the torsional vibration of the shaft is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Farr, Lysle Turnbeaugh, Trevor Cowan
  • Patent number: 11734202
    Abstract: A system including a sensor interface for determining a substitute frequency value via a sensor interface is provided. The system can include a first circuit receiving a frequency signal. The system can also include a sensor interface coupled to the first circuit and configured to determine a substitute frequency value based on the frequency signal. The system can also include a second circuit providing the substitute frequency value output from the sensor interface. The second circuit can provide the substitute frequency value in place of an analog input value by mimicking the behavior of an analog-to-digital converter. An apparatus including the sensor interface and methods of determining the substitute frequency value using a sensor interface are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Walter Hutchinson, Declan Doherty
  • Patent number: 11732531
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a body, a plurality of fixed blades, a first plurality of cutting elements secured to the plurality of fixed blades, a plurality of removable blade assemblies removably coupled to the body, and a second plurality of cutting elements secured to the plurality of removable blade assemblies, each cutting element of the second plurality of cutting elements exhibiting an aggressiveness that is less than an aggressiveness of each cutting element of the first plurality of cutting elements. A method of forming an earth-boring tool includes forming a body and a plurality of fixed blades extending from the body, securing a first plurality of cutting elements to the plurality of fixed blades, removably coupling at least one removable blade assembly to the body, and securing a second plurality of cutting elements to the at least one removable blade assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Anton F. Zahradnik, Rudolf Carl Pessier, Don Q. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11733022
    Abstract: A sensor system, including: a dielectric material on a part body; and a sensor on the dielectric material, the sensor configured to provide impedance, capacitance, and resistance values and to alter one or more of the impedance, capacitance and resistance values responsive to a stress applied to the part body. Also disclosed is a method of making and a method of using the sensor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Navin Sakthivel, Aaron Avagliano, Wei Chen, Joshua Snitkoff, Mikhail Nikolaevich Gladkikh, Amir Saeed
  • Patent number: 11732555
    Abstract: A downhole perforation system includes a ballistic device having an first end and a second end, the ballistic device carrying an explosive material. The system further includes a shock absorption device coupled to at least one of the first or second end of the ballistic device and configured to absorb at least a portion of impact energy produced from detonation of the explosive material. The shock absorption device includes a shock absorption module which includes a viscoelastic body and a rigid structure molded within the viscoelastic body. The rigid structure is configured to break or deform when impacted by a threshold amount of impact energy. Broken or deformed portions of the rigid structure are contained within the viscoelastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Saeed Rafie
  • Publication number: 20230258055
    Abstract: A trigger including a carrier, a shuttle movably disposed on the carrier, an energy member disposed between the carrier and the shuttle, a degrade-on-demand trip member disposed to maintain potential energy in the energy member until activated. A method for operating a downhole tool including sending a signal to the trip member of the trigger, degrading the trip member, converting potential energy stored in the energy member from potential energy to kinetic energy, and actuating the downhole tool with the shuttle. A wellbore system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, a trigger disposed within or as a part of the string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Zhihui Zhang, Guijun Deng, John Vu, Emerson Nunez
  • Patent number: 11725506
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling the operation of an offset well located near an active well that is undergoing a hydraulic fracturing operation that may produce a fracture driven interference (FDI) event to the offset well. The method includes providing an FDI intervention system that includes a computer-implemented predictive model for determining a risk of the FDI event occurring during the hydraulic fracturing operation, calculating a risk-weighted FDI event cost of the FDI event impacting production from the offset well, and calculating a defensive intervention implementation cost to apply a defensive intervention on the offset well to mitigate harm from an FDI event. The method includes calculating a cost comparison based on a comparison of the defensive intervention implementation cost and the risk-weighted FDI event cost. The method concludes with automatically controlling the operation of the offset well with the FDI intervention system based on the cost comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Shahkarami, Robert Klenner, Hayley Stephenson, Mahendra Joshi, Glen Murrell, Ghazal Izadi