Patents Assigned to Baker-Hughes
  • SLURRY OUTLET WITH SEAL PROTECTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220034185
    Abstract: A slurry outlet system including a top sub having a seal, a closure sleeve positionable in an open position spaced from the top sub during a slurry pumping operation and a closed position wherein the closure sleeve sealingly interacts with the seal, a protector sleeve disposed to protect the seal and movable upon the closure sleeve becoming sufficiently close to the protector sleeve. A method for pressure sealingly closing a slurry outlet system including bringing a closure sleeve into proximity with a top sub of the slurry outlet system, displacing a protector sleeve, with the closure sleeve, off a seal of the top sub and simultaneously making sealing contact between the closure sleeve and the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Tom Gonzalez, Vasily Eliseev, Aaron C. Hammer, Hector Mireles, James A. Smith
  • AUTOMATED CONTAMINATION PREDICTION BASED ON DOWNHOLE FLUID SAMPLING
    Publication number: 20220034224
    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: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Anup Hunnur, Sefer Coskun
  • SEAL PROTECTION ARRANGEMENT AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220034193
    Abstract: A slurry outlet system including a top sub, a closure sleeve movable relative to the top sub between a closed position and an open position, a seal mounted on one or the other of the top sub or the closure sleeve, a protector sleeve disposed to cover the seal until displaced by one or the other of the top sub or the closure sleeve that does not include the seal during movement to the closed position. A method for pressure sealingly closing a slurry outlet system including bringing a closure sleeve into proximity with a top sub of the slurry outlet system, displacing a protector sleeve, with the closure sleeve, off a seal disposed about the closure sleeve and simultaneously making sealing contact between the top sub and the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: James A. Smith, Aaron C. Hammer, Hector Mireles
  • WELL INTEGRITY SMART JOINT
    Publication number: 20220034172
    Abstract: A well integrity joint including a body, and at least two components of a sensory system, disposed on the joint such that the at least components of a sensory system are connectible by a straight line that does not intersect the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Patterson, Scott Ingram, Shailesh Dighe, Thorsten Regener, Marc Ramirez
  • Wireless communication between downhole components and surface systems
    Patent number: 11236606
    Abstract: An embodiment of a communication system for communicating between a wired pipe string in a borehole and a surface location includes at least a first wired pipe downhole component and a second wired pipe downhole component in the wired pipe string, a coupler configured to transmit a transmission signal between the first wired pipe downhole component and the second wired pipe downhole component, and a wireless transmission assembly in at least one of the first wired pipe downhole component and the second wired pipe downhole component. The wireless transmission assembly is configured to wirelessly transmit a wireless transmission signal to a receiver antenna, and the receiver antenna is disposed at the surface location and configured to receive the wireless transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Lars Pridat, Gavin Lindsay, Kai Schoenborn
  • Downhole valve position monitor
    Patent number: 11236605
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a position of a moveable component of a valve disposed in a borehole penetrating the earth includes a radioactive marker disposed on the moveable component and a radiation detector configured to detect radiation emitted by the radioactive marker. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to receive radiation detection information from the radiation detector and to correlate the radiation detection information to the position of the moveable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Jason Edwards
  • Omni-directional RFID system for downhole and surface equipment
    Patent number: 11238246
    Abstract: An asset identification system includes a tool having an axial dimension and a radial dimension. There are three RFID devices located on the tool, and the three RFID devices are located at equal angles with respect to each other in the radial dimension. The system further includes a storage apparatus configured to store the tool, and an RFID reader. At least one of the three RFID devices located on the tool is readable by the RFID reader regardless of the radial orientation of the tool with respect to the RFID reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Preeti Pathak, Farhat Shaikh, Otto Fanini
  • ETHYLENEAMINES FOR REGENERATING ADSORBENT BEDS FOR SULFUR COMPOUND REMOVAL
    Publication number: 20220023835
    Abstract: A regeneration solvent comprised of one or more ethylene amines may contact an adsorbent bed that has been used to remove sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbon stream to extract adsorbed sulfur compounds from the adsorbent material in the bed to regenerate it. The one or more ethyleneamines may have structure (I), (II), or (III): where R1, R2, R5 and R6 are, to the extent chemically possible, independently H, C1-C4 linear or branched alkyl, amido (RRNC?O), or hydroxyalkyl, where each R in the amido group is independently H or C1 alkyl, where R3 and R4 are alkylene of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, where x ranges from 0 to 3, y ranges from 1 to 6. The regenerated adsorbent bed may be reused, either alone or in combination with a liquid-liquid extraction column, to remove sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbon stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sai Reddy Pinappu, Jerry J. Weers
  • ELECTRIC SET TIEBACK ANCHOR VIA PRESSURE CYCLES
    Publication number: 20220025725
    Abstract: A tie-back string and a method of coupling the tie-back string to a casing is disclosed. The tie-back string is disposed within the casing. The tie-back string includes an anchor and an actuator section. The actuator section including a sleeve that forms a first chamber and a setting piston that forms a second chamber. A pressure differential is created between the first chamber and the second chamber to move the setting piston to engage the anchor of the tie-back string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Krueger, Robert Pena, Robert Roland
  • ESTIMATION OF OBJECTIVE DRIVEN POROUS MATERIAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20220026336
    Abstract: A method of estimating a material mechanical property of a porous material, for an application or objective with a specific application frequency and application strain amplitude, includes estimating an application frequency and an application strain amplitude for use in a targeted application or objective, and constructing a frequency transfer function relating the material mechanical property to measurement frequencies, the measurement frequency range including a measurement frequency different from the application frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicants: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC, Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Shouxiang Ma, Syed Shujath Ali, Guodong Jin, Hasan Kesserwan
  • REGENERATED ADSORBENT BEDS FOR SULFUR COMPOUND REMOVAL
    Publication number: 20220023834
    Abstract: A solvent comprised of (1) a caustic and an alcohol, (2) a caustic and a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, or (3) a caustic, an alcohol, and a quaternary ammonium hydroxide may contact an adsorbent bed that has been used to remove sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbon stream to extract adsorbed sulfur compounds from the adsorbent material in the bed to regenerate it. The regenerated adsorbent bed may be reused, either alone or in combination with a liquid-liquid extraction column, to remove sulfur compounds from a hydrocarbon stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sai Reddy Pinappu, Jerry J. Weers, Timothy J. O'Brien, Waynn C. Morgan
  • ADDITIVES FOR WINTERIZATION OF PARAFFIN INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20220025245
    Abstract: A winterized paraffin inhibitor, which is capable of being used for preventing the deposition of paraffins in hydrocarbon streams and capable of withstanding freezing or crystallization at freezing or sub-freezing temperatures, may be formed by adding an oxyalkylated branched aliphatic compound having 12 or more carbons to a high molecular weight aliphatic polymer paraffin inhibitor, the oxyalkylated branched aliphatic compound having 12 or more carbons being produced by the oxyalkylation of the branched aliphatic compound having 12 or more carbon atoms in which the branched aliphatic compound having 12 or more carbon atoms is grafted with a polyether via a ring-opening reaction, wherein the polyether is a polymer of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, butylene oxide, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joey Dacula Mangadlao, Holly Baron, Mary Jane Legaspi Felipe, Lei Zhang
  • Inversion of NMR echo trains using a supplementary nonlinear equality constraint
    Patent number: 11231474
    Abstract: A method of estimating properties of a resource bearing formation includes receiving, by a processor, a measured echo train generated by a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement device deployed in a region of interest, and a measured noise of the measured echo train, and calculating a T2 distribution subject to a nonlinear equality constraint, the nonlinear equality constraint dependent on the measured noise and a fitting error between the measured echo train and a modeled echo train. Calculating the T2 distribution includes estimating a solution for the T2 distribution that is closest to satisfying the nonlinear equality constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Baoyan Li, Julio Roberto Arro, Holger Thern, Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin
  • Methods of forming cutting elements with cutting faces exhibiting multiple coefficients of friction, and related methods
    Patent number: 11229989
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool having at least one cutting element with a multi-friction cutting face provides for the steering of formation cuttings as the cuttings slide across the cutting face. The multi-friction cutting element includes a diamond table bonded to a substrate of superabrasive material. The diamond table has a cutting face formed thereon with a cutting edge extending along a periphery of the cutting face. The cutting face has a first area having an average surface finish roughness less than an average surface finish roughness of a second area of the cutting face, the two areas separated by a boundary having a proximal end proximate a tool crown and a distal end remote from the tool crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Juan Miguel Bilen, Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Chih C. Lin, Suresh G. Patel, Rudolf Carl Pessier, Danny E. Scott, Michael L. Doster
  • Locking backpressure valve
    Patent number: 11230906
    Abstract: A downhole tool includes a tubular having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a flowbore having a longitudinal axis, and a backpressure valve cartridge arranged in the flowbore. The backpressure valve cartridge includes a valve seat and a flapper valve pivotally mounted relative to the valve seat. The backpressure valve cartridge is shiftable along the longitudinal axis to shift the flapper valve between a first position, wherein the flapper valve rests on the valve seat, and a second position, wherein the flapper valve is pivoted away from the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Larry Thomas Palmer, Erik Van Steveninck, Steve Wilson, III
  • Acoustic detection of position of a component of a fluid control device
    Patent number: 11231315
    Abstract: A system for estimating a position of a component of a fluid control device includes an optical fiber sensor having a section disposed at a fixed location relative to the fluid control device, the fluid control device configured to be disposed in a borehole in an earth formation and including a moveable member, the fixed location selected so that acoustic signals generated by fluid flowing through the fluid control device are receivable by the section of the optical fiber sensor. The system also includes an interrogation assembly configured to inject an optical signal into the optical fiber and receive a return signal, and a processing device configured to detect the return signal, identify a signal pattern based on the return signal, and estimate a position of the moveable member based on the identified signal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Darren Bane
  • Application of formaldehyde sulfoxylates for scavenging HS
    Patent number: 11229860
    Abstract: A scavenger comprising a formaldehyde sulfoxylate may be used to scavenge hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from systems that are brine or mixed production. Suitable formaldehyde sulfoxylates include, but are not necessarily limited to, sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, zinc formaldehyde sulfoxylate, and calcium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, potassium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, magnesium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, iron formaldehyde sulfoxylate, copper formaldehyde sulfoxylate, alkene aldehyde sulfoxylates, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Scott E. Lehrer, Soma Chakraborty, Sunder Ramachandran, Kimchi T. Phan
  • Enclosed module for a downhole system
    Patent number: 11230887
    Abstract: A device for steering a drilling assembly including a sleeve configured to be disposed around a length of a drive shaft configured to be disposed in a borehole in an earth formation. The drive shaft is configured to be rotated. The sleeve is configured to be rotationally decoupled from the drive shaft. Two or more modules are configured to be removably connected to the sleeve. Each of the two or more modules at least partially encloses a biasing element configured to be actuated to control a direction of the drilling assembly. Each of the two or more modules at least partially encloses a communication device for wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Volker Peters
  • Seal assembly for downhole use
    Patent number: 11230888
    Abstract: A seal assembly for downhole use that includes a sealing ring, and a backup ring set generally coaxial with and adjacent to the sealing ring. A height of the backup ring exceeds a diameter of the sealing ring; and is disposed on a low pressure side of the seal assembly to prevent the sealing ring from extruding into the low pressure side. The backup ring is made of a core and a coating on the core. Material properties of the coating are generally unaffected when exposed to downhole conditions, and the coating prevents diffusion of fluid or gas molecules into the low pressure side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Andreas Peter
  • TUBULAR TRANSDUCER FOR MONITORING LOADS ON A COMPLETION
    Publication number: 20220018247
    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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Marc Samuelson