Patents Assigned to Baker-Hughes
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Patent number: 11053750Abstract: A drag block for retaining slips on a tool includes a body having a substantially annular outer surface and a substantially annular inner surface, and a plurality of drag block members resiliently mounted to the substantially annular outer surface. Each of the plurality of drag block members includes a support element and a block element. The support element has a first end fixedly mounted to the substantially annular outer surface and a second, cantilevered end. The drag block is mounted to the second cantilevered end.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Gary L. Anderson, Christopher David Young, James Doane, Guijun Deng
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Patent number: 11053774Abstract: An operating system for a barrier valve or safety valve is responsive to increments in annulus or tubing pressure. An indexing device controls valves that selectively direct pressure applied to one side of an operating piston or the other for attaining the open and closed positions of the barrier valve. One such indexing device can be a j-slot. Other devices that operate a pair of hydraulic valves in tandem for pressure direction to one side of an actuation piston or another are contemplated. The system needs no electric power and there are no control lines needed to run below the production packer in the case of using annulus pressure to actuate the piston or at all if access to tubing pressure is provided from the vicinity of the barrier valve components.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANYInventors: Michael H. Johnson, Todd C. Jackson
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Patent number: 11053770Abstract: An electrical submersible pump (“ESP”) has a seal member that carries a packer. A retainer initially retains the packer in a fixed axial position with the seal member as the ESP is lowered into a well conduit. The retainer is releasable after the packer has been set in the conduit in response to a thermal growth axial force on the seal member, enabling relative axial movement between the seal member and the packer. The seal member has annular seal rings that extend over an axial length on the tubular member that is greater than an axial length of the bore of the packer.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: John J. Mack, Robert Clay Patterson
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Patent number: 11053752Abstract: A string of coiled tubing having a power cable therein supports and supplies power to an electrical submersible well pump assembly in a well. The coiled tubing has an upper section and a lower section joining each other, the upper section having a smaller inner diameter than the lower section. The power cable has an upper portion installed in the upper section of the coiled tubing and a lower portion installed in the lower section of the coiled tubing. The power cable has three insulated electrical conductors embedded within an elastomeric jacket. A metal armor strip has turns wrapped helically around the jacket. The armor strip is compressed between the jacket and the coiled tubing both in the upper section and in the lower section of the coiled tubing.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: John Mack, Kenneth O'Grady, James Christopher Clingman, Sean A. Cain
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Publication number: 20210201178Abstract: A method for determining a wellbore fluid phase includes receiving, from a first sensor, first fluid data for a fluid flowing through a wellbore. The method also includes receiving, from a second sensor, second fluid data for the fluid. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the first fluid data, a first fluid property. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the second fluid data, a second fluid property. The method further includes determining a relationship between the first fluid property and the second fluid property, the relationship based at least in part on respective evaluations of the first fluid property with respect to a first threshold and the second fluid property with respect to a second threshold. The method includes determining, based at least in part on the relationship, a phase of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Otto Fanini, Sandip Maity, Daniel Ratigan
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Publication number: 20210198976Abstract: A fluid control device includes a housing, a fluid channel defined within the housing, the fluid channel having an inlet, and a restriction assembly. The restriction assembly includes a cantilever device disposed within the fluid channel and defining a restricted fluid path, the cantilever device configured to deform to reduce an area of the restricted fluid path and restrict a flow rate of fluid flowing therethrough based on a property of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Ameen Malkawi, Shiv Shankar Sangaru, Raghava Raju Lakhamraju, Ahmed AlAdawy, Naeem-Ur Minhas, Hedy Suherdiana, Robbie Arsyadanie
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Publication number: 20210199099Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: James C. Clingman
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Publication number: 20210199837Abstract: A system for determining a stuck point of a pipe positioned within a wellbore includes a tubular housing and a sensor array positioned within the tubular housing, the sensor array arranged at a first end. The system also includes a first magnetic source positioned within the tubular housing, the first magnetic source arranged at a second end. The system further includes a second magnetic source positioned within the tubular housing, the second magnetic source arranged between the sensor array and the second end. The first magnetic source and the second magnetic source have a different magnetic field source.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Jim Andrew Gulliver, Andrew Smith, James David Ratcliffe, Sushant Dutta
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Publication number: 20210198972Abstract: An apparatus for retaining and releasing a pump down plug includes an outer housing having a recess and a shifting sleeve that contains the pump down plug and is disposed within the outer housing. The shifting sleeve is configured to slide within the outer housing. The apparatus also includes a retaining element configured to engage the pump down plug to retain the pump down plug, the retaining element being restrained from outward movement by the outer housing in a first position of the shifting sleeve, wherein sliding the shifting sleeve into a second position results in outward movement of the retaining element into the recess to release the pump down plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Marcelle H. Hedrick, Ryan Faul, William Cauley, Robert Pena, Sean Yakeley
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Publication number: 20210198986Abstract: A system for controlling a flow of fluid includes a flow control device having a fluid channel configured to transport a fluid between a subterranean region and a borehole conduit, a resonant sensing assembly including a resonator body disposed in fluid communication with the fluid channel, and a controller configured to cause the resonator body to vibrate according to an expected resonance frequency of the resonator body. The system also includes a processing device configured to acquire a measurement signal generated by the resonator body, estimate a property of the fluid based on the measurement signal, and control a flow of the fluid through the flow control device based on the property of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Raghava Raju Lakhamraju, Ameen Malkawi, Ahmed AlAdawy, Naeem-Ur Minhas, Shiv Shankar Sangaru
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Publication number: 20210199201Abstract: A system for converting operation of a valve between an unbalanced operation mode and a balanced operation mode includes a housing adapted to couple to a valve body. The system also includes a lower stem, including lugs, the lugs having a lug diameter that is larger than an adjacent lower stem diameter. The system further includes a valve member nut coupled to a valve member, the valve member nut having an opening to receive the lower stem, and pins extending into the opening, the pins forming a reduced diameter portion of the opening. In the system, the lower stem couples to the valve member, via the valve member nut, when the lugs are axially aligned with the reduced diameter portion and the lower stem decouples from the valve member when the lugs are axially misaligned with the reduced diameter portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Jeremy Ryan Choate, Keith M. Adams, Travis Kyle McEvoy
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Patent number: 11047227Abstract: A testable indexing plug includes a body having an outer surface, an inner surface defining a flow path, a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion extending between the first end and the second end. A valve chamber extends from the first end into the intermediate portion. A valve member is arranged in the valve chamber. The valve member includes a first end portion, a second end portion including an opening, and an intermediate section including one or more ports fluidically connected with the opening. An indexing system shifts the valve member between a first position, wherein the one or more ports are arranged in the valve chamber and a second position, wherein the one or more ports are exposed outside of the valve chamber following a defined number of pressure applications to the valve member.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Geoffrey Warlick
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Patent number: 11047505Abstract: A quick connect coupling mechanism joins an actuator to a bonnet. The quick connect coupling mechanism may utilize machined or otherwise prepared components including one or more specific features, such as slots or grooves, to facilitate a connection between the actuator and the bonnet. For example, the actuator housing may be machined or formed to include an opening to enable radial insertion of the bonnet into a slot formed circumferentially about at least a portion of the actuator housing. The opening may be secured to block radial movement of the bonnet within the housing. A rail system may also be utilized to couple the actuator housing to the bonnet. For example, pairs of grooves may be formed in the actuator housing and bonnet to facilitate insertion of rails. The rails may block both axial movement of the actuator housing and also block rotational movement.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jeremy Ryan Choate, Keith Adams, Robert Law
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Patent number: 11045870Abstract: A composite material comprising a plurality of hard particles surrounded by a matrix material comprising a plurality of nanoparticles. Earth boring tools including the composite material and methods of forming the composite material are also disclosed. A polycrystalline material having a catalyst material including nanoparticles in interstitial spaces between inter-bonded crystals of the polycrystalline material and methods of forming the polycrystalline material are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Danny E. Scott, Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Jimmy W. Eason
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Patent number: 11047185Abstract: A setting tool for actuating a downhole component includes an inner tubular configured to be connected in fluid communication with a borehole string, a housing configured to define a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber isolated from the first fluid chamber and in fluid communication with the inner tubular, and a setting piston in pressure communication with the second fluid chamber. The setting tool includes a metering module coupled to the housing and disposed at an end of the first fluid chamber, the metering module including a fluid path forming a restriction therein, and an outlet connected to the fluid path. The outlet is configured to be opened to permit fluid to flow out of the first chamber at a controlled rate to generate a differential pressure between the first and second chambers that causes the setting piston to apply a gradually increasing force on the component.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Wilfred Provost
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Patent number: 11050320Abstract: Systems and methods for electric motor, where the stator core has one or more stator core sections, each of which is a single-piece unit formed of soft magnetic composite (SMC) material, and where the stator core sections are positioned end-to-end with seals at each end to form a plurality of stator slots, where each of the stator slots extends through each of the stator core sections and is in fluid communication with the others to form a sealed stator chamber. The sealed stator chamber may have an expansion chamber to allow expansion and contraction of dielectric fluid in the stator chamber while maintaining separation of the dielectric oil from lubricating oil which is within the motor but external to the stator chamber. The sealed stator chamber can prevent well fluids that leak into the motor from reaching the stator windings and degrading their insulation.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Yong Li, John M. Knapp, Jackson Reynolds
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Patent number: 11050319Abstract: Systems and methods for electric motor, where the stator core has one or more stator core sections, each of which is a single-piece unit formed of soft magnetic composite (SMC) material, and where the stator core sections are positioned end-to-end with seals at each end to form a plurality of stator slots, where each of the stator slots extends through each of the stator core sections and is in fluid communication with the others to form a sealed stator chamber. The sealed stator chamber may have an expansion chamber to allow expansion and contraction of dielectric fluid in the stator chamber while maintaining separation of the dielectric oil from lubricating oil which is within the motor but external to the stator chamber. The sealed stator chamber can prevent well fluids that leak into the motor from reaching the stator windings and degrading their insulation.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Yong Li, John M. Knapp, Jackson Reynolds
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Patent number: 11047215Abstract: A simulation system that receives a first plurality of inputs including at least one drilling parameter, at least one lithology parameter, and at least one earth-boring tool option; provides the first plurality of inputs to a cluster system; receives simulation data from the cluster system derived from a plurality of simulations of drilling operations utilizing the first plurality of inputs; analyzes the simulation data to generate a predictive algorithm for simulating drilling operations; receives a well plan including data related to a planned trajectory of a borehole; and utilizes the predictive algorithm to select a suitable earth-boring tool and suitable drilling parameters to achieve the planned trajectory of a borehole.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Reed W. Spencer, Jayesh Rameshlal Jain, Ethan Thomas Walkowiak, Chaitanya K. Vempati
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Publication number: 20210188538Abstract: A multifunction tank access device is configured for connection to a storage tank capable of storing crude oil that has an opening for a conventional thief hatch. The multifunction tank access device has a lower assembly with an isolation valve, and an upper assembly removably connected to the lower assembly. The upper assembly includes a central housing, a pressure relief module, a vacuum relief module, and a tank access module. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the multifunction tank access device is constructed from a material that melts at a temperature below 450° F.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Sam Stroder, Melissa Allin
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Publication number: 20210189873Abstract: Methods and systems for generating pulses in drilling fluid are described. The methods include driving rotation of a rotor relative to a stator of a pulser assembly in an oscillatory manner. The oscillatory manner includes rotating an obstructing element from a middle position to a first blocking angle position and rotating the obstructing element from the first blocking angle position to a second blocking angle position such that selective obstruction occurs. Rotation of the at least one obstructing element selectively obstructs a stator flow passage when drilling fluid is flowing through the drill string to generate a pressure pulse in the drilling fluid and the oscillatory manner is an oscillation of the obstructing element between the first blocking angle position and the second blocking angle position such that a single oscillation is between two obstructed states of the stator flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Volker Peters, Detlef Hahn, Heiko Eggers, Helge Brand
