Patents Assigned to Cameron International Corporation
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Patent number: 11680483Abstract: A system includes a plug assembly having a housing configured to be positioned within a first passageway formed in a wellhead component. A channel is formed in the housing, and the channel is configured to enable fluid to flow from a bore of the wellhead component into the channel. A sensor is supported by the housing and is configured to measure a condition of the fluid within the channel. An annular seal is configured to extend between an outer surface of the housing and an inner surface of a second passageway formed in a flange that circumferentially surrounds at least part of the plug assembly while the flange is coupled to the wellhead component.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventors: Conor James Gray, Edmund McHugh
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Publication number: 20230175341Abstract: A fracturing system is provided. In one embodiment, the fracturing system includes a fracturing manifold for routing fracturing fluid to multiple wells. The fracturing manifold can be coupled via fluid conduits to fracturing trees installed at the wells. In some cases, each fracturing tree that is coupled to the fracturing manifold is coupled by at least one rigid fluid conduit. The fracturing manifold can include a trunk line that provides fracturing fluid to multiple outlet branches, which can include valves for controlling flow of fracturing fluid to wells downstream of the valves. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Cameron International CorporationInventor: Kirk P. Guidry
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Patent number: 11649902Abstract: Valves having seats and counterseats that can be moved by fluid within the valve. In one embodiment, a valve includes a flow control assembly inside a body. The flow control assembly includes a ball rotatable between an open position and a closed position to control flow, a seat installed on the ball, and a counterseat installed in the body. The seat and the counterseat can move radially with respect to the ball and have mating surfaces that engage and seal against one another when the ball is in the closed position. The flow control assembly allows pressurized fluid in the body to cause net forces on the seat and the counterseat that push the seat and the counterseat toward each other when the ball is in the closed position. Additional valve systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Roppolo, Alberto Daglio, Clayton Schenk
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Patent number: 11598173Abstract: A frac system including a frac tree. The frac tree includes a frac head. The frac head defines a first inlet, a second inlet, and an outlet. The frac head receives frac fluid through the first inlet and directs the frac fluid to the outlet fluidly coupled to a wellhead. A valve couples to the second inlet of the frac head. A flapper valve is within the frac head. The flapper valve moves between an open position and a closed position to control fluid flow to the valve through the second inlet. The flapper valve aligns with a first axis of the outlet and the second inlet in the closed position and aligns with a second axis of the first inlet in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Cody Tibbs, Jana Byrne, Justin Clifton
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Patent number: 11598174Abstract: A fracturing fluid delivery system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a wellhead assembly, a fracturing fluid supply line, a vertical branch extending upward from the fracturing fluid supply line, and a fluid conduit coupling the vertical branch in fluid communication with the wellhead assembly. The fluid conduit may extend linearly from the vertical branch to the wellhead assembly. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventors: Adam J. Christopherson, Jay P. Painter
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Patent number: 11585191Abstract: A wellhead system includes a wellhead including a position sensor disposed in an inner surface of the wellhead, and a wellhead component to be installed in the wellhead, the wellhead component including a position indicator disposed in an outer surface of the wellhead component, wherein the position sensor is configured to transmit a position signal in response to the wellhead component entering into a predetermined aligned position in the wellhead.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jose Navar, Kythu Nguyen, Dennis Nguyen, Delbert Vanderford, Jason Busch, Haw Keat Lim
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Patent number: 11549066Abstract: Citrate polyester additives for crude oils, mixtures of the citrate polyester additives and crude oils, and methods for producing or forming the mixtures are provided. The mixtures and methods comprise at least one citrate polyester additive introduce or applied to crude oil, wherein the at least one citrate polyester additive comprises one or more citrate crosspolymers.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher S. Daeffler, Graham Robert Drummond, Grady F. Parker, III, Hema Rampersad
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Patent number: 11549593Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a choke valve that includes a choke body, a choke trim disposed in the choke body, where the choke trim is configured to adjust a cross-sectional area of a flow path in the choke body to adjust a fluid flow through the choke valve, a needle of the choke trim disposed in the flow path of the fluid flow, where the needle includes a first portion having a superhard material, a seat of the choke trim, where the needle is configured to move along an axis extending through an opening of the seat to adjust the fluid flow through the choke valve.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Scott A. Miller, Ghulam A. Barkatally, Jerry A. Martino, Declan Elliott, Edmund Peter McHugh, Jonathan Marshall, David Hoyle, Neil Cannon
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Patent number: 11536119Abstract: A fracturing system can include a fracturing manifold coupled to a plurality of fracturing trees. The fracturing manifold may include adjustment joints that enable adjustment of the length of the fracturing manifold. The fracturing manifold can also include pivot joints that allow angular displacement of portions of the fracturing manifold with respect to other portions. The adjustment and pivot joints can accommodate spacing and elevation differences between the fracturing trees.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventor: Gregory A. Conrad
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Patent number: 11524927Abstract: Monoethylene glycol (MEG) may be reclaimed by a process that includes contacting a MEG-water-salt stream with a heat transfer fluid and then flash separating the MEG and water in the flash separator vessel where the pressure is higher than 0.3 barA (0.03 MPa), the temperature is in the range of above 120° C. to about 250° C., and the residence time of the MEG and water ranges from about 1 second to about 10 minutes, and then removing the MEG and water in an overhead of the flash separator vessel and removing the salt from the flash separator vessel. In some embodiments it is expected that the temperature of the process may range from above 165° C. to about 250° C. and/or that the pressure may be atmospheric.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher Stephen King, Brian Edward Messenger, Harihara V. Nemmara, Z. Frank Zheng, Shihui Zhou
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Patent number: 11499387Abstract: A system includes a hanger running tool that has a first lock ring configured to secure the hanger running tool to a hanger when a first axial force is applied to the hanger running tool and a tool body configured to direct a push ring of the hanger in an axial direction when a second axial force is applied to the hanger running tool, where the push ring is configured to direct a second lock ring of the hanger radially outward toward a tubular, and where the hanger running tool is configured to secure the hanger to the tubular without rotating the hanger running tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Levert, Jr., Kyle Sommerfeld, Gavin Robottom
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Patent number: 11459840Abstract: A hanger running tool configured to set a hanger assembly within a wellhead includes a rotatable tool configured to couple to the hanger assembly via a first threaded interface having a first orientation. The hanger running tool also includes an outer sleeve coupled to the rotatable tool, and the outer sleeve includes one or more slots configured to engage a drive ring coupled to the hanger assembly via a second threaded interface having a second orientation opposite the first orientation. Rotation of the rotatable tool in a first direction is configured to loosen the rotatable tool from the hanger assembly while causing the one or more slots of the outer sleeve to drive the drive ring in the first direction, thereby tightening the drive ring about the hanger assembly and causing the drive ring to drive a lock ring radially-outwardly to engage a corresponding recess of the wellhead.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Dennis P. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11441385Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward a choke valve system including a choke valve body and a plurality of choke trims. The plurality of choke trims comprises a plug and cage choke trim, an external sleeve choke trim, and a drilling choke trim, wherein the drilling choke trim is configured to enable a fluid flow rate greater than the plug and cage choke trim and the external sleeve choke trim, and wherein each of the plurality of choke trims is configured to be mutually exclusively secured within the choke valve body.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Declan Elliott, Michael Anthony McKeon
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Patent number: 11434739Abstract: A fracturing fluid delivery system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a fracturing manifold and a fracturing tree. A fluid conduit is coupled between the fracturing manifold and the fracturing tree to enable receipt of fracturing fluid by the fracturing tree from the fracturing manifold through the fluid conduit. The fluid conduit includes a flexible pipe segment between rigid ends of the fluid conduit. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventor: Kirk P. Guidry
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Patent number: 11421508Abstract: Fracturing systems with frac valves having gates for controlling flow of fracturing fluid are provided. In one embodiment, a fracturing apparatus includes a frac valve having a housing with a cavity transverse to a bore. A gate is positioned in the cavity and is movable between open and closed positions to selectively block flow through the bore. The gate includes a seal assembly positioned to seal against a sidewall of the cavity to surround the bore and block flow through the frac valve when the gate is in the closed position. The seal assembly can be actuated between a less-energized state and a more-energized state following movement of the gate within the cavity from the open position to the closed position. Additional systems, devices, and methods for fracturing are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventors: Adam Christopherson, Michael Krejci, Pawan Malli, Leonard Vogel, Nicholas Ruff, Delbert Vanderford, Stuart Robinson, Dennis P. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11414948Abstract: A technique enables maintenance of sufficient clearance between a wellhead and, for example, a mobile rig. The technique facilitates support of a cable, e.g. an antenna suspension cable, at the wellhead without detrimentally affecting the desired clearance. According to an embodiment, a flange system is used in combination with a cable clamp assembly at a wellhead. The flange system may comprise a flange having a connector portion configured for coupling with the wellhead. The flange also comprises a cylinder portion coupled to the connector portion such that the cylinder portion extends into a corresponding bore of the wellhead. The cable clamp assembly is configured to clamp around and support a cable extending down through the wellhead. The cable clamp assembly is supported within the cylinder portion of the flange such that the cable clamp assembly is at least partially disposed within the wellhead.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Benny Poedjono, Jose Melguizo, Pheng Aun Soh, Craig Cotton
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Patent number: 11414328Abstract: A vessel for treating an oil-in-water inlet stream houses an inlet flow distributor arranged to direct an inlet flow toward a perforated baffle of a coalescing section, the coalescing section housing a packing and being arranged upstream of a second baffle; a flotation section arranged to receive a flow exiting the coalescing section and being divided by one or more perforated baffles; and an outlet water collecting pipe arranged to receive a flow exiting the flotation section, the outlet water collecting pipe having one or more openings located along its length. The coalescing section may be divided into two sections, with one section preferably housing a different pre-selected sized packing than the other section. The flotation section may include one or more gas-inducing devices. A solid baffle may be arranged downstream of the second baffle and ahead of the flotation section to provide single or dual flow through that section.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Min-Hsiun Lee, Gary W. Sams, Z. Frank Zheng
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Patent number: 11398781Abstract: A power supply device includes a power conversion circuit configured to generate an output voltage from an input voltage, and a controller coupled to the power conversion circuit and configured to control the power conversion circuit to generate the output voltage for causing or enhancing coalescence of a multi-phase liquid mixture when the output voltage is applied to the multi-phase liquid mixture. The controller is configured to control generation of the output voltage in accordance with a synchronization signal. The controller is further configured to generate the synchronization signal and transmit the synchronization signal to another power supply device, or receive the synchronization signal from another power supply device.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Pavan Kumar B. Mandewalkar, Gary W. Sams
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Patent number: 11391109Abstract: A fracturing system is provided. In one embodiment, the fracturing system includes a fracturing manifold for routing fracturing fluid to multiple wells. The fracturing manifold can be coupled via fluid conduits to fracturing trees installed at the wells. In some cases, each fracturing tree that is coupled to the fracturing manifold is coupled by at least one rigid fluid conduit. The fracturing manifold can include a trunk line that provides fracturing fluid to multiple outlet branches, which can include valves for controlling flow of fracturing fluid to wells downstream of the valves. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventor: Kirk P. Guidry
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Patent number: 11384622Abstract: A method of decontaminating naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) from downhole equipment may include injecting a NORM dissolver into an isolated region of a wellbore in which NORM-contaminated production equipment is located; and removing the NORM contaminants from the production equipment. The method may also include recommencing production of hydrocarbons following the decontamination.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Mohammed Abdellatif, Mohamed AlMahdy, Henricus Fortuin