Patents by Inventor Graeme Kelbie

Graeme Kelbie has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220298882
    Abstract: An isolation plug tool including a mandrel, an anchor assembly disposed on the mandrel, a seal assembly disposed on the mandrel having a seal, and a sleeve removably disposed radially outwardly of the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Graeme Kelbie
  • Patent number: 9057260
    Abstract: Thin wall sleeves are inserted into a well and expanded into sealing position to a surrounding tubular. Each sleeve has a ball seat. A zone is perforated after a sleeve is secured in position below the perforations. The ball is dropped onto the seat and pressure is built up to complete the fracturing. After all zones are perforated and fractured, the balls are removed, preferably by dissolving them and the thin walled sleeves are left in the tubular against which they have been expanded. Production can then begin from a selected zone. The objects can be of the same size for each sleeve. The sleeves can be run through tubing and into casing. Acid can be pumped to dissolve the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Graeme Kelbie, Richard Yingqing Xu, Steve Rosenblatt
  • Publication number: 20130000914
    Abstract: Thin wall sleeves are inserted into a well and expanded into sealing position to a surrounding tubular. Each sleeve has a ball seat. A zone is perforated after a sleeve is secured in position below the perforations. The ball is dropped onto the seat and pressure is built up to complete the fracturing. After all zones are perforated and fractured, the balls are removed, preferably by dissolving them and the thin walled sleeves are left in the tubular against which they have been expanded. Production can then begin from a selected zone. The objects can be of the same size for each sleeve. The sleeves can be run through tubing and into casing. Acid can be pumped to dissolve the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Graeme Kelbie, Richard Yingqing Xu, Steve Rosenblatt
  • Patent number: 8122960
    Abstract: Coiled tubing spears for retrieving a section of cut coiled tubing comprises a mandrel having attachment members, e.g., spears, at upper and lower ends for facilitating connection of the upper end of the mandrel to a spooled section of coiled tubing and the lower end of the mandrel to a section of cut coiled tubing disposed in a wellbore. Coiled tubing spears comprise one or more centralizers that are releasably secured to the mandrel. The centralizer(s) facilitate lining up a lower attachment member, or spear, with the bore of the section of cut coiled tubing so that the mandrel can be secured to the cut coiled tubing for retrieval. During retrieval of the cut coiled tubing, the centralizer(s) are released from the mandrel so that the mandrel and attachment members can continue through an injector head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Alasdair MacDonald, Graeme Kelbie
  • Publication number: 20110036574
    Abstract: Coiled tubing spears for retrieving a section of cut coiled tubing comprises a mandrel having attachment members, e.g., spears, at upper and lower ends for facilitating connection of the upper end of the mandrel to a spooled section of coiled tubing and the lower end of the mandrel to a section of cut coiled tubing disposed in a wellbore. Coiled tubing spears comprise one or more centralizers that are releasably secured to the mandrel. The centralizer(s) facilitate lining up a lower attachment member, or spear, with the bore of the section of cut coiled tubing so that the mandrel can be secured to the cut coiled tubing for retrieval. During retrieval of the cut coiled tubing, the centralizer(s) are released from the mandrel so that the mandrel and attachment members can continue through an injector head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Alasdair MacDonald, Graeme Kelbie
  • Publication number: 20070107913
    Abstract: A downhole tool includes a thru-tubing high expansion, elastomeric inflatable seal and a thru-tubing mechanical anchoring arrangement. A method for separating pressure in a wellbore including actuating a mechanical anchoring system of a thru-tubing downhole tool; inflating a high expansion inflatable elastomeric seal against the tubing subsequent to actuating said mechanical anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: George Arnold, Gordon Mackenzie, Graeme Kelbie
  • Publication number: 20050115720
    Abstract: A through tubing downhole tool, such as a bridge plug is delivered on coiled tubing. The setting process entails an initial pressurization to anchor the tool and compress its sealing element. The remainder of the needed force for setting the tool can come from an upward pull on the coiled tubing. Should more force than can be delivered from a pull on the coiled tubing be required to finish the setting and releasing process from the downhole tool, a jar or impact tool can be incorporated to boost the applied uphole force that is delivered from the pull on the coiled tubing at the surface. Alternatively, a pressure amplifier can be fitted to the coiled tubing so that a smaller pressure applied to the coiled tubing at the surface can deliver the required force to set and release from the downhole tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Gordon MacKenzie, George Arnold, Graeme Kelbie