Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Andrew James Kelbie

Michael Linley Fripp

James Dan Vick, Jr

Merced Gonzalez

Agasthya Raghavan

Mohamed Mohsen Mohamed Raffy

Provided is a subsurface safety valve. The subsurface safety valve, in one aspect, includes a tubular housing having a longitudinal opening, and one or more openings extending into the tubular housing. The subsurface safety valve, in one aspect, further includes a longitudinal valve positioned within the longitudinal opening. In accordance with one aspect, the longitudinal valve includes a first piston having a first piston surface area (SA) and a second piston having a second piston surface area (SA), the first piston surface area (SA) and the second piston surface area (SA) being substantially identical, as well as a fluid flow path extending within and along the longitudinal valve, the fluid flow path entering the longitudinal valve between a first longitudinal valve end and the first piston and exiting the longitudinal valve between a second longitudinal valve end and the second piston.

Tubing pressure insensitive subsurface safety valve

Provided are systems and methods incorporating design features that may be beneficial over current available well safety valves, such as a sleeved receptacle for a piston, a constrained piston rod, and a trapped flapper valve. A safety valve may comprise: an outer housing having a central bore extending axially through the outer housing, wherein the outer housing comprises an outer wall having a receptacle formed in the outer wall; a sleeve disposed in the receptacle; a piston disposed in the sleeve, wherein the piston is actuated to travel in the sleeve; a spring positioned to apply a biasing force to the piston; and a valve member disposed in the outer housing, wherein the valve member is operable to selectively restrict flow through the safety valve in response to movement of the piston.

Safety valve with a sleeved piston receptacle

A bypass diverter sub including a housing defining a flow passage, a control line bypass piston arranged within a control line bypass bore defined in a wall of the housing, and a balance line bypass piston arranged within a balance line bypass bore defined in the wall. An outer magnet is disposed within a magnet chamber and is operatively coupled to the control and balance line bypass. A flow tube profile is positioned within the flow passage and provides an inner magnet magnetically coupled to the outer. The flow tube profile is movable between a first position, where control line and balance line pressures circulate through the bypass diverter sub to a subsurface safety valve, and a second position, where the control line pressure is diverted into the flow passage and the balance line pressure is diverted into a balance line jumper conduit.

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Little Elm, TX, United States of America

Andrew James Kelbie