Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

William Marsh Rice University

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Anil Sadana

Ping Duan

Anton Kovalchuk

Sayantan Roy

Suman Khatiwada

John C Welch

Guijun Deng

Xiao Wang

Jeffrey R Potts

Jason M Harper

Daniel C Ewing

Michael H Johnson

David Peter Gerrard

James Edward Goodson

Wayne Furlan

Ramon Garza

Devesh Agrawal

James B Crews

Feng Liang

Gaurav Agrawal

Bennett M Richard

YingQing Xu

James C Doane

Robert H Hauge

Zhihui Zhang

Sankaran Murugesan

Radhika Suresh

Jiaxiang Ren

Carlos A Prieto

Devesh Kumar Agrawal

Todd Christophe Jackson

Deepak Kumar

Yusheng Yuan

James R Korte

Vipul Mathur

W Edward Billups

Vimal Shah

Soumya Vinod

Sandip Maity

Oscar Becerra Moreno

Bairu Liu

Michael Johnson

An inflow control system for a borehole, including a plurality of electrically controlled inflow control devices (ICDs), a plurality of power sources, at least one source being connected to one of the ICDs and also being connectable to another of the ICDs, and a downhole controller operably connected to the ICDs and to the power sources, the controller configured to modify power supply from the power sources to the ICDs. A method for managing inflow in a wellbore, including powering a plurality of inflow control devices (ICDs) with a plurality of power sources, managing power distribution to the plurality of ICDs from the plurality of power sources with a downhole controller. A wellbore system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and an inflow control system, disposed within or as a part of the string.

Inflow control system for a borehole, and method

An apparatus includes an expandable and porous filtration member having a body constructed of a composite containing a polymer hydrogel, a rubber binder, and a filler. The body has a first volume and expandable to a second volume upon contacting with a fluid comprising water.

Swellable devices based on renewable raw materials and methods of using in wellbores

A seal including a seal material and a temperature control material in thermal communication with the seal material. A method for producing a seal having temperature regulating properties including adding a dopant to a seal material in a quantity that supports electrical conductivity and disposing an electrical connector on the seal. A borehole system comprising a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal tool disposed within or as a part of the string.

Seal tool with temperature control material, method, and system

A seal includes a seal body and a temperature controller in thermal communication with the seal material. A method for controlling temperature of a seal including applying an energy source to the temperature controller, and generating a temperature difference in the temperature controller. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal tool disposed within or as part of the string.

Borehole sealing with temperature control, method, and system

A fluid control device includes a support structure configured to be deployed in a borehole, and a filtration component disposed at the support structure, the filtration component including a porous medium made from a thermoplastic polymer material, the porous medium including an open cell foam. The porous medium has a porosity selected to cause the porous medium to exhibit shape memory behavior, and the porous medium is configured to be compacted from an initial shape to a compacted shape, deployed in the borehole, and subsequently expanded due to a downhole temperature to conform to a surface of the borehole.

Filtration of fluids using conformable porous shape memory media

A tracer-embedded degradable article includes: a degradable metallic carrier; and a tracer disposed in the degradable metallic carrier, wherein the tracer includes an upconverting particle that has a host material, and a dopant. The article is manufactured by forming a mixture containing the metallic carrier and the tracer; and molding or casting the mixture. The degradation of the article is monitored by disposing the article downhole; degrading the article; releasing the tracer from the article to a wellbore fluid; and analyzing the wellbore fluid to determine an amount of the tracer in the wellbore fluid.

Tracer-embedded degradable articles, method of manufacture, and use thereof for downhole applications

A method for improving sealing in boreholes includes temperature controlling seals to maintain sealing loading by managing temperature of the seal to a target temperature range. A borehole system includes a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, a seal tool in contact with the string and temperature controller within or in thermal proximity to the seal.

A fluid control device includes a support structure configured to be deployed to a selected location in a borehole, and a filtration medium disposed at the support structure and configured to filter a fluid, the filtration medium configured to be compacted from an initial shape to a compacted shape prior to deployment in the borehole. The filtration medium includes a first polymeric material configured to withstand a temperature at the selected location, the first polymeric material forming a porous structure including a plurality of fluid passages, and a second polymeric material including a shape memory polymer disposed within the fluid passages, the shape memory polymer configured to expand in the plurality of fluid passages and cause the filtration medium to expand in the borehole.

Filtration media including porous polymeric material and degradable shape memory material

A process for the manufacture of a degradable polycyanurate bulk molding composition includes: contacting a liquid cyanate ester monomer with an additive material and a polymerization catalyst to form a reaction mixture; maintaining a temperature of the reaction mixture at about 80&#xb0; C. to about 100&#xb0; C. to form a polycyanurate product having a viscosity of about 120 to about 200 centipoise at 23&#xb0; C.; heating a reinforcing filler at a temperature of about 50 to about 150&#xb0; C. to form a pre-heated reinforcing filler; and blending the polycyanurate product with the pre-heated reinforcing filler to form the degradable polycyanurate bulk molding composition. The bulk molding composition can be used to form a degradable polycyanurate article.

Manufacture of degradable polycyanurate bulk molding compositions

A sand control tool including a base pipe having a radial port through a wall thereof, a plurality of volume increasing members disposed upon the base pipe, a filtration segment disposed upon the base pipe and disposed between and in physical contact with ones of the plurality of members, and a cover disposed radially outwardly upon the plurality of members and plurality of segments. An embodiment of a sand control tool including a base pipe having a radial port through a wall thereof, a volume increasing member helically disposed upon the base pipe, a filtration segment helically disposed upon the base pipe adjacent the member, and a cover disposed radially outwardly upon the member and segment.

Conformable sand screen

A fluid control device includes a support structure configured to be deployed in a borehole and a filtration component disposed at the support structure. The filtration component includes a porous medium made from a shape memory epoxy, the shape memory epoxy including a soft segment monomer and a hard segment monomer, the porous medium configured to be compacted from an initial shape to a compacted shape, deployed in the borehole, and subsequently expanded due to a downhole temperature to conform to a surface of the borehole.

Epoxy-based filtration of fluids

A system and apparatus for providing an apparatus for use in a wellbore. The apparatus includes an apparatus body defining a volume, a propellant disposed within the volume, wherein the propellant has a first burn rate, and at least one propellant insert disposed within the propellant, wherein the propellant insert has a second burn rate, and the second burn rate is different than the first burn rate.

System and method for altering a burn rate of a propellant

A method for operation in wellbore, the method comprises: pumping a fluid barrier into a wellbore through a tubular, the fluid barrier being operable to separate a cement slurry from a second fluid; the fluid barrier comprising a polyurethane member derived from a polyurethane forming composition comprising a para-phenylene diisocyanate terminated polycarbonate prepolymer and an aromatic diol.

Polyurethane cementing wiper plugs

A completion tool comprises a mandrel; a swellable element disposed about the mandrel; and a protective layer disposed on a surface of the swellable element and configured to inhibit diffusion of a downhole fluid to the swellable element; the protective layer comprising a degradable textile-based composite.

Completion tools with fluid diffusion control layer

A method for operating in a borehole comprises disposing in a downhole environment an article comprising a bismaleimide composite which comprises a polybismaleimide and a disintegrating agent; exposing the article to an aqueous fluid at a temperature of about 25&#xb0; C. to about 300&#xb0; C.; and disintegrating the article.

Disintegratable bismaleimide composites for downhole tool applications

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