General Electric Company

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Grant Hartman

Mahendra L Joshi

Yizhen Lin

David Mulford Shaddock

Cheng-Po Chen

Xuele Qi

Jeffrey Potts

Reda El-Mahbes

Dewey Parker, Jr

A collapsible packer for use in a well includes a deployment assembly, a retraction assembly and a sealing assembly extending between the deployment assembly and the retraction assembly. The deployment assembly may include a spring and a degradable stop configured to offset the force applied by the spring. The degradable stop can be manufactured from a material that dissolves when contacted by fluid in the well. The retraction assembly may by hydraulically or spring energized.

Self-cleaning packer system

A downhole dynamometer for a rod pumping unit is provided. The downhole dynamometer includes a shell within which a plurality of sensors, a non-transitory memory, and a dynamometer controller are located. The shell is configured to be coupled to a sucker rod string of the rod pumping unit and disposed in a well opposite a wellhead of the well. The plurality of sensors is configured to measure downhole accelerations of the sucker rod string and to measure a downhole load on the sucker rod string. The dynamometer controller is coupled to the plurality of sensors and the non-transitory memory. The dynamometer controller is configured to periodically collect measurements from the plurality of sensors and store the measurements in the non-transitory memory.

Downhole dynamometer and method of operation

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Oklahoma City, OK, United States of America

Grant Hartman