Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Guijun Deng

Zhihui Zhang

Daniel C Ewing

Zhiyue Xu

Alexander Kendall

Lei Zhao

Jason M Harper

Ping Duan

YingQing Xu

John K Wakefield

Anil Sadana

Ronnie D Russell

Anton Kovalchuk

Bin Zhu

Frank J Maenza

Keith J Murphy

Andrew J Cayson

Christopher Cook

Rowland Moffatt

Alexander M Kendall

James C Doane

Oleksandr V Kuznetsov

Christopher Ryan Hern

Matthew J Krueger

Gary L Anderson

Carlos A Prieto

Ke Wang

Joshua Snitkoff

Kevin Holmes

Deepak Kumar

Nicholas S Conner

Xiao Wang

Christopher David Young

Emerson Nunez

Nils Neumann

Alexander Morrison Kendall

Meghana Annamalai Dhandayuthapani

Emerson Nunez Moran

Vimal Shah

John K Wakfield

Guobin Ma

Yingqing Xu

Adam Patterson

A disappear-on-demand material actuator, including a trigger disposed in operable contact with the material, the trigger configured to respond to manipulation of a tubing string in operable communication with the actuator, and an electrical energy source electrically connected to the material and configured to supply electrical energy to the material upon a sequence initiation of the trigger. A method for actuating a disappear-on-demand material, including manipulating a tubing string, changing a trigger on the actuator, and conveying electrical energy to the material.

Disappear-on-demand material actuator, method and system

A seal energization assembly, including a seal, a setting arrangement in operative contact with the seal, and a set energy compensation device disposed in operative contact with the seal and add energy to the setting arrangement responsive to a falling environmental temperature. A method for maintaining energy in a seal during temperature down cycling, including automatically compensating for temperature related reduction in the seal energy by expanding a set energy compensating device in contact with the seal. A packer, including a mandrel, a seal on the mandrel, and a setting arrangement in operative contact with the seal, the arrangement including a negative thermal expansion set energy compensation device. A wellbore system, including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal energization assembly, disposed within or as a part of the string.

Seal energization assembly, method, and system

An anchor system including a slip, and a cone supportive of the slip in a set position, the cone being configured to reduce structural integrity thereof upon receipt of a signal. A method for operating an anchor including sending a signal to an anchor, and reducing the structural integrity of the cone. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and an anchor, disposed within or as a part of the string.

Anchor system and method

A density-based flow control configuration includes a housing and a first baffle having a first flow opening, a second baffle having a second flow opening adjacent the first baffle, one of the baffles being rotationally movable relative to the housing and to the other of the baffles, a first density float associated with the movable baffle, to impart torque to the associated baffle, the torque causing alignment or misalignment of the first and second openings. A method for allowing flow of a target fluid and choking flow of a nontarget fluid, including exposing a density-based flow control configuration to a fluid, imparting torque to a first baffle, and aligning or misaligning an opening in the first baffle with another opening to allow or choke flow of the fluid. A wellbore system, including a density-based flow control configuration.

Density-based flow control configuration, method, and system

A fluid density valve housing includes a pilot fluid inlet and outlet and a primary fluid inlet and outlet. A shuttle is disposed within the housing. The shuttle comprises a portion having a reference density and a portion defining a cavity fluidically connected to the pilot fluid inlet, the shuttle permitting or denying primary fluid flow depending upon a density of a pilot fluid flowing through the cavity versus the reference density. A method for controlling flow, including comparing density of a pilot flow with a reference density, moving a valve between fully open, fully closed, and choked depending upon the differential density between the pilot fluid and the reference density. A borehole system, including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a fluid density valve disposed within or as a part of the string.

Fluid density valve, method, and system

A seal assembly, including a seal including a first lattice impregnated with a conformable resilient material, a backup including a second lattice impregnated with a conformable resilient material, the second lattice having a greater rigidity than the first lattice. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal assembly disposed within or as a part of the string.

Seal assembly, and system

An inflow control device including a valve responsive to pressure inputs, and a fluid discriminator having a first structure that supports a first flow regime and a second structure that changes the flow regime to exhibit a higher pressure, a first pressure tap at the first structure and a second pressure tap at the second structure, the taps experiencing a differential pressure that is different for water and for oil flowing through the discriminator, and the first and second pressure taps connected to the valve. A borehole system, including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and an inflow control device disposed within or as a part of the string.

Density based inflow control device, method, and system

An inflow control device (ICD), including a hydrocyclonic device having a plurality of pressure taps therein and a valve responsive to differential pressure of the plurality of pressure taps. An inflow control device (ICD) including a switch having a primary flow inlet and a primary flow outlet, and a trigger that generates a differential pressure in the trigger due to separation of fluids having different densities. A method for allowing flow of a desired fluid while retarding a flow of undesired fluid in a flow control device, including flowing a pilot fluid through a fluid separator, separating components of the pilot fluid, applying differential pressure of two of the separated components to a valve that is actuated by differential pressure, flowing or retarding flow of a primary flow through the valve in response to the differential pressure.

Inflow control device, method and system

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 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 disintegrable rubber seal includes a rubber composite, which contains a rubber matrix including a crosslinked rubber; and an energetic filler configured to generate heat upon activation to disintegrate the rubber matrix. The energetic filler contains a metal and a metal oxide. A weight ratio of the energetic filler to the rubber matrix is about 6:1 to about 1:1.

Disintegrable rubber seal, method of manufacture, and application thereof

An element backup including a first ring defining an axis; a first parting line through the first ring, the first parting line having a first plurality of generally axially extending segments and a first generally non-axially extending segment extending between the first plurality of axially extending segments; a second ring defining an axis; a second parting line through the second ring, the second parting line having a second plurality of generally axially extending segments and a second generally non-axially extending segment extending between the second plurality of axially extending segments; and an interconnection releasably securing the first and second rings to one another.

Element backup

A flow control device including a flow channel having a housing defining an inside surface, the inside surface having an irregular helical structure of constant orthogonal cross-sectional dimensions.

A segmented backup ring including a plurality of individual segments each having curved surfaces that define an arcuate portion of the ring, each segment including a body section having the arcuate profile and defining a receptacle therein having a circumferential dimension, a projection section having a head portion and a neck portion and extending from the body section in a circumferential direction of the ring, the projection section being receivable and retainable in the receptacle of an adjacent segment body section, and the head portion having a dimension in line with the circumferential direction of the ring that is shorter than the circumferential dimension of the receptacle.

Segmented backup ring, system and method

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