Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Jason Edwards

John Burris

Ronald Garr

Samuel C Kucera

Wade Miller

Brett Cullen Jones

Adam James Manlandro

A sequestration injection valve including a housing, a flow valve disposed in the housing, an injector assembly, the assembly having a ported inner sleeve and a ported outer sleeve, the inner sleeve and outer sleeve moveable relative to one another to more align or more misalign the ports in the inner sleeve and outer sleeve. A method for injecting sequestration fluid into a borehole including applying pressure to a flow valve in an injection valve, moving an inner sleeve of an injector assembly with the pressure, and automatically maintaining pressure differential at the injector assembly. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a sequestration injection valve disposed within or as a part of the string.

Sequestration injection valve, method, and system

A downhole tool including a valve portion having a valve housing including an inner chamber and an actuation tubular. The actuation tubular includes an outer surface, an inner surface defining a flow path, an upper end, and a lower end. A first spring extends about the outer surface of the actuation tubular between the upper end and the lower end. An actuator portion is detachably connected to the actuation tubular. The actuator portion includes an actuator housing, an actuator member arranged in the actuator housing, and a second spring operatively connected to the actuator member. The actuator member includes a first end portion operatively connected to the first spring and a second end portion. The actuator portion is selected and connected to the downhole tool to establish a selected actuation force through the second spring to compress the first spring causing the actuation tubular to shift within the inner chamber.

Surface controlled subsurface safety valve (SCSSV) system

A tubular for downhole use including a wall defining an inner bore; a fluidic passageway formed within the wall that is fluidically isolated from the inner bore; a portion of the wall being located between the inner bore and the fluid passageway and configured to maintain fluidic isolation between the inner bore and the fluid passageway until an opening is formed through the portion.

Tubular for downhole use, a downhole tubular system and method of forming a fluid passageway at a tubular for downhole use

A tubing pressure insensitive failsafe wireline retrievable safety valve including a tool housing, a flow tube disposed within the tool housing, an actuation piston disposed in the tool housing and operably connected to the flow tube, the actuation piston having an actuation pressure side and a relatively lower pressure chamber side, a fluid pathway between a potential leak site for the valve and the relatively lower pressure chamber side of the piston. A borehole system having a tubing pressure insensitive failsafe wireline retrievable safety valve. A tubing pressure insensitive failsafe wireline retrievable safety valve.

Tubing pressure insensitive failsafe wireline retrievable safety valve

An apparatus for detecting a position of a moveable component of a valve disposed in a borehole penetrating the earth includes a radioactive marker disposed on the moveable component and a radiation detector configured to detect radiation emitted by the radioactive marker. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to receive radiation detection information from the radiation detector and to correlate the radiation detection information to the position of the moveable component.

Downhole valve position monitor

A tubing pressure insensitive failsafe wireline retrievable safety valve, borehole system having the valve and method of operation of the valve. The valve includes a tool housing, a flow tube disposed within the tool housing, an actuation piston disposed in the tool housing and operably connected to the flow tube, the actuation piston having an actuation side and a pressure side, and a fluid pathway between a potential leak site for the valve and the pressure side of the piston. A temporary sealing member is in the fluid pathway between the potential leak site and the pressure side of the piston. The method includes disposing the valve at a selected location and removing at least a portion of the temporary sealing member from the fluid pathway after landing the wireline retrievable safety valve at the selected location.

A downhole component includes a unitary body having a first end portion, a second end portion and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. The intermediate portion defines an outer surface and an inner surface forming a flow path. An annular chamber has a first end section spaced from a second end section by a gap. The annular chamber is formed in the unitary body spaced from the first end portion, the second end portion, the outer surface, and the inner surface.

Downhole component including a unitary body having an internal annular chamber and fluid passages

An actuator mechanism for a valve system includes a housing having an outer surface, an inner surface defining an opening and a chamber extending partially about the housing between the outer surface and the inner surface. A hinge is mounted to the housing. The hinge is exposed at the chamber. A valve member is fixedly connected to the hinge. The valve member is selectively positionable across the opening. An actuator is arranged in the chamber and selectively biased against the hinge to transition the valve member between an open configuration and a closed configuration.

Actuator mechanism for a valve system

An equalizer valve is hydraulically operated by a pair of control lines running from a remote location such as a well surface. The use of control lines to make a mandrel or piston move in opposed directions removes the need for a spring or compressed gas to act as a spring against the anticipated hydrostatic force in a single control line system that is dependent on setting depth. The equalizer valve with its pair of control lines is insensitive to setting depth. Three seals on the mandrel are used to move the mandrel with the two control lines in opposed directions and to apply a net force to the mandrel. The seal applying the net closure force is exposed to a low or atmospheric chamber to make the second seal operate reliably using a large differential.

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Broken Arrow, OK, United States of America

Jason Edwards