Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Jeffrey Honekamp

Freeman Lee Hill

Rocco DiFoggio

Avigdor Hetz

Farhat Shaikh

Randy L Evans

Roderick A Larson

Jamie Imhoff

Freeman L Hill

A mechanical stop arrangement includes a first coupler having a tool connection segment, and an arrangement connection segment, a second coupler having a first connection segment connectable with the arrangement connection section, and a frustoconical inside diameter surface, and a wedge having a radially outside surface angle that is complementary to the frustoconical inside diameter surface. A method for connecting a borehole tool to an outside surface of a tubular, including connecting the borehole tool to a first coupler either before or after disposing the coupler on the tubular, disposing the first coupler on the tubular, disposing a wedge on the tubular, disposing a second coupler on the tubular, interconnecting the first coupler and the second coupler, and jamming the wedge against the tubular with the interconnecting. A wellbore system, including a borehole, a string in the borehole, and an arrangement, disposed within or as a part of the string.

Mechanical stop arrangement for a borehole tubular to locate and restrain a borehole tool to an outside diameter of the tubular, method, and system

A perforating system, including a shaped charge assembly comprising a charge case, a liner, and a main body of explosive. The material of the perforating system components, including the gun body, the charge case and the liner may be comprised of an energetic material that conflagrates upon detonation of the shaped charge. The material may be an oxidizer, tungsten, cement particles, rubber compounds, compound fibers, KEVLAR&#xae;, steel, steel alloys, zinc, and combinations thereof.

Perforating system comprising an energetic material

In one aspect, an apparatus for use in a wellbore is provided that may include: a tool configured to be conveyed into the wellbore by a conveying member; and an electro-active polymer device ('EAP device') configured to connect the tool to the conveying member when the EAP device is in a first mode or position and disconnect the tool from the conveying member when the EAP device is in a second mode or position. In another aspect, a method for releasing a tool in a wellbore is provided which includes: releasably connecting an EAP device to a conveying member and the tool; conveying the tool in the wellbore with the conveying member; and electrically activating the EAP device to release the tool from the conveying member in the wellbore.

Downhole tools utilizing electroactive polymers for actuating release mechanisms

A subterranean formation stimulation system, comprising a gas generator, a high pressure seal, and a fluid injection system. The high pressure seal may be a packer and or plug having an outer sealing surface on its outer periphery. The outer sealing surface is configured for metal to metal contact with the inner circumference of wellbore casing. The gas generator can be compressed gas or a propellant. A shaped charge can be included to activate the generator. The system is disposable in a wellbore on wireline, slick line, or tubing.

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Tomball, TX, United States of America

Jeffrey Honekamp