Cameron International Corporation

Sanjay Menon

Haw Keat Lim

Yong Wee Lee

Kim Siang Ong

Sufian Bin Mohamed Arip

Boon Keng Tay

Srivathsan Sudershan Vuruputoor

Smart wellhead assemblies with sensors for detecting positions of components within the bores of the wellhead assemblies are provided. In some instances, the sensors can be used to detect one or more of landing, locking, or concentricity of hangers, packoffs, or other internal wellhead components within bores. In one example, a method of installing a hanger within a wellhead includes lowering the hanger within the wellhead and using one or more sensors to detect when the hanger is at a target location. The method can also include activating a locking mechanism of the hanger and using the one or more sensors to detect when the locking mechanism has secured the hanger within the wellhead. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.

Smart wellhead

A system includes a running tool having a tool body configured to couple to a hanger assembly, a first sleeve disposed around the tool body and configured to move in an axial direction with respect to the tool body, a torque sleeve disposed around the tool body and configured to move in the axial direction as a result of movement of the first sleeve in the axial direction, where the torque sleeve has a first torque transfer interface configured to interlock with a second torque transfer interface of the hanger assembly to enable torque transfer from the running tool to the hanger assembly, and a second sleeve configured to couple to the first sleeve, where the second sleeve is configured to move to engage a lock member of the hanger assembly and to move the lock member between a locked position and an unlocked position.

Running tool for tubing hanger

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Singapore, Singapore

Sanjay Menon