Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Xu Huang

Bo Yu

Wanjun Cao

Juan Miguel Bilen

Steven W Webb

Eric Charles Sullivan

John H Stevens

Konrad Thomas Izbinski

Nicholas J Lyons

John Morin

Marc William Bird

Richard Wayne Borge

Anthony Albert DiGiovanni

Steven Craig Russell

James Andy Oxford

Kenneth R Evans

Jayesh Rameshlal Jain

John Abhishek Raj Bomidi

Daniel E Ruff

Stephen Duffy

Eliah Everhard

Jayesh Jain

John A Bomidi

Armin Kueck

Konrad T Izbinski

Franklin Guillermo Valbuena

Michael L Doster

Ahmed Hanafy

Chris Perez

A nozzle or use in an earth-boring tool includes an inlet having a first size. The nozzle further includes an outlet having a second size different from the first size of the inlet. The nozzle also includes a fluid passage defined in the nozzle from the inlet to the outlet. The fluid passage includes a transition region configured to transition the fluid passage from the first size of the inlet to the second size of the outlet. The transition region includes a first arc curving inward and a second arc curving outward.

Earth-boring tools, nozzles, and associated structures, apparatus, and methods

A cutting element for an earth-boring tool includes a substrate and a volume of polycrystalline diamond on the substrate. The volume of polycrystalline diamond has exterior surfaces defining a front cutting surface, a peripheral edge, and at least a pair of angled tip surfaces defining at least one cutting tip between the pair of angled tip surfaces. The front cutting surface includes a first planar region and a second planar region, one or both of which may include a cutting tip. The front cutting surface may be characterized as generally concave. Earth-boring tools include a tool body and one or more such cutting elements secured to the tool body.

Cutting elements and geometries for reduced vibrations, earth-boring tools, and related methods

Cutting elements for earth-boring tools may include a cutting edge located proximate to a periphery of the cutting element. The cutting edge may be positioned and configured to contact an earth formation during an earth-boring operation. The cutting edge may include a first portion having a first radius of curvature and a second portion having a second, larger radius of curvature. The second portion may be circumferentially offset from the first portion.

Cutting elements for earth-boring tools and related earth-boring tools and methods

A cutting element comprises a supporting substrate, a cutting table comprising a hard material attached to the supporting substrate, and a fluid flow pathway extending through the supporting substrate and the cutting table. The fluid flow pathway is configured to direct fluid delivered to an outermost boundary of the supporting substrate through internal regions of the supporting substrate and the cutting table. A method of forming a cutting element and an earth-boring tool are also described.

Methods of forming cutting elements

An earth-boring tool system that includes a drilling assembly for drilling a wellbore and a surface control unit. The surface control unit includes a prediction system that is configured to train a hybrid physics and machine-learning model based on input data, provide, via the hybrid model, a predictive model representing a rate of penetration of an earth-boring tool and wear of the earth-boring tool during a planned drilling operation, provide one or more recommendations of drilling parameters based on the predictive model, utilize the one or more recommendations in a drilling operation, receive real-time data from the drilling operation, retrain the hybrid model based on a combination of the input data and the real-time data, and provide, via the retrained model, an updated predictive model of a rate of penetration of an earth-boring tool and wear of the earth-boring tool during a remainder of the planned drilling operation.

Earth-boring tool rate of penetration and wear prediction system and related methods

A cutting table comprises a polycrystalline hard material and at least one rhenium-containing structure within the polycrystalline hard material and comprising greater than or equal to about 10 weight percent rhenium. A cutting element, an earth-boring tool, and method of forming a cutting element are also described.

Cutting tables including rhenium-containing structures, and related cutting elements, earth-boring tools, and methods

An instrumented cutting element, an earth-boring drilling tool, and related methods are disclosed. The instrumented cutting element may include a substrate base, a diamond table disposed on the substrate base, a sensor disposed within the diamond table, a lead wire coupled to the sensor and disposed within a side trench formed within the substrate base, and a filler material disposed within the side trench. The earth-boring drilling tool may include securing the instrumented cutting element to a blade of a bit body. A related method may include forming the instrumented cutting element and earth-boring drilling tool.

Apparatuses and method for attaching an instrumented cutting element to an earth-boring drilling tool

A cutting element for an earth-boring tool includes a substrate and a polycrystalline, superabrasive material secured to an end of the substrate. The polycrystalline, superabrasive material includes a first transition surface extending from an outer peripheral edge of the polycrystalline, superabrasive material and in a first direction oblique to a center longitudinal axis of the substrate and a curved, stress-reduction feature located on at least the first transition surface. Additionally, the stress-reduction feature may include an undulating edge formed in at least the first transition surface and a waveform extending from the undulating edge formed in at least the first transition surface toward the center longitudinal axis of the cutting element.

Cutting elements configured to reduce impact damage related tools and methods&#x2014;alternate configurations

Cutting elements including internal fluid flow pathways, and related earth-boring tools

A cutting element for an earth-boring tool includes a substrate and a polycrystalline, superabrasive material secured to an end of the substrate. The polycrystalline, superabrasive material includes a curved, stress-reduction feature located at least on the first transition surface. The cutting element includes at least one recess defined in the curved, stress-reduction feature of the polycrystalline, superabrasive material. The at least one recess includes sidewalls intersecting with a front surface of the stress-reduction feature of the polycrystalline, superabrasive material and extending to a base wall within the polycrystalline, superabrasive material. The curved, stress-reduction feature includes an undulating edge formed proximate a peripheral edge of the polycrystalline, superabrasive material and a waveform extending from the undulating edge toward the center longitudinal axis of the cutting element.

Cutting elements configured to reduce impact damage and mitigate polycrystalline, superabrasive material failure earth-boring tools including such cutting elements, and related methods

A cutting table for use in subterranean formations comprises a base structure of hard material and at least one ridge structure of hard material. The base structure comprises a side surface, an upper surface, and a cutting edge between the upper surface and the side surface. The at least one ridge structure vertically extends from the base structure and is positioned horizontally inward of the cutting edge. A cutting element for use in subterranean formations and an earth-boring tool are also described.

Cutting tables including ridge structures, related cutting elements, and earth-boring tools so equipped

A tool for forming or servicing a wellbore includes a first body, a second body, and a retaining member located between a surface of the first body and a surface of the second body. The retaining member at least partially retains the second body with respect to the first body. The retaining member comprises a shape memory material configured to transform, responsive to application of a stimulus, from a first solid phase to a second solid phase. A method of forming a tool for forming or servicing a wellbore includes disposing a retaining member comprising a shape memory material in a space between a first body and a second body and transforming the shape memory material from a first solid phase to a second solid phase by application of a stimulus to cause the retaining member to create a mechanical interference.

Method and apparatus for securing bodies using shape memory materials

An earth-boring tool includes a tool body, at least one cutting element, and a retaining member comprising a shape memory material (e.g., alloy, polymer, etc.) located between a surface of the tool body and a surface of the cutting element. The shape memory material is configured to transform, responsive to application of a stimulus, from a first solid phase to a second solid phase. The retaining member comprises the shape memory material in the second solid phase, and at least partially retains the at least one cutting element adjacent the tool body. The shape memory material may be trained in a first phase to a first shape, and trained in a second phase to a second shape. The retaining member may be at least partially within a cavity in the first phase, then transformed to the second phase to apply a force securing the cutting element to the tool body.

Earth-boring tools and methods for forming earth-boring tools using shape memory materials

Cutting elements for earth-boring tools may include a superhard, polycrystalline material and a substrate adjacent to and secured to the superhard, polycrystalline material at an interface. The substrate may include a first region exhibiting a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a second region exhibiting a second, different coefficient of thermal expansion. The first region may be spaced from the superhard, polycrystalline material. The second region may extend from laterally adjacent to at least a portion of the first region to longitudinally between the first region and the superhard, polycrystalline material.

Methods of reducing stress in cutting elements for earth-boring tools and resulting cutting elements

An earth-boring tool includes a tool body having an aperture therein defining a nozzle port, a nozzle or nozzle assembly disposed in the nozzle port, and a shape memory material disposed adjacent a surface of at least one component of the nozzle or nozzle assembly. The shape memory material retains at least one component of the nozzle or nozzle assembly by a threadless connection. The threadless connection includes mechanical interference between the shape memory material, the at least one component of the nozzle or nozzle assembly, and the tool body or another component of the nozzle or nozzle assembly. The shape memory material is formulated and configured to transform from a first phase and a first shape upon heating and to transform from a second phase and a second shape upon cooling.

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