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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2024
Conductive bridging of a tubing encapsulated conductor for powering equipment in wellbore operations
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Matthew S. Gray, Spring, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system includes a production tubing string. The system can also include a tubing encapsulated conductor (TEC). At least a portion of the TEC can contact the production tubing string at one or more locations along a length of the production tubing string. The TEC can include an interior wire to transmit electric power from a power source to at least one piece of electrical equipment during a wellbore operation performed with respect to the wellbore. The TEC can also include a metal sheath positioned around the interior wire and an encapsulation layer positioned on an outer side of the metal sheath. Further, the TEC can include a conductive bridging component positioned to pierce the encapsulation layer to contact the metal sheath and to facilitate an electrical coupling between the metal sheath and the production tubing string at a location along the length of the production tubing string.