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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2023
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Zhihui Zhang, Katy, TX (US);
Guijun Deng, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Emerson Nunez Moran, Cypress, TX (US);
Abstract
A seal energization assembly, including a seal, a setting arrangement in operative contact with the seal, and a set energy compensation device disposed in operative contact with the seal and add energy to the setting arrangement responsive to a falling environmental temperature. A method for maintaining energy in a seal during temperature down cycling, including automatically compensating for temperature related reduction in the seal energy by expanding a set energy compensating device in contact with the seal. A packer, including a mandrel, a seal on the mandrel, and a setting arrangement in operative contact with the seal, the arrangement including a negative thermal expansion set energy compensation device. A wellbore system, including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal energization assembly, disposed within or as a part of the string.