Downhole flow control device with turbine chamber insert

    公开(公告)号:US12116872B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-15

    申请号:US18133284

    申请日:2023-04-11

    IPC分类号: E21B43/12 E21B41/00

    CPC分类号: E21B43/12 E21B41/0085

    摘要: A downhole flow control device is used to control the production of formation fluids while using flow of the formation fluids to drive a turbine. Flow through a turbine chamber is optimized using a chamber insert that cooperatively defines a reduced chamber volume with the turbine chamber. The chamber insert includes an overhead portion defining a ceiling over the turbine and an arcuate portion contiguous with an arcuate portion of the turbine chamber. The baffle is perforated to allow some flow to exit the reduced chamber volume to a bypass port in a cavity radially outwardly thereof. The turbine may be used for any suitable downhole application, such as an inflow control device or to generate electrical power.

    Oleophobic and hydrophobic applications for downhole tools

    公开(公告)号:US12078030B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US18198162

    申请日:2023-05-16

    IPC分类号: E21B37/06

    CPC分类号: E21B37/06

    摘要: A variety of methods are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a method comprising: applying a wettability modifier coating on a surface of a downhole tool; disposing the downhole tool into a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation, wherein the wettability modifier coating is disposed on the surface of the downhole tool; traversing the wellbore with the downhole tool; and removing the downhole tool from the wellbore.

    Downhole well pipe inspection using optimized inspection tools

    公开(公告)号:US12044655B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17539272

    申请日:2021-12-01

    摘要: Electromagnetic logging tools are optimized using synthetic logs for the purpose of pre-job planning and accuracy/resolution estimation. One, two and three-dimensional forward modeling are used to generate accurate inspection tool responses. A radial one-dimensional (R1D) electromagnetic forward model is also used to compute an approximate log. By constructing non-linear mapping functions between the R1D model-based log and the 2D model-based log, and mapping the R1D synthetic log using the non-linear mapping functions, a quasi 2D log is computed. The quasi 2D log is processed using model-based inversion, thereby providing estimates of pipe parameters. By analyzing the estimates of pipe parameters, tool performance metrics are obtained and analyze to determine the performance of the tool. The tool parameters are adjusted in order to optimize the performance metrics.

    Multi-fiber sensing topology for subsea wells

    公开(公告)号:US11946365B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17402094

    申请日:2021-08-13

    IPC分类号: E21B47/135 H04J14/02

    CPC分类号: E21B47/135 H04J14/02

    摘要: A fiber optic sensing (FOS) system and method. The system may include one or more interrogator units and a proximal wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) and a distal WDM optically connectable to the one or more interrogator units, an upgoing transmission fiber, a down-going transmission fiber, and one or more downhole sensing fibers. The method may include transmitting one or more light pulses from an interrogator unit, multiplexing the one or more light pulses from the interrogator unit with a proximal WDM into an upgoing transmission fiber and a down-going transmission fiber, and receiving the one or more light pulses with a distal WDM. The method may further include multiplexing the one or more light pulses from the upgoing transmission fiber and the down-going transmission fiber into one or more downhole sensing fibers and receiving backscatter light from at least one of the one or more downhole sensing fibers.