BOP control systems and related methods

    公开(公告)号:US11460835B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US16165545

    申请日:2018-10-19

    IPC分类号: G05B23/02 E21B34/16 G05B9/03

    摘要: Some embodiments of the present BOP control systems include a system controller configured to actuate a first BOP function by communicating one or more commands to one or more nodes of a functional pathway selected from one or more available functional pathways associated with the first BOP function, each node comprising an actuatable component configured to actuate in response to a command received from the system controller, each node having one or more sensors configured to capture a first data set corresponding to actuation of the component and a processor configured to analyze the first data set to determine a useful life remaining of the component and/or compare the first data set to a second data set corresponding to a simulation of actuation of the component.

    Advanced blow-out preventer
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10196873B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US14061435

    申请日:2013-10-23

    IPC分类号: E21B33/06

    摘要: An advanced blowout preventer that includes an arrester section and a shear section. The arrester section includes a number or arrester rings that are shaped to extend downwardly. The shape of the arrester rings allows the force of gas flowing out of the well to assist in closing the rings. The arrester section may have a number of arrester rings that cooperate to significantly reduce fluid from flowing in the annulus between a section of drill pipe and the blowout preventer. The advanced blowout preventer may also include a shear section. The shear section is configured to engage and shear a section of pipe using induction.

    SUBSEA PUMPING APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS
    5.
    发明申请
    SUBSEA PUMPING APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS 审中-公开
    SUBSEA抽水装置及相关方法

    公开(公告)号:US20150104328A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-04-16

    申请号:US14461342

    申请日:2014-08-15

    摘要: This disclosure includes subsea pumping apparatuses and related methods. Some apparatuses include one or more subsea pumps, each having an inlet and an outlet, and one or more motors, each configured to actuate at least one pump to communicate a hydraulic fluid from the inlet to the outlet, where the subsea pumping apparatus is configured to be in fluid communication with a hydraulically actuated device of a blowout preventer. Some subsea pumping apparatuses include one or more of: a desalination system configured to produce at least a portion of the hydraulic fluid; one or more valves, each configured to selectively route hydraulic fluid from an outlet of a pump to, for example, a subsea environment, a reservoir, and/or the inlet of the pump; and a reservoir configured to store at least a portion of the hydraulic fluid. Some apparatuses are configured to be directly coupled to the hydraulically actuated device.

    摘要翻译: 本公开内容包括海底抽水装置和相关方法。 一些设备包括一个或多个海底泵,每个都具有入口和出口,以及一个或多个电动机,每个电动机构造成致动至少一个泵,以将液压流体从入口传送到出口,其中,海底泵送装置被配置 与防喷器的液压致动装置流体连通。 一些海底泵送装置包括以下中的一个或多个:构造成产生至少一部分液压流体的脱盐系统; 一个或多个阀,每个阀被构造成选择性地将液压流体从泵的出口路由到例如海底环境,储存器和/或泵的入口; 以及储存器,其构造成存储所述液压流体的至少一部分。 一些装置构造成直接联接到液压致动装置。

    METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE RELIABILITY OF HYDRAULICALLY-ACTUATED DEVICES AND RELATED SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20210317737A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-14

    申请号:US17195196

    申请日:2021-03-08

    摘要: This disclosure includes methods for testing hydraulically-actuated devices and related systems. Some hydraulically-actuated devices have a housing defining an interior volume and a piston disposed within the interior volume and dividing the interior volume into a first chamber and a second chamber, where the piston is movable relative to the housing between a maximum first position and a maximum second position in response to pressure differentials between the first and second chambers. Some methods include: (1) moving the piston to the first position by varying pressure within at least one of the first and second chambers such that pressure within the second chamber is higher than pressure within the first chamber; and (2) while the piston remains in the first position: (a) reducing pressure within the second chamber and/or increasing pressure within the first chamber; and (b) increasing pressure within the second chamber and/or decreasing pressure within the first chamber.