Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for conditioning a downhole tool
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Application No.: US16916642Application Date: 2020-06-30
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Publication No.: US11598154B2Publication Date: 2023-03-07
- Inventor: Sven Hoegger , Helmuth Sarmiento Klapper , Peter Schorling , Erik Bartscherer
- Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
- Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Bracewell LLP
- Agent Keith R. Derrington
- Main IPC: E21B37/00
- IPC: E21B37/00 ; E21B17/00 ; E21B12/00 ; E21B41/02

Abstract:
A wellbore tool is conditioned between downhole deployments with a substantially continuous application of a conditioning fluid within the tool. Selectively removable caps connect to ends of the tool after its removal from the wellbore. If the tool is part of a downhole string, the caps are added after the tool is decoupled from the remainder of the string. The conditioning fluid is introduced into the tool through a fitting on one of the end caps; and while a fitting on the other end cap is opened to vent fluids resident within the tool. The caps are in sealing contact with a housing of the tool to retain the conditioning fluid inside the tool. A fluid supply system at the well site provides the conditioning fluid. Example conditioning fluids include a fracturing fluid, a completion fluid, a diluent, a solubilizing agent, an anti-scaling agent, a pH buffer, a liquid freezing point depressant, corrosion and oxidation inhibitors, oxygen scavengers, biocides, surfactants, and combinations thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210002963A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING A DOWNHOLE TOOL Public/Granted day:2021-01-07
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