Abstract:
Energy harvesting devices can be deployed in a wellbore to transform external energy in the wellbore to electric power for consumption by electric devices disposed in the wellbore. A method includes deploying an energy harvesting device downhole in a wellbore, transforming, with the energy harvesting device, external energy in the wellbore to electric power and supplying the electric power from the energy harvesting device to an electric device disposed in the wellbore.
Abstract:
A drilling stabilizer includes: a drill collar configured to be removably coupled with a component of a drill string; a plurality of blades configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the drill collar; and a sleeve over the blades, wherein the plurality of blades are partially exposed and the exposed portions of the plurality of blades are tapered, wherein the sleeve includes openings formed on a lateral surface of the sleeve for allowing fluid flow through or along the lateral surface of the sleeve, and wherein the sleeve can form a barrier between the blades and an inner wall of the borehole.
Abstract:
A method for automatically selecting a frequency band for transmission of a mud pulse telemetry signal includes transforming acquired transducer measurements from a time domain to a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum of measurements. The spectrum of measurements is processed to compute a total energy in band and a standard deviation of the power spectral density in band for a plurality of frequency bands. A ratio of the total energy in band to the standard deviation acquiring a plurality of transducer measurements of transmitted mud pulse telemetry pressure pulses and of the power spectral density in band is computed for at least two of the plurality of frequency bands. The frequency band having the highest computed ratio is selected and automatically downlinked to a downhole mud pulse telemetry transmitter.
Abstract:
A method of forming a polycrystalline diamond cutting element includes assembling a diamond material, a substrate, and a source of catalyst material or infiltrant material distinct from the substrate, the source of catalyst material or infiltrant material being adjacent to the diamond material to form an assembly. The substrate includes an attachment material including a refractory metal. The assembly is subjected to a first high-pressure/high temperature condition to cause the catalyst material or infiltrant material to melt and infiltrate into the diamond material and subjected to a second high-pressure/high temperature condition to cause the attachment material to melt and infiltrate a portion of the infiltrated diamond material to bond the infiltrated diamond material to the substrate.
Abstract:
A downhole cutting tool includes a tool body, a plurality of blades extending a height from the tool body to an outermost surface, and a plurality of cutting elements on at least one of the plurality of blades, each cutting element having a longitudinal axis oriented substantially radially outward from the outermost surface of the blade, and at least two adjacent cutting elements of the plurality of cutting elements having different axial lengths.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a drill bit includes coupling displacements to a mold with a series of attachment members, filling a cavity of the mold with a material, and heating the material to form a bit body of the drill bit. The method may also include removing the displacements to expose cutter pockets in the bit body and coupling cutting elements to the cutter pockets.
Abstract:
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for automated hardfacing of a surface. The automated hardfacing of a surface may include securing tiles of a superhard material on a surface, applying hardfacing material around the tiles, and fusing the hardfacing material using a thermal energy source. The thermal energy source and the assembly of the surface, hardfacing material, and tiles may be moved automatically relative to one another according to a pattern.
Abstract:
A cutting element may include a substrate, an upper surface of the substrate including a crest, the crest transitioning into a depressed region, and an ultrahard layer on the upper surface, thereby forming a non-planar interface between the ultrahard layer and the substrate. A top surface of the ultrahard layer includes a cutting crest extending along at least a portion of a diameter of the cutting element, the top surface having a portion extending laterally away from the cutting crest having a lesser height than a peak of the cutting crest.
Abstract:
A fixed cutter drill bit may include a bit body having a bit centerline; a plurality of blades extending radially from the bit body and separated by a plurality of flow courses therebetween, each of the plurality of blades being spaced a radial distance from the bit centerline to define a core-forming region; a plurality of cutting elements disposed on the plurality of blades, the plurality of cutting elements comprising at least two coring cutting elements disposed on the plurality of blades, the at least two coring cutting elements being the radially innermost cutting elements on the plurality of blades.
Abstract:
A copper, manganese, nickel, zinc and tin binder metal composition having a melting point of 1500 °For less that includes zinc and tin at a sum weight of about 26.5% to about 30.5% in which zinc is at least about 12% and Sn is at least about 6.5%.