TUBULAR VALVING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20110000547A1
• Filed: 07/02/2009
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Original Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Inventors: Joseph, Paul
• Application Number:
  US12/497,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20110000547A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 137/1
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 34/06 in wells
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/12 Methods or apparatus for controlling the flow of the obtained fluid to or in wells E21B43/25 takes precedence; valve arrangements E21B34/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/36 Valve members for double-seat valves F16K1/44 ; for butterfly valves F16K1/222, F16K1/223
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/52 Means for additional adjustment of the rate of flow
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/0318 Processes

Abstract

A tubular valving system includes, a tubular having a bore therethrough with at least one port defining fluidic communication between the bore and an outside of the tubular, and a valve stem disposed within the bore of the tubular that is longitudinally movable with respect to the tubular, the valve stem has an outer surface slidably engagable with the bore, the outer surface has features that provide variably choked fluidic communication between the bore and the at least one port, and an amount of choke varies depending upon a relative position of the valve stem with respect to the bore

Claims

1. A tubular valving system, comprising:

a tubular having a bore therethrough with at least one port defining fluidic communication between the bore and an outside of the tubular; and

a valve stem disposed within the bore of the tubular being longitudinally movable with respect to the tubular, the valve stem having an outer surface slidably engagable with the bore, the outer surface having features that provide variably choked fluidic communication between the bore and the at least one port, and an amount of choke varies depending upon a relative position of the valve stem with respect to the bore.

2. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the bore is non-tapered.

3. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the valve stem is non-tapered.

4. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the bore includes a dimensional step defining a larger dimensioned portion and a smaller dimensioned portion and the outer surface of the valve stem slidably engages with the smaller dimensioned portion.

5. The tubular valving system of claim 4, wherein the valve stem includes a shoulder sealably engagable with the dimensional step.

6. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the valve stem and the tubular are configured to permit negligible flow between portions of the outer surface other than the features and the bore.

7. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the features define flow paths between the bore and the at least one port.

8. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the features include at least one perimetrical groove fluidically connected by at least one longitudinal groove.

9. The tubular valving system of claim 8, wherein the at least one perimetrical groove is a plurality of perimetrical grooves and the at least one longitudinal groove is a plurality of longitudinal grooves and a number of the plurality of perimetrical grooves is greater than a number of the plurality of longitudinal grooves.

10. The tubular valving system of claim 8, wherein at least one of the at least one longitudinal groove extends to a nose cone on the valve stem.

11. The tubular valving system of claim 1, wherein the valve stem includes an inner bore that is open at a distal end.

12. The tubular valving system of claim 11, wherein the features include at least one longitudinal slot that fluidically connects the inner bore with the outer surface.

13. The tubular valving system of claim 11, wherein the features include a plurality of ports that fluidically connect the inner bore with the outer surface.

14. The tubular valving system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of ports have circular cross sections.

15. The tubular valving system of claim 13, wherein a flow area of the plurality of ports varies.

16. The tubular valving system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the plurality of ports that is nearer to the distal end has a larger flow area than at least one port that is further from the distal end.

17. A method of choking a tubular valve, comprising:

slidably engaging a valve stem within a bore of a tubular between an open end of the tubular and at least one port fluidically connecting the bore to an outside of the tubular; and

varying at least one of a flow path area or a flow path length between the bore and the at least one port by moving the valve stem relative to the tubular.

18. The method of choking the tubular valve of claim 17, further comprising decreasing at least one of the flow path area and the flow path length between the bore and the at least one port by moving the valve stem toward the open end of the tubular.

19. The method of choking the tubular valve of claim 17, further comprising increasing at least one of the flow path area and the flow path length between the bore and the at least one port by moving the valve stem away from the open end of the tubular.

20. The method of choking the tubular valve of claim 17, further comprising sealingly engaging the valve stem with the tubular by moving a shoulder of the valve stem into sealing engagement with a stepped dimension of the bore between the open end and the at least one port.