Flow management systems and related methods for oil and gas applications
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsMaher Maqbool Shariff, Taras Yurievich Makogon
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Abstract
A method of managing a fluid flow within a conduit includes determining a presence of a flow blockage within the conduit, the conduit being equipped with an expandable device, controlling an electric actuator to flow a current to the expandable device to expand the expandable device radially, compacting the flow blockage radially along a length of the expandable device to create a channel adjacent the flow blockage, controlling the electric actuator to terminate a flow of the current to the expandable device to collapse the expandable device radially, and exposing the channel to open the conduit to fluid flow.
Claims20
A method of managing a fluid flow within a conduit, the method comprising:
- determining a presence of a flow blockage within the conduit, the conduit being equipped with an expandable device;
- controlling an electric actuator to flow a current to the expandable device to expand the expandable device radially;
- compacting the flow blockage radially along a length of the expandable device to create a channel adjacent the flow blockage;
- controlling the electric actuator to terminate a flow of the current to the expandable device to collapse the expandable device radially;
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- exposing the channel to open the conduit to fluid flow.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.