Electronic control for simultaneous injection and production
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsStephen Michael Greci, Michael Linley Fripp, Jyotsana Verma
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Abstract
A flow control device including a housing sized to be disposed within a wellbore; a valve portion disposed within the housing and operable to control the flow of fluid therethrough, the valve portion having at least one valve having a first configuration and a second configuration; an actuator operable to adjust the at least one valve between the first configuration and the second configuration; and a conduit coupled with an exterior surface of the housing and in fluidic communication with the at least one valve.
Claims7
A method for controlling wellbore operations comprising:
- perforating a subterranean formation adjacent a wellbore at one or more predetermined locations;
- disposing a length of production tubing and a conduit into the wellbore;
- deploying one or more flow control devices within the wellbore, the one or more flow control devices comprising:
- a housing sized to be disposed between the subterranean formation and the production tubing;
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- a valve portion disposed within the housing and operable to control the flow of fluid therethrough, the valve portion comprising at least one valve having a first configuration and a second configuration, and
- an actuator operable to adjust the at least one valve between the first configuration and the second configuration,
- wherein an exterior surface of the housing is coupled with the conduit providing fluidic communication therethrough said housing and said conduit;
- indicating, via the actuator, at least one of the flow control devices to enter a first configuration;
- signaling each of the one or more flow control devices to enter the first configuration;
- and pumping an injection fluid through the conduit into each of the one or more flow control devices and into each of the predetermined locations within the wellbore via the at least one valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.