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US 11,441,385 B2Granted
Choke valve trim
AssigneeCameron International Corporation
InventorsDeclan Elliott, Michael Anthony McKeon
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward a choke valve system including a choke valve body and a plurality of choke trims. The plurality of choke trims comprises a plug and cage choke trim, an external sleeve choke trim, and a drilling choke trim, wherein the drilling choke trim is configured to enable a fluid flow rate greater than the plug and cage choke trim and the external sleeve choke trim, and wherein each of the plurality of choke trims is configured to be mutually exclusively secured within the choke valve body.
Claims16
A method, comprising:
- changing choke trim installation between a plurality of choke trims in a chamber of a choke valve body, wherein the plurality of choke trims are different choke trim types, wherein the choke valve body and the plurality of choke trims are designed to enable each of the different choke trim types of the plurality of choke trims to be mutually exclusively secured within the chamber in the choke valve body, wherein the chamber comprises an outer fluid gallery extending around each of the plurality of choke trims when mutually exclusively secured within the chamber.
A method, comprising:
- securing a drilling choke trim within a production choke valve body;
- completing a first downhole well formation process;
- removing the drilling choke trim from the production choke valve body;
- securing a production choke trim within the production choke valve body, wherein the drilling choke trim is a different choke trim type than the production choke trim, wherein the production choke valve body comprises an outer fluid gallery extending around each of the drilling choke trim and the production choke trim when secured in the production choke valve body;
- and
- completing a second downhole well formation process.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.