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US 12,704,024 B2Granted
High temperature superconducting cable based power delivery system in pulsed power drilling
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsNagaraja K. Pai, Robert Charles De Long, Hassan Mansir, Boguslaw Wiecek
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Abstract
An apparatus comprises one or more high temperature superconducting cables configured to supply power from surface to a bottom hole assembly positioned in a wellbore while drilling the wellbore in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables, wherein fluid is pumped, via one or more cryogenic pumps, into the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels to keep a temperature of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables below a critical temperature.
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An apparatus comprising:
- one or more high temperature superconducting cables configured to supply power from surface to a bottom hole assembly positioned in a wellbore while drilling the wellbore in a subsurface formation;
- one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables and configured to supply fluid to one or more depth intervals of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables, wherein the fluid is pumped, via one or more cryogenic pumps, into the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels to keep a temperature of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables at respective depth intervals below a critical temperature, and wherein at least one of the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels includes two or more chambers;
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- one or more cryogenic liquid return channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables and configured to return the fluid to the surface from the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels.
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A system comprising:
- one or more high temperature superconducting cables configured to supply power from surface to a bottom hole assembly positioned in a wellbore while drilling the wellbore in a subsurface formation;
- one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables and configured to supply fluid to one or more depth intervals of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables, wherein the fluid is pumped into the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels to keep a temperature of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables at the respective depth intervals below a critical temperature, and wherein at least one of the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels includes two or more chambers;
- one or more cryogenic pumps configured to pump the fluid into the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels;
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- one or more cryogenic liquid return channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables and configured to return the fluid to the surface from the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels.
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A method comprising:
- drilling a wellbore in a subsurface formation with a bottom hole assembly;
- supplying power, via one or more high temperature superconducting cables, from surface to the bottom hole assembly positioned in the wellbore;
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- supplying a fluid, via one or more cryogenic pumps, to one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables and configured to supply the fluid to one or more depth intervals of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables, wherein the fluid keeps a temperature of the one or more high temperature superconducting cables at the respective depth intervals below a critical temperature, and wherein at least one of the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels includes two or more chambers, and wherein the fluid returns to the surface, via one or more cryogenic liquid return channels positioned within the one or more high temperature superconducting cables, from the one or more cryogenic liquid supply channels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.