Fully integrated flow control module
AssigneeBaker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
InventorsScott Macdonald, Stephen Mackin, Emma Stewart
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Abstract
A system and method for a fully-integrated flow control module (FI-FCM) in a hydrocarbon reservoir is disclosed. The FI-FCM is a unibody structure or a single-piece machined body having a flow meter integrated to the unibody structure. A choke is to be associated within a provision of the FI-FCM that also has an entry flow path for reservoir fluid and an exit flow path for the reservoir fluid. The entry flow path and the exit flow path inside the unibody structure or the single-piece machined body. Fluid communication is enabled between the flow meter, which is upstream relative to the choke, and an entry flow path. The choke is to control flow between the entry flow path and the exit flow path.
Claims20
A system for a fully-integrated flow control module (FI-FCM) in a hydrocarbon reservoir, the system comprising:
- a single-piece machined body forming the FI-FCM;
- a choke to be associated within a provision of the FI-FCM;
- an entry flow path for reservoir fluid inside the FI-FCM;
- an exit flow path for the reservoir fluid inside the FI-FCM;
- a flow meter integrated to the single-piece machined body and to be in fluid communication with the entry flow path, the flow meter to be upstream relative to the choke, wherein the choke is to control flow between the entry flow path and the exit flow path.
A method for a fully-integrated flow control module (FI-FCM) in a hydrocarbon reservoir, the method comprising:
- providing the FI-FCM as a single-piece machined body that comprises a flow meter integrated to the single-piece machined body;
- associating a choke within a provision of the FI-FCM;
- enabling the flow meter to be in fluid communication with an entry flow path of a reservoir fluid, the flow meter located upstream relative to the choke;
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- controlling flow of the reservoir fluid between the entry flow path and an exit flow path using the choke.
A method for a fully-integrated flow control module (FI-FCM) in a hydrocarbon reservoir, the method comprising:
- machining the FI-FCM as a single-piece machined body and that comprises a flow meter integrated in the single-piece machined body;
- enabling a provision within the FI-FCM for associating a choke within the provision;
- enabling the flow meter to be located upstream relative to the choke between an entry flow path and an exit flow path;
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- enabling the choke to be used to control flow of a reservoir fluid between the entry flow path and an exit flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.