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US 7,802,626 B2Granted
Mounts for blowout preventer bonnets and methods of use
AssigneeHydril USA Manufacturing LLC
InventorsEdward Ryan Hemphill, Michael Wayne Berckenhoff, William L. Carbaugh
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Abstract
A mount for a bonnet of a blowout preventer includes at least one support member coupled to a body of the blowout preventer, and a bonnet mounting member moveably coupled to the at least one support member and adapted to move substantially normal to a face of the body of the blowout preventer, wherein the bonnet is coupled to the bonnet mounting member.
Claims22
A method to access a ram of a pressure control device, the method comprising:
- disengaging a bonnet from a sealing engagement with a body of the pressure control device, wherein the body of the pressure control device comprises at least two horizontal cavities vertically spaced from one another along an axis of a wellbore;
- linearly moving the bonnet away from the body of the pressure control device in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of an adjacent horizontal cavity of the pressure control device;
- and
- accessing the ram by rotating the bonnet with respect to the body of the pressure control device.
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A method to drill a wellbore, the method comprising:
- locating a pressure control device in an equipment stack, wherein a body of the pressure control device comprises a body and at least two horizontal cavities vertically spaced from one another along an axis of a wellbore;
- drilling the wellbore with a drillstring extending through the equipment stack;
- sealing an annulus between the drillstring and the wellbore with at least one ram of the pressure control device;
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- servicing the at least one ram by disengaging a bonnet from a sealing engagement with the body of the pressure control device, linearly moving the bonnet away from the body in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of a horizontal cavity adjacent to the bonnet, and accessing the ram by rotating the bonnet with respect to the body of the pressure control device.
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A mount to support bonnets of a pressure control device, comprising:
- the pressure control device comprising a body and at least two horizontal cavities vertically spaced from one another along an axis of a wellbore;
- at least one support member coupled to the body of the pressure control device adjacent each of the at least two horizontal cavities;
- at least one bonnet mounting member moveably coupled to each of the support members, the bonnet mounting members adapted to linearly move along an axis substantially parallel to an adjacent one of the at least two horizontal cavities and to rotate with respect to the body of the pressure control device;
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- wherein the bonnets are coupled to the at least one bonnet mounting members.
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A pressure control device, comprising:
- a bolt-free lock retaining a bonnet in a sealing engagement with a body of the pressure control device, wherein the body of the pressure control device comprises at least two horizontal cavities vertically spaced from one another along an axis of a wellbore;
- at least two bonnets configured to be linearly moved away from the body in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of an adjacent horizontal cavity of the pressure control device;
- wherein the at least two bonnets are configured to be rotated with respect to the body about an axis substantially parallel to the axis of the wellbore;
- and
- wherein a ram of each of the at least two bonnets is configured to be accessed when the at least two bonnets are moved away from and rotated with respect to the body of the pressure control device.
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A method to access a ram of a pressure control device, the method comprising:
- disengaging a bolt-free lock retaining a bonnet in a sealing engagement with a body of the pressure control device, wherein the body of the pressure control device comprises at least two horizontal cavities vertically spaced from one another along an axis of a wellbore;
- linearly moving the bonnet away from the body of the pressure control device in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of an adjacent horizontal cavity of the pressure control device;
- and
- accessing the ram by rotating the bonnet with respect to the body of the pressure control device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.