Mobile oilfield tool service center

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10407989-B2
Application number	US-201414442460-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2014
Priority date	Jul 14, 2014
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

An example mobile oilfield tool service center includes one or more intermodal containers, each intermodal container including a base, opposing sidewalls, opposing end walls, and a roof, and each intermodal container exhibiting a length, a width, and a height that are each compliant with a global containerized intermodal freight transport system. One or more service components are housed within the one or more intermodal containers for subjecting an oilfield tool to at least one process that repairs or rehabilitates the oilfield tool. A power source can be communicably coupled to the one or more intermodal containers to operate the one or more service components.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile oilfield tool service center, comprising:
a plurality of intermodal containers, each intermodal container including a base, opposing sidewalls, opposing end walls, and a roof, and each intermodal container exhibiting a length, a width, and a height that are each compliant with a global containerized intermodal freight transport system, wherein the plurality of intermodal containers further comprise one or more marriage joints disposed on the opposing sidewalls and the opposing end walls, and wherein the opposing sidewalls and the opposing end walls include a plurality of wall panels that are removable within the one or more marriage joints;
one or more service components couple to the based and secured within one of the plurality of intermodal containers in an operating configuration for subjecting an oilfield tool to at least one process that repairs or rehabilitates the oilfield tool, wherein the at least one process is undertaken within the plurality of intermodal containers and the one or more service components is selected form the group consisting of a blast cabinet, an inspection bench, a kiln, a flux oven, a bit bath, a grinding booth, a tip grinder, a dye cheek booth, and a computer station;
a utility skid communicatively connected to a power entry wall panel in one of the opposing sidewalls or one of the opposing end walls, and to a fluid entry wall panel in one of the opposing sidewalls or one of the opposing end walls; and
a power source communicably coupled to the power entry wall panel to operate the one or more service components.

2. The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 1 , wherein the oilfield tool is selected from the group consisting of a drill bit, a core head, a coring tool, a reamer, a sleeve, a rig tool, a coring stabilizer, or any component thereof.

3. The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 1 , wherein the at least one process is selected from the group consisting of washing, media blasting, brazing preparation, heating, brazing, cleaning, machining, outside and inside grinding, step down grinding, matrix repair, hardfacing, visual inspection, dye penetrant inspection, non-destructive inspection, painting, canning, labelling, and any combination thereof.

4. The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 1 , wherein the power source is attached to theft utility skid that houses one or more support components required to operate the one or more service components, wherein the utility skid exhibits the length, the width, and the height compliant with the universal shipping container dimensions and configurations.

5. The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 4 , wherein the one or more support components are selected from the group consisting of an oxygen gas tank, an acetylene gas tank, a water holding tank, an environmental control unit, an air compressor, a generator, a fuel tank, and a storage box.

6. A method, comprising:
delivering a plurality of intermodal containers to a wellbore drilling site, each intermodal container including a base, opposing sidewalls, opposing end walls, and a roof, and each intermodal container exhibiting a length, a width, and a height that are each compliant with a global containerized intermodal freight transport system, and each of the plurality of intermodal containers includes a marriage joint disposed on the opposing sidewalls and the opposing end walls, wherein the marriage joint includes one or more wall panels that are removable;
assembling the one or more intermodal containers to provide a mobile oilfield tool service center, wherein one or more service components are coupled to the base and secured within one of the plurality of secured intermodal containers in an operating configuration, wherein the one or more service components is selected from the group consisting of a blast cabinet, an inspection bench, a kiln, a flux oven, a bit bath, a grinding booth, a tip grinder, a dye cheek booth, and a computer station;
securing the plurality of intermodal containers together at one or more marriage joints;
removing the one or more wall panels in one or more marriage joints;
delivering a utility skid to the wellbore drilling site, the utility skid housing one or more support components required to operate the one or more service components;
communicably coupling the utility skid to the mobile oilfield tool service center; and
powering the one or more service components with the one or more support components via a power entry wall panel in one of the opposing sidewalls or the opposing end walls of one of the plurality of intermodal containers, and via a fluid entry wall pane in the opposing sidewalls or the opposing end walls of one of the plurality of intermodal containers; and
providing power to the mobile oilfield tool service center to operate the one or more service components within the one or more intermodal containers.

7. The drill bit of claim 6 , further comprising providing a man door in at least one of the opposing end walls of at least one of the plurality of intermodal containers.

8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising subjecting an oilfield tool to at least one process within the mobile oilfield tool service center to repair or rehabilitate the oilfield tool, wherein the at least one process is selected from the group consisting of washing, media blasting, brazing preparation, heating, brazing, cleaning, machining, outside and inside grinding, step down grinding, matrix repair, hardfacing, visual inspection, dye penetrant inspection, non-destructive inspection, painting, canning, labelling, and any combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the one or more support components are selected from the group consisting of an oxygen gas tank, an acetylene gas tank, a water holding tank, an environmental control unit, an air compressor, a generator, a fuel tank, and a storage box.

Assignees

• Halliburton Energy Services Inc

Inventors

• Morrell Christopher Lee
• Moran Christopher R
• Jackson Randal Scott
• Oberhoff Dale Wade

Classifications

• B23P6/00 Primary

  Restoring or reconditioning objects (straightening or restoring form of sheet metal, metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom B21D1/00, B21D3/00; repairing defective or damaged objects by casting techniques B22D19/10) · CPC title

• E04H1/005

  Modulation co-ordination · CPC title

• E21B10/02

  Core bits (characterised by wear resisting parts E21B10/48) · CPC title

• E21B10/00

  Drill bits (specially adapted for deflecting the direction of boring {E21B7/064}; with means for collecting substances E21B27/00) · CPC title

• E21B12/00 Primary

  Accessories for drilling tools · CPC title