Mobile oilfield tool service center

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016273271-A1
Application number	US-201414442460-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 14, 2014
Priority date	Jul 14, 2014
Publication date	Sep 22, 2016
Grant date	—

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 . An intermodal container, comprising:
a container structure including a base, opposing first and second sidewalls, opposing first and second end walls, and a roof, wherein the container structure has a length, a width, and a height that are each compliant with a global containerized intermodal freight transport system; and one or more service components housed and secured within the container structure 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 container structure.

2 . The intermodal container of claim 1 , wherein the global containerized intermodal freight transport system is regulated by the International Organization for Standardization.

3 . The intermodal container of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of wall panels extending vertically between the base and the roof, wherein at least one of the plurality of wall panels is removable from the container structure or has a man door installed therein.

4 . The intermodal container 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.

5 . The intermodal container of claim 1 , 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 check booth, and a computer station.

6 . A mobile oilfield tool service center, comprising:
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 housed and secured within the one or more intermodal containers 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 one or more intermodal containers; and a power source communicably coupled to the one or more intermodal containers to operate the one or more service components.

7 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 6 , 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.

8 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 6 , wherein the one or more intermodal containers comprise at least two intermodal containers secured together along adjacent sidewalls and thereby defining a sidewall marriage joint, and wherein the adjacent sidewalls include one or more wall panels and at least one of the one or more wall panels in each adjacent sidewall is removed at the sidewall marriage joint.

9 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 6 , wherein the one or more intermodal containers comprise at least two intermodal containers secured together along adjacent end walls and thereby defining an end wall marriage joint, wherein the adjacent end walls include one or more wall panels.

10 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the one or more wall panels in each adjacent end wall is removed at the end wall marriage joint.

11 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the one or more wall panels in each adjacent end wall provides a man door that allows passage across the end wall marriage joint.

12 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 6 , 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.

13 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 6 , 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 check booth, and a computer station.

14 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 6 , wherein the power source is a 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.

15 . The mobile oilfield tool service center of claim 14 , 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.

16 . A method, comprising:
delivering one or more 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; assembling the one or more intermodal containers to provide a mobile oilfield tool service center, wherein one or more service components are housed and secured within the one or more 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.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the one or more intermodal containers comprise at least two intermodal containers and assembling the one or more intermodal containers comprises:
securing the at least two intermodal containers together along adjacent sidewalls and thereby defining a sidewall marriage joint, wherein the adjacent sidewalls of each intermodal container include one or more wall panels; and removing at least one of the one or more wall panels in each adjacent sidewall at the sidewall marriage joint.

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the one or more intermodal containers comprise at least two intermodal containers and assembling the one or more intermodal containers comprises:
securing the at least two intermodal containers together along adjacent end walls and thereby defining an end wall marriage joint, wherein the adjacent end walls each include one or more wall panels; and removing at least one of the one or more wall panels in each adjacent end wall at the end wall marriage joint.

19 . The method of claim 16 , further comprising providing a man door in at least one of the opposing end walls of at least one of the one or more intermodal containers.

20 . The method of claim 16 , 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 in

Assignees

• Halliburton Energy Services Inc

Inventors

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

Classifications

• E21B10/02

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

• E04H5/02

  Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants or factories (buildings forming part of cooling plants E04H5/10) · CPC title

• 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

• E21B17/1078

  Stabilisers or centralisers for casing, tubing or drill pipes (E21B17/1007 - E21B17/1064 take precedence) · CPC title

• E04H2001/1283

  Small buildings of the ISO containers type · CPC title