Joshua C Webster

US Patent:

20200308940, Oct 1, 2020

Filed:

Feb 23, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/463296

Inventors:

- Houston TX, US
Donn J. Brown - Broken Arrow OK, US
Joshua Wayne Webster - Owasso OK, US

International Classification:

E21B 43/12
F04D 13/10
F04D 29/70

Abstract:

A self-orienting gas evading intake for a submersible pump provides an efficient, reliable and inexpensive system for pumping a downhole fluid to a surface. An intake section of a submersible pumping system may comprise a blocker sleeve disposed between an external housing and an eccentric intake. The intake section may be self-orienting such that a gas component of the fluid ascends the borehole to separate from a liquid component of the fluid. Actuation of a blocker sleeve exposes one or more ports of the external housing while blocking one or more other ports. The liquid component is drawn into the intake section through an exposed port and through one or more openings of the eccentric intake. The liquid component may then be drawn into the pump. As the liquid component comprises non-detrimental amounts, if any, of a gas component, the pump operates efficiently and effectively.