USRE37538E1 - Ram type blowout preventer - Google Patents
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B33/00—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells
- E21B33/02—Surface sealing or packing
- E21B33/03—Well heads; Setting-up thereof
- E21B33/06—Blow-out preventers, i.e. apparatus closing around a drill pipe, e.g. annular blow-out preventers
- E21B33/061—Ram-type blow-out preventers, e.g. with pivoting rams
- E21B33/062—Ram-type blow-out preventers, e.g. with pivoting rams with sliding rams
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- This invention relates generally to blowout preventers for closing about a pipe or other objects in the bore or across an open bore of a housing mounted on a wellhead. More particularly, it relates to improvements in ram type blowout preventers wherein rams are slidable within guideways extending radially from the bore between inner positions to engage one another to close the bore and outer positions to open the bore.
- bonnets are mounted on the body for movement between positions opening and closing the outer ends of the guideways to permit the rams to be installed within or removed from the guideways.
- Hydraulic operators mounted on the bonnets include a rod extending through the bonnet for connection with the rams.
- the bonnets may be hinged to the body for swinging between opened and closed positions, or they may be so moved by the hydraulic operators. In either case, the inner faces of the bonnets are forced into tight engagement with the outer faces of the body by bolts connecting the bonnet to the body.
- Packings are carried on the inner face of the bonnet to sealably engage the outer face of the body in an effort to contain the fluid pressure in the preventer bore, and thus in the guideways.
- neither face is perfectly flat so that there are gaps between them even when forced against one another as the bolts are made up.
- the fluid pressure in the preventer may be so high as to cause the bonnet to bend outwardly, thus tending to create even greater gaps between the faces into which the packing may extrude, in addition to those gaps which normally result from deflection of the bolts due to the internal pressure, whereby the large gaps which occur because of deflection are very difficult to seal under conditions of high/low temperatures and high pressure.
- the object of this invention is to provide a ram type blowout preventer of the type described in which the body and bonnet faces are so sealed with respect to one another as to overcome these and other problems; and, more particularly, to provide such a preventer having means for sealing between the faces which is of such construction as to eliminate gaps between the faces of the bonnet and body through which leaks might occur without having to overtorque the bolts.
- a ram type blowout preventor of the type described in which the bonnet has a recess in its inner face to form a peripheral wall and an end wall opposite the outer face of the body when the bonnet is closed, and a metal ring mounted on the bonnet for limited axial and radial movement within the recess carriers a first elastomeric ring on its inner side for sealing against the face of the body.
- Means such as a spring acts between the inner wall of the recess and the metal ring to yieldably urge the inner side of the metal ring toward said outer face of the bonnet, and a second elastomeric ring is carried about the outer periphery of the metal ring for sealing against the peripheral wall of the recess about an area which is greater than the area of the sealing engagement of the first elastomeric ring with the bonnet face and spaced outwardly therefrom, whereby fluid pressure in the guideway is effective to urge the metal ring toward the outer bonnet face and at the same time expand its outer circumference toward said peripheral wall of the recess.
- the metal ring is of such construction that its inner side is tightly engaged against the outer face of the body prior to radial expansion of the ring periphery thereof and tightly against the peripheral wall of the recess, thus assuring that gaps between the body and bonnet surfaces are closed to prevent extrusion of the elastomeric rings between them.
- the metal ring has holes extending therethrough from its inner to its outer sides, and bolts extend loosely through the holes and into the end wall of the recess and have enlarged outer ends to retain the metal ring on the bonnet while permitting it to move limited distances radially as well as axially of the bolts.
- FIG. 1 is a side view of a blowout preventer constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention and with its left end in elevation and right end in vertical section, and showing the bonnets closed and at least the right-hand ram withdrawn to its open position;
- FIG. 2 is a top view of the preventer, as seen along broken lines 2 — 2 of FIG. 1, and with its left end in plan and its right end partly broken away;
- FIG. 3 is a view of the end of the preventer, as seen along broken lines 3 — 3 of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 4 is a somewhat enlarged cross-sectional view of the preventer, as seen along broken lines 4 — 4 of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a part of the preventer indicated by the circle “ 5 ” of FIG. 1, and showing the details of the assembly which seals between the body and bonnet faces.
- the overall preventer which is indicated in its entirety by reference character 20 , comprises a body 21 having a bore 22 therethrough and means such as a flange on its lower end, so that as well-known in the art, it may be installed on the upper end of a wellhead to form an upper continuation of the bore through the wellhead and thus to receive pipe, such as drill pipe, as it is being lowered into or raised from within the wellhead and thus the well therebelow.
- the body also has guideways 23 extending from its bore and through the body generally radially opposite one another (only the right-hand guideway being shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 ), and a ram 24 is slidable within each guideway for movement between an inner position in which its inner end engages the inner end of another ram, and an outer position, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, wherein it opens the bore.
- the rams have recesses on their inner ends for fitting closely about a pipe within the bore, and carry seal members across its front face and along the opposite sides and over the top of the ram for sealing with respect to a pipe in the bore and an opposed ram as well as with respect to the guideway in the preventer body when the rams are closed.
- each guideway is adapted to be opened and closed by means of a bonnet 25 releasably connected to the body by means of threaded bolts 26 .
- a bonnet 25 releasably connected to the body by means of threaded bolts 26 .
- threaded bolts 26 As will be described in detail to follow, when the bonnet is so connected, its inner face 27 is sealed with respect to an outer face 28 on the body which surrounds the outer end of the guideway 23 so as to contain fluid pressure within the preventer.
- the rams are adapted to be moved between open and closed positions by operating means including a cylinder 29 mounted on the outer side of the bonnet 25 , and a piston 30 sealably reciprocal in the cylinder and having a rod 31 which extends through a hole in the bonnet to connect with the arm 24 .
- hydraulic fluid may be selectively introduced to and exhausted from opposite sides of the piston 30 in the cylinder 29 for selectively moving the ram between its open and closed positions.
- a hinge 32 connects the bonnet to the body for swinging about hinge pin 33 between open and closed positions when it has been disconnected from the body by backing off the bolts 26 .
- the outer end of the guideway would be suitably enlarged to permit the ram to move freely into and out of the guideway when the ram is in its outer open position.
- the preventer body is of generally square construction, while the bonnet 25 is more rectangular due primarily to its lesser height. Thus, as shown in these figures, there is no room for bolts 26 along the top and bottom of the bonnet.
- each bonnet has an annular recess formed therein which, as shown, is cylindrical, but which may be of other configuration, such as oval.
- the recess has a peripheral wall 34 and an end wall 35 which is opposite the outer face 21 A of the preventer body, and a seal assembly, including a metal ring 36 , is mounted in the recess for limited axial and radial movement within the recess. More particularly, the assembly also includes a first elastomeric ring 37 which is received in a groove about the inner side of the metal ring for engaging the outer face 21 A of the body.
- the seal ring is an O-ring having a diameter greater than the depth of the recess so as to protrude therefrom, and a wavy spring 39 is received within a groove 41 about the outer side of the metal ring in position to be axially compressed between the bottom of the groove and the end wall 35 of the bonnet recess, whereby the metal ring is urged inwardly toward the body face 21 A so as to compress the seal ring 37 between the face and bottom of the groove in the metal ring.
- the assembly also includes another elastomeric seal ring 40 which is received in a groove 41 about the outer circumference of the metal ring opposite the peripheral wall 34 of the recess.
- this ring 40 is also an O-ring and has a diameter greater than the depth of the groove 41 so as to protrude therefrom and thus sealably engage the wall 34 .
- seal rings 37 and 40 may be other than O-rings, such as lips arranged to face the internal pressure.
- means other than the wavy spring 39 such as an O-ring may be compressed axially between the groove and end wall of the recess, may be used to initially urge the inner side of the metal ring against the outer face 21 A.
- the O-ring 40 sealably engages the peripheral wall of the recess about an area greater than the area with which the seal ring 37 sealably engages the face 21 A of the preventer body.
- fluid pressure in the guideway of the preventer is effective to urge the metal ring inwardly against the face 21 A with a force equal to that pressure times an annular area equal to the difference between the outer diameter of the O-ring 40 and the sealing diameter of the seal ring 38 .
- the metal ring is urged radially outwardly toward the wall 34 by a force equal to the internal pressure times an annular area intermediate the sealing engagement of the O-ring 37 with the face 21 A and the sealing engagement of the O-ring 40 with the wall 34 .
- the ring is of such size and shape that the internal pressure will force the inner side of the metal ring tightly against the outer face of the body prior to radial expansion of its periphery against the peripheral wall of the recess.
- the metal ring should not be so thin relative to its length as to be too stiff in an axial direction to conform to the outer face of the preventer body, or to lack sufficient stiffness radially to cause its outer periphery to engage the peripheral wall of the recess too soon and thus lock it within the recess prior to axial movement of its inner side against the face 21 A of the body.
- the metal ring should not be so thick in a radial direction as to prevent its outer periphery from conforming to the peripheral wall, following conforming of its inner side against the outer face of the body, so as to close gaps through which seal ring 40 might extrude.
- the areas A f and A o are respectively the unbalanced area of the seal face of the ring and the unbalanced area about the outer periphery of the ring.
- the minimum area A o for a given A f may be calculated in accordance with the following equations, wherein:
- P c Internal Blowout Pressure at which ring is expanded to close the gap (The gap is usually 0.005′′ or more with the ring at rest.)
- the metal ring 36 is mounted on the bonnet by a pair of spaced-apart bolts 42 which extend through holes 43 in the ring and which are threadedly connected at their inner ends to threaded sockets in the end wall of the recess. As shown, the holes 43 are substantially larger than the diameter of the bolts 42 so as to permit limited radial movement of the metal ring with respect to the bolts, as may be necessary to enable the metal ring to be forced radially outwardly by internal pressure, as previously described.
- the metal ring is retained on the bonnet by an enlarged head 44 received in a recess 45 on the inner side of the metal ring.
- the heads 44 are larger than the holes 43 .
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