US 12,221,861 B2
Generating electricity with a wellbore drilling mud flow
Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mousa, Dhahran (SA)
Assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran (SA)
Filed by Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran (SA)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/974,248.
Prior Publication US 2024/0141758 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 21/08 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 41/0085 (2013.01) [E21B 21/08 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
18. A method for generating electricity with a well system comprising a wellbore, the method comprising:
flowing a drilling mud through a drilling mud system of the well system;
flowing the drilling mud through a flow line turbine generator positioned between a wellhead assembly and a shale shaker of the well system from an upper connection of the flow line turbine generator coupled to the wellhead assembly to a lower connection of the flow line turbine generator coupled to the shale shaker, the upper connection positioned at a height greater than a height of the lower connection relative to a surface of the Earth; and
responsive to flowing the drilling mud through the flow line turbine generator from the upper connection to the lower connection, the flow line turbine generator positioned in a return flow of drilling mud system, generating electricity.