US 12,345,113 B2
Remote locking system for a blowout preventer
Sebastien Poveda, Lespignan (FR); Jean-Luc Pujol, Quarante (FR); and Nathaniel Pettibone, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,775.
Application 18/510,775 is a continuation of application No. 17/432,533, granted, now 11,821,280, previously published as PCT/EP2020/054442, filed on Feb. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/808,225, filed on Feb. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0084663 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 33/06 (2006.01); E21B 34/16 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 33/062 (2013.01) [E21B 34/16 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a remote locking system for a blowout preventer (BOP), the method comprising:
receiving a signal that the BOP should be adjusted from a first configuration to a second configuration;
adjusting the BOP from the first configuration to the second configuration,
activating a motor having an output shaft;
driving rotation of the output shaft;
driving rotation of a gear assembly coupled to the motor via the output shaft;
remotely actuating a locking mechanism coupled to the gear assembly, wherein the gear assembly and the motor are configured to move axially with the locking mechanism;
and maintaining the BOP in the second configuration.