511 results about "Production string" patented technology

A service tool string (34) is releasably attached to a bottom hole assembly (18) and forms a production string as well as a work string. The tool (35) has a mandrel (102) and a slide valve assembly (68) mounted on the mandrel for relative sliding movement. Crossover ports (114, 124) are provided in the mandrel (102) and the slide valve assembly (68). Slide valve assembly (68) moves by gravity and spring action when not contacted by the bottom hole assembly (18) to a position in which ports (114, 124) are blocked as shown in FIG. 7B. Upon contact of slidable valve assembly (68) with the bottom hole assembly (18), slide valve assembly is moved upwardly for alignment of ports (114, 124) as shown in FIGS. 5B and 6B. An equalizing valve (29) as shown in FIGS. 10-12 is effective to equalize the fluid pressure within the bottom hole assembly (18) with the fluid pressure outside the perforated casing section (23) so that in a reverse position as shown in FIG. 7B, the service tool (35) can be lifted to a position above the upper packer assembly (26) and above the bottom hole assembly (18). A diverter ball (132) seated on a ball catcher (134) is effective to divert the fracturing fluid outwardly through crossover ports (114, 124) as shown in FIG. 6B for downward flow through the annulus (27) into the formation adjacent the perforated casing section (23).

A method of providing a production string for a wellbore formed in a formation is disclosed. The method, in one embodiment may include: defining a performance criterion for flow of a fluid from a formation into a wellbore; performing a simulation using a processor, a simulation program, a parameter of the fluid, a parameter of the formation and a parameter of the wellbore to determine a first flow characteristic of the flow of the fluid from the formation into the wellbore corresponding to an initial set of flow control devices arranged in the wellbore; performing one or more additional simulations using the processor, the simulation program and the parameters of formation, fluid and wellbore to determine a new flow characteristic of the flow of the fluid from the formation into the wellbore for a new set of flow control devices until a new determined characteristic of the flow of the fluid from the formation into the wellbore meets the performance criterion; and storing results of simulation results relating to the flow control devices in a suitable storage medium.

An artificial lift, concentric tubing production system for a well and method of using same. The system including an upper concentric tubing string portion comprising an inner production tubing string positioned within an outer production tubing string. A flow crossover assembly is connected to the upper concentric tubing string portion. The flow crossover assembly has first and second passageways. The inner production tubing string is in fluid communication with the first passageway and the outer production tubing string in fluid communication with the second passageway. An upper transducer is in fluid communication with one of the passageways of the flow crossover assembly and a lower apparatus is in fluid communication with the other of the passageways of the flow crossover assembly. The upper transducer may be a pump such as an electric submersible pump or a progressive cavity pump. The lower apparatus may be a pump, including an electric submersible pump, or a liquid/gas separator.

An improved electrical pump is first provided for use in a wellbore. The pump comprises a stator and a stator housing, and an armature and an armature housing. The stator housing and the armature housing define concentrically nested tubular bodies. The armature housing is configured to permit production fluids to flow therethrough. In one aspect, the stator and armature are assembled in connectible and interchangeable sections called “modules” that can be attached in series. In one aspect, the electrical operation of coils within the stator is protected from individual coil short-circuiting or failure by wiring them in parallel, rather than in series. In addition, each module may be wired in parallel. In this way, a failure of one stator module will not result in the failure of another stator module. In an embodiment of the present invention, the valves of the pump are capable of being retrieved by a wireline, without pulling the entire production string. A method for using a plurality of electrical pumps is also provided. The configuration of the electrical pumps allows multiple linear pumps to be placed in series with the production tubular member. Alternatively, a rotary pump design is provided which allows multiple rotary pumps to be placed in series with the production tubular member.

A method and apparatus for logging, controlling, or monitoring a subsea well or group of wells through a path not within production tubing. Preferred embodiments allow logging tools, wire rope, optic fibers, electrical cables, monitoring and measuring instruments and other items known to those skilled in the art of oil and gas production to be disposed into the well without interfering with the flow path through the production string. A further preferred embodiment includes the mooring or tethering of an instrument pod over the subsea well. The instrument pod is designed to provide on-board data storage, data processing, data receiving, and data transmission equipment, such that data from the well can be transmitted back to a receiving network where the data may be stored and processed into useful information for reservoir operators.

A completion system, and a corresponding method, for completing a subsea well, where the well includes a wellhead and a tubing hanger disposed in the wellhead and supports a string of production tubing, allows for angular alignment-free assembly of the subsea well. The completion system includes a series of circumferential channels formed in a well completion device at a boundary between the tubing hanger and the well completion device. The circumferential channels provide complete circular fluid paths with respect to the tubing hanger and the well completion device. At least one supply bore is in communication with each circumferential channel and is and oriented to supply a fluid to the circumferential channel, and at least one drain bore in communication with each circumferential channel and is oriented to remove fluid from the circumferential channel. Finally a circumferential electrical connector couples the tubing hanger and the completion device. The circumferential channels and bores provide fluid services between the completion device and the tubing hanger and the electrical connector provides electrical services to the tubing hanger. The completion system allows the fluid and electrical services to be provided without requiring any angular alignment between the tubing hanger and the completion device.

The invention relates to a well completion and oil production string of a horizontal well and well completion and oil production processes. In order to overcome the defect that in traditional horizontal well open hole sand-proof screening pipe well completion construction, an open hole packer at a horizontal section cannot effectively seal and separate oil and water layers because of irregular well diameter, a well completion string is fixedly arranged at the horizontal well section in an open hole well bore; a grading hoop, a casing short section, an external casing packer I, a blind plate, a casing, a layered seal tube I, an upper screening pipe, a layered seal tube II, a second casing short section, an external casing packer II, the other casing, an external casing packer III, a third casing short section, a layered seal tube III, a lower screening pipe, a wash-down valve, the lower screening pipe and a guiding shoe of the well completion string are sequentially and fixedly connected; and an acid washing string, a string for sealing up and producing oil from down, a string for sealing down and producing oil from up or a commingled production string is arranged in the well completion string. The invention has the beneficial effects that the well completion process of the horizontal well is combined with a post oil production technology, the sectioned sealing effect between the well completion string and the open hole well bore is improved, bottom water coning is delayed, and the purposes of controlling water and increasing oil are achieved.

A system and method of establishing an offshore exploration and production system is disclosed, in which a well casing is disposed in communication with an adjustable buoyancy chamber and a well hole bored into the floor of a body of water. A lower connecting member joins the well casing and the chamber, and an upper connecting member joins, the adjustable buoyancy chamber and a well terminal member. The chamber's adjustable buoyancy enables an operator to vary the height or depth of the well terminal member, and to vary the vertical tension imparted to drilling and production strings throughout exploration and production operations. Also disclosed is a system and method of adjusting the height or depth of a wellhead while associated vertical and lateral forces remain approximately constant. A variety of well isolation members, lateral stabilizers and anchoring means, as well as several methods of practicing the invention, are also disclosed.

An intelligent well system can service three or more zones that have gravel packed screens. A modular system features a screen and a surface controlled production valve on an internal blank pipe that internally straddles the screen. A gravel exit valve is disposed above the blank pipe and the blank pipe can optionally have a fluid loss control valve. A gravel pack/fracturing assembly can engage each module and close the fluid loss valve and gravel outlet valve on the way out of a module. Optionally the fluid loss valve can be eliminated if the gravel packing and fracturing string has the ability to power the production valve. The modules can be connected by wet connects as can the production string to make the intelligent well system functional from the surface.

A method, system and apparatus associated with the production of hydrocarbons are described. The system includes a wellbore that accesses a subsurface reservoir; a production tubing string disposed within the wellbore; and one or more sand control devices coupled to the production tubing string and disposed within the wellbore. At least one of the sand control devices includes a first tubular member having a permeable section and a non permeable section; a second tubular member disposed within the first tubular member. The second tubular member has a plurality of openings and an inflow control device that each provide a flow path to the interior of the second tubular member. Also, the at least one of the sand control devices includes a sealing mechanism disposed between the first tubular member and the second tubular member. The sealing mechanism is configured to provide a pressure loss during gravel packing operations that is less than the pressure loss during at least some of the production operations.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for a one trip completion of fluid production wells. A completion tool string includes a pressure activated cementing valve, an external casing packer, a pressure activated production valve, an opening plug and a plug landing collar and a closing plug and seat. This tool series is assembled near the end of a production tube string upstream of the well production screen.

Downhole Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP) in a production string often experience gas lock caused by free gas present in the production liquids which reduces intake pressure below the operating parameters of the ESP. A gas compression separator assembly, having a series of compressors and separation chambers, entrains or dissolves the free gas component of the production fluid and separates free gas for downhole disposal. The production fluid fed to the ESP intake has an increased fluid pressure, a reduced volumetric fluid flow, and a lower free gas content, and is less likely to induce gas lock of the ESP.

A split ball valve that may be positioned in a production string of line pipe, casing, or tubing. The split ball valve comprises a lower valve assembly and an upper valve assembly. Each of two valve doors in the lower valve assembly is connected to a pinion gear that intermeshes with racks on the upper valve assembly. The upper valve assembly can be vertically displaced relative to the lower valve assembly. A spring keeps the upper valve assembly extended away from the lower valve assembly and thus keeps the valve doors closed. When a downward force is applied to the upper valve assembly, the upper valve assembly is downwardly displaced causing the pinion gears to rotate, which opens the valve doors. The valve doors recede into cavities in the valve body. When open, the split ball valve is fully ported.

A system for and methods of producing hydrocarbons from a formation. A method may include drilling a wellbore in a formation, forming a first fracture in the formation that emanates from the wellbore, forming a second fracture in the formation that emanates from the wellbore and is approximately parallel to the first fracture, and simultaneously (a) injecting a fluid from an injection tubing string in communication with the second fracture and (b) producing hydrocarbons that travel from the first fracture into a production tubing string that is substantially parallel to the injection tubing string. The wellbore may be substantially horizontal. The fluid may increase pressure in an area of the formation adjacent to the first fracture.

A gravel packing method combining fracturing is described. A gun having an exterior auger is used to perforate. With the gun in place, the gravel is positioned around it and the formation is fractured, pushing the gravel into the fractures. The gun is rotated out of the gravel using the auger. A screen with an external auger is run in and rotated into the packed gravel in the wellbore while being vibrated at the same time. After the screen is advanced into position the vibrator is removed and a flapper closes to minimize fluid loss into the formation. A production string and packer are tagged into the screen and production begins.

The invention discloses a multi-stage segmented release water exploration pipe column and a water exploration method for a casing well completion multi-stage fractured horizontal well. The multi-stage segmented release water exploration pipe column comprises a multi-stage water exploration pipe column component which is arranged in a horizontal segment casing of the horizontal well and comprises a screw plug, multiple Y441 type packers and a release joint arranged sequentially from bottom to top, wherein a sealed region between every adjacent two Y441 type packers forms a connecting segment; a safety joint and a switching device are sequentially connected in each connecting segment; and a production pile column component comprises an oil well pump, a plunger of the oil well pump and an oil pumping rod, the upper part of the oil well pump is connected with an oil pipe to the well mouth of the horizontal well, the plunger of the oil well pump is connected with the oil pumping rod, and the upper end of the oil pumping rod is connected with a ground oil pumping unit. The multi-stage segmented release water exploration pipe column disclosed by the invention realizes that one pipe column can complete water exploration testing of more layer segments and realize high water exploration testing efficiency, the test layer segments are not limited, the segmented water exploration function of the high-pressure horizontal well can be achieved, the peristalsis of the production pipe column can be avoided, and the accuracy in water exploration testing and the reliability in sealing of the pipe column can be improved.

A plunger of improved construction for reciprocating in a production string of a gas or oil well to remove fluid from the well. The plunger includes a sleeve having a through passage extending longitudinally from a first end to a second end, the second end forming a seat, a sealing means carried by the sleeve for engaging the inner surface of the production string, a detachable valve member releasably received by the seat to seal the through passage, and a catch positioned to releasably couple the detachable valve member to the sleeve within the seat. The catch retaining the detachable valve member until the detachable valve member is impacted at the surface of the well by a trip rod. The improved construction provides for the use of a heavier or more dense detachable valve member and a lighter or less dense sleeve than previously used in prior plungers, which results in a plunger having an increased efficiency and a greater cycle frequency.

A lateral is gravel packed without a junction in place in a single trip into the wellbore. A disconnect is provided between the isolation packer in the lateral and a main bore packer. The inner string assembly in the gravel packing completion releases a disconnect with a shift tool and then releases the main bore packer so that the inner string assembly takes out the main bore packer and the upper portion of the disconnect when pulling out of the hole. A junction is then placed into the main and lateral legs with a packer having a seal bore into which the production string is sealingly stabbed to produce out of the main bore and/or the just completed lateral.

The invention relates to a liner hanger and a setting tool, which belong to the technical field of liner hanging packers and include the liner hanger and the setting tool. The setting tool is connected with a screw thread on a central tube of the liner hanger through a screw thread on a slip. A stainless steel ball is put into an oil casing to achieve sealing, a piston is moved down under the action of hydraulic force to cut off a shear pin, and a connecting sleeve is pushed to force the liner hanger to complete setting through an adjusting nut. In addition, the lip is not supported, and release of the setting tool from the liner hanger can be achieved by lifting up a tubular pile. The linear hanger and the setting tool are high in pressure bearing capacity, the setting tool is highly universal, setting and releasing can be achieved by one-step operating, no displacement of the central tube of a packer occurs in setting of the liner hanger, no rotation or movement of the tubular pile is needed, a large diameter and high hanging capacity are realized after setting is released and a fracturing string or production string is tied back, and the liner hanger and the setting tool are suitable for various wells, such as shallow wells, deep wells, high-inclination wells, horizontal wells and the like.