505 results about "Sleeve valve" patented technology

A completion tubular is placed in position adjacent the zone or zones to be fractured and produced. It features preferably sliding sleeve valves that can assume at least two configurations: wide open and open with a screen material juxtaposed in the flow passage. In a preferred embodiment the valve assembly has three positions, adding a fully closed position to the other two mentioned. After run in, the valves can be put in the wide open position in any order desired to fracture. After fracturing, the valves can be closed or selectively be put in filtration position for production from the fractured zones in any desired order. Various ways are described to actuate the valves. The tubular can have telescoping pistons through which the fracturing can take place if the application calls for a cemented tubular. Alternatively, the tubular can be in open hole and simply have openings for passage of fracture fluid and external isolators to allow fracturing in any desired order.

Disclosed is a pressure sensitive prosthesis that includes a tubular member having a passageway extending therethrough and a sleeve attached about one end of the tubular member. The sleeve functions as a one-way valve to permit fluid flowing through the sleeve lumen in a first direction and under a first pressure, while collapsing in response to fluid flowing in a second direction when the pressure thereof exceeds that of the first direction or pressure. One aspect of the invention includes an esophageal anti-reflux expandable prosthesis wherein the sleeve is adapted to invert back through the tubular stent frame to permit belching or vomiting (fluid or materials under a third, significantly higher pressure). Another aspect of the invention includes a tubular drainage stent, such as a biliary or urethral stent in which the sleeve opens to permit passage of fluids, then collapses to prevent retrograde flow.

A service/completion liner having a plurality of downhole selectable indicating tools and being used in sand control (gravel pack) placement systems in conjunction with a straddle packer service tools or with conventional crossover type service tools. Each indicating collar has a downhole selectable indicating collar providing a robust, landing profile for precisely locating and maintaining service tool position during well treatment operations. The landing collars accommodate hydraulic and/or thermal effects commonly referred to as tubing move effects which are the principle cause of tool position error and excessive seal wear. The landing collar is downhole convertible between a pass through (Go) and non pass through (No-go) condition by simple upward and downward cycling via the tool running and treatment fluid tubing and a shifting tool, which may also be referred to as a set down collet. The shifting/set down collet is also used to open and close a downhole sliding sleeve valve and may be an integral part of an injection tool or a tool for gravel or fracture packing. A sliding sleeve valve design and a straddle packer configuration that protects the primary PBRs in the gravel pack system and also protects the sliding sleeve while sand is placed in the screen casing annulus.

An apparatus and method for forming or repairing a wellbore casing, a pipeline, or a structural support. An expandable tubular member is radially expanded and plastically deformed by an expansion cone that is displaced by hydraulic pressure. Before or after the radial expansion of the expandable tubular member, a sliding sleeve valve within the apparatus permit a hardenable fluidic sealing material to be injected into an annulus between the expandable tubular member and a preexisting structure.

A gravel packing system featuring pressure actuated sliding sleeve valves mounted to an exterior annulus around a blanking pipe for screen sections is disclosed. An internal sliding sleeve valve is provided for subsequent closure of access through the screens. The presence of the annulus between the blanking pipe and the screen permits a backup access through perforating the blanking pipe while not damaging the screen. The sliding sleeve valves that are mounted internally and externally on the blanking pipe are removable apart from the screen section that already has gravel packed around it, if they fail to operate and need repair.

A by-pass valve mechanism for a well treatment tool having at least one flow sensitive element, permitting by-pass of well fluid past the flow sensitive element of the well treatment tool during conveyance of the well treatment tool to treatment depth within a well. A valve housing adapted for connection with a well tool defines an internal flow passage and has at least one by-pass port communicating well fluid between the flow passage of the service tool and the annulus between the well casing and the service tool. A sliding sleeve valve element is normally secured at its open position by shear elements permitting flow of well fluid through the and is moveable between an open position diverting fluid flow from within the service tool to the annulus and a closed position blocking the flow of well fluid through the by-pass port. The sleeve valve element is released and automatically closed by predetermined hydrostatic tubing or casing pressure or pump pressure. The by-pass valve mechanism may have a test pressure control system permitting pressure testing of a well without causing release and closure of the sleeve valve.

A completion tubular is placed in position adjacent the zone or zones to be fractured and produced. It features preferably sliding sleeve valves one series of which can be put in the wide open position after run in for gravel packing and fracturing zones one at a time or in any desired order. These valves are then closed and another series of valves can be opened wide but with a screen material juxtaposed in the flow passage to selectively produce from one or more fractured zones. An annular path behind the gravel is provided by an offset screen to promote flow to the screened production port. The path can be a closed annulus that comes short of the production port or goes over it. For short runs an exterior screen or shroud is eliminated for a sliding sleeve with multiple screened ports that can be opened in tandem.

A pneumatic nail gun has a gun body having a main air housing; a cylinder fixed in the main air housing; a hitting piston slidably movable in the cylinder; a dish-shaped piston disposed at a top end portion of the cylinder; an upper slidable sleeve valve disposed at a top portion of an out peripheral surface of the cylinder, which is driven to move upward by the high pressure air in the main air housing; and a lower slidable sleeve valve disposed at a lower portion of an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, which is driven to move downward for guiding the high pressure air into the cylinder for upward deposition of the hitting piston when the upper slidable sleeve valve moves upward, and is driven to upward reposite when the hitting piston moves to its upper dead center.

The invention discloses an anti-seepage and leak-blocking construction method for excavation of a subway foundation pit in a soft soil area, which comprises the following steps: 1) joint pre-reinforcement construction of an underground continuous wall: constructing a pre-reinforcement structure of a high-pressure rotary jet grouting pile, guiding holes, grouting by a sleeve valve pipe, sealing the holes, guiding the holes again and pre-burying the sleeve valve pipe for standby; and 2) the excavation of the foundation pit and the anti-seepage and leak-blocking construction: using surface floating earth for clearing and using the encased steel plate reinforcement method for anti-leak treatment for the situations that joints of the underground continuous wall have defects definitely and risk points are positioned below the excavation surface of the foundation pit, adopting the hole-guiding cyanogen injection condensing method for blocking of leak points with slight water leakage situation, adopting the horizontal hole grouting method for blocking for the water leak points with serious water leakage situation, and carrying out filling, grouting and reinforcement through the pre-buried sleeve valve pipe after completing the blocking. The method has reasonable design, convenient construction, comprehensive consideration, good anti-leak and leak-blocking effect, fast leak-blocking speed and can solve the problems of pipe blocking, poor anti-leak and leak-blocking effect, slow construction progress and the like in the existing anti-leak and leak-blocking construction.

Systems and methods for opening and/or closing sliding sleeve valves while preventing significant stress upon and damage to the fluid seals that are disposed between the outer housing and the sleeve member elements of the valve. A shifting tool carries a latching device and a fluid closure portion with sacrificial seals. In operations the shifting tool is secured to the sleeve member with the latching device as the closure portion seals off across the fluid flow port of the sleeve member. The shifting tool is then moved to slide the sleeve member between open and closed positions.

A sleeve valve includes a rigid mandrel with a plurality of openings and a generally cylindrical elastomeric sleeve that surrounds the mandrel. A generally cylindrical rigid sleeve valve housing surrounds the elastomeric sleeve and defines a control chamber between the elastomeric sleeve and the sleeve valve housing. A pilot valve is mounted to the sleeve valve housing for supplying pressurized liquid to, and venting pressurized liquid from, the control chamber through a first passage formed in the sleeve valve housing. A filter screens debris from pressurized liquid entering an inlet end of the sleeve valve housing before it enters a second passage that communicates with the pilot valve.

An apparatus and method for determining the position of a hydraulically actuated sliding sleeve valve in real time is disclosed. The apparatus comprises, in a preferred embodiment, a reference sensor and a position sensor, both of which constitute fiber optic windings wound around the hydraulic fluid cavity used to activate the sleeve. The sensors measure the pressure exerted by the hydraulic fluid in the cavity, with the reference sensor circumferentially lengthening to create an optical time delay indicative of the base line pressure of the hydraulic fluid. As the sleeve moves, the position sensor becomes increasingly exposed to the hydraulic fluid pressure and also begins to experience a time delay, which can be compared to the reference sensor's time delay to determine sleeve position.

The invention discloses a karst grouting reinforcement water-stop constructing method, which is to construct according to sizes of karst caves by adopting a principle of from big to small regarding a certain area, construct by adopting a principle of from outside to inside for the karst caves with the same size, and construct by adopting a principle of from the bottom to the top in a vertical direction. On the basis of the construction principles, the method comprises the following steps of: (1) forming grouting holes by adopting a core drill; (2) forming construction exhaust and drainage pressure relief holes; (3) inserting grouting pipes into the grouting holes, wherein the grouting pipes comprise steel pipes, grouting shock pipes and sleeve valve pipes; (4) cleaning the holes, wherein when the step (3) is completed, the grouting pipes are cleaned with clean water; (5) grouting; and (6) drawing out the grouting pipes after the grouting is completed, and blocking the grouting holes with cement mortar or concrete. By adopting the constructing method, the pertinence to karst caves is strong, the grouting quantity is small, the engineering work amount is small, the cost is low, and the effect of filling and reinforcing is good.

Systems and methods for locking a sliding sleeve valve in an open position and/or a closed position to prevent inadvertent operation of the sleeve valve during other operations.

Methods and devices for negating scale buildups on interior surfaces of a sliding sleeve valve housing above the flow tube. In some aspects, a wiper member provides additional clearance between the flow tube and housing to compensate for scale buildup. In other aspects, the interior surface of the valve housing is provided with a sleeve that is disposed between the interior surface of the valve housing and the general flowbore passing through the valve housing to protect the interior surface against scale buildup.

An improved seal assembly for use in sliding sleeve valves. The seal assembly incorporates a number of annular, chevron-shaped seal elements that are in a stacked configuration and preferably formed of a thermoplastic material to provide a fluid seal between the outer housing and the inner sleeve member of the sliding sleeve valve. In addition, the seal assembly preferably includes a pair of annular metallic seal members that have a C-ring cross-section (a “C-seal”). On opposite axial sides of each metallic C-seal are a C-seal support ring and an end adapter that are shaped and sized to assist the metallic C-seals to be axially compressed and uncompressed to resiliently seal against both the inner sleeve member and the outer housing.

The invention discloses a construction method for the grouting reinforcement of a sleeve valve pipe, comprising the following steps of: firstly, drilling a hole; secondly, inserting a grouting pipe B into the grouting drilled hole; thirdly, inserting a grouting pipe A into the grouting pipe B; fourthly, sealing the hole; and fifthly, performing grouting. The grouting pipe B is inserted into the grouting drilled hole down to the bottom of the hole with the top exceeding the ground. In the step of inserting the grouting pipe A into the grouting pipe B, a lower blank cap is added to the bottom of the connected grouting pipe A, and the grouting pipe A and the lower blank cap are slowly inserted into the grouting pipe B section by section. After the grouting pipe A is inserted to the bottom of the grouting pipe B, hole sealing slurry is fully injected between the gap between the grouting pipe B and the soil body; after the hole sealing slurry is injected, water is fully injected in the grouting pipes; the grouting pipe B may not float under the action of gravity; and then the pipe A is pulled out slowly; and finally, an upper blank cap is arranged to cover the upper part of the grouting pipe B. Furthermore, reinforcement slurry is injected in 48 hours after the hole sealing slurry is injected; grouting is performed in a sectional injection manner; and the step distance of grouting is 0.6-1 m.