Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for plugging a well
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Application No.: US15821352Application Date: 2017-11-22
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Publication No.: US10392885B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Gisle Stjern , Gjermund Grimsbo , Halvor Kjørholt , Pål Viggo Hemmingsen
- Applicant: STATOIL PETROLEUM AS
- Applicant Address: NO Stavanger
- Assignee: STATOIL PETROLEUM AS
- Current Assignee: STATOIL PETROLEUM AS
- Current Assignee Address: NO Stavanger
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: GB1619910.1 20161124
- Main IPC: E21B23/04
- IPC: E21B23/04 ; E21B33/12 ; E21B33/14 ; E21B33/134 ; E21B43/116

Abstract:
A method of plugging a well extending into a formation to facilitate temporary or permanent abandonment of the well. The method comprises conveying in one trip, a plug assembly and one or more explosive charges through the well together with a structure for providing wet sealant. The plug assembly comprises a foundation plug for supporting the wet sealant. The plug assembly is set beneath a plug formation location, prior to providing the wet sealant. The method also comprises providing the wet sealant to the plug formation location via the structure, so as to submerge the one or more explosive charges in the wet sealant, and then detonating the one or more explosive charges in the wet sealant at the plug formation location to cut through a tubular or tubulars of the well and into the formation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180142527A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLUGGING A WELL Public/Granted day:2018-05-24
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