Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Temperature-activated swellable wellbore completion device and method
- Patent Title (中): 温度可膨胀的井筒完井装置及方法
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Application No.: US12632493Application Date: 2009-12-07
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Publication No.: US08191644B2Publication Date: 2012-06-05
- Inventor: Gary Rytlewski , Nitin Vaidya
- Applicant: Gary Rytlewski , Nitin Vaidya
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Agent Rodney V. Warfford; Tim Curington; William Ryann
- Main IPC: E21B33/12
- IPC: E21B33/12 ; E21B23/00 ; E21B33/13

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a completion device that includes an interior layer that swells when exposed to a wellbore fluid; and an exterior layer encasing the interior layer and configured to be impermeable to the wellbore fluid at temperatures below an activation depth temperature, and configured to be permeable to the wellbore fluid at temperatures above the activation depth temperature. Also disclosed herein is a method of deploying a completion device that includes encasing an interior layer of the device in a temperature-sensitive exterior layer that is impermeable to a fluid in the wellbore at temperatures below an activation depth temperature; attaching the device on a tube string; inserting the tube string into the wellbore; creating a leak path in the temperature-sensitive exterior layer in response to the device being exposed to the activation depth temperature in the wellbore; and swelling the interior layer with the wellbore fluid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110132611A1 TEMPERATURE-ACTIVATED SWELLABLE WELLBORE COMPLETION DEVICE AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2011-06-09
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