Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Delivering an agent into a well using an untethered object
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Application No.: US15014791Application Date: 2016-02-03
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Publication No.: US09915116B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: Gregoire Jacob , Indranil Roy , Michael Dardis , John Fleming
- Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Main IPC: E21B27/02
- IPC: E21B27/02 ; E21B34/06 ; E21B34/14

Abstract:
An embodiment may take the form of a method usable with a well including pumping an untethered object into the well to land on a restriction downhole in the well and using the restriction to trigger release of an agent carried by the object into the well. Another embodiment may take the form of an apparatus usable with a well having a solid object adapted to be pumped into the well and an agent to be adapted to be released from the solid object in response to the solid object landing on a restriction in the well.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160251935A1 DELIVERING AN AGENT INTO A WELL USING AN UNTETHERED OBJECT Public/Granted day:2016-09-01
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