Abstract:
A technique for manufacturing slickline with a jacket of enhanced bonding. The technique may include roughening an outer surface of a metal core and applying an initial insulating polymer layer to the roughened core in a non-compression manner such as by tubing extrusion. The insulated core may then be heated and run through a set of shaping rollers. Thus, the grip between the polymer and the underlying metal core may be enhanced at a time following the initial placement of the polymer on the core. In this manner, processing damage to the underlying core surface which might adversely affect maintaining the grip may be minimized. Other techniques such as powder spray delivery of the initial polymer layer may also be utilized in a similar manner.
Abstract:
A downhole cable that has a cable core with an inner jacket located about it. The inner jacket has a shell located thereabout, and a pair of strength member layers surrounds the inner shell. Interstitial spaces of the strength member layers are filled with bonding layers. One of the strength member layers is at a contra-helical lay angle to the other. An outer jacket is located about one of the strength member layers, and the outer jacket is bonded with the bonding layers.
Abstract:
A cable that has a cable core with a first armor wire layer and a second armor wire layer. The second armor wire layer is segregated from the first armor wire layer, and an outer jacket is disposed about the second armor wire layer.
Abstract:
A method can include providing a pump connected to a power cable with a smooth surface; providing a stuffing box with a valve configured to form a seal with the smooth surface of the power cable in a closed state and to form a passage for the pump as connected to the power cable in an open state; providing a lubricator; providing a blow-out protector with a valve configured to form a seal with the smooth surface of the power cable in a closed state and to form a passage for the pump as connected to the power cable in an open state; and controlling the states of the valves while lowering the pump via the power cable through the stuffing box, the lubricator, and the blow-out protector to position the pump into a bore of a well. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A high power opto-electrical cable with multiple power and telemetry paths and a method for manufacturing the same includes at least one cable core element and at least one high-power conductor core element incased in a polymer material jacket layer. The cable core element has at least one longitudinally extending optical fiber surrounded by a pair of longitudinally extending arcuate metallic wall sections forming a tube and a polymer material jacket layer surrounding and incasing the wall sections, wherein the optical fiber transmits data and the wall sections transmit at least one of electrical power and data.
Abstract:
A conductor having a first half and a second half. The first half has a first solid conductor. A first insulating layer is disposed about the first solid conductor. The second half has a second solid conductor. A second insulating layer is disposed about the second solid conductor. The first half and second half are engaged with one another, and an outer insulating layer is disposed about the first half and the second half.
Abstract:
A cable includes an electrically conductive cable core for transmitting electrical power and data, an insulative/protective layer circumferentially disposed around the core, an inner armor wire layer including a plurality of armor wires disposed around the cable core and the insulative layer, wherein at least one of the armor wires of the inner armor wire layer is bonded to the insulative layer, and an outer armor wire layer including a plurality of armor wires disposed around the inner armor wire layer. At least one of the armor wires of the outer armor wire layer can be bonded to the at least one of the armor wires of the inner armor wire layer.
Abstract:
A wireline cable includes an electrically conductive cable core for transmitting electrical power. The wireline cable further includes an inner layer of a plurality of first armor wires surrounding the cable core and an outer layer of a plurality of second armor wires surrounding the inner layer, wherein a diameter of the outer layer of the plurality of second armor wires is smaller than a diameter of the inner layer of the plurality of first armor wires.
Abstract:
A smooth torque balanced cable that includes an electrically conductive cable core for transmitting electrical power. The smooth torque balanced cable also has a first polymer surrounding said cable core. An inner layer of a plurality of first armor wires surrounds the cable core. The first armor wires being in partial contact with the first polymer and partial contact with a second polymer disposed opposite the first polymer.
Abstract:
Packoff seals and processes for using same. In some examples, the packoff seal can include a first end cap and a second end cap, a first insert and a second insert, a first deformable element disposed between the first end cap and the first insert, a second deformable element disposed between the second insert and the second end cap, and a third deformable element disposed between the first insert and the second insert. The first end cap, the first deformable element, the first insert, the third deformable element, the second insert, the second deformable element, and the second end cap together can form a body having a bore extending therethrough. The first deformable element, the second deformable element, and the third deformable element can have a compressive strength that is less than a compressive strength of the first and second inserts.