DOWNHOLE DEVICE FOR HYDROCARBON PRODUCING WELLS WITHOUT CONVENTIONAL TUBING

    公开(公告)号:US20240301771A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18662120

    申请日:2024-05-13

    摘要: The present invention is related to a downhole device for hydrocarbon producing wells without conventional tubing (tubingless completion), which improves the hydrocarbon production (gas, oil and condensate), selectively controls produced solids (reservoir sand and hydraulic fracture proppant) and eliminates liquid loading. The device of the present invention is designed according to selected well and reservoir characteristics by an integral methodology which includes the stages: data collection and analysis of the well operating conditions, selection of candidate well, sampling and analysis of produced solids, simulation of production conditions, design and manufacture and installation.
    The device of the present invention:



    Is installed, through an operation with slick line unit or any other operational method, to any well depth, according to well mechanical characteristics and needs;
    Has a filtering element at the lower end which selectively retains produced solids from 50 microns, avoiding their transport from bottomhole to surface with produced fluids in the well, causing pressure drops through filtering element and porous media, and protecting of abrasion all components of petroleum production system;
    Improves well production conditions due to the system internal geometry, generates a suction and dispersion effect of accumulated liquid in bottomhole, reducing up to 70% of pressure requirement to transport free of heavy particles liquids, from bottomhole to surface and increasing hydrocarbon production up to 300%;
    Takes advantage of expansion energy of reservoir gas to change the intermittent flow pattern into dispersed flow pattern, increases gas velocity at least to 6 m/s, optimizing the flow pattern from bottomhole to surface, and extending the productive life; and
    Optimizes the remaining reservoir energy and pressure, reducing produced water up to 60%, avoiding the premature use of other technologies to promote hydrocarbon production.

    Slip-on swellable packer for openhole gravel pack completions

    公开(公告)号:US12044107B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17907159

    申请日:2021-03-29

    发明人: Julie Jeanpert

    IPC分类号: E21B43/04 E21B33/12 E21B43/12

    CPC分类号: E21B43/04 E21B33/1208

    摘要: A gravel packing system includes a shoe assembly including a washdown shoe at an end of the shoe assembly and a blank section uphole of the washdown shoe, a base pipe having an upper base pipe joint and a lower base pipe joint coupled at a base pipe joint connection, a screen disposed around the base pipe, wherein the lower base pipe joint is uphole of and adjacent to the blank section of the shoe assembly, and a swellable packer installed around the blank section of the shoe assembly. The shoe assembly, the swellable packer, the base pipe, and the screen are disposed in an uncased section of the wellbore.

    Jettisonable ball seal
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11993998B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-28

    申请号:US17114227

    申请日:2020-12-07

    IPC分类号: E21B33/12 E21B43/04

    CPC分类号: E21B33/1208 E21B43/04

    摘要: A device, system and method are provided for using a seal sub to isolate a well. The seal sub generally has a primary channel extending through the seal sub and seat positioned within the primary channel. As a ball setting tool passes through the seal sub and the seat, a ball connected to the setting tool with a shear pin contacts the seat and selectively connects to the seal sub. A predetermined force can be applied to the ball setting tool to break the shear pin, which leaves the seal ball in place, and the seal sub and the seal ball isolate the downhole pressures and contents from the uphole pressures and contents.

    Gravel pack sand out detection/stationary gravel pack monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US11946362B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17156029

    申请日:2021-01-22

    IPC分类号: E21B43/04 E21B47/09

    CPC分类号: E21B47/09 E21B43/04

    摘要: The disclosure provides a packing monitor, method, and gravel pack system for real-time monitoring of a particulate for improved gravel packing. Via the real-time monitoring, the quality of the gravel pack can be detected in real-time. Accordingly, a top-off procedure can be performed without additional tripping of the inner service tool string. Detecting when the gravel pack is approaching screen-out can also be determined in real-time. Detecting when screen-out is approaching allows the operator to prepare to stop pumping in case of miscalculations or early screen-out. In one example, the packing monitor includes: (1) a packing detector configured to, when stationary within the wellbore, obtain measurements indicating presence of a particulate in an annulus of the wellbore at different positions along a length of a screen; and (2) a packing controller configured to determine, based on the measurements, a status of the particulate in the annulus at the different positions.

    Liner deployment tool
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11788366B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US17404819

    申请日:2021-08-17

    摘要: A gravel pack system includes a liner assembly and a deployment assembly. The liner assembly includes a sand control screen. The deployment assembly facilitates rotation of the liner assembly and circulation through the liner assembly while running the liner assembly into a wellbore using a work string. The deployment assembly includes a crossover tool that is operated to facilitate gravel packing without manipulation of the work string. The deployment assembly also includes a setting tool for setting a packer and/or a sand barrier at the top of the liner assembly.