Abstract:
A wireline delivery tool for an underground well having a pipe, a surface seal for the pipe, and a wireline extending from the surface into the pipe. The wireline delivery tool includes a body having a diameter less than the interior diameter of the pipe and a cup extending from the body to create a seal with the interior of the pipe. A longitudinal bore within at least a portion of the body has a port through the body on each side of the cup, so that the ports are in communication with the interior of the pipe. A pressure valve within the bore is normally in the closed position. Pressure supplied into the pipe between the surface seal and the cup will move the delivery tool within the pipe.
Abstract:
A device for positioning a tool or instrument in a duct and recovering the tool or instrument therefrom by causing a vector fluid to flow through the device. The device includes a tubular element adapted to be connected to the tool or instrument and an annular sealing arrangement mounted on the tubular element for sealing the tubular element in the duct. The tubular element includes an arrangement for selecting a direction of movement of the tool or instrument which includes a closing device for cooperating with a resilient conjugate piece and a device for reversing a direction of movement of the closing device. The cooperation of the closing device with the resilient conjugate piece occurs in at least three states. In the first state, the fluid flows through the tubular element in a first direction; in the second state, the fluid flow is stopped in a direction opposite to the first direction of fluid flow; and, in the third state, the fluid is stopped in the first direction. The reversal device is adapted for holding the closure device either in the first and second state while excluding the third state, or in the third state.
Abstract:
A device for making measurements and interventions during fluid production or injection in a well passing through a geological formation is provided in tubing located in the well. The device has a propulsion position in the production tubing and a measuring or intervention position and comprises means supporting sealing members which are adapted on the one hand for uncovering an opening allowing fluid to flow along the tubing and an extension in said measuring or intervention position of the device and on the other for closing said opening in said propulsion position.
Abstract:
In drilling a well, sections of casing are run down a borehole, preferably with a float shoe at the lower end which is equipped with a double valve enabling the casing to fill with drilling mud both while the casing is moving down and also while it is stationary. Within the casing is a baffle collar which defines a socket for a latching dart carried by a plug. The plug and dart are driven down to the collar, when the pumping of cement into the casing has been completed, by a launching dart which also closes the passageway through the plug.
Abstract:
An apparatus which comprises an upper sub for connectable engagement with the wire line, a microprocessor component for directing the various functions of the overall apparatus down hole; a motor section having a plurality of thrust directional motors and ball screw assembly for movement of steering gates; a motor driven impellar means for providing thrust and flow through a portion of the apparatus and in combination with the flow gates providing steering in a certain direction; an electric transducer portion for providing ultrasonic vibrations around the circumference of the apparatus in discongealing molecular substrate adjacent the apparatus; a mechanical vibration coil assembly means on the lower end of the apparatus for discongealing larger areas of congealing in a substrate around the apparatus, and a lower sub for connectably engaging the electrical logging unit to be steered down hole. The apparatus may also comprise on either end a thrust explosive sub for explosively dislodging the apparatus in the event of lodging occuring down hole.
Abstract:
For use in a drilling string including drill collars, a safety joint which enables the string of drill pipe to be unthreaded from the drill collars at the safety joint is disclosed. A safety joint utilizes a collet telescoped within and threaded to an outer tubular member connected in the drill string. They are held together by a releasable lock pin which is inserted and retracted to thereby enable the drill string to be separated at the safety joint so that remedial steps can be taken to free the remainder of the drill string. The safety joint is also capable of being actuated mechanically under control from the surface.Particular valve and signal receivers are disclosed herein including frequency responsive structural components which vibrate on being inflicted with a particular ultrasonic signal. The vibratory components oscillate and thereby initiate leakage of hydraulic oil from a pin locking system. Several alternate forms are disclosed.
Abstract:
A calipering tool for use in a pipe and having a body and feeler means mounted with the body for engaging the surfaces of the pipe being calipered and with feelers moving in response to variations in the surface of the pipe, the improvement residing in mechanisms with the body for permitting the body of the calipering tool to be pumped in response to fluid pressure thereon into and out of the pipe for operation of the calipering tool.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a surface controlled subsurface safety valve adapted to be landed in a dual line landing nipple. The safety valve is used to control well fluids conducted through the bore of a well tubing string. The valve has a control fluid pressure chamber and a balance pressure chamber along with a zone in the valve exposed to balance fluid pressure. The control fluid pressure chamber is interspersed between the balance fluid pressure chamber and the balance pressure zone, and has a system of seals associated therewith, that provide a fail-closed safety system. Tubing bore pressure, in the event of seal failure, enters the balance pressure chamber, causing the safety valve to close. This abstract of the disclosure is neither intended to define the scope of the invention which, of course, is measured by the claims nor is it intended to limit the invention in any way.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a pumpdown, retrievable, subsurface, safety valve for use in a well. The valve comprises a valve section including a valve member to control flow through the well tubing and one or more force exerting sections urging the valve member to a position blocking flow. The valve section and force exerting sections are interconnected. This abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application which, of course, is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
Abstract:
A self-propelling apparatus for well logging tools includes a housing which is secured to the housing of a well logging tool and which defines a cylinder. A piston is slidably received in the cylinder, and a powder charge is mounted in the housing for electrical actuation. The cylinder is initially filled with a weighted fluid to establish a negative buoyancy whereby the well logging tool moves downwardly in a well to effect a logging operation. Upon completion of the well logging operation, a signal from the well logging tool actuates the powder charge whereby the piston forces the weighted fluid out of the cylinder and thereby establishes a positive buoyancy. This positive buoyancy together with the flow of the weighted fluid and the flow of gases resulting from the burning of the powder charge out of the housing combine to propel the well logging tool upwardly. At the top of the well the apparatus is siezed by latching apparatus and is retained thereby for subsequent retrieval.