Stage collar and related methods for stage cementing operations

    公开(公告)号:US12024977B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US17987367

    申请日:2022-11-15

    申请人: FORUM US, INC.

    IPC分类号: E21B33/16 E21B33/14

    CPC分类号: E21B33/165 E21B33/146

    摘要: Aspects of the disclosure relate to stage collars and related methods of operation thereof for stage cementing operations. In one implementation, a stage collar for stage cementing operations includes a barrel, and an activation sleeve disposed at least partially in the barrel. The activation sleeve includes first fluid openings. The stage collar includes an activation ring that includes an activation seat. The stage collar includes a first set of shear fasteners coupling the activation ring to the activation sleeve, and a second set of shear fasteners coupling the activation sleeve to the barrel. The stage collar includes a setting piston, and a closing sleeve disposed at least partially in the barrel. The closing sleeve includes second fluid openings. The stage collar includes a third set of shear fasteners coupling the closing sleeve to the barrel.

    Top-down cementing of liner assembly

    公开(公告)号:US11686182B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-27

    申请号:US17504665

    申请日:2021-10-19

    IPC分类号: E21B43/10 E21B33/16

    摘要: A running tool sets and cements a liner in a borehole. While the tool's bypass section is closed, a plug deployed to the tool diverts hydraulic pressure to set a liner hanger in the borehole. The setting plug is unseated, and the bypass section is switched opened by deploying another plug to an opening seat and shifting a control sleeve open relative to a bypass port. While the tool's packoff remains sealed in the hanger, cement pumped out the bypass port is bullheaded into a lap of the liner and borehole. When cementing is complete, the bypass section is switched closed by deploying another plug to a closing seat and shifting the control sleeve closed relative to the bypass port. The bypass section is then placed in a flow-through condition where fluid communication is reestablished through the tool to the liner by allowing fluid to flow past the plugs in the tool.

    Cement plug and bridge plug assembly and method

    公开(公告)号:US11761299B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US17747367

    申请日:2022-05-18

    发明人: Adam Anderson

    摘要: A plug assembly for a cementing operation in a well includes a bottom wiper plug configured to land in or near the toe of a well and receive a cement slurry therethrough, a top wiper plug releasably coupled to the bottom wiper plug and configured to land on the bottom wiper plug after the cement slurry is received through the bottom wiper plug, a bridge plug coupled to the top wiper plug and configured to move toward the bottom wiper plug with the top wiper plug after the bottom wiper plug is landed in or near the toe of the well, and a sensor sub coupled to the bridge plug and configured to detect a gate in the well.