| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 166181000 | With detachable setting means | 15 |
| 20090173489 | BRIDGE PLUG AND SETTING TOOL - A bridge plug comprises an axially compressible cylinder having plural expansion sleeves. A mandrel extends axially through the cylinder, and has a threaded portion engaged with the cylinder, such that rotation of the mandrel causes compression of the cylinder. A setting tool comprises a housing containing a motor and a drive shaft driven by the motor. The setting tool is configured to be removably coupled to a bridge plug with the drive shaft drivingly coupled to the bridge plug's mandrel, such that operation of the setting tool motor causes compression of the bridge plug. The setting tool is used to lower a bridge plug within a well casing, and to compress the bridge plug causing, outward protrusion of sealing members of the bridge plug to set the bridge plug in place. Cement may be applied above the set bridge plug to form an easily drillable seal. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100175870 | DOWNHOLE DISCONNECT MECHANISM - A release device includes a first sub, a second sub, and a connector separably connecting the first and the second sub, wherein the connector includes a shear member disposed with the first sub and a collar connected between the second sub and the shear member. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110209867 | Mechanical Lock with Pressure Balanced Floating Piston - Parts that need to be retained against relative movement are held with at least one collet that is captured in a groove with sleeve that acts as a piston. The piston is exposed to tubing pressure on opposed ends to be in pressure balance despite variations of pressure in the tubing. When it is desired to allow relative part movement to actuate the tool, one of the ports to the piston is isolated from the other and pressure drives the piston in a downhole direction. This releases the collet and drives a sleeve in an opposite direction to actuate a tool. The parts can be optionally rotationally locked. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110232899 | COMPOSITE RECONFIGURABLE TOOL - A downhole tool for use in a well is configurable as a frac plug, a caged ball frac plug or a bridge plug. The tool has a mandrel with a threaded neck. The mandrel has an expandable sealing element disposed thereabout. An adapter, which may be selected from multiple configurations of adapters, is threaded to the neck of the mandrel. The adapter may comprise a sleeve, or a cap with one open end and one closed end. The adapter has threads on an outer surface thereof to which a threaded setting mandrel may be attached. The setting mandrel when actuated will move the tool to a set position in the well and once the tool is moved to the set position the threads on the adapter will shear so that the setting mandrel may be retrieved. The tool will thus remain in the hole and will act as either a frac plug, a caged ball frac plug or a bridge plug depending upon the configuration of the selected adapter. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110277986 | RUNNING ADAPTER - A plug for sealing a conduit comprises a body having a first section and a second section, and at least one seal element for creating a seal between the plug and the conduit. The at least one seal element is adapted to be energised by movement in a setting direction of the first body section relative to the second body section. The plug further comprises seal locking means comprising a first portion and a second portion wherein as the at least one seal is energised, the seal locking means first portion is rotatable unidirectionally relative to the seal locking means second portion to take up the movement of the first body section relative to the second body section in the setting direction and prevent movement of the first body section relative to the second body section in a releasing direction, opposite the setting direction. In one embodiment the seal locking means first portion is a locking nut. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110277987 | BOTTOM SET DOWNHOLE PLUG - A plug for isolating a wellbore. The plug can include a body having a first end and a second end, wherein the body is formed from one or more composite materials and adapted to receive a setting tool through the first end thereof, at least one malleable element disposed about the body, at least one slip disposed about the body, at least one conical member disposed about the body, and one or more shearable threads disposed on an inner surface of the body, adjacent the second end thereof, wherein the one or more shearable threads are adapted to receive at least a portion of a setting tool that enters the body through the first end thereof, and wherein the one or more shearable threads are adapted to engage the setting tool when disposed through the body and adapted to release the setting tool when exposed to a predetermined axial force. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120067564 | Packer Deployment with Electric Submersible Pump with Optional Retention of the Packer After Pump Removal - An electric submersible pump ESP is run in to a desired subterranean location with a packer attached. Once at the desired location the packer is set either using the ESP or some other source of force or pressure. After the ESP has completed the task and needs to be removed, the packer stays set and the ESP releases from it. Removal of the ESP assembly allows a valve in the packer mandrel to close to isolate the zone from which the ESP had been pumping. The ESP can be run in on coiled tubing or rigid tubing or wireline. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120305237 | TOOL FOR REMOVING WELLHEAD COMPONENTS | 12-06-2012 |
| 20140083677 | SETTING AND RETRIEVAL DEVICE - A setting and retrieval device includes a first connection device connected to a first connection interface of a plugging device and a second connection device connected to a second connection interface of the plugging device. The device includes a charging device having first and second fluid chambers, a displaceable charging piston, a power supplying device included a fluid pump device for pumping fluid between the first and second fluid chambers via first and second fluid channels, and a volume adjusting device including a volume adjusting piston displaceable into the first fluid chamber. The energy storing device is charged with potential energy by the charging piston moving in a first direction by pumping fluid from the first to the second fluid chamber and the energy stored in the energy storing device is discharged by movement in a second, axial, direction between the first and second connection devices. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140151025 | Packer Setting Tool - A setting tool comprises a slow stroke mandrel configured for engagement with an inner mandrel of a packer; a latching member configured to provide a releasable engagement between the setting tool mandrel and the inner mandrel of the packer; a centralizing member, wherein the centralizing member is slidingly disposed about the setting tool mandrel; a collet coupled to the centralizing member, wherein the collet is configured to engage the slow stroke mandrel; a driving member comprising a piston, wherein the piston is coupled to the centralizing member; a setting sleeve coupled to the centralizing member, wherein the setting sleeve is configured to engage a packer setting sleeve shoulder of the packer. The engagement between the collet and the slow stroke mandrel is configured to control the stroke speed of the setting sleeve when the piston is selectively energized. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140231069 | DOWNHOLE TOOL AND METHOD OF USE - Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to a metal slip for a downhole tool, the metal slip having a slip body; an outer surface comprising gripping elements; and an inner surface configured for receiving a mandrel. The slip body may include at least one hole formed therein. The downhole tool may be a plugging or diverter tool, such as a frac plug. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20150060048 | WIRELINE GUIDE TOOL - A wireline guide tool having a top section with an inner concave portion and a bottom section designed to attach to a stinger or on/off tool provides advantages for passing a wireline into the stinger. The stinger is attached to a packer within a casing of a well bore, without any tubing present. The inner concave portion of the top section of the wireline guide tool captures the wireline and funnels it into the stinger, effectively eliminating problems with achieving a proper alignment of the wireline for entry into the stinger. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150068730 | Breaking of frangible isolation elements - A down hole pressure isolation tool is placed in a pipe string and includes a pair of pressure discs having one side that is highly resistant to applied pressure and one side that ruptures when much lower pressures are applied to it. The weak sides of the pressure discs face each other. In some embodiments, an upper disc is mounted for movement and restrained by a shearable connection. Upon the application of pressure to the tool, the connection shears allowing the upper disc to move into and collide with the lower disc thereby fracturing both discs and allowing pressure communication across the tool. In another embodiment, spurs carried by a sleeve fracture an upper disc in response to pressure delivered to an upper end of the tool. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20160061002 | Slot Actuated Downhole Tool - In wellbore completions it is desirable to access multiple formation zones in a single well where the more formation zones that can be accessed tend to make the well increasingly economically viable. In an embodiment of the current invention a dart having a tapered or angled spline with a particular width on the darts exterior surface is pumped into a casing string having a number of devices Incorporated at strategic locations along the casing string. Each of the devices incorporated into the casing string have a slot as a part of the device. Each slot also has a particular width. As the dart passes through the devices incorporated in the casing string but towards the surface of the targeted device, the width of the tapered or angled spline is less than the minimum width of the slots in each of those upper devices. Therefore the dart does not engage or otherwise affect any of the upstream devices. However when the dart reaches the targeted device the width of the spline matches the width of the slot such that the slot captures the spline and the dart to which the spline is attached thereby sealing the wellbore at the targeted device. | 03-03-2016 |
| 166182000 | Packer or plug locked expanded | 1 |
| 20100116489 | Metal Annulus Seal - A wellhead seal assembly forms a metal-to-metal seal between inner and outer wellhead members. A metal seal ring has inner and outer walls separated by a slot. An energizing ring has a C-ring captured on its outer surface. When the energizing ring is moved farther into the slot, the C-ring is forced from its pocket and engages a profile on the seal ring, locking the energizing ring to the seal assembly. | 05-13-2010 |
