This invention relates to a tool used in wells extending into the earth and, more particularly, to a series of down hole tools based on a common subassembly.
An important development in natural gas production in recent decades, at least in the continental United States, has been the improvement of hydraulic fracturing techniques for stimulating production from previously uneconomically tight formations. For some years, the fastest growing segment of gas production has been from shales or very silty zones that previously have not been considered economic. The current areas of increasing activity include the Barnett Shale, the Haynesville Shale, the Fayetteville Shale, the Marcellus Shale and other shale or shaley formations.
There are a variety of down hole tools used in the completion and/or production of hydrocarbon wells such as bridge plugs, flow back plugs, ball drop plugs and the like. In the past, these have all been tools specially designed for a single purpose.
It is no exaggeration to say that the future of natural gas production in the continental United States is from heretofore uneconomically tight gas bearing formations, many of which are shales or shaley silty zones. Accordingly, a development that allows effective frac jobs at overall lower costs is important.
Disclosures of interest relative to this invention are found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,714,932; 2,756,827; 3,282,342; 3,291,218; 3,393,743; 3,429,375; 3,554,280; 5,311,939; 5,419,399; 6,769,491; 7,021,389 and 7,350,582 along with printed patent application 2008/0060821.
In this invention, there is provided a common subassembly that can easily be assembled with specialty parts to provide a bridge plug, a flow back plug, a ball drop plug, or a plug having a disintegratable ball or plug check. Thus, a variety of down hole tools or plugs may be assembled from common subassembly parts and a few specialty parts that provide the special functions of different plugs. Thus, a supplier does not have to keep so much inventory because one always seems to receive orders for what is in short supply.
The subassembly parts that are common to the down hole plugs disclosed herein are, in some embodiments, a mandrel, the elements of a slips/seal section, a mule shoe and a setting assembly that, when the plug is manipulated by a conventional setting tool, expands the slips/seal section into sealing engagement with the inside of a production or pipe string. An important feature of this subassembly is that manipulating the tool to set the slips creates a passageway through the setting assembly and, in some embodiments, through the plug. This allows the assembly of a bridge plug, a flow back plug, a ball drop plug or a plug having a disintegratable valve simply by the addition of specialized parts.
In some embodiments, the common subassembly is a mandrel, the elements of a slips/seal section and a mule shoe. In these embodiments, the plug is expanded by pulling on the mandrel and/or pushing on the slips/seal section to expand the slips/seal section in a conventional manner. Another embodiment is an improved adapter sleeve used with conventional setting tools to set a plug having an expandable slips/seal section.
It is an object of this invention to provide an improved down hole well plug that is easily adapted to provide different functions.
A more specific object of this invention is to provide an improved down hole plug in which a setting rod is tensioned to set the plug on the inside of a production or pipe string and then pulled out of the plug.
These and other objects and advantages of this invention will become more apparent as this description proceeds, reference being made to the accompanying drawings and appended claims.
Referring to
The mandrel 20 provides a central axial passage 28, an upper section 30 and an elongate lower section 32 separated from the upper section 30 by a shoulder 34. The words upper and lower are somewhat inaccurate because they refer to the position of the well tools as if they were in a vertical position while many, if not most, of the plugs disclosed herein will be used in horizontal wells. The words upper and lower are used for purposes of convenience rather than the more accurate, but odd to oil field hands, proximal and distal. The lower end 36 of the lower section 32 is threaded for connection to the mule shoe 26 as will be more fully apparent hereinafter. In some embodiments, the exterior of the lower section 32 is smooth so the slips/seal section or assembly 22 slides easily on it. The passage 28 includes a tapered inlet 38 providing a ball seat for purposes more fully apparent hereinafter. One or more seals 40 can be provided to seal between the mandrel 20 and the mule shoe 26 as is customary in the art. The terminus of the mandrel 20 includes a rabbit or annular notch 42 to receive part of the setting assembly 24 as also will be apparent hereinafter.
The slips/seal section 22 is more-or-less conventional and provides one or more resilient seals 44 and one or more wedge shaped elements 46 which abut wedge shaped slips 48, 50 having wickers or teeth. The elements 46 are conveniently pinned to the mandrel lower section 32 by plastic bolts or pins 52 so the seals 44 and elements 46 stay in place during handling. The plastic bolts 52 are easily sheared during setting of the plugs 10, 12, 14. The upper slips 48 abut a pair of load rings 54, 56 while the lower slips 50 abut a square shoulder provided by the mule shoe 26.
The setting assembly 24 includes a setting rod 58 having a lower threaded end 60 received in a passage 62 provided by a setting device 64. Because the setting rod 58 is removed from the well, in most embodiments it is normally not made of a drillable material and is typically of steel. As most apparent from
When setting the plugs 10, 12, 14 the setting tool (not shown) pulls on the setting rod 58 and pushes on the slips/seal section 22 to expand the seals 44 and set the slips 48, 50 against a production or pipe string in the well. It is necessary to pull the rod 58 completely out of the mandrel passage 28 and it is desirable that the rod 58 pull out of the mandrel 20 in response to a predictable force. To this end, the number of threads on the setting rod 50 and/or in the setting device 64 is limited. In other words, if six rounds of threads produce a device having the desired tensile strength, then the threaded end 60 and/or the threaded passage section 62 is made with only six threads. In the alternative, it will be apparent that the rod 58 can be connected to the device 64 in other suitable ways, as by the use of shear pins or the like or the rod 58 can be connected using other releasable techniques to the mandrel 20.
The mule shoe 26 comprises the lower end of the subassembly 10 and includes a body 78 having a tapered lower end 80 and a passage 82 opening through the lower end 80. The passage 82 includes a valve seat 84 which is the lower end of a chamber 86 housing a ball check in the flow back plug 12 of
No special components need to be added to the subassembly 10 to provide the ball drop plug. In other words, the ball drop plug and the subassembly 10 are identical. However, in order for the ball drop plug 10 to operate, a ball check 102 is dropped into a production or pipe string 104 to seat against the tapered inlet 38. Those skilled in the art will recognize that the ball drop plug 10 can be used in a situation where a series of zones are to be fraced. There are a number of ways that ball drop plugs are conventionally used, one of which is to frac a zone, run a ball drop plug into the well above the fraced zone, drop a ball 102 into the production string 104 and thereby isolate the lower zone so a higher zone may be fraced.
In order to assemble the flow back plug 12 from the subassembly 10, it is necessary only to insert a ball check 96 into the chamber 86 as the plug 12 is being assembled. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the flow back plug 12 is often used in situations where a series of zones are to be fraced in a well. After a zone is fraced, the flow back plug 12 is run into the well and expanded against a production string. The ball check 96 prevents flow through the plug 12 is a downward direction in a vertical well but allows the fraced zone to produce up the production string.
In order to assemble the bridge plug 14, it is necessary only to insert an obstruction 98 into the chamber 86 as the plug 14 is being assembled. In some embodiments, the obstruction 98 includes O-rings or other seals 100 engaging the inside of the chamber 86. It will be seen to those skilled in the art that the bridge plug 14 prevents flow, in either direction, through the plug 14 so the plug 14 is used in any situation where bridge plugs are commonly used.
It will be apparent that the ball check 96 or the ball check 102 may be made of a disintegratable material so the check valve action of these plugs is eliminated over time.
As shown best in
It will be apparent that the subassembly 10 may be shipped to a customer along with a container including the ball check 96 and the obstruction 98 so the plug needed may be assembled in the field by a wire line operator.
The setting device 64 no longer acts as a setting device and thus no longer requires threads but acts to provide a function in both the flow back plug version and the bridge plug version of
It will be seen that the subassembly 106 provides a mule shoe 120 which is threaded onto the mandrel 108 so a ball check analogous to the ball check 96 may be placed in the chamber 118 during assembly to convert the subassembly 106 into a flow back plug. Similarly, the removable mule shoe 120 allows an obstruction analogous to the obstruction 98 may be placed in the chamber 118 during assembly to convert the subassembly 106 into a bridge plug. Other than the technique by which the subassembly 106 is expanded, it operates in substantially the same manner as the subassembly 10.
The subassembly 106 is set in a conventional manner, i.e. a setting tool connects to the mandrel 108 through the shear pins (not shown) extending through the passage 112. As the mandrel 108 is tensioned and the slips/seal section 110 is compressed, the plug expands into sealing engagement with the production or pipe string. When sufficient force is applied, the shear pins fail thereby releasing the setting tool so it can be pulled from the well.
It will be seen that the subassembly 10 has the advantage of providing a composite plastic mandrel 20 which is less expensive and easier to drill up than the stronger mandrel 108 of
Referring to
The diameter and other dimensions of plugs made by different manufacturers vary but must adapt, in some manner, to conventional setting tools. Accordingly, plug manufacturers provide an internal adapter 134 for connection to the terminal 132 for applying tension to the plug and an external adapter, such as the adapter 122, for resisting upward or tension induced movement of the slips/seal section of the plug. This results, conventionally, in tension being applied to the mandrel of the plug and/or compression to the slips assembly. The internal adapter 134 connects between the terminal 132 and the setting rod 58, in the embodiments of
The adapter 122 comprises a sleeve 136 having threads 138 mating with the threads 128 thereby connecting the sleeve 136 to the setting tool 124. The lower end of the sleeve 136 rides over the O.D. of the upper mandrel end 30 of the plug 10, 12, 14 and abuts, or nearly abuts, the upper load ring 56. When the force applying mechanism 130 is actuated, the adapter 134 pulls upwardly on the setting rod 58 while the sleeve 136 prevents upward movement of the load ring 56 thereby moving the slips/seal section 22 relatively downwardly on the mandrel 20 and expanding the plug 10, 12, 14 into engagement with a production string into which the plug 10, 12, 14 has been run.
In some embodiments, the sleeve 136 includes a series of wear pads or centralizers 140 secured to the sleeve 134 in any suitable manner. One technique is to use threaded fasteners or rivets 142 captivating the centralizers 140 to the sleeve 136. In some embodiments, the centralizers 140 are elongate ribs although shorter button type devices are equally operative although more trouble to manufacture and install. In some embodiments, one or more viewing ports 144 may be provided to inspect the inside of the sleeve 136. In some embodiments, the sleeve 136 can be milled to provide a flat spot 146. In some embodiments, the base of the centralizers may be curved to fit the exterior of the sleeve 136.
In some embodiments, the centralizers 140 are made of a tough composite material such as a tough fabric embedded in a resin. In some embodiments, the fabric is woven from a para-aramid synthetic fiber such as KEVLAR manufactured by DuPont of Wilmington, Del. In use, the centralizers 140 increase the effective O.D. of the sleeve 136 or, viewed slightly differently, reduce the clearance between the O.D. of the sleeve 136 and the inside of the production string in which the plug 10 is run. This acts to center the sleeve 136 and the setting tool 124 in the production string and introduces a measure of consistency or uniformity in the setting of plugs. The force applied by the mechanism 130 is substantial, e.g. in excess of 25,000 pounds in some sizes, and it is desirable for the plug 10 to be centered in the production string.
Although this invention has been disclosed and described in its preferred forms with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present disclosure of the preferred forms is only by way of example and that numerous changes in the details of operation and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
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