Patents Assigned to BJ Services, USA
  • Patent number: 6568474
    Abstract: A method of perforating and gravel packing a wellbore casing, having the following steps: (1) making-up to a pipe string: a packer, a screen, and a perforating apparatus; (2) running-in the pipe string until the perforating apparatus is at a depth of intended perforations; (3) setting the perforating apparatus in the wellbore casing at a depth of intended perforations; and (4) disconnecting the screen and perforating apparatus from the pipe string. A system for perforating and gravel packing a wellbore casing, having: a packer which is mechanically communicable with a service string: a screen in mechanical communication with the packer; a perforating apparatus in mechanical communication with the screen, wherein the screen and perforating apparatus are detachable from the packer; and a tool having at least one casing engaging slip segment, wherein the tool is matable with the perforating apparatus, and wherein the tool is settable in the wellbore casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: BJ Services, USA
    Inventors: Kevin R. George, Stanley Wall, Marvin Bryce Traweek, Barry Ed Smith, David Joseph Walker, David A. Hebert
  • Patent number: 5984011
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for removing drill cuttings from a deviated wellbore drilled with coiled tubing, and more particularly method and apparatus for removing "cuttings beds" from a significantly horizontal wellbore drilled with a downhole motor by creating flow of fluid in the wellbore at a critical flow rate, above a flow rate range designed for the drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: BJ Services, USA
    Inventors: John G. Misselbrook, Graham B. Wilde