Abstract: A downhole coiled tubing latch for positive latching to a drill pipe while pumping fluids. The apparatus comprises a housing positioned in the drill pipe with a slidable mandrel positioned in the housing. The apparatus further comprises a latch stinger which can be lowered on a coiled tubing and sealingly engaged with the mandrel and the housing. When weight is set down, the stinger and mandrel are moved downwardly which actuates latch fingers on the mandrel which latchingly engage a groove on the stinger to positively hold the stinger in place while fluids are pumped therethrough. One or more pressure balance pistons are used to help hold the apparatus in a latched position when pressure is applied. When weight is picked up, a spring returns the mandrel to the unlatched position so that the stinger may be removed.

Abstract: A downhole tool apparatus includes a housing having an operating element disposed therein. An actuating piston is disposed in the housing and is operably associated with the operating element so that the operating element is operated in response to movement of the actuating piston relative to the housing. A packer is disposed about the housing for sealing between the housing and a well bore and for thereby defining an upper end of a sealed well annulus zone external of the housing. A compression passage is disposed through the housing and communicates a low pressure side of the actuating piston with the sealed well annulus zone exterior of the housing. A lower packer is longitudinally spaced from the upper packer defines a lower end of the sealed well annulus zone. The upper and lower packers are set to define the sealed well annulus zone and to define a trapped reference pressure therein equivalent to the hydrostatic pressure of well annulus fluid.

Abstract: A spherical valve member type having a drill pipe tester valve and a moving apparatus to provide for moving the spherical valve member axially relative to the housing between its said open and closed positions, thereby permitting downward forces exerted upon the spherical valve member in its said closed position due to fluid pressure in the well test string above the spherical valve member, to be transmitted substantially entirely to the housing through the engagement of the downward facing surface of the lower valve seat structure and the upward facing surface of the housing. A latch device is provided for latching the spherical valve member in its closed position as the well test string is lowered into the well and for subsequently releasing the spherical valve member and allowing it to move to its open position when the well test string is finally positioned within the well.

Abstract: A wellbore circulating valve especially useful in a string of testing tools utilizes a sequentially ratcheted inner mandrel which covers a series of flow ports and is opened by a predetermined sequence of operations which move the mandrel away from the flow ports thereby communicating the annulus with the inner bore of the tool.

Abstract: An annulus pressure operated oil well testing and sampling apparatus utilizes hydrostatic pressue to supplement spring means which biases against valve means to hold the valve means closed until application of sufficient hydraulic pressure to the annular fluid opens the tool to the formation and allows testing operations to be performed. A subsequent intentional or inadvertent release or sudden extreme increase of applied pressure on the annular fluid actuates means to close the valve means against further formation fluid flow.

Abstract: A wellbore circulating valve especially useful in a string of testing tools utilizes a sequentially ratcheted inner mandrel which covers a series of flow ports and is opened by a predetermined sequence of operations which move the mandrel away from the flow ports thereby communicating the annulus with the inner bore of the tool.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing offshore wells where variations in well annulus pressure are utilized to control the valving operation of a testing tool and entrap a formation sample.A confined body of pressurized fluid positoned in a testing string is utilized to predetermine the annulus pressure changes which will effect said valving and sample entrapping operations.