Patents Assigned to Tazco Holdings Inc.
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Patent number: 10018003Abstract: A tubing anchoring tool connectable to a tubing string and positionable within a well conduit is provided, for preventing movement of a tubing string. The tool comprises one or more axial grooves formed along the length of an outer surface thereof, for accommodating cables placed therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Tazco Holdings Inc.Inventor: Edward Moore
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Patent number: 9890603Abstract: A tubing anchor catcher for anchoring well equipment in a well conduit to arrest movement in both longitudinal directions and rotational directions. A mandrel connected to the equipment has one or more grooves for slideably receiving respective drive pins from a drag body on the mandrel. A slip cage on the mandrel houses a slip or slips for selectively engaging and disengaging the conduit. Manipulation of the mandrel at surface causes the drive pins to move within the one or more grooves on the mandrel and the drag body conical surface to move toward the slip cage driving the slip or slips outward to grip the conduit. Further pulling at surface maintains the set position. The anchor is unset at surface by releasing the tension, rotating the mandrel in the second direction, and pulling the mandrel to disengage the slip or slips.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Tazco Holdings Inc.Inventors: Edward L. Moore, Christopher S McArthur, Jasen L. Hoffman, Kevin D. Kelm
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Publication number: 20150259998Abstract: The present invention provides a ¼ turn tubing anchor catcher for use in tubing strings within petroleum wells. The tubing string may also include a pump for increasing the delivery of petroleum through the well bore. The ¼ turn tubing anchor catcher can be set by a quarter turn. The ¼ turn tubing anchor catcher may act as an anchor that prevents rotation caused by the pump. The ¼ turn tubing anchor may also act as a catcher if the structural integrity of one or more portions of the tubing string fails. The present invention also provides an anchoring and movement reducing system that comprises a ¼ turn tubing anchor catcher, a pump and an torque anchor section. The system anchors the tubing string against rotation caused by the pump. The system may also act as a catcher if the structural integrity of one or more portions of the tubing string fails.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: TAZCO HOLDINGS INC.Inventor: EDWARD L. MOORE
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Publication number: 20150233199Abstract: A torque anchor for anchoring well equipment in a well conduit to arrest movement in both longitudinal directions and rotation in a first direction, but not rotation in an opposed second direction. A mandrel connected to the equipment has one or more grooves for slideably receiving respective pins from a drag body on the mandrel. A slip cage on the mandrel houses slips for selectively engaging and disengaging the conduit. Manipulation of the mandrel at surface causes the pins to move within the one or more grooves on the mandrel and the drag body to move toward the slip retainer driving the slips outward to grip the conduit. Further pulling at surface maintains the set position. The anchor is unseta surface by releasing the pull, rotating the mandrel in the second direction, and pushing the mandrel to disengage the slips.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: TAZCO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: EDWARD L. MOORE, CHRISTOPHER S MCARTHUR, JASEN L. HOFFMAN, KEVIN D. KELM
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Publication number: 20140166313Abstract: A torque anchor for anchoring well equipment in a well conduit to arrest movement in both longitudinal directions and rotation in a first direction, but not rotation in an opposed second direction. A mandrel connected to the equipment has L-shaped grooves for slideably receiving respective pins from a drag body on the mandrel. A slip retainer on the mandrel houses slips for selectively engaging and disengaging the conduit. An initial pull of the mandrel causes the pins to move the drag body toward the slip retainer driving the slips outward to grip the conduit, and rotation of the mandrel in the first direction sets the anchor to arrest movement. Further pulling maintains the set position. The anchor is unset by releasing pull, rotating the mandrel in the second direction, and pushing the mandrel to disengage the slips. Alternate unsetting requires increased pull beyond the shear resistance of the slip retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Tazco Holdings Inc.Inventors: Edward L. Moore, Chris McArthur, Jasen Hoffman
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Patent number: 7748447Abstract: A torque anchor for use with progressive cavity pumps (PC Pumps) for preventing rotation of the PC Pumps and any related tool string within a well bore, possessing a connector constructed and adapted to connect a tube, which in a preferred embodiment is a diluent cable, between the two fixed slips. A method is also recited for running coiled tubing or a diluent cable downhole using the torque anchor.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Tazco Holdings Inc.Inventor: Edward L. Moore