Abstract: The present invention provides an improved hydraulically activated clamping device for connecting a wellhead and or Christmas tree positioned on a wellhead to a fracing tree that may comprise a connector body; a mandrel body; two or more clamp segments; two or more actuating bolts; a seal ring to provide sealing engagement between said connector body and said mandrel body; one or more motors driving each of said two or more actuating bolts; and control means to reduce or retard the power to the first of said two or more actuating bolts to release and prevent its further movement until the other of said actuating bolts release also.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a completion tool that uses a rolling seal to actuate a flow valve or replace a piston in a down hole tool. The rolling seal is located in a fluid chamber of the completion tool and divides the fluid chamber into first and second smaller fluid chambers and fluidly seals the first smaller fluid chamber from the second smaller fluid chamber. The rolling seal responds to a fluid pressure within the fluid chamber that causes the closed end of the rolling seal to invert thereby transferring fluid pressure between the first and second fluid chambers, which actuates a flow valve actuation assembly.

Abstract: A frac plug system downhole tool and method of securing a frac plug system in a wellbore. A mandrel extending from a first end to a second end. A setting assembly is on the first end of the mandrel and is movable along the mandrel. An anchor is at the second end of the mandrel and is expandable to engage the wellbore. A gas generates a pressure to move the setting assembly along the mandrel to expand the anchor at the second end of the mandrel.

Abstract: A boring tool moves having a pitch orientation, a yaw orientation and a roll orientation and is steerable underground using the roll orientation. A maximum drill string curvature is established for steering. The boring tool is advanced over a path segment. An averaged roll characteristic is determined for movement of the boring tool along the path segment. A path segment pitch orientation is established based on at least one measured pitch orientation along the path segment. Using the maximum drill string curvature in combination with the averaged roll characteristic and the path segment pitch orientation, the yaw orientation is determined. The averaged roll characteristic is determined based on a series of incremental roll measurements that are spaced across the path segment. A set of coupled ordinary differential equations is used to characterize movement of the boring tool.

Abstract: A method of determining fluid inflow locations comprises determining a plurality of temperature features from a distributed temperature sensing signal originating in a wellbore, using the plurality of temperature features in a fluid inflow identification model, and determining the presence of fluid inflow at one or more locations along the wellbore based on an output from the fluid inflow identification model.

Abstract: A centralising assembly for a downhole device in the mining or oil well field, a method of manufacture therefor and to a coupling device including a centralising device.

Abstract: A method for sealing a wellhead assembly having a first outer tubular member, a second outer tubular member mounted on the first outer tubular member and an inner tubular member landed in the first outer tubular member. The method includes: providing a packoff assembly having a lower packoff which is releasably connected to an upper packoff releasably connecting an installation tool to the upper packoff; positioning the lower packoff between the inner tubular member and the first outer tubular member and the upper packoff between the inner tubular member and the second outer tubular member; locking the lower packoff to the first outer tubular member; disconnecting the installation tool from the upper packoff; removing the second outer tubular member from the first outer tubular member; removing the upper packoff from the lower packoff; and mounting a third outer tubular member on the first outer tubular member.

Abstract: A propellant container for a perforating gun includes a lower cap, one or more pieces of propellant positioned within the lower cap, wherein at least one of the one or more pieces of propellant defines one or more through-holes, and an upper cap matable with the lower cap to secure the one or more pieces of propellant within the lower cap. A filler material is present within interstitial spaces between the one or more pieces of propellant.

Abstract: A plug which does not cause an adverse effect such as failure of a member constituting the plug when a wellbore is plugged. A downhole plug (10) includes a mandrel (1) having a hollow structure, an annular sealing member (2) attached to an outer circumferential surface of the mandrel (1) and being deformable by exerted pressure, and an annular socket (3) attached, adjacent to the annular sealing member (2), onto the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel (1), downstream of where a pressure is exerted on the sealing member (2). The annular socket (3) is configured to include a socket-inner portion (31) which comes into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the mandrel (1), and a socket-outer portion (32) in an annular shape having an inner diameter equivalent to or larger than that of the socket-inner portion (31) and movably attached to the socket-inner portion (31). The socket-outer portion (32) includes a face facing the sealing member (2).

Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor, a centrifugal pump mechanically coupled to the electric motor, and a probe mechanically coupled to the electric motor and extending upstream of the electric motor, comprising a plurality of sensor bundles wherein each sensor bundle comprises at least one sensor.

Abstract: Cable protecting device protects cables extending over a feature on a pipe surface. The feature is a known length outside the pipeline circumference and has a first and second end surface. The device has a length in the direction of the pipeline longer than the feature and includes a channel for enclosing the cable and a recess in the inner surface for containing at least a part of the feature. The ends of the device at least partially cover the corresponding parts of the feature ends. The length of the recess corresponds essentially to the length of the feature. Each end of the recesses is provided with engaging means adapted to engage with the corresponding end surfaces of the feature. The protecting device is made in one piece, including a flexible spring section in the section extending over the recess, between the first and second ends of the device.

Abstract: A method for forming a seal in a wellbore that includes positioning a swell packer that comprises a swellable metal sealing element in the wellbore; wherein a porous layer is disposed about the swellable metal sealing element. The method also includes exposing the swellable metal sealing element to a downhole fluid; allowing or causing to allow the swellable metal sealing element to produce particles; and accumulating the particles within a first annulus formed between the porous layer and the tubular.

Abstract: An in-pipe apparatus for pipe inspection or maintenance is provided. The apparatus includes: a rotational deployment mechanism to rotationally deploy a probe or tool about an inner circumference of a pipe with respect to an axis of rotation; a radial deployment mechanism to radially deploy the probe or tool in a radial direction from the axis of rotation toward a target point on the inner circumference of the pipe; and a passive centering mechanism to passively align the axis of rotation with the axis of the pipe. In some embodiments, the rotational deployment mechanism includes a motor to rotate the radial deployment mechanism about the axis of rotation. In some embodiments, the apparatus further includes a longitudinal deployment mechanism to longitudinally deploy the probe or tool along the axis of the pipe, with the passive centering mechanism passively maintaining alignment of the axis of rotation with the pipe axis during the longitudinal deployment.

Abstract: An inflow control device (“ICD”) is in production tubing in a wellbore, and used to control a flow of fluid through the ICD. The ICD is adjustable in response to an external force, which is selectively applied by an actuator that is included with a bottom-home assembly (“BHA”). The BHA is deployed on coiled tubing, and anchored in the wellbore to isolate the coiled tubing from resultant or counter forces generated when adjusting the ICD. Fluid is optionally injected into the coiled tubing on surface, and directed into the wellbore from the BHA. A latching arm is included with the actuator, which is equipped with a profile that matches a profile on the ICD to facilitate engagement between the arm and the ICD.

Abstract: Hydrocarbon wells including electrically actuated gas lift valve assemblies and methods of providing gas lift in a hydrocarbon well. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore that extends within a subterranean formation and downhole tubing that extends within the wellbore. The hydrocarbon wells also include a lift gas supply system configured to provide a lift gas stream to a lift gas supply conduit of the wellbore, a plurality of electrically actuated gas lift valve assemblies, a valve power supply system, and a controller. The methods include measuring a respective pressure differential between a lift gas supply conduit and a production conduit of the hydrocarbon well at each electrically actuated gas lift valve assembly in a plurality of electrically actuated gas lift valve assemblies of the hydrocarbon well. The methods also include selectively opening a selected electrically actuated gas lift valve assembly based on the respective pressure differential.

Abstract: A tubing hanger assembly for suspending a tubing string within a wellbore. The tubing hanger assembly comprises a tubing head and a tubing hanger. The tubing hanger lands within the tubing head to gravitationally support a string of production tubing. The tubing hanger includes an auxiliary port extending from the upper end to the lower end. The auxiliary port receives unsheathed conductive wires from a power cable. To secure the conductive wires within the auxiliary port and to prevent shorting, the conductive wires are placed within a unique disc stack. The tubing hanger assembly further includes a bottom plate residing along the lower end of the tubular body and securing the disc stack. Thus, the tubing hanger assembly is arranged to receive a continuous power cable from a power source into the wellbore, through the auxiliary port, without the conductive wires being spliced.

Abstract: A drill pipe assembly includes a first drill pipe, a second drill pipe, and a tubular pipe link residing between and fluidically coupled to the first drill pipe and the second drill pipe. The tubular pipe link includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end is threadedly coupled to a threaded end of the first drill pipe to form a threaded connection. The second end is attached to the second drill pipe. The first end of the pipe link has less threads than the threaded end of the first drill pipe. At least some of the threads of the first end of the pipe link are collapsible to disconnect the first drill pipe from the second drill pipe responsive to torque to tighten the first drill pipe to the pipe link.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a collar stop configured for insertion into well production tubing where the collar stop provides an interference fit with a collar recess disposed between two adjacent sections of production tubing. The collar stop may be utilized to provide a bottom hole assembly at a desired location in a well bore. The collar stop device is configured to lock once positioned. Such locking prevents accidental removal during high fluid flows.

Abstract: The invention provides a mud circulation system for reducing swab pressure while tripping out, including drilling tool components, a normal drilling circulation channel and a tripping circulation channel, the drilling tool components include a drill string, a drill bit, and a top drive, the normal drilling circulation channel includes a first rotary valve, a solid phase control device, a mud tank, a mud pump, and a forth rotary valve connected in sequence, the tripping circulation channel includes a second rotary valve, a tripping mud pump, a tripping mud tank and a third rotary valve connected in sequence; the mud circulation system for reducing the swab pressure is operated to: shut down the mud pump, close the first rotary valve, and open the second rotary valve and the third rotary valve before tripping out; determine the pumping flow rate according to relevant parameters.

Abstract: A fishing tool (1) configured to retrieve a fish (100) from a wellbore, having a fish engagement arrangement (3) with fish engagement means (5) configured to lock the fishing tool to the fish inside a well. The fishing tool (1) has an electrically actuated fish disengagement arrangement (4), which is configured to unlock the fishing tool from the fish, wherein the fish disengagement arrangement (4) comprises an electric actuator (13). The fish disengagement arrangement (4) comprises a direct mechanical force link (6) between the electric actuator (13) and the fish engagement means (5), wherein the direct mechanical force link is configured to connect a mechanical force from the electric actuator (13) to the fish engagement means (5).