Abstract: A guide assembly comprises a grooved mandrel having a first end adapted for coupling or connecting, a second end, and having a spiral groove and a set of ring grooves on an external surface of the grooved mandrel. The guide assembly comprises a guide shoe concentric to at least the second end of the grooved mandrel and an annular fastener that fastens the guide shoe to the grooved mandrel.

Abstract: A guide having a tubular body with an inner and outer sleeve each coupled with the tubular body at their uphole end and a downhole end having a slanted face, each of the inner and outer sleeves being slideable relative one another. A hydraulic is formed between each of the first and second sleeves and containing a hydraulic fluid. The first and second sleeves are transitionable between a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration the downhole end of the second sleeve is extended beyond the downhole end of the first sleeve, and in the second configuration the downhole end of the first sleeve is extended beyond the lower end of the second sleeve. The slanted face of each of the first sleeve and the second sleeves oriented facing different circumferential directions to facilitate engagement with a downhole tool.

Abstract: A guide assembly comprises a grooved mandrel having a first end adapted for coupling or connecting, a second end, and having a spiral groove and a set of ring grooves on an external surface of the grooved mandrel. The guide assembly comprises a guide shoe concentric to at least the second end of the grooved mandrel and an annular fastener that fastens the guide shoe to the grooved mandrel.

Abstract: A string guide comprising an upper mandrel, a lower muleshoe guide concentric to a lower portion of the upper mandrel, and an annular fastener internal to the lower muleshoe guide that fastens the lower muleshoe guide to the upper mandrel. When the guide encounters an obstruction (e.g., a packer bore or liner top), the weight of equipment above the lower muleshoe guide elastically deforms the annular fastener which drives the lower muleshoe guide up the upper mandrel. As the lower muleshoe guide travels up the upper mandrel, internal lugs of the muleshoe guide ride a spiral groove on the upper mandrel to rotate the lower muleshoe guide around the upper mandrel.

Abstract: An apparatus for miming production tubing string into a wellbore without rotating the production tubing string is disclosed. The apparatus is a muleshoe guide assembly utilizing a short coil spring to tilt a lower muleshoe guide into alignment with a packer bore or liner top. When the guide encounters an obstruction in the wellbore, the short coil spring will compress causing a lug to be driven into an angled milled slot causing the lower muleshoe guide to tilt inward.

Abstract: An apparatus for miming production tubing string into a wellbore without rotating the production tubing string is disclosed. The apparatus is a muleshoe guide assembly utilizing a short coil spring to tilt a lower muleshoe guide into alignment with a packer bore or liner top. When the guide encounters an obstruction in the wellbore, the short coil spring will compress causing a lug to be driven into an angled milled slot causing the lower muleshoe guide to tilt inward.

Abstract: A string guide comprising an upper mandrel, a lower muleshoe guide concentric to a lower portion of the upper mandrel, and an annular fastener internal to the lower muleshoe guide that fastens the lower muleshoe guide to the upper mandrel. When the guide encounters an obstruction (e.g., a packer bore or liner top), the weight of equipment above the lower muleshoe guide elastically deforms the annular fastener which drives the lower muleshoe guide up the upper mandrel. As the lower muleshoe guide travels up the upper mandrel, internal lugs of the muleshoe guide ride a spiral groove on the upper mandrel to rotate the lower muleshoe guide around the upper mandrel.

Abstract: A guide having a tubular body with an inner and outer sleeve each coupled with the tubular body at their uphole end and a downhole end having a slanted face, each of the inner and outer sleeves being slidedable relative one another. A hydraulic is formed between each of the first and second sleeves and containing a hydraulic fluid. The first and second sleeves are transitionable between a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration the downhole end of the second sleeve is extended beyond the downhole end of the first sleeve, and in the second configuration the downhole end of the first sleeve is extended beyond the lower end of the second sleeve. The slanted face of each of the first sleeve and the second sleeves oriented facing different circumferential directions to facilitate engagement with a downhole tool.