Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for using that apparatus to orient a perforating gun or system to minimize or eliminate the damage which may be caused to exterior control conduits, conductors or devices, or to adjacent interior well control lines, conduits or tubing by attaching the perforating system to a device which has a resilient cam or guide which engages a slot formed on the interior of a specially fabricated tubular member attached at a spaced distance from the perforating systems blast and which is so oriented as to permit the attachment of the lines or conduits or devices in the opposite radial direction from the blast of the perforating system.

Abstract: A technique that is usable with a subterranean well includes introducing a fluid into the well in connection with a fluid efficiency test. The technique also includes measuring a temperature versus depth distribution along a section of the well in response to the introduction of the fluid.

Abstract: A method for logging, controlling, or monitoring a subsea well or group of wells through a path not within production tubing is disclosed. Preferred embodiments of the present invention allow logging tools, wire rope, optic fibers, electrical cables, monitoring and measuring instruments and other items known to those skilled in the art of oil and gas production to be disposed into the well without interfering with the flow path through the production string. In another aspect of the invention, a preferred embodiment includes the mooring or tethering of an instrument pod over the sub-sea well. The instrument pod is designed provide on-board data storage, data processing, data receiving, and data transmission equipment, such that data from the well can be transmitted back to a receiving network where said data may be stored and processed into useful information for reservoir operators.

Abstract: A method for logging, controlling, or monitoring a subsea well or group of wells through a path not within production tubing. Preferred embodiments of the present invention allow logging tools, wire rope, optic fibers, electrical cables, monitoring and measuring instruments and other items known to those skilled in the art of oil and gas production to be disposed into the well without interfering with the flow path through the production string. In another aspect of the invention, a preferred embodiment includes the mooring or tethering of an instrument pod over the subsea well. The instrument pod is designed provide on-board data storage, data processing, data receiving, and data transmission equipment, such that data from the well can be transmitted back to a receiving network where said data may be stored and processed into useful information for reservoir operators.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided comprising a first tubular having an inside surface and outside surface defining an outside diameter; a second tubular concentric with the first tubular, the second tubular having an inside surface defining an inside diameter greater than the outside diameter of the first tubular, an outside surface, and a longitudinal axis; a plurality of spacers between the first and second tubulars, each spacer having a longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the second tubular, wherein at least one spacer is hollow; and at least one data sensing device and/or at least one data collecting device and/or at least one data transmitting device is carried within the at least one hollow spacer.

Abstract: A method for logging, controlling, or monitoring a subsea well or group of wells through a path not within production tubing is disclosed. Preferred embodiments of the present invention allow logging tools, wire rope, optic fibers, electrical cables, monitoring and measuring instruments and other items known to those skilled in the art of oil and gas production to be disposed into the well without interfering with the flow path through the production string. In another aspect of the invention, a preferred embodiment includes the mooring or tethering of an instrument pod over the subsea well. The instrument pod is designed provide on-board data storage, data processing, data receiving, and data transmission equipment, such that data from the well can be transmitted back to a receiving network where said data may be stored and processed into useful information for reservoir operators.

Abstract: A method of retrievably deploying an electrically driven downhole well fluid transducer system, such as an electrical submersible pump (ESP), comprises installing a production tubing, which is equipped near its lower end with one part of a wet mateable electrical connector and an external electric conduit, and subsequently lowering the fluid transducer system, which is equipped with another part of a wet mateable electrical connector through the tubing until the wet mateable connector parts engage each other.

Abstract: There is provided a method to separate sub-sea and/or liquid hydrocarbons from the commingled stream of gas, water, oil, and or hydrocarbon condensate produced from subterranean wells comprising collecting a subterranean well product from at least one subterranean well, wherein said subterranean well product comprises hydrocarbon liquid, gas and water; forcing the water and gas to form hydrates; and separating the hydrates from the hydrocarbon liquid.

Abstract: An artificial lift, concentric tubing production system for a well and method of using same. The system including an upper concentric tubing string portion comprising an inner production tubing string positioned within an outer production tubing string. A flow crossover assembly is connected to the upper concentric tubing string portion. The flow crossover assembly has first and second passageways. The inner production tubing string is in fluid communication with the first passageway and the outer production tubing string in fluid communication with the second passageway. An upper transducer is in fluid communication with one of the passageways of the flow crossover assembly and a lower apparatus is in fluid communication with the other of the passageways of the flow crossover assembly. The upper transducer may be a pump such as an electric submersible pump or a progressive cavity pump. The lower apparatus may be a pump, including an electric submersible pump, or a liquid/gas separator.