Abstract: An apparatus for hydraulically jetting a well tool having a sliding member includes a positioning tool for operably engaging the sliding member, and a jetting tool connected at a rotatable connection to the positioning tool. The jetting tool is thus rotatable relative to the positioning tool and the well tool. The jetting tool hydraulically jets the well tool as the jetting tool is rotated relative thereto.

Abstract: A blowout preventer, particularly for use in drilling bore hole sections near the sea bed, is adapted to prevent blowout of shallow gas in the bore hole. It comprises at least one annular, preferably flexibly expansible and contractible packing element (59, 59'), which by radially directed expansion is adapted to rest sealingly against the wall of the bore hole and close the passage through the annular space of the bore hole. The blowout preventer comprises an inner sleeve element (1) being limited telescopingly displaceable in relation to the outer housing (8) of the blowout preventer and being spring loaded (9) towards extended telescopic position when it is not subjected to extra weight loading, and means which in the relative contracted telescopic position of the sleeve element (1) and outer housing (8) is adapted to close the passage through the inner cavity (48) of the blowout preventer and establish liquid connection to the packing element or elements (59, 59') for inflation thereof.

Abstract: A new wellhead housing structure which utilizes identical units of a unique wellhead housing of selected internal diameter and pressure rating. Each wellhead housing utilizes a new flexible bowl ("flexbowl") hanger support ring which may be installed and removed as desired during assembly of the wellhead structure during completion of the well. Each wellhead housing forms an internal circumferential groove to receive the flexible bowl hanger support ring in position to receive and support different kinds and sizes of hangers for casing, protective sleeves, and the like. The flexible bowl support ring is drawn into a contracted position. The contracted support ring will pass through the wellhead housing and is seated by a setting tool. Subsequently, a tubing or casing hanger may be landed upon the support ring and supported by the support ring which serves the same functions as the bowl seat in a conventional wellhead housing. The support ring may be removed by a removal tool.

Abstract: An expanding nipple, externally mounted packer has a body which mounts onto a casing head by way of a tubing spool or the like. The body contains the upper ends of a pair of concentric mandrels which are lowered into the well casing. The outer mandrel has a deformable seal on its lower end and the inner mandrel has an expander on its lower end. Means in the body, responsive to hydraulic pressure, raises the inner mandrel with respect to the outer mandrel so that the expander forces the seal outwards against the casing wall.

Abstract: An apparatus for pressurized cleaning of flow conductors. The apparatus utilizes a control slot formed in a zig-zag pattern and a pin which travels in the slot. The slot and pin assist in indexingly rotating the nozzle section of the apparatus when the apparatus is reciprocated in alternate directions in the flow conductor. Pressurized cleaning fluid is supplied to the apparatus and is directed radially outward through nozzles against the flow conductor in such a manner as to progressively clean the flow conductor as the nozzle section rotatively indexes. Another set of nozzles may be included, if desired, in the lower end of the apparatus to allow cleaning along the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation in which a well completion, including a well liner, lies in a generally horizontal disposition within the hydrocarbon productive substrate. The liner encloses conductor means for delivering a stream of a hot stimulating agent to the well's remote or injection end, and means for regulating the production of bitumen emulsion from the producing end thereof. A fluid impervious barrier is movably interposed in the well liner between the injection end and the producing end to establish a pressure differential across said barrier thereby directing a flow of stimulating agent into the substrate. Said agent, by liquefying bitumen, creates a pattern of paths along which the mixture flows toward the well's lower pressure producing end. By progressively moving the barrier toward said producing end, the flow path pattern can be extended into a broader area of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for cleaning well liners employing a jet carrier assembly having a plurality of jet nozzles spaced along its length each of said nozzles expelling a stream of fluid against the liner. The jet carrier is rotated at a specified rotational speed and moved at a maximum vertical speed which will produce streams of fluid having the energy needed to remove the foreign matter from any size liner with any sized slots or perforations and which will clean each point on the liner at least once.

Abstract: A hanger assembly for use in a subterranean well incorporates a torque transmitting expansion joint providing a selectively adjustable extent of axial contraction. The expansion joint essentially comprises a telescopic inter-relationship of two sleeve assemblies. One sleeve assembly carries a fixedly mounted rectangular key which is engagable only with an axially extending slot provided in the other sleeve assembly. The first mentioned sleeve assembly also rotatably mounts a key which cooperates with a peripherally extending slot provided in the other sleeve assembly. The axial extending slot connects with a trough portion of the peripherally extending slot. Successive reciprocations of the two sleeve assemblies produce an incremental rotation of the round key around the peripherally extending slot and normally limits the extent of axial contraction of the two sleeve assemblies to the axial extent of such peripherally extending slot.

Abstract: A stinger assembly for use in releasably connecting an upper section of a tubing string to a tool in a well includes a mandrel with a master cam slot formed therein to define upper and lower support shoulders. An indexable collar telescoped on the mandrel includes a follower which fits within the slot so that as the mandrel is moved vertically, the follower rides within the slot indexing the collar between upper and lower positions relative to the mandrel. A collet is journaled on and carried by the collar and includes a plurality of radially flexible spring-fingers which in the lower position are blocked against deflecting radially inwardly and in the upper position are free to deflect inwardly into an annular recess on the mandrel. The upper shoulder in the master cam slot supports the follower so that the spring-fingers are in registry with the recess to allow the collet to be disconnected from the well tool.

Abstract: A jet carrier assembly for cleaning well liners has a jet tool stabilized by a centralizer proximate to each of the tool's upper and lower ends. The jet tool is an elongate member having about 4 to 8 pairs of jet nozzles axially spaced therebetween, the axial spacing between alternate pairs being equal. The jet nozzles are spaced to provide a jet fluid track that covers any given point on the liner at least once but not more than twice when the member is lifted at a constant selected vertical speed and a constant selected rotational speed. The nozzles are mounted within adapters which are in turn detachably mounted to the elongate member. The adapters, which are provided in various sizes depending upon the diameter of the well liner, are interchangeable. The centralizers are capable of axial and rotational movement along mandrels attached to the upper and lower ends of the tool.

Abstract: A telemetry system for transmitting data between a downhole location in a wellbore and the surface of a well utilizing an acoustic signal which operates within naturally occurring passbands on a string of pipe have substantially fixed frequency ranges which are related to pipe length and condition.

Abstract: This invention concerns with a high pressure grouting process. For lateral cutting of earth in the ground, a high speed core water jet, having its injection velocity equal to at least a half of the sonic one and surrounded by an air ring jet is used. For solidifying the crushed earth, a cement milk is used which is poured separately and at a lower level than that of the air-water combined jet into the space in the ground which space has been formed by the action of the core water jet.

Abstract: Apparatus for adjusting the distance between a lower tubing hanger anchored in a well casing to support a depending lower tubing string, and an upper tubing hanger at the well head, in which an adjustable spacer device has its lower end connected to the lower tubing hanger and its upper end to the lower end of a safety valve connected to an upper tubing string extending to the upper tubing anchor, the valve being controlled hydraulically by fluid under pressure imparted through a control line strapped, or otherwise secured, to the upper tubing string and extending from the top of the well to the safety valve. The upper tubing string, safety valve and control line, as well as the upper portion of the spacer, are rotatable as a unit with respect to the lower portion of the spacer to lower the unit relative to the lower tubing hanger until the upper tubing hanger lands on its well head seat, such action occurring without twisting the control tubing relative to the safety valve.

Abstract: A jet carrier assembly for cleaning well liners has a jet tool stabilized by a centralizer proximate to each of the tool's upper and lower ends. The jet tool is an elongate member having about 4 to 8 pairs of jet nozzles axially spaced therebetween, the axial spacing between alternate pairs being equal. The jet nozzles are spaced to provide a jet fluid track that covers any given point on the liner at least once but not more than twice when the member is lifted at a constant selected vertical speed and a constant selected rotational speed. The nozzles are mounted within adapters which are in turn detachably mounted to the elongate member. The adapters, which are provided in various sizes depending upon the diameter of the well liner, are interchangeable. The centralizers are capable of axial and rotational movement along mandrels attached to the upper and lower ends of the tool.