Forming casing window off whipstock set in cement plug

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America

PATENT NO 5431219
SERIAL NO

08266016

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

Methods and systems for forming a window through the wall of a well casing to enable a new borehole to be drilled outside the casing include forming a cement plug in the casing, drilling a laterally offset hole in the cement plug, orienting and setting a whipstock in the offset hole, and using the whipstock to drill an elongated window through the casing wall opposite its deflector surface. The drilling steps employ a mud motor having a bent housing that establishes a toolface for the bit, and proper orientation is obtained by downhole measurement and transmission to the surface of orientation signals and downhole adjustment of orientation to a selected toolface value. The whipstock is oriented in the same manner. All drilling and orientation procedures are carried out on coiled tubing to reduce costs.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
DOWELL SCHLUMBERGER INCORPORATEDPATENT DEPARTMENT 5051 S 129TH E AVE TULSA OK 74134

International Classification(s)

  • [Classification Symbol]
  • [Patents Count]

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Doremus, Denis Houston, TX 2 74
Leising, Larry J Sugar Land, TX 10 278
Shaheen, Mansour S Gaza Strip, IL 1 31

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation