Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wellbore flow diversion tool utilizing tortuous paths in bow spring centralizer structure
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Application No.: US15438815Application Date: 2017-02-22
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Publication No.: US10400540B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Scott Earl Williamson , Michael R. Dedman
- Applicant: KLX ENERGY SERVICES LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: KLX ENERGY SERVICES LLC
- Current Assignee: KLX ENERGY SERVICES LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Main IPC: E21B17/10
- IPC: E21B17/10 ; E21B33/127 ; E21B34/10 ; E21B33/12 ; E21B33/126 ; E21B43/26

Abstract:
An apparatus for at least partially sealing an annulus of a wellbore comprises a hollow mandrel pipe adapted to attach to a tubing string, and a cylindrical cage surrounding and attached to an exterior length of the mandrel pipe, the cylindrical cage having a plurality of generally lengthwise tortuous path apertures generally parallel with one another between the two open ends of the mandrel pipe, the plurality of generally lengthwise tortuous path apertures defining a plurality of bow springs therebetween, the plurality of bow springs bowed outward from the mandrel pipe.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170241232A1 WELLBORE FLOW DIVERSION TOOL UTILIZING TORTUOUS PATHS IN BOW SPRING CENTRALIZER STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2017-08-24
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