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  1. Self-setting thermal packers help cyclic-steam operations

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    Mon, 14 Dec 1998

    Small, thermally set packers are being used in China for injecting ..... operations (Fig. 1). Thermally activated packers are helping recover heavy oil in cyclic steam-injection wells in China. The packers were developed by one of the units of …

  2. Single-set CT straddle packers successful in Alaska

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    Mon, 28 Apr 2008

    … single-run straddle deployment, both packers are set simultaneously, with a spacer ..... during setting. This requires that the two packers be mechanically connected to one another ..... load between the two pack-offs. The packers were modified to make the originally fixed …

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  1. Chevron orders Big Foot well completion equipment

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    Tue, 24 May 2011

    … Inc. ordered from Baker Hughes Inc. electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) and production packers for seven producing wells, as well as mudline packers for three injection wells for its Gulf of Mexico deepwater Big Foot development. Baker Hughes …

  2. SPECIAL REPORT: Straddle packer assemblies allow selective completions, stimulations

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    Mon, 18 Aug 2008

    … be as simple as two standard inflatable packers and interval spacing to as complex as ..... straddle packer assembly includes inflatable packers designed to isolate permanently a wellbore section. The packers are set one at a time or both in the same …

  3. Swelling-rubber packer enhances multilateral viscous oil production

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    Mon, 24 Apr 2006

    … difficulties, the use of swelling rubber packers (SRPs) enables operators to manage annular ..... Alaska’s viscous oil reservoirs. The packers allow longer lateral lengths with less ..... from the parent bore. Swelling-rubber packers SPR technology is based on the swelling …

  5. Interventionless actuated completions reduce risks, costs

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    Mon, 13 Oct 2003

    … throughout the world for setting completion packers . At least one design has more than 230 ..... testing function, with control-line set packers . Selection considerations Construction ..... subsurface safety valves and permanent packers without an expansion joint. The gas producers …

  6. Equipment/Software/Literature

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    Mon, 1 May 2000

    … generation of single-string retrievable packers is rated for service in high pressure ..... temperature environments. The Reliant Series packers tolerate high tension loads and are designed ..... has a shorter length than conventional packers for passage through tight spots and doglegs …

  7. Interventionless actuated completions reduce risks, costs

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    Fri, 3 Oct 2003

    Click on the pdf link below to view entire article. Operators can reduce costs and risks involved in completing wells by using pressure-pulse communication, absolute well pressure, or a hydromechanical valve to set wellbore packers .

  8. Diverter valves enhance horizontal gravel packing

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    Mon, 12 Nov 2001

    Gravel packing horizontal openhole laterals with washpipe diverter valves and external casing packers (ECPs) enables isolation of the produced oil stream from shale, water, gas, or other sections of the borehole. The diverter …

  9. Competitive pressure introduces disparate bicenter design

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    Mon, 15 May 2000

    … drill-out achievements, major bit manufacturers have begun using disparate bit features to drill reliably through plugs, packers , and formations in one run, while retaining toolface control throughout complex build and tangent sections. A steering wheel …

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