US 11,028,657 B2 · Method of creating a seal between a downhole tool and tubular

Abstract

The present invention generally relates to an anchoring and sealing tool. In one aspect, downhole tool for use in a wellbore is provided. The tool includes a tubular having a tapered outer surface. The tool further includes an expandable annular member disposed on the tubular. The expandable member has an anchor portion. The tool further includes a seal member disposed in a groove of the expandable annular member. The seal member has one or more anti-extrusion bands, wherein the seal member and the anchor portion are configured to be expandable radially outward into contact with the wellbore as the expandable annular member moves along the tapered outer surface of the tubular.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A method of creating a seal between a downhole tool and a tubular, the method comprising:

positioning the downhole tool within the tubular located within a wellbore, the downhole tool including a mandrel and an expandable annular member, wherein the expandable annular member includes a seal portion and the mandrel includes a first portion with a first thickness and a second portion with a second greater thickness, wherein the seal portion includes a seal member that is disposed in a groove formed on an outer surface of the expandable annular member, the seal member having at least one anti-extrusion band;
and
moving the expandable annular member along the mandrel from the first portion of the mandrel to the second portion of the mandrel which causes the seal portion to create a seal with the tubular.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/180,272Filed 5 Nov 2018 · division

Priority

16 Feb 2011

Published

US 2019/0071943 A17 Mar 2019

Granted

8 Jun 2021

Term ends

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Classification3 codes

E21B 23/01
Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing or removing tools, packers or the like in boreholes or wells: for anchoring the tools or the…
E21B 33/1208
Packers; Plugs: characterised by the construction of the sealing or packing means
E21B
Earth or rock drilling

Family

Application13/029,022Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 16 Feb 2011

Application61/563,016Us provisional application · filed 22 Nov 2011

Application13/398,829Parent of this division · filed 16 Feb 2012

US 9,528,352 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 27 Dec 2016

US 2019/0071943 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Mar 2019

Application13/398,829Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2012/0205092 A1Published application

US 2012/0205872 A1Published application

US 11,028,657 B2This patent

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Method of creating a seal between a downhole tool and tubular

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Method of creating a seal between a downhole tool and tubular

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Abstract

Claims22