Rasping shoe for non-rotational deployment of casing string
AssigneeDownhole Products Limited
InventorsDouglas Farley, Alexander Craig Mackay, Carl Aron Deen
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Abstract
A rasping shoe for non-rotational deployment of a casing string into a wellbore includes: a tubular body; and a nose mounted to an end of the tubular body. The nose includes: a base portion made from a drillable metal or alloy; a plurality of blades protruding from an outer surface of the base portion; a plurality of broaching cutters mounted to an outer surface of each blade at a rearward portion thereof; and a plurality of gouging cutters mounted to the outer surface of each blade at a forward portion thereof.
Claims13
A rasping shoe for non-rotational deployment of a casing string into a wellbore, comprising:
- a tubular body;
- and
- a nose mounted to an end of the tubular body and comprising
- a base portion made from a drillable metal or alloy;
- a plurality of blades protruding from an outer surface of the base portion;
- a plurality of broaching cutters mounted to an outer surface of each blade at a rearward portion thereof;
- and
- a plurality of gouging cutters mounted to the outer surface of each blade at a forward portion thereof,
- wherein:
- each gouging cutter and each broaching cutter comprises a pair of flanks converging to form a crest,
- each gouging cutter is oriented such that a longitudinal axis of the crest is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the respective blade at the location of the respective gouging cutter along the respective blade,
- each broaching cutter is oriented such that a longitudinal axis of the crest is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the respective blade at the location of the respective broaching cutter along the respective blade,
- one of the flanks of each broaching cutter is a steep flank,
- another one of the flanks of each broaching cutter is a gradual flank, and
- each broaching cutter is also oriented such that the steep flank faces forward along the respective blade toward a forward end face of the respective blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.