Drilling with a whipstock system
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsVictor Carlos Costa de Oliveira, Ossama Sehsah, Mario Augusto Rivas Martinez
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Abstract
A whipstock system and methods are disclosed, including a whipstock body, a control unit mounted on or in the whipstock body, the control unit comprising transmitters and receivers operable to receive commands from an external source, activatable components mounted on or in the whipstock body, and a hydraulic system in the whipstock body, the hydraulic system in communication with the control unit, the hydraulic system including at last one hydraulic power unit operable to repeatedly activate and de-activate the activatable components.
Claims20
A whipstock system comprising:
- a whipstock body;
- a control unit mounted on or in the whipstock body, the control unit comprising transmitters and receivers operable to receive commands from an external source;
- activatable components mounted on or in the whipstock body, and
- a hydraulic system in the whipstock body, the hydraulic system in communication with the control unit, the hydraulic system including at last one hydraulic power unit operable to repeatedly activate and de-activate the activatable components.
A method of deploying a whipstock in a wellbore, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a control assembly deployed within a wellbore, instructions to perform whipstock operations within the wellbore;
- transmitting, by the control unit, at least a portion of the instructions to a hydraulic system on a whipstock assembly;
- and
- activating at least one independent hydraulic power unit of the hydraulic system in response to the portion of the instructions transmitted by the control unit to activate components of the whipstock assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.