Biflex with flow lines
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorMichael Linley Fripp
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Provided is a well screen assembly, and method of use therefore. The well screen assembly, in one embodiment, includes a plurality of fluid collecting elements, wherein the fluid collecting elements have collection troughs extending along a length thereof. The well screen assembly, of this embodiment, further includes filter elements positioned over the collection troughs, and flexure mechanisms connecting proximate pairs of the fluid collecting elements, the flexure mechanisms allowing the plurality of fluid collecting elements to radially extend from a compact state to a radially extended state.
Claims20
A well screen assembly, comprising:
- a plurality of fluid collecting elements, wherein the fluid collecting elements have collection troughs extending along a length thereof;
- filter elements positioned over the collection troughs;
- and
- flexure mechanisms connecting proximate pairs of the fluid collecting elements, the flexure mechanisms allowing the plurality of fluid collecting elements to radially extend from a compact state to a radially extended state.
A method, comprising:
- with a well screen assembly residing in a well bore, the well screen assembly including;
- a plurality of fluid collecting elements, wherein the fluid collecting elements have collection troughs extending along a length thereof;
- filter elements positioned over the collection troughs;
- and
- flexure mechanisms connecting proximate pairs of the fluid collecting elements;
- and
- radially extending the plurality of fluid collecting elements from a compact state to a radially extended state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.