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US 2021/0340839 A1Published application
Plugs and related methods of performing completion operations in oil and gas applications
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorHamza Fethiza Tedjani
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Abstract
A method of performing a completion operation at a wellbore includes flowing a plug downhole within fluid through a pipe disposed within the wellbore, landing the plug on a platform carried on the pipe to close the pipe to fluid flow, flowing fluid downhole through the pipe against the plug positioned on the platform, and rupturing a disk of the plug with a pressure of the fluid to open the pipe to fluid flow through a channel of the plug.
Claims19
A method of performing a completion operation at a wellbore, the method comprising:
- flowing a plug downhole within fluid through a pipe disposed within the wellbore;
- landing the plug on a platform carried on the pipe to close the pipe to fluid flow;
- flowing fluid downhole through the pipe against the plug positioned on the platform;
- and
- rupturing a disk of the plug with a pressure of the fluid to open the pipe to fluid flow through a channel of the plug.
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A plug comprising:
- a cylindrical body defining:
- an axial channel therethrough,
- a recessed profile disposed at a first end, and
- a protruding profile disposed at a second end and formed complimentary to the recessed profile;
- and
- a rupture disk extending across the axial channel of the cylindrical body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.