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US 2022/0034187 A1Published application
Methods for deployment of expandable packers through slim production tubing
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsMohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi, Jinjiang Xiao, Wael O. Badeghaish
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Abstract
A method includes wrapping a packer bag around a deployment tool, providing at least one canister in fluid communication with the packer bag, sending the packer bag around the downhole tool to a downhole location in a well, and injecting a polymer filler material from the at least one canister into the packer bag until the packer bag expands to seal the downhole location.
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A method, comprising:
- wrapping a packer bag around a deployment tool;
- providing at least one canister in fluid communication with the packer bag;
- sending the packer bag on the downhole tool to a downhole location in a well;
- and
- injecting a polymer filler material from the at least one canister into the packer bag until the packer bag expands to seal the downhole location.
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A downhole tool assembly, comprising:
- a deployment tool;
- a packer bag wrapped around an outer surface of the deployment tool, the packer bag comprising:
- a flexible composite wall;
- a skeleton wire attached to the flexible composite wall and securing the packer bag around the deployment tubing;
- and
- wherein the flexible composite wall forms a fully enclosed bag having at least one fluid opening;
- and
- at least one canister containing at least one polymer filler starting composition, the at least one canister being fluidly connected to the at least one fluid opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.