Downhole drill-inject & plug tool
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorGraham Hitchcock
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AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorGraham Hitchcock
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An apparatus includes a drill bit having a frangible drive shaft, a thread cutting surface formed on an outer surface of the drill bit, a conical swage formed on the drill bit, the conical swage having a conical shape, and a seal plug coupled to the drill bit, the seal plug removable from the drill bit. A method includes penetrating an inner surface and an outer surface of the casing with a drill point of the drill bit thereby forming a hole, threadingly engaging the seal plug with the hole wall, disengaging the seal plug from a drive shaft of the drill bit assembly, retracting the drill bit assembly through the seal plug, and engaging an outer surface of a conical swage with an inner surface of the seal plug and radially expanding the seal plug as the conical swage is retracted through the hole wall, thereby sealing the hole.
An apparatus comprising:
A drill bit assembly comprising:
A method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.