Tubular anchoring system and method
AssigneeBaker Hughes Incorporated
InventorsYingQing Xu, Levi B. Oberg, Gregory Lee Hern, Ellen E. Read
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Abstract
A tool setting arrangement includes a mandrel, and a tool positionable at the mandrel. The tool includes, a cone, and at least one slip in operable communication with the cone configured to radially expand to set the tool when the slip is moved relative to the cone with at least a setting load. The at least one slip has a portion configured to engage with a feature of the mandrel such that movement of the mandrel relative to the cone causes the at least one slip to move relative to the cone, at least one of the portion and the feature is configured to release at a release load to disengage the mandrel from the tool. The release load is selected to be greater than the setting load.
Claims17
A tool setting arrangement comprising:
- a mandrel;
- and a tool positionable at the mandrel comprising:
- a cone having a surface sealingly receptive to a plug run thereagainst;
- and at least one slip in operable communication with the cone configured to radially expand to set the tool when moved relative to the cone with at least a setting load, the at least one slip having a fin configured to engage with a pin of the mandrel such that movement of the mandrel relative to the cone causes the at least one slip to move relative to the cone, at least one of the fin and the pin being configured to release at a release load to disengage the mandrel from the tool, the release load being greater than the setting load and wherein the at least one slip is a plurality of slips and the fins of each of the plurality of slips form a seat receptive to a runnable member after the mandrel has been disengaged from the tool.
A tool setting arrangement comprising:
- a mandrel;
- and a tool positionable at the mandrel, the mandrel and the tool being runnable within a structure and settable to the structure, the tool including a seal radially expandable into sealing engagement with the structure during setting of the tool and wherein a load to sealingly engage the seal with the structure is less than the setting load comprising:
- a cone having a surface sealingly receptive to a plug run thereagainst;
- and at least one slip in operable communication with the cone configured to radially expand to set the tool when moved relative to the cone with at least a setting load, the at least one slip having a portion configured to engage with a feature of the mandrel such that movement of the mandrel relative to the cone causes the at least one slip to move relative to the cone, at least one of the portion and the feature being configured to release at a release load to disengage the mandrel from the tool, the release load being greater than the setting load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.