CA2461851A1 - Hydraulically assisted tubing expansion - Google Patents

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CA2461851A1
CA2461851A1 CA002461851A CA2461851A CA2461851A1 CA 2461851 A1 CA2461851 A1 CA 2461851A1 CA 002461851 A CA002461851 A CA 002461851A CA 2461851 A CA2461851 A CA 2461851A CA 2461851 A1 CA2461851 A1 CA 2461851A1
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Neil Andrew Abercrombie Simpson
Wayne Rudd
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Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC
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Weatherford Lamb Inc
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D26/00—Shaping without cutting otherwise than using rigid devices or tools or yieldable or resilient pads, i.e. applying fluid pressure or magnetic forces
    • B21D26/02—Shaping without cutting otherwise than using rigid devices or tools or yieldable or resilient pads, i.e. applying fluid pressure or magnetic forces by applying fluid pressure
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B29/00—Cutting or destroying pipes, packers, plugs or wire lines, located in boreholes or wells, e.g. cutting of damaged pipes, of windows; Deforming of pipes in boreholes or wells; Reconditioning of well casings while in the ground
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/02—Subsoil filtering
    • E21B43/10—Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells
    • E21B43/103—Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells of expandable casings, screens, liners, or the like
    • E21B43/105—Expanding tools specially adapted therefor

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Abstract

A method of expanding tubing comprises applying a varying fluid pressure across the wall of the tubing. The variation in pressure may be achieved by varying one or both of the fluid pressure within the tubing and the fluid pressure externally of the tubing. A body of varying volume may be located in a volume of fluid associated with the tubing. Alternatively, the volume of a body of fluid associated with the tubing may be varied by movement of a wall portion defining a boundary of the volume, which wall portion may be associated with an oscillator or a percussive or hammer device. In other embodiments a pressurised fluid source may be provided, and the fluid may be supplied at varying pressure from the source. An increase in pressure within the tubing may be accompanied by a reduction in pressure externally of the tubing.
CA002461851A 2003-03-25 2004-03-25 Hydraulically assisted tubing expansion Expired - Fee Related CA2461851C (en)

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GBGB0306774.1A GB0306774D0 (en) 2003-03-25 2003-03-25 Hydraulically assisted tubing expansion
GB0306774.1 2003-03-25

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CA2461851A1 true CA2461851A1 (en) 2004-09-25
CA2461851C CA2461851C (en) 2007-11-27

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US20050139394A1 (en) * 2003-12-29 2005-06-30 Noble Drilling Services Inc. Expandable screen utilizing near neutrally-buoyant particles outside of the screen

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KR850001846B1 (en) * 1980-06-05 1985-12-28 더 뱁콕 앤드 윌콕스 캄패니 Apparatus for controlling expansion of a tube within a tube sheet
BG39831A1 (en) * 1983-01-26 1986-09-15 Petkov Method and device for processing of blanks by hydroplastic forming
AU613452B2 (en) * 1988-11-22 1991-08-01 Tatarsky Gosudarstvenny Nauchno-Issledovatelsky I Proektny Institut Neftyanoi Promyshlennosti Method of casing the production seam in a well
US6138761A (en) * 1998-02-24 2000-10-31 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Apparatus and methods for completing a wellbore
EP0952306A1 (en) * 1998-04-23 1999-10-27 Shell Internationale Researchmaatschappij B.V. Foldable tube
MY134794A (en) * 2001-03-13 2007-12-31 Shell Int Research Expander for expanding a tubular element
GB0108638D0 (en) * 2001-04-06 2001-05-30 Weatherford Lamb Tubing expansion
GB0114872D0 (en) * 2001-06-19 2001-08-08 Weatherford Lamb Tubing expansion

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GB0306774D0 (en) 2003-04-30
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CA2461851C (en) 2007-11-27
GB2399840B (en) 2006-07-12

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