GB2416556B - Apparatus and method for radially expanding a wellbore casing and drilling a wellbore - Google Patents

Apparatus and method for radially expanding a wellbore casing and drilling a wellbore

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GB2416556B
GB2416556B GB0521024A GB0521024A GB2416556B GB 2416556 B GB2416556 B GB 2416556B GB 0521024 A GB0521024 A GB 0521024A GB 0521024 A GB0521024 A GB 0521024A GB 2416556 B GB2416556 B GB 2416556B
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Prior art keywords
wellbore
drilling
radially expanding
casing
wellbore casing
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Robert Lance Cook
Randall Mercer Smolen
Gerald Edward Kent
Richard Thomas Hay
Jerry Lavelle Keen Jr
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Enventure Global Technology Inc
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    • 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
    • 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
    • E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
    • E21B7/20—Driving or forcing casings or pipes into boreholes, e.g. sinking; Simultaneously drilling and casing boreholes
    • 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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  • General Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Geochemistry & Mineralogy (AREA)
  • Compressors, Vaccum Pumps And Other Relevant Systems (AREA)
  • Pharmaceuticals Containing Other Organic And Inorganic Compounds (AREA)
  • Seasonings (AREA)
  • Earth Drilling (AREA)
  • Audible-Bandwidth Dynamoelectric Transducers Other Than Pickups (AREA)
GB0521024A 2003-04-14 2004-04-13 Apparatus and method for radially expanding a wellbore casing and drilling a wellbore Expired - Fee Related GB2416556B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US46275003P 2003-04-14 2003-04-14
PCT/US2004/011177 WO2004092530A2 (en) 2003-04-14 2004-04-13 Radially expanding casing and driling a wellbore

Publications (3)

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GB0521024D0 GB0521024D0 (en) 2005-11-23
GB2416556A GB2416556A (en) 2006-02-01
GB2416556B true GB2416556B (en) 2007-07-25

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WO (1) WO2004092530A2 (en)

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US7918284B2 (en) 2002-04-15 2011-04-05 Enventure Global Technology, L.L.C. Protective sleeve for threaded connections for expandable liner hanger
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MXPA05003115A (en) 2002-09-20 2005-08-03 Eventure Global Technology Pipe formability evaluation for expandable tubulars.
US7886831B2 (en) 2003-01-22 2011-02-15 Enventure Global Technology, L.L.C. Apparatus for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member
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US7814978B2 (en) 2006-12-14 2010-10-19 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Casing expansion and formation compression for permeability plane orientation
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US7647966B2 (en) 2007-08-01 2010-01-19 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Method for drainage of heavy oil reservoir via horizontal wellbore
US7832477B2 (en) 2007-12-28 2010-11-16 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Casing deformation and control for inclusion propagation
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US8955585B2 (en) 2011-09-27 2015-02-17 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Forming inclusions in selected azimuthal orientations from a casing section

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WO2002090713A1 (en) * 2001-05-09 2002-11-14 E2 Tech Limited Apparatus for and method of radial expansion of a tubular member
US6543552B1 (en) * 1998-12-22 2003-04-08 Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. Method and apparatus for drilling and lining a wellbore

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US6543552B1 (en) * 1998-12-22 2003-04-08 Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. Method and apparatus for drilling and lining a wellbore
GB2348223A (en) * 1999-03-11 2000-09-27 Shell Int Research Forming a casing while simultaneously drilling a wellbore
WO2002090713A1 (en) * 2001-05-09 2002-11-14 E2 Tech Limited Apparatus for and method of radial expansion of a tubular member

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US7793721B2 (en) 2003-03-11 2010-09-14 Eventure Global Technology, Llc Apparatus for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member

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WO2004092530B1 (en) 2005-08-11
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GB0521024D0 (en) 2005-11-23
WO2004092530A3 (en) 2005-04-21
GB2416556A (en) 2006-02-01

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