Measuring and testing – Borehole or drilling – Downhole test
Patent
1988-12-30
1990-07-03
Williams, Hezron E.
Measuring and testing
Borehole or drilling
Downhole test
358100, 367 35, E21B 4700
Patent
active
049380605
ABSTRACT:
A system and methods for the inspection of a well borehole and the formation around said borehole. The system includes a coiled tubing unit for injecting flexible coiled tubing into a wellbore through a wellhead, a pump and valves for control of injection of fluids such as water, nitrogen, light-hydrocarbons, natural gas, and carbon dioxide through the coiled tubing into the wellbore, and a sensor for visually inspecting and/or acoustically examining the wellbore and a region around the sensor within a slug of fluid injected into the wellbore from the coiled tubing. The method includes the steps of injecting coiled tubing having an inspection sensor into a wellbore to a selected location, injecting an optically transparent or acoustically homogenous fluid into the wellbore through the coiled tubing to form a slug of such fluid around the sensor, and transmitting signals from the sensor representative of well conditions to the surface. The method may be practiced to inspect only the region around the sensor at a selected depth in the well or may be continuously practiced to examine the length of the wellbore by producing the well and retrieving the coiled tubing and sensor at a controlled rate synchronized with the rate of well production.
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Arendt Henry P.
Cobb Charles C.
Sizer Phillips S.
O'Shea Kevin D.
Otis Engineering Corp.
Williams Hezron E.
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