Wells – Packers or plugs – Expanded by confined fluid from central chamber – pump or...
Patent
1993-07-13
1995-08-08
Britts, Ramon S.
Wells
Packers or plugs
Expanded by confined fluid from central chamber, pump or...
166196, E21B 33127
Patent
active
054390532
ABSTRACT:
A reinforcing slat for use in an inflatable packer which is elongate and curved about its longitudinal axis and comprises perforations in the part thereof which enters the end portion and which bends around the end portion on inflation of the packer. The perforations serve to reduce the bending stiffness of the slat in the portion likely to suffer permantent deformation on inflation of the packer.
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Eslinger David M.
Sorem Robert M.
Britts Ramon S.
Dowell Schlumberger Incorporated
Garrana Henry N.
Littlefield Stephen A.
Tsay Frank S.
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