Subsurface safety valve assembly for remedial deployment in a hy

Details Subsurface safety valve assembly for remedial deployment in a hy Subsurface safety valve assembly for remedial deployment in a hy

1998-07-27

2000-08-01

Bagnell, David

Wells

Valves, closures or changeable restrictors

Fluid operated

1663328, 166375, E21B 3400, E21B 3410

Patent

active

060952504

ABSTRACT:
A remedially deployable subsurface valve assembly is provided including a first tubing string, a first safety valve positioned in the first tubing string, a second tubing string, and a second safety valve positioned in the second tubing string. The first tubing string is a rigid production tubing string deployed in a hydrocarbon production wellbore extending beneath an earthen surface. The second tubing string is a flexible coiled tubing string remedially deployed in the interior of the first tubing string when the first safety valve fails. The second safety valve, which is located at the end of the second tubing string, is nested within the first safety valve to render the first safety valve inoperably fixed in the opened position. A seal, which is positioned in the annulus formed between the first and second tubing strings, defines a pressurizable segment of the annulus in pressure communication with the second safety valve. A second valve controller having a pressurizer is positioned at the earthen surface in pressure communication with the pressurizable segment of the annulus, which enables the operator to modify the pressure in the pressurizable segment, thereby transitioning the second safety valve between an opened and closed position.

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