Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Downhole pumping apparatus and method
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Application No.: US14892476Application Date: 2013-05-28
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Publication No.: US10066468B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Guy William Farebrother , Serge Gilbert Bonnet , Rodney K. Ridley
- Applicant: LIFTECK INTERNATIONAL INC.
- Applicant Address: CA
- Assignee: LIFTECK INTERNATIONAL INC.
- Current Assignee: LIFTECK INTERNATIONAL INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA
- Agency: Rodman & Rodman LLP
- Agent Terrence N. Kuharchuk
- International Application: PCT/CA2013/000519 WO 20130528
- International Announcement: WO2014/190406 WO 20141204
- Main IPC: E21B43/12
- IPC: E21B43/12 ; E21B43/18 ; F04B47/08

Abstract:
An apparatus including a sealing device for sealing a wellbore, a first pump for pumping fluids from a lower wellbore section, a pump drive powered using wellbore gas, a gas inlet for supplying the pump drive with wellbore gas, and a gas outlet for exhausting wellbore gas to an upper wellbore section from the pump drive. The apparatus may further include a second pump for pumping fluids from the upper wellbore section into the lower wellbore section, a vent for venting wellbore gas to the upper wellbore section, and a switch for controlling the pump drive. A method for moving fluids in a wellbore including sealing the wellbore, supplying wellbore gas to a pump drive and driving a first pump with the pump drive. The method may further include driving a second pump with the pump drive and venting the wellbore gas to an upper wellbore section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160130920A1 DOWNHOLE PUMPING APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-05-12
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