Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Downhole apparatus and method
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Application No.: US14610510Application Date: 2015-01-30
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Publication No.: US10077633B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Daniel George Purkis , Oliver Webster , Damien Gerard Patton , Matthew Manning , Steve Corbett , Ian Duncan , Santiago Galvez Porta
- Applicant: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
- Applicant Address: GB Aberdeen
- Assignee: Petrowell Limited
- Current Assignee: Petrowell Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Aberdeen
- Agency: Blank Rome, LLP
- Priority: GB1213574.5 20120731; GB1223191.6 20121221
- Main IPC: E21B34/16
- IPC: E21B34/16 ; E21B23/04 ; E21B34/14 ; E21B43/14 ; E21B43/26 ; E21B34/08 ; E21B34/10 ; E21B33/124 ; E21B47/00 ; E21B47/06 ; E21B47/09 ; E21B34/00

Abstract:
A downhole tool (32) comprises a tool housing (34) defining a central bore (35) and including a fluid port (20), and a valve member (40) mounted within the housing (34) and being moveable from a closed position in which the fluid port (20) is blocked to an open position in which the fluid port (20) is opened. The tool (32) further comprises a catching arrangement (41) mounted within the housing (34) and comprising one or more radially moveable seat members (106), and being configurable from a free configuration in which the seat members (106) permit an object (48) to pass through the tool (32), to a catching configuration in which the seat members (106) catch an object (48) passing through the tool (32).
Public/Granted literature
- US20150167431A1 DOWNHOLE APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2015-06-18
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