Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for successively uncovering ports along a wellbore to permit injection of a fluid along said wellbore
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Application No.: US16790679Application Date: 2020-02-13
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Publication No.: US11268348B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: David Nordheimer
- Applicant: SC ASSET CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: CA Calgary
- Assignee: SC ASSET CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SC ASSET CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: CA Calgary
- Agent D. Doak Horne
- Priority: CACA2904470 20150918
- Main IPC: E21B34/14
- IPC: E21B34/14 ; E21B33/14 ; E21B34/06 ; E21B43/26

Abstract:
A system for successively uncovering a plurality of contiguous ports in a tubing liner within a wellbore, or for successively uncovering individual groups of ports arranged at different but adjacent locations along the liner, to allow successive fracking of the wellbore at such locations. Sliding sleeves in the tubing liner are provided, having a circumferential groove therein, which are successively moved from a closed position covering a respective port to an open position uncovering such port by an actuation member placed in the bore of the tubing liner. Each actuation member comprises a dissolvable plug which in one embodiment is retained by shear pins at an uphole end of a collet sleeve, the latter having radially-outwardly biased protuberances (fingers) which matingly engage sliding sleeves having cylindrical grooves therein, based on the width of the protuberance. In one embodiment, when actuating the most downhole sleeve, the shear pin shears allowing the plug to move in the collet sleeve and prevent the protuberance (fingers) from disengaging.
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