Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Abdullrohman Khaled Alarfaj

Miguel Augusto Avila Romero

Mohammad Abdullah Alkhateeb

Ali Al Shaikh

Talal Issa Al-Hadi

Ali Al-Shaikh

A through-tubing plug includes an outer mandrel defining a first uphole port and a first downhole port, an inner mandrel received within the outer mandrel and defining a second uphole port and a second downhole port, a plug core provided on the outer mandrel and providing a landing profile sealingly engageable with a landing receptor provided within completion tubing extended into a wellbore, and one or more sets of wipers made of a foam material and secured to the outer mandrel distal to the plug core. The inner mandrel is movable between an unactuated state, where the first and second uphole ports are misaligned and the first and second downhole ports are misaligned, and an actuated state, where the first and second uphole ports are aligned and the first and second downhole ports are aligned to thereby allow fluid flow through the through-tubing plug.

Through-tubing plug

A drift bar is lowered into a well. The drift bar has a density that is less than a density of a wellbore fluid residing in the well. A tubular is lowered into the well below a surface level of the wellbore fluid residing in the well. The tubular defines an inner bore having an inner diameter that is greater than an outer diameter of the drift bar. The drift bar is positioned to pass through the inner bore of the tubular as the tubular is lowered into the well. After the tubular is positioned below the surface level, an absence or presence of the drift bar floating at the surface level is detected. An absence or presence of a restriction in the inner bore of the tubular is determined in response to detecting the presence or absence, respectively, of the drift bar floating at the surface level.

Pipe drifting in wells

A wellbore assembly includes a production string disposed inside a wellbore and a junk collector coupled to a downhole end of the production string. The junk collector has an upper rim defining an opening configured to receive wellbore junk. The junk collector receives wellbore junk through the upper rim at a downhole end of the production string and stores the wellbore junk.

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Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Abdullrohman Khaled Alarfaj