Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Jie Zhang

Clinton Dane Chapman

Akhil Bahl

Weichen Lai

Leping Yu

A contraction joint includes an upper tubular member, an upper mandrel, a lower mandrel, a nipple housing connected to the upper tubular member, a support sleeve disposed around the upper mandrel, an activation dog disposed within the support sleeve, a lock housing disposed in an annular space between the nipple housing and the mandrel, the lock housing connecting the upper mandrel to the lower mandrel, and a stroke locking mechanism disposed within the lock housing. In the locked position, the lock housing is affixed to the support sleeve with a shear mechanism, the stroke locking mechanism is supported by the support sleeve, and a stroke locking mechanism profile and an activation profile of the activation dog prevent the nipple housing from moving.

Contraction joint for fiber optics intelligent completion

The present invention provides a graphical method to design and modify the trajectory of a well bore. A well bore trajectory plan is comprised of hold and curve sections. Hold sections are generally described by specifying the attitude of the hold and the length of the hold. Curve sections can be described and represented in a variety of ways. The present invention introduces control points that are formed at the intersection of extensions/projections of the two hold sections contacting a curve section. The hold sections contact the curve section at tangent points. The tangent points for a curve section have the same distance to the control point. In operation, as a control point is moved, the direction and inclination of multiple sections of the well plan are simultaneously modified. These simultaneous modifications enable the user to quickly and intuitively modify a well plan.

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Sugar Land, TX, United States of America

Jie Zhang