Atlantic Richfield Company

Atlantic Richfield Corporation

John F Bell

Weldon H Barber

Wellbore liners are set with a running shoe comprising a cylindrical body, end cap, check valve and receiver member in assembly. The receiver member includes threads for receiving the coupling sleeve of a running tool, and retaining wickers for engagement with a cement plug or dart to retain the same permanently engaged with and blocking the flow of fluid through the running shoe. A running tool for use with the shoe includes a coupling sleeve which is retained on a support mandrel by a collar which is secured to the mandrel with a shear pin so that pressuring up the workstring, in the event of a stuck coupling sleeve, will permit retrieval of the main part of the running tool and the workstring. The interior parts of the running shoe are made of aluminum or plastic for easy drill-out to extend the wellbore beyond the end of the liner.

Well liner running shoe

An oil containment boom comprising a plurality of sections of a lighter than water, pliable, closed-cell foam material with each of the sections having a weight positioned along one side so that when the section is placed in the water the section floats with the weighted side beneath the water and the other side of the section above the water and a plurality of couplers for flexibly joining the ends of the sections to encloses an oil containment zone.

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Plano, TX, United States of America

John F Bell