Vertice Oil Tools Inc.

Mike Lo

Mohamed Ibrahim Saraya

Stephen Parks

A frac plug with an object run in hole within a collet. Responsive to activating the collet or expandable element, the collet may slide out of the frac plug and expand to allow the object to be positioned across an inner diameter of the shorty plug, wherein the frac plug includes a bottom, and the expandable element is directly and temporarily coupled to the bottom.

Methods and systems for a frac plug

A pump down ring is positioned within a cap of a frac plug, wherein the pump down ring includes a fin that is configured to be driven downhole to apply forces directly against the pump down ring to secure the pump down ring within a radial groove within the cap.

Methods and systems for pump down rings for frac plugs

A downhole tool with a flapper positioned within a mandrel. More specifically, embodiments are directed toward flappers with different mechanisms to open and close the flapper.

Methods and systems for FRAC plugs and downhole tools

Utilizing threads and coupling mechanisms to selectively secure slips and cones directly to a mandrel, wherein a distal end of the lower slips includes projections configured to interface with depressions within a cap of the frac plug to limit the relative rotation of the slips.

An outer diameter of a mandrel with a recess to accommodate lower slips with a larger thickness, a sealing element with a concave outer diameter to control a pressure differential caused by a Bernoulli Effect across the sealing element, and a disc that is selectively secured to a housing via a removable shear pin, wherein shear pins with different pressure ratings may be inserted into the housing.

A frac plug with lower slips and a lower cone. In embodiments, a lower cone ramp angle is greater than or equal to a cone bevel angle and a slip inner cut angle. This geometry enables the fins of the cone to not interact with the lower slips, which may not break the lower slips as the lower slips move over the cone. Instead, the lower slips may break due to stresses caused by the tendency of the lower slips to expand as they lower slips interact with the ramp of the lower cone.

A frac plug with a flapper positioned within a shearable housing. More specifically, embodiments are directed towards an upper portion of the shearable housing that is configured to be separated from an insert responsive to flowing back through the frac plug.

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Mike Lo