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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2012
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Bryan William Kasperski, Carrollton, TX (US);
Jack Gammill Clemens, Fairview, TX (US);
George Nathan Aldredge, Carrollton, TX (US);
Matthew Craig Mlcak, Carrollton, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A wellbore bailer includes a bailer body that includes a top end, a tubular portion, and a nose, the tubular portion adapted to at least partially enclose a wellbore fluid and the nose including an outlet; a piston arranged in the tubular portion uphole of the wellbore fluid; a passage fluidly coupled to at least one of a pressure chamber or the fluid outlet, the pressure chamber arranged uphole of the piston and adapted to at least partially enclose a pressurized fluid; a pressure barrier arranged across the passage; and an actuator including a puncture member adapted to pierce the pressure barrier based on adjustment of the actuator from an unactuated position to an actuated position, the piston urged by the pressurized fluid to forcibly expel the wellbore fluid through the outlet based on piercing of the pressure barrier by the puncture member.