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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Richard Mineo, Richardson, TX (US);
Dominick J. Bellotte, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling fluid flow through a wellbore by introducing a plug with a variable choke into the wellbore, setting the plug in the wellbore, and mechanically adjusting the variable choke in the wellbore, thereby controlling a flow rate of a fluid through the plug. A plug that can control fluid flow through a flow passage in a wellbore, where the plug can include a body, an annular seal element that prevents fluid flow through an annulus between the plug and the wellbore, and a variable choke, where a closure member of the choke is mechanically rotated downhole to adjust a fluid flow rate through the choke. A method that can include producing fluids from two zones and using a plug to control a ratio of the fluids in a produced mixture.