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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
May. 02, 2019
Downhole Products Limited, Aberdeen, GB;
Alexander Craig MacKay, Aberdeen, GB;
Jonathan Peter Buckland, Inverurie, GB;
DOWNHOLE PRODUCTS LIMITED, Portlethen, GB;
Abstract
A guide shoe (), adapted for connection to an end of a tubular for deployment in a wellbore of an oil, gas, or water well, includes: a body () having an axis () and being adapted for connection to the tubular such that torque can be transmitted between the tubular and the body (); a nose () adapted for connection to the body (); a locking mechanism () adapted to shift between an unlocked configuration, in which rotation of the nose () around the axis of the body () is permitted in first and second directions, and a locked configuration in which rotation of the nose () around the axis of the body () is restricted in at least one of the first and second directions. The guide shoe includes a resilient biasing device () urging the nose () into the locked configuration.