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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
May. 29, 2019
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
James Dan Vick, Jr., Dallas, TX (US);
Michael Linley Fripp, Carrollton, TX (US);
Xiaoguang Allan Zhong, Plano, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Provided is a wellbore tractor and method for operating a well system. The wellbore tractor, in one aspect, includes a base member, and one or more turbines fixed to the base member for rotating the base member in a first rotational direction based upon a first direction of fluid flow. The wellbore tractor, according to this aspect, further includes one or more wellbore engaging devices radially extending from the base member, the one or more wellbore engaging devices contactable with a surface of a wellbore for displacing the base member and one or more turbines axially downhole as the one or more turbines rotate in the first rotational direction.