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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2011
Renzo Moises Angeles Boza, Houston, TX (US);
Tracy J. Moffett, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Pavlin B. Entchev, Houston, TX (US);
Charles S. Yeh, Houston, TX (US);
Renzo Moises Angeles Boza, Houston, TX (US);
Tracy J. Moffett, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Pavlin B. Entchev, Houston, TX (US);
Charles S. Yeh, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A communications module and methods for downhole operations having utility with production of hydrocarbon fluids from a wellbore, including at least one alternate flow channel and an electrical circuit. Generally, the electrical circuit is pre-programmed to (i) receive a signal and, in response to the received signal, deliver an actuating command signal. The communications module further has a transmitter-receiver. The communications module allows a downhole tool to be actuated within a completion interval of a wellbore without providing an electric line or a working string from the surface. The tool may be actuated in response to a reading from a sensing tool, or in response to a signal emitted in the wellbore by a downhole carrier, or information tag.