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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2012
Applicant:
John Broussard, Kingwood, TX (US);
Inventor:
John Broussard, Kingwood, TX (US);
Assignee:
Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 33/12 (2006.01); E21B 43/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 33/1208 (2013.01); E21B 43/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A screening assembly with a swellable packer incorporated onto the exterior of the screen that swells in the presence of water or hydrocarbons. The swellable packer swells at a rate that allows the gravel pack operation to proceed without hindering the gravel pack operation but then swells to seal the annular region around the exterior of a blank tubular at the upper end of the screen. By running in a swellable packer with the screen assembly at least one additional trip into the wellbore may be eliminated.