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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2013
Darcy Technologies Limited, Aberdeen, GB;
Stephen Edmund Bruce, Aberdeen, GB;
Stephen Kent, Aberdeen, GB;
Dominic Patrick Joseph McCann, Aberdeen, GB;
David Allan Noblett, Aberdeen, GB;
David Grant, Aberdeen, GB;
Ewan Colin Smith, Aberdeen, GB;
DARCY TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, , GB;
Abstract
A downhole apparatus including a tubular body, first and second ports in a wall of the body, and a fluid pressure-responsive valve arrangement having a locked first configuration associated with a first pressure in which the first port is open and the second port is closed, an unlocked second configuration associated with a second pressure higher than the first pressure in which the first port is open and the second port is closed, and a third configuration associated with a third pressure lower than the second pressure in which the second port is open and the first port is closed.