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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Gregoire Jacob, Houston, TX (US);
Indranil Roy, Missouri City, TX (US);
Michael Dardis, Richmond, TX (US);
John Fleming, Damon, TX (US);
SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment may take the form of a method usable with a well including pumping an untethered object into the well to land on a restriction downhole in the well and using the restriction to trigger release of an agent carried by the object into the well. Another embodiment may take the form of an apparatus usable with a well having a solid object adapted to be pumped into the well and an agent to be adapted to be released from the solid object in response to the solid object landing on a restriction in the well.