Device and system for well completion and control and method for completing and controlling a well

• US 7,789,139 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2008
• Issued: 09/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Baker Hughes Company)
• Original Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Inventors: Johnson, Michael H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephenson; Daniel P
• Application Number:
  US12/144,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20090101335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 166/55, 166/207, 166/212, 166/229, 166/278, 166/296, 166/373, 166/376, 166/205, 166/317
• US Class Current: 166/205
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 33/14 for cementing casings into boreholes

Abstract

A fluid media tell-tale configuration including a tubular having an inside surface with which a fluid media will make contact during application of the fluid media to a target destination. The fluid media tell-tale configuration further including one or more openings in the tubular having a beaded matrix therein. The beaded matrix being permeable to a fluid transport component of the fluid media while being impermeable to a residue component of the fluid media. A method for applying a fluid media to a target location with a tell-tale confirmation.

Claims

1. A fluid media tell-tale configuration comprising:

a tubular having an inside surface with which a fluid media will make contact during application of the fluid media to a target destination;

one or more openings in the tubular having a beaded matrix therein, the beaded matrix being permeable to a fluid transport component of the fluid media while being impermeable to a residue component of the fluid media, the residue in use being left at an outside dimension surface of the tubular.

2. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the beaded matrix is disposed in a plug housing, the housing being engaged with the tubular.

3. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the beaded matrix is disposed directly in the one or more openings of the tubular.

4. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the tubular includes an open entrance pathway for fluid media and an exit pathway through the one or more openings having the beaded matrix therein.

5. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the tubular includes one or more beaded matrix entrance passages permeable to both the transport component and the residue component of the fluid media.

6. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the one or more openings are paired with one or more entrance passageways a plurality of times to facilitate residue component being left in more than one discrete target location simultaneously.

7. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fluid media is cement.

8. The configuration as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fluid media is hardenable.

9. A method for applying a fluid media to a target location with a tell-tale confirmation comprising:

pumping a fluid media to a target location;

urging the fluid through a tubular and into an annulus of the tubular and then to one or more openings in the tubular having a beaded matrix therein, the beaded matrix being permeable to a transport portion of the fluid media and impermeable to a residue portion of the fluid media;

monitoring the fluid media for a pressure increase.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 wherein the urging occurs through one or more entrance passageways that are open.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10 wherein the one or more entrance passageways include a beaded matrix therein that is permeable to both the transport component and the residue component of the fluid media and the urging includes moving the fluid media through the entrance passageways beaded matrixes and the one or more openings having beaded matrixes therein.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9 wherein the monitoring is utilized in a determination of level of completion of a target operation.

13. A fluid media tell-tale configuration comprising:

a tubular having an inside surface with which a fluid media will make contact during application of the fluid media to a target destination; and

one or more openings in the tubular having a beaded matrix therein, the beaded matrix being permeable to a fluid transport component of the fluid media while being impermeable to a residue component of the fluid media wherein the one or more openings are paired with one or more entrance passageways a plurality of times to facilitate residue component being left in more than one discrete target location simultaneously.

14. A cement media tell-tale configuration comprising:

a tubular having an inside surface with which the cement media will make contact during application of the cement media to a target destination; and

one or more openings in the tubular having a beaded matrix therein, the beaded matrix being permeable to a fluid transport component of the cement media while being impermeable to a residue component of the cement media.

15. A method for applying a fluid media to a target location with a tell-tale confirmation comprising:

pumping a fluid media to a target location;

urging the fluid through one or more entrance passageways that are open to one or more openings in a tubular having a beaded matrix therein, the beaded matrix being permeable to a transport portion of the fluid media and impermeable to a residue portion of the fluid media and wherein the one or more entrance passageways include a beaded matrix therein that is permeable to both the transport, component and the residue component of the fluid media and the urging includes moving the fluid media through the one or more entrance passageway beaded matrixes and the one or more openings having beaded matrixes therein; and

monitoring the fluid media for a pressure increase.