Strokable liner hanger and method

• US 8,113,292 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Original Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Inventors: Huber, Kirk J., Bussear, Terry R.
• Primary Examiner(s): ANDREWS, DAVID L
• Application Number:
  US12/335,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20090283278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 166/382, 166/387, 166/208
• US Class Current: 166/382
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 17/07 Telescoping joints for varying drill string lengths; Shock absorbers
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/10 Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells

Abstract

A strokable liner hanger includes a liner hanger; one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed adjacent the liner hanger and the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub disposed adjacent the one of the slide seal and the casing seal sub. A method for completing a wellbore is included.

Claims

1. A strokable liner hanger arrangement comprising:

a liner hanger;

one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed as a part of the liner hanger;

the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub disposed adjacent the one of the slide seal and the casing seal sub; and

,

a slip disposed on the casing seal sub;

wherein the casing seal sub is fixed to the liner hanger in a first condition, and released from the liner hanger in a second condition, and the liner hanger is strokable with respect to the casing seal sub in the second condition in response to thermal expansion of a liner supported by the liner hanger.

2. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

a fixed seal, wherein the slide seal and the casing seal sub are disposed between the liner hanger and the fixed seal, and the fixed seal is arranged to form a pressure tight connection with a casing or open hole, the liner hanger strokable relative to the casing seal sub when the fixed seal forms the pressure tight connection.

3. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 2 wherein the slide seal, casing seal sub, and fixed seal are outwardly adjacent the liner hanger in radially increasing sequential order in a cross-section taken substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the liner hanger arrangement.

4. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the casing seal sub is fixed to the liner hanger by a shear screw in the first condition.

5. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a no go.

6. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 5 wherein the no go is extendible.

7. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 5 wherein the no go is retractable.

8. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 5 wherein the no go is at a downhole end of the liner hanger.

9. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 5 wherein the no go is at an uphole end of the liner hanger.

10. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the arrangement further includes both an uphole no go and a downhole no go.

11. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 10 wherein at least one of the uphole no go and the downhole no go is a retractable and extendible no go.

12. A method for completing a wellbore with a strokable liner hanger arrangement comprising:

running a liner hanger having one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed as a part of the liner hanger, the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub disposed adjacent the one of the slide seal and the casing seal sub to a target depth in a casing or open hole while the casing seal sub is mounted to the liner hanger;

engaging the liner hanger with the casing or open hole by setting the casing seal sub against the casing or open hole and forming a pressure tight connection with the casing or open hole with a fixed seal that is outwardly adjacent the casing seal sub; and

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releasing the casing seal sub from the liner hanger, allowing the liner hanger to move relative to the casing seal sub while set against the casing or open hole by the fixed seal.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the engaging includes actuating at least one slip disposed adjacent the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub into contact with the casing or open hole.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the method further includes extending one or more no gos.

15. The method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the method further includes retracting one or more no gos.