STROKABLE LINER HANGER

• US 20090283278A1
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Original Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Inventors: Bussear, Terry R., Huber, Kirk J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,113,292 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 including a liner hanger; one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed adjacent 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 method for completing a wellbore.

Claims

1. A strokable liner hanger comprising:

a liner hanger;

one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed adjacent 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.

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

a fixed seal disposed adjacent the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub;

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

A slip disposed adjacent the slide seal and the casing seal sub.

4. The strokable liner hanger arrangement as claimed in claim 2 further comprising a slip disposed adjacent the fixed seal.

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 adjacent 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

engaging the liner hanger with the casing.

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.

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.