Millable bridge plug system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10415345-B2
Application number	US-201615388787-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2016
Priority date	Dec 22, 2016
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

A millable bridge plug system includes a mandrel having an upper portion and a lower portion with an interlock, a shearing member attached at the upper portion, a sealing member, ring members, cone assemblies, slip devices, and an interlocking drill member at a lower portion of the mandrel. The interlock of the mandrel and the interlocking drill member are modular so that one bridge plug interchangeably connects to another bridge plug. The interlocks are compatible with interlocking drill members of other bridge plugs and vice versa. The interlocking drill member has rotatable cutting blades to drill through sand and other debris between the interlocking drill member and the next bridge plug to be removed. A milling unit can drive rotation of the interlocking drill member to reach the next bridge plug for removal, until the interlocking drill member engages the adjacent interlock of the next bridge plug to be removed.

First claim

We claim:

1. A millable bridge plug system, comprising:
a mandrel having an upper portion and a lower portion, said mandrel being comprised of a shearing means attached at said upper portion of said mandrel, and an interlocking means between said shearing means and said lower portion;
a sealing means positioned around the mandrel between said upper portion and said lower portion;
a plurality of ring members, a first ring member adjacent an upper end of said sealing means and a second ring member adjacent a lower end of said sealing means;
a plurality of cone assemblies, a first cone assembly proximate to said first ring member and a second cone assembly proximate to said second ring member, said first ring member being between said first cone assembly and said sealing means, said second ring member being between said second cone assembly and said sealing means;
a plurality of slip means for extending radially outward and engaging an inner surface of a surrounding borehole, a first slip means mounted around said mandrel and engaging said first cone assembly and a second slip means mounted around said mandrel and engaging said second cone assembly; and
an interlocking drill means attached at said lower portion of said mandrel,
wherein said shearing means comprises a shaft member having an upper end and a lower end and a shearing groove between said upper end and said lower end, said interlocking means on said lower end of said shaft and between said shearing groove and said lower portion,
wherein said interlocking drill means comprises:
a tubular body with a forward end and a back end;
a fastening means on said back end; and
a drilling means on said forward end, said forward end facing away from said lower portion of said mandrel, said back end facing toward said second slip means, said tubular body having an inner chamber adjacent said back end between said fastening means and said drilling means,

wherein said fastening means is comprised of a toothed ring having at least two protrusions extending toward said second slip means,
wherein said drilling means comprises:
a plurality of cutting blades around a perimeter of said forward end, said cutting blades facing away from said mandrel; and
an inner cavity formed by said cutting blades; and
a transition zone between said inner cavity and said inner chamber, and

wherein said inner cavity is complementary to an adjacent interlocking means of an adjacent mandrel so as to lock said drilling means relative to said adjacent mandrel.

2. The bridge plug system, according to claim 1 , wherein a diameter of said inner cavity narrows to a diameter of said inner chamber in said transition zone.

3. The bridge plug system, according to claim 1 ,
wherein said interlocking means is comprised of flattened outer surfaces on opposite sides of said mandrel, and
wherein said inner chamber is comprised of complementary flattened inner surfaces on opposite sides of said drilling means.

4. The bridge plug system, according to claim 3 , wherein said interlocking means is friction fit to an adjacent inner chamber of an adjacent bridge plug system so as to lock rotation of said adjacent bridge plug system relative to said interlocking means.

5. The bridge plug system, according to claim 4 , wherein said shearing groove fits within said adjacent inner chamber of said adjacent bridge plug system.

6. The bridge plug system, according to claim 5 , wherein said interlocking means is friction fit to said adjacent inner chamber of said adjacent bridge plug system so as to lock rotation of said adjacent inner chamber relative to said interlocking means and to house said shearing groove within said adjacent inner chamber of said adjacent bridge plug system above said interlocking means, after said upper end of said shaft is sheared.

7. The bridge plug system, according to claim 3 , wherein said inner chamber is friction fit to another adjacent interlocking means of another adjacent bridge plug system so as to lock rotation of said interlocking drill means relative to said another adjacent bridge plug system.

8. The bridge plug system, according to claim 7 , wherein said inner chamber fits another adjacent shearing groove of said another adjacent bridge plug system within said inner chamber.

9. The bridge plug system, according to claim 8 , wherein said inner chamber is friction fit to said another adjacent interlocking means of said another adjacent bridge plug system so as to lock rotation of said interlocking drill means relative to said another adjacent bridge plug system below said inner chamber and to house said another adjacent shearing groove of said another adjacent bridge plug system, after a respective upper end of said another adjacent bridge plug system is sheared.

10. The bridge plug system, according to claim 1 , wherein said cutting blades are equally distributed along said perimeter.

Assignees

• Cnpc Usa Corp

Inventors

• Yue Jianpeng
• Gregory Marvin Allen
• Yang Xiangtong
• Liu Hongtao

Classifications

• E21B33/1293

  with means for anchoring against downward and upward movement (E21B33/1291, E21B33/1295 take precedence) · CPC title

• E21B33/134 Primary

  Bridging plugs · CPC title

• E21B33/128

  with a member expanded radially by axial pressure (E21B33/122, E21B33/124 take precedence) · CPC title

• E21B29/00

  Cutting or destroying pipes, packers, plugs or wire lines, located in boreholes or wells, e.g. cutting of damaged pipes, of windows; Deforming of pipes in boreholes or wells; Reconditioning of well casings while in the ground · CPC title