EP1510651A3
Method and apparatus for expanding a liner patch
Abstract
A method of providing a downhole seal in a wellbore having a lined portion is provided. A tubular having a polished bore portion and an expandable portion is run into the wellbore and suspended at a selected depth within the wellbore, such that at least the expandable portion of the tubular is in an overlapping relationship with the lined portion of the wellbore. The expandable portion of the first tubular is expanded into frictional engagement with the lined portion of the wellbore.

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Numbers
- Publication
- 1510651
- Publication, DOCDB
- 1510651
- Publication, EPODOC
- EP1510651
- Application
- 4106099
- Application, DOCDB
- 04106099
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20040106099
Titles3
- German
- Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Expandieren eines Liner-Flickens
- English
- Method and apparatus for expanding a liner patch
- French
- APPAREIL ET PROCEDE D'EXTENSION D'UNE PIECE DE REVETEMENT
Classification
- CPC, 9
- E21B43/105
- B21D17/04
- B21D39/04
- B21D39/10
- E21B29/00
- E21B29/005
- E21B29/10
- E21B33/138
- E21B43/103
- IPC, 8
- E21B43 10
- B21D17 04
- B21D39 04
- B21D39 10
- E21B29 00
- E21B29 10
- E21B33 138
- E21B33 16
Designated states1
- Contracting states, 1
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)