Completion Components

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WCP1-019
Overview
y Introduction
y Seating and No-Go Nipples
y Selective and Hydraulic Landing Nipples
y Sliding Sleeves

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y Side Pocket Mandrels
y Gas Lift Valves
y Protection Devices
y Expansion Devices
y Safety Valves
y Tubing Flow Control Devices

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Seating Nipples
y Slightly restricted and
polished ID
y Tools locate on shoulder
section and held in
place by pressure from

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above
y Standing valves (check
valves) are often located
in seating nipples

Seating nipple Polished nipple

(for sealing only)

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No-go Nipples
y Typically placed as a single
nipple in a string, or as the
bottom nipple in a series
with selective nipples
y Have restricted ID and

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latch profile on which the
downhole tools locate

No-go nipple No-go nipple

(top) (bottom)

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Selective Nipples
y Several may be placed in
one string
y Specific nipple located by
determining its depth or
profile

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y series nipples are run in a
specific sequence
y locating keys on the lock
ensure selection of the
desired nipple

Selective landing
nipple

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Hydraulic Landing (Ported) Nipples
y Used with surface controlled
subsurface safety valves
(SCSSV)
y Two polished bores with a
single port

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y Profiles may be selective or no-
go and can receive a variety of
flow control and safety devices

Ported nipple

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Blast Joint

Landing nipple

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Heavy wall blast joint yBlast joint with additional
located across nipples for contingency
perforated interval purposes

Polished nipple or
seating nipple

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Sliding Sleeve
Sliding sleeves provide an efficient, high volume,
method of circulating between tubing and annulus
y for selectively producing a zone
y fluid circulation (treatment)

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y well kill or contingency
Operated by wireline
y using a special shifting tool

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Side Pocket Mandrels
y Side pocket mandrels can also be considered landing
devices which:
y provide an unrestricted flow path within the production
string

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y can receive/locate a variety of control devices and
equipment
y Used to land/locate
y gas lift valves
y chemical injection valves
y circulating valves
y circulating sleeves

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Side Pocket Mandrel
1. orientation guide to
orientate wireline tool, 1
kick-over tool
2. (side) pocket for gas lift
valve

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3. upper seal bore
2
4. ports (communication to
annulus) 3
5. lower seal bore 4
6. recess for latching gas lift 5
valve in place 6

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Side Pocket Mandrel – GLV

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Gas lift valve running
assembly

Side pocket mandrel

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Side Pocket Mandrel – GLV (2)

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GLV passing through (by-passing mandrel)

Running tool oriented and

tripped

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Side Pocket Mandrel – GLV (3)

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GLV latched in valve
pocket

Running assembly
retrieved

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GLV Components

A variety of
latch
mechanisms
may be fitted

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Injection gas
enters ports and
acts against the
belows to unseat
the ball seal

Gas passes through

the check valve which
prevents reverse flow
of wellbore fluids
Gas lift valve components and flow path

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Protection Devices
Flow Coupling
y Installed above and below certain components to
protect against erosion damage (6 -8 ft)
y Constructed from extremely heavy wall tubular

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y These sections of pipe serve to prevent fluid turbulence
from eroding through the completion string
Blast Joint
y Installed opposite perforations to withstand the scouring
action of fluid flow
y Necessary in dual completions
y Heavy wall joints (20 ft long) which are heat treated,
hardened, and often covered with resilient material

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Expansion and Separation Devices
On-off attachments
y allows string separation above the packer
Permanent packers and stinger
y allows separation and reattaching of the tubing string

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Thermal expansion joints
y accommodates string expansion
Splined slip joints
y permits rotation/torque
Adjustable union
y provides a means of spacing out

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Safety Valves
Three basic types of safety valve:
y Tubing conveyed
y Wireline conveyed
y Annular safety valve
y isolates tubing and annulus

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Operating systems may be:
y Surface controlled (SCSSV)
y Actuated from a control panel located on surface
y Subsurface controlled (SSCSV)
y Actuated by the pressure differential/flow velocity

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Safety Valve – Tubing Conveyed

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Flapper open Flapper closed

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Safety Valves – Wireline & Concentric

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Wireline conveyed Concentric safety valve

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Flow Control Equipment
Locking mandrels
y locate in the landing nipple recesses
Collar lock
y locates in a tubing coupling

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Slip lock
y locates in the tubing
Tubing plugs
y numerous available to suit above
Standing valve
y downhole check valve

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Business Model and “Field Life Cycle”
Useful for planning and execution.
Breaks the Field Life Cycle down into discrete business processes.
Each business process should have a well defined product
(deliverable) and lead to a clear decision point (Key decision)

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Business process Deliverable Key decision
EXIT
Activity Product ?
CONTINUE
Next activity ETC Breaking activities down into manageable
units and defining their purpose in
manageable bits is essential to effective
planning

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Module Control

Module ID WCP1_019 Completion Components

Version 1a

Course WCP-1

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Date Created March 27, 2003

Creator Willem van Adrichem, HTC

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