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    ‘USOO7128151B2 «2 United States Patent (10) Patent No: US 7,128,151 B2 Corbett (4s) Date of Patent: *Oet. 31, 2006 (51) GRAVEL PACK CROSSOVER TOOL WITH 44958000 A 81987 Rebar ta Lesior8 SINGLE POSITION MULTL-EUNCTION S407 A $1095 Ros CAPABILITY S570 A * VI99T Stout ta seost S600201 A 1997 Rebasd eal. (25) inventor: ‘Thomas G. Corbett, Wils, TX (US) 5620050 841997 Barice S865251 A 21999 Rebasd al (73) Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, éoess3s A 82000 Ross TX (US) 6480915 A 112000 Mullen st a {864006 BL 102002 Womble (©) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer the te ofthis Goon BI "32004 Zacheua et ssa patent is extended or adjusted under 38, USC. 1546) by 100 days. This potent is subjeet 1 a terminal die (Continved) laine. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (21) Appl. No: 10715,79 SCA, “MulisPorton St-Down Serie Tok” Tesh Ball tn, page, 200 (22) Filed: Nov. 17, 2008 Primary Esaminer—Frank S. Ts 6s) Prior Publication Data (74) Atorney, Agent, or Firm—Sieve Rosenblatt US 2005/0103495 AI May 19, 2005 Roa (1) Incl. B2IB 4304 (2006.01) A gravel packing method and apparatus allows setting the @2) US. 167278; 166/276 packer by dropping a ball to a seat thai isolated from the (58) Fleld of Classitication Search 166/278, effects oF formation pressures when trying wo set the packer. 166051, 305.1, 381, 386, 387, 316, 318, 325, Thi is accomplished hy isolation of the gravel pack outlet 166/329, 332.8 port whon soting the packer and locating the bell seat in 2 application file for complete search history Position where the effets of formation pressure are irel- evant, Additionally, by positioning the ‘evacuation ports hove seal bore in the sereea extension during cieulation References Cited US. PATENT DOCUMENTS or aqusee to depos gravel and father puting check valves fn he evacuation por, the evacuation tp alter erultion at.oet A 41969 Fret or squseae ean be seeomplshedwithow having reposition _ ° wg torepo 3554281 A VI9TT Eee the crossover, The eessover is supported from the packer 3880245 A 111924 Despujls 468278 and movementof the crossover tay and back othe suppor 3013676 A * 101975 Barbe ta 466278 fom the packer operates a valve wo allow squeezing when 388M6 AS61976 Win 166278 Ge vale i los and stelating and reversing ct whe pein ee ieee fet flies celta sco and rere clean Satast &—"O4D88 Saat : ation: Aenean el roost in Single supported position. Seno A+ LiDeT Zante a 60st Sasm16 A+ U7 Zonk teest 15 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets HE US 7,128,151 B2 Page 2 USS, PATENT DOCUMENTS. 20090192604 AL* 102009 Zachman eta 166.278 20020006326 AL* 7/2002 Echols ta. 66278 DODNOLSES6 AL* 10.2003 Bisonnete etal 166278 cited by examiner US 7,128,151 B2 Sheet 1 of 3 Oct. 31, 2006 U.S. Patent 9 Old (Lav uoldd) 09 ae. ¥S 9 S ‘Old (Lav 4Old) 82 29 96: z ¥S z z9 v-Old (Lav Yoldd) € ‘Old (Lav 4Oled) 2 ‘Old (yy yore) b ‘Old (Luv HOI) be N ay OF bE Ty ze 92 8o— ez ze be oo oz oe 8 a ee Or ‘OL ze US 7,128,151 B2 Sheet 2 of 3 Oct. 31, 2006 U.S. Patent OL ‘Dld 6 ‘Old OL Z ‘Old U.S. Patent Oct. 31, 2006 Sheet 3 of 3 US 7,128,151 B2 FIG. 13 FIG. 12 FIG. 11 US 7,128,151 B2 1 GRAVEL PACK CROSSOVER TOOL WITH SINGLE POSITION MULTI-FUNCTION ‘CAPABILITY FIELD OF THE INVENTION The field of ths invention is exossaver tools for gravel packing a sereea downbole and more particularly to cross- ‘over tools that permit the squeezing, circulating and revers- jing out withthe tol in the same positon with respect to @ downliole packer BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION FIGS. 1 illustrate the prior art crossover tool ina typical gravel pocking operation. The wellbore 10 receives a run- hing string and setting tool shown schematically as 12.4 packer 14 sealingly accepts the string and seting tool 12. 4 bull seat 16 is located inthe crossover tool 18 just above gravel pack port 20. Screen extension 22 is attached 10 packer 14 and fas ports 24 to permit gravel access to annulus 26. Screen extension 22 has 8 seal hore 28 through which 2 wash pipe 30 extends in sealing contact for run in, shown FIG. 1, due to contat of seals 32. Mapper 34 allows uphole flow in wash pipe 30 and prevents downhole ow. Retur ports 36 are in he seal bore 38 of the packer 14 and are ‘losed de to the position of scals 4D that straclle return ports 36 in seal bore 38. Screen extension 22 has a support Surface 42 tht can engage tabs 44 to pinpoint the circulation position of FIG. 4, To set the packer 14, the assembly is run ito positon, as show in FIG, 1 and a ball 46 is dropped onto ball seat 16. Ulimately, after the packer is set, tbe ball 46 is blown through ball seat 16 ofthe ball and the seat move together after a shear pin (not shown) is broken and the assembly lands in recess 48 (sce FIG. 3). One ofthe problems with this Jayout is that if the formation is under subshydrostatic pressure, such sub-hydrosttic pressure communicates with the underside of all 46 on seat 16 and limits the amount of pressure that can be applied from above, shown schemati cally a arrows §0, before breaking a shear pin on the ball, eal 16, This can roduce the available pressure to set the packer 14 because the sub-hydrostatie pressure onthe under de of ball 46 acts equivalently to applied pressure Irom above, represented by arows $0. Yet another drawhack of this arrangement is that when the packer 14 makes contact ‘withthe wellbore 10 and he passage throvgh is seal bore 38 Js obstructed, the liquid column above the packer 14 can no Jonger exer pressure on the formation. This can result in portions of the formation breaking off into the welbore and Potentially obstructing it. The present invention adresses these problems by repositioning the ball seat 16 and insur- Jing thatthe seal bore 38” isnot closed by the exossover tool 18 daring setting of the packer. Continuing now withthe prior technique, after the packer 14 is set, the hall 46 and the seat 16 are blown into recess 48, The set ofthe packer can be tested by applying pressure to aumulus $4, Furthermore, gravel slurry or fluid repre- sented by arrows §2 can be squeezed into the formation tajacent tothe sereens (not shown as illustrated in FIG. 3 “The fuid represented by arow 82 Nos though the cross ‘over tool 18 to exit the gravel pack port 20 and then flows through ports 24 in Screen extension 22 into the annulus 26 around the outside of the sereens (not shown). Returns are blocked off because the return ports 26 are sealinaly posi- 0 o 2 ‘tioned in seal bore 38 ofthe packer 14 by vctue of straddle seals 40, Any leakage past packer 14 will be sen as @ pressure rise in annulus 84, "The next step is citculation, shown in FIG. 4. Here the gravel slum represented by arrows 56 passes through the frossover 18 through gravel pack ports 20. It then passes throvgh ports 24 in sereen extension 22 and into the annulus 26, The gravel remains behind in annulus 26 around the ‘screens (not shown) and the cartier fuid, represented by arrows 88, passes through the sercens and opens apper 34 i should be noted thatthe erossover tool 18 hs been raised slightly for this operation to expose return ports 36 into annulus $4 above packer 14, The carrier uid 58 passes the ‘apper 34 and exits the return ports 36 and goes to the surface through annulus 54. Lug 44 rests on suppor surface 44210 allow the crew at the surface to know tht the proper positon for circulation has been reached. In the next step called evacuation, the excess gravel that js in the annulus 70 between the sereen extension 22 and the crosiover fool 18 nosds to be reversed out so that the ‘crossover tool 18 will not stick inthe packer seal bore 38 when the crossover tool 18 is lifted out. To do this, the crossover tool 18 has to be lifted just enough to get the evacuation ports 60 out of seal bor’ 28. Evacuation flow, represented by arrows 62 enters return ports 36 and is stopped by closed flapper 34. The only ext is evacuation ports 60 and back into gravel pack port 20 and back to the surlace through the sting and setting tool 12. The problem here is that the intermediate position fr reversing gravel out {rom below the packer 14 is dffcult to ind from the surface ‘Duet the string 12 being long and loaded with gravel at this point, the string is subject to stretch. The surfoce personnel or that reason are prone to wittingly or unwittingly skip this step and pull the crossover tool 18 up too high into the allemate reverse postion shown in FIG. 6. In the FIG. 6 positon, the evacuation ports 60 are closed in seal bore 38 ff packer 14 and gravel pack port 20 is novr above packer 14 in annulus 84, Arrows 68 show how the reversing. ow clears ont the string 12 above packer 14 The problem with skipping the evacuation step is that the ‘excess gravel in the annie 70 below packer 14 may enuse the crossover tool 18 to stick in seal bore 383s the crossover tool 18 is mised to accomplish the reverse step shown ia FIG, 6 ot later when crossover wool 18 removal i attempts ‘The present invention allows the evacuation step 10 occur ‘without having 10 reposition the crossover tool 18 with respect to the packer 14. This is accomplished by the Addition of chock valves 6 in relocate evacation ports 60" Additionally, the steps of squeezing, circulating and revers- ‘ng out can’be accomplished with the tool in the same position of support from the packer 1°, The present inven- ‘ion will be more readily appreciated by those skilled in the ar from a review of the deseription ofthe prefered embodi- ‘ment and the claims that appear below. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A gravel packing, method and apparatus are described where to set the packer; a ball is dropped to a seat that it isolate from the effects of formation pressures when tying to set the packer. This is accomplished by isolation of the gravel pack outlet port when setting the packer and locating the ball seat in a position where the effets of formation pressure are irclevant. Additionally, by positioning the evacuation ports above a seal bore in the sereen extension ‘during circulation to deposit gnvel and further patting check valves in the evacuation ports, the evacuation step after US 7,128,151 B2 ‘circulation cam be seco to repost tion the crossover. The erossover tool is supported from the packer and movement ofthe erossover tool aay and back to the support from the packer operates @ valve to allow squeezing when the valve is elosed and circulating, and reversing out when the valve is open. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is the run in position of the prior art method of ‘eravel packing: FIG. 2is the view of FIG. 1 inthe packer setting positon; FFIG.3 isthe view of FIG. 2 inthe packer test and squeeze positon TIG. 4 is the view of FIG, 3 in the eirlate to deposit gravel postion; FIG. § is the view of FIG. 4 in the evacuation position; FIG. 6 is the view of FIG. 5 in the altemate reverse position FIG, 7 is the present iaventon in the run in postion; FIG. 8 is the view of FIG. 7 in the packer set postion: IG. 9 shows the packer fest postion: FIG, 10's the view of FIG, 7 in the circulate to deposit xavel postion; TG. 11 is the view of FIG. 10 in the evacuation position; FIG. 12s th view of FIG. 7in the squeeze position; and FIG, 13 is the view of FIG, 11 ia the altemate reverse position DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT In the run in position of FIG. 7, the seal hore 38 has 2

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