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Title:
WELLBORE CIRCULATION SYSTEM, KELLY BUSHING, KELLY AND TONG
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2001069034
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A system (10) for continuously circulating fluid to and through a tubular string either of coiled tubing or made up of a plurality of tubulars connected end-to-end while an upper tubular (32) is added to or removed from a top tubular (26) of the plurality of tubulars, all tubulars having a top-to-bottom fluid flow channel therethrough. The system has an upper chamber (43) with an upper sealing apparatus (34) for sealingly encompassing a portion of the upper tubular, a lower chamber (45) with a lower sealing apparatus (36) for sealingly encompassing a portion of the top tubular (26), one of the upper chamber and the lower chamber sized for accommodating connection and disconnection therein of the upper tubular and the top tubular, and gate apparatus (60) between and in fluid communication with the upper chamber and the lower chamber.

Inventors:
ALLEN JOHN TIMOTHY (US)
BOX STEVEN ANTONY (US)
PIETRAS BERND-GEORG (DE)
HABETZ JEFFREY MICHAEL (US)
Application Number:
PCT/GB2001/001061
Publication Date:
March 07, 2002
Filing Date:
March 12, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
WEATHERFORD LAMB (US)
HARDING RICHARD PATRICK (GB)
ALLEN JOHN TIMOTHY (US)
BOX STEVEN ANTONY (US)
PIETRAS BERND GEORG (DE)
HABETZ JEFFREY MICHAEL (US)
International Classes:
E21B3/04; E21B17/00; E21B19/10; E21B19/16; E21B19/24; E21B21/01; E21B21/10; E21B33/068; (IPC1-7): E21B19/16; E21B21/01; E21B21/10; E21B3/04; E21B19/24; E21B17/00
Domestic Patent References:
WO1998016716A11998-04-23
WO2000022278A12000-04-20
WO2000023686A12000-04-27
WO2000079092A22000-12-28
WO1999034090A11999-07-08
Foreign References:
US3559739A1971-02-02
US6119772A2000-09-19
US5451084A1995-09-19
US4593773A1986-06-10
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