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1. Production packer
D o w n h o l e E q u i p m e n t
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• Subsurface tool used to provide
seal between tubing and casing
Casing
Tubing
No-Go
Nipple.
Perfs

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Protect the Casing
Formation
Packer
Corrosion
Inhibited
Packer Fluid
Locator Seal
Assembly
Tailpipewith
W/LNipple
Tubing
Tubing
Hanger
Xmas Tree
Perforations
Producing
Fluids

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4
2
3
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Protect casing from corrosion
Provide better well control
Prevent fluid movement between pay zones
Isolate zones of bad cement
Protect casing from bursting
Perforation
Tail pipe
Packer
Annulus
With
packer fluid
Casing

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• Slips
❑Tooth-like parts of the packer
❑Forced outward by sitting action
❑Top slips to prevent up-motion and
bottom for down-motion
• Packing elements
❑ Normally nitrile-rubber for moderate
temperature and normal pressure
❑ Elastomers for HTHP
❑Provide seal between Csg and TBG
01
02
Cone
Slips
Flow mandrel
Packing element

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• Cone
❑ Part of the packer forced the slips to
move outward
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Cone
Slips
Flow mandrel
Packing element

8. Classification
Based on customer and service companies point of view
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Service packer
Used temporary and then retrieved or milled
out after well testing, cement squeezing,
acidizing, and fracturing

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Cannot be retrieved other
than by milling
Permanent
01
Retrieved using a special
retrieving tool
Retrievable Permanent
02
Released by manipulation of
tubing – generally over pull
or rotation
Retrievable
03
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Permanent
▪ Run or set on wireline or tubing
▪ Selection depends on rig cost, service company
and wellbore conditions
▪ Set hydraulically by
– Pressure for tubing or drill pipe set
– Firing an explosion for E-Line set
▪ Retrieved by milling

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Permanent Characteristics
▪ Permanently set
▪ Less costly; very low components
▪ Highest pressure rating, up to 15,000 psi
▪ High temperature rating, up to 500 F
▪ Most frequently used world wide

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Permanent Disadvantages
▪ Milling destroyed the packer
for retrieving

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Retrievable
• RIH on wireline or tubing
• Has bi-directional slips prevent debris from setting on bottom
• Main advantage is retrieving without destroying
• If stuck, should be milled.
• Generally milling take longer time because of harder
components

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Production packer setting

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Setting Mechanisms
▪ Mechanical
✓ Rotation
✓ Compression
✓ Tension
▪ Hydraulic
✓Pressure applied to tubing or annulus
✓Differential pressure acts on setting tool (permanent
packer) or internal setting sleeve (retrievable packer).
✓Preferred method for deep / deviated wells
▪ Electrical
✓ Mechanical setting mechanism
using wireline setting tool.

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Mechanically Set Packer
▪ Most common as retrievable packers
▪ Slips “drag” against casing
▪ J-slot mechanism prevents setting
▪ Right turn / drag frees slips
▪ Tension / set down required to
maintain packer seal
Compression Tension

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Hydraulic Set
1. Packer set using internal pressure
(against tubing plug).
2. Pressure acts through port on setting
sleeve.
3. Shear pin breaks
4. Setting sleeve drives bottom slips up
against cone .
5. Element and upper slips energized
then slips break and bite into casing
Perforation
Packer
Annulus
With
packer fluid
Casing

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hold-down buttons
Shear Pins for release
Shear pins to drop
Ball
Pressure

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Wireline Set Packer
▪ Setting tool contains slow burning explosive
▪ Explosive drives down piston
▪ connected to setting sleeve
▪ Setting sleeve moves components of packer
relative to each other
▪ Shear stud releases packer after setting
completed

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E-line Set Packer

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ELECTRIC CABLE
FORCES CREATED BY
FIRING THE CHARGE
CROSS LINK
FORCES DOWN THE
CROSS LINK
SLEEVE
DOWNWARD THRUST ON
TOP OF PACKER
UPWARD PULL

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Permanent Retrievable
Mechanical set
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Hydraulic Set
Electrical set
Tubing Deploy
Mud
Wire line
Straight Pull Rotational Release
Mechanical set Hydraulic Set Electrical set
Tubing Deploy Mud
Permanent
Retrievable

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Packer bores
No bore – bridge plug
Single Bore
✓ Used to isolate casing or tubing
✓ Used as cement retainers
✓ Used when other plugs fail to set (last resort!)
✓ Used for single completions
Duel Bore
✓ Used for dual completions
Packers can be defined as:

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1. bridge plug

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• Run on electric wireline or tubing.
• Used in gravel pack completion and sand control
system.
• Has single bore to locate seal assembly
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1. Sump packer

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Completion Installation
Sump Packer
1. Run & Set Sump Packer

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2. Single Bore

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3. Duel Bore
Unidirectional slips
Sealing or
packing element
Dual tubing strings

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✓ Installed in the tailpipe to accept a plug to:
✓ isolate production from perforations below
the packer (safety barrier)
✓ Pressure test the tubing string above it
✓ Set a hydraulically set packer
✓ Must be installed below the Mill-Out
Extension and above any perforated joints
Tailpipe Isolation Nipple
CN05527

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In gas lift well
To keep casing pressure of the
formation
To facilitate kick-off.
To prevent produced (abrasive?)
fluids from passing through the
Gas lift-Valves

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ESP Packer
✓ single-bore, hydraulic-set packer with a dual head
designed to reduce the overall costs of
submersible pump completions. It is made up on
the tubing string allowing a full bore production
tubing ID and passage of an electric cable and
control line.

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Straddles and Pack-Off Equipment
✓ Used for remediation of wellbore deficiencies
✓ The straddle is for use in any well in which
pressure communication between tubing and
annulus must be sealed off.

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Inflatable Packer
✓ Permanent or Temporary Zone Isolation.
✓ Water Shut Off.
✓ Temporary Bridge Plug for Workover.
✓ Cement Squeeze Packer.
✓ Temporary Production Packer for Flow Test.
✓ Well Abandonment.