Diverter valve for a bottom hole assembly
View Patent ↗A bottom hole assembly (BHA) incorporates a tubular cutter driven by a downhole motor. A scraper moves into a smaller tubular to clean an area where a spear will later be engaged to the cut tubular portion. The scraper has a relatively movable mandrel that allows straight through flow into the motor or closes flow to build pressure to a telescoping jack to exert a pull force on the cut tubular after the cut is made. The spear is articulated with mandrel manipulation to grab the cut segment and weight is set down to shift the mandrel in the scraper to allow pressure buildup with rig pumps turned on to retract the jack as the BHA is held with anchors in the larger tubular. The cut segment is pulled uphole to loosen it so it can be removed from the borehole.
1. A diverter valve assembly for a bottom hole assembly supported by a tubular string, comprising:
a mandrel movably mounted relative to a surrounding housing, said mandrel defining a pressurized annular flow space between said mandrel and said outer housing, said relative movement of said mandrel selectively allowing through flow in the bottom hole assembly through at least a portion of said mandrel and into said annular flow space, in a first configuration to operate a first tool in the bottom hole assembly, and blocking through flow in a second configuration to build pressure in said annular flow space for operation of a second tool connected to the bottom hole assembly remotely from the first tool; and
said surrounding housing frictionally engaging a surrounding tubular string to facilitate said relative movement with mandrel manipulation with the supporting tubular string.
2. The diverter valve assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
said surrounding housing remaining stationary from said frictional engagement to the surrounding tubular string to enable said mandrel to move relatively to said surrounding housing.
3. The diverter valve assembly of claim 2 , wherein:
said mandrel comprises spaced first and second openings selectively positioned into an annular space;
said annular space disposed between spaced first and second seals for pressure retention in said annular space.
4. The diverter valve assembly of claim 3 , wherein:
flow through said annular space to the first tool is enabled when said spaced first and second openings are positioned between said first and second seals.
5. The diverter valve assembly of claim 4 , wherein:
flow through said annular space to the first tool is blocked when one of said spaced first and second openings are positioned beyond one of said first and second seals.
6. The diverter valve assembly of claim 5 , wherein:
said first and second seals are mounted to said housing.
7. The diverter valve assembly of claim 5 , further comprising:
said tool comprises at least one scraper segment on said housing.
8. The diverter valve assembly of claim 5 , wherein:
one of said spaced first and second openings are positioned beyond one of said first and second seals to prevent flow to the first tool with setting down weight on said mandrel.
9. The diverter valve assembly of claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one radially biased member on said surrounding housing frictionally engaging the surrounding tubular string.
10. The diverter valve assembly of claim 1 further comprising:
the first tool within the bottom hole assembly.
11. The diverter valve assembly of claim 1 further comprising:
the second tool connected to the bottom hole assembly.