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US 12,018,565 · App. 17/751,987 · Granted Jun 25, 2024

Whipstock to plug and abandon wellbore below setting depth

Inventors: Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Mousa (Dhahran, SA); Hassan K. Al-Aswad (Qatif, SA); Omar M. Al Hamid (Dammam, SA)
Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
E21B7/061E21B23/06E21B33/14
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Patent No.
US 12,018,565
App. No.
17/751,987
Granted
Jun 25, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wellbore assembly to plug and abandon a wellbore below a setting depth includes a whipstock assembly configured to drill a lateral wellbore from a primary wellbore formed in a subterranean zone. The wellbore assembly includes a tool assembly connected to the whipstock assembly. The tool assembly is configured to be lowered into the primary wellbore during the same trip as the whipstock assembly. The tool assembly is configured to perform wellbore operations downhole of a casing window from which the whipstock assembly is configured to drill the lateral wellbore before the whipstock assembly drills the lateral wellbore.

Claims (7)

1. A wellbore tool assembly comprising:

a whipstock assembly configured to drill a lateral wellbore from a primary wellbore formed in a subterranean zone, wherein the whipstock assembly comprises a milling assembly and a whipstock tool face connected to the milling assembly, wherein the whipstock tool face is at a downhole end of the whipstock assembly; and

a tool assembly connected to the whipstock assembly, wherein the tool assembly is mounted to a downhole end of the whipstock tool face such that the tool assembly is downhole of the whipstock assembly when the wellbore tool assembly is lowered into the primary wellbore, the tool assembly configured to be lowered into the primary wellbore during the same trip as the whipstock assembly, the tool assembly configured to perform wellbore operations downhole of a casing window from which the whipstock assembly is configured to drill the lateral wellbore before the whipstock assembly drills the lateral wellbore,

wherein the tool assembly comprises:

a cement sub mounted to a downhole end of the tool assembly such that the cement sub is at the downhole end of the tool assembly, and

a first packer which when set is configured to isolate the primary wellbore downhole of the first packer, wherein the first packer is between the cement sub at the downhole end of the tool assembly and the downhole end of the whipstock tool face.

2. The wellbore tool assembly of claim 1 , wherein the cement sub is configured to flow cement from a surface of the primary wellbore through and downhole of each of the whipstock tool assembly and the tool assembly.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2022
From: AL-MOUSA, AHMED ABDULAZIZ; AL-ASWAD, HASSAN K.; AL HAMID, OMAR M.
To: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Reel/Frame 060009/0775 →
Continuity (1)
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