Whipstock to plug and abandon wellbore below setting depth
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.
1. A method comprising:
lowering a wellbore tool assembly into a primary wellbore formed in a subterranean zone, wherein the wellbore tool assembly is lowered to a depth from which a lateral wellbore is to be formed from the primary wellbore, wherein the wellbore tool assembly comprises:
a whipstock assembly configured to drill the lateral wellbore, 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 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,
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;
before forming the lateral wellbore, performing, using the tool assembly, a well operation downhole of a casing window from which the lateral wellbore is to be formed; and
after performing the well operation, forming, using the whipstock assembly, the lateral wellbore.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the whipstock assembly comprises a milling assembly and a whipstock tool face connected to the milling assembly, wherein the tool assembly is connected to the whipstock tool face, wherein the tool assembly is mounted to a downhole end of the whipstock tool face, wherein the tool assembly comprises a first packer, wherein lowering the wellbore tool assembly into the primary wellbore comprises lowering the tool assembly first followed by the whipstock assembly.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein lowering the wellbore tool assembly into the primary wellbore comprises lowering the whipstock assembly and the tool assembly in the same trip into the primary wellbore.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the tool assembly comprises a second packer, wherein the first packer is between the second packer and the downhole end of the whipstock tool face, wherein performing the well operation comprises setting the first packer before setting the second packer.
5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the tool assembly comprises a cement sub, wherein the first packer is between the cement sub and the downhole end of the whipstock tool face.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the well operation comprises flowing cement from a surface of the primary wellbore through and downhole of each of the whipstock tool assembly and the tool assembly.