METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ELASTOMER SWELLING IN DOWNHOLE APPLICATIONS

Patent №

US 7,938,191

Granted

2011-05-10

Filed 2008

Owner

SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12103571

A downhole tool includes a swellable core, and a coating that encapsulates the swellable core, wherein the coating is made of a material comprising a component soluble in a selected fluid and a component insoluble in the selected fluid. A method for controlling a downhole tool includes disposing a downhole tool in a wellbore, wherein the downhole tool includes a swellable core, and a coating that encapsulates the swellable core, wherein the coating is made of a material comprising a component soluble in a selected fluid and a component insoluble in the selected fluid; and exposing the swellable device to the selected fluid to increase the permeability of the coating to allow the swellable core to swell.

AI classification

Natural language0.71
Planning0.64
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

assignment · 208090394

Assignors

VAIDYA, NITIN Y.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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