FIELD: mining, particularly sealing or packing boreholes or wells, namely packers.
SUBSTANCE: sealing system of packer type is used in well bore to provide sealing with respect to outer surface of casing pipe or uncased well. Sealing system includes swelling material to be expanded from normal state to swelled state as swelling material is brought into contact with initiating flowable medium to create seal.
EFFECT: possibility to seal wells with uneven cross-section and simplified well isolation works.
44 cl, 23 dwg
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Dates
2007-07-10—Published
2005-03-11—Filed