PACKER Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC E21B33/12 

FIELD: oil and gas production.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to oil and gas producing industry, particularly to well installations for repeated, including selective, flow tests of flow string in well. The packer consists of a mandrel with a shaped slot on external surface, where axial short and long sections alternate. Self-packing collar, downstream proof, is assembled on the top of the mandrel; a support is located under the collar. A pressure sealing element in form of an additional self-sealing collar, downstream proof, and a cone rigidly fixed relative to the mandrel are successively arranged under the support on the mandrel. A holder with a guiding pin is arranged on the mandrel below the cone. Along circumference the holder is furnished with spring centralisers and oval sockets which are spring loaded inwards in radial direction by means of springs and are designed to interact with the cone in a working position from inside. A rigid centraliser is assembled on the upper end of the mandrel. A rod cupped from top and furnished with radial holes is screwed into the upper end of the mandrel. A load with a chamber at the bottom is arranged outside the rod. The rod is equipped with fingers assembled above radial holes; while the load is equipped with lengthwise through grooves for the fingers of the rod. The lower part of the load chamber, covering radial holes of the rod leak proof by means of sealing elements, is designed to open radial holes of the rod when the load goes up. Correspondingly, process upper radial channels are made in the load above the lengthwise through grooves and the mandrel below the shaped slot; these channels continuously communicate internal space of the load chamber with external space; also there are made lower process channels below which the mandrel is shut off with an additional load. Axial short and long sections of the shaped slot are interconnected with a closed shaped section.

EFFECT: facilitating flow testing of pipes of smaller diametre, also avoiding packer wedging in flow string during round-trips.

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