PUMP PACKER SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE-ZONE WELL Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC E21B43/14 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: pump packer system includes a packer lowered into the well and put between formations and a pump unit above it, which consists of an electric motor with a cable, hydroprotection, telemetering, lower and upper pumps with receiving stations and a casing with a cable entry, the upper end of which envelopes the receiving station of the lower pump, and the lower end is located below the electric motor. The system is provided with a housing and a branch pipe with side outlet channels, the first one of which is connected from above to the lower end of the casing, and the second one is connected from above to the electric motor and from below to the packer. With that, the branch pipe is compacted in the housing and thus disconnects the cavity of the casing from the upper formation and connects it through side outlet channels to the lower formation. With that, the branch pipe is provided for fluid of the lower formation either with a control controlled with the electric motor or with a flow meter or with a mechanical check valve. The upper pump is connected with the receiving station to the lower pump, and the latter that is located above the casing is connected with the receiving station to the hydroprotection of the electric motor. With that, the receiving station of the lower pump is made in the form of an inlet module or a gas disperser, and the receiving station of the upper pump is made either in the form of an inlet module provided with a longitudinal through internal channel for a fluid flow of the lower formation and a cutoff with a side inlet channel for the fluid flow of the upper formation, which is controlled by electric, electromagnetic or hydraulic action, or in the form of an inlet module or a gas separator provided from below with a branch pipe with side outlet channels at backside of the well for fluid flow of the lower formation. The packer is either of mechanical action and is installed by creation on it, without any transfer to the casing, of the specified value of axial load from the weight of the pipe string with further maintenance or removal of this load after tight fit of the packer, or is of hydraulic action, provided with a disconnector and installed between formations before the pump unit is lowered by creation inside the packer of excess pressure, or is of hydrodynamic action and provided inside the well with a pulse tube transmitting discharge pressure of the upper pump to the hydraulic cylinder of the packer, or is of electric or electromagnetic action and is connected to the electric motor.

EFFECT: improving reliability and efficiency of a pump unit at simultaneous and separate operation of two formations of one and the same well.

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