Advanced SL

Fishing Overview

Colin Ritchie
WCP SL Instructor
Schlumberger
 Learning Objective
• Actions
• What is a fishing job
• Fishing scenarios
• Scenario breakdown
• Special tools available
• Calculations

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 What is a fishing job?

• Flow control device - unable to remove using normal

practices
• Equipment – non Slickline - lost in the well
• Broken wire
• Lost jar action

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 Action One

• Remain Calm
If you panic, as the expert others will follow
Think safety!!!!

• Assess the situation

Personal safety
Equipment protection
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 Action Two
Gather Facts

• Well Schematic / limitations / conditions

• Fish information
• Equipment available
• Worksite / rig layout

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 Action Two
Well Schematic / limitations / conditions
• Tubing sizes
• Flow control devices
• Deviation
• H2S
• Sand / scale
• MPWHP

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 Action Two
Fish information
• Ownership
• How it happened
• Depth
• Dimensions – OD, ID, Length, weight, material
• If fishing wire - size, type, amount, measurements relating
to fallback calculations

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 Action Two
Equipment available

• Wire selection •Service type and WP rating

• BOP suitable •Special tools
• Lubricator •Contingency plans
• Grease injection equipment •Personnel

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 Action Two
Work site / rig layout
• Height at well site
• Suitable hoisting devices
• Securing of equipment
• Utilities available
• Contingency plans

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 Action Three
Establish lines of Communication

• Who do you take instructions from directly

• Timing of updates
• What you are allowed to control

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 Action Four
Design plan to recover

• Develop step by step procedure

• Consider worst case scenario
• Consider potential outcomes from your action

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 Action Five
Execute
• Run slowly
• Check counter and weight indicator often
• Visualise downhole scenario
• Do not pass calculated top of wire
• Maximum 5 ft to ball wire
• Always tubular jars
• Always jar up to shear tool on grab
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 Fishing scenario
Unable to remove device using standard techniques
Why?
• Well Limitations •Wire
• Well Conditions •Toolstring
• Equalisation •Pulling tool
• Unable to latch securely
– Equipment
– debris

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 Fishing scenario
Lost jar action

• Well conditions •Drop bar

• Well limitations •Kinley snepper
• Debris •Flopetrol cutter
• Sand •Petroline release RS
•TKO rope socket
•BDK Safe Joint

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 Fishing scenario
Equipment – non SL - lost in the well

• Fishing neck •Pulling tool

• Shape •Aligator Grab
• Material
•Tar baby
• Ferous
•Magnet
• Radioactive
•Braided Cable
• Weight

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 Fishing scenario
Broken wire

• On surface

•Down hole
• Latched or free
• Re-attach wire
• Shear off - POOH

•Latched or free
•In tubing or casing

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 Special tools

Blind box
2’
A blind box is used for heavy downward jarring
3’
It is flat bottomed and hardened.
5’

The OD of the blind box should be carefully matched

to the completion I.D.’s.

The blind box can be used as a drop bar for a wire cutter
or run on Slickline to dislodge a Fish or push downhole.

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 Special tools
The go-devil is similar in appearance to slickline stem

Available in 1 1/2” and 1 7/8” OD sizes and in lengths

which vary from 18” to 60”.

There are two types of Go-Devil :-

1) Beveled or Mule Shoe used to cut

the wire on the rope socket

2) Flat Bottomed used to initiate the cutting

action of wireline cutters i.e. Flopetrol, Kinley

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 Special tools
The Kinley Snepper is used to cut slickline wires at the
rope socket when the toolstring has become stuck or
cannot be retrieved
The tool is available in either a 1 1/2” or 1 7/8” OD.

The standard cutter will cut on the rope socket leaving

approximately 3” or wire sticking above the rope socket.

The Snepper can be run in a ‘upside down’ mode. This

version is used to prevent cutting prematurely on the
fluid / gas level, downhole restrictions or side pocket
mandrels.

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 Special tools
Flopetrol Cutter

The Flopetrol cutter is a very effective and reliable means of cutting

wire at the rope socket.

The cutter can be used in two versions:-

1) Standard version, where only a cutter is dropped. There are

dangers of premature
cutting using this version.

2) Interface version, more commonly used. In this version a cutter

is made up to suit the wire size, then dropped, followed by a go-
devil which will initiate the cutting and gripping action.

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 Special tools

PES TKO Rope Socket

• The TKO rope socket can be used in everyday slickline operations.
• It replaces the traditional rope socket.
•The TKO rope socket allows the operator to leave the toolstring in
the hole and recover the wire.
•Thus reducing the hazards associated with wire cutting operations.

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 Special tools
The BDK safe joint / releasable rope socket has been
designed for use as a standard item in the slickline toolstring.

The safe joint has a three point safety release system

1) a calibrated controlled overpull
2) a short safety delay
3) a sit down soft release

By using the calibration tool the overpull value can be varied

to suit operating conditions.

The tool is available in the following sizes ;- 1 1/2”, 1 7/8”, 2

1/8”, 2 1/2”

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 Special tools
If you have a 45degree deviated well and you pull
the maximum limit of your wire will you be able to
lift the wire from the tubing wall on the low Side.

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 Special tools
If you have a 45degree deviated well and you pull
the maximum limit of your wire will you be able to
lift the wire from the tubing wall on the low side.

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 Special tools
The wireline finder is a one piece tool designed to
locate and ball the broken end of the wire.
The wire finder can be either solid or the skirt can
be multi- fingered as in the slotted skirt design.

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 Special tools

Used to fish broken wire or cable out of the tubing

or casing
Has an external fishing neck
Has internal or external barbs
Can be formed to fit appropriate I.D. tubing or
casing
Always run a wire grab on a shear / release UP
pulling tool or a safety shear sub.

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 Special tools
The finder / grab is used in the same way as the conventional
wireline grab to retrieve broken wire from downhole.

However, with the addition of a wireline finder skirt there are a

number of benefits.

The number of runs needed can be reduced

The chance of passing the top of the wire is significantly

reduced compared with a conventional wire-grab.

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 Special tools
Tube Jar
• Replaces the standard Mechanical (Spang)
• Tubular jars are used mostly in connection with
jarring debris and other foreign matter from
casing and large bore tubing.
• Design reduces chances of jars becoming
immobile

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 Special tools
Side Wall Cutter
• Used to cut wire against the tubing wall
when a clean rope socket is not available.

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 Special tools

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 Special tools

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 TOW Calculations
The operator is latched onto a plug when the wire breaks.
(Assume no strain on the wire, which is not likely but must be
assumed to enable calculations to be made.) The wire is 0.092”
in 2 7/8” tubing. the Operator pulls the broken end back to the
counter and checks the reading, = 4850ft. Lubricator height =
24ft, distance from unit to wellhead = 60ft.

calculate the TOW using the following formula :-

T = [ D - ( C + d) ] + ( C + d x f ) + H
1000
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 TOW Calculations

T = estimated top of wire

f = wire fall factor for wire / tubing size
D = depth of the toolstring in the well (when the wire broke)
d = distance from the counter to the zero point
H = distance the toolstring falls back down the well
C = depth on counter when wire is back spooled onto unit.

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 TOW Calculations
for our example above : f = 0.092” wire in 2 7/8” tubing = 12ft / 1000ft

D = 12500 ft (toolstring depth when wire broke)

C = 4850 ft

d = 60 + 24 + 24 = 108

H = 0 (if the tools did not drop when the wire broke)

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 TOW Calculations
T = [ D - ( C + d) ] + ( C + d x f ) + H
1000

T = [ 12500 - ( 4850 + 108) ] + (( 4850 + 108) x 12) + 0

1000
T = ( 12500 - 5958 ) + (5.958 x 12) + 0

T = 6542 + 71.5

T = 6613.5ft

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