Drilling kick-off device
CA 2095306 A1 · Owner: Shell Canada Limited · Inventors: Konopczynski, Michael Robert
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Kick-off device (1) in aid of drilling a pair of opposite deviated borehole branches in an underground formation from a single borehole comprising an open-ended tube (2) provided at its upper end with connecting means to join the open-ended tube (2) to a string of casing, and a guide element (4) arranged in the openended tube (2) near its lower end, which guide element (4) includes two hollow slanted guide ways (6 and 7) arranged on opposite sides of the guide element (4), wherein the wall of the open-ended tube (2) has elongated openings (9 and 10) facing the slanted guide ways (6 and 7). (Figure 3)
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 30, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 30, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 30, 2015.
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