COMPLETION SYSTEM

Packers Usage

Shallow to medium depths

Hydraulic Retrievable Packer
Low to medium pressure
application
Hydraulic and/or hydrostatic-set retrievable
packers are set without mechanical Multiple packer single string
completion
manipulation of the tubing. After the packer is
Dual String Completion
run to depth, hydraulic pressure is applied to
the fluid in the tubing string to set the packer.
Once set, the packer is mechanically locked in Selective set multiple packer
completion
the set position. Release mechanisms vary
and are generally right-hand rotation or
straight-pull release.

Hydraulic Retrievable Packer

Differential Hydrostatic

This type of packer is These packers utilizing Hydraulic Set Retrievable Hydrostatic Set Retrievable
set by using the force a setting piston similar
generated by tubing to differential set
Pressure acting on a packers, but all or part With the increased demand for Hydrostatic set packers are more
piston against annulus of the piston area is subsurface instrumentation and expensive to manufacture than
pressure. A specific acting against a
amount of differential chamber containing electric or hydraulic operated the differential set and are
pressure (in favor of atmospheric devices, a new type of hydraulic normally used when larger tubing
the tubing) has to pressure rather than
be applied to annulus pressure.
set packer fulfill the requirement sizes are required.
complete the setting. This allows the for multiple conductors to pass
hydrostatic tubing through the packer without
pressure to assist
the setting of compromising the packers
the packer. integrity.