Packing tube assembly for pumping wells

Patent · Tue Sep 22 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5921979

Towner, G F; Carter, C A

A packing tube assembly for replacing a conventional stuffing box is described. The packing tube assembly comprising: a packing tube; a rod adaptor adapted to be coupled between the polished rod and the sucker rod string and adapted to extend throughout the packing tube when positioned therein; compressible packing means on the rod adaptor adapted to provide a seal between the rod adaptor and the packing tube when the rod adaptor is in position within the packing tube; stabilizing means on the rod adaptor adapted to engage the packing tube to stabilize the rod adaptor within the packing tube during operation; and a mounting bushing connected to the top of the packing tube and adapted to be threaded into the pumping tee to secure the packing tube position within the production tubing string. A method of converting a conventional stuffing box-equipped pumping well to a packing tube-equipped well is described. It consists of: disconnecting the polished rod of the pumping well from the sucker rod string while suspending the sucker rod string within the well by the use of slips; unthreading the conventional stuffing box from the pumping tee of the well and removing the stuffing box; attaching the polished rod to the upper end of a rod adaptor of a packing tube assembly, inserting the rod adaptor with the polished rod attached into the packing tube of the packing tube assembly; aligning the packing tube assembly with the sucker rod string; connecting the lower end of the rod adaptor to the sucker rod string; removing the slips and lowering the packer tube assembly through the pumping tee; and connecting the upper end of the packing tube to the pumping tee.

• Assignee: Texaust Australia Limited, Canberra
• Patent Number(s): US 4694910
• OSTI ID: 5921979
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
020300* -- Petroleum-- Drilling & Production
03 NATURAL GAS
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DAMPING
DESIGN
DRILL PIPES
DRILLING EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT PROTECTION DEVICES
FIELD PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING
NATURAL GAS WELLS
OIL WELLS
PIPES
POSITIONING
PRODUCTION
PUMPING
PUMPS
ROD PUMPS
STABILIZATION
TUBES
WELL RECOVERY EQUIPMENT
WELLHEADS
WELLS