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Retrievable density control valve

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6024767
A retrievable valve apparatus is described for lightening oil being gas lifted through a tubing string. The apparatus includes a valve body having a fishing neck which projects upward within the tubing string and valve means proper carried by the body for selectively communicating the tubing string interior with a pressurized gas supply to inject gas into the oil upward past the fishing neck in response to a predetermined pressure of oil lifted in the tubing string above the apparatus. The valve body is provided with a port to pass the pressurized gas into the body when the body is selectively positioned within the string. (10 claims)
Assignee:
TUL; EDB-81-119675
Patent Number(s):
US 3675714
OSTI ID:
6024767
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English