US 11,725,486 B2
Systems and methods for downhole deployment of containers
Robert Utter, Sugar Land, TX (US); Rod Shampine, Houston, TX (US); Dmitriy Potapenko, Sugar Land, TX (US); Yu Wang, Beijing (CN); and Iain Cooper, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/293,618
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 14, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/061480
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/102534, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/767,297, filed on Nov. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0010656 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 23/14 (2006.01); G21F 5/14 (2006.01); G21F 9/34 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 41/005 (2013.01) [E21B 23/14 (2013.01); G21F 5/14 (2013.01); G21F 9/34 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A method comprising:
conveying, via a cable, a downhole tool system into a wellbore, wherein the downhole tool system comprises a container configured to contain radioactive waste, a first disconnect tool, a second disconnect tool, and an anchor;
disconnecting the cable from at least the container of the downhole tool system using the first disconnect tool;
removing the cable from the wellbore;
plugging the wellbore; and
retrieving the container from the wellbore, wherein retrieving the container from the wellbore comprises releasing the container from the anchor by applying a tensile force to the second disconnect tool.