US 12,320,218 B2
Sliding wireline catcher and cutter for lost downhole wire
Mohieddin Attig Ali Alghazali, Udhailiyah (SA); and Fahmi Aulia, Udhailiyah (SA)
Assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Dhahran (SA)
Filed by SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Dhahran (SA)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/170,805.
Prior Publication US 2024/0279995 A1, Aug. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 29/04 (2006.01); E21B 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 29/04 (2013.01) [E21B 31/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A method for fishing a wire lost downhole in a wellbore, the method comprising:
transporting, by a wireline unit, a wire catcher assembly and a wire cutter assembly downhole in the wellbore from a surface location;
directing, by a wire guide of a wire catcher assembly, an end of the wire into a body of the wire catcher assembly;
securing, by a gripping mechanism of the wire catcher assembly, the end of the wire within the body of the wire catcher assembly;
sliding the wire cutter assembly over the wire catcher assembly;
positioning, by a housing of a wire cutter assembly, a cutting element of the wire cutter assembly along the wire in the wellbore;
cutting the wire with the cutting element of the wire cutter assembly; and
transporting, by the wireline unit, the wire catcher assembly and the cut wire to the surface location.