US 12,006,820 B2
Sidewall coring tool systems and methods
Amol Bhome, Sugar Land, TX (US); Robert Monroe Lowe, Jr., Katy, TX (US); Charles Haddad, Kristiansand (NO); Daniel De La Garza, Alvin, TX (US); Patrick Fisseler, Sugar Land, TX (US); and Kelly Collins, Katy, TX (US)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/999,120
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed May 21, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/033658
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/237092, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/124,703, filed on Dec. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/028,623, filed on May 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0212944 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 49/06 (2006.01); E21B 10/02 (2006.01); E21B 10/60 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 49/06 (2013.01) [E21B 10/02 (2013.01); E21B 10/605 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sidewall coring tool assembly, comprising:
a coring shaft comprising:
a first axial end configured to be coupled to a coring motor shaft;
a second axial end;
an internal cavity defined by an internal surface of the coring shaft;
a plurality of scoops disposed circumferentially on a first external surface of the coring shaft and protruding from the first external surface, and wherein each scoop of the plurality of scoops forms a conduit extending between an entry window formed in the scoop and an exit window formed in the internal surface, the entry window facing a direction of rotation of the coring shaft; and
a coring bit coupled to the coring shaft at the second axial end of the coring shaft.