US 12,084,934 B2
Slot cutter system and operations
Joshua Wurtz, Houston, TX (US); Joseph Matthew Casassa, Sugar Land, TX (US); Christopher Albert Babin, Waveland, MS (US); Robert Kyle Wiesenborn, Richmond, TX (US); Pierre-Arnaud Foucher, Houston, TX (US); David Engel, Houston, TX (US); and Todor Sheiretov, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/809,080.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/202,832, filed on Jun. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412180 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. E21B 29/00 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 29/002 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A slot cutting assembly for cutting one or more openings in a wellbore tubular, comprising:
a body;
an anchoring system mounted along the body for anchoring the slot cutting assembly within the wellbore tubular;
a slot cutting tool mounted along the body comprising:
an extendable arm having two ends wherein the first end is pivotably mounted with respect to the body;
a cutting blade rotatably mounted to the second end of the extendable arm; and
an extendable stabilizing arm mounted along the body on the opposite side of the tool from the extendable arm, wherein the first end of the extendable stabilizing arm is pivotably mounted where the first end of the extendable arm is pivotably mounted.