US 12,104,441 B2
System and method for connecting multiple stage completions
Raymond Keane, Houston, TX (US); Gabriel Isaicu, Missouri City, TX (US); Michael Elkomos, Spring, TX (US); Marcelo Oblitas Ruiz, Baku (AZ); Carlos Emilio Webel, Baku (AZ); Saeed Molavi, Baku (AZ); and Ernani Jeronimo, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 18/000,472
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 2, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/035478
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 1, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/247726, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/704,939, filed on Jun. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0212915 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 17/05 (2006.01); E21B 17/02 (2006.01); E21B 47/135 (2012.01)
CPC E21B 17/05 (2013.01) [E21B 17/028 (2013.01); E21B 47/135 (2020.05)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A method of forming a completion in a wellbore, the method comprising:
deploying a lower completion stage in a wellbore downhole of a packer, the lower completion stage comprising a receptacle, wherein the receptacle comprises:
a first alignment feature and a second alignment feature, wherein the second alignment feature comprises a first alignment key and a second alignment key; and
a first communication line connector disposed between the first alignment key and the second alignment key;
inserting a portion of a stinger of an upper completion stage through the packer and into the receptacle, wherein the stinger comprises:
a third alignment feature and a fourth alignment feature, wherein the fourth alignment feature comprises a first slot and a second slot; and
a second communication line connector, wherein the second communication line connector is disposed between the first slot and the second slot;
aligning the first communication line connector with the second communication line connector, wherein aligning the first communication line connector with the second communication line connector comprises engaging the first alignment feature with the third alignment feature and engaging the second alignment feature with the fourth alignment feature; and
coupling the first and second communication line connectors after aligning the first communication line connector with the second communication line connector.