US 12,104,467 B2
Slip package with improved initial setting
Carlos Moreno, Rosharon, TX (US); Kameron Lee Klauber, Vista, CA (US); James Rounding, Rosharon, TX (US); Martin Hernandez, Pearland, TX (US); Zachary Gortowski, Manvel, TX (US); Amanda Halbert, Rosharon, TX (US); and Michael Underbrink, Eureka, MO (US)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 18/251,291
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/056492
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 1, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/098533, PCT Pub. Date May 12, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/109,209, filed on Nov. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0407729 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 43/10 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/103 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for use in a well, the system comprising:
a liner hanger comprising:
a mandrel;
a cone mounted about the mandrel, the cone having tapered slots, wherein each of the tapered slots includes a slot setting ramp and a slot loading ramp;
a plurality of tapered slips, wherein each tapered slip is slidably received in a respective tapered slot, each tapered slip comprising a slip setting ramp, a slip loading ramp, and a plurality of teeth;
and
an actuator mounted about the mandrel to selectively shift the plurality of tapered slips between a setting position and a loading position, wherein:
in the setting position, the slip setting ramp is engaged with the slot setting ramp, and the slip loading ramp is not engaged with the slot loading ramp, and
in the loading position, the slip loading ramp is engaged with the slot loading ramp.