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Sand Control Sliding Sleeve

SAND CONTROL
APPLICATIONS
Sliding Sleeves may be used to
SLIDING SLEEVE
establish tubing to annulus
communication for such operations as:
• Displacing the tubing or annulus fluid.
• Selective testing, treating and production
of individual zones in a multi-zone
selective well.
• Using the tubing to “kick-off” the annulus
in a tubing/annulus dual completion.
• Producing more than one zone through
a single tubing string.
• Killing a well by circulation.
• Gas Lifting.
• Landing a blanking plug in nipple
profile to shut in well or when testing
tubing.
• Landing commingling chokes in nipple
profile.
• Circulating inhibitors for corrosion
control.

QUINN WELL CONTROL

11417-89 Ave
Grande Prairie AB T8V 7M9
Phone: (780) 539-3440
Fax: (780) 539-7705

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ipsadvantage.com

Canadian Patent # 2,319,674

2005 Quinn Well Control

A Division of IPS
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QUINN’S SAND CONTROL SLIDING SLEEVE With minimal dead flow area for frac and
produced sand to settle in, your clean out costs
are dramatically reduced. 1200 successful
MODEL SLXB-E installations have proved that production
turbulence actually keeps sand from
CANADIAN PATENT # 2,319,674 accumulating on the top of the plug.

DESIGNED IN ONE STANDARD

MATERIAL AND AVAILABLE IN BUILT-IN
TWO SPECIALTY MATERIALS LANDING NIPPLE
The Sand Control Sliding Sleeves are manufactured out All Quinn Well Control Sliding Sleeves come
of 4130 18-22 Rockwell C, L-80. Compression, burst, complete with a QX profile.
and tensile properties are compatible with L-80 tubing.
17-4 PH Stainless Steel and Inconel 718 are available If the well has been flowed, Quinn Well Control
on request. strongly recommends that all SLXB-E Sleeves be
brushed with a 1 metre wire brush prior to setting the
The “Standard” seal configuration on all SLXB-E Sand QPX plug in the sleeve profile.
Sleeves consists of carbon graphite filled PTFE Vee
Seals. These Vee Seals are inert to most oilfield Isolation of the lower producing zone is obtained by
corrosive environments. Chemically inert seal systems setting a QPX plug immediately below the shifting
composed of thermoplastic compounds are available mechanism in a QX profile. When setting the QPX
on request. plug, it is recommended that a 22”-26” prong is used.
Shifting When the QPX plug is in place, the Sand Control
Mechanism Sliding Sleeve can still be opened and closed.

To open the Sand Control Sliding Sleeve, jar up with

the slickline toolstring and shifting tool. To close, jar
Vee Seals down with toolstring and shifting tool.

OPERATOR CONCERNS
ADDRESSED
Through working with operators in areas
where sand in-flow causes expensive removal
cost and lost production, Quinn Well Control
identified two primary areas to improve on
existing sleeves.

SLXB-E Sleeve was developed for use in

wells, where there is a need to provide full
1 isolation of the section tubing between the 2 Conventional sleeves were not Prong
upper and lower zones in a dually completed designed to work in a sand
well. This isolation is desirable for clean up environment. The Quinn SLXB-E
and flow back operations, following sand Sleeve has evolved through years of
fracturing of upper zones. Before flow-back continued design improvement. All
operations, a plug is set in the lower built-in aspects of the SLXB-E have been
landing nipple keeping sand accumulations to designed to successfully function in a
a minimum. sand environment.

SPECIFICATION GUIDE FOR THE SAND CONTROL SLIDING SLEEVE QPX Plug

Length Length QX Profile

Tubing OD Tubing OD Seal Bore Seal Bore Sleeve OD Sleeve OD
(inches) (mm)
(inches) (mm) (inches) (mm) (inches) (mm)
Pin to Pin Pin to Pin
QPX Plug Seals
2-3/8 60.33 1.875 47.63 2.910 73.91 49.25 125.09

2-7/8 73.03 2.312 58.72 3.410 88.61 62.25 158.11

3-1/2 88.90 2.750 69.85 4.500 114.30

Available on Request
3-1/2 88.90 2.812 71.42 4.500 114.30

Note: Special Sizes on Request (4 1/2” and 5 1/2”)

2005 Quinn Well Control
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