| 摘要 |
<p>A side pocket mandrel has an elongated receptacle in the side pocket parallel with the main bore. A lateral side port communicates the receptacle with the exterior of the side pocket of the mandrel. A flow control assembly includes a sliding sleeve valve and a control valve, both designed to be removable from the receptacle. The sleeve valve is movable within the receptacle between a closed position and an open position relative to the side port, and includes collet fingers having outwardly projecting latching lugs for engagement in a receptacle latching recess in the closed position. The bore of the receptacle is slightly larger below the latching recess than it is above the recess, so that limited inward movement of the latching lugs, restrained by an insert within the sleeve valve, will permit movement of the valve downward to the open position but will not allow movement of the valve upward from the closed position, so long as the insert is in place. A control valve, to be selectively placed within the receptacle and latched with the sleeve valve includes a nose which is received within the sleeve valve and limits the inward deflection of the collet finger latching lugs. The control valve includes a latching lug for latching in another receptacle latching recess, when the sleeve valve has been moved to the lower open position. The control valve and sleeve valve have a coacting latching mechanism so that when the control valve is withdrawn, it lifts the sleeve valve to the closed position and then disengages from the sleeve valve. The sleeve valve includes an internal latching recess to enable withdrawal of the sleeve valve from the receptacle by a suitable pulling tool.</p> |
