1

WIRELINE AND BRAIDED LINE

1-1

1.1

CARBON STEEL WIRELINES

1-2

1.1.1

Wire Testing - Carbon Steel Wirelines

1-3

1.1.2

Fracture Classification

1-4

1.1.3

Grade 1 Fracture With Secondary Breaks

1-4

1.1.4

Grade 2 Fractures

1-5

1.1.5

Grade 3 Fractures

1-5

1.1.6

General Guidance Notes

1-6

1.1.7

Stainless Steel/Special Alloy Lines

1-6

1.1.8

Wrap Testing

1-7

1.2

TORSION TEST MACHINES

1-8

1.3

WIRELINE FAILURES IN SERVICE

1-10

1.4

CONCLUSION

1-11

1.5

GENERAL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

1-15

1.6

EXAMPLE OF WIRE LOG

1-18

2

WIRELINE FISHING

2-1

2.1

INTRODUCTION

2-1

2.2

PREVENTION

2-2

2.3

PREVENTING THE WIRE BREAK

2-3

2.4

COUNTER WHEEL ASSEMBLY

2-4

2.4.1

Wire Properties

2-5

2.4.2

Pressure Wheels

2-7

2.5

HAY PULLEYS

2-8

2.6

STUFFING BOXES/PACKINGS

2-10

2.7

WEIGHT INDICATORS

2-12

2.7.1

Re-Charging Procedure

2-13

2.7.2

Wireline Angle Correction Factors

2-13

2.8

SAFETY

2-16

2.9

AREAS TO CONSIDER THAT MAY PRESENT ADDED PROBLEMS

2-16

3

GENERAL NOTES

3-1

4

FISHING WIRE

4-1

4.1

WIRE BROKEN AT SURFACE

4-1

4.1.1

Wire Remains Visible

4-1

4.2

CASE I - WIRE BROKEN DOWNHOLE

4-3

4.2.1

Amount Wireline Will Fall Back per 1,000 ft

4-4

4.3

TOOLSTRING EQUIPMENT

4-7

4.3.1

Stem

4-7

4.3.2

Jars (Refer to Section 2 Pages 7.1 - 7.4)

4-10

4.3.3

Jar Up Pulling Tool (Refer to Section 2 Pages 6.19 - 6.23)

4-11

4.3.4

Below the Jar Up Pulling Tool

4-12

4.3.5

Wire Finder (Refer to Section 2 Pages 6.2 - 6.6)

4-12

4.3.6

Wireline Grab (Refer to Section 2 Pages 6.7 and 6.8)

4-13

4.4

CASE II - WIRE BROKEN DOWNHOLE

4-14

4.5

BLIND BOX

4-15

4.6

CUTTER BAR

4-17

4.7

CASE III - BLOWN UP THE HOLE

4-20

4.8

CONCLUSION

4-23

5

WIRELINE FISHING TOOLS, EQUIPMENT AND OPERATION PROCEDURES

5-1

5.1

WIRE FINDER

5-1

5.1.1

Running a Wire Finder

5-3

5.1.2

Bowen Wirefinder

5-3

5.1.3

Wire Scratcher

5-4

5.1.4

Wire Finder Operating Technique

5-5

5.2

WIRELINE GRABS

5-6

5.2.1

Preparing the Grab

5-7

5.2.2

Running the Grab

5-7

5.2.3

Running a Wireline Grab/Spear

5-8

5.3

FISHING CLAMP

5-9

5.4

GO-DEVIL

5-10

5.5

KINLEY SNEPPER

5-11

5.6

FLOPETROL CABLE CUTTER

5-14

5.6.1

Running a Cutter Bar

5-16

5.6.2

Running An Interface Bar

5-16

5.6.3

Centraliser Design

5-17

5.7

RETRIEVAL OF FISH

5-17

5.8

‘JUC’ & ‘R’ SERIES PULLING TOOLS

5-19

5.8.1

Camco ‘JUC’ Series Pulling Tools

5-19

5.8.2

Otis ‘R’ Series Pulling Tools

5-21

5.9

CENTRE SPEAR

5-24

5.9.1

Stripping Wire

5-25

5.10

BOXING OFF WIRE

5-27

5.11

HOW TO CALCULATE OPTIMUM BLIND BOX SIZE

5-28

5.11.1

Blind Box Calculation Example

5-28

5.11.2

Retrieving a Stuck Toolstring

5-29

5.11.3

Fishing for KNOWN/unidentified objects

5-29

5.12

FISHING FOR TOOLS

5-30

5.12.1

Fishing For Tools With a Fishneck

5-30

5.12.2

Fishing For Tools Without A Fishneck

5-30

5.13

LEAD IMPRESSION BLOCK

5-31

5.13.1

Running Lead Impression Block (LIB)

5-32

5.14

MAGNET

5-34

5.15

PCE ALLIGATOR GRAB

5-35

5.16

OVERSHOTS

5-37

5.17

FLOPETROL RELEASING OVERSHOT

5-39

5.18

PETROLINE HEAVY DUTY PULLING TOOL

5-41

5.19

PCE BULLDOG SPEARS

5-43

5.20

RELEASABLE COLLET TYPE BULLDOG SPEAR

5-45

5.21

FISHING PROCEDURE WHEN WIRELINE IS PULLED OUT OF ROPE SOCKET

5-47

6

WIRELINE JARS

6-1

6.1

TUBULAR JARS

6-1

6.2

SPRING JARS

6-2

6.3

HYDRAULIC JARS

6-3

7

BRAIDED LINE

7-1

7.1

BRAIDED LINE FISHING

7-1

7.1.1

Prevention

7-1

7.1.2

Grease Injection Head

7-3

7.2

FLOW TUBES

7-5

7.3

SAFETY CHECK UNION

7-6

7.4

FISHING CONDUCTOR LINE/BRAIDED LINE WITH BROKEN STRAND

7-7

7.5

BRAIDED LINE FISHING

7-9

7.5.1

3/16 Ins. Rope Socket

7-10

8

BAILERS

8-1

8.1

HYDROSTATIC BAILERS

8-1

8.2

SAND BAILING

8-2

8.2.1

Introduction

8-2

8.2.2

Sand Bailers

8-2

8.2.3

Otis Drive Down Bailer

8-4

9

HYDRATES

9-1

9.1

INTRODUCTION HYDRATES

9-1

9.2

PREVENTION OF HYDRATES

9-2

9.3

CURE OF HYDRATE PROBLEMS

9-3