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Single trip clean-out reduces job cost

Performing in? ow tests on the liner lap prior to system. This system incorporates the new, displacing the wellbore from mud to clear brine LTIT1, liner top test tool in the same trip with ? uid is a common practice. In? ow tests are per- the cleanout tools (scrapers, brushes, magnets formed by running a retrievable packer above etc.). The in? ow test is performed using the the liner top, displacing the workstring with LTIT1 with cleanout tools in the well. Once the a lighter density ? uid, setting the retrievable test is complete displacement operations can packer, closing the Hydril around the workstring commence.

and bleeding the pressure down while monitor- The Wellbore Specialties patent pending LTIT1 ing for any pressure increases. Upon comple- has an integral dress mill that is used to polish tion, the retrievable packer is pulled out of the o