FLOW CONTROL

FLOW CONTROL PRODUCTS IN THE

PRODUCTION STRING
A well-designed and implemented well completion
program can help insure optimum production, mini-
mize equipment repairs, reduce rig down-time, and
extend the life of the well. Baker’s extensive line of
Flow Control products help do all these and more. The
strategic placement of Baker Flow Control products in
the production string adds a high degree of versatility
to the completion string. To illustrate, we have se-
lected a representative single-string, multiple-zone
completion hook-up and prepared an explanation of
each tool’s varied roles relative to its position in the
string.
7 Slective Seating Nipple

7 Blast Joint
1 Wireline Entry Guide
7 Polished Nipple
A Wireline Entry Guide, when used, is always
located at the lower-most position in the produc-
tion string. Its lower end has an internal bevel that
allows wireline tools that have exited the end of the 3 Flow Coupling
tubing string to be pulled back up without hanging
6 Sliding Sleeve
up.
3 Flow Coupling
2 Bottom No-Go Seating Nipple
The Bottom No-Go Seating Nipple is generally
located near or at the bottom of a production tubing
string, and often, just below a perforated spacer
tube (or perforated pup joint).
By the nature of its design, this nipple con-
tains the smallest restriction (its bottom no-go
diameter) in the tubing string. Since the wireline
tools used farther up the string are larger than this
nipple’s no-go diameter, it serves as a “catcher” for
tools inadvertently dropped downhole.
In conjunction with the downhole instrument
hanger, (see page 21), the Bottom No-Go Seating 5 Tubing Disconnect Sub
Nipple is very useful in landing geophysical instru-
ments for recording reservoir data. The perforated
spacer tube located above the nipple permits 3 Flow Coupling
production fluids to flow unrestrictedly around the 4 Top No-Go or Selective Seating
geophysical device while the spacer tube below Nipple
3 Flow Coupling
the nipple protects the delicate instruments from
damage.

2 Bottom No-Go Seating Nipple

1 Wireline Entry Guide