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Guide and Casing Shoes

Guide and Casing Shoes


Guide shoes are attached to the lower most end of the casing string to provide a low cost method of enabling the casing to pass ledges or obstructions in the wellbore and aid in bit reentry. Halliburton offers several guide shoe styles for varying customer requirements. Casing shoes are also available as a means of reinforcing the bottom joint of the casing. The casing shoe allows the casing to be worked through swelled zones without fear of causing damage to the casing. Any size casing grade material and thread type can be made on a special order basis on all guide and casing shoes.

Down-Jet Guide Shoes


Features Down-jet guide shoes have additional side ports in the steel case that allow fluids to discharge through both the cement nose and the ports. 80% of the fluid flow is through the nose opening and 20% is through the side ports. The jetting action of the fluid pumped through these ports helps remove wellbore cuttings and filter cake. Creates turbulence around the shoe to help improve cement distribution and casing to formation bonding for a strong shoe cement job The external jets provide an alternate flow path if the bottom center port becomes blocked in the event the casing is landed at target depth (TD). PDC drillable

Standard Guide Shoes


Features Protect the casing string from the impact associated with landing casing on bottom Direct casing away from ledges, reducing the chance of sidewall cave-in Help casing pass through narrow, deviated holes and areas with hard shoulders

Has large diameter hole through the center of the shoe allowing for maximum cement pumping rates and passage of autofill tubes and deactivation balls Noses available in cement and plastic designs. PDC drillable

HAL24873

Provides a re-entry angle to help ensure bits and other bottomhole assembly (BHA) hardware are able to enter the casing during tripping operations

Down-Jet Guide Shoe

HAL24875

Plastic Nose Standard Guide Shoe

HAL31489

Halliburton Cementing on an Offshore Platform

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Standard Casing Shoes


Features A standard casing shoe is a steel reinforcing collar installed on the bottom joint of the casing string. The shoe prevents casing abrasion or distortion as casing is forced past obstructions on the wall of the borehole. The bottom of a standard casing shoe is tapered to the ID to allow drill bits used to drill deeper after setting casing to easily re-enter the casing.

Tiger Tooth (Texas Pattern) Casing Shoes


Features This casing shoe helps solve a major problem that plagues certain casing running programs. The problem occurs as a result of formation swelling into the wellbore, which reduces the wellbore ID to below gauge diameter. The Texas Pattern casing shoe is saw-cut to produce teeth on the bottom of the shoe, which may be needed while running casing in the hole. The casing may be rotated slowly to cut past obstructions in the borehole.
HAL24876

Tiger Tooth Casing Shoe in Formation Swell

HAL24874

HAL24877

Standard Casing Shoe

Tiger Tooth Casing Shoe

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Inspection and Packaging Process on Float Equipment Assembly Line

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Guide and Casing Shoes

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Halliburton manufactures guide and casing shoes to fit a variety of applications.

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