Product Overview

Hyflo Surge Protection System

Liner setting tools

Applications

Hyflo diverter valve

Liner running tool

Tight clearance liner

Shallow gas

Deep water

Benefits
Setting sleeve

Wiper plug

Increases circulation area to reduce

chances of plugging

Allows for multiple balls to pass

through ball seat to activate
other tools

Ensures pressure integrity for

cement operations

Allows larger diameter plugs to pass

through running tools

Provides full tensile and

torsional capacity

Liner hanger

Features

Auto-fill float collar

Indicates direction
of mud flow

Run-in

Close Hyflo valve

Set hanger
convert float valves

Circulate
cement job

The Baker Hughes Hyflo surge protection system enables

operators to reduce the effects of fluid surging when running
liners in wells with tight annular clearance. The system comprises
two specialized tools: the Hyflo diverter valve and auto-fill float
collar. The system permits faster trip speeds and reduces mud loss
during run-in.

Cost-effective well design

Often, the most cost effective well design may include one or more
tight clearance liner strings such as 113/4-in. x 133/8-in.,
95/8-in. x 113/4-in. or 75/8-in. x 95/8-in. combinations. The use of
these tight clearance liner hangers provides the operator
additional liner sizes, allowing for deeper wells.

Release pressure
and waiting on cement

Large mill slots

Extrudable ball seats

Positive locked mechanism

Large bore

Full drillpipe connections and keyed

internal threads

Tight clearance casing challenges

When running casing strings with standard float equipment,
all of the annular fluid is displaced between the casing being
run and the previously set casing string. Tight clearances
between these two casing strings can cause extremely high
surge pressures against the formation as the displaced mud
bypasses the small annular clearance between the liner and
the previous casing string. The liner effectively acts as a large
piston. This slows trip speed, wastes rig time and results in loss
of expensive drilling fluids.

The surge protection system increases flow area for mud

returns during liner run-in in two areas. Auto-fill float
equipment opens the bottom of the liner to increase the
flow area and reduce surge against the formation. The
Hyflo diverter valve allows mud returns to be diverted from
inside the liner to the annulus above the setting tools.
The flow area in the annular area between the drillpipe and
the previous casing string is much larger than the internal
diameter of the drillpipe. Increasing the flow area reduces
surge pressures and permits higher trip speeds. The Hyflo
diverter valve allows circulation at the liner top at any time
during run-in to enhance safety.

Surge protection system running procedure

The auto-fill float equipment is run in the normal float
collar position near the bottom of the liner. The Hyflo
diverter valve is run directly above the liner running tool.
Once the liner is in place, a ball is used to close the Hyflo
diverter valve prior to cementing. When the ball is seated
in the Hyflo diverter valve, pressure shifts the inner sleeve
into the locked position, closing the ports to the annulus.
Continued pressure extrudes the ball seat and allows the
ball to pass through. After extruding through the seat, the
ball falls to the ball seat in the auto-fill float equipment.
Once the ball is seated in the auto-fill float equipment,
applied pressure sets the liner hanger and releases the
running tool. Additional pressure shears the ball seat and
the auto-fill float equipment is converted to a standard
float collar.
A conventional cement job can now be performed. When
the pump down plug reaches the Hyflo diverter valve, a
predetermined pressure pushes it through the extrudable
seat and it travels down to the liner wiper plug.
In the event that the Hyflo diverter valve can not be closed
with pressure, the sleeve may be shifted by a slickline
jarring tool.

BOTSurge - surge hydraulics model

Mud Properties
Mud weight (ppg):
Rheological model used:
Plastic viscosity (cP):
Yield point (lbf/100ft2):

14.5
Bingham plastic
35
12
Well Information

Drill strings (from top down)

Wellbore (from top down)

Description

OD
(in.)

ID
(in.)

Length
(ft)

# Description

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Drill pipe
Liner top
Liner hanger
Liner
Landing collar
Liner
Baffle plate
Float collar
Liner
Float shoe

4.500
8.435
8.480
7.625
7.775
7.625
7.775
7.775
7.625
7.775

3.640
6.625
6.625
6.625
1.500
6.625
3.500
3.500
6.625
3.500

7,250
15
10
3,240
1
39
1
2
40
2

1
2

Casing
Open hole

ID
(in.)

Depth
(ft)

8.681 7,505
8.500 10,600

Zone of Interest Information

Total MD (ft):
True vertical depth of zone of interest (ft):
Fracture gradient @ zone of interest (ppg):
Circulation sub MD (ft):

10,600
9,450
15.3
7,220

Report - Summary
Mud weight (ppg):
Total MD (ft):
True vertical depth of zone of interest (ft):
Fracture gradient @ zone of interest (ppg):
Circulation sub MD (ft):

14.5
10,600
9,450
15.3
7,220

Optimum pipe speed (ft/min):

Conventional floats:
Auto-fill floats:
Auto-fill floats with Hyflo diverter valve:

15.1
92.7
380

EMW vs Pipe Speed

A

17

Effective Mud Weight (ppg)

Surge protection system solution

Fracture

16

15

14

A: Convent. floats
B: Auto-fill floats
C: Hyflo diverter valve
0

80

160

240

320

400

480

560

640

Pipe Moving Speed (ft/min)

The BOTSurge hydraulics model is a valuable tool in planning liner running

operations. The BOTSurge model computes effective mud weight at various trip
speeds when running casing configured with conventional float equipment
(blue line), auto-fill float equipment (yellow line), and auto-fill float equipment
with the Hyflo diverter valve (green line).
Well conditions are the same for all three designs. In this example, results
clearly show that the combination of auto-fill float equipment and Hyflo diverter
valve enables casing to be run at much higher trip speed without the risk of
formation breakdown.

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