Packers

• OilField 101

[@whitesapphire5865]

The more of these videos I see, the more I begin to realise how complex a job it is to get oil out of the ground. It's quite an eye opener to see intricate some of these "simple" devices really are.

[@stanleykendziorski7964]

I've been in the oil and gas industry for over 13 years, the thing that amazes me still is the fact that we do all sorts of things like this without ever seeing it happen..

[@TheZachLife]

Often there is a lot going on.

[@heyitsjel]

Indeed it can be; and these packers are about as simple as they get in all honesty - although simple has many benefits (less to go wrong; easier to rebuild in field; typically lower cost; easier to run/retrieve... etc). As long as its' fit for purpose, you don't need to overcomplicate things. If you're up for a head scratcher; lookup something like gravel packing or multilateral wells... Always enjoy your videos from the other side of the patch Zach (land/conventional), and you gave a pretty solid explanation of how packers function. Coming largely from the other side of the industry (offshore platforms & subsea mainly), it actually shocks me how cheap some of these bits of kit can be... $800 for a new packer?! Damn tubing pups with premium connections cost more than that! Keep up the good work mate.

[@caseymitchell5477]

They get really complicated (and expensive), why I like shallow wells. Way cheaper to operate and repair!

[@johndowe7003]

It's not that complex, refining it is where it gets complex.

[@garrison3675]

AH-HAA !! after all these years. the Mystery of The Packer is revealed on The Zach Life !! ... no surprise, either ... and thank you !! ...

[@jim9337]

The funny thing is that after 37 yrs. in the Patch I am still learning things from your vids. Retired about 8 yrs. now, but watching you is a little like being back out on the lease again. I spent my life on a crew truck doing light construction / maintinence setting up single well batteries and the like, then the last years as a field operator, oil batteries and gas well / compressor stations. I don't miss being on 24 hr. call at -40, I am to old to be working all day, then working at night as well, but watching you makes me miss it some, especially the alone time up in the bush in NE British Columbia just me and the wild life. Thanks for bring back some good memories.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks for watching.

[@4GSR]

The old AD-1 Tension Packer. I am the engineering manager for a packer manufacture here in Texas. That packer has followed me everywhere I've worked in the past 40 years. Standard shear rings are 30, 40, and 50K shear. I haven't seen a 45K shear ring listed since the 1980's. Nice presentation you put on. Like your "poor man's" plastic coating being used, have to pass that around. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks

[@johndowe7003]

Yeah, old junk for rinky dink wells. Works good though..

[@4GSR]

@@johndowe7003 Yep! Touch up the slips on the grinder, reuse the element if not all blistered or split, slap it back together with a new shear ring if sheared and run it!😁

[@wornoutwrench8128]

Funny, this is absolutely useless information for me but I love watching it. I'm retired, never had anything to do with the oil industry, never will but something about the way Zack explains things... Came for the home built motorhome, stayed for the oil well info. (And the T-shirts)

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha thanks.

[@elcheapo5302]

You dont know what you don't know. Fascinating, Zach.

[@stanleykendziorski7964]

You do a great job of explaining how packers work.. they really are simple, but can be a headache a lot of the time to get out of the hole.. never much fun once fishing tools get involved

[@corydriver7634]

Interesting stuff, thanks for taking the time to explain.

[@MrBufordWilson]

Great demonstration of the Baker AD-1 tension packer. In some areas the injection brine is so corrosive it will wear out the tubing and packer mandrel. We'd often get tubing and packer mandrel with what they call duo-lining, a plastic like internal coating. And a rubber seal in the space in the EUE tubing connections.

[@TheZachLife]

I run some seal tight packers that's a pvc pipe lining. they work great.

[@RustyorBroken]

Go Packers!

[@morgansword]

I'd never heard of such a thing before... interesting

[@michaelmcclure8673]

Zack , I always pickup something new every time see your upload. 😊

[@rexmorgan6445]

I drove a water truck and have been on jobs where they were setting the packer but never understood how they worked. Thanks for the lesson.

[@oldtop459]

Man you’re one interesting dude. Thanks for the awesome informative entertaining videos! Anyone ever tell you that you look like a discount Dan Blocker? 😂

[@cajunchauvin]

I used to work for Camco and set them things all the time

[@entropyachieved750]

Great video. Love seeing this kind of content

[@budc865]

Great video, Zach! It was always difficult for me to find someone who would teach me how the downhole process works. I had several opportunities to buy small production and I wanted to, but I needed to understand how the wells worked. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks

[@misterbacon4933]

Really flabbergasted about your knowledge!

[@richardlincoln8438]

We enjoy this content a lot Zach, thank You for the time and effort You spent on this episode. Best Wishes to You, Your Family and Friends.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks.

[@442oldsrocket]

Very good video. Definitely something I've never seen before,oil well drilling, engineering, and millwright makes for very good content.

[@bro.weaver1282]

How do these rubber seals hold up during an acid job?

[@Deepakshrikhandesir]

Best Class _ Roll no. 7 Present Sir I Know much more today's class _ Great meeting 😊😊😊😊

[@brianmoore5498]

what a complex device. i had no clue . thanks

[@nicksacco6024]

Thank you Zach! Always interesting and detailed. Keep it up and best of luck!

[@advancednutritioninc908]

Excellent Video! Learned Something! Did a good job teaching!

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks.

[@bro.weaver1282]

am I missing something? You use a packer to seal off the perforations of lower reservoirs, but you still need to hire a perf rig to put holes in the casing above the packer, right?

[@TheZachLife]

You could do that. The rubbers seem to survive the acid.

[@angusandleigh]

I call this video BS... you didn't end up with anti-seize all over you hands, workbench etc. after pulling the lid off... any self-respecting individual who uses that stuff properly knows how that works... 😆 nah, I'm just messin' with you. Great video.

[@heyitsjel]

Too true. Kopr-Kote and other metal based threadlubricants/anti-seize compounds are like herpes once they get in your coveralls - you're never getting rid of it.

[@ProfaneGod]

Zach "Howdy tubers! today I'd like to talk about Packers" short pause "Greenbay Sucks" Ends video Lmao I know gonna get so much hate for this but i don't care Lmao

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha

[@MrNeverseeme]

I just watch a video where some guy processed crude oil into its seperate counterparts, compsitions ETC. Good video. i did ask where he obtained the crude oil. His response was Ebay. I looked it up and sure enough for some reason or another you can but crude oil samples VIA Ebay. Who would of thought.

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha intersting.

[@waggtech4883]

Do you ping your own wells? Might be an interesting topic to cover sometime!

[@DavidCAllen50]

Tuber here, love the Zach working on stuff, especially cool stuff. Time to get back to some SCADA

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks. I will.

[@Harold-si7eh]

NOW IN 2024 I HAVE SEEN THE NEW DIRECT ELECTRIC PUMP SYSTEMS THAT WORK WITHOUT A PUMPJACK,NO PACKERS NO MORE,AND THE INVESTMENT WILL PAY FOR ITSELF WITH THE MAINTENANCE COSTS OF THIS OLD SYSTEM,WITH THE NEW NON COPPER BATTERY STATION AND NEW HIGH ENERGY SOLAR CHARGERS BECOMING MORE ECONOMICAL CHANGES ARE ON THE WAY!!!!😊

[@donpampel3332]

Zach. Is the packer for the water injection well ?

[@TheZachLife]

yes.

[@ruben_balea]

Nice contraption

[@davidfrost801]

Still Enjoying your content ...

[@AIM54A]

Great video. If I understand it the packer is isolating fluids from where they're set down to the bottom of the hole? Would you do this to keep say water from a higher level from getting down into the production zone?

[@TheZachLife]

Yes this is one usage.

[@heyitsjel]

Correct; packers are essentially there to re-direct flow or prevent flow from certain areas/zones reaching other areas. In a typical production packer sense, they're usually used to isolate the annulus (ie. the gap between the tubing and the casing) above the packer up to the wellhead, from the production fluids. This can be for several reasons, such as well barriers; well integrity (eg. production tubing may be chrome based; while the production casing is not... thereby limiting unwanted corrosion of the casing); production requirements (eg. velocity string) etc. Conversely, if you were using this in an *injection* well, then this would prevent injection fluids/pressures from reaching certain areas. Packers also don't need to be run on tubing - in many other use cases they're run on drill pipe; coil; slickline or wireline, and set using running tools, as a method to hang things like sand screens; slotted liners; or for gravel packing etc. When used to isolate wells for various reasons (eg. suspension; integrity testing; or just to have a barrier while working on the surface trees etc.), they typically will use a variant with a solid bottom end called a bridge plug. It's basically just a packer that won't allow any flow through it. Typically, they also have some sort of equalization device (eg. a shiftable sleeve inside), which allows for pressure to be equalized above/below the bridge plug, prior to releasing/de-energizing the slips and element.

[@jonnojamwood]

Cheers bloke

[@ralphday4842]

I like packers. Green Bay packers....

[@95thousandroses]

Like the Dippy-bird in the back. I assume there will be a vid out shortly to explain how psychometrics work.

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha maybe. they are cool.

[@benrossbach6501]

Neat info kinda wondered how the well was sealed

[@johnkufeldt3564]

Hey Zach, your nosy friend from Alberta , Canada. Thanks for another quick and educational vid. Just a quick question, did those earthquakes cause you any problems? Cheers bud, looking forward to your next vid (and I almost always watch them twice to make sure I understand, you are a great teacher and if I could make it to Texas again I would love to see your detup). Keep it up Zach and take care.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks I felt one of them but didn't affect anything.

[@repete2362]

somewhere in the middle of Montana the red and gray was doing a frac. the guy I knew that was there had pictures . the packer let go iron truck was still hooked to the well head packer laying beside the iron truck tubing coiled everywhere .no one hurt .

[@TheZachLife]

I have seen them come loose, it can get wild.

[@caseymitchell5477]

We had one start slipping after swabbing on a well, post re- completion. There was so much pressure, that we had to chain down the tubing to the wellhead to keep it down!

[@nickpopelka]

Good video very informative

[@mike97525]

Thanks Zach

[@carmon5229]

🔥🔥🤘🤘

[@Seven-Seven-77]

Hey I have some investment in OXY, but it seems my JIB’s are more than the revenue checks month after month for about a year now, have you ever heard of this?

[@johndowe7003]

Ugh I wish I had kept my oxy shares I had bought a bunch at 4$ a share

[@billsmith5166]

You're likely to be too busy, but I'm just wondering if you liked the movie There Will Be Blood?

[@TheZachLife]

I have not. I hardly ever watch movies.

[@danieljohnson954]

Zach could you do a video on packers vs bridge plugs?

[@TheZachLife]

Absolutely

[@MrBarbuster]

called dressing tools

[@tugboat2739]

Howdy Zach

[@darenlowery1235]

Ole AD-1?

[@TheZachLife]

Yes.

[@shawnburke2866]

There is a reply from an engineer who works for the manufacturer of the AD-1. He reports the AD-1 is a long produced tried and true design.

[@TheZachLife]

While this is true in the fact that they aren't made by Baker any more they are a direct and exact copy of a Baker AD-1

[@63connie78]

1st .....lol