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Norwich - After two wording revisions and two public hearings with residents speaking overwhelmingly in favor of creating a new blight enforcement ordinance, the City Council Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the ordinance.
While most residents spoke in favor, speakers also expressed concern that the city would not put enough effort into enforcing the ordinance with the staffing needed in the building inspections department.
Nancy DePietro, a former city alderwoman, said she presented a list of blighted properties to the mayor and was ashamed of some of the conditions in the city and that a citizen had to bring it to the city's attention.
"I don't really think you have enough staff to take care of what you have," DePietro said.
She said if the city can't afford to hire more full-time staff, it should hire part-time staff to handle blight issues.
City officials hope the new blight ordinance will strengthen the city's financial position when abandoned properties are foreclosed on by big banks that don't respond to city pleas to maintain the property. The city already has a $100 per day blight lien under the existing property maintenance ordinance, and the amount will not change with the new ordinance.
Under state statute, with a "distressed properties" ordinance, as the blight ordinance is titled, the city's blight lien can take priority behind only back property taxes in mortgage foreclosure cases, city Corporation Counsel Michael Driscoll said. The blight lien would have to be paid, along with back taxes, when properties are auctioned or sold in short sales approved by banks.
"It is hereby found and declared that there exists within the City of Norwich a number of real properties which are in a blighted condition," the ordinance starts, "and that the continued existence of such properties contributes to the decline of neighborhoods. It is further found that the existence of such properties adversely affects the economic well-being of the City of Norwich and is inimical to the health, safety, and welfare of its residents."
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Alderman Francois "Pete" Desaulniers said once the city passes the ordinance, the council would be obligated to ensure that staffing is in place to enforce it properly.
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Intrusion detection tools that use the libpcap C/ C++ library [1] for network traffic capture (such as Snort [2] and Tcpdump [1]) can output packet capture information to a file for later reference. The format of this capture file is known as pcap. By capturing packet data to a file, an investigator can return later to study the history of an intrusion attempt – or to turn up other important clues about clandestine activity on the network.
Of course, the traffic history data stored in a pcap file is much too vast to study by just viewing the file manually. Security experts use specialized filtering tools to search through the file for pertinent information. One way to look for clues in a pcap file is to use the Wireshark protocol analysis tool [3] and its accompanying command-line utility tshark.
Wireshark is included by default on many Linux distros, and if not, it is available through the leading package repositories. You can also download Wireshark through the project website [4]. In this article, I describe how to use Wireshark and tshark to search a pcap file for information on network activity. I will assume you already have a pcap file ready for investigation. For more on how to capture a pcap file with Tcp-dump, see my article "Intruder Detection with Tcpdump," which is available online at the ADMIN magazine website [5].
tshark at the Command Line
The tshark utility is a simple tool included with the Wireshark package that lets you filter the contents of a pcap file from the command line. To get a view of the most significant activity, I use the following command:
$ tshark ‑nr dumpfile1.gz ‑qz "io,phs" > details.txt
The ‑n switch disables network object name resolution, ‑r indicates that packet data is to be read from the input file, in this case dumpfile1.gz. The ‑z allows for statistics to display after it finishes reading the capture file, the ‑q flag specifies that only the statistics are printed, and the > redirection
sends the output to the file called details.txt. See Figure 1 for the output of this information. To view a list of help commands used with tshark, type:
$ tshark ‑h
And for a list of ‑z arguments type:
$ tshark ‑z help
Figure 1
Say you would like to know whether a particular IP address appeared in a packet dump and what port it was connecting on. The following command line checks the dump file for the IP address 18.104.22.168:
$ tshark ‑V ‑nr dumpfile.gz ip.src == 22.214.171.124 | grep "Source port" | awk {'print $3'} | sort ‑n | uniq 80
The resulting output on the line following the command shows that the packet dump file recorded IP address 220.127.116.11 having connections on port 80.
If you were given a packet dump file and asked to find possible IRC traffic on your network, how would you do it? First, you would need to know what port numbers were associated with IRC traffic, and that could be accomplished with Google or by issuing the following command:
$ grep irc /usr/share/nmap/nmap‑services | grep tcp
Figure 2 shows the results of the preceding command.
Figure 2
Now I can search the packet dump and look for evidence of IRC traffic using the following commands:
$ tshark ‑nr dumpfile1.gz 'ip.addr==172.16.134.191 and tcp.port >= 6667 and tcp.port <= 6670 and irc' | awk {'print $3,$4,$5,$6'} | sort ‑n | uniq ‑c
Figure 1: tshark statistics output.
Figure 2: Locating IRC port numbers with grep.
Figure 3: IRC connections found in the packet dump.
Figure 4: The Wireshark startup window.
The breakdown of this command is shown in Table 1, and the output is in Figure 3.
Figure 3
In the GUI
The Wireshark GUI application is easier on the eyes, and it provides some options that aren't available at the command line. You can start Wireshark from the Application menu or from the terminal. To load a capture file, select Open in the startup window (Figure 4) or select File | Open from the menubar. Once you have a packet capture file loaded, you can start searching packet dumps within the Wireshark interface.
Figure 4
The Filter box below the Wireshark toolbar lets you enter criteria for the search. For instance, to search for all the Canonical Name records within the capture file, type in the following filter: dns.resp.type == CNAME (see Figure 5). After you enter a filter, remember to clear the filter text to see the full file before starting a new search.
Figure 5
Table 1: Parts of a tshark Command
Option Description
'ip.addr==172.16.134.191 This is my network
and tcp.port >= 6667 Start of the port range
and tcp.port <= 6670 End of the port range
and irc' Searches for IRC traffic only
awk {'print $3,$4,$5,$6'} Prints the third through sixth patterns from each matching line
sort ‑n Sorts according to string numerical value
uniq ‑c Only prints the number of matches that are unique
Digging deeper, if I want to know how long a client resolver cached the IP address associated with the name cookex.amp.gapx.yahoodns.net (Figure 6), I would enter the following filter:
dns.resp.name == "cookex.amp.gapx. yahoodns.net"
Figure 6
The filter ip.addr == 10.37.32.97 gives information on all communications that involve 10.37.32.97 in the packet dump. If needed, use && to isolate to a specific protocol. The filter ip.dst == 10.37.32.97 or ip.src == 10.37.32.97 looks for a source or destination IP address.
How could I find the password used over Telnet between two IP addresses? For example, if a user at 172.21.12.5 is using Telnet to access a device at 10. 37. 140.160, I can enter:
ip.dst == 10.37.140.160 && ip.src == 172.21.12.5 && telnet.data contains "Password"
The preceding command will list the connections that meet the search requirement, and you can right-click on the packet and click Follow TCP Stream to view the password. (See Figures 7 and 8.)
Figure 7
Figure 8
Note: A much easier way to get the password on the network, if you were sniffing the traffic instead of reading from a capture file, would be to use ettercap, as follows:
$ ettercap ‑Tzq //23
To discover whether someone was viewing a suspicious web page, I can perform a filter search to find out what picture the person at IP address 10.225.5.107 was viewing at Yahoo (22.214.171.124) with the following filter:
ip.dst == 10.225.5.107 && ip.src == 22.214.171.124 && (image‑jfif || image‑gif)
Figure 9
Figure 9 shows the results. If you then right-click on a line in the output and select Follow TCP Stream for the results shown in Figure 10.
The second line in the Follow TCP Stream output specifies that wynn‑ rovepolitico.jpg is the image this person was viewing on the site.
Figure 10
Wireshark can do more than just watch the wires in real time. If you save a snapshot of network activity in a capture file in the pcap format, you can use Wireshark to search through the file to look for clues about nefarious activity.
In this article, I described how to search for information in a capture file using Wireshark and the tshark command-line tool.
[1] Tcpdump and Libpcap: http://www.tcpdump.org/
[2] Snort: http://www..snort.org
[3] Wireshark: http://www.wireshark.org/
[4] Wireshark Download: http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
[5] "Intruder Detection with Tcpdump" by David J. Dodd: http://www.admin‑magazine.com/Articles/Intruder‑Detection‑with‑tcpdump/
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The typical turkey on television or radio is incapable of analyzing football teams beyond a handful of headline-making players on offense: the 40-year-old gunslinger quarterback, the fumble-prone runner, the loudmouthed wide receiver.
These players win all the awards, score all the touchdowns, date all the starlets, marry all the supermodels, do all the Oreo commercials and gain all the attention from the media.
But they also divert attention away from defenses and away from what are often bigger on-the-field stories — to the point that it seems that many observers forget that defenses even exist.
The 2009 Saints, New England's opponent in a big-time "Monday Night Football" showdown this week, represent a textbook example of a team that's largely misunderstood because our fixation on offense.
Everybody knows that Drew Brees puts up gaudy numbers for the high-powered New Orleans offense. But actually, the team's dependence upon him has declined noticeably this year.
•Brees averaged 40 attempts and 317 yards per game in 2008.
•Brees averages 32 attempts and 275 yards per game in 2009.
What has changed in New Orleans is a spectacular improvement in its pass defense, from middle of the pack last year to easily the best in football this year. This meteoric rise would be the biggest story in football this year if pigskin "pundits" devoted the same kind of attention to defense that they do to offense.
There's some debate over the best passing offense in football this year. Minnesota, Indy, New Orleans, even New England, can all make a claim.
But there's no debate about who boasts the best pass defense in football. It belongs to the Saints and to future Hall of Fame safety Darren Sharper, who should garner MVP honors from the Cold, Hard Football Facts at the end of the year. (We have no faith that anybody else will see the light and make a defender MVP.)
The Saints are very good on offense this year. No doubt. They're No. 1 in total offense (420.5) and No. 1 in scoring offense (36.9), ahead of the No. 2 New England (416.1 YPG) and No. 2 Minnesota (30.6 PPG) in each category. In fact, they're still on pace to break New England's 2007 record as the highest-scoring team in modern football history (36.8 PPG).
But the Saints are spectacular on pass defense this season. It's the New Orleans pass defense that's making life miserable for opposing quarterbacks. It's the New Orleans defense that's most responsible for the team's rise from 8-8 and last place in the NFC South last year to 10-0 and No. 1 in the NFC this year. It's the New Orleans pass defense that gives the Saints a double-edged sword that the Patriots did not possess in 2007.
And it's the New Orleans defense that will make the Monday night donnybrook the most compelling statistical clash of the 2009 season and that poses the biggest challenge that Tom Brady and the Patriots have faced all year … and perhaps ever.
The statistical bloodbath could not come in a bigger game: the Patriots are fighting to secure a first-round bye. They'll also attempt to preserve the franchise's legacy as the only 16-0 team in history. The Nov. 30 battle comes almost exactly 24 years to the day after the most famous and most-watched Monday night game in history: Miami's 38-24 triumph over the undefeated Bears on Dec. 2, 1985.
That's a full plate of storylines to force down on a full holiday belly.
Here's a look at the New Orleans defense through several of the critical Quality Stats we chronicle at Cold, Hard Football Facts.
No. 1 in Defensive Passer Rating: We discussed the importance of defensive passer rating earlier this year. It is the best and most accurate way to measure a team's pass defense, far more indicative of performance than yards allowed.
Yards are the preferred indicator of the "pundits" but it's a very, very misleading indicator. The Saints look merely mediocre when measured by yards allowed (214.9 YPG, 16th). But the Saints are almost always ahead and opponents are almost always passing the ball to play catch-up. New Orleans opponents have attempted 370 passes against them this year, among the most in the league (the Patriots have faced just 316 attempts this year).
So yards can be misleading. But defensive passer rating is not. It is a deadly accurate indicator of success, and all the consistently great defenses in history — from Lombardi's Packers to Noll's Steel Curtain to Lott's 49ers — rated very, very highly in DPR.
And New Orleans easily tops the NFL in this indicator, with a 57.8 defensive passer rating. That puts the Saints on pace to produce the best pass defense the NFL has since the 2003 Super Bowl champion Patriots (56.2 DPR).
To look at it from the other side of the ball, opposing quarterbacks have produced a meager 57.8 passer rating against the New Orleans defense — well below the league-wide standard of 83.8.
The average observer who looks at yards sees a Saints team with an average pass defense. The observer who looks at the Saints through the omniscient prism of the Cold, Hard Football Facts sees the best pass defense in the league.
No. 1 in interceptions: The Saints have picked off 20 passes this year, easily the most in football.
In NFL arithmetic, INTs = Ws. In fact, each INT a team grabs increases their chances of winning by about 20 percentage points. So these 20 picks are a big reason for the success of the Saints.
Brady has been very, very good as usual at avoiding INTs: He boasts the best TD-INT ratio in NFL history (2.4 to 1) and he's thrown just six picks in 393 attempts this year.
Brady's also avoided these mistakes despite playing some of the best pass defenses in football – the Bills are second in INTs (17), the Jets are third in DPR (72.4); the Colts were fourth in DPR until being shredded by Brady two weeks ago.
But the Saints theft-masters provide the biggest challenge to date.
No. 1 in completion percentage: The Saints have allowed opposing quarterbacks to complete just 53.2 percent of their passes this year — that's well below the league average of 61.1 percent completions.
It's hard to keep drives alive when you complete barely half your passes and no team forces more incompletions than the Saints.
No. 1 in Passer Rating Differential: After years studying decades of football data, it became fairly evident that pro football is all about one thing: winning the passing efficiency battle.
Running effectively is almost meaningless in the NFL, while passing well on offense and stopping the pass on defense have been critical to almost every game that's ever been played. So Cold, Hard Football Facts introduced an indicator this year called passer rating differential to measure which teams are best at winning the passing battle. We merely subtract a team's defensive passer rating from its offensive passer rating.
Just as we suspected, it's become a hugely telling indicator of success. For example, the undefeated Saints are No. 1 in passer rating differential. The undefeated Colts are No. 2 in this indicator. Notice a trend?
The Patriots, for their part, are No. 3 in passer rating differential — an encouraging sign for the team's postseason hopes.
But the Saints absolutely dominate this indicator – easily winning the passing battle week after week like no other team in football. Here's the top five in PRD this year.
No. 1: New Orleans – +48.0
No. 2: Indianapolis – +27.2
No. 3: New England – +26.9
No. 4: Green Bay – +24.9
No. 5: Minnesota – +23.1
Two things jump out from this list of five times: 1) it contains the four teams universally proclaimed in pretty much every "Power Rankings" as the top four in football (NO, Indy, NE, MINN); and 2) the Saints blow every other team out of the water.
No. 2 in defensive passing yards per attempt: After the final score, passing yards per attempt is probably the most critical measure of success in football. Teams that win the passing YPA battle historically win nearly 75 percent of NFL games.
The 2009 Saints allow opposing teams to gain just 6.2 yards per pass attempt. Only Rex Ryan's Jets are stingier in this area (6.0 YPA).
Coupled with the fact that New Orleans boasts the NFL's highest average per pass attempt on offense and — like passer rating differential — it makes for a deadly statistical advantage in favor of the Saints week after week.
No. 2 in Negative Pass Plays: The Saints force opposing passers into critical negative pass plays (sacks or INTs) on 11.4 percent of drop backs. That's the second-best rate in the NFL (behind Philly). The Patriots, for their part, are well down the list, forcing negative pass plays on 9.3 percent of dropbacks (17th in the NFL).
The Saints are not a dominant pass-rushing team (24 sacks). But coupled with their league-leading 20 INTs, it means that New Orleans has forced 44 negative pass plays this year. Philly, No. 1 in the league, has produced 46 negative pass plays (30 sacks, 16 INT).
The Patriots are well down the list, forcing just 31 negative pass plays this year (18 sacks, 13 INT).
An INT almost always turns momentum. Sacks often turn momentum. The fact that the Saints are among the very best in the league at producing these game-changing plays is another sign of the impact their defense is having on the team's fortunes this year.
No. 1 in off-season acquisitions: As we stated, and as you know, offensive players generate all the attention. Newly acquired quarterbacks like Brett Favre in Minnesota, Kyle Orton in Denver and Jay Cutler in Chicago have inspired countless headlines, chat-board rants and on-the-field dramas here in 2009.
But the biggest off-season acquisition in football this year might have been Darren Sharper, the future Hall of Fame safety who the Saints grabbed away from the Vikings back at the start of free agency in March. It was a critical move.
Sharper is one of the great defenders in league history: He's second in the NFL this year with seven INTs and first with three defensive touchdowns, setting a Saints franchise record along the way.
He's among the all-time leaders in both categories, too:
Sharper is No. 1 among active players with 61 career INTs, a mark that stands ninth all time. With two more picks, he'll tie the guy at No. 6 on the list, Ronnie Lott. Sharper has returned 11 picks for TDs in his 13-year career, second in history only to Rod Woodson, who scored 12 pick-sixes in a 17-year career.
Sharper's also defended a career-best 12 passes, an unusually high number for a floating free safety.
Sharper, in other words, is one of the most productive defenders of our life time, a Brett Favre-caliber performer who has the misfortune of playing on the side of the ball that garners blank looks instead of hype and headlines.
New defensive coordinator Greg Williams has gained, and perhaps deserve, much of the credit for the improved New Orleans defense. But Sharper is the prolific veteran who's actually made it happen on the field.
Brady and the Patriots have proven over the years that they can light up almost any defense and that they can overcome any seeming statistical disadvantage. The Colts, for example, lead the league in scoring defense (15.7 PPG) and the Patriots torched them for 34 points.
The Saints surrender more points (20.4 PPG). But they pose a unique set of challenges.
The Patriots of the Belichick-Brady Era have never faced a team so thoroughly prolific on both sides of passing battle: the New Orleans offense moves the ball through the air about as well as any other team and, with far fewer headlines, they dominate opposing passers more thoroughly than any defense in football.
It's a deadly one-two combination and it sets up probably the greatest statistical and personal showdown of the 2009 season: the great Tom Brady and the prolific New England pass attack vs. the great Darren Sharper and the stifling New Orleans pass defense.
Tailgate New Orleans style
I got out of the habit of including a recipe in this space each week, but got a lot of emails about it over the past few weeks. New Orleans, meanwhile, is the best foodie city in America. So I figured I'd pull something out of the savory Cold, Hard Football Facts tailgate recipe library.
This is a recipe for shrimp remoulade I got from Steven Latter, the owner of Tujague's, one of the legendary eateries of the French Quarter, right near Jackson Square.
Remoulade is a spicy, mustard-based Creole sauce that is often tossed with boiled, chilled shrimp. But you can use it as you would any other condiment in backyard barbecues or tailgates to add a kick to hot dogs, hamburgers, pork, chicken and other types of seafood.
Tujaque's Shrimp Remoulade
3/4 cup finely chopped white onion
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
1/4 cup finely chopped scallions
1/4 cup finely chopped lettuce
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
4 oz. Zatarain's Creole mustard or any brown mustard
Generous amount of paprika, for color
6 oz. olive oil
1 t. fresh lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
1 to 2 lbs. boiled, chilled shrimp
Make sure onion, celery, scallions, lettuce and parsley are finely chopped and then mix them together. Add mustard and mix well. Add paprika, olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well again. Sauce can be made in advance and will keep for several days. Pour the sauce in a bowl with boiled, chilled shrimp and toss to coat completely. Serve the shrimp on a bed of lettuce greens. This recipe will make about 16 ounces of remoulade and serve about 4 to 8 people.
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|Application number
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|Mar 10, 1992
|Filing date
|Mar 30, 1987
|Priority date
|Mar 30, 1987
|Fee status
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|Russell I. Bayh, III
|Original Assignee
|Otis Engineering Corp.
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|Patent Citations (15), Referenced by (18), Classifications (16), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to well equipment and in particular to a packer which may be hydraulically released and to a well pump assembly including a packer which may be hydraulically released.
This invention is an improvement over the inventions disclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 06/913,106 filed Sept. 29, 1986 by Russell I. Bayh, III.
Packers and packers for well pump assemblies have been set and released in many different ways; see for instance U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,853,430 and 4,121,659. Prior release techniques included pulling tubing to shear pins, unscrewing threads, cutting subs with jet streams or explosives, and shifting tools to release a collet. Use of a collet in association with a packer is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,326,292.
In a pump assembly such as shown in the above identified application it would be preferable to be able to use a positively power set packer such as the RDH Packer available from Otis Engineering Corporation, Dallas, Tex. The packer should be provided with a means within the packer for releasing the packer as the forces needed for release are substantial and it is desirable not to exert such forces through the supporting cable.
It is an object of this invention to provide a well pump assembly in which the packer of the assembly may be released hydraulically.
Another object is to provide a well pump assembly in which the entire assembly may be run in a casing on a cable and set and locked in place and then released and recovered without benefit of a landing nipple to permit the assembly to be set at any desired depth.
Another object is to provide a well pump assembly in which the packer may be released hydraulically and preferably set hydraulically.
Another object is to provide a packer which may be released by hydraulic pressure and preferably set hydraulically.
Another object is to provide a well pump assembly and a packer which may be set and released by hydraulic pressure from a single or a dual control line.
Another object is to provide a well pump assembly where a single or a dual control line may be utilized to set and release a well packer and to operate a subsurface safety valve.
Another object is to provide a well pump assembly and a packer therefore in which the packer may be set by a control line and released by hydraulic pressure from a different control line.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the drawings, the specification and the claims.
In the drawings wherein like referenced numerals indicate like parts and wherein an illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view partly in section and partly in elevation of a well pump system and packer constructed in accordance with this invention with the right hand view being a continuation of the left hand view.
FIGS. 2A through 2J are views partly in elevation and partly in section with parts broken away illustrating a well pump system and packer constructed in accordance with this invention.
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of the slip carrier, slips and expander cone of the packer shown in FIG. 2E.
Referring to FIG. 1 the well pump assembly is suspended from the surface by the cable indicated generally at 10. The cable 10 includes flexible metal wire supports 11 and 12 as well as power cable 13 and control conduit means which may include one or more conduits such as conduits 14 and 15.
The penetrator sub indicated generally at 16 is suspended from the cable and includes the penetrator indicated generally at 17 which passes the power cable 13 through the sub 16 and seals the cable to the sub.
Below the penetrator sub 16 the offset sub indicated generally at 18 supports the packer release indicated generally at 19 which in turn supports the packer indicated generally at 20.
The packer 20 in turn supports the subsurface safety valve indicated generally at 21 and the well pump indicated generally at 22 depending from the valve completes the assembly.
In accordance with this invention the packer 20 may be set in any desired manner which will permit it to carry out its function of sealing the annulus between the casing 23 and the assembly so that fluid raised by the pump 22 will pass through the bore 24 in the packer and be lifted to the surface. For instance this packer might be set by hydraulic means as will be more fully explained herein below or perhaps by the use of explosives set off by activating a control conduit as will be understood by those skilled in the art. If the hydraulic set packer is utilized the control conduit 15 will be a hydraulic conduit and a leg 15a off this conduit may extend to the packer to provide hydraulic fluid for carrying out the setting operation such as in the packer disclosed in FIG. 2.
The packer may be released by activating a control conduit which in accordance with this invention is a hydraulic conduit such as conduit 14 having a branch 14a conducting fluid to a fluid piston 25 which is shifted to release a set packer.
Further in accordance with this invention fluid from a hydraulic conduit may be utilized to operate the subsurface safety valve 21. For instance where two control conduits are utilized and each is hydraulic, the conduit 14 may have a leg 14b passing through the wall of sub 18 and extending downwardly which may conduct fluid to a balance chamber 26 in the subsurface safety valve 21. This will balance the hydrostatic head of fluid in the control conduit 15. The conduit leg 15b extends through the wall of sub 18 and is in fluid communication with the piston 27 of the subsurface safety valve to control operation of valve. The use of such a balance chamber and control conduit is well known to those skilled in the art.
After the packer has been set, the design maybe such that the control fluid has no effect on the packer and the line 15 may be utilized to control other functions without any effect on the packer, such as controlling the subsurface safety valve through line 15b. Devices are also known for shutting off the flow of fluid through a conduit such as conduit 15a after a function has been completed. Such a device could be utilized to permit the setting of the packer 20 and then closing off the line 15b to permit conduit 15 to be used for other purposes such as operating the subsurface safety valve. It is further apparent that if the release piston 25 is held against reciprocation when the pressure in branch line 14a is less than a selected amount that a single hydraulic line could be utilized to operate the subsurface safety valve below the selected value and then operate the piston 25 to release the packer by raising the pressure to exceed the selected value. Thus it is apparent that even a single hydraulic control line could be utilized to set the packer 20 and after the packer is set to operate the subsurface safety valve and when desired raise the pressure above a selected value to operate the packer release.
Reference is now made to FIGS. 2 and 3 wherein a preferred form of apparatus is illustrated. In FIG. 2A the cable 10 which is suspended from the surface is shown to be received in an upper sub 28 which is connected to a space-out sleeve system indicated generally at 29. This system forms a part of the equipment for suspending the assembly from the cable as shown in the upper section of FIG. 2B. The suspension includes the drum sockets 31 and 32 fixed to the end of the cables 11 and 12 from which the two piece penetrator sub 16 is suspended. This sub also has provisions for shear out provided by a telescoping joint indicated generally at 33 and a plurality of shear pins 34. In the event the tool becomes lodged in the hole a sufficient pull on cable 10 will shear pins 34 and permit the cable to be retrieved in the conventional manner.
At the lower end of the penetrator sub 16 the penetrator 17 is provided in sealed relationship with the penetrator housing 35 and sealingly passes the three power cables 13a, b and c through the penetrator. For a detailed discussion of the construction of the equipment shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B references made to my co-opening U.S. patent application Ser. No. 913,106.
The well pump 22 (FIGS. 2I and 2J) receives power from the power system 13 and lifts the fluid in the well. Any desired well pump driven by any desired power source may be utilized as will be understood by those skilled in the art.
The subsurface safety valve shown in FIGS. 2G, H and I may also be any desired form of safety valve as will be understood by those skilled in the art. The illustrated valve 21 employs a flapper 36 with a seat 37 to control flow. The flapper is in turn controlled by the actuator 38 which is reciprocal within the valve body 39. The spring 36 is effective on the enlarged diameter section 38a of the actuator to urge the actuator upwardly. The actuator includes an upper section 38b which carries the piston 27 responsive to control fluid from control line 15 through port 41 which is connected with the fluid bore 42 receiving control fluid from line 15B (FIG. 2G). In the conventional manner an increase in fluid pressure in line 15b moves the piston 27 downwardly to open the flapper with downward movement of the actuator. On upward movement of the actuator the flapper is moved to closed position in the conventional manner by spring 36a.
At the upper end of the subsurface safety valve a lock out system indicated generally at 43 is provided. The sleeve 44 is provided with conventional grooves 44a to receive keys of a shifting tool. Upon downward movement of such shifting tool the pins 45 are sheared and the sleeve 44 moved downwardly to move the actuator 38 to its down position locking the flapper valve 36 in open position. The upper end of the sleeve 44 is provided with teeth 46 which are ratcheted down past an expansible lock ring 47 which prevent the sleeve 44 from returning to its upward position shown in FIG. 2G when the shifting tool is removed from the sleeve thus leaving the subsurface safety valve locked in open position.
Reference is now made to FIGS. 2C through 2F and to FIG. 3 wherein a preferred form of packer and packer release system is shown. The packer is preferably a modified form of a commercially available RDH packer identified above. The packer is what is known as a dual packer with the flow way 24 utilized for flow of fluid through the packer and the other bore 48 through the packer utilized to pass the power cables 13 and control conduit 15 and if desired control conduit 14 down to the safety valve. In the safety valve illustrated in FIG. 2 balance pressure is not utilized as in the case of the safety valve shown schematically in FIG. 1. If a balance fluid for the safety valve is desired the conduit would extend downwardly through the packer as shown in FIG. 1 and introduce pressure into the chamber 30 in the conventional manner.
The packer includes release mandrel means provided by upper tube 49 having depending there from the lower tube 51. On the lower end of the release mandrel an entry guide 52 is provided for the cables and control lines.
At the upper end of the packer a button housing 53 (FIG. 2D) is carried on the release mandrel and carries a plurality of button slips 54, 55 and 56 which function in the conventional manor to engage the casing 23 and limit upward movement of the packer. These button slips receive fluid from below the packer through the flow tube 57 and passages 58 and 59 between the tube 57 and the button slips in the conventional manor. Thus when the packer is set and the subsurface safety valve closed a buildup in pressure below the packer will be effected on the button slips to urge them into contact with the casing wall and prevent upward movement of the packer.
Below the button slip housing a plurality of expansible packer elements 67, 68 and 69 are provided for expansion into contact with the casing wall to seal between the packer and the casing wall.
The button slip carrier 53 also is provided with the enlarged diameter section 61 and downwardly facing shoulder 62. This shoulder is engaged by snap ring 63 when the release mandrel 51 is moved upwardly during release of the packer to remove the expanding force from elements 67, 68 and 69. The button slip housing is supported on the control mandrel by a support ring 65 releasably fastened to the support mandrel by shear pins 66.
Depending from the button slip carrier 53 is a support mandrel 71 the bore of which provides a portion of the flow way 24. A connector sub 72 (FIG. 2F) depends from the support mandrel and connects the support mandrel to the offset sub 73 which is connected to the subsurface safety valve 21 by the connector sub 74.
Slidable on the two mandrels 51 and 71 is the slip cone 75 shown in FIGS. 2E and 3. This cone cooperates with slips 76 supported on the slip carrier 77. The cone 75 and slip carrier 77 are secured together by bolt means 78 having a pair of spacers 79 and 81 between the bowl and carrier. These spacers limit movement of the bowl and carrier toward each other and thus limit the outward extent of movement of the slips 76 so that they will be retained by the slip carrier 77 and not lost in the well in the event of a malfunction. The cone, carrier and slips are well known in the art and their relationship and operation as well as the operation of the button slips 54 are shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,381,752. The construction of the cone, slips and carrier may follow the teaching of this patent.
Means are provided for setting the packer. In the preferred form this means is hydraulic as illustrated in FIG. 2. For this purpose hydraulic fluid from the control conduit 15a is connected in the button slip carrier to a flow tube 82 (FIG. 2D) which is threadably connected to lower latch block 84.
The flow way 85 which communicates with flow tube 82 leads to a relief fitting to prevent excess pressure from being applied to the system. Such relief may or may not be employed as desired.
Pressure fluid from the control conduit is exerted downwardly on piston 86 to drive this piston in a downward direction. The reactive upward force is transmitted from the lower latch block 84 to the upper latch block 87 which is shouldered against the actuator mandrel 51 at 88 (FIG. 2E). The lower end of the piston 86 abuts the connector 72 (FIG. 2F) and thus downward movement of the piston 86 moves the mandrel 71 and the button slip carrier 53 (FIG. 2D) downwardly in the conventional manner. This downward movement causes the slip cone 75 (FIG. 2E) to expand the slips 76 into engagement with the casing wall to hang the packer on the casing. The downward movement also expands the packer elements 67, 68 and 69 into engagement with the casing wall to seal between the packer and the casing.
As the mandrel 71 moves downwardly it slides through the retainer slips 89 (FIG. 2E) which are urged upwardly by spring 91 into engagement with the slip bowl 92. The slips 89 lock the mandrel 71 in its down position and hold the slips 76 extended and the packer elements 67, 68 and 69 expanded for normal operation.
As the button slip carrier 53 begins its downward movement it shears the pins 66 (FIG. 2D) to permit to such downward movement. Prior to setting of the packer the shear pins 66 hold the assembly in its non-set position and prevent any downward force being applied to the slip expander 75.
In accordance with this invention when it is desired to retrieve the assembly the packer is released in response to an increase in hydraulic fluid pressure in the control line 14a.
The means for releasing the packer means from set position preferably includes a releasable latch means in the assembly holding the slips in the set position and a hydraulic means for releasing the latch means to permit relative movement of the slips and slip cone to release them from set position. It is further preferred that a part of the assembly be a two piece sleeve which holds the slips and slip bowl in set position together with a latch which when released, releases the two piece sleeve permitting it to collapse thus permitting the release of the slips.
In accordance with this invention in its preferred form, the upper latch block 87 (FIG. 2E) has extending upwardly there from and threaded thereto a collet 93 having its collet finger enlargements or dogs 94 held within grooves 95 in a sleeve 96. The sleeve 96 depends from and supports the slip carrier 77. With the packer in running or in the set position an enlarged diameter section 51a of the mandrel 51 is positioned behind the dogs 94 on the collet fingers to prop them out and hold them within the groove 95 on sleeve 96. Thus there is provided a two piece or telescoping sleeve in the form of the collet 93 and the sleeve 96 which holds the slip carrier in space relationship relative to the latch block 87 prior to the packer being released.
In accordance with this invention the preferred form of packer is released by a hydraulic means such as piston 25 which when raised under control fluid pressure carries with it the release mandrel 51 to move the enlarged mandrel section 51a from behind the dogs 94 on the collets. The reduced diameter section 51b of the release mandrel then resides behind the collet dogs 94 and these dogs may release from the groove 95.
Prior to release of the packer slips 76 the valve 21 should be opened to equalize pressure across the packer to release the button slips 54, 55 and 56.
To prevent premature release of the collet dogs the release mandrel is secured to the collet by a plurality of shear pins 97. As discussed hereinabove the value of the shear pins may be selected not only to provide the function of preventing premature release but they may be related to the value of pressure needed to operate the subsurface safety valve or to set the packer or both, such that the packer may first be set, then the subsurface safety valve may be operated, and then the packer released by shearing of these pins.
To provide for upward movement of the release mandrel 51 the piston 25 (FIG. 2C) bears against a spacer 98 which in turn bears against the lower end of the offset sub 18 from which the release mandrel depends. Thus, when pressure is applied through line 14a to pressurize the chamber 99 below piston 25, the piston is raised and carries with it the release mandrel 51. This results in shearing of the pins 97. After these pins are sheared the release mandrel is moved upward by cable 10 to a position where the smaller diameter section 51b lies behind the collet finger enlargements or dogs 94 permitting them to release from the sleeve 96.
The cable is preferably in tension when pins 97 are released. The stretched will contract to release the collet and to drive ring 63 shoulder 62 to release the setting force on the packer elements. Also as the release mandrel moves upward a shoulder 101 on the release mandrel will engage a downwardly facing shoulder 102 (FIG. 2E) to drive the slip cone 75 from behind slips 76 to release the packer. By maintaining the cable in tension during the release cycle a jar action is applied to the slip cone to jar it loose from the slips.
By providing for the hydraulic release of the shear pins 97 the cable 10 is protected against the high load that would be required to release the packer by pulling on the cable. Thus the cable may be maintained in tension during use of the assembly to prevent damage to the cable. This tension may be utilized to assist in releasing the packer.
If the packer is not completely released by the jar action discussed above, the packer will be released as the cable 10 is reeled in at the surface to raise the assembly.
The foregoing disclosure and description of the invention are illustrative and explanatory thereof and various changes in the size, shape and materials, as well as in the details of the illustrated construction, and various changes in the process, may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Dec 7, 1964
|Jun 20, 1967
|Otis Eng Co
|Multiple string well pumping system and apparatus
|Dec 6, 1965
|May 7, 1968
|Otis Eng Co
|Well tools
|Jul 24, 1974
|Nov 25, 1975
|Hydraulic Workover Inc
|Hydraulic packer apparatus and method
|Oct 31, 1975
|Feb 22, 1977
|Dresser Industries, Inc.
|Oil well tool with packing means
|Aug 25, 1978
|Feb 26, 1980
|Baker International Corporation
|Well bore apparatus with hydraulically releasable tubing seal unit
|Apr 21, 1980
|Oct 19, 1982
|Otis Engineering Corporation
|Well safety valve
|May 10, 1984
|Mar 18, 1986
|Baker Oil Tools, Inc.
|Perforation and isolation apparatus
|Feb 18, 1983
|Apr 15, 1986
|Ava International Corporation
|Well packers
|Jul 16, 1984
|May 6, 1986
|Baker Oil Tools, Inc.
|Subterranean well tool with pressure-equalizing release
|Sep 4, 1985
|Nov 11, 1986
|Trw Inc.
|Cable suspended submergible pumping system with safety valve
|Jan 31, 1985
|Dec 2, 1986
|Otis Engineering Corporation
|Submersible pump installation, methods and safety system
|Oct 21, 1985
|Dec 30, 1986
|Otis Engineering Corporation
|Submersible pump safety systems
|Apr 10, 1985
|Mar 3, 1987
|Halliburton Company
|Hydraulically set and released bridge plug
|Jul 19, 1985
|Jun 9, 1987
|Halliburton Company
|Method and apparatus for hydraulically releasing from a gravel screen
|Jan 31, 1986
|Aug 25, 1987
|Dresser Industries, Inc.
|Running and setting tool for well packers
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Aug 2, 1993
|Apr 11, 1995
|The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Interior
|Wireline-powered inflatable-packer system for deep wells
|Jan 10, 1994
|Jan 2, 1996
|Reeled tubing deployed packer with control line bypass
|Oct 31, 1995
|Nov 11, 1997
|Baker Hughes Incorporated
|Dual-bore, antirotating pump assembly
|Aug 3, 1998
|Oct 31, 2000
|Camco International, Inc.
|Packer assembly for use in a submergible pumping system
|Aug 31, 1999
|Mar 20, 2001
|Schlumberger Technology Corporation
|Hydraulic well packer and method
|Jan 16, 2002
|May 9, 2006
|Institut Francais Du Petrole
|Safety valve for oil wells
|Nov 9, 2006
|Mar 31, 2009
|Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
|Sealing and communicating in wells
|Aug 17, 2010
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Retrievable surface controlled subsurface safety valve
|May 29, 2008
|Jan 24, 2012
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Surface controlled subsurface safety valve having integral pack-off
|Mar 20, 2009
|Nov 20, 2012
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Capillary hanger arrangement for deploying control line in existing wellhead
|May 13, 2010
|Jul 9, 2013
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Wellhead control line deployment
|Jul 14, 2012
|Feb 11, 2014
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Capillary hanger arrangement for deploying control line in existing wellhead
|Nov 9, 2006
|May 15, 2008
|Matt Howell
|Sealing and communicating in wells
|Mar 20, 2009
|Dec 3, 2009
|Richard Jones
|Capillary hanger arrangement for deploying control line in existing wellhead
|May 29, 2008
|Dec 3, 2009
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Retrievable Surface Controlled Subsurface Safety Valve
|May 29, 2008
|Dec 3, 2009
|Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
|Surface controlled subsurface safety valve having integral pack-off
|Jun 12, 1992
|Dec 16, 1992
|Baker Hughes Incorporated
|Fluid-actuated wellbore tool system
|Jan 16, 2002
|Aug 15, 2002
|Institut Francais Du Petrole
|Safety valve for oil wells
|U.S. Classification
|166/106, 166/188, 166/120, 166/319
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jul 30, 1987
Owner name: OTIS ENGINEERING CORPORATION, CARROLLTON, COUNTY O
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Effective date: 19870724
|Nov 15, 1993
Owner name: HALLIBURTON COMPANY, TEXAS
Free format text: MERGER;ASSIGNOR:OTIS ENGINEERING CORPORATION;REEL/FRAME:006779/0356
Effective date: 19930624
|Oct 17, 1995
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
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|May 21, 1996
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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It makes no sense to hold law enforcement less accountable for its handling of homicide cases, but that's what the state legislature has done in the name of victim privacy. Now, the General Assembly is poised to go even further. Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act — one of the best in the country, though constantly under threat — would be seriously compromised by a bill to keep 911 tapes and crime scene photos secret in homicide cases.
After the Newtown massacre — on the last day of the 2013 legislative session with no public hearing — the General Assembly hastily passed a law to prevent the release of crime scene photos and audio recordings describing homicide victims. Lawmakers were reacting to a rumor that documentary filmmaker Michael Moore would try to make Newtown victim photos public to influence the gun control debate. But that was only a rumor. There was never an effort to publicize those images.
And yet the law has been on the books since last June. It also established a 17-member task force to determine the proper "balance between victim privacy under the Freedom of Information Act and the public's right to know." The panel, stacked in favor of limiting access to public information, recommended continuing the exemption for records in homicide cases, adding even more records to the list.
Specifically, recordings of 911 calls and other communications would be exempt from disclosure if they relate to a homicide and capture or convey "the impaired physical condition of the caller or another person."
Keeping these records secret makes it easier for officials to hide mistakes and wrongdoing, as Claude Albert, legislative chair for the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information, pointed out in a letter to the task force.
"The vast majority of cases do not raise such questions, of course, but certainly, over time, there are cases where police response to an emergency seems inadequate; where the handling of an investigation or a decision not to prosecute is suspect; where a shooting by police is questioned; or some other shortcoming is alleged. When those cases arise, the public, at some point, must be able to review the record — including all the evidence." Albert cited the 2007 Cheshire home invasion case, where 911 calls and dispatch tapes helped the public evaluate the police response and led to requests from the victims' family for an internal investigation. In other routine cases, these records simply aren't disseminated. Media rarely if ever publish photos of bodies at crime scenes.
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Reprogramming the transmission control module with the latest Kia transmission software may fix abnormalities in the automatic transmission and erroneous transmission-related Check Engine Light illumination. Software updates are commonly most effective on newer vehicles. Higher mileage vehicles may exhibit a similar symptom caused by a component failure. However, whenever major transmission repairs are performed the transmission software should be checked and updated as necessary.
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This essay is part of the Public Discourse symposium on "Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond."First of two partsThe health-care debate presents us with a moral imperative to solve an economic problem, but how we solve this economic problem has moral implications: allowing individuals and families greater freedom to choose among treatment options in a market that drives down costs, or establishing centralized control that makes utilitarian calculations of the worth of different people's lives.As we consider the options before us in next year's presidential race, it's vital to keep in mind the stakes of our politics. We are accustomed to dividing our great policy debates into those that involve profound moral issues and those that involve complex practical problems. On the one side are matters of conscience and the social order—like our debates about abortion, marriage, civil rights, or euthanasia. On the other side are matters of accounting and efficiency—like our debates about economic policy, the deficit, transportation, or energy.But in fact, the most important public questions—including all of those listed above—combine elements of the philosophical and the practical. All of public policy is about setting priorities, which must always be done with an eye to both principle and practice, and every moral choice in politics must somehow be implemented in practical terms.Nowhere is this inevitable intertwining of the moral and the practical more evident than in the health-care debate that has been raging in America for the better part of two decades, and that has been especially prominent in the past two years. Simply put, the health-care debate presents us with a moral imperative to solve an economic problem. The moral character of the imperative does not negate the economic character of the problem (and therefore the need for an economically viable solution), while the economic character of the problem can never blind us to the moral weight of the matter. This combination of the moral and the economic is what makes the health-care dilemma so challenging, but awareness of the combination helps us to distinguish among the solutions offered by the left and the right.
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Featuring a terrace with garden and fountain, free parking and free Wi-Fi throughout, Meson del Rio Posada Mexiquense is located 5 minutes' drive from Xochitla Nature Reserve.
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Meson del Rio Posada Mexiquense is 6 minutes' drive from Tepotzotlán Magical Village and the Museo Nacional del Virreynato. A bus station is 10 minutes' walk away and Mexico City International Airport is a 90-minute drive away.
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Please note that guests arriving 6 hours early from check in time will be charged with an extra 50% of the first night. The early check in is based on availability. A prepayment deposit via bank transfer is required to secure your reservation. The property will contact you after you book to provide any bank transfer instructions.
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