Systems and methods for time, and labor efficient construction and production of subsea wells include a surface blowout preventer stack, a high pressure riser, and a drill thru Xmas tree. The systems may further comprise a subsea shut off and disconnect device.

A test, drill and pull system for testing a well formation or zone of interest and further drilling of the well in a single trip into the wellbore. The system includes a surface readout tester valve, a rotation-operated reversing valve, a resettable packer, a packer lockout, a perforated anchor and a drill bit. In operation, the apparatus is run into the bottom of the well adjacent to the formation or zone of interest and the packer set and unset as desired. With the packer set, a surface readout tester valve probe is lowered into the apparatus on a wireline and latched into the tester valve so that multiple testing operations may be carried out if desired. After testing, the fluid recovery may be reversed out and analyzed by actuating the reversing valve by rotation of the tool string. Further, rotation engages the packer lockout such that when weight is picked upon the packer, the packer cannot be reset. After the packer lockout is engaged and the packer unset, further drilling operations may be carried out without removing the apparatus from the wellbore.

The present invention provides a gravel pack assembly for use in a wellbore having a packer positioned therein with a minimum inside diameter and a primary packing seal. In one embodiment, the gravel pack assembly comprises a pack-off conduit that is coupable to the packer. The pack-off conduit has a maximum outer diameter that is sufficient to prevent the pack-off conduit from traversing the minimum inside diameter of the packer. The gravel pack assembly further includes a seal positioned about an inside diameter of the pack-off conduit. The seal is engageable with an outer surface of a tool that is passable through the pack-off conduit to inhibit fluid flow between the seal and the tool, uphole from the primary packing seal. The primary packer seal is typically near the uphole end of the packer and is the seal that isolates the downhole zones from the pressure exerted by the fluid uphole from the primary packer seal.

An improved single trip perforating and gravel pack system is provided which includes a tubing conveyed perforating assembly, a gravel pack completion assembly, and a retrievable service assembly. The retrievable service assembly includes a hydraulic setting tool and a crossover tool assembly. The hydraulic setting tool is less sensitive to hydraulic pressures generated by the detonation of the perforating guns. The hydraulic setting tool includes an annulus release mechanism, a preset lock assembly and a rotational lock assembly, all of which are mechanically actuated. The retrievable service assembly also includes a concentric check valve which improves well control and allows for reversing out excess slurry in the service assembly following completion of a gravel packing or frac packing operation.

Methods and compositions for forming permeable cement sand screens in well bores are provided. The compositions are basically comprised of a hydraulic cement, a particulate cross-linked gel containing an internal breaker which after time causes the gel to break into a liquid and water present in an amount sufficient to form a slurry.