Patent ID: 8783340
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A setting tool for use in setting a packer, the setting tool comprising: a slow stroke mandrel configured for engagement with an inner mandrel of a packer; a latching member configured to provide a releasable engagement between a setting tool mandrel and the inner mandrel of the packer; a centralizing member, wherein the centralizing member is slidingly disposed about the setting tool mandrel; a collet coupled to the centralizing member, wherein the collet is configured to engage the slow stroke mandrel; a driving member comprising a piston, wherein the piston is coupled to the centralizing member; and a setting sleeve coupled to the centralizing member, wherein the setting sleeve is configured to engage a packer setting sleeve shoulder of the packer, and wherein the collet and the slow stroke mandrel are configured to control a stroke speed of the setting sleeve when the collet engages the slow stroke mandrel.