Patent ID: 8215410
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing electrical power through a downhole packer comprising: a riser nipple engagingly insertable in a passage in the packer; a sleeve surrounding a portion of the riser nipple and slidingly moveable between a cable assembly position and an operational position enabling connection of a cable extending through the packer and the sleeve to an electrical connector; and a retaining nut engageable with the riser nipple capturing the sleeve in the operational position when the retaining nut is engaged with the riser nipple; a gripping contact having a plurality of fingers, the plurality of fingers having a substantially conical outer surface; a contact receptacle having a substantially conical inner surface; and a male threaded tension member to threadedly engage the gripping contact and to pull the gripping contact into the contact receptacle such that interaction between the substantially conical outer surface and the substantially conical inner surface forces the plurality of fingers to engagingly compress an electrical conductor of the cable when placed between the fingers.