Definition(s)


Liner Top Packer (LTP)

A mechanical barrier device typically with flexible, elastomeric sealing elements that can be run into a wellbore with a smaller initial outside diameter that then expands externally to seal the annulus between the liner and the previously installed casing string. Liner top packers are also called liner packers.

Source: API STD 65 – Part 2, Isolating Potential Flow Zones During Well Construction, Upstream Segment, Second Edition, December 2010. Global Standards 

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