Patent Grant
11976554
The present application is a U.S. National Phase of International Application Number PCT/CN2021/084838 filed Apr. 1, 2021, and claims priority to Chinese Application Number 202110283487.9 filed Mar. 17, 2021.
The present invention relates to the field of drilling technologies and in particular to a bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling system and a method thereof.
Improving rock-breaking efficiency has always been a research hotspot of the drilling engineering field, and the most common method of improving the rock-breaking efficiency at present is to increase the rock-breaking capability and service life of a rock-breaking tool and enhance bottom-hole rock-breaking energy. Based on the above method, multiple rock-breaking drilling systems have been formed until now. Practices show that the above systems improve the rock-breaking efficiency to some degree but have not reached an anticipated onsite index. How to further improve the rock-breaking efficiency has become a bottleneck problem for drilling of a hard and difficult-to-drill formation.
A relationship between a rock-breaking tool and a formation during a drilling rock-breaking process may be understood as a relationship of an attacker and a defender in a war in which the rock-breaking tool attacks and the formation defends. Thus, enhancing the continuous rock-breaking capability of the rock-breaking tool can improve the rock-breaking efficiency. If the defense capability of the “defender”—the formation can be destroyed, that is, the drilling resistance of the formation for the rocks is reduced, the rock-breaking efficiency can be certainly improved.
Based on this, the present invention provides a bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling system and a method thereof. In the present invention, a rotational impact assembly is disposed to convey a rotational power and a drilling axial high frequency impact force to a drill bit. The drill bit of the drilling system includes an external annular drill bit and an internal central drill bit which are disposed as an inner-concave and outer-convex stepped shape to achieve stress unloading of a bottom hole central part so as to release a geo-stress and reduce a rock drilling resistance. Further, in the present invention, the extendable disposal of the internal central drill bit relative to the external annular drill bit achieves stepping rock breaking as well as automatic distribution and regulation of impact energy. With the above multiple disposals favorable for improving the rock-breaking efficiency, the further improvement of the rock-breaking efficiency is achieved and protection is also provided for the bottom hole drilling tool.
In order to overcome the above defects of the prior arts, the present invention provides a bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling system and a method thereof.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical solution.
Provided is a bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling system, including a cylindrically-structured housing; wherein a drive assembly, a universal joint, a transmission shaft and a rotational impact assembly sequentially connected along an axial direction are disposed in the housing; and an end of the rotational impact assembly is provided with a drill bit.
An outer wall surface of the transmission shaft and an inner wall surface of the housing are rotatably connected.
The rotational impact assembly includes a rotational transmission assembly for conveying a rotational power to the drill bit and an impact assembly for providing a high frequency axial impact power to the drill bit; an end of the rotational transmission assembly is connected with the transmission shaft and the other end is connected with the drill bit; when the rotational transmission assembly rotates along with the transmission shaft, the impact assembly applies a high frequency impact force along a drilling axial direction to the rotational transmission assembly.
An annular drill bit is disposed at an outer end of a drill bit body of the drill bit; a central drill bit is slidably disposed on an inner ring end surface of the annular drill bit; a drill bit inner cavity is disposed inside the drill bit, and a force applying assembly for axially pressing out the central drill bit outwardly is disposed inside the drill bit inner cavity; an inwardly-recessed cylindrical region is formed between a head end of the annular drill bit and a head end of the central drill bit.
Preferably, the rotational transmission assembly and the transmission shaft are coaxially disposed and an inner wall surface of one end of the rotational transmission assembly and an outer wall surface of the transmission shaft are axially and slidably connected, the other end of the rotational transmission assembly is connected with the drill bit; a annular space is formed between a middle portion of the rotational transmission assembly and the housing.
The impact assembly includes an impact ring located inside the annular space, and an outer wall surface of the impact ring and an inner wall surface of the housing are axially and slidably connected.
One circle of first impact ratchets are uniformly disposed circumferentially on an end surface of the impact ring facing toward the drill bit; a plurality of impact springs are uniformly disposed circumferentially on an end surface of the impact ring away from the drill bit, and the other ends of the impact springs are connected with the housing.
Second impact ratchets cooperating with the first impact ratchets are disposed on an end surface of the rotational transmission assembly facing toward the impact ring.
Preferably, the end surface of the impact ring provided with the first impact ratchets is provided with a first impact portion.
The end surface of the rotational transmission assembly provided with the second impact ratchets is provided with a second impact portion capable of cooperating with the first impact portion.
During a process of rotation of the rotational transmission assembly along with the transmission shaft, when an end surface of the first impact portion of the impact ring and an end surface of the second impact portion of the rotational transmission assembly are mutually attached, ratchet tops of the first impact ratchets do not reach ratchet roots of the second impact ratchets and ratchet tops of the second impact ratchets do not reach ratchet roots of the first impact ratchets.
Preferably, the rotational transmission assembly includes a rotational transmission shaft and an impact head.
The rotational transmission shaft and the transmission shaft are coaxially disposed and an end of the rotational transmission shaft and the outer wall surface of the transmission shaft are axially and slidably connected, the other end of the rotational transmission shaft and an end of the impact head are coaxially fixedly connected, and the other end of the impact head is connected with the drill bit.
The second impact portion and the second impact ratchets are disposed on an end surface of the impact head facing toward the impact ring.
Preferably, a sealing ring is disposed between an outer end surface of the impact head and an inner end surface of the housing.
Preferably, the force applying assembly includes a stepping force transmission body disposed inside the drill bit inner cavity; the stepping force transmission body and the drill bit inner cavity are axially and slidably connected; an outer end of the stepping force transmission body and the central drill bit are connected, an inner end of the stepping force transmission body and the stepping spring are connected, and the other end of the stepping spring and an inner end surface of the drill bit inner cavity are fixedly connected.
The drill bit body of the drill bit is provided with a nozzle flow channel and a central drill bit cuttings-discharge flow channel, and the nozzle flow channel is in communication with the drill bit inner cavity.
Preferably, the drive assembly includes a stator and a rotor; the stator is fixedly disposed on the inner end surface of the housing, and the rotor is disposed inside the stator.
Preferably, a universal flow-through cavity is formed between the universal joint and the housing, and the universal flow-through cavity is in communication with a flow-through cavity between the stator and the rotor.
a transmission flow-through cavity axially communicated are disposed in middle portions of the transmission shaft and the rotational transmission assembly; the transmission flow-through cavity is in communication with the drill bit inner cavity.
An end of the universal joint is provided with a universal shaft communication hole for communicating the universal flow-through cavity and the transmission flow-through cavity.
Preferably, rotatable connection between the outer wall surface of the transmission shaft and the inner wall surface of the housing is performed through a thrust bearing.
Both ends of the thrust bearing are further provided with a TC bearing, an inner ring of the TC bearing is connected with the outer wall surface of the transmission shaft, and an outer ring of the TC bearing is connected with the inner wall surface of the housing.
The present invention further provides a bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling method.
The drilling method is performed based on the bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling system and includes the following steps:
The present invention has the following beneficial effects.
The accompanying drawing forming a part of the present invention is used to provide further understanding of the present invention. The exemplary embodiments and its descriptions of the present invention are used to explain the present invention rather than constitute limitation to the present invention.
The numerals of the drawings are described below:
It should be pointed out that the following detailed descriptions are only illustrative and intended to provide further descriptions for the present invention. Unless otherwise stated, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meanings as persons of ordinary skills in the art can generally understand.
It is to be noted that terms used herein are used for describing specific embodiments rather than limit the exemplary embodiments of the present invention. As used herein, unless otherwise stated in the context, singular forms include plural forms. Further, it should be understood that when the terms “include” and/or “comprise” are used in the descriptions, they indicate presence of features, steps, operations, devices, assemblies and/or combinations thereof.
In the present invention, orientations or positional relationships indicated by terms such as “upper”, “lower”, “bottom” and “top” are based on the orientations and positional relationship shown in the drawings and are only relational terms determined to facilitate describing structural relationship of each component or element in the present invention rather than specifically refer to any component or element in the present invention and shall not be understood limiting of the present invention.
In the present invention, the terms such as “connect” and “coupling” shall be understood in a broad sense to indicate a fixed connection or integral connection or detachable connection or direct connection or connection through intermediate medium. Those skilled in the art may determine the specific meanings of the above terms based on specific situations, which are not understood as limiting of the present invention.
The present invention will be further described below in combination with the accompanying drawings and the embodiments.
As shown in
An outer wall surface of the transmission shaft 4 and an inner wall surface of the housing 1 are rotatably connected.
The rotational impact assembly 5 includes a rotational transmission assembly for conveying a rotational power to the drill bit 6 and an impact assembly for providing a high frequency axial impact power to the drill bit 6; an end of the rotational transmission assembly is connected with the transmission shaft 4 and the other end is connected with the drill bit 6; when the rotational transmission assembly rotates along with the transmission shaft 4, the impact assembly applies a high frequency impact force along a drilling axial direction to the rotational transmission assembly, thereby achieving impact-rotation drilling of the drill bit.
As shown in
When a formation with high geostress is drilled, the cutting teeth of the annular drill bit 601 firstly breaks the rocks at the outer ring of the drill bit and the broken rocks are discharged along a drilling fluid sprayed out of a nozzle.
Since the central drill bit 602 has a small height, an inwardly-recessed cylindrical region is formed in an end surface region of the central drill bit 602 to form a inner-concave and outer-convex stepped structure. When the formation is drilled, a “rock pillar” may be formed in the inwardly-recessed cylindrical region. When a region with high geostress is drilled, the rocks have poor drillability. The “rock pillar” formed by such stepped structure in drilling process effectively reduces and even eliminates the influence of the geostress on the rock drillability, thus greatly increasing the rock drillability. The region of the “rock pillar” forms a stress unloading region which can effectively prevent occurrence of “hollowing”. The central drill bit 602 breaks the middle “rock pillar”, and the rock cuttings formed hereby are carried and cleaned by the drilling fluid sprayed from the nozzle in the nozzle flow channel 607 and then discharged through the central drill bit cuttings-discharge flow channel 608.
Preferably, as shown in
The impact assembly is located inside the annular space.
The impact assembly includes an impact ring 501 located inside the annular space, and an outer wall surface of the impact ring 501 and an inner wall surface of the housing are axially and slidably connected. Specifically, as shown in
One circle of first impact ratchets 5013 are uniformly disposed circumferentially on an end surface of the impact ring 501 facing toward the drill bit 6; a plurality of impact springs 502 are uniformly disposed circumferentially on an end surface of the impact ring 501 away from the drill bit 6, and the other ends of the impact springs 502 are connected with the housing 1. Specifically, the elastic direction of the impact spring 502 is parallel to the axial direction of the transmission shaft 4.
As shown in
When the rotational transmission assembly rotates along with the transmission shaft 4, the cooperation of the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032 enables the impact ring 501 to generate an axial periodic displacement change, so as to drive the impact springs 502 to generate periodic compression and release, thus achieving high frequency axial impact on the drill bit 6.
Preferably, the end surface of the impact ring 501 provided with the first impact ratchets 5013 is provided with a first impact portion 5012.
The end surface of the rotational transmission assembly provided with the second impact ratchets 5032 is provided with a second impact portion 5031 capable of cooperating with the first impact portion 5012.
As shown in
The first impact portion 5012 and the second impact portion 5031 are a mutually-cooperating annular boss-annular groove disposal. When the first impact portion 5012 is an annular boss, the second impact portion 5031 is an annular groove; when the first impact portion 5012 is an annular groove, the second impact portion 5031 is an annular boss.
The first impact ratchets 5013 may be located at a radial outer side of the first impact portion 5012 or located at a radial inner side of the first impact portion 5012.
The second impact ratchets 5032 may be located at a radial outer side of the second impact portion 5031 or located at a radial inner side of the second impact portion 5031.
When the first impact portion 5012 is an annular boss and the first impact ratchets 5013 are located at the radial outer side of the annular boss, a positional relationship between the first impact ratchets 5013 and the annular boss is as shown in
When the second impact portion 5031 is an annular groove and the second impact ratchets 5032 are located at the radial outer side of the annular groove, a positional relationship between the second impact ratchets 5032 and the annular groove is as shown in
Since a length the annular boss protrudes is greater than a length the annular groove concaves, when an end surface of the annular boss and an end surface of the annular groove are mutually attached, the corresponding ratchet tops of the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032 do not contact the corresponding ratchet roots.
During drilling, the drive assembly 2 conveys the rotational power to the drill bit 6 through the universal joint 3, the transmission shaft 4 and the rotational transmission assembly so as to provide a rotational drilling power to the drill bit 6. Further, when the rotational transmission assembly rotates (in this process, slidable cooperation between the impact slide keys 5011 on the impact ring 501 and the impact slide key grooves on the housing 1 performs circumferential limitation for the impact ring 501 so as to immobilize the impact ring 501), under the action of the reverse thrust of the bottom hole, ratchet top aligning-staggering may be appear cyclically between the second impact ratchets 5032 and the first impact ratchets 5013, such that the impact ring 501 generates an axial periodic displacement change, so as to drive the impact springs 502 to generate periodic compression and release. When the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032 change from ratchet top aligning to staggering abruptly, the impact springs 502 spring out to release energy and the end surface of the first impact portion 5012 of the impact ring 501 impacts the end surface of the second impact portion 5031 of the rotational transmission assembly. In this impact process, the corresponding ratchet tops of the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032 do not reach the corresponding ratchet roots. The rotational transmission assembly continues rotating a tiny angle to enable side surfaces of the first impact ratchets 5013 to be in surface-surface contact with corresponding surfaces of the second impact ratchets 5032. The rotational transmission assembly continues rotating and the relative movement is performed between the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032. Such cycle is repeated as above. A number of reciprocating impacts of one circle of rotation is related to a number of ratchets on the impact ring 501. By designing the drilling speed of the drive assembly 2 and the number of ratchets on the impact ring 501, the impact frequency can be controlled. The high frequency impact force generated by the impact assembly is conveyed to the drill bit 6 through the rotational transmission assembly so as to achieve high frequency impact on the bottom hole of the drill bit 6, thus achieving impact-rotation efficient drilling for the bottom hole.
Furthermore, in the present invention, the first impact portion 5012 and the second impact portion 5031 are disposed. When the end surface of the first impact portion 5012 of the impact ring 501 and the end surface of the second impact portion 5031 of the rotational transmission assembly are mutually attached, the corresponding ratchet tops of the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032 do not reach the corresponding ratchet roots, that is, when the impact ring 501 impacts the rotational transmission assembly, the ratchet tops of the first impact ratchets 5013 do not come in impact contact with the ratchet roots of the second impact ratchets 5032 and the ratchet tops of the second impact ratchets 5032 do not come in impact contact with the ratchet roots of the first impact ratchets 5013, thereby reducing the damage rate of the first impact ratchets 5013 and the second impact ratchets 5032 and increasing the service life.
Preferably, the rotational transmission assembly includes a rotational transmission shaft 504 and an impact head 503.
The rotational transmission shaft 504 and the transmission shaft 4 are coaxially disposed and an end of the rotational transmission shaft 504 and the outer wall surface of the transmission shaft 4 are axially and slidably connected, that is, the rotational transmission shaft 504 can rotate along with the transmission shaft 4 and can perform axial slide during the rotation. The other end of the rotational transmission shaft 504 and an end of the impact head 503 are coaxially and fixedly connected, and the other end of the impact head 503 is connected with the drill bit 6.
The second impact portion 5031 and the second impact ratchets 5032 are disposed on an end surface of the impact head 503 facing toward the impact ring 501.
Preferably, a sealing ring 505 is disposed between an outer end surface of the impact head 503 and the inner end surface of the housing 1.
Preferably, as shown in
The drill bit body of the drill bit 6 is provided with a nozzle flow channel 607 and a central drill bit cuttings-discharge flow channel 608; a nozzle is disposed inside the nozzle flow channel 607 to provide a drilling fluid, and the central drill bit cuttings-discharge flow channel 608 is used to discharge rock cuttings produced by the central drill bit 602 during drilling into an annular space. The nozzle flow channel 607 is in communication with the drill bit inner cavity 603.
In the present invention, with disposal of the stepping force transmission body 605 and the stepping spring 606, bottom hole pressure unloading is achieved in the inwardly-recessed central drill bit 602 and the central drill bit 602 is enabled to break the “rock pillars”: after the central drill bit 602 also contacts the bottom hole, when the external annular drill bit 601 receives impact, the external annular drill bit 601 breaks rocks at high speed and the stepping spring 606 is compressed for energy storage to provide a rock-breaking energy for the central drill bit 602. At this time, the central drill bit 602 breaks rocks at low speed or does not break rocks; when the external annular drill bit 601 receives no impact, the external annular drill bit 601 slows down rock-breaking or stops breaking rocks, the stepping spring 606 extends to provide a rock-breaking power for the central drill bit 602 to enable the central drill bit 602 to break rocks at fast speed, so as to achieve stepping breaking for the bottom hole rocks.
Preferably, the drive assembly 2 includes a stator 201 and a rotor 202; the stator 201 is fixedly disposed on the inner end surface of the housing 1, and the rotor 202 is disposed inside the stator 201; an end of the rotor 202 is connected with the universal joint 3 and the other end of the universal joint 3 is connected with the transmission shaft 4.
Preferably, a universal flow-through cavity 301 is formed between the universal joint 3 and the housing 1, and the universal flow-through cavity 301 is in communication with a flow-through cavity between the stator 201 and the rotor 202.
A transmission flow-through cavity 7 axially communicated are disposed in middle portions of the transmission shaft 4 and the rotational transmission assembly; the transmission flow-through cavity 7 is in communication with the drill bit inner cavity 603.
An end of the universal joint 3 is provided with a universal shaft communication hole 302 for communicating the universal flow-through cavity 301 and the transmission flow-through cavity 7.
Preferably, rotatable connection between the outer wall surface of the transmission shaft 4 and the inner wall surface of the housing 1 is performed through a thrust bearing 401.
Both ends of the thrust bearing 401 are further provided with a TC bearing 402, an inner ring of the TC bearing 402 is connected with the outer wall surface of the transmission shaft 4, and an outer ring of the TC bearing 402 is connected with the inner wall surface of the housing 1.
The disposal of the TC bearing 402 enables, on the one hand, the rotatable connection between the transmission shaft 4 and the housing 1 to be more stable and on the other hand, performs axial positioning for the thrust bearing 401.
Specifically, an end of the housing 1 away from the drill bit 6 is provided with a bypass valve 8 in communication with an inlet of the drive assembly 2.
Provided is a bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling method, which is performed based on the bottom-hole impact-rotation stepping combined unloading rock-breaking efficient drilling system in the embodiment 1. The method includes the following steps.
In the present invention, with the entire structural disposal, stepping rock breaking, bottom hole unloading and impact-rotation drilling can be achieved at the same time to greatly increase the rock-breaking drilling efficiency; the rotational impact assembly 2 disposed herein has the advantages of high impact frequency, large impact and long service life; the present invention is applicable to wide scope and can be used in various wells such as straight wells, directional wells and the like; With the present invention, in a drilling process, the operations are completely same as the conventional drilling without special requirements for ground facilities and drilling strings, thus helping its promotion and application.
Although descriptions are made to the specific embodiments of the present invention as mentioned above, the descriptions are not intended to limit the present invention. Those skilled in the art should understand that various changes and modifications made based on the technical solutions of the present invention without making creative work shall fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202110283487.9 | Mar 2021 | CN | national |
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| PCT/CN2021/084838 | 4/1/2021 | WO |
| Publishing Document | Publishing Date | Country | Kind |
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| WO2022/193373 | 9/22/2022 | WO | A |
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