The present application is a National Stage Application of PCT International Application No. PCT/CN2019/127475 (filed on Dec. 23, 2019), under 35 U.S.C. ยง 371, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its complete entirety.
The invention relates to the field of deep-sea drilling, in particular, to a double-layer coiled tubing double-gradient drilling system.
At present, the global energy problem is getting worse, and the oil and gas resources on land and in shallow sea areas are far from meeting human needs. The exploration and development of deep-water oil and gas resources has become the current focus for development. However, when drilling in deep-sea areas, there are some problems such as narrow safety pressure window and weak cementing of seabed formation, which lead to difficult wellbore pressure control and poor borehole stability, thus resulting in high drilling safety risks and high cost.
Therefore, in order to promote the exploration and development of deep-water offshore oil and gas, how to propose an efficient and safe drilling technology is an urgent problem to be solved at present in view of the problems such as poor drilling safety, low formation leakage pressure and narrow safety density window of leak-prone producing layers and seabed loose surface layers during the development of deep-sea oil and gas and shallow-formation hydrates.
The invention aims to provide a double-layer coiled tubing double-gradient drilling system which can effectively widen the safety density window and improve the well control capability of dangerous formations.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention provides the following scheme:
The invention provides a double-layer coiled tubing double-gradient drilling system, which comprises a double-layer coiled tubing system, a drilling fluid circulating system and a downhole lifting pump system, wherein the double-layer coiled tubing system and the drilling fluid circulating system are installed on a drilling ship; the double-layer coiled tubing system comprises a double-layer coiled tubing, a drum, a double-layer tubing injector and an adapter; the double-layer coiled tubing comprises an outer tube and an inner tube fixed inside the outer tube through an adjusting sleeve; an annular channel is formed between the outer tube and the inner tube; the top of the double-layer coiled tubing is wound around the drum and connected with the drilling fluid circulating system through the adapter; the drum is used for distributing, recovering or storing the double-layer coiled tubing, and the adapter is installed on the drum; the bottom of the double-layer coiled tubing extends underwater through the double-layer tubing injector, and the tail end of the double-layer coiled tubing is provided with the downhole lifting pump system, a downhole motor and a drill bit; the suction and outlet ends of the downhole lifting pump system are provided with a first test nipple and a second test nipple respectively; the downhole lifting pump system comprises a lifting pump, a bridge channel and a driving part which are sequentially arranged; the two ends of the bridge channel are connected with a drilling fluid outlet and a return fluid inlet respectively;
Alternatively, the double-layer coiled tubing system further comprises a truncated pyramid-shape drilling rig, wherein the truncated pyramid-shape drilling rig is fixed on the drilling ship, a crown block is arranged on the top of the truncated pyramid-shape drilling rig, a traveling block is connected to the bottom of the crown block through a steel wire rope, and a hook is arranged below the traveling block for hanging the double-layer tubing injector.
Alternatively, the double-layer tubing injector comprises a frame, a driving roller, a driven roller and a power device, wherein the driving roller and the driven roller are arranged on the frame in parallel, the driving roller and the driven roller can clamp the double-layer coiled tubing, and the power device is connected with the driving roller and drives the driving roller to rotate forward and backward.
Alternatively, the drilling fluid circulating system comprises a drilling pump unit, a solid control system and a mud pit, wherein the mud pit is connected with the adapter through an injection pipeline, the adapter is connected with the mud pit through a return pipeline, the drilling pump unit is arranged on the injection pipeline, and the solid control system is arranged on the return pipeline; and the solid control system comprises a vibrating screen, a desander, a desilter, and a degasser which are sequentially arranged along the liquid flow direction.
Alternatively, the double-layer coiled tubing is sleeved with a riser, the riser is installed above a rotary table through a riser chuck, the riser chuck is connected with the rotary table through a universal joint, and the rotary table is installed on the drilling ship.
Alternatively, a diverter is installed at the top of the riser, and a bypass pipeline is led out from the bottom of the solid control system to be connected with the diverter; the bypass pipeline and the return pipeline are both provided with the throttling control systems, the return pipeline and the injection pipeline are both provided with flow meters and pressure meters, and each pressure meter and each flow meter are in signal connection with the data monitoring system; the bottom of the riser is connected with a blowout preventer unit, the blowout preventer unit is positioned at a wellhead, a casing is installed in the well, and the top of the casing is connected with the blowout preventer unit; and an annular space between the casing and the outer coil is filled with separating fluid, and the separating fluid is positioned at a mud line and is used for separating upper seawater from the drilling fluid below.
Alternatively, the adapter comprises a housing and a double-layer conversion sleeve installed in the housing, wherein one end of the double-layer conversion sleeve is connected with the inner coil and the outer coil of the double-layer coiled tubing through a pipe connector, and the other end is connected with the return pipeline and the injection pipeline through a pipe connector.
Alternatively, a recovery nipple is further arranged between the second test nipple and the downhole motor, and the double-layer coiled tubing, the first test nipple, the downhole lifting pump system, the second test nipple, the recovery nipple and the downhole motor are sequentially connected through double-layer coiled tubing adapters.
Alternatively, the driving part is a hydraulic motor or an electric motor, and when the lifting pump supplies power through the electric motor, the power of the electric motor is supplied through a cable or the double-layer coiled tubing with an insulating layer.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following technical effects:
The double-layer coiled tubing double-gradient drilling system provided by the invention can widen the safe drilling density window, effectively control the bottom hole pressure, greatly reduce potential safety hazards such as blowout and lost circulation, save the risk control cost of deep-sea drilling, and solve the technical problems such as well control, lost circulation, and risk control of natural gas hydrates in the deep-water drilling process, and has strong practicability.
In order to more clearly explain the embodiments of the present invention or the technical scheme in the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings needed in the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative labor.
Hereinafter, the technical scheme in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative labor are within the scope of the present invention.
In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention better understood, the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description.
As shown in
Drilling fluid (power fluid) 14 is discharged into a well from the drilling fluid circulating system through the adapter 38, the annular channel, the first test nipple 16, the bridge channel 18, the second test nipple 20 and the inner coil in sequence, and return fluid returns to the drilling fluid circulating system through the annular channel, the second test nipple 20, the bridge channel 18, the first test nipple 16, the inner coil and the adapter 38 in sequence from the well, thus realizing drilling fluid circulation; and the first test nipple 16 and the second test nipple 20 are installed at an inlet end and an outlet end of the lifting pump 17 respectively for monitoring the inlet and outlet pressure, flow rate and temperature parameters of the lifting pump 17.
The drilling fluid circulating system is internally provided with a data monitoring system and throttling control systems in signal connection with the data monitoring system, wherein the throttling control systems are used for real-time flow control of the drilling fluid and/or return fluid, and the data monitoring system is used for monitoring the circulation state of the drilling fluid and/or return fluid in real time.
In this specific embodiment, as shown in
Further, in this embodiment, the double-layer tubing injector 6 comprises a frame, a driving wheel, a driven wheel and a power device, wherein the driving roller and the driven roller are arranged on the frame in parallel, the double-layer coiled tubing 5 is clamped between the driving roller and the driven roller, and the power device is connected with the driving roller and drives the driving roller to rotate forward and backward; and through the forward and backward rotation of the driving roller, the double-layer coiled tubing 5 can be lifted or lowered to ensure continuous operation in deep water. The specific structural composition and working principle of the above-mentioned double-layer tubing injector 6 are all prior art and will not be repeated here.
Further, in this embodiment, the drilling fluid circulating system comprises a drilling pump unit 29, a solid control system 30 and a mud pit 28, wherein the mud pit 28 is connected with the adapter 38 through an injection pipeline 34, the adapter 38 is connected with the mud pit 28 through a return pipeline 33, the drilling pump unit 29 is arranged on the injection pipeline 34, and the solid control system 30 is arranged on the return pipeline 33; the solid control system 30 comprises a vibrating screen, a desander, a desilter and a degasser which are sequentially arranged along the flow direction of the return fluid and are used for removing cuttings, sand grains, gases and the like contained in the return fluid; besides, the mud pit 28 can accumulate the return fluid which passes through the solid control system 30 and supply the power fluid (drilling fluid 14) to the drilling pump unit 29 to realize circulation. The structural composition, working principle and applicable working conditions of the solid control system 30 are well known in the art and will not be described here. Three to four groups of pumps can be preferably arranged in the drilling pump unit 29 to work in parallel, and one or more of the pumps can be started to work simultaneously according to the required pump fluid pressure.
Further, in this embodiment, the double-layer coiled tubing 5 is sleeved with a riser 9, the riser 9 is installed above a rotary table through a riser chuck, the riser chuck is connected with the rotary table through a universal joint, and the rotary table is installed on the drilling ship 27. As shown in
Further, in this embodiment, as shown in
As shown in
Further, in this embodiment, as shown in
Further, in this embodiment, as shown in
In this embodiment, the first throttling control system 36 and the second throttling control system 38 have the same structure, are composed of an electrically controlled throttle valve, a control system, etc., and can control the opening and closing of the inner coil channel (return pipeline 33) and the bypass pipeline 35 of the double-layer coiled tubing 5. The data monitoring system is used for monitoring the injection pressure and flow rate of the drilling pump unit 29, the pressure and flow rate of the return fluid, the liquid level and pressure of the separating fluid 12, and the inlet and outlet pressure and flow rate of the lifting pump 17, and controlling the flow rate of the return fluid and the displacement of the drilling pump 29.
The following is a description of a specific drilling method based on the double-layer coiled tubing double-gradient drilling system provided in this embodiment.
First, the drilling fluid 14 (the direction indicated by the black arrow in
Before the drilling pump unit 29 starts drilling, the inner coil channel of the double-layer coiled tubing 5 is opened and the bypass pipeline 35 is closed to realize small-displacement circulation. After the circulation of the drilling fluid 14 becomes smooth, the pump displacement is adjusted to start drilling.
The data monitoring system determines the bottom hole condition by monitoring the changes of the pressure and liquid level of the separating fluid 12, the opening degree of a throttle valve is adjusted in real time through the first throttling control system 36, the displacement of the drilling pump unit 29 is adjusted through the data monitoring system, the lift of the lifting pump 17 is adjusted by controlling the difference between the inlet amount and outlet amount of the drilling fluid 14, the pressure of an inner coil liquid column of the double-layer coiled tubing 5 acting on the bottom hole is changed, so that the separating fluid 12 is in a state of dynamic equilibrium at the balance position, thus realizing the regulation and maintenance of the pressure gradient.
In this embodiment, the upper seawater 10 and the drilling fluid 14 below are separated by the separating fluid 12 to form three different liquid columns, and the double-layer coiled tubing 5 forms a channel for injecting and returning the drilling fluid 14, which is realized by the circulation formed by the lifting pump 17. Under the condition of using the riser 9, the three liquid columns are realized by separating the seawater 10 between the double-layer coiled tubing 5 and the riser 9 and the drilling fluid 14 between the double-layer coiled tubing 5 and the casing 13 through the separating fluid 12.
In the absence of the riser 9, the three liquid columns are realized by installing a sliding packer at the upper part of the blowout preventer unit. The sliding packer can realize slide-sealing during the movement of double-layer coiled tubing 5. A density control valve is arranged on the sliding packer to prevent the outflow of the separating fluid 12 and the free inflow and outflow of the seawater 26, thus forming the three liquid columns, namely the seawater 26, the separating fluid 12 and the drilling fluid 14. This separation technique is a well-known technique in the art and will not be repeated here.
Downhole monitoring or power supply of other equipment can use an outer wall of the inner coil and an inner wall of the outer coil of the double-layer coiled tubing 5 as coaxial cables after insulation treatment, or power can be supplied by penetrating a cable 40 into the annular channel of the double-layer coiled tubing 5.
When the data monitoring system monitors that the flow rate of the return fluid is very small or there is no return fluid, the inner coil channel of the double-layer coiled tubing 5 is closed through the first throttling control system 36, and then the bypass pipeline 35 is opened through the second throttling control system 37; and the return fluid returns through the annular space between the double-layer coiled tubing 5 and the sidewall and the annular space between the double-layer coiled tubing 5 and the riser 9, enters the bypass pipeline 35 through the diverter 8 at the upper end of the riser 9 and then enters the solid control system 30.
It can be seen that on the basis of conventional drilling equipment, this embodiment is provided with the double-layer coiled tubing system, the separating fluid, the downhole lifting pump system, the throttling control systems and the data monitoring system; the power fluid is injected through the drilling pump unit, enters the annular space of the double-layer tubing through the adapter, passes through the downhole lifting pump, enters the inner coil of the double-layer coiled tubing through the bridge channel, and enters the bottom hole through the downhole motor and the drill bit; the return fluid enters the annular channel of the double-layer coiled tubing through a recovery hole, then enters the inner coil of the double-layer coiled tubing through the bridge channel and enters the downhole lifting pump, and then enters the solid control system through the adapter and the throttling control systems in sequence; according to the invention, drill rods do not need to be connected, drilling time is saved, gradient control of the bottom hole pressure is realized through monitoring of the separating fluid and control of the drilling pump unit, the problem of narrow safe drilling density window is solved, the drilling cost and risks are reduced, the efficiency is improved, and the practicability is strong.
As shown in
Other structures of this embodiment are the same as those of Embodiment 1, and will not be described here.
It should be noted that it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the details of the above-mentioned exemplary embodiments, but can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or basic features of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments should be regarded as exemplary and non-limiting in every respect. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the above description. Therefore, it is intended to include all changes that fall within the meaning and range of equivalent elements of the claims, and any reference signs in the claims should not be regarded as limiting the claims involved.
In the present invention, specific examples are applied to explain the principle and implementation of the present invention. The above embodiments are only used to help understand the method of the present invention and its core ideas. For those skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there will be changes in the specific implementation and application scope. In summary, the contents of this specification should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
PCT/CN2019/127475 | 12/23/2019 | WO |
Publishing Document | Publishing Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
WO2021/127855 | 7/1/2021 | WO | A |
Number | Name | Date | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
5285204 | Sas-Jaworsky | Feb 1994 | A |
5503014 | Griffith | Apr 1996 | A |
6457540 | Gardes | Oct 2002 | B2 |
6497290 | Misselbrook | Dec 2002 | B1 |
6712150 | Misselbrook | Mar 2004 | B1 |
7090018 | Livingstone | Aug 2006 | B2 |
7174975 | Krueger | Feb 2007 | B2 |
7185718 | Gardes | Mar 2007 | B2 |
7270185 | Fontana | Sep 2007 | B2 |
7708057 | Aivalis | May 2010 | B2 |
9249646 | Hannegan | Feb 2016 | B2 |
10273763 | Robichaux et al. | Apr 2019 | B2 |
11391140 | Nordsveen | Jul 2022 | B2 |
20110247828 | Patel et al. | Oct 2011 | A1 |
20150027781 | Vestavik | Jan 2015 | A1 |
20210246733 | Hebert | Aug 2021 | A1 |
Number | Date | Country |
---|---|---|
1932234 | Mar 2007 | CN |
103696691 | Apr 2014 | CN |
108049845 | May 2018 | CN |
111021958 | Apr 2020 | CN |
2412920 | Mar 2016 | EP |
Number | Date | Country | |
---|---|---|---|
20230085283 A1 | Mar 2023 | US |