Exploring, drilling and completing hydrocarbon and other wells are generally complicated, time consuming, and ultimately very expensive endeavors. In recognition of these expenses, added emphasis has been placed on efficiencies associated with well completions and maintenance over the life of the well. So, for example, enhancing efficiencies in terms of logging, perforating or any number of interventional applications may be of significant benefit, particularly as well depth and complexity continues to increase.
One manner of enhancing efficiencies for interventional applications involves outfitting coiled tubing tools and equipment with power or telemetric capacity. Thus, applications requiring real-time communications or power may be run in, or upon traversing, tortuous or horizontal well sections. That is, coiled tubing may forcibly provide access to such well locations so that a logging tool or perforating gun may perform a logging or perforating application at or beyond such sections.
In the case of a coiled tubing logging application, a telemetric line is disposed through the coiled tubing so as to provide communication between the logging tool and surface equipment at the oilfield. In this manner, operators may be provided with real-time position and well characteristic information. However, as opposed to a conventional wireline application, the telemetric line for the coiled tubing logging application is to be run through coiled tubing as noted. Thus, instead of utilizing a thick or larger diameter power-delivery line which might be more challenging to pump through the coiled tubing, a lighter, fiber-optic tether or “slickline” may be utilized to provide telemetry or communications between the logging tool and the surface equipment.
While adept at providing the benefits of a low-profile and lightweight means of data transmission, the fiber optic slickline remains devoid of any electrically conductive capacity. That is, in contrast to the above noted wireline cable, the fiber optic slickline is devoid of the heavier electrical cabling. While this is advantageous for reasons noted hereinabove, it means that reliance on a dedicated, space consuming, downhole power source is still required. Thus, the power available to monitoring equipment is limited to the constraints of such a power source. Once more, as noted above, application tools of greater power requirements than a logging tool may be utilized at the end of the coiled tubing such as where a perforating gun is provided for sake of a perforating application.
In addition to the challenges directly related to the lack of dedicated power, a fiber optic tether or slickline is of a naturally lower strength to weight ratio thereby limiting overall depth capabilities. Once more, the problems associated with power limitations and current construction of fiber optic slickline do not lend to merely adding in an electrical line. For example, inserting a separate electrical line into the metal tube might address the lack of surface available power. However, a dedicated power line would tend to increase the overall diameter of the slickline. Indeed, when considering conventional insulating and other layers of the added electrical line, the slickline may begin to take on dimensions and weight more characteristic of wireline. Thus, the advantage of utilizing slickline may begin to be lost.
At present, in the case of coiled tubing applications that utilize telemetry, distributed measurements, and powered application tools, operators are generally left with the only practical option of a fiber optic slickline lacking electrically conductive capacity. As a result, a dedicated downhole power source is provided for the tool which is of limited total power capacity and having the undesirable characteristic of eating up space on the tool assembly.
A downhole assembly is provided that includes a tool for performing an application in a well and an electrically conductive fiber optic slickline coupled to the tool in the well and to surface equipment at the oilfield adjacent the well. The slickline comprises a core with a fiber optic thread for communication between the tool and the equipment. The core also comprises a conductive member circumferentially about the thread for power transmission from the equipment to the tool during the application. In an embodiment, the conductive member is embedded within a molded support which defines a conduit through which the thread is run.
Embodiments are described with reference to certain tools and coiled tubing applications run in a well over slickline. As defined herein, the term “slickline” refers to an application that is run over a conveyance line that is substantially below about 0.25 inches in overall outer diameter. That is, as opposed to a higher profile or diameter wireline cable, downhole applications detailed herein are run over a relatively low diameter slickline. Additionally, the embodiments detailed herein are described with reference to particular perforating applications and tools that are advanced through the well with the aid of coiled tubing. These embodiments employ a fiber optic electrical core that includes fiber optic thread with an electrically conductive member disposed about the core to render a practical and effective electrically conductive fiber optic slickline.
Referring specifically now to
In the embodiment of
In contrast to more conventional powered cables, such as wireline cable, the slickline 101, 102 of
Continuing with reference to
As opposed to the conventional manner of insulating the members 105, 106 from the underlying metallic tube 107, these members 105, 106 are intentionally left un-insulated relative the tube 107. As a result, even the tube 107 may take on charged conductive behavior as power is transferred over the members 105, 106. In turn, this may leave the underlying threads 109 exposed to a degree of charge. However, given that the mode of telemetry for the slickline 101, 102 is to use jacketed threads 109 that are fiber optic in nature, no marked effect would be expected. That is, even in circumstances where the metallic tube 107 becomes charged by power carrying conductive members 105, 106, contact between the charged tube 107 and the threads 109 would not markedly affect the light-based fiber optic telemetry that is utilized through the threads 109.
With specific reference to
In addition to the insulating polymer layer 125, an added polymer jacket, such as a foam polymer layer, or refractive tape may be utilized there-over (external to the polymer layer 125) to provide increased protection to the underlying fiber optic threads 109 from compression forces, heat and other processing hazards during manufacture of the slickline 101. Such materials may include reinforced carbon fiber, fluoropolymers or foamed polymers to absorb compression and prevent substantial optical losses.
Continuing with reference to
With particular reference to the embodiment depicted in
Again though, in the embodiment of
Continuing with reference to
Referring now to
As shown in
In the embodiment shown, the surface equipment 225 includes a power control unit 240 that may be coupled to the coiled tubing 215 by way of a reel 260. Thus, as indicated, effective powering of the downhole tool 275 may be surface directed as well as the overall coiled tubing application. Additionally, data from the tool 275 (or directly from slickline 101, 102 of
In this embodiment, a mobile coiled tubing truck 250 is utilized for deployment of the slickline equipped coiled tubing 215 via a conventional gooseneck injector 255 with supportive rig 245. Thus, the coiled tubing 215 may be forcibly injected past pressure control equipment 265 and through the tortuous well 280 for the logging application. Once more, the low profile, yet power capable slickline 101, 102 that is utilized through the coiled tubing 215 allows for additional perforating and potentially other applications to be adequately directed and powered from surface (see
Referring now to
As with the embodiments of
Referring specifically now to
Utilizing multiple modes of power delivery in this manner may allow for more power to be delivered similar to the embodiment of
In an embodiment, an insulating or polymer protective layer may also be present at the interior of the half-shell members 106 defining the conduit 312. Thus, the half-shell members 106 may not be exposed directly to the conduit 312. However, it is worth noting that in the embodiment of
In the embodiment shown, the conduit 312 may be filled with a hydrogen scavenging gel occupying the space around the fiber optic threads 109. The hydrogen scavenging gel may prevent moisture from collecting in the conduit 312. The hydrogen scavenging gel (and other types of gels) may be effective, at non-extreme temperatures, to reduce the amount of hydrogen darkening that may affect the life of the fibers 109. Of course, such a gel may be located in the conduits 112 of other embodiments as well, perhaps depending on the temperatures expected downhole for the given slickline 101, 102, 301 (see
Referring now to
Ultimately, this means that the tool may engage in telemetric communication with the surface equipment as indicated at 460 while also being powered to perform an application by the surface equipment as noted at 475. By way of specific example, downhole tools such as logging and perforating tools may engage in telemetric communication with the surface equipment, before, during or even after a perforating application. This telemetric communication may take place over the fiber optics of the slickline of the coiled tubing. At the same time, electrically conductive members of the slickline may be used to deliver power to these downhole tools to power these downhole tools and/or applications.
Referring now to
Referring now to
Additionally, the fibers 109 may be bundled together so as to behave in a more cohesive manner, for example, as compared to the looser manner in which the fibers 109 are located in the conduit 112 of other embodiments such as that of
As with other embodiments, the slickline 500 of
Embodiments detailed hereinabove include slickline capable of providing telemetry and power to downhole tools while remaining of an adequately low profile to allow for practical use of the slickline in combination with coiled tubing applications. This may be achieved in a variety of manners and the preceding description has been presented with reference to presently preferred embodiments. Persons skilled in the art and technology to which these embodiments pertain will appreciate that alterations and changes in the described structures and methods of operation may be practiced without meaningfully departing from the principle, and scope of these embodiments. Regardless, the foregoing description should not be read as pertaining only to the precise structures described and shown in the accompanying drawings, but rather should be read as consistent with and as support for the following claims, which are to have their fullest and fairest scope.
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