scholarly journals Heat Transfer Behaviors in Horizontal Wells Considering the Effects of Drill Pipe Rotation, and Hydraulic and Mechanical Frictions during Drilling Procedures

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Chang ◽  
Jun Zhou ◽  
Yintong Guo ◽  
Shiming He ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Drill Pipe ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Horizontal Section ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Pressure Losses ◽  
Wellbore Temperature

Horizontal wells are increasingly being utilized in the exploration and development of oil and gas resources. However, the high temperature that occurs during drilling processes leads to a number of problems, such as the deterioration of drilling fluid properties and borehole instability. Therefore, the insight into heat transfer behaviors in horizontal wells is certainly advantageous. This study presents an integrated numerical model for predicting the temperature distribution during horizontal wells drilling considering the effects of drill pipe rotations, and hydraulic (i.e., circulating pressure losses) and mechanical frictions. A full implicit finite difference method was applied to solve this model. The results revealed that the mechanical frictions affect more on wellbore temperature variation than the effects of heat transfer intensification and circulating pressure losses; Moreover, the drilling fluid temperature was found higher than the stratum temperature at horizontal section, the temperature difference at the bottom hole reached up to 16 °C if pressure drops, heat transfer strengthened by rotations and mechanical frictions were all taken into account. This research could be utilized as a theoretical reference for predicting temperature distributions and estimating risks in horizontal wells drilling.

The history of UGS Strachocina investment as an example of success achieved by cooperation between a western company and Polish oil and gas companies

Nafta-Gaz ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (11) ◽  
pp. 760-764
Author(s):  
Bogdan Filar ◽  
◽  
Mariusz Miziołek ◽  
Mieczysław Kawecki ◽  
Marek Piaskowy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Gas Storage ◽  
Natural Fracture ◽  
Horizontal Section ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
Working Volume ◽  
Drilling Technology ◽  
Fluid Losses

In 2006 Oil and Gas Institute, Underground Gas Storage Department was given the task of designing the UGS Strachocina working volume, production and injection rates enlargement. Gas storage Strachocina is located in the south eastern part of Poland, near Sanok. The UGS Department ran some analysis before that date, which gave us the answer that the old vertical well technology would not be enough to achieve investment success. We knew that we needed to use horizontal well technology in which we had no experience at all. At that time there were only a few horizontal wells drilled in Poland. We decided to start cooperation with the company Baker Hughes, and asked them to help us to design the drilling technology and well completions. We knew that we needed to drill 8 horizontal wells in difficult reservoir conditions. Based on Baker Hughes’ recommendations, the EXALO Polish drilling company’s experience and the Institute’s knowledge of storage reservoir geology, the trajectories of 8 new wells were designed. Working with Baker Hughes, we designed the well completion based on expandable filters, the second time this type of completion technology had been used in the world at that time. During drilling, we were prepared for drilling fluid losses because of the extensive Strachocina reservoir’s natural fracture system. The investment was in doubt during the drilling of the first two horizontal wells because of huge drilling fluid losses and the inability of drilling the horizontal section length as designed. We lost 4000 cubic metres of drilling fluid in a one single well. During the drilling of the 2nd well, we asked Baker Hughes to help us to improve the drilling technology. Our partners from Baker Hughes prepared the solution in 3 weeks, and so we were able to use this new technology on the 3rd well drilled. It turned out that we could drill a longer horizontal section with less drilling fluid loss. The paper will show the idea of the project, the team building process, the project problems solved by the team, decisions made during the UGS Strachocina investment and the results. It will show how combining “western” technology and experience with “eastern” knowledge created a success story for all partners.

Investigation of Horizontal Wells with Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing Technological Efficiency in the Development of Low-Permeability Oil Reservoirs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Valerievich Miroshnichenko ◽  
Valery Alekseevich Korotovskikh ◽  
Timur Ravilevich Musabirov ◽  
Aleksei Eduardovich Fedorov ◽  
Khakim Khalilovich Suleimanov
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Specific Mass ◽  
Horizontal Section ◽  
Technological Complexity ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Effective Development

Abstract The deterioration of the reservoir properties of potential oil and gas bearing areas on mature and green fields, as well as the increase in the volume of hard-to-recover reserves on low-permeable reservoirs set us new challenges in searching and using effective development technologies to maintain and even increase the oil production levels. Based on successful international experience, Russian oil and gas companies use horizontal wells (HW) with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing (MSHF) for the cost-effective development of low-permeable reservoirs. Thus, since the first pilot works of drilling technologies and completion of HW with MSHF in 2011, at the beginning of 2020, over 1,200 HW with MSHF were drilled and came on stream at the fields of LLC RN-Yuganskneftegaz, about half of which are at the exploitation play AS10-12 of the northern license territory (NLT) of the Priobskoye field. In searching the best technologies and engineering solutions, the company tested different lengths of horizontal section of HW, the number of hydraulic fracturing (HF) stages and distances between hydraulic fracturing ports, as well as different specific mass of the proppant per frac port. Recently, there has been a tendency in design solutions to increase the length of the HWs and the number of hydraulic fractures with a decreasing distance between the frac ports and a decreasing specific mass of the proppant per frac port. This work studies the actual and theoretical efficiency of HW with MSHF of various designs (different lengths of horizontal section of HW and the number of HF stages) and to assess the viability of increasing the technological complexity, as well as to analyze the actual impact of loading the proppant mass per port on performing HW with MSHF. The study is based on the results of the analysis of the factual experience accumulated over the entire history of the development of the exploitation play AS10-12 of the NLT of the Priobskoye field of the Rosneft Company. In studying the viability of increasing the technological complexity, especially, increasing the length of horizontal section of HW, increasing the number of HF stages, and reducing the distance between the frac ports: we discovered the typical methodological errors made in analyzing the efficiency of wells of various designs; we developed the methodology for analysis of the actual multiplicity of indicators of wells of various designs, in particular, HW with MSHF relative to deviated wells (DW) with HF; we carried out the statistical analysis of the actual values of the multiplicity of performance indicators and completion parameters of HW with MSHF of various designs relative to the surrounding DW with HF of the exploitation play AS10-12 of the NLT of the Priobskoye field; we performed the theoretical calculation of the multiplicity of the productivity coefficient for the HW with MSHF of various designs relative to DW with HF for the standard development system of the exploitation play AS10-12 of the NLT of the Priobskoye field; we compared the actual and theoretical results. The paper also presents the results of studying the actual effect of changes of proppant's mass per port on performance indicators of HW with MSHF of the same design and with an increase in the number of fractures of the hydraulic fracturing without changing the length of horizontal section of HW. As for performance indicators, being the basis for estimating the efficiency of HW with MSHF of various designs, we used the productivity index per meter of the effective reservoir thickness and the cumulative fluid production per meter of the effective reservoir thickness per a certain period of operation. And as the completion parameters, we used the length of the horizontal section of HW, the number of HF stages, the distance between the frac ports, and the specific mass of the proppant per meter of the effective reservoir thickness per frac port. The results of this work are the determining vector of development for future design decisions in improving the efficiency of HW with MSHF.

Shellside Waterflow Pressure Drop Distribution Measurements in an Industrial-Sized Test Heat Exchanger

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Halle ◽  
J. M. Chenoweth ◽  
M. W. Wambsganss
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Power Requirement ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Pressure Losses ◽  
Finned Tubes ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Isothermal Water

Throughout the life of a heat exchanger, a significant part of the operating cost arises from pumping the heat transfer fluids through and past the tubes. The pumping power requirement is continuous and depends directly upon the magnitude of the pressure losses. Thus, in order to select an optimum heat exchanger design, it is is as important to be able to predict pressure drop accurately as it is to predict heat transfer. This paper presents experimental measurements of the shellside pressure drop for 24 different segmentally baffled bundle configurations in a 0.6-m (24-in.) diameter by 3.7-m (12-ft) long shell with single inlet and outlet nozzles. Both plain and finned tubes, nominally 19-mm (0.75-in.) outside diameter, were arranged on equilateral triangular, square, rotated triangular, and rotated square tube layouts with a tube pitch-to-diameter ratio of 1.25. Isothermal water tests for a range of Reynolds numbers from 7000 to 100,000 were run to measure overall as well as incremental pressure drops across sections of the exchanger. The experimental results are given and correlated with a pressure drop versus flowrate relationship.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on the Local Drag of Completion String with Packers in Horizontal Wells

Coatings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qimin Liang ◽  
Bairu Xia ◽  
Baolin Liu ◽  
Zhen Nie ◽  
Baokui Gao
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Theoretical Calculations ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Horizontal Section ◽  
Friction Coefficients ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Gas Fields

The multistage stimulation technology of horizontal wells has brought huge benefits to the development of oil and gas fields. However, the completion string with packers often encounters stuck due to the large drag in the horizontal section, causing huge economic losses. The local drag of the completion string with packers in the horizontal section is very complicated, and it has not been fully understood by theoretical calculations. A local drag experiment is designed to simulate the influence of microsteps and cuttings on the local drag of the completion string with packers in the inclined and horizontal sections. An obvious increase of the local drag of the packer is found at microsteps of the horizontal section, and the local drag is greatly affected by the amount of sand. In addition, the string with packers will vibrate during the tripping process in the deviated section, and the local drag is different when different amounts of sand are in the hole, but the change law is similar. The experimental results show that the friction coefficients of the packers with different materials in the horizontal section vary greatly, resulting in different local drags. It indicates that the local drag of the completion string not only depends on the microsteps and sand quantity in the wellbore, but also on the material difference of the packers. Only if microsteps and cuttings are removed can the completion string be tripped into horizontal wells smoothly.

Mathematical Modeling of Heat Transfer and Pressure Drops in the Single- and Dual-Pipe Horizontal Wells

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohu Dong ◽  
Huiqing Liu ◽  
Zhangxin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Steam Injection ◽  
Thermal Recovery ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Injection Process ◽  
Single Pipe ◽  
Productivity Prediction ◽  
Transfer Mechanisms

In this paper, from the heat transfer mechanisms between perforated horizontal well and formation, the mathematical models for the heat transfer and pressure drops of the horizontal well with different steam injection pipe configurations are developed. All the conventional single-pipe, concentric dual-pipe, and parallel dual-pipe configurations are considered. A correlation is proposed to represent a relationship between the thermophysical properties of the formation and the formation pressure and temperature. Then, using the method of wellbore microcontrol elements and node analysis, the steam injection process in the three different well configurations is numerically investigated. Based on the test data of a parallel dual-pipe horizontal well from an actual oilfield, a steam backflow procedure for the parallel dual-pipe configuration is proposed to confirm the sealed status of a thermal packer. The theoretical investigation plays an important role in the performance evaluation and productivity prediction of horizontal well-based thermal recovery projects. Furthermore, it also sheds some important insights on a steam injection project design with dual-pipe horizontal wells.

Research and Application of the Deep Horizontal Drilling and Completion Technology for Liaohe Oilfield Buried Hill Reservoir

2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 1396-1399
Author(s):  
Gui Min Nie ◽  
Dan Guo ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xiao Wei Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Horizontal Wells ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Horizontal Drilling ◽  
Liaohe Oilfield ◽  
Buried Hill ◽  
Composite Drilling

With the depletion of shallow-layer oil and gas pools inLiaohe oilfield, buried hill stratigraphic reservoirs in Liaohe oil field are becoming main objectives for exploration in recent years, especially in high-risk areas of Xinglongtai deep the Hing ancient buried hill resources are particularly rich. Since 2007, Liaohe oilfield increased investment for Buried Hill reservoirs with deep horizontal drilling developt the buried hill reservoir. Liaohe has completed 36 deep horizontal, with a total footage of 183920m, the average depth of 5109m. Improving drilling speed of "buried hill deep horizontal and branch horizontal wells”, and reducing drilling costs are of great urgency. “Hing buried hill deep horizontal, horizontal wells,” with composite drilling technology, supporting the optimization of PDC bits, the high-pressure jet drilling, the MWD borehole trajectory control and optimization of drilling parameters, the new drilling fluid technology and so on. With a large number of horizontal wells put into Buried Hill stratigraphic reservoirs, oil and gas production of average deep horizontal well increase of 2-5 times. Besides, the previous recovery and production of oil and gas reservoirs significantly improved to create an objective economic and social benefits.

scholarly journals The effective application of mud cooler machine to support to carry out the infill wells in Cuu Long basin

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3a) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Tuan Tran Nguyen ◽  
Son Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Drilling Process ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Gas Drilling ◽  
Drilling Rig ◽  
Effective Application ◽  
Safe Level ◽  
Fluid Properties ◽  
Temperature And Pressure

This paper presents some studies on the application of mud cooler in Oil and Gas drilling in a high temperature, high pressure condition of Cuu Long reservoir. The authors have proposed a method to study the theory of temperature effects on drilling fluid properties, that have been tested practically. The authors have remarked on each type of drilling rig and installation location. With these remarks, the authors give an option to install the "Mud cooler" on the rig at the appropriate location and method so that the temperature of the solution will be ensured to reduce to a safe level. The effective application of this equipment has greatly assisted drilling process since the fluid temperature has been reduced sharply before returning to the mud tank. This has helped cut down expenses significantly by prolonging eqipment's endurability, saving time for drilling, ship renting, drilling services and minimize the budget spent on buying the fluid and additives to recover it. Thus, the drilling workers' working conditions have been facilitated. The results of these studies have been proved scientifically and practically through the successful drilling of well ST-3P-ST. This will make the way for other local wells and reservoirs which have the same conditions of temperature and pressure.

scholarly journals Validation of analytical model and identification of salt effect on wellbore temperature in underbalanced drilling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olatunji Olayiwola ◽  
Vu Nguyen ◽  
Opeyemi Bello ◽  
Ebuka Osunwoke ◽  
Boyun Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Distribution ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Accurate Estimate ◽  
Fluid Composition ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Wellbore Temperature ◽  
Drilling Operations ◽  
Saline Formation

AbstractUnderstanding the behavior of the borehole temperature recovery process, which influences drilling operations, requires an adequate estimation of fluid temperature. The presence of salt in a saline formation changes the composition of the annular fluid and has a significant impact on the fluid temperature distribution during drilling operations. As a result, while drilling a saline formation, it is vital to examine the key parameter that determines an accurate estimate of fluid temperature. Using python software and statistical quantitative methods, this study proposes a simplified user-friendly computational system that analyzes the drilling fluid systems performance evaluation and selection optimization.The fluid temperature distribution of X Field in China was analyzed using Shan mathematical model as a base model. When compared to MWD data from the field, the model predicted the temperature distribution of the field with less than 10% error. An adjustment factor was introduced to the base model to accommodate for changes in annular fluid composition while drilling a saline formation. The findings show that salt concentration has an impact on fluid temperature distribution during drilling. The fluid temperature at the wellbore condition changes by at least 7% with both high and low adjustment factors. Because the salt in the formation inflow dissolves in the drilling fluid near the annulus, the rheology of the fluid combination changes.

Heat Transfer Enhancement in Microchannels Incorporating Slanted Grooves

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poh-Seng Lee ◽  
Chiang-Juay Teo
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Heat Sinks ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Additional Energy ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Microchannel Heat Sinks ◽  
Significant Temperature

The ever-increasing density, speed, and power consumption of microelectronics has led to a rapid increase in the heat fluxes which need to be dissipated in order to ensure their stable and reliable operation. The shrinking dimensions of electronics devices, in parallel, have imposed severe space constraints on the volume available for the cooling solution, defining the need for innovative and highly effective compact cooling techniques. Microchannel heat sinks have the potential to satisfy these requirements. However, significant temperature variations across the chip persist for conventional single-pass parallel flow microchannel heat sinks since the heat transfer performance deteriorates in the flow direction in microchannels as the boundary layers thicken and the coolant heats up. To accommodate higher heat fluxes, enhanced microchannel designs are needed. The present work presents an idea to enhance the single-phase convective heat transfer in microchannels. The proposed technique is passive, and does not require additional energy to be expended to enhance the heat transfer. The idea incorporates the generation of a spanwise or secondary flow to enhance mixing and hence decrease fluid temperature gradients across the microchannel. Slanted grooves can be created on the microchannel wall to induce the flow to twist and rotate thus introducing an additional component to the otherwise laminar flow in the microchannel. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of such an enhanced microchannel heat sink. The heat transfer was found to increase by up to 12% without incurring substantial additional pressure drops.

Comprehensive experimental investigation of hole cleaning performance in horizontal wells including the effects of drillstring eccentricity, pipe rotation and cuttings size

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ahmed K. Abbas ◽  
Mortadha T. Alsaba ◽  
Mohammed F. Al Dushaishi
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Drill Pipe ◽  
Real Field ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Cleaning Efficiency ◽  
Hole Cleaning ◽  
Cleaning Performance ◽  
Pipe Rotation

Abstract Extended reach (ERD) wells with a horizontal and highly deviated section are widely applied in the oil and gas industry because they provide higher drainage area than vertical wells; and hence, increase the productivity or injectivity of the well. Among many issues encountered in a complex well trajectory, poor hole cleaning is the most common problem, which occurs mainly in the deviated and horizontal section of oil and gas wells. There are significant parameters that have a serious impact on hole cleaning performance in high-angle and horizontal sections. These include flow rate, rheology and density of the drilling fluid, drillstring eccentricity, pipe rotation, and cuttings size. It has been recognized that the action of most of these parameters to transport drilled cuttings is constantly a point of controversy among oilfield engineers. In the present study, extensive experiments were conducted in an advanced purpose-built flow rig to identify the main parameters affecting on circulate the cuttings out of the test section in a horizontal position. The flow-loop simulator has been designed to allow easy variation of operational parameters in terms of flow rate, mud density, drillstring eccentricity, pipe rotation, and cuttings size. In addition, the study covers the impacts of laminar, transition, and turbulent flow regimes. The goal of such variation in the operational conditions is to simulate real field situations. The results have shown that drill string rotation and flow rate were the operational parameters with the highest positive influence on the cuttings transports process. In contrast, drill pipe eccentricity has a negative influence on cuttings removal efficiency. The cuttings transportation performance is further improved by pipe rotation at different levels of eccentricity, especially at fully eccentric annuli. It was also shown that larger cuttings appeared to be easier to remove in a horizontal annulus than smaller ones. The experimental results would provide a more in-depth understanding of the relationship between drilling operation parameters and hole cleaning efficiency in ERD operations. This will help the drilling teams to realize what action is better to take for efficient cutting transportation.

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