Expandable Tubular Solutions

Filippov, A. G.; Mack, Robert D.; Cook, Lance; York, Patrick; Ring, Lev; McCoy, Terry

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“…Multitudes of successful research work was done on concept, significances and applications of solid expandable tubular technology; however, the focus was mostly on industry demanddriven needs. Filippov et al [6], in his pioneering work, presented three solution scenarios using SET in drilling. First, an expandable open-hole drill liner that can reduce costs and enhance the ability of the operator to access new reservoirs, which are currently difficult to drill economically.…”

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Indirect Extrusion: A Multifaceted Approach of Sub-surface Tubular Expansion

Pervez¹,

Qamar²,

Al-Abri³

et al. 2018

Extrusion of Metals, Polymers and Food Products

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Extrusion and indirect extrusion is a very old manufacturing process used in multitudes of applications mainly focused on transportation, household and power industries. Indirect extrusion has found an interesting application in petroleum industry, which resulted in resolving many unsolvable issues over the last few decades. The current and expected future global demand for hydrocarbons became a driving force for researchers to find new comprehensive and cheaper solutions for hydrocarbon production. The challenges faced in oil and gas fields, while drilling, constructing and operating new and old vertical/horizontal wells, are many. The use of indirect extrusion for insitu expansion of sub-surface tubulars used in wells revolutionized the drilling and completion as opposed to one and half decade back. The emergence of solid expandable tubular technology has changed the basics of how we design and construct wells. The original development of the technology was to overcome the challenges faced by the petroleum industry to reach ultra-deep reservoirs, off-shore drilling, drilling in highpressure/difficult zones and repair/maintenance of old/ageing wells. However, it gained significant interest of researchers and operators in providing solutions to wide-range problems. The development of a computational framework using finite element method (FEM) enabled to determine the force required for expansion and resulting dimensional changes in final product, which is of direct assistance to the field engineers. The effect of friction and stress variations along contact surface is also determined.

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Indirect Extrusion: A Multifaceted Approach of Sub-surface Tubular Expansion

Pervez¹,

Qamar²,

Al-Abri³

et al. 2018

Extrusion of Metals, Polymers and Food Products

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“…1. Known as Solid Expandable Tubular (SET), this technology has received growing interest in oil and gas well drilling and completion applications during the last decade (Daigle et al, 2000;Filippov et al, 1999). Hydraulic expansion is performed by applying a hydraulic pressure to push the mandrel forward, while mechanical expansion is performed by applying a mechanical pull on the mandrel.…”

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Analytical model for stick–slip phenomenon in solid tubular expansion

Al-Abri

Pervez

Al-Hiddabi

et al. 2015

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

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“…Enventure first proposed the solid expandable tubular method to solve some problems in drilling on October 3-6, 1999 [2] and then conducted an expansion operation using the solid expandable tubular technology for a well with depth of 4023 m (13,198.8 ft) in the Gulf of Mexico on November 25, 1999, for the first time [3,4]. Expandable tubular technology was then applied to the buildup section of the Ghawar Oilfield and Shaybah Oilfield in Saudi Arabia, in which the application of SET provided cemented zonal isolation for the buildup section from usually vertical to near horizontal [5].…”

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Dynamic Analysis of Solid Expandable Tubular and Its Applications in Tahe Oilfield

Tang

Zhou

et al. 2015

Arab J Sci Eng

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For ultra-deep horizontal wells in Tahe Oilfield in China, the solid expandable tubular (SET) technology was applied in the buildup section to isolate unstable mud stone with clays above the pay zone. This technology satisfies the requirements of geological water avoidance, and a larger hole size is adopted in the pay zone. This paper proposed a finite element dynamic model to analyze the expansion of the SET, and the impacts of the following factors on the expansion force required for the expandable tubular were analyzed: yield strength of the tubular material, solid tubular expansion ratio, the coefficient of friction between the expansion cone and the tubular, the angle of the expansion cone, movements velocity of the expansion cone, and DLS (dogleg severity). The calculation results indicate that a higher expansion ratio, a higher yield strength, and a higher friction coefficient of the SET result in a larger expansion force to different degrees, whereas the other factors have little effect on the expansion force. The dynamic expansion force calculation model established in this paper is consistent with the actual conditions, and the simulation calculation results can be applied to provide theoretical guidance for SET expansion operations.

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Expandable Tubular Solutions

Abstract: This paper was prepared for presentation at the 1999 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Houston, Texas, 3–6 October 1999.

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Indirect Extrusion: A Multifaceted Approach of Sub-surface Tubular Expansion

Indirect Extrusion: A Multifaceted Approach of Sub-surface Tubular Expansion

Analytical model for stick–slip phenomenon in solid tubular expansion

Dynamic Analysis of Solid Expandable Tubular and Its Applications in Tahe Oilfield

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