Mega-Extended-Reach Drilling to Deepwater Target: What is the Well's Maximum Allowable Measured Depth While Drilling?

Chen, Xuyue; Gao, Deli

doi:10.2118/183025-ms

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Modeling research on the extreme hydraulic extension length of horizontal well: impact of formation properties, drilling bit and cutting parameters

Zhang²,

Wang³

et al. 2021

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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Horizontal well can increase well productivity and improve the economic benefit, which significantly promotes the development of shale gas, tight oil and heavy oil. Moreover, it plays an important role in the development of natural gas hydrate. Horizontal extension ability is one of the key indexes of horizontal well, but it is always impacted by formation properties and well structure. Therefore, a model is established to analyze the impact of formation properties and well structure as comprehensive as possible, which considers not only traditional influencing factors, like formation pressure and drilling bit parameters, but also other key factors, including cutting particle size, wellbore diameter and cross section. Based on the analysis, some advises are proposed for field application. The analysis indicates that horizontal well has stronger extension ability in the formation with low formation pressure and high fracture pressure, but it is still limited by pump pressure. Under-balanced drilling can strength the extension ability in high formation pressure by reducing drilling mud density. The natural fractures in formation should be noted when drilling long horizontal well. The extension length increases and then decreases with the cutting particle size, so cutting particle has optimal size for the horizontal extension length, which can be adjusted by the rate of penetration and rotation speed. The extension length increases first and then decreases with the gap between drilling string and hole. Considering the demand of rock breaking and cutting sweeping around drilling bit, it is not recommended to adjust the drilling bit parameters. Both the cutting bed height and drilling string eccentricity have impact on horizontal extension length by changing minimum cutting-carry pump rate and annular pressure drop. Under different combinations of above two parameters, minimum cutting-carry pump rate and horizontal extension length are determined by different factors and can be divided into three parts, including acceptable cutting bed height, cutting lifting efficiency, pump pressure and total circulation pressure loss and well bottom pressure and formation fracture pressure. The findings of this study can help for better understanding of horizontal well hydraulic extension length and optimization method.

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Modeling research on the extreme hydraulic extension length of horizontal well: impact of formation properties, drilling bit and cutting parameters

Zhang²,

Wang³

et al. 2021

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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A Comprehensive Wellbore Stability Model Considering Poroelastic and Thermal Effects for Inclined Wellbores in Deepwater Drilling

Chen

Gao

Yang

et al. 2018

Journal of Energy Resources Technology

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Exploring and developing oil and gas in deepwater field is an important trend of the oil and gas industry. Development of deepwater oil and gas fields from a platform always requires a number of directional wells or extended reach wells targeting to different depth of water in various azimuth. Drilling of these wells is mostly associated with a series of wellbore instability problems that are not encountered in onshore or shallow water drilling. In the past decades, a number of studies on wellbore stability have been conducted. However, few of the models are specific for wellbore stability of the inclined deepwater wellbores. In this work, a comprehensive wellbore stability model considering poroelastic and thermal effects for inclined wellbores in deepwater drilling is developed. The numerical method of the model is also presented. The study shows that for a strike-slip stress regime, the wellbore with a low inclination poses more risk of wellbore instability than the wellbore with a high inclination. It also shows that cooling the wellbore will stabilize the wellbore while excessive cooling could cause wellbore fracturing, and the poroelastic effect could narrow the safe mud weight window. The highest wellbore collapse pressure gradients at all of the analyzed directions are obtained when poroelastic effect is taken into account meanwhile the lowest wellbore fracture pressure gradients at all of the analyzed directions are obtained when both of poroelastic effect and thermal effect are taken into account. For safe drilling in deepwater, both of thermal and poroelastic effects are preferably considered to estimate wellbore stability. The model provides a practical tool to predict the stability of inclined wellbores in deepwater drilling.

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Application of the piecewise constant method in nonlinear dynamics of drill string

Tian

Wang

Zhou

et al. 2021

International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

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Aiming at the current development of drilling technology and the deepening of oil and gas exploration, we focus on better studying the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the drill string under complex working conditions and knowing the real movement of the drill string during drilling. This paper firstly combines the actual situation of the well to establish the dynamic model of the horizontal drill string, and analyzes the dynamic characteristics, giving the expression of the force of each part of the model. Secondly, it introduces the piecewise constant method (simply known as PT method), and gives the solution equation. Then according to the basic parameters, the axial vibration displacement and vibration velocity at the test points are solved by the PT method and the Runge–Kutta method, respectively, and the phase diagram, the Poincare map, and the spectrogram are obtained. The results obtained by the two methods are compared and analyzed. Finally, the relevant experimental tests are carried out. It shows that the results of the dynamic model of the horizontal drill string are basically consistent with the results obtained by the actual test, which verifies the validity of the dynamic model and the correctness of the calculated results. When solving the drill string nonlinear dynamics, the results of the PT method is closer to the theoretical solution than that of the Runge–Kutta method with the same order and time step. And the PT method is better than the Runge–Kutta method with the same order in smoothness and continuity in solving the drill string nonlinear dynamics.

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Mega-Extended-Reach Drilling to Deepwater Target: What is the Well's Maximum Allowable Measured Depth While Drilling?

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Modeling research on the extreme hydraulic extension length of horizontal well: impact of formation properties, drilling bit and cutting parameters

Modeling research on the extreme hydraulic extension length of horizontal well: impact of formation properties, drilling bit and cutting parameters

A Comprehensive Wellbore Stability Model Considering Poroelastic and Thermal Effects for Inclined Wellbores in Deepwater Drilling

Application of the piecewise constant method in nonlinear dynamics of drill string

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