Present Statue and Development Trend of full-Scale Simulator for Drilling and Producing

Abstract

Because it provides favorite ancillary support in terms of technology research and tools test, full-scale simulator for Drilling and Producing is still the focus for overseas researches. The test capability for full-scale simulator represents the level of development for national petroleum exploration and development. That the increasing efforts on unconventional oil & gas and deep water exploration brings new challenges to theory and technology for oil-gas exploration, so the full-scale simulator provides an intermediate bridge for theory and technology innovation. Following the tracks of the development of full-scale simulator, the overseas and domestic classify and development of full-scale simulator was analyzed, and identifying the main technical bottlenecks faced during it establish. This paper describes the development of key technologies for wellhead loading system, wellbore simulation technology and test monitoring system. On this basis, the research prospect for the full-scale simulator was forecasted.