WO2007027627A1 - A method for gravel or frac pacping in a wellbore and for monitoring the packing process - Google Patents
A method for gravel or frac pacping in a wellbore and for monitoring the packing process Download PDFInfo
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- WO2007027627A1 WO2007027627A1 PCT/US2006/033559 US2006033559W WO2007027627A1 WO 2007027627 A1 WO2007027627 A1 WO 2007027627A1 US 2006033559 W US2006033559 W US 2006033559W WO 2007027627 A1 WO2007027627 A1 WO 2007027627A1
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- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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- E21B43/26—Methods for stimulating production by forming crevices or fractures
- E21B43/267—Methods for stimulating production by forming crevices or fractures reinforcing fractures by propping
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
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Definitions
- a method for gravel packing or frac packing in a borehole includes running a workstring to a target location, running an optic fiber to the location with the workstring and monitoring the target location with the optic fiber.
- a method for monitoring at least one parameter at a plurality of discrete locations at a gravel packing or frac packing location in a borehole including running a workstring to the frac packing location running an optic fiber to the gravel packing or frac packing location along with the workstring and monitoring the gravel packing or frac packing location at a plurality of discrete points along the gravel packing or frac packing location.
- Figure 1 is a schematic view of a section of a borehole where a frac packing operation is taking place illustrating a circulating flow pattern known to the art and a runnable optic fiber at a workstring;
- Figure 2 is a schematic view of the same portion of the well without the workstring after gravel packing or frac packing and completing of the well, illustrating absence of the fiber optic.
- Figure 1 illustrates a pack zone 10 in a wellbore with a screen system 12 and packer 14.
- a workstring 16 is also depicted with a crossover assembly 18.
- a ball 20 dropped from surface at an appropriate time diverts flow of fluid slurry as is known. Flow of slurry is indicated by arrows throughout the drawing and will be recognized by those of skill in the art.
- conduit 22 is run in the hole with the workstring and is not a permanent installation in the downhole environment.
- conduit 22 is configured to be run in the hole with the workstring from its own reel and then reeled back out of the hole as the workstring is tripped out of the well.
- Prior art packing operations measure pressure inside screens 12 and transmit that pressure reading to surface.
- the pressure "seen" by a sensor at the locations indicated is the applied fluid pressure from the slurry and the hydrostatic pressure from the column of fluid to surface.
- the hydrostatic pressure In order to determine pack pressure therefore, one must subtract the hydrostatic pressure to deduce rather than directly measure annulus pressure. While this works as noted above, it provides the well operator only a vague idea of the overall picture downhole.
- the method disclosed herein allows the operator to get a picture of the whole of the formation face in the packing area. This is because of the provision of the optic fiber conduit 22 comprising a fiber within a control line.
- the optic fiber control line arrangement allows for a plurality of discrete parameter measurements along its length such as pressure measurements.
- the method herein teaches one to provide a reel of fiber optic conduit 30 (one or more optic fibers inside a control line) at a surface location or other remote location and feed that conduit into the wellbore while tripping the workstring 16 into the hole.
- the fiber optic conduit is secured to the outside of the workstring 16 above the gravel pack assembly, and washpipe 17 within the screen in pack zone 10 by conventional clamps (not shown) as the workstring 16 and washpipe 17 is run in the hole.
- the crossover assembly 18 is a feed-through type used to pass the fiber optic conduit through the gravel pack between the upper drill pipe workstring 16 and to a downhole end of the washpipe 17 within the screens. This feed-through is done similarly to passing control lines through production and gravel pack packers.
- Surface-based.equipment is connected to the optical fiber (laser, controls and interrogation computer) to conduct the optical data gathering operation. The output is displayed on a graphical monitor in real time.
- the optic fiber conduit 22 is then used to monitor selected parameters above noted.
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AU2006284981A AU2006284981B2 (en) | 2005-08-30 | 2006-08-30 | A method for gravel or frac packing in a wellbore and for monitoring the packing process |
GB0800326A GB2441719B (en) | 2005-08-30 | 2006-08-30 | A method for gravel or frac packing in a wellbore and for monitoring the packing process |
CA002614425A CA2614425A1 (en) | 2005-08-30 | 2006-08-30 | A method for gravel or frac packing in a wellbore and for monitoring the packing process |
NO20080225A NO20080225L (en) | 2005-08-30 | 2008-01-14 | Procedure for gravel or fracturing packing in a wellbore as well as monitoring the same |
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