CA2130818C - Method for overburden drilling, casing shoe and casing tube for the method, and coupling element for the casing tubes - Google Patents

Method for overburden drilling, casing shoe and casing tube for the method, and coupling element for the casing tubes Download PDF

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CA2130818C
CA2130818C CA002130818A CA2130818A CA2130818C CA 2130818 C CA2130818 C CA 2130818C CA 002130818 A CA002130818 A CA 002130818A CA 2130818 A CA2130818 A CA 2130818A CA 2130818 C CA2130818 C CA 2130818C
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21BEARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B17/00Drilling rods or pipes; Flexible drill strings; Kellies; Drill collars; Sucker rods; Cables; Casings; Tubings
    • E21B17/14Casing shoes for the protection of the bottom of the casing
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    • E21EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21BEARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B17/00Drilling rods or pipes; Flexible drill strings; Kellies; Drill collars; Sucker rods; Cables; Casings; Tubings
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
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    • E21BEARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B7/00Special methods or apparatus for drilling
    • E21B7/20Driving or forcing casings or pipes into boreholes, e.g. sinking; Simultaneously drilling and casing boreholes
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16LPIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L47/00Connecting arrangements or other fittings specially adapted to be made of plastics or to be used with pipes made of plastics
    • F16L47/20Connecting arrangements or other fittings specially adapted to be made of plastics or to be used with pipes made of plastics based principally on specific properties of plastics
    • F16L47/24Connecting arrangements or other fittings specially adapted to be made of plastics or to be used with pipes made of plastics based principally on specific properties of plastics for joints between metal and plastics pipes

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Abstract

When drilling in soil and simultaneous loading of casing tube it is desirable to be able to use casing tubes of plastic material such as PEH-plastic. This is made possible by a special design of a casing shoe (5) giving a strong joint between the casing shoe (5) and the casing tube (4). The casing shoe is made of metal and has a part (62) which is perforated of holes (63) filled with the plastic material. Tube couplings (12A, 12B) between the casing tubes can also be joined to the tubes (4A, 4B) in the same way as the casing shoe, i.e. that they are made of metal and each has one part (12A, 12B) perforated of holes (63A, 63B) filled with the plastic material.

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Method for overburden drilling, casing shoe and casing tube for the method, and coupling element for the casing tubes The present invention refers to a method for overburden drilling with simultaneous loading of casing tube, a casing shoe and a casing tube for the method and a coupling element for casing tubes designed to be used with the method.
When drilling in soil, a central pilot drill bit is used together with a reamer drill bit so arranged that it can be thrown out eccentrically in relation to the pilot drill bit and expand the hole drilled by it. Thereby the bore will be of a dimension enough to give place not only for the pilot drill bit with the reamer drill bit in its inner position but also for a casing tube brought down in the hole at the same time as the hole is drilled. The casing tube is driven downwards with the drill bit through a casing shoe welded to the end of the casing tube and influenced by the percussive drill hammer. The casing tubes usually consist of three meters in length of steel welded together as drilling and the tube is driven downwards to a suitable extent.
One problem when dealing with the casing tubes is their weight. One further problem is the possibility of corrosion, which in some cases causes the exchange of them to plastic tubes after the drilling, a circumstantial and laborious procedure.
An object of embodiments of the present invention is to eliminate the exchange of casing tubes and one further object is to facilitate the handling of casing tubes during drilling. These and other objects are fulfilled by using casing tubes of plastic material from the beginning, which in turn according to embodiments of the invention is made possible by a special design of the casing shoe and of coupling elements for the casing tubes giving a strong anchoring in the plastic material. Further advantageous design details appear from the claims and the detailed description.
Still one further object of embodiments of the present invention is to achieve a joint of the casing tubes of plastic material in a simple way. This can be done by joining metal elements to the ends of the casing tubes in the same way as the casing shoe, the metal elements supporting tube couplings, for example of the threaded type.
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of drilling comprising the steps of: overburden drilling with simultaneous loading of a casing tube with a percussive drill hammer to influence a casing shoe connected with a lower end of the casing tube, using plastic material for the casing tube, and providing metal perforated with holes for the casing shoe, the holes being filled with the plastic material.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a casing shoe for a casing tube comprising a lower, cylindrical part with an outside diameter substantially corresponding to that of the casing tube and an upper cylindrical part with an outside diameter substantially corresponding to the inside diameter of the casing tube, the upper cylindrical part having at least one part perforated by holes and having a larger inside diameter than the rest of the casing shoe.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a tube of plastic material for boring comprising at least one end being connected to a 2a metal element, the metal element having a tube formed part perforated with holes, the holes of the tube formed part being filled with plastic material to anchor the metal element in the tube, the metal element being a casing shoe.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a tube of plastic material for boring comprising at least one end being connected to a metal element, the metal element having a tube formed part perforated with holes, the holes of the tube being filled with plastic material to anchor the metal element in the tube, the metal element includes a tube coupling device.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a metal element for a joint with a tube made of plastic material, the metal element comprising a tube coupling and at least one substantially tube formed part perforated with holes for joining the tube and the metal element, the material of the tube surrounds the tube formed part of the metal element and fills the holes in the tube formed part, the tube formed part being thickest at an end facing the tube coupling and tapering off to the other end.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described more in detail referring to the drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows a schematic and partly broken view through an example of a known design of the parts at the drill bit of a machinery for simultaneous drilling and casing of the bore;
Fig. 2 and 3 show a part sectional view of the design of a casing shoe according to two embodiments of the invention; and 2b Fig. 4 shows casing tubes with tube couplings according to an embodiment of the invention.
The drill bit in Fig. 1 consists in a known manner of a pilot drill bit 1, a reamer drill bit 2 and a guide 3 for a percussive drill hammer (not shown). The drill bits 1 and 2 and the guide 3 can be rotated and axially influenced by the percussive drill hammer. A casing shoe 5 consists of an upper part 6 and a lower part 7, both cylindric. The inside diameters of parts 6 and 7 are alike and adapted to the outside diameter of the lower part of the guide 3. The outside diameter of the upper part 6 of the casing shoe is adapted to the inside diameter of the casing tube while the outside diameter of the lower part 7 is substantially the same as the outside diameter of the casing tube 4. The upper part 6 of the casing shoe is ended upwards with a shoulder 8, against which the guide 3 transfers the percussions of the hammer through a corresponding shoulder 10 of an enlarged part 11 of the guide 3. The casing tube 4 is pulled with the casing shoe when it is thrown downwards, the casing tube being welded together through a welding seam 9 at the upper end of the lower part 7.
Fig. 2 shows a casing tube according to an embodiment of the invention partly in section. This is intended to be used instead of the casing shoe according to Fig. 1 in order to make possible casing WO 93/ 17215 ~; ~ ~;j ~ j ~ i with casing tube of plastic material or other materials which cannot be welded to a conventional casing shoe. The casing shoe 5 according to the invention has a lower part '7 which is essentially corresponding to this part of a conventional cas ing shoe . The upper part 6 , however , i s divided in one upper section 61 and one lower section 62, the upper section 61, as all of the upper parts of a conventional casing shoe, has an outside diameter adapted to the inside diameter of the casing tube 4 and an inside diameter equal to that of the lower part 7. The lower section 62 has essentially the same outside diameter as the upper section 61 but considerably less thickness. The lower section 62 is also perforated with holes 63, essentially with an even distribution. The holes 63 are circular in the drawing, but they can also be carried out with different shape and size, the thickness of the section 62 can also be varying and for example thicker around the circumference of the holes. The object of the holes is to cause a strong anchoring of the casing shoe on the casing tube 4 by way that it is connected thrugh the holes with an essentially tube shaped part 41 filling the space inside the inner surface of the lower section 62 to a substantially even inside diameter of the whole casing shoe.
Another embodiment of the casing shoe 5 and the tube 4 is shown in Fig. 3. It corresponds to the embodiment of Fig. 2 except at the lower part 7 of the casing shoe, which is given a smaller outside diameter whereby a thin part 42 of the tube 4 surrounds it. The lower part 7 of the casing shoe is also shaped with a groove 72 at its lower part, in which plastic material 43 united to the thin part 42 is fitting. One more annular groove 71 is arranged, containig a packing ring 18, preferrably made of a material which expands in contact with water.
The casing shoe according to the invention is preferrably joined to a suitable length of a casing tube to a well connected unit with a suitable heat treatment. During drilling the casing tube may be lengthened by way of a modified mirror welding or by joining with some other conventional method. A suitable material for the casing tubes is PEH (high-density polyeten).
The connection of the lengths of casing tubes can also be done by means of equipping them at the ends with metal elements anchored at the tube end in the same way as the casing shoe. Accordingly, Fig. 4 shows two tubes 4A
and 4B, each at the end connected with metal element 12A
and 12B, respectively. For the sake of plainness a section of a part around a tube joint is shown on the right half of the drawing, while on the left half the tubes 4A and 4B are omitted in order to make the detailed design of the metal elements 12A and 12B clear. As with the casing shoe the metal elements 12A and 12B are united to the actual tube by means of tube formed parts 62A and 62B, respectively, perforated by holes 63A and 63B, respectively, filled by the plastic material. Preferably the tube formed parts 62A
and 63B have a diameter which is in the middle between the inside and the outside diameter for the tubes 4A and 4B.
They are designed with a thickness of material which is lowest at the outer end and increasing towards the end of the tube and the other parts of the metal element in order to achieve a good strength. The metal elements 12A and 12B
may, for connection of the tube ends, be given a final shape with different types of tube couplings, for example of the bayonet type. One requirement when used as a casing tube for drilling is that both inside and outside surface at the joint is smooth and with no projections. As is shown in the embodiment in the figure each metal element has a part of even thickness 13A and 13B, respectively, closest to the end of the tube, after which follows a threaded part 14A
and 14B, respectively. Thus, one of the metal elements 12A
has an outer part with an even inside diameter and an externally threaded part 14A while the other metal 4a element 12B has an outer part with an even outside diameter and an internally threaded part 14B. The threads 17 are preferably of the trapezoid type. A packing 16 in the form of an O-ring or the like may be arranged in a groove 15 between the part of even thickness 5 ~'~ -~ ~a ~a '~.~ s '~ PCT/SE93/00158 13A and the outside thread 14A for tightening against a part 19 outside the threaded part 14B.
As the size, shape and distribution of the holes 63, 63A and 5 63B can be varied much within the scope of the invention, the number of holes and the sum of their areas can also be varied. In a pref erred embodiment, however, the sum of the areas of the holed is at least equal to the cross section area of the casing tube 4.
The invention is here described in connection with an embodi-ment but it shall only be restricted by the claims.

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1. A method of drilling comprising the steps of:
overburden drilling with simultaneous loading of a casing tube with a percussive drill hammer to influence a casing shoe connected with a lower end of the casing tube, using plastic material for the casing tube, and providing metal perforated with holes for the casing shoe, the holes being filled with the plastic material.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:
connecting the casing tube surrounding a perforated part of the casing shoe with a tube-formed part of the same material as that of the casing tube through the holes in the perforated part.
3. A casing shoe for a casing tube comprising a lower, cylindrical part with an outside diameter substantially corresponding to that of the casing tube and an upper cylindrical part with an outside diameter substantially corresponding to the inside diameter of the casing tube, the upper cylindrical part having at least one part perforated by holes and having a larger inside diameter than the rest of the casing shoe.
4. The casing shoe according to claim 3, wherein the upper cylindrical part is surrounded by the end of the casing tube of plastic material, an inner surface of the perforated part being filled out to a same inside diameter as the rest of the casing shoe with the same material as that of the casing tube and the casing shoe being thereby connected with the casing tube through the holes.
5. The casing shoe according to claim 3 or 4, wherein a sum of areas of the holes is at least equal to a cross sectional area of an interior of the casing tube.
6. A tube of plastic material for boring comprising at least one end being connected to a metal element, the metal element having a tube formed part perforated with holes, the holes of the tube formed part being filled with plastic material to anchor the metal element in the tube, the metal element being a casing shoe.
7. A tube of plastic material for boring comprising at least one end being connected to a metal element, the metal element having a tube formed part perforated with holes, the holes of the tube being filled with plastic material to anchor the metal element in the tube, the metal element includes a tube coupling device.
8. A metal element for a joint with a tube for boring made of plastic material, the metal element comprising a tube coupling and at least one substantially tube formed part perforated with holes for joining the tube and the metal element, the material of the tube surrounds the tube formed part of the metal element and fills the holes in the tube formed part, the tube formed part being thickest at an end facing the tube coupling and tapering off to the other end.
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