CA2747117A1 - Arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps - Google Patents

Arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps Download PDF

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CA2747117A1
CA2747117A1 CA2747117A CA2747117A CA2747117A1 CA 2747117 A1 CA2747117 A1 CA 2747117A1 CA 2747117 A CA2747117 A CA 2747117A CA 2747117 A CA2747117 A CA 2747117A CA 2747117 A1 CA2747117 A1 CA 2747117A1
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21BEARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/12Methods or apparatus for controlling the flow of the obtained fluid to or in wells
    • E21B43/121Lifting well fluids
    • E21B43/126Adaptations of down-hole pump systems powered by drives outside the borehole, e.g. by a rotary or oscillating drive
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21BEARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP 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
    • E21B17/10Wear protectors; Centralising devices, e.g. stabilisers
    • E21B17/1078Stabilisers or centralisers for casing, tubing or drill pipes

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Arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps which consists of a rotating tube located inside a fixed tube which extend along the well casing. The rotating tube carries fluid from the bottom of the well to the surface. Between the rotating tube and the fixed tube there is an "O" ring space into which an anti-friction lubricant is injected between the external face of the rotating tube and the internal face of the fixed tube. The bottom end of the rotating tube has a section holding holes through which fluid flows into it, it is connected to the progressive cavity pump by means of a rod, and its top end is connected to a production outlet and to its propelling motor mechanism. The upper section of the fixed tube is connected to an anti- friction lubricant injection pipe in the space between the rotating and the fixed tubes.

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Y:\CM001\4361 CA\Spec & Dwgs\Spec & CIms 110721.wpd ARRANGEMENT FOR HYDROCARBON EXTRACTION IN WELLS
USING PROGRESSIVE CAVITY PUMPS
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention refers to an arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps, and more in particular it relates to an oil extraction tubing arrangement developed in order to reduce its wearing out as a result of friction and corrosion in field wells in which progressive cavity pumps or "PCP" are used.

PRIOR ART AND ADVANTAGES OF THE INVENTION
Within prior art as to this matter, it is worth mentioning that usually in hydrocarbon extraction field wells, power transmission from the surface engine to the bottom pumps "progressive cavity pumps" type, or PCP, is carried out by means of one or more metal rods or bars which rotate inside the metal tubing. As the production well depth may be of several hundred meters or over one thousand meters, it is impossible to avoid certain contact and friction between the tubing and the rods rotating inside it.
The progressive cavity pump uses the oil which it pumps from the bottom of the well as a lubricant between the surfaces which suffer this friction, i.e. between the internal face of the tubing and the external face of the rods which rotate along its inside.
One of the disadvantages arising from the friction between the bottom pump driving rods and the tubing appears as oil fields grow old, as the secondary recovery process increases the percentage of water in the "water-oil" mixture reaching amounts over 95%, bringing about poor lubrication and, in many cases, a combined situation of tubing wearing out due to friction and corrosion. As a consequence of the reiterated friction between rods and tubing the protective boundary layer breaks up -this layer is formed by the building up of a thin deposit of the hydrocarbon present in water and/or by the artificial injection of certain film coating product used as non-corrosive, should this latter method be used-causing tubing corrosion and wearing out. Therefore, it is extremely important to solve this serious problem as it causes considerable economic losses, clearly enough, as exploitation processes at oil fields must be interrupted until tubings are repaired or replaced.

With the aim of solving the above mentioned problems, the arrangement subject matter of this invention has been developed, it allows to considerably reduce the tubings' "wearing out-corrosion-wearing out" combined problem, as it shall be explained below in the "how to put it into practice" proposal.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The purpose of this invention is to provide an arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps, this arrangement was developed with the aim of reducing wearing out as a result of friction and corrosion in conventional tubings used in field wells in which the extraction of fluids is carried out by means of progressive cavity pumps. This arrangement consists of a rotating tube located inside a fixed tube placed along the well casing. The rotating tube carries the fluid from the bottom of the well to the surface. Between the rotating tube and the fixed tube there is an "0" ring-type space into which an anti-friction lubricant is injected between the external face of the rotating tube and the internal face of the fixed tube.
The bottom end of the rotating tube has a section with holes which allow fluids to flow into it and it is connected to the progressive cavity pump by means of a rod, its top end is connected to a production outlet and to its propelling motor mechanism. The upper section of the fixed tube is connected to an anti-friction lubricant injection pipe in the space left between the rotating tube and the fixed tube.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
For a better understanding and clarity of the purpose of this invention, it has been illustrated in several drawings which represent it according to the preferred ways in which to carry it out, all of them should be taken as examples, that is:
2 Figure 1 outlines a typical example of a conventional arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps.

Figure 2 outlines the arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps, subject matter of this invention.

Figures 3 to 6 respectively show the blown up details A, B, C and D of the arrangement shown in Figure 2.

It is worth mentioning that in Figure 1, corresponding to the prior art, and in the following figures in which this invention is illustrated the same or equivalent parts are indicated with the same reference numbers in both cases.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Figure 1 shows that the illustrated example of a conventional pumping arrangement consists of a casing 1, with a wellhead outlet 2, which holds inside a tubing
3, which carries the fluid from the bottom of the well to the surface, formed by a succession of sections 4 connected among them by joints 5. Between the casing 1 and the tubing 3 there is a longitudinally defined "0" ring-type space 13. The upper section
4 of the tubing 3 which projects itself from the wellhead at the field's land T surface has a production outlet 6, through which the first of a succession of rods 8 connected among them by joints 9 passes as well as through a stuffing box 7, the last rod 8 at the tubing's lower section 4 is connected to a bottom PCP pump 10. In order to drive the rotating movement of the group of rods 8, and consequently to drive the pump 10, the upper rod 8 is connected to an electric engine 11 by means of a belt-and-pulley transmission mechanism 12.

As it has already been stated, the pump 10 uses the oil which it pumps from the bottom of the well as a lubricant between the surfaces subject to friction, i.e. between the internal face of the tubing 3 and the external face of the rods 8 which rotate along its inside. As oil fields grow old the percentage of water present in the "water-oil" mixture increases, thus lubrication becomes poor causing the tubing's wearing out as a result of friction and corrosion until the protective boundary layer, formed as a consequence of the building up of a thin deposit of the hydrocarbon present in water, breaks up.
In Figure 2 the way in which this invention solves the problem of the wearing out of the pumping rods due to friction and their resulting corrosion is shown. As a matter of fact, the herein proposed arrangement, aimed at solving such problems, consists of a rotating tube 14 located inside a fixed tube 15, between which a space is left which serves as a lubricant oil container, as it can be seen in figure 3, detailed under reference A in this figure 2. For the injection of the lubricant oil, the top end of the fixed tube 15 is connected to a pipe 22 which can be accessed from land T surface.

In the preferred way of carrying it out which is described and drawn, tubing 14 has a 2 3/8-inch section and tubing 15 has a 2 7/8-inch section, which is enough to achieve the necessary lubrication in order to avoid the wearing out of tube 14 as a result of friction with tube 15. That is to say, the invention comprises a casing with the necessary length to transform the well into a giant bearing which shall operate protected by the layer of lubricant oil which is injected from the outside. In this way, the tubing's internal wearing out, as a result of rods' friction, and the accelerated tubing's corrosion, as it occurs in conventional arrangements, are avoided.

Tube 15 is made up of a succession of sections connected by means of joints 5, as shown in figure 4 corresponding to detail B in figure 2. Tube 14 is made up of a succession of sections connected by means of joints 16, as shown in figure 5 corresponding to detail C pointed out in figure 2.

The upper section of tube 14 has a diameter reduction 17 from where it is connected to a pipe 18 with an articulated joint or "swivel" which ends at the production outlet 6. The lower section of tube 14 shows an end defined by a tube 19 with holes through which the fluid extracted by the pump 10 flows, said pump is connected to such lower section of tube 14 by means of a rod 20. In figure 6 tube 19 is enlarged and is indicated in figure 2 under reference D, where its holes 19 can be clearly seen.

Tube 14 transmits output power and carries 100% of the fluid extracted from the bottom of the well to the surface along its inside. The oil film 21 between both tubes 14 and 15 (see figure detail) prevents tube 15 internal corrosion and tube 14 external corrosion. In addition, a paint coating on the internal face of tube 14, which carries the fluid, contributes to prevent internal corrosion caused by it. The only modification on tube 14 consists in the structure of the threaded joint 16, by adapting the connecting nipple (see detail C in figure 5) which allows to link both tubes without modifying their external diameter.

In summary, the arrangement, subject matter of this invention, basically consists of the use of two tubes, 14 and 15, API standard manufacturing, of 2 3/8-inch and 2 7/8-inch respectively, which jointly form a "hydraulic bearing" from the surface to the bottom of the well, which can be lubricated by filling the "0" ring space between both tubes with clean oil and with the desired viscosity, for example SAE 10. This lubricant prevents corrosion and attenuates the wearing out between both tubes 14 and 15. This arrangement also allows the flowing of all the fluid produced along the inside of tube 14 with no internal moving parts, thus allowing the application of a paint coating in its inside in order to avoid internal corrosion. Also, a similar arrangement could be arranged with tubes holding different diameters, for example 1.42-inch internal diameter, 1.88-inch external diameter within a 2 3/8-inch internal diameter tube, or in other diameters, obtaining the same and before mentioned "hydraulic bearing" effect.

In this way important advantages are achieved as compared to already known and used arrangements, such as:

- By increasing the contact area between the two frictioning surfaces, contact pressure
5 decreases. This contact pressure causes wearing out, thus having less contact pressure results in less wearing out ("hydraulic bearing" effect).

- It allows to reduce the number of revolutions per minute of the rotating tube 14 which transmits power, as it bears higher torsion for holding a bigger diameter than the rods in conventional arrangements, giving it a greater moment of inertia, thus allowing a reduction in the number of friction cycles originated by the rotation frequency for the same power applied, since by transmitting higher torque it is able to rotate at a slower speed resulting in a lower number of wear-out cycles.
- It allows to add an artificial lubricant, chosen by the user, between both frictioning surfaces, i.e. between tubes 14 and 15.

- It allows to do without rods inside the tube which carries production towards the surface, thus being able to apply paint to prevent corrosion on its internal face.
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Having in this way specially described and determined the nature of this invention and the way in which it shall be put into practice, its ownership and exclusive right are claimed:
1. Arrangement for hydrocarbon extraction in wells using progressive cavity pumps, developed with the aim of reducing the wearing out as a result of friction and corrosion of conventional tubings used in oil field wells, characterized by comprising a rotating tube which carries fluid from the bottom of the well to the surface located inside a fixed tube along the well casing, and by having a space between such tubes which serves as a container for an anti-friction lubricant between the external face of the rotating tube against the internal face of the fixed tube, the bottom end of the rotating tube has a section holding holes through which fluid flows into it and it is connected to the progressive cavity pump by means of a rod, the top end of the rotating tube is connected to a production outlet and to its propelling motor mechanism, the top end of the fixed tube is connected to an anti-friction lubricant injection pipe in the space left between the rotating and fixed tubes.
2. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized because the upper section of the rotating tube has a diameter reduction from which such upper section is connected to the production outlet and to the mentioned motor mechanism by means of a swivel.
3. Arrangement according to claim 1 or 2, characterized because the rotating tube is made up of a succession of interconnected sections by means of the threaded joints.
4. Arrangement according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized because the rotating tube is made up of a succession of interconnected sections.
5. Arrangement according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized because the internal face of the rotating tube is covered by a protective paint coating.
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