Disclosure of Invention
Embodiments of the present invention provide a drilling apparatus, a method for determining target information, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus, so as to at least solve a problem of low drilling efficiency caused by drilling information lag in the related art.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a drilling apparatus including:
the drilling assembly at least comprises a drill bit and a drill string coaxially connected with the drill bit, wherein the drill string has the capability of conducting electricity;
a first communication assembly comprising a power supply and at least one set of first communication coils, the first communication coils being located at an end of the drill string near the drill bit; the first communication coil is used for generating a first current under the action of the power supply device, the first current is used for generating an induced magnetic field so as to induce and generate a second current on the drill string, and the first current is an alternating current;
a target receiver for receiving target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string and determining target information based on the target data.
In one exemplary embodiment, the drill string includes a second communication assembly disposed at a predetermined location remote from the drill bit; the second communication assembly is for receiving the target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string and transmitting the target data to the target receiver.
In one exemplary embodiment, the first communication coil comprises at least one of:
circular coil, oval hole coil, square coil, polygonal coil.
In an exemplary embodiment, the first communication coil is provided as a square coil, and a first pair of sides of the square coil is parallel to an axis of the drill string.
In an exemplary embodiment, a second pair of sides of the square coil are angled less than 50 degrees from an axis of the drill string.
In an exemplary embodiment, the drilling assembly further comprises a mud motor coaxially connected to the drill bit, wherein the first communication coil having the smallest distance to the drill bit is located between a drilling end of the drill bit, which is located at an end of the drill bit remote from the mud motor, and the mud motor.
In an exemplary embodiment, the second communication assembly is located on a side of the mud motor remote from the drill bit and the first communication coil is located on a side of the mud motor remote from the second communication assembly.
In one exemplary embodiment, the target information includes one of:
the position information of the drill bit, the geological information of the position of the drill bit and the drilling direction of the drill bit.
In an exemplary embodiment, the drilling assembly further comprises a sensing device, wherein the sensing device is electrically connected with the corresponding first communication coil; under the condition that the sensing detection device detects corresponding data, the sensing detection device triggers the corresponding first communication coil so that the corresponding first communication coil generates a first current under the action of the power supply device.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for determining target information, which is applied to the drilling device, and includes:
the first communication coil generates a first current under the action of the power supply device, the first current is used for generating an induced magnetic field so as to generate a second current in an induction mode on the drill string, and the first current is an alternating current;
the target receiver receives target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string and determines target information based on the target data.
In an exemplary embodiment, the target receiver receives target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string and determining target information based on the target data comprises:
the target receiver receiving the target data transmitted by a second communication assembly, wherein the second communication assembly is configured to receive the target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string;
the target receiver determines the target information based on the target data.
According to a further embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a storage medium having a computer program stored therein, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of any of the method embodiments described above.
According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided an electronic device, including a memory in which a computer program is stored and a processor configured to execute the computer program to perform the steps in any of the above method embodiments.
According to the invention, the first communication coil is close to the drill bit, so that the first communication coil can sense the state of the drill bit in time, and the state of the drill bit can be transmitted to the target receiver in a second current mode in time, therefore, the problem of low drilling efficiency caused by drilling information lag can be solved, and the effect of improving the drilling efficiency is achieved.
Detailed Description
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with the embodiments.
It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order.
In the present embodiment, there is provided a drilling apparatus, fig. 1 is a structural view of a drilling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 2 is a structural view of a first communication module according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the apparatus including:
the drilling assembly at least comprises a drill bit 1 and a drill string 2 coaxially connected with the drill bit 1, wherein the drill string 2 has the electric conduction capability;
a first communication assembly comprising a power supply and at least one set of first communication coils 104, the first communication coils 104 being located at an end of the drill string 2 near the drill bit 1; the first communication coil 104 is used for generating a first current under the action of the power supply device, and the first current is used for generating an induced magnetic field to induce and generate a second current on the drill string;
a target receiver for receiving target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string and determining target information based on the target data.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, a first current is generated by the first communication coil 104 under the action of the power supply device, and since the first current is an alternating current, the first current generates a changing induced magnetic field during transmission along the first communication coil 104, so that a second current is generated on the drill string 2 with conductivity, and then when a target receiver receives target data transmitted by the second current, target information can be determined according to the target data; wherein the magnetic field generated by the first coil 104 is shown as magnetic field lines 200; because the first communication coil is closer to the drill bit, the second current indirectly generated by the first communication coil can correspondingly identify the current state of the drill bit 1, so that the information lag between the drill bit 1 and a target receiver is reduced, and the reduction of the drilling efficiency caused by the information lag is avoided.
The target receiver may be (but is not limited to) a signal receiver or other signal receiving device disposed on the ground for receiving target data.
In an alternative embodiment, the target information includes one of:
information on the position of the drill bit 1, geological information on the position of the drill bit 1, and the drilling direction of the drill bit 1.
In the present embodiment, the target information may also (but is not limited to) be temperature and humidity data, operation time length, and the like of the drill bit 1.
In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the drill bit assembly further comprises: the drilling device comprises a ground platform 4 positioned on the ground, a rotary table 3 which is rotationally connected with the ground platform 4 and drives a drill bit 1 to rotate, a driving motor 5 for providing power for the rotary table 3, a traction tool 6 for driving a drill string 2 to lift and a shell 7 for protecting the drill string 2, wherein the drill string 2 is positioned in the shell 7, and the interior of the drill string 2 is hollow; in operation, prepared drilling fluid (commonly referred to as mud) is pumped down the interior of the drill string 2 to assist in drilling, and cuttings produced during drilling are flushed by the drilling fluid back into the annulus 2a between the exterior of the drill string 2 and the casing 7 and pumped out of the borehole along the annulus 2 a.
In an alternative embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the drill bit assembly further includes a drill collar 100 positioned within the housing 7 and configured to protect the drill string 2, the drill collar 100 having a collar cutout 106 formed in a wall thereof, the first communication coil 104 being positioned in the collar cutout 106.
In an alternative embodiment, the first communication coil 104 (where the plurality 104 comprises the communication coil assembly 108) includes at least one of:
circular coil, oval hole coil, square coil, polygonal coil.
In the present embodiment, the first communication coil 104 is configured in different shapes to adapt to different use environments and different use modes, so that the use range of the drilling device is expanded.
Wherein the first communication coil 104 may be (but is not limited to) a ferrite or ferromagnetic core. When the first communication coil 104 is a ferrite or ferromagnetic core, the core is covered with an insulating material along the length of the first communication coil 104 to protect the core from damage caused by mud and water entering the collar cutouts 106. Further, the first communication coil 104 may also be made of an insulating material with a small partial resistance, and the resistivity thereof may be greater than 10 ohms, 100 ohms, 1000 ohms or 1015 ohms; the first communication coil 104 may also be composed entirely of an insulating material.
It should be noted that the excitation frequency of the first communication coil 104 ranges from 10Hz to 100kHz, or from 100Hz to 10kHz, or from 400Hz to 4 kHz. The induced magnetic field generated by the first communication coil 104 is formed by an inductor (typically a wire coil) arranged on or around the drill string 2, in which case an iron core of a highly permeable material such as ferrite or ferromagnetic material may increase the effective area of the magnetic flux generated by the inductor and thus the inductance, in the course of which the ferrite or ferromagnetic material acts as a conduit for the induced magnetic field.
In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the first communication coil 104 is provided as a square coil with a first pair of sides parallel to the axis of the drill string 2.
In this embodiment, the square coil includes a first coil side 110 and a second coil side 112, and the length of the first coil side 110 may be much greater than the length of the second coil side 112, and the ratio of the lengths of the first coil side 110 and the second coil side may be (but is not limited to) 1: 1. 1000: 1. 10: 1. 100, and (2) a step of: 1. 20: 1. 200:1; when the first coil side 110 is longer than the second coil side 112, the first communication coil 104 is an elongated rectangle in which the area of the first communication coil 104 in the drill collar cut 106 is greater than the area of the first communication coil 104 where the length of the first coil side 110 is less than or equal to the length of the second coil side 112.
In an alternative embodiment, the first communication coil 104 may be used to detect a second current on the drill string 2, and the second current on the drill string 2 generates an alternating magnetic field in the first communication coil 104, such that a voltage is generated across the first communication coil 104, and the state of the second current can be determined by detecting only the voltage, and in this case, one end of the first communication coil 104 may be connected to the drill string 2 or a sensor package disposed on an inner sidewall of the drill string 2, and the sensor package is used to detect the state of the second current.
In an alternative embodiment, the second pair of sides of the square coil is angled less than 50 degrees from the axis of the drill string.
In an alternative embodiment, the drill string 2 includes a second communication assembly disposed at a predetermined location remote from the drill bit 2; the second communication assembly is for receiving target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string 2 and transmitting the target data to a target receiver.
In this embodiment, the second communication component is arranged to receive the second current, and then the target data transmitted by the second current is transmitted in the form of a magnetic signal, so that the signal transmission efficiency is improved, and the loss in the signal transmission process is reduced.
As shown in fig. 4, among other things, the second communication component 570 includes (but is not limited to) a mud pulse receiver communicatively coupled to the target receiver and at least one of: gap electrode, frequency band electrode, annular antenna or second communication coil, insulating gap electrode; wherein the insulated gap electrode may be used for the upper electrical contact of the short hop communication link, which may be accomplished by mud pulse type, and for the lower end of the surface link, which may also be a loop antenna, a band electrode, or a second communication coil, in which case the first communication coil may be used as part of a multi-point communication network, where each node in the system uses a transceiver.
It should be noted that when using oil-based mud, the first communication coil 104 may be used as a transmitter and the receiver may be any one of a loop antenna, an insulated gap-type electrode, or a second communication coil in the second communication assembly.
In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the drilling assembly further comprises a mud motor 540 coaxially connected to the drill bit 2, wherein the first communication coil 104 having the smallest distance to the drill bit 2 is located between the drilling end of the drill bit 2 and the mud motor 540, and the drilling end of the drill bit 2 is located at the end of the drill bit 2 remote from the mud motor 540.
In an alternative embodiment, the second communication assembly is located on the side of the mud motor 540 remote from the drill bit 1 and the first communication coil 104 is located on the side of the mud motor 540 remote from the second communication assembly.
In an alternative embodiment, the drilling assembly further comprises a bit box 520 connected to the drill bit 1, a near bit sub 530, a sub 550, wherein the sub 550 may include (but is not limited to) a mud pulser, an MWD sensor, a surface electric field transducer and its control sub 560 are located in drill string No. 2 on the side of the second communication assembly 570 near the drill bit 1, wherein 401 may be a connection for connecting the second communication assembly 570 to drill string No. 2.
In an alternative embodiment, the drilling assembly further comprises a sensing device, wherein the sensing device is electrically connected to the corresponding first communication coil 104; in case the sensing means detects the corresponding data, the sensing means triggers the corresponding first communication coil 104 such that the corresponding first communication coil generates the first current under the influence of the power supply means.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the sensing device 800 includes (but is not limited to) a MWD system 801, a formation resistivity sensor 802, a rotary steerable device 803, and a proximity sensor 804, wherein the proximity sensor 804 may be (but is not limited to) a natural gamma ray sensor, a inclinometer, or other sensors for borehole logging and geosteering, and in fig. 5, 806 is a drill bit.
In the present embodiment, a method for determining target information applied to the drilling device is provided, and fig. 6 is a flowchart of a method for determining target information according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, the flowchart includes the following steps:
step S602, the first communication coil 104 generates a first current under the action of the power supply device, the first current is used for generating an induced magnetic field to induce a second current on the drill string 2;
in step S604, the target receiver receives the target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string 2, and determines target information based on the target data.
In an alternative embodiment, the target receiver receiving target data transmitted by the second current through the drill string 2, and determining target information based on the target data comprises:
step S606, the target receiver receives target data transmitted by a second communication assembly, wherein the second communication assembly is used for receiving the target data transmitted by a second current through the drill string;
in step S608, the target receiver determines target information based on the target data.
Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but the former is a better implementation mode in many cases. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal device (e.g., a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.
Embodiments of the present invention also provide a storage medium having a computer program stored therein, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of any of the above-described method embodiments.
In an exemplary embodiment, the computer-readable storage medium may include, but is not limited to: various media capable of storing computer programs, such as a usb disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.
Embodiments of the present invention also provide an electronic device comprising a memory having a computer program stored therein and a processor arranged to run the computer program to perform the steps of any of the above method embodiments.
In an exemplary embodiment, the electronic apparatus may further include a transmission device and an input/output device, wherein the transmission device is connected to the processor, and the input/output device is connected to the processor.
For specific examples in this embodiment, reference may be made to the examples described in the above embodiments and exemplary embodiments, and details of this embodiment are not repeated herein.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various modules or steps of the invention described above may be implemented using a general purpose computing device, they may be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of computing devices, and they may be implemented using program code executable by the computing devices, such that they may be stored in a memory device and executed by the computing device, and in some cases, the steps shown or described may be performed in an order different than that described herein, or they may be separately fabricated into various integrated circuit modules, or multiple ones of them may be fabricated into a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.