EP0401191A1 - Steerable drilling mole - Google Patents
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
- E21B7/04—Directional drilling
- E21B7/06—Deflecting the direction of boreholes
- E21B7/065—Deflecting the direction of boreholes using oriented fluid jets
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- the invention relates to a steerable drilling mole which includes a hollow round body, a spraying device situated in front of this body and a high pressure pipe which connects to the spraying device.
- a steerable drilling mole which includes a hollow round body, a spraying device situated in front of this body and a high pressure pipe which connects to the spraying device.
- the spraying device is mounted in a nose which is mounted hingingly on the body.
- the nose is tilted in the ground in relation to the body through which the direction of the spraying device is altered.
- a rotatable nose and means for rotating this nose the construction of this known drilling mole is relatively complicated.
- the invention has the purpose of remedying these disadvantages and to provide a steerable drilling mole of the type referred to above of which the construction is very simple and which can be steering in a simple manner.
- the high pressure pipe is at least flexible in the body but nevertheless relatively stiff and it is so held fast in front and at a distance more toward the back by a support central in the body, while the drilling mole has means for bending the high pressure pipe outward in relation to the body between the support in front and the support behind so that the front extremity of the high pressure pipe and the spraying device mounted thereon change direction.
- the means for bending the high pressure pipe outward between the supports include at least three moving devices which are arranged between the inner side of the body and the high pressure pipe, spread over the periphery of the high pressure pipe.
- the moving devices each include an expandable container and means for filling this container separately with fluid under pressure so that it expands.
- the container can be filled with the same fluid that is also supplied to the spraying device or another fluid under pressure.
- the means for filling the container can therefore apart from a source of fluid under pressure also include valves, which are mounted for that purpose either on the containers or on separate supply pipes.
- the supports for the high pressure pipe are elastically transformable.
- the front support is formed by the elastic seal which seals the body in front around the high pressure pipe with spraying device.
- a tunnel 1 is made in the ground with assistance of a steerable drilling mole 3 according to the invention which drilling mole is mounted upon a flexible drilling pipe 4.
- the supple drilling pipe 4 is unwound from a drum 5 which is erected above the ground. This drilling pipe 4 has a smaller diameter than the drilling mole 3.
- the drilling mole 3 and subsequently the drilling pipe 4 enter the ground 2 through a tank 6 with rinsing liquid or water for the supply of hydraulic pressure in the tunnel 1.
- This tank 6 is mounted over an opening 7 in a plate 8 which lies on the ground 2.
- An inflated ring 9 which surrounds the opening 7 in the plate 8 and the mouth of the tunnel 1 on the surface of the ground, is placed between the plate 8 and the surface of the ground.
- the drilling mole 3 is provided with a high pressure spraying device 10 for drilling into the ground.
- the high pressure fluid for this spraying device 10 is pumped through the flexible drilling pipe 4 by means of a high pressure pump 11.
- the depth of the drilling mole 3 in the ground can be read from a translucent upper extremity of a pipe 12 situated above the ground 2 which extends along the flexible drilling pipe 4 in the tunnel 1 and with its lower, closed extremity is situated on the front extremity of the drilling mole 3.
- This pipe 12 is filled with liquid upon which thus on top the atmospheric pressure acts.
- the level of the liquid in the upper translucent and vertically directed part of the pipe 12 changes in function of the depth of the drilling mole.
- the drilling mole 3 includes a cylindrical body 13.
- the spraying device 10 that is itself of a known construction, is mounted centrally in a rubber support 14 which seals off the front extremity of the body 13 and through elastic formation allows the directing of the spraying device 10.
- This spraying device 10 connects to a flexible but nevertheless relatively stiff high pressure pipe 15 of polyethylene reinforced with fabric.
- this flexible high pressure pipe 15 is centrally supported by a support 16 in the form of a rubber wall which is directed diagonally to the longitudinal axis of the body 13.
- a separation wall 17 situated on the rear of the support 16 further holds fast the high pressure pipe 15 in its place in the middle of the body 13. From there the pipe extends out axially into the chamber 18 which is formed on the rear extremity in the body 13 and in which measurement apparatus 19, 20 21 are disposed.
- This chamber 18 connects to the drilling pipe 4.
- the flexible high pressure pipe 15 is as a result supported in the front part of the body 13, in front by intervention of the spraying device 10 by the support 14 and further to the back, by the support 16. Between these two supports 14 and 16 the high pressure pipe 15 is surrounded by four inflatable containers 22 which extend in the longitudinal direction of the body 13, between the pipe 15 and the inner side of the body 13.
- the pipes 23 and 24 of all the containers 22 come together in the body 13, extend into the wall of the chamber 18 and further extend through the drilling pipe 14 out to above the ground where the supply pipes 23 connect to a source of compressed air.
- the containers 22 are in unexpanded state as represented in the figure 2 and 3.
- the containers 22 exert no pressure on the part of the high pressure pipe 15 that is situated between the supports 14 and 16 or all four exert the same small pressure, all of which such that the high pressure pipe 15 extends axially.
- the spraying device 10 is therefore also directed axially and the drilling mole 3 will move in the ground a straight line according to its axis direction when fluid under high pressure is pumped through the pressure pipe 15 and the spraying device 10.
- three measuring instruments are built into the chamber 18, namely an clinometer 19, a torsion meter 20 and a compass 21.
- Clinometers of this type are placed on the market by Sperry Corporation and are among others described in the article "Capacitance-based angular measurement" by Tom Donahoe published in the November 1985 issue of "Sensor Magazine".
- such a clinometer consists of a condenser plate which is divided into two parts and contained between two halves of zinc which form earthing plates. The space between the latter plates is half filled with a dielectric liquid and for the rest with an inert gas.
- one half of the condenser plate is immersed to a lesser or greater degree in the liquid which gives a change in its capacitance.
- the compass 21 can be a so-called "fluxgate” compass.
- Such compasses are on the market and in principle contain a toroidal coil through which an alternating current is sent in order to sense the magnetic field of the earth.
- the unit is built into a sealed ring of plastic in which this unit flows on a liquid in order more or less to absorb the swing and other movements of the drilling mole 3.
- the coil is directed horizontally and with rotations it detects very accurately the changes in the magnetic lines of force. These changes are electronically amplified and shown on a screen that is disposed above the ground and is connected to the compass 21 by means of wires not shown in the figures.
- the compass 21 can also be a stationary compass that consists of three very sensitive magnet sensors which correctly indicate changes in direction according to the azimuth plane, by vector analysis in relation to the drilling plane and by their 120 degree rotation in relation to the axis.
- the three measuring instruments 19, 20 and 21 are in the chamber 8 still surrounded by a housing 26 of nonmagnetic metal.
- the construction of the above described drilling mole 3 is relatively simple, but it can be accurately steered and positioned.
- the containers need not necessarily be inflated with compressed air. They can also be pumped up with liquid under pressure.
- the drainage pipes of the containers can be partly common and also the supply pipes can be partly common.
- valves on these pipes need not necessarily be of the known type. They can for that matter also be mounted above the ground on the pipes instead of in the drilling mole, in which case the pipes must then be separate.
- the spraying device is also not necessarily a hydraulic spraying device. It can also be a pneumatic spraying device in which case no liquid under pressure but then air under pressure is pumped through the high pressure pipes.
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Abstract
Description
- The invention relates to a steerable drilling mole which includes a hollow round body, a spraying device situated in front of this body and a high pressure pipe which connects to the spraying device.
With known steerable drilling moles of this type the spraying device is mounted in a nose which is mounted hingingly on the body. By mechanical means the nose is tilted in the ground in relation to the body through which the direction of the spraying device is altered. Through the use of a rotatable nose and means for rotating this nose the construction of this known drilling mole is relatively complicated. - The invention has the purpose of remedying these disadvantages and to provide a steerable drilling mole of the type referred to above of which the construction is very simple and which can be steering in a simple manner.
- For this purpose the high pressure pipe is at least flexible in the body but nevertheless relatively stiff and it is so held fast in front and at a distance more toward the back by a support central in the body, while the drilling mole has means for bending the high pressure pipe outward in relation to the body between the support in front and the support behind so that the front extremity of the high pressure pipe and the spraying device mounted thereon change direction.
- With this use is made of the finding that, when a relatively stiff but nevertheless flexible pipe bends in one direction, the extremities situated outside the supports, at least if they are free, are going to deviate in the opposite direction from the normal longitudinal direction. By making use of this for directing the front extremity of the high pressure pipe and thus the spraying device mounted thereupon a rather simple construction is obtained while the spraying direction and thus the drilling direction can nevertheless be accurately determined.
- In a particular embodiment of the invention, the means for bending the high pressure pipe outward between the supports include at least three moving devices which are arranged between the inner side of the body and the high pressure pipe, spread over the periphery of the high pressure pipe.
- Suitably the moving devices each include an expandable container and means for filling this container separately with fluid under pressure so that it expands.
- Through the choice of container which is filled while the others are not filled, a bending outward of the high pressure pipe in one or another direction is obtained. The container can be filled with the same fluid that is also supplied to the spraying device or another fluid under pressure. The means for filling the container can therefore apart from a source of fluid under pressure also include valves, which are mounted for that purpose either on the containers or on separate supply pipes.
- In a suitable embodiment of the invention the supports for the high pressure pipe are elastically transformable. Advantageously the front support is formed by the elastic seal which seals the body in front around the high pressure pipe with spraying device.
- In order to show better the characteristics according to the present invention, a preferred embodiment of a steerable drilling mole according to the invention is described hereafter, as example without any restrictive character, with reference to the enclosed drawings, in which:
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a device for making a tunnel in the ground provided with a steerable drilling mole according to the invention;
- figure 2 represents a longitudinal cross-section of the steerable drilling mole according to the invention from the device according to figure 1;
- figure 3 represents a detail from figure 2 drawn on a larger scale;
- figure 4 represents a cross-section of the drilling mole taken at the location of the line IV-IV from figure 2;
- figure 5 represents a longitudinal cross-section of the drilling mole according to the invention analogue to that from figure 2 but in relation to another position of the spraying device.
- As illustrated in figure 1 a tunnel 1 is made in the ground with assistance of a
steerable drilling mole 3 according to the invention which drilling mole is mounted upon a flexible drilling pipe 4. - The supple drilling pipe 4 is unwound from a
drum 5 which is erected above the ground. This drilling pipe 4 has a smaller diameter than thedrilling mole 3. - The
drilling mole 3 and subsequently the drilling pipe 4 enter the ground 2 through atank 6 with rinsing liquid or water for the supply of hydraulic pressure in the tunnel 1. Thistank 6 is mounted over an opening 7 in aplate 8 which lies on the ground 2. An inflated ring 9 which surrounds the opening 7 in theplate 8 and the mouth of the tunnel 1 on the surface of the ground, is placed between theplate 8 and the surface of the ground. - The
drilling mole 3 is provided with a highpressure spraying device 10 for drilling into the ground. The high pressure fluid for thisspraying device 10 is pumped through the flexible drilling pipe 4 by means of ahigh pressure pump 11. - The depth of the
drilling mole 3 in the ground can be read from a translucent upper extremity of apipe 12 situated above the ground 2 which extends along the flexible drilling pipe 4 in the tunnel 1 and with its lower, closed extremity is situated on the front extremity of thedrilling mole 3. Thispipe 12 is filled with liquid upon which thus on top the atmospheric pressure acts. The level of the liquid in the upper translucent and vertically directed part of thepipe 12 changes in function of the depth of the drilling mole. - For the sake of clarity this
pipe 12 is not represented in the figures 2 through 5 in which thedrilling mole 3 is completely represented in detail. - As appears from these figures, the
drilling mole 3 according to the invention includes acylindrical body 13. Thespraying device 10, that is itself of a known construction, is mounted centrally in arubber support 14 which seals off the front extremity of thebody 13 and through elastic formation allows the directing of thespraying device 10. - This
spraying device 10 connects to a flexible but nevertheless relatively stiffhigh pressure pipe 15 of polyethylene reinforced with fabric. - Halfway along the
body 13 this flexiblehigh pressure pipe 15 is centrally supported by a support 16 in the form of a rubber wall which is directed diagonally to the longitudinal axis of thebody 13. A separation wall 17 situated on the rear of the support 16 further holds fast thehigh pressure pipe 15 in its place in the middle of thebody 13. From there the pipe extends out axially into the chamber 18 which is formed on the rear extremity in thebody 13 and in which measurement apparatus 19, 20 21 are disposed. This chamber 18 connects to the drilling pipe 4. - The flexible
high pressure pipe 15 is as a result supported in the front part of thebody 13, in front by intervention of thespraying device 10 by thesupport 14 and further to the back, by the support 16. Between these two supports 14 and 16 thehigh pressure pipe 15 is surrounded by fourinflatable containers 22 which extend in the longitudinal direction of thebody 13, between thepipe 15 and the inner side of thebody 13. - Two compressed air pipes connect onto the extremity situated behind of each
container 22, namely asupply pipe 23 and adrainage pipe 24. In each of thesepipes 23 and 24 asolenoid valve 25 is mounted which can be controlled from above the ground. - The
pipes containers 22 come together in thebody 13, extend into the wall of the chamber 18 and further extend through thedrilling pipe 14 out to above the ground where thesupply pipes 23 connect to a source of compressed air. - These
pipes solenoid valves 25, which wires are not represented in the figures for the sake of simplicity, follow the same route as thepipes - When the
solenoid valves 25 in thesupply pipes 23 are closed and thesolenoid valves 25 in thedrainage pipes 24 are open thecontainers 22 are in unexpanded state as represented in the figure 2 and 3. Thecontainers 22 exert no pressure on the part of thehigh pressure pipe 15 that is situated between thesupports 14 and 16 or all four exert the same small pressure, all of which such that thehigh pressure pipe 15 extends axially. Thespraying device 10 is therefore also directed axially and thedrilling mole 3 will move in the ground a straight line according to its axis direction when fluid under high pressure is pumped through thepressure pipe 15 and thespraying device 10. - When the
solenoid valve 25 in thesupply pipe 23 of one of theinflatable containers 22 is opened and at the same time thesolenoid valve 25 in thedrainage pipe 24 of this container is closed, compressed air will enter into the container and this container will expand and therefore push away thehigh pressure pipe 15 from the inner side of thebody 15. In figure 5 thecontainer 22 situated above is represented in expanded state. Because the valve in thedrainage pipe 24 situated oppositecontainer 22 is still open and thevalve 25 in thesupply pipe 23 is still shut, thiscontainer 22 will be pressed flat. - All this gives the result that the part of the high pressure pipe situated between the
supports 14 and 16 is pushed away sideways and therefore becomes bent as appears from figure 4. Because this high pressure pipe is relatively stiff the front extremity of thehigh pressure pipe 15 that is situated in front of thecontainers 22 will also change direction and be directed in the opposite sense to the bending of thehigh pressure pipe 15 caused by the inflatedcontainer 22. This deviation in direction of the front extremity of thehigh pressure pipe 15 is possible because thefront support 14 is elastically transformable. - Through this change of direction of the front extremity of the
high pressure pipe 15 the direction of thespraying device 10 mounted on the extremity also changes so that the spraying direction also changes and will deviate from the axial direction of the drilling mole. Thisdrilling mole 3 will now move in the ground in the spraying direction in other words deviates from its original direction. - It is clear that two or even three
containers 22 can be inflated simultaneously which can be controlled from above the ground by operating theappropriate valves 25. - In any case through the inflation of one or
several containers 22 depending on the choice of thesecontainers 22 the direction of the bending out of thehigh pressure pipe 15 and as a result also the spraying direction of thespraying device 10 can be accurately adjusted. - In order to steer the
drilling mole 3 accurately it is not sufficient to be able to adjust accurately the direction of thespraying device 10 in relation to the axis of thedrilling mole 3, the position of thedrilling mole 3 around its longitudinal axis and the position in the ground must also be known accurately. - Therefore, as already mentioned, three measuring instruments are built into the chamber 18, namely an clinometer 19, a torsion meter 20 and a compass 21.
- The clinometer 19 and the torsion meter 20 of which the operation is based on the capacitance theory, whereby the clinometer 19 is arranged parallel to a vertical symmetric surface of the
drilling mole 3 in its neutral position and therefore measures the incline of the axis of thedrilling mole 3, and the torsion meter 20 is arranged diagonally to the longitudinal axis of thedrilling mole 3 and measures the incline of this plane of symmetry in relation to its vertical starting position. Clinometers of this type are placed on the market by Sperry Corporation and are among others described in the article "Capacitance-based angular measurement" by Tom Donahoe published in the November 1985 issue of "Sensor Magazine". - In principle such a clinometer consists of a condenser plate which is divided into two parts and contained between two halves of zinc which form earthing plates. The space between the latter plates is half filled with a dielectric liquid and for the rest with an inert gas.
- Depending on the incline one half of the condenser plate is immersed to a lesser or greater degree in the liquid which gives a change in its capacitance.
- The compass 21 can be a so-called "fluxgate" compass. Such compasses are on the market and in principle contain a toroidal coil through which an alternating current is sent in order to sense the magnetic field of the earth. The unit is built into a sealed ring of plastic in which this unit flows on a liquid in order more or less to absorb the swing and other movements of the
drilling mole 3. The coil is directed horizontally and with rotations it detects very accurately the changes in the magnetic lines of force. These changes are electronically amplified and shown on a screen that is disposed above the ground and is connected to the compass 21 by means of wires not shown in the figures. - The compass 21 can also be a stationary compass that consists of three very sensitive magnet sensors which correctly indicate changes in direction according to the azimuth plane, by vector analysis in relation to the drilling plane and by their 120 degree rotation in relation to the axis. The three measuring instruments 19, 20 and 21 are in the
chamber 8 still surrounded by a housing 26 of nonmagnetic metal. - The construction of the above described
drilling mole 3 is relatively simple, but it can be accurately steered and positioned. - The present invention is in no way restricted to the embodiment described and shown, but such drilling mole can be implemented in different forms and dimensions without departing from the scope of the present invention.
- In particular the containers need not necessarily be inflated with compressed air. They can also be pumped up with liquid under pressure.
- The drainage pipes of the containers can be partly common and also the supply pipes can be partly common.
- The valves on these pipes need not necessarily be of the known type. They can for that matter also be mounted above the ground on the pipes instead of in the drilling mole, in which case the pipes must then be separate.
- The spraying device is also not necessarily a hydraulic spraying device. It can also be a pneumatic spraying device in which case no liquid under pressure but then air under pressure is pumped through the high pressure pipes.
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AT90870081T ATE99023T1 (en) | 1989-05-31 | 1990-05-28 | STEERING, SELF-PROPELLED DRILLING JIG. |
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BE8900593A BE1003865A3 (en) | 1989-05-31 | 1989-05-31 | Steerable BOORMOL. |
BE8900593 | 1989-05-31 |
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EP0401191A1 true EP0401191A1 (en) | 1990-12-05 |
EP0401191B1 EP0401191B1 (en) | 1993-12-22 |
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EP0497405A1 (en) * | 1991-01-28 | 1992-08-05 | Marc Jozef Maria Smet | Steerable drill head |
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US2271005A (en) * | 1939-01-23 | 1942-01-27 | Dow Chemical Co | Subterranean boring |
US2873092A (en) * | 1957-11-14 | 1959-02-10 | Roy P Dwyer | Jet deflection method of deviating a bore hole |
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US3958641A (en) * | 1974-03-07 | 1976-05-25 | Halliburton Company | Self-decentralized hydra-jet tool |
US4396073A (en) * | 1981-09-18 | 1983-08-02 | Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. | Underground boring apparatus with controlled steering capabilities |
WO1986000111A1 (en) * | 1984-06-12 | 1986-01-03 | Universal Downhole Controls, Ltd. | Controllable downhole directional drilling tool |
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US2167194A (en) * | 1936-03-14 | 1939-07-25 | Lane Wells Co | Apparatus for deflecting drill holes |
US2271005A (en) * | 1939-01-23 | 1942-01-27 | Dow Chemical Co | Subterranean boring |
US2873092A (en) * | 1957-11-14 | 1959-02-10 | Roy P Dwyer | Jet deflection method of deviating a bore hole |
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EP0497405A1 (en) * | 1991-01-28 | 1992-08-05 | Marc Jozef Maria Smet | Steerable drill head |
BE1005244A3 (en) * | 1991-01-28 | 1993-06-08 | Smet Marc Jozef Maria | Steerable BOORMOL. |
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