EP0403025A2 - Procédé pour forer et revêtir un puits - Google Patents

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EP0403025A2
EP0403025A2 EP90201532A EP90201532A EP0403025A2 EP 0403025 A2 EP0403025 A2 EP 0403025A2 EP 90201532 A EP90201532 A EP 90201532A EP 90201532 A EP90201532 A EP 90201532A EP 0403025 A2 EP0403025 A2 EP 0403025A2
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Robert Bruce Stewart
Rudolfus Petrus Antonius Robertus Van Kleef
Wilhelmus Christianus Maria Lohbeck
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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
    • E21B21/00—Methods or apparatus for flushing boreholes, e.g. by use of exhaust air from motor
    • E21B21/12—Methods or apparatus for flushing boreholes, e.g. by use of exhaust air from motor using drilling pipes with plural fluid passages, e.g. closed circulation systems
    • 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
    • E21B33/00—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells
    • E21B33/10—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells in the borehole
    • E21B33/13—Methods or devices for cementing, for plugging holes, crevices or the like
    • E21B33/138—Plastering the borehole wall; Injecting into the formation

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  • the invention relates to a method of drilling and lining a borehole.
  • Applicant's co-pending patent application No. 8814004 discloses a borehole stabilization technique wherein at the end of a drilling run a stinger is lowered into the borehole whereupon slugs of a cement slurry and drilling fluid are subsequently injected into the stinger until the cement slurry fills the annular space around the stinger and the drilling fluid fills the interior of the stinger. Subsequently the stinger is retrieved from the borehole while leaving an annular body of cement slurry and a core of drilling fluid in the borehole whereupon the cement is allowed to set to form an annular lining alongside the borehole wall.
  • Applicant has now discovered that it is possible to inject a cement slurry into the borehole already during the drilling process so that it is possible to cover the borehole wall already at an early stage with a cement slurry which is directly placed in intimate contact with the surrounding formation in the absence of the deposition during drilling of a mud cake that has to be washed away before placement of the cement lining.
  • the method according to the invention comprises the steps of: - drilling a borehole section while circulating a drilling fluid down through a bore of a multibore drill pipe string carrying a drill bit and up through another bore of said drill pipe string while keeping a volume of an over-retarded cement slurry substantially stationary in an annulus between the outer circumference of the drill pipe string and the borehole wall, - filling at least a lower portion of the bores with a liquid having substantially the same density as the cement slurry, - retrieving the bit and drill pipe string from the borehole while the liquid flows from the bores into the wellbore, whereafter the cement slurry solidifies to an annular body of solid cement.
  • Preferred procedures for placing the cement slurry in the pipe-formation annulus can be derived from U.S. patent specification No. 4,718,503.
  • This prior art reference discloses the use of two different fluids in a drilling process, wherein during drilling a first fluid is circulated through the bores of a multibore drill string whereas a second fluid is placed in the pipe formation annulus either by injecting during the drilling process this fluid at the top of the annulus or by interrupting the drilling process and circulating a slug of said second fluid down via at least one of the bores of the drill string and up through the annulus.
  • the second fluid comprises the over-retarded cement slurry
  • the first fluid comprises the drilling fluid.
  • the injected cement slurry comprises an over-retarded hydraulic cement which only hardens out under the influence of a cement solidifying agent.
  • a cement slurry comprising a hydraulic cement which is over-retarded with a glucose compound and by using a cement solidifying agent comprising calcium chloride (CaCl2) to neutralize the retarder.
  • the cement slurry may comprise a hydraulic cement which is over-retarded with a retarder that disintegrates at a critical temperature whilst the cement solidifying agent comprises chemicals which cause an exothermic reaction to raise the temperature above said critical value.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown an underground borehole 1 from which a drilling assembly comprising a multibore drill pipe string 2 and a wing type drill bit 3 is retrieved.
  • the drill pipe string 2 contains two co-axial bores 4 and 5, respectively, via which drilling fluid is circulated during the drilling process.
  • the drill bit 3 comprises a central nozzle 6 via which during drilling the drilling fluid is injected from the interior of the inner bore 4 into mud channels 7 alongside the bit face. Openings 8 are provided at the lower end of the outer drill pipe of the string 2 to allow during drilling the drilling fluid carrying drill cuttings to flow up into the outer bore 5 of the string 2.
  • the drill string 2 is equipped with thick walled drill collars 9 to create weight on bit and a series of stabilizer fins 10 are mounted on the collars 9 for keeping the bit 3 in a centralized position in the borehole 1.
  • cement slurry is injected at the top of a pipe-formation annulus 11 between the string 2 and borehole wall to form an annular body 12 of cement slurry that fills at least a lower portion of the annulus 11.
  • the stabilizer fins 10, in combination with the large diameter drill collars 9, provide a restriction against mixing of the cement slurry 12 with drilling fluid 13 during the drilling process.
  • a further restriction against contact between the drilling fluid 13 and cement slurry 12 during drilling may be provided by a sealing skirt (not shown) around the lower end of the drill collars 9 which opens if the circulation pressure of the drilling fluid exceeds a pre-set value.
  • the drilling fluid 13 circulating through the bores 4 and 5 during drilling may be any suitable fluid, such as water, oil or a foam.
  • the circulated fluid 13 may have another density than the cement slurry 14 provided that the resulting difference in hydrostatic pressure at the bottom hole is compensated by the circulating pressure of the drilling fluid.
  • the bores 4 and 5 are filled with a weighted, preferably bentonitic, liquid that has about the same density as the cement slurry column in the annulus 11. In this way it is ensured that no gravity segregation of the cement slurry will take place after retrieval of the drilling assembly.
  • a weighted, preferably bentonitic, liquid that has about the same density as the cement slurry column in the annulus 11.
  • the cement slurry contains an over-retarded hydraulic cement, such as Portland cement or an epoxy or polymeric resin, and e.g. chopped reinforcement fibres or additives such as latex polymers and epoxies to optimize the elastic properties of the cement.
  • an over-retarded hydraulic cement such as Portland cement or an epoxy or polymeric resin
  • chopped reinforcement fibres or additives such as latex polymers and epoxies to optimize the elastic properties of the cement.
  • the composition of the cement slurry 12 is selected such that the grooves that are pulled through the slurry column during retrieval of the drilling assembly by the stabilizer fins 10 and the wings of the bit 3 flatten out before the cement starts to set.
  • the cement slurry is over-retarded with a retarding additive which prevents setting of the cement during the drilling process.
  • a retarding additive which prevents setting of the cement during the drilling process.
  • a bentonitic liquid containing a cement solidifying agent which induces the cement to set as soon as the drilling assembly has been retrieved from the borehole.
  • the bores 4 and 5 of the drilling assembly may be filled with an over-retarded cement slurry as well. If in that case the drilling assembly is retrieved from the borehole at least a lower portion of the hole is entirely filled with the over-retarded cement slurry, whereupon a mud core can be spotted in the centre of the borehole by a stinger as illustrated in Figure 2.
  • the stinger 20 may be lowered into the borehole 1 after retrieval of the drilling assembly for creating an accurately centralized mud core 13 in the cement slurry 12 and for adding a cement solidifying agent.
  • Accurate centralization of the stinger 20 may be accomplished by centralizing the lower end of the stinger 20 with a series of bow spring centralizer blades 21.
  • the stinger may be equipped with a mixing sub (not shown) known from Applicants' co-pending patent application No. 8814004 via which the cement solidifying agent is mixed with the cement slurry.
  • cement solidifying agent instead of mixing the cement solidifying agent with the cement slurry at a downhole location it may also be mixed with the cement slurry at the surface by circulating the slurry up to the surface where the solidifying agent, and possibly other substances, are added and then circulating the slurry down into the annulus around the stinger whereupon the interior of the stinger is filled with mud and the mud core is spotted in the cement slurry by retrieving the stinger from the borehole as shown in Figure 2.
  • the cement solidifying agent may consist of calcium chloride (CaCl2) if the cement slurry is over-retarded with a glucose compound. After injecting the calcium chloride into the borehole via the stinger it will neutralize the glucose compound and the cement starts to set.
  • CaCl2 calcium chloride
  • the cement slurry 12 may be over-retarded with a retarder which disintegrates at a critical temperature
  • the cement solidifying agent may comprise chemicals which cause an exothermic reaction to raise the temperature of the cement slurry 12 above said critical value.
  • an electric or other heat source may be mounted on the lower end of the stinger to raise the temperature of the slurry 12 to said critical value.
  • stinger 20 is optional.
  • the use of the stinger is useful if a drill bit 3 has to be used without a central nozzle.
  • Figure 3 shows how after setting of the cement slurry to a solid annular lining 30 alongside the borehole wall the borehole 1 may be deepened by a drilling assembly comprising a multibore drill pipe string 32 and a small diameter bit 33.
  • the bit 33 is also used for milling the mud core 13 spotted by the stinger shown in Figure 2 to a desired minimum diameter. During the milling operations the mud core 13 guides the bit 33 such that it is centralized in the hole 1.
  • the drilling assembly of Figure 3 is equipped with a smaller diameter bit 33, stabilizer fins 34 and drill collars 35 than the assembly of Figure 1, whereas the drill string may consist of the same multibore drill string as shown in Figure 1.
  • a drilling fluid is circulated down via an internal bore 36 of the drill pipe string 32 to a central nozzle 37 of the bit 33, from where the fluid is circulated up via openings 38 in the drill pipe string 32 into the outer bore 39 of said string 32 as indicated by the arrows I and II.
  • the drill string 32 may be rotated as illustrated by arrow III or the string 32 may be kept stationary if the drill bit is driven by a downhole drilling motor (not shown).
  • annular space 40 between the drill string 32 and the inner surface of the cement lining 30 may be completely filled with a fresh cement slurry, but if desired only the annular space 40B between the drill string and the wall 41 of the borehole extension protruding below the cement lining 30 may be filled with cement slurry.
  • the annular body of the cement slurry may be allowed to set and may be subsequently milled out again to a proper diameter in the same manner as described with reference to Figures 1-3, namely by using an over-retarded hydraulic cement for the slurry and by filling at the end of a drilling run the bores 36 and 39 of the multibore drill string 32 either with a bentonitic liquid having about the same density as the cement slurry or with the cement slurry itself. In the latter case a mud core is spotted by a stinger in the manner described with reference to Figure 2, whereupon the annular body of cement is allowed to set.

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GB2357305A (en) * 1999-12-13 2001-06-20 George Stenhouse Lining bores, such as wells and pipelines
US6481501B2 (en) 2000-12-19 2002-11-19 Intevep, S.A. Method and apparatus for drilling and completing a well
US7231977B2 (en) 2003-07-25 2007-06-19 Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company Continuous monobore liquid lining system
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US4718503A (en) * 1985-12-23 1988-01-12 Shell Oil Company Method of drilling a borehole
EP0229425A2 (fr) * 1985-12-30 1987-07-22 Shell Internationale Researchmaatschappij B.V. Procédé et dispositif pour former un revêtement sur la paroi d'un puits
EP0305834A2 (fr) * 1987-09-04 1989-03-08 MTS Minitunnelsysteme GmbH Procédé et dispositif pour former une canalisation dans un forage souterrain
EP0346961A2 (fr) * 1988-06-14 1989-12-20 Shell Internationale Researchmaatschappij B.V. Procédé et dispositif pour placer un revêtement de ciment dans un puits

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EP0885372B1 (fr) * 1992-08-21 2000-11-08 German Water and Energy GmbH Procede de creusage et d'etanchement d'un tr0u de mines
EP0777018A1 (fr) * 1995-12-01 1997-06-04 Per Aarsleff A/S Méthode et appareil pour la réalisation d'une colonne creuse dans le sol et colonne creuse ainsi réalisée
GB2357305A (en) * 1999-12-13 2001-06-20 George Stenhouse Lining bores, such as wells and pipelines
GB2357305B (en) * 1999-12-13 2002-02-13 George Stenhouse Lining bores, such as wells and pipelines
US6481501B2 (en) 2000-12-19 2002-11-19 Intevep, S.A. Method and apparatus for drilling and completing a well
US7231977B2 (en) 2003-07-25 2007-06-19 Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company Continuous monobore liquid lining system
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WO2017108820A1 (fr) * 2015-12-23 2017-06-29 Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij B.V. Configuration de rame de vitesse dans un tube de production d'un puits de production de gaz humide

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