EP0462719B1 - Machine pour former un dispositif de guidage d'une colonne montante - Google Patents

Machine pour former un dispositif de guidage d'une colonne montante Download PDF

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EP0462719B1
EP0462719B1 EP91304989A EP91304989A EP0462719B1 EP 0462719 B1 EP0462719 B1 EP 0462719B1 EP 91304989 A EP91304989 A EP 91304989A EP 91304989 A EP91304989 A EP 91304989A EP 0462719 B1 EP0462719 B1 EP 0462719B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
    • E21B7/12—Underwater drilling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D41/00—Application of procedures in order to alter the diameter of tube ends
    • B21D41/02—Enlarging

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  • the invention relates to a machine for forming conductor guides.
  • Conductor guides are used in offshore jackets in the drilling industry.
  • a structure commonly referred to as a jacket is used to support a platform on which drilling equipment, associated equipment and living and working quarters are placed.
  • the jacket is usually formed by at least four legs connected together by a framework of horizontal and diagonal support members such that the base of the structure that rests on the sea bottom is wider than the top of the structure that extends above the normal water level.
  • a jacket and platform may accommodate equipment for drilling one or more wells.
  • the drill string for a well extends through the structure between the legs and into the sea bed.
  • Conductor guides are used to guide the conductors into place in the jacket.
  • the conductor guides are formed from hollow tubular steel having an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the conductor.
  • An upper portion of the conductor guide is preferably formed in a cone shape with its upper edge having a larger inner diameter than a lower tubular portion of the conductor guide. This flared shape that extends upward and outward allows for a greater margin of error when lowering the conductor.
  • one hundred or more conductor guides may be required on a structure.
  • Conductor guides have normally been manufactured in two ways, by segment fabrication or pressing. Segment fabrication involves cutting three separate metal pieces out to size and then forming them into the proper required cone shape one at a time by the use of a press. The three pieces are then welded to a conductor guide tubular portion to form a cone-shaped part of the guide. Pressing involves heating a tubular section in an oven and then moving it into a press where a tool and die are used to form the guide. During this operation, forces of two thousand to three thousand tons may be required. Both methods are time consuming, labour intensive, and require extra materials and tooling to form conductors in a variety of sizes. Segment fabrication commonly requires as much as twenty man-hours of work per conductor. Pressing is limited to certain cone sizes due to wrinkling of the cone. A press must also be permanently installed and supported by a proper foundation since such equipment may weight as much as three hundred tons.
  • French Patent Specification 1 162 924 which serves as a basis for the pre-characterising portion of claim 1, discloses heating of an end portion of a thin walled tube with gas jet flames to soften it and pressing a shaft longitudinally of the tube by means of a carriage bearing a rack and cooperating with a pinion in a base unit, the shaft mounting a plate which mounts three equiangularly disposed inclined rollers which engage the end edge of the pipe and roll it outwardly.
  • Patent Specification US-A-3 610 016 discloses a machine for forming an end of a tubular article such as a vehicle exhaust pipe, wherein the tubular article is acted upon by a clamping module and by an operating module.
  • the operating module may comprise four rollers with shaped ends which are pressed into the end of the tubular article whilst being spun by a hydraulic motor to form spherical flaring at the end of the tubular article.
  • a forming machine to form the end of a conductor guide and comprising: a base; a tool carriage mounted on the base so as to be movable between a first, retracted position and a second, forming position; a forming tool rotatably mounted on the tool carriage and comprising a substantially circular plate with forming rollers rotatably attached thereto; drive means mounted on the tool carriage to rotate the forming tool; movement means mounted on the base and engaging the tool carriage to move the tool carriage between the first and second positions and heating means movably mounted on the base to heat the conductor guide in a pattern of progressively higher temperatures toward the free end thereof while the conductor guide remains stationary; characterised in that the base is formed from four horizontal support members attached at their ends to first and second plates to define a substantially rectangular frame; the forming rollers comprise conical flaring rollers and edge forming rollers; the drive means comprises an electric motor engaged with the forming tool; the movement means comprises a hydraulic cylinder; and the heating means comprises an induction heating device
  • Such a machine can advantageously accommodate a variety of cone angles and sizes, need not require permanent installation, and can reduce the time, labour and materials required in manufacturing conductor guides.
  • the drive motors are actuated to cause rotation of the forming tool.
  • the conical guide forming rollers rotatably mounted on the forming tool contact the inside of the pipe and cause the heated end of the pipe to flare outwardly as the tool carriage and the forming tool continue moving in the direction of the pipe.
  • the edge forming rollers contact and compress the edge of the flared end to compensate for the minimal thinning of the pipe wall that occurs during forming.
  • a conductor guide forming machine 10 generally comprises a base 12, a tool carriage 14, a forming tool 16, drive means 18 for the forming tool 16, movement means 20 for moving the tool carriage 14 along the base 12 and a heating device 22.
  • the base 12 is formed from four support members 24 of which two are shown in Figure 1. Each support member 24 is attached at its ends to first and second plates 26, 28 by any suitable means such as welding to form a substantially rectangular frame. As can be seen in Figure 1, the plates 26, 28 rest on their edges so that the support members 24 are horizontal.
  • the support members 24 are tubular shaped in the preferred embodiment but may be of any other suitable shape such as in the form of I-beams.
  • the tool carriage 14 is formed from four hollow support legs 30 having an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the support members 24 of the base 12. This allows sliding movement of the tool carriage 14 on the base 12 between a first, retracted position and a second, conductor guide forming position.
  • the first, retracted position is illustrated in Figure 2 while the second, conductor guide forming position is illustrated in Figures 1 and 3.
  • wheels may be attached to the support legs 30 so that the tool carriage 14 is rollably supported on the base 12.
  • Vertical plates 32, 34 and 36 are rigidly attached between the support legs 30 by any suitable means such as welding.
  • the first and second vertical plates 32, 34 extend across the width of the tool carriage 14 and the third vertical plate 36 extends along the longitudinal axis thereof and is rigidly attached to the second plate 34 and the support legs 30.
  • the forming tool 16 is carried by the tool carriage 14 and is rotatably mounted on the first vertical plate 32.
  • the forming tool 16 is formed from a substantially circular plate 38, conical guide forming rollers 40, and edge forming rollers 42.
  • the rollers 40, 42 are rotatably mounted on a framework 44 that is rigidly attached to the circular plate 38.
  • the framework 44 positions the guide forming rollers 40 at approximately a forty-five degree angle to the circular plate 38 such that the leading edges of the rollers 40 extend into a conductor guide 46 to flare out the edge thereof and form a cone portion 48 as seen in Figure 3 as the tool carriage 14 and the forming tool 16 are moved into the second, conductor guide forming position.
  • the guide forming rollers 40 are preferably conical in shape as seen in the drawings.
  • the conical shape is preferred because it results in the velocity of the roller at the inside edge of the flared portion of the conductor guide being equal to the velocity of the roller at the outside edge of the flared portion of the conductor guide. This minimises friction and prevents skidding of the rollers on the wall of the pipe which would cause galling of the pipe.
  • R1 the radius of the inside edge of the flared portion of the conductor guide
  • R2 the radius of the outer edge of the flared portion of the conductor guide
  • r1 the radius of the roller at its point of contact with the inside edge of the flared portion
  • r2 the radius of the roller at its point of contact with the outer edge of the flared portion.
  • the drive means 18 for the forming tool 16 is provided in the form of an electric motor 50 and a spindle or drive shaft 52.
  • the electric motor 50 is mounted on a horizontal plate 54 extending from the third vertical plate 36.
  • the electric motor 50 is operatively engaged with the forming tool 16 by means of the drive shaft 52 that is supported by bearings 56 adjacent the plates 32 and 34.
  • the movement means 20 to move the tool carriage 14 between its first and second positions is provided by a hydraulic cylinder 58 mounted on the base 12 and attached to the tool carriage 14. Hydraulic fluid is supplied to the hydraulic cylinder 58 from a source not shown through hydraulic fluid lines 60.
  • the heating device 22 is an induction heating device that causes heating of the conductor guide 46 without touching it.
  • An electric current directed though an electric coil in the heating device 22 via power lines 62 results in the generation of a magnetic field around the coil.
  • the magnetic field induces an electric current in the conductor guide 46 that generates heat due to the high resistance of the steel pipe that the conductor guide 46 is formed from.
  • the design of the heating device 22 provides a specific heat pattern for ease of forming where the end of the conductor guide to be flared is the hottest. In the preferred embodiment, the heating pattern is as follows. Approximately 114mm (four and a half inches) of the conductor guide inward from the end being flared are heated to about 1260°C (2300°F).
  • the second plate 28 is provided with an aperture that allows passage of the pipe therethrough and through the open centre of the heating device 22.
  • a clamp 64 which may be attached to the second plate 28 or to a separate piece of equipment is used to hold the pipe in position during forming operations.
  • a section of pipe that will be used as a conductor guide 46 is held rigidly in position by the clamp 64 such that it extends through the second plate 28 and the heating device 22.
  • the heating device 22 is rolled into position on a movable platform 66 on the lower support members 24 and is then used to cause induction heating of the end of conductor guide 46 to approximately 1260°C (2300°F).
  • the forming rollers 42 contact the edge of the cone portion 48 and cause slight compression of the edge radially inwardly along the same axis as the flare to compensate for the minimal thinning that occurs during the forming process.
  • the forming process takes approximately five seconds with the heated end portion of the conductor guide 46 being in a plastic state and with approximately forty tons of pressure provided by the hydraulic cylinder 58.
  • the forming tool 16 is rotated at approximately 550 RPM.
  • the rollers 40 and 42 being of smaller diameter relative to the inside of conductor guide 46, rotate at approximately 2500 RPM.
  • a heat shield 68 is positioned on the framework 44 as to extend in front of the rollers 40, 42 to help protect their bearings from the heat.
  • the bearings for the rollers 40, 42 may also be water cooled. After forming, the pressure from the hydraulic cylinder 58 is reversed to move the tool carriage 14 back to its first retracted position so that the forming tool 16 does not stay in contact with the hot conductor guide 46. After cooling, which may be accomplished by running water over the conductor guide 46 and the cone portion 48, the conductor guide 46 is cut at the appropriate length away from the cone portion 48. The completed and combined one-piece conductor guide is removed, the clamp 64 is loosened, an appropriate length of conductor guide pipe is moved into position and the process is repeated.
  • a rod 70 mounted on the tool carriage 14 contacts the heating device 22 and causes it to move away from the end of the conductor being flared to prevent interference between the heating device 22, the flared end and the forming tool 16.
  • the angular arrangement of the rollers 40 and 42 allows operation for forming conductor guides in a variety of sizes without altering the equipment. Although only one drive motor is illustrated, two drive motors connected to the drive shaft by drive belts or chains may be used if desired.

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  1. Machine de façonnage pour façonner l'extrémité d'un dispositif de guidage de colonne montante et comprenant :
       une base (12); un coulisseau porte-outil (14) monté sur la base (12) afin d'être mobile entre une première position rétractée et une seconde position de façonnage; un outil de façonnage (16) monté à rotation sur le coulisseau porte-outil (14) et comprenant une plaque sensiblement circulaire (38) avec des rouleaux de façonnage (40, 42) fixés à rotation sur elle; un moyen d'entraînement (18) monté sur le coulisseau porte-outil (14) pour entraîner l'outil de façonnage (16) à rotation; un moyen de déplacement (20) monté sur la base (12) et engageant le coulisseau porte-outil pour déplacer le coulisseau porte-outil entre la première et la seconde positions et un moyen de chauffage (22) monté avec possibilité de déplacement sur la base (12) pour chauffer le dispositif de guidage de colonne montante dans un profil de températures de plus en plus élevées vers l'extrémité libre du dispositif tandis que le dispositif de guidage de colonne montante demeure fixe;
       caractérisée en ce que la base (12) est faite de quatre éléments de support horizontaux (24) fixés à leur extrémité à une première et une seconde plaques (26, 28) pour former un châssis sensiblement rectangulaire; les rouleaux de façonnage comprennent des rouleaux d'évasement coniques (40) et des rouleaux de façonnage de bords (42); le moyen d'entraînement comprend un moteur électrique (50) engagé avec l'outil de façonnage (16); le moyen de déplacement (20) comprend un cylindre hydraulique (58); et le moyen de chauffage comprend un dispositif de chauffage par induction (22).
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