EP0511547A2 - Trépan de roche - Google Patents

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EP0511547A2
EP0511547A2 EP92106450A EP92106450A EP0511547A2 EP 0511547 A2 EP0511547 A2 EP 0511547A2 EP 92106450 A EP92106450 A EP 92106450A EP 92106450 A EP92106450 A EP 92106450A EP 0511547 A2 EP0511547 A2 EP 0511547A2
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David P. Crockett
Michael E. Hooper
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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
    • E21B10/00—Drill bits
    • E21B10/08—Roller bits
    • E21B10/16—Roller bits characterised by tooth form or arrangement
    • 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
    • E21B10/00—Drill bits
    • E21B10/46—Drill bits characterised by wear resisting parts, e.g. diamond inserts
    • E21B10/50—Drill bits characterised by wear resisting parts, e.g. diamond inserts the bit being of roller type
    • E21B10/52—Drill bits characterised by wear resisting parts, e.g. diamond inserts the bit being of roller type with chisel- or button-type inserts

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  • the present invention relates generally to earth boring drill bits having rotatable rolling cutters mounted thereon, and more specifically to the positioning of wear resistant inserts located on the gage rows of the cutters.
  • Earth boring rock bits for drilling oil and gas wells typically have three rotatable cutters that roll over the bottom of a borehole as the bit rotates. Each cutter is generally conical and has a frustoconical heel surface that passes near the borehole sidewall as the cutter rotates.
  • One type of rock bit known as a tungsten carbide insert bit or TCI bit, has wear resistant inserts secured in holes formed in the cutters. Such inserts are usually made of tungsten carbide.
  • the inserts are arranged in circumferential rows on the conical surface of the rotatable cutter at various distances from the heel surface.
  • the row nearest, but not on the heel surface is known as the gage row.
  • the gage row of inserts cuts rock at the gage of the hole.
  • the heel surface extends upwardly along the wall of the hole drilled by the gage row.
  • certain cutters have gage row structure that includes staggered rows located thereon.
  • the staggered rows comprise two rows of inserts alternately spaced so that the grip portion of the inserts do not interfere. See also U.S. Patent No. 4,343,372.
  • the inserts on the gage row are oriented in such a manner to cause the cutting elements to cut both the borehole bottom and sidewall.
  • This combined cutting action compromises the insert because the cutting action operating on the borehole bottom is usually a crushing and gouging action while the cutting action operating on the sidewall is a scraping action.
  • the crushing action calls for a tough insert while the scraping action calls for a hard insert.
  • one grade of tungsten carbide cannot ideally perform both functions.
  • the inserts of the heel rows of these prior art bits cannot be as hard as that recommended for the sidewall scraping action because they must be tough enough to crush the bottom hole formation.
  • the gage row of inserts cannot be as tough as the interior rows of inserts because they must perform a large portion of scraping action on the borehole sidewall.
  • the present invention minimizes the above-mentioned shortcomings by providing a rolling cone rock bit with a plurality of cutters each mounted on the body of the bit to rotate about an axis.
  • Each cutter has a generally frusto-conical support surface for rolling contact with the bottom of a borehole, and a heel surface at the base of the cutter adjacent to the sidewall of the borehole.
  • a plurality of wear resistant inserts positioned on the support surface are arranged in circumferential rows, each insert being generally cylindrical with a projected crown area profile and having a central axis.
  • each gage insert is oriented to have its axis extend partiallly radially outward to enable the gage insert to engage the borehole bottom.
  • Each gage insert defines a cutting surface projected crown area profile taken through a section through the centerline of the cone.
  • a plurality of heel inserts located near the gage inserts are at an acute angle with respect to the gage inserts in a direction away from the apex of the cone.
  • Each insert defines a cutting surface projected crown area profile taken through a section through the centerline of the cone. The crown area profile of a heel insert, when rotated around the cone to the same plane as a gage insert crown area profile, overlaps the gage insert crown area profile to enable the heel inserts to slidably engage the borehole sidewall.
  • the heel row inserts scrape against the wall, they are made of a harder grade of tungsten carbide than the gage row inserts, and the gage row inserts are tougher than the heel row inserts.
  • the heel row insert crown area profiles are located up the borehole sidewall within three millimeters of the gage row insert crown area profiles.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates a drill bit or rock bit, generally indicated by an arrow 10, having a threaded pin section 11 for securing to the bottom end of a drill string.
  • the rock bit further includes a main body 12 having a plurality of legs 13, 14 and 15 extending downwardly therefrom. Each leg includes a bearing pin (not shown in FIGURE 1) extending toward the center of the bit.
  • Three cone shaped cutters 16 are rotatably mounted on the bearing pins and are adapted to roll along the bottom of a borehole as the bit is rotated.
  • the cutters 16 tend to roll along the hole bottom much like a wheel except that because the axes of the bearing pins are offset from the axis of the bit, and because of the geometry of the cones, a true roll of the cones is not possible. Therefore, in addition to the rolling motion, a small sliding motion is imparted thereto which would be analogous to the movement of an automobile tire that is out of alignment.
  • Each cutter cone 16 has a plurality of wear resistant inserts 20 interferingly secured by the insert grip 90 in mating holes drilled in the support surface of the cutter cone.
  • the inserts 20 are constructed from sintered tungsten carbide.
  • the inserts 20 are located in rows that extend circumferentially around the generally conical surface of each cutter. Certain of the rows are arranged to intermesh with other rows of the other cutters so that the entire bottom of the hole is drilled.
  • each cutter is generally conically shaped with a nose area 21 at the apex of the cone and a heel surface 22 at the base of the cone.
  • the heel surface 22 is frustoconical and is adapted to pass near the wall of the borehole as the cutters rotate about the borehole bottom.
  • the row of inserts 20 closest to the heel surface 22 is called the gage row 23.
  • the gage row inserts are further separated into a first row of gage inserts 24 and a second row of heel inserts 25.
  • each of the gage inserts 24 is oriented with its axis extending radially outwardly and downwardly to engage the borehole bottom.
  • the cutting profiles of the inserts are illustrated in a cross section as seen in FIGURE 3.
  • Each of the heel inserts 25, on the other hand, is with its axis oriented outwardly and downwardly at a greater angle from the centerline of the cone.
  • the heel inserts are oriented at an acute angle to the gage inserts in a direction away from the apex of the cutter cone to more closely face the sidewall of the borehole.
  • the inserts 20 must be made of an extremely tough grade of tungsten carbide.
  • gage row of inserts 24 also contact the hole bottom in a similar matter. However, prior to the present invention, these inserts 24 also performed a scraping action along the borehole sidewall before they make their imprint on the borehole bottom (see FIGURE 4). As mentioned previously, this necessitated making the gage row inserts harder to accommodate the scraping function and minimize wear which can cause the hole to be drilled under the desired gage or diameter. Unfortunately, when one makes a tungsten carbide insert harder, it necessarily becomes less tough.
  • the present invention minimizes such a problem by having the heel row inserts 25 interleaved between the the gage inserts with their cutting surface profiles being overlapped.
  • the crowns of the gage row inserts and heel row inserts are separated by only a distance D1 in the cutting surface profile as illustrated in FIGURE 3. This enables the heel inserts 25 to engage the borehole sidewall at points much lower in the borehole and much sooner in the cutting cycle than previous heel inserts.
  • the distance D1 is preferably within four millimeters in a 20 cm diameter rock bit.
  • the crown of the insert is the part of the projected area of the insert that contacts the intact rock formation, as illustrated in FIGURE 3.
  • the insert is a gage insert
  • the same planetary motion occurs except that the planetary orbit is the largest.
  • the same type of movement is involved, i.e. the insert rolls over the spot with a small sliding motion.
  • the gage insert would also contact a portion of the sidewall during a portion of its travel. This, of cource, results in almost pure scraping, and the gage insert normally would have to be harder than an inner row insert because of the large abrasive forces acting thereon.
  • each alternate gage row insert 24 oriented toward the hole bottom to cut the hole bottom while the other of each alternate heel row insert 25 being oriented to the sidewall to cut the sidewall.
  • the first set can be made of a hard material and the second set of a tough material.
  • this is accomplished by two means, i.e. the orientation of the two inserts (one toward the hole bottom and the other toward the hole bottom and the other toward the sidewall) and the close proximity of the insert projection profiles.
  • the closeness is shown by dimension D1 in Figure 3, which is preferably less than four millimeters.
  • the heel row inserts 25 are restricted to mostly scraping, they can be made of a very hard tungsten carbide or they can also be coated with super hard abrasives such as polycrystalline diamond.
  • inserts 24 are shown as hemispherical, they can also be constructed of different conventional shapes such as chisels.
  • the heel row inserts 25 can have their abrasive surfaces be slightly spherical, flat, or some other configuration and still come within the invention.

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GB2273726A (en) * 1992-12-17 1994-06-29 Baker Hughes Inc Earth boring bit
GB2274129A (en) * 1993-01-08 1994-07-13 Smith International Rotary cone rock bit with ultra hard heel row inserts
EP0633387A2 (fr) * 1993-07-08 1995-01-11 Baker Hughes Incorporated Trépan de forage avec structure de coup améliorée
EP0723066A2 (fr) * 1995-01-17 1996-07-24 Baker Hughes Incorporated Tête de forage avec structure de coupe améliorée
US5589443A (en) * 1995-12-21 1996-12-31 Smith International, Inc. Rock bit grease composition
US5668092A (en) * 1993-04-07 1997-09-16 Smith International, Inc. Rock bit grease composition
US5819861A (en) * 1993-07-08 1998-10-13 Baker Hughes Incorporated Earth-boring bit with improved cutting structure
GB2363143A (en) * 2000-06-08 2001-12-12 Smith International Cutting structure for roller cone drill bits
US6651758B2 (en) * 2000-05-18 2003-11-25 Smith International, Inc. Rolling cone bit with elements fanned along the gage curve
US6918455B2 (en) 1997-06-30 2005-07-19 Smith International Drill bit with large inserts
US6986395B2 (en) 1998-08-31 2006-01-17 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Force-balanced roller-cone bits, systems, drilling methods, and design methods
US7729895B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-06-01 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment with desired drill bit steerability
US7860693B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-12-28 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk
US7860696B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-12-28 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems to predict rotary drill bit walk and to design rotary drill bits and other downhole tools
RU2473770C1 (ru) * 2011-10-05 2013-01-27 Дмитрий Юрьевич Сериков Буровое шарошечное долото
US9493990B2 (en) 2004-03-02 2016-11-15 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Roller cone drill bits with optimized bearing structures

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US2990025A (en) * 1958-06-16 1961-06-27 Dresser Ind Bit
FR2029550A1 (fr) * 1969-01-28 1970-10-23 Dresser Ind
US3727705A (en) * 1972-01-21 1973-04-17 Hughes Tool Co Drill bit with improved gage compact arrangement

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US2990025A (en) * 1958-06-16 1961-06-27 Dresser Ind Bit
FR2029550A1 (fr) * 1969-01-28 1970-10-23 Dresser Ind
US3727705A (en) * 1972-01-21 1973-04-17 Hughes Tool Co Drill bit with improved gage compact arrangement

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GB2273726A (en) * 1992-12-17 1994-06-29 Baker Hughes Inc Earth boring bit
GB2273726B (en) * 1992-12-17 1996-04-24 Baker Hughes Inc Earth boring kit
GB2274129B (en) * 1993-01-08 1996-08-07 Smith International Rotary cone rock bit with ultra hard heel row inserts
GB2274129A (en) * 1993-01-08 1994-07-13 Smith International Rotary cone rock bit with ultra hard heel row inserts
US5668092A (en) * 1993-04-07 1997-09-16 Smith International, Inc. Rock bit grease composition
US5542485A (en) * 1993-07-08 1996-08-06 Baker Hughes Incorporated Earth-boring bit with improved cutting structure
EP0633387A3 (fr) * 1993-07-08 1995-07-26 Baker Hughes Inc Trépan de forage avec structure de coup améliorée.
US5819861A (en) * 1993-07-08 1998-10-13 Baker Hughes Incorporated Earth-boring bit with improved cutting structure
EP0633387A2 (fr) * 1993-07-08 1995-01-11 Baker Hughes Incorporated Trépan de forage avec structure de coup améliorée
EP0723066A2 (fr) * 1995-01-17 1996-07-24 Baker Hughes Incorporated Tête de forage avec structure de coupe améliorée
EP0723066A3 (fr) * 1995-01-17 1997-08-20 Baker Hughes Inc Tête de forage avec structure de coupe améliorée
US5589443A (en) * 1995-12-21 1996-12-31 Smith International, Inc. Rock bit grease composition
US6918455B2 (en) 1997-06-30 2005-07-19 Smith International Drill bit with large inserts
US6986395B2 (en) 1998-08-31 2006-01-17 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Force-balanced roller-cone bits, systems, drilling methods, and design methods
US6651758B2 (en) * 2000-05-18 2003-11-25 Smith International, Inc. Rolling cone bit with elements fanned along the gage curve
GB2363143B (en) * 2000-06-08 2002-08-14 Smith International Cutting structure for roller cone drill bits
US6374930B1 (en) 2000-06-08 2002-04-23 Smith International, Inc. Cutting structure for roller cone drill bits
GB2363143A (en) * 2000-06-08 2001-12-12 Smith International Cutting structure for roller cone drill bits
US9493990B2 (en) 2004-03-02 2016-11-15 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Roller cone drill bits with optimized bearing structures
US7860696B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-12-28 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems to predict rotary drill bit walk and to design rotary drill bits and other downhole tools
US7827014B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-11-02 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for design and/or selection of drilling equipment based on wellbore drilling simulations
US7860693B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-12-28 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk
US7778777B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-08-17 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk
US8145465B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2012-03-27 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems to predict rotary drill bit walk and to design rotary drill bits and other downhole tools
US8296115B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2012-10-23 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk
US8352221B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2013-01-08 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for design and/or selection of drilling equipment based on wellbore drilling simulations
US8606552B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2013-12-10 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk
US7729895B2 (en) 2005-08-08 2010-06-01 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment with desired drill bit steerability
RU2473770C1 (ru) * 2011-10-05 2013-01-27 Дмитрий Юрьевич Сериков Буровое шарошечное долото

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