EP1375817A1 - Soupape d'étranglement de forage en sous-pression - Google Patents

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EP1375817A1
EP1375817A1 EP02291569A EP02291569A EP1375817A1 EP 1375817 A1 EP1375817 A1 EP 1375817A1 EP 02291569 A EP02291569 A EP 02291569A EP 02291569 A EP02291569 A EP 02291569A EP 1375817 A1 EP1375817 A1 EP 1375817A1
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    • 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
    • E21B21/08—Controlling or monitoring pressure or flow of drilling fluid, e.g. automatic filling of boreholes, automatic control of bottom pressure
    • E21B21/085—Underbalanced techniques, i.e. where borehole fluid pressure is below formation pressure
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    • 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
    • E21B21/10—Valve arrangements in drilling-fluid circulation systems

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  • the present invention relation relates to drilling oil and gas wells. More particularly the invention relates to a technology known as underbalance drilling.
  • Underbalance drilling is a technique that enables oil and gas wells to be drilled with a negative differential pressure between the reservoir pressure P R and the well bore pressure P wb , also called bottom hole pressure P ANN , i.e., P R > P ANN .
  • P ANN bottom hole pressure
  • the driller endeavors to keep the bottom hole pressure P ANN below the reservoir pressure P R .
  • the bottom hole pressure P ANN may for example be monitored in real-time. Alternatively, if real-time monitoring is not available it may be inferred from fluid friction losses of drilling fluids injected in the drilling string and returning to the surface, and hydrostatic head.
  • a further drawback in prior art relates to real time monitoring and lies in the fact that the transmission of the bottom hole pressure information may not take place instantaneously.
  • the transmission delay may be as high as 30 seconds in the case of an electro-magnetic telemetry.
  • the invention provides a method for underbalance drilling in a reservoir comprising operating a variable aperture of a downhole choke located at a downhole extremity of a drill string, to control a pressure differential between a drilling fluid pumped down the drill string from surface and flowing into the variable aperture of the choke, and the drilling fluid flowing out of the variable aperture, in order to achieve a negative differential pressure between a reservoir pressure and a bottom hole pressure at the downhole extremity of the drill string.
  • the method comprises measuring the bottom hole pressure and adjusting automatically the variable aperture in order to keep the bottom hole pressure in a determined range.
  • the values in the determined range are smaller than the reservoir pressure.
  • the measuring of the bottom hole pressure is performed using a bottom hole instrument assembly located at the downhole extremity of the drill string.
  • the method comprises measuring a momentary bottom hole pressure, and computing a target pressure depending at least on the measured momentary bottom hole pressure.
  • the variable aperture is automatically adjusted in order to keep the bottom hole pressure in a predetermined range around the target pressure value.
  • the method comprises increasing the variable aperture in case the bottom hole pressure is smaller than the target pressure value, thereby increasing the bottom hole pressure.
  • the variable aperture is decreased in case the bottom hole pressure is greater than the target pressure value, and the bottom hole pressure thereby decreased.
  • the invention provides a system for performing underbalance drilling in a reservoir using a drill string into which drilling fluid is pumped from the surface using a drilling fluid pump, the system comprising at a downhole extremity of the drill string a choke having a variable aperture through which the drilling fluid flows.
  • system further comprises an actuator for varying the variable aperture and a controller that computes and sends a control signal to the actuator depending on a value of a bottom hole pressure in order to adjust the bottom hole pressure.
  • system comprises a pressure sensor to measure the bottom hole pressure and output a value of the bottom hole pressure to the controller.
  • system comprises storage means for storing a value of a target pressure, the controller using the target pressure to compute the control signal in order to adjust the bottom hole pressure in a determined range around the target pressure.
  • the invention provides a choke device for use in a drilling string, having a variable aperture through which drilling fluid pumped into the drill string may flow.
  • FIG. 1 a schematic representation shows a well bore 100, as used to drill an earth formation 101 for oil and gas extraction.
  • a drill string 102 comprises an elongated tube-like body that is terminated by a drill bit and a bottom hole instrument assembly (not shown in Fig. 1).
  • Drilling fluid 103 is pumped down the drill string 102, inside the tube, and from the surface by means of a drilling fluid pump 104. As the drilling fluid 103 exits the drill string it is returned to the surface mixed together with formation fluids, by flowing between the outer surface of the drill string 102 and a casing 105 of the well bore 100. Eventually the drilling fluid may be collected at a surface outlet 106.
  • FIG. 2 a magnified view of the downhole drill string extremity contained in the dotted circle of Fig. 1 is shown.
  • the schematic representation contains a drill bit 200 and a bottom hole instrument assembly 201.
  • the bottom hole instrument assembly 201 includes at least a bottom hole pressure sensor (not shown in Fig. 2).
  • a variable choke 202 is located at the bottom of the drill string, inside of the tube of the drill string 102 at proximity of the drill bit.
  • the variable choke comprises a variable aperture 203 through which fluid inside the drill string may flow according to arrow 204.
  • a pressure drop ⁇ P occurs between an input and an output of the variable choke.
  • the pressure drop ⁇ P may be influenced by altering a size of the aperture.
  • the bottom hole pressure P ANN is the pressure at the downhole extremity of the drill string (see Fig. 1).
  • the bottom hole pressure P ANN may be measured using a pressure sensor of the bottom hole instruments assembly.
  • variable choke comprises a variable aperture.
  • the variable aperture 203 of choke 202 is controlled by an actuator 300 that is powered either from the surface in case hardwire communication is available (not shown in Fig. 3), or from a downhole power source, e.g. a battery 301.
  • the actuator 300 of the variable aperture is controlled by a logic circuit 302 of the bottom hole instrument assembly.
  • the logic circuit 302 continuously compares the bottom hole pressure P ANN to a target value P TARGET .
  • the value of P ANN is monitored using the pressure sensor 304.
  • the target value P TARGET is stored in the logical circuit and periodically updated from the surface operator.
  • the update can for example be done using downwards telemetry using a communication module 303.
  • the surface operator is periodically informed of the actual values of the bottom hole pressure P ANN which is measured using the pressure sensor and transmitted for example using upwards telemetry.
  • the bottom hole pressure P ANN and other well parameters e.g., a net-flow value corresponding to a difference of the flow of fluid pumped into and the flow coming out of the well, may be used to compute the target pressure P TARGET .
  • One example for a method used to compute the target pressure P TARGET is known from the international application published under WO02/06634A1.
  • the term e used in the following represents a determined threshold that is used to avoid control oscillations.
  • the threshold may be pre-set in the logic circuit.
  • Fig. 4 This principle is schematically illustrated is Fig. 4.
  • P ANN is measured using the appropriate pressure sensor of the bottom hole instrument assembly of the drill string and its value is subtracted from the target value P TARGET , the result being compared to ⁇ in box 401.
  • an actuator control signal is output in box 402 to the actuator of the variable aperture to increase or decrease the variable aperture and influence the pressure drop at the variable choke 403.
  • variable chokeaperture The method for controlling the variable chokeaperture described herein is given by way of example. A person skilled in the art could easily adapt or modify the method by introducing different or more sophisticated methods known from prior art for controlling the variable choke aperture and the resulting pressure differential.
  • the present invention allows to maintain an underbalance pressure condition in an efficient way. More particularly the invention overcomes the problems of over corrections and oscillations encountered in prior art. This is achieved by suppression of significant time lag between measurement of the bottom hole pressure and regulation of the parameters leading to a desired value of the bottom hole pressure.

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