EP1563161B1 - Wiedereintritt in bohrlöcher mit mehreren seitenbohrungen - Google Patents

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EP1563161B1
EP1563161B1 EP03780013A EP03780013A EP1563161B1 EP 1563161 B1 EP1563161 B1 EP 1563161B1 EP 03780013 A EP03780013 A EP 03780013A EP 03780013 A EP03780013 A EP 03780013A EP 1563161 B1 EP1563161 B1 EP 1563161B1
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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
    • E21B41/00—Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
    • E21B41/0035—Apparatus or methods for multilateral well technology, e.g. for the completion of or workover on wells with one or more lateral branches
    • 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
    • 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
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/02—Subsoil filtering
    • E21B43/10—Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells
    • 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
    • E21B7/061—Deflecting the direction of boreholes the tool shaft advancing relative to a guide, e.g. a curved tube or a whipstock

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  • This invention relates to methods of forming and re-entering multilateral wells in open hole, and to apparatus useful in such methods.
  • Re-entry can be desirable for example to insert a packer to close off a well producing water, or to permit workover such as fracturing on a desired one of multiple laterals.
  • US6,012,527 discloses a method and apparatus for drilling and re-entering multiple lateral branches in a well.
  • a number of landing and orientating joints and mule shoes having helical guide shoes which are located at a desired well depth for orientating a tool during running movement.
  • the tool has matching profiles with one or more of the joints and is engable with the helical guide shoes. The tool will pass the non-matching profiles and land with the matching profiles as the tool is run.
  • US6,315,044 discloses a well comprising a casing string having a pre milled window casing section defining a window. There is also a guide for directing a tool downwardly through the casing and out of the window.
  • the casing string includes a concentric whip packing sleeve in the window for preventing foreign matter entering the window.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of forming open hole multilateral wells in a manner which facilitates controlled re-entry.
  • the present invention accordingly provides a method of installing a permanent non-obstructive and orientation reference in an open hole allowing drilling of a lateral and re-entry in said lateral or in the main borehole, said method comprising the following steps: positioning a locating assembly at a pre-determined section of the open hole, below the location of the desired lateral; and securing the positioning of the locating assembly in the open hole by pumping cement or injecting resin into the annular space comprised between the outside wall of said locating assembly and the open hole wall.
  • the locating assembly is positioned at a position immediately below the location of the desired lateral and comprises locating means providing a positive axial and radial location for engagement by a complementary tool, and the locating assembly being formed to provide a through passage having a predetermined drift, and the method of the invention further comprises the following steps:
  • the method may include, after releasably attaching the whipstock assembly, adjusting the azimuth of the whipstock to a desired direction; and for this purpose the whipstock assembly may include a lockable rotary joint between the whipstock and the complementary tool.
  • the whipstock assembly is retained for subsequent use, with the orientation of the whipstock with respect to the complementary tool fixed.
  • the method of the present invention may comprise the further step of re-entering the main borehole, which may be done by running a tubular having an outer diameter less than said drift.
  • a guide assembly may be positioned on said locating means, the guide assembly including a complementary tool and a length of casing sufficient to span the entry to the lateral.
  • the method may also comprise the further step of re-entering the lateral, which may be done by rerunning the whipstock assembly on the locating assembly, and using the whipstock to guide an assembly into the lateral.
  • the invention provides a device for use in the foregoing method, comprising a locating assembly able to be positioned at a pre-determined position of an open hole, below the location of a desired lateral; and a tool allowing pumping of cement or injection of resin into the annular space comprised between the outside wall of said locating assembly and the open hole wall.
  • the locating assembly comprises securing means for securing the assembly in the open hole, and locating means providing a positive axial and radial location for engagement by a complementary tool, and the locating assembly being formed to provide a through passage having a predetermined drift.
  • the securing means is an expandable casing packer secured on a length of casing defining said drift, and the locating means comprises a mule shoe.
  • the present invention provides a whipstock assembly for use in the foregoing method, the whipstock assembly comprising a whipstock mounted on a complementary tool engageable with said locating means.
  • the complementary tool may suitably be a spring loaded key assembly.
  • the whipstock assembly in one form, may include a lockable rotary joint between the key assembly and the whipstock.
  • the procedure of the present invention starts with a pre-drilled borehole, which has been cased with a casing 1 and cemented at 2.
  • the borehole is extended by drilling with a drillstring 3 and bit 4 to form an open hole 5.
  • the drilling assembly 6 is then withdrawn.
  • Figs. 2A to 2X illustrate a first embodiment providing a method of drilling a lateral well from a borehole according to the invention.
  • a locating assembly 10 made of one or more joints of tubular, is shown held at the surface by slips 20, blocks or similar devices.
  • the locating assembly 10 includes an orientation device 11 in the form of a mule shoe sleeve, which will provide depth and orientation control. It further includes, at its lower end, a float shoe 12 or a basket cementing shoe as the type B basket cementing shoe commercialised by the company Industrial Rubber Inc..
  • a cementing string 30 is shown in Figs. 1B, 1C and 1D .
  • This cementing string 30 is made of joints connected together with tool joints 33, 35. It includes, from its lower end, a terminal part 31, a centraliser 32, able to centralise the cementing string 30 within the locating assembly 10 and an inflatable packer 34 such as the inflatable packer named Single Set (TM) commercialised by the company TAM International North Sea Limited.
  • the cementing string 30 is positioned into the locating assembly 10. Once the terminal part 31 of the cementing string 30 is inserted into a receptacle 13 of the float shoe 12, the packer 34 is inflated as shown in Fig. 2D .
  • the inflated packer 34 provides a holding force that will permit to use the cementing string 30 as a running tool of the locating assembly 10.
  • the packer 34 also serves as a barrier avoiding contamination of the assembly 10 by cement or debris.
  • the slips 20 are taken out and the locating assembly 10, suspended by the cementing string 30, is lowered into a pre-determined section of the open hole 5 immediately below the location of the desired lateral, where they are rotated along the borehole axis to provide appropriate orientation of the locating assembly 10.
  • cement or resin is pumped through the cementing string 30 to the shoe 12 and displaced upward within the annular space located between the outside wall of the locating assembly 10 and the open hole 5 wall.
  • the cement sets securing the positioning of the assembly. It is noted that, preferably, the above pre-determined section of the borehole is under-reamed prior to the positioning of the assembly, to improve the secured fixing of the assembly downhole.
  • the whipstock assembly 40 is run into the wellbore 5, inside the locating assembly 10, using a starting mill 50.
  • the whipstock assembly 40 is shown in the left side of Fig. 2M . It includes a whipstock 41 mounted on a complementary tool 42 such as a double-grip whipstock anchor commercialised by TIW (TM).
  • the complementary tool 42 is detailed in Figs. 3A, 3B and 3C . It comprises an orientation reference 43, anchoring elements 44 and two mandrel members 45, 46.
  • the lower end of the first mandrel member 45 is located inside the second mandrel member 46 and the two mandrel members 45, 46 are maintained one relative to each other by pins 47.
  • the anchoring elements 44 are in a retracted position.
  • a set position Fig. 3B
  • the lower end of the first mandrel member 45 is pushed down into the first mandrel member 46, the pins 47 are sheared and the anchoring elements 44 expands externally.
  • a released position Fig. 4C
  • the first mandrel member 45 is partially withdrawn out the second mandrel member 46 and the anchoring elements 44 are back in their retracted position.
  • the whipstock assembly 40 is releasably attached to the locating assembly 10.
  • the complementary tool 42 seats in the orienting sleeve 41 and the anchoring elements 44 expands externally to anchor the whipstock assembly 40 within the locating assembly 10.
  • the whipstock pin 51 attaching the whipstock assembly 40 to the starting mill 50 is sheared ( Fig. 2P ), the starting mill is rotated in order to clean the formation wall ( Fig. 2Q ) and said starting mill 50 is withdrawn from the wellbore 5.
  • a drilling assembly 60 is run in the borehole 518.
  • the inclined wedge of the whipstock 41 forces the drill bit 61 to start drilling, through the formation, in the desired lateral direction away from the main borehole axis.
  • the drilling assembly 60 is pulled out from the lateral 7 ( Fig. 2S ).
  • the whipstock assembly 40 is then released from the location assembly 10 and withdrawn from the borehole.
  • Figs. 4 to 14 illustrate a second embodiment providing a method of drilling a lateral well from a borehole according to the invention.
  • a locating device 120 in the form of a mule shoe 122 attached to a short length of casing 124 is run in hole.
  • the casing section 124 is provided with an expandable casing packer (ECP) 126 on its outer surface.
  • ECP expandable casing packer
  • the assembly 120 is run in hole with a string 114 incorporating the usual equipment (not shown) required to set and inflate the packer.
  • the ECP 126 When the mule shoe 122 is in the desired position ( Fig. 4B ), the ECP 126 is inflated to engage the open hole 5 ( Fig. 4C ), and the string 114 is then pulled out of hole. Correct positioning of the locating device 120 may be assisted by providing an abutment member 128 on the string 114 to engage the top of the open hole 5.
  • the ECP 126 is preferably inflated with cement or resin material to provide a permanent installation.
  • the external and internal diameters of the ECP 126 are chosen so as to maximise the internal "drift" diameter of the assembly 120 while ensuring that the inflatable member will effectively grip and seal the annulus.
  • Fig. 5 the next step is to run in hole ( Fig. 5A ) with an assembly comprising a spring loaded key 130 attached to a whipstock 132.
  • the spring loaded key 130 (see also Fig. 14 ) incorporates a key 134 which finds the ramp 136 on the mule shoe and seats at the end of the ramp's travel, thus firmly locating the whipstock 132 at the required depth.
  • the orientation of the whipstock is not important once it is set into the mule shoe; for example if the mother well is close to vertical, the required azimuth of the lateral to be drilled from the whipstock is easily achieved through directional drilling. In this situation the spring loaded key 130 and whipstock 132 can be permanently attached together.
  • the running string 114 is now unlatched from the whipstock 132 and pulled out of hole ( Fig. 5B ).
  • a drilling assembly 114, 116 is run into the well and the whipstock 132 is used to deflect the new hole 7 into the desired direction. It should be noted that the diameter of the lateral can be the same as that of the mother well.
  • the drilling assembly 114, 116 is removed from the hole, as seen in Fig. 7 .
  • the final stage is to run into hole with an assembly 140 designed to latch onto the whipstock 132 and remove the whipstock 132 and attached key 130 from the hole, as shown in Fig. 8 .
  • the whipstock 132 and permanently attached key 130 are stored for future re-entry use.
  • the mule shoe/ECP assembly 120 secured in the mother well immediately below the lateral.
  • the lateral can be the full diameter of the mother well, while the assembly 120 imposes a slight reduction in drift in the lower part of the mother well, but not such that the running in of tubing and other assemblies is prevented.
  • Fig. 9 illustrates re-entry to the mother well. This is achieved by running in with a stiff assembly 142 having a smaller outside diameter than the drift of the mule shoe/ECP assembly 120. With no whipstock in the hole, the tubing assembly 142 will follow the path of the mother well and pass through the assembly 120, and thus through to the end of the original borehole.
  • a key assembly 144 similar to that employed with the whipstock is attached to a short length of casing 146 smaller than the diameter of the mother well and long enough to extend over the junction with the lateral.
  • the same key/whipstock assembly that was used during the drilling of the lateral is run into hole on a running string 150 ( Fig. 12 ) and seated into the mule shoe/ECP assembly 120.
  • the mule shoe ensures that the depth and azimuth of the whipstock are in alignment with the lateral.
  • the running string 150 can then be unlatched and pulled out of hole, and the desired tubing 152 can be run into hole and is positively guided into the lateral by the whipstock ( Fig. 13 ).
  • the present method gives the ability to drill a sidetrack in open hole without losing hole diameter in the new well. It is therefore possible to drill a further sidetrack from the lateral and retain the same re-entry features. This can be repeated as desired to achieve a multi-branch well.
  • the orienting assembly can be constructed to allow the installation of a plug or choke so that the primary borehole can be isolated or choked back. It is also possible to incorporate an inflatable packer in the whipstock assembly to stabilise the whipstock during drilling, this packer being deflated and removed along with the whipstock.

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  1. Ein Verfahren zum Installieren einer Tiefen- und Ausrichtungsreferenz (43) in einem Hauptbohrloch eines offenen Bohrlochs, das das Bohren eines Seitengangs (7) und Wiedereintritt in den Seitengang oder in das Hauptbohrloch (5) ermöglicht, wobei das Verfahren die folgenden Schritte beinhaltet:
    Positionieren einer Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur (10, 120) an einem erforderlichen Teilabschnitt des offenen Bohrlochs, unterhalb der Stelle des gewünschten Seitengangs; wobei das Verfahren durch Pumpen von Zement oder Einspritzen von Harz in den ringförmigen Raum, der zwischen der Außenwand der Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur (10, 120) und der Hauptbohrlochwand (5) beinhaltet ist, ferner dauerhaftes Sichern der Position der Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur (10, 120) in dem offenen Bohrloch beinhaltet, wodurch eine dauerhafte, nicht behindernde Tiefen- und Ausrichtungsreferenz installiert wird, die den Wiedereintritt in das Hauptbohrloch und den Seitengang ermöglicht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren ferner das Positionieren eines Zementierstrangs (30) in der Lokalisierungsgarnitur beinhaltet und dadurch, dass der Zementierstrang einen Schwellpacker umfasst, wobei der Schwellpacker (34) nach dem Positionieren des Zementierstrangs in der Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur aufgepumpt wird.
  2. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der erforderliche Teilabschnitt des offenen Bohrlochs unterschnitten wird und in den unterschnittenen Teilabschnitt des offenen Bohrlochs Zement gepumpt oder Harz eingespritzt wird.
  3. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur ein Lokalisierungsmittel beinhaltet, das eine formschlüssige, axiale und radiale Stelle zum Eingriff durch ein komplementäres Werkzeug (42) bereitstellt, und wobei die Lokalisierungsgarnitur gebildet ist, um einen Durchgang mit einer vorbestimmten Aufweitung bereitzustellen, und das ferner die folgenden Schritte beinhaltet:
    lösbares Befestigen einer Richtkeilgarnitur (40,132) an der Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur, wobei die Richtkeilgarnitur einen Richtkeil (41) beinhaltet, der auf einem komplementären Werkzeug (42) montiert ist, das in das Lokalisierungsmittel eingreifen kann;
    Einlassen einer Bohrgarnitur (60) in das Bohrloch, in die der Richtkeil eingreifen und die er ablenken soll, und weiteres Einassen der Bohrgarnitur, um den Seitengang zu bilden;
    Ziehen der Bohrgarnitur aus dem Bohrloch; und
    Entfernen der Richtkeilgarnitur.
  4. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Zement oder das Harz durch den Zementierstrang gepumpt oder eingespritzt wird, nachdem die Lokalisierungsgarnitur, die von dem Zementierstrang hängt, in einen vorbestimmten Teilabschnitt des offenen Bohrlochs herabgelassen wird.
  5. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren nach dem lösbaren Befestigen der Richtkeilgarnitur (132) ferner das Einstellen des Bohrlochrichtungswinkels des Richtkeils in eine gewünschte Richtung beinhaltet.
  6. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren ferner das Versehen des Richtkeils mit einer verschließbaren Drehverbindung (43, 44, 45, 46) zwischen dem Richtkeil und dem komplementären Werkzeug beinhaltet.
  7. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Richtkeilgarnitur für eine nachfolgende Verwendung zurückgehalten wird, wobei die Ausrichtung des Richtkeils mit Bezug auf das komplementäre Werkzeug fest eingestellt ist.
  8. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren ferner den Schritt des Wiedereintretens in das Hauptbohrloch beinhaltet.
  9. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, das das Verfahren vor dem Einlassen des Rohrs ferner das Positionieren einer Führung auf dem Lokalisierungsmittel beinhaltet, wobei die Führungsgarnitur ein komplementäres Werkzeug und ein Stück Futterrohr, das ausreichend ist, um den Eingang zu dem Seitengang zu überspannen, umfasst.
  10. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren ferner den Schritt des Wiedereintretens in den Seitengang beinhaltet.
  11. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verfahren den weiteren Schritt des Wiedereinsetzens der Richtkeilgarnitur auf der Referenzlokaüsierungsgarnitur und Verwendens des Richtkeils, um ein Rohr in den Seitengang zu führen, beinhaltet.
  12. Eine Vorrichtung zur Verwendung bei einem Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 11, die eine Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur (10, 120) beinhaltet, die imstande ist, an einer erforderlichen Position eines offenen Lochs (5) unterhalb der Stelle eines gewünschten Seitengangs (7) positioniert zu werden; wobei die Vorrichtung ein Werkzeug umfasst, das das Pumpen von Zement oder das Einspritzen von Harz in den ringförmigen Raum, der zwischen der Außenwand der Lokalisierungsgarnitur und der Wand des offenen Bohrlochs beinhaltet ist, ermöglicht, um die Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur dauerhaft zu lokalisieren, so dass sie eine dauerhafte, nicht behindernde Tiefen- und Ausrichtungsreferenz bereitstellt, die den Wiedereintritt in das Hauptbohrloch und den Seitengang ermöglicht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass ein Zementierstrang (30) in der Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur positioniert wird und dadurch, dass der Zementierstrang einen Schwellpacker (34) umfasst, der den Zementierstrang und die Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur zusammenhält.
  13. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 12, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die vorbestimmte Position des offenen Bohrlochs unterschnitten ist.
  14. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 12 oder 13, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur (10, 120) ein Sicherungsmittel (12) zum Sichern der Garnitur in dem offenen Bohrloch und ein Lokalisierungsmittel, das eine formschlüssige, axiale und radiale Stelle zum Eingriff durch ein komplementäres Werkzeug (42) bereitstellt, beinhaltet, und wobei die Referenzlokalisierungsgarnitur gebildet ist, um einen Durchgang mit einer vorbestimmten Aufweitung und eine Richtkeilgarnitur (40, 132) bereitzustellen, die imstande ist, auf einem komplementären Werkzeug montiert zu werden, das in das Lokalisierungsmittel eingreifen kann.
  15. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 14, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Sicherungsmittel ein aufweitbarer Futterrohr-Packer ist, der auf einem Stück Futterrohr gesichert ist, die die Aufweitung definiert, und das Lokalisierungsmittel einen angeschrägten Rohrschuh (11, 132) beinhaltet.
  16. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 12 bis 15, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das komplementäre Werkzeug (42) geeigneterweise eine federbelastete Keilgarnitur sein kann.
  17. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 12 bis 16, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Richtkeilgarnitur in einer Form zwischen der Schlüsselgarnitur und dem Richtkeil eine verschließbare Drehverbindung umfasst.
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