US3700048A - Drilling installation for extracting products from underwater sea beds - Google Patents

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US3700048A
US3700048A US889357A US3700048DA US3700048A US 3700048 A US3700048 A US 3700048A US 889357 A US889357 A US 889357A US 3700048D A US3700048D A US 3700048DA US 3700048 A US3700048 A US 3700048A
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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
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
    • B63B35/4413—Floating drilling platforms, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B17/00—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor
    • E02B17/02—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
    • E02B17/027—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto steel structures
    • 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
    • E21B17/00—Drilling rods or pipes; Flexible drill strings; Kellies; Drill collars; Sucker rods; Cables; Casings; Tubings
    • E21B17/01—Risers
    • 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
    • E21B3/00—Rotary drilling
    • E21B3/02—Surface drives for rotary drilling
    • E21B3/04—Rotary tables
    • E21B3/045—Rotary tables movably mounted on the drilling structure or platform
    • 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
    • E21B41/06—Work chambers for underwater operations, e.g. temporarily connected to well heads
    • 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
    • E21B7/12—Underwater drilling
    • E21B7/124—Underwater drilling with underwater tool drive prime mover, e.g. portable drilling rigs for use on underwater floors
    • 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
    • E21B7/20—Driving or forcing casings or pipes into boreholes, e.g. sinking; Simultaneously drilling and casing boreholes

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  • An installation for extracting products from underwater sea beds comprises a base section which is permanently sunk in the sea bed, a reusable well section, and water-tight flexible connecting means releasably connecting together the base section and well section.
  • the well section has sufficient internal dimensions to allow workmen and equipment to pass therethrough and is open to the atmosphere so that the working space for the workmen is maintained at atmospheric pressure.
  • the reusable well section may be disconnected from the base section and reused again at another extracting site.
  • PATENTEDUEI 24 1972 saw DIOF 13 PATENTEDUBI 24 1912 sum 030F1- 13 PATENTEDUCT 24 I972 sum 0 0F 3 PATENTEB 0m 24 m2 sum as or 1 PATENTEU 3.700.048
  • the invention relates to an installation for laying underwater bases leading to the open air intended for the extraction of hydrocarbons or any other solid, liquid or gaseous mineral products contained in the underwater bed itself, or taken from the surface of it.
  • This same apparatus can be used for anchoring points for support pylons, fixed or floating islands and all surface maritime installations.
  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for installing such an installation and which obviates the forementioned drawbacks.
  • the present invention is characterized in that the drilling operation for a shaft opening to the air, the base center-point sleeve of which is implanted in the sea bed is carried out by rotation of the center-point itself.
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary axial section showing the lower portion of the pivot pipe
  • FIG. 3 is an axial sectional view showing on a larger scale the pivot of the well drill
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary vertical section of the well p
  • FIG. 5 is an axial section showing on a larger scale the pivot and the lower portion of the well pipe;
  • FIG. 6 is an axial section showing the equipment for installing the first driiling tube
  • FIG. 7 is a fragmentary axial section showing on a larger scale a modified form of embodiment of the lower portion of the pivot pipe;
  • FIG. 8 is a fragmentary axial section showing another form of embodiment of the lower portion of the pivot P p
  • FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic sectional view of an anchoring layer
  • FIG. 10 is a plan view from above of a workshop ship
  • FIG. 1 1 is a diagrammatic side elevational view from astern of the workshop ship
  • FIG. 12 is a fragmentary plan view from above showing the workshop ship on a larger scale
  • FIG. 13 is a plan view from above of a pontoon workshop in its open position
  • FIG. 13a is a diagrammatic vertical section of the central portion of the pontoon of FIG. 13, and
  • FIG. 14 is a plan view from above of a ship for laying the anchoring means.
  • the rig does not have a prohibitive length it is possible to completely assemble same on the loading wharf and then tow if over the water to the implantation site.
  • ballast tanks may be used.
  • Each sleeve section of the shaft-rig thus has a definite place in the assembly.
  • the shaft-rig shown in the present FIG. 1, is essentially composed of three principal parts, a center-point sleeve 1 implanted in the underwater bed, a shaft sleeve 2 which leads to the open air and one or several hoops 3 which form the articulated joints and serve as connections between the center point sleeve 1 and the shaft sleeve 2.
  • the center-point sleeve is intended to be solidly implanted in the underwater bed.
  • This implantation must bring about and guarantee that the base of the entire shaft-rig is waterproof.
  • underwater beds are generally considered to be calm regions, for the sake of this invention, however, they are considered as always being susceptible to perturbations by liquid masses in various directions.
  • the head of the sleeve 4 which rigidly extends from the ground, is provided with a flexible unit 6, which allows slight oscillations of the center-point sleeve about the vertical axis of the shafts.
  • the center-point sleeve 1 essentially consists of a cylindrical body with a double wall forming a waterproof space where the water ballast 8 is provided and which allows all balancing operations for traction or compression necessary to the implantation or to the exploitation of the shafts.
  • This cylindrical body ends at the lower part by a spherical or conical chamber 9, containing, in part, all materials and special gear intended for the work of implanting of this center-point sleeve 1 and the placing of the first tube 5 to carry out the boring.
  • the outside diameter of the center-point sleeve 1 can be made to considerable dimensions.
  • this hoop can be of different design.
  • this hoop will be of the classic type and produced in reinforced rubber or in all other flexible materials which have acceptable mechanical and chemical characteristics capable of resisting the forces posed on it by the environment.
  • FIG. 1a For medium depths, it is proposed to utilize a compressible bellows (FIG. 1a) in metal or in any other flexible material having acceptable mechanical and chemical characteristics and capable of resisting all forces imposed on it by the environment.
  • air cushions are also placed in the undulations from the outside.
  • a very strong ball and socket joint (FIG. lb), capable of supporting the enormous vertical forces, is used the waterproofing is insured by an assembly of inside joints 11.
  • the force applied on the outside joint by the pressure of the water is balanced by a counter pressure applied to the inside surface.
  • the resulting flow is such that it can be held in spite of all the necessary pressure on the outside point, even being able to be systematically created and recuperated to be put back into the circuit.
  • the sleeve 4 (FIG. 3) of the shaft-rig consists of a steel sleeve 12 of considerable thickness.
  • the sleeve 4 is intended for boring the hole in the implantation site and, at the same time, to hold the entire installation in place.
  • This sleeve is connected to the body of the shaft-rig, by means of the complex deformable assembly 6 (FIG.
  • This articulation 6 (FIG. 2) is constituted by a membrane 13 in rubber or any other flexible material, even metal, gripped between two sets of flanges and counter flanges, 14 and 15 as well as 16 and 17, forming a waterproof fitting.
  • this articulation is obtained by a unit consisting of flexible joints 20 held in equilibrium by jacks 21 also connected to an oleopneumatic compensator (FIG. 8).
  • the joint 6 is obtained by a swivel similar to that described for the joint between the shaft sleeve and the center-point sleeve.
  • the sleeve 4 (FIG. 3) is very thick because of the enormous forces to which it is to be subject, and especially because this wall is drilled longitudinally with the channels 23 opening to the outside and intended for the injection of liquid concrete required to achieve the absolute and sought waterproof condition.
  • This sleeve carries an external skirt at its upper part forming a crown 24 which serves as a base its bell shape allowing the injected concrete to be held in position.
  • the sleeve ends at its lower part by a particular unit which forms the crown drilling tool holder 25 needed for its implantation.
  • the first drilling tube 5 In the inside of the center-point sleeve 4 is placed the first drilling tube 5, the lower end of which preceded by the drilling head 26 carried on the drilling shank 27, follows the progression of the center-point sleeve 4 in driving.
  • the shaft-rig also comprises an implantation tool unit on the first drilling tube 5 (FIG. 6).
  • This tool has three functions which are: the blocking of the end of the center-point sleeve 4, the implantation of the first drilling tube 5, and the recuperation of the shaft-rig when the sleeve 4 and the first drilling tube 5 are implanted and the drilling work finished.
  • This tool comprises three cylindrical bodies 31, 32 and 33.
  • the first body 31 is arranged to allow the evacuation of drilling sludge produced by the sleeve 4 and the drilling head 26, at the same time.
  • the body is fixed by flanges and bolts on the same base as the shafts (FIG. 5).
  • Two toric joints are provided on the double flange of cavity B to ensure it is watertight.
  • This cavity B can be subjected to pressure so that it balances the force of the water pressure on the toric point of the head.
  • the water injection conduit 28 and extraction conduit 29, as well as a purge conduit 34 which allows the evacuation of the residue when the center-point sleeve has been implanted, the first injections of concrete having been carried out, and the waterproofing has been ensured.
  • This purge conduit is also intended for the injection of the concrete into the annular space between the tube 5 and the sleeve 4 when the tube 5 has been implanted in its turn.
  • the first body 31 is surmounted by a suit intended for implantation of the first drilling tube 5.
  • This unit is composed of three essential parts:
  • an air chamber 35 is intended to feed air from cylinder 32.
  • a drilling rod 27 passes through the unit and in case of leaks in the passages, the water proofing is ensured by instantaneous static joints.
  • the first drilling tube 5 is housed in the body 32, it passes through clamp 36 and descends to the center of the sleeve 4 to the base of the latter (FIG. 3).
  • Air pressure on the piston 37 effects gradual driving of tube 5 and the protection of the boring head 26.
  • This same piston 37 prevents all possibility of encroachment by water and drilling sludge into cavity E.
  • a pneumatic pressure regulating device is connected to the conduit 39 and allows constant high pressure to be maintained inside the unit and at the same time regulates the head of water within the limits imposed for good progress of the boring operation.
  • the upper end of tube 5 is drilled with holes 40 intended for the evacuation of the drilling sludge and waste produced by the head 26.
  • the tube 5 is held in place and steadied by clamp 36 in a position such as shown (FIG. 3) namely, slightly behind the base of the sleeve 4.
  • the drilling head 26 which is driven by a rotating table mounted above the tool unit inside the shafts, breaks down the central drilling-core cut out by the crown of tools 25 of the center-point sleeve 4.
  • the broken-down products are evacuated by the extraction pump which sucks them out.
  • the level of the head of water is thus held at a minimum in order to allow an easier visual check on the workings through the port-holes provided for this purpose.
  • the boring head 26 carries on the work. As the tube 5 progresses, it goes down into the drilling under the action of the thrust from compressed air fed on to the piston 37.
  • the level In the annular space the level is held below the lower diaphragm 30.
  • the concrete plug is poured in the annular space limited by the two diaphragms 30, then for a last time, the residual mud accumulated at the base of the sleeve is evacuated.
  • conduits opening into the base of the center-point sleeve a large quantity of concrete is injected.
  • concrete can be also injected by the purge conduit 34.
  • the shaft-rig is implanted'and held in place by the center-point sleeve.
  • the floating workshop is essentially intended for the the transport of material, for assembly and implantation of the shaft-rig on site, and is accordingly equipped.
  • This equipment fundamentally consists of a very powerful revolving table 41, jointed in all azimuths, and with a gantry hoist 42, especially designed for handling and positioning components on the axis of the table 4 l.
  • the rotating table 41 is intended to drive units of shafting during implantation of the center-point sleeve
  • the fore end of the workshop vessel has a normal stem with a classic hull shape up to the beam.
  • the stem half consists of two distinct hulls 43, separated by an open space having a V-shape (FIG. 10).
  • the space between these two hulls 43 forms a calmbelt and in this calm space the mounting and the implanting work of the shaft-rig are carried out.
  • the rotating table is mounted on four columns 44, two of which are on each of the two hulls 43 of the vessels.
  • These columns 44 are both supports and guides for the vertical movement of the unit.
  • the two beams 45 (FIG. 12) allow longitudina movement. I
  • All the articulations are mounted on central rollers in order to eliminate all possibility of seizing and jamming.
  • the vertical axle of the table 41 passes through the center of gravity G of the vessel.
  • the gantry bridge 42 and its operating cabin are of special design.
  • the longitudinal and transversal translation are effected by two sprocket and chain units which allow all handling in a calm or rough sea.
  • the implantation of the shaft-rigs is carried out by self-propulsion rotationally of the center-point sleeve, owing to two pairs of motor-driven propellers mounted on the base of the shafts (FIG. 1).
  • the rotating table 41 no longer serves as a guide for the shaft casings.
  • the mechanism is very simplified since in this solution, the centering sleeve of the rotating table is provided with centering rollers on which the sleeves of the shaft-rig rests and rolls.
  • the center-point sleeve 4 is driven in rotation by the means of a worm drive 49 and 50 (FIG. 8), thus producing a self-drilling shaft-rig.
  • a worm drive 49 and 50 FIG. 8
  • the general arrangement of self-drilling rigs are similar to those of the two first embodiments, given the need to balance the couple created by the gear and worm screw unit on the outside of the base of the rigs, the center-point sleeve must be stabilized by brakes.
  • These brakes consist of two diametrically opposed paddles installed in such a way that they can be worked as required, from inside the shafts.
  • the entire tooling intended both for recuperation of sludge and for the positioning of the first drilling tubes, is necessarily mobile in relation to the sleeve of the shafts which is fixed.
  • the evacuation of sludge and all other products must thus be made first in this tooling and, next, the rotation of the centerpoint sleeve 4 is stopped and the drilling products accumulated in this space, are evacuated to the outside joining the part to be emptied with the evacuation orifice, provided with this in view, in the sleeve of the shaft-rig, by a hoop, the inlet and outlet being blocked by the working valves.
  • This handling gear allows the need for the libe ration of the center of the shafts to be omitted.
  • the rotating table installed inside the shafts is conceived in such a way that it can also be omitted or put into the position for working in at least two different stages, on the one hand, above the tooling when implanting the center-point sleeve 4, and, on the other hand, a little nearer the head of sleeve 4, when the tooling is dismantled and replaced by that intended for the boring.
  • the placing of the jacked bridge can follow variations in gradient.
  • the workshop pontoon is equipped with all necessary gear for drilling and machines intended to feed the shafts by motive force (electricity, compressed air and hydraulic energy), it is provided with all kinds of required installations for the comfortable lodging of crews and drilling teams.
  • This pontoon would take the place of a workshop vessel. It must, as a unit in itself, support the sleeved shaft. Thus, its emerging part must be girdled with an articulated unit 51in all azimuths, as the ship, but in which the driving of the shafts will be replaced by a simple sleeve with central rollers 52.
  • This sleeve and its outside support would be in two parts, joined by bolts in such a way as to be able to be mounted on the shaft sleeve of the shaft-rig by its traverse.
  • the pontoon is equipped with windlasses, fore and aft, handling winches and the necessary capstans for all operations at the same time, when being put into place and during all drilling work.
  • the end and side propellers 53 allow a stabilization of the whole unit and help to maintain the axis substantially in the center of gravity. It also permits the vessels head to be held on to the swell.
  • this pontoon is in two jointed parts and flexibly held together by hinged joints.
  • the tumbler is a small boat specially designed and equipped for the transport, the casting, and weighing of anchors and buoys intended for staying shafts. It also allows the carrying out of the mooring of these buoys to shafts.
  • the tumbler is fundamentally composed of a hull consisting of two caissons 55, joined together by a series of cradles 56. Each cradle 56 supports a group consisting of one buoy and one kentledge 57.
  • Each of these roller-tracks is provided with two or four mobile intermediary supports which are intended to support to the nearest extremities of the roller housings 66, the tube, in order to ease the efforts due to lifting a kentledge 57. These intermediary rests are blocked, as required, as is the deck of the vessel.
  • the gantry bridge is provided with such supports. These are arranged on the lower part of each housing 66 coming into contact with the points foreseen on the deck.
  • the entire frame work of the gantry contains the winches intended to handle the mooring and the weighing of kentledges and buoys.
  • the shafts of chains are arranged in each of the caissons which form the hull of the vessel.
  • Such an installation allows the implantation of underwater recuperable bases intended for the extraction of petroleum and gas or any other products accumulated in the soil itself, or on the surface of the sea bed, by means of shaft-rigs open to the air.
  • shaft-rigs can be employed for the implantation of bases intended for the anchoring of support pylons, floating or fixed islands or all other maritime surface installations.
  • shaft-rigs allow drilling crews to work at the bottom of the shaft head under conditions identical or similar to those encountered during land drillings. In fact, the work at the bottom is carried out in the open air, namely in all circumstances at atmospheric pressure.
  • the drilling is unproductive (no product or non profitable products)
  • the drilling permits a profitable exploitation where the shafts remain in place for the duration of the exploitation of the drilling.
  • it is indispensable to immediately recuperate the whole of the installation apart from the center-point sleeve 4 which is implanted for good in the sea bed.
  • the head of the sleeve 1 is stripped of all accessories. It is then capped with a cylindrical chamber or a nosecap" which is connected to the base of the shaft-rig by a flange.
  • This nose-cap carries a tool essentially consisting of a set of keys 68 which, passing through a stuffing-box and balanced by compression springs, mounted on bearings, can be operated from inside the shaft-rig.
  • the water ballast tanks are filled up and, consequently, allow pressure to be transferred from one flange to the other.
  • the shaft-rig Owing to the give provided by the water ballast, the shaft-rig is brought up again, sleeve by sleeve, and recuperated on the workshop vessel.
  • the head of the center-point sleeve 4 is blocked up by a base plate 70.
  • this base plate 70 is placed the drilling material and all its accessories.
  • This unit is then held within a hermetic space consisting of a cylindrical chamber 71 closed by a cover provided with a valve and connected to the head of the center-point sleeve by studs.
  • the cover is provided with a valve and a manhole 73.
  • the joints of the elements constituting the drilling material is made through the wall of the body 71 and the blocking off is ensured by the valves which can be remote-controlled.
  • a nacelle 74 consisting of a unit, is foreseen: living space, water ballast tanks, such machinery to be capable of, at all times, being brought into equilibrium inside itself, with the environment in which it is found.
  • a living chamber 75 specially arranged, allows several men to live there at normal atmospheric pressure for several hours or several days.
  • This nacelle which can be guided by remote control or connected to the surface by means of a cable, or be independent and piloted by its occupants, sits on top of the chamber 71 fitting to its cover 72 by centering on the studs and on the rim with the help of the volume in the water ballast tanks 76.
  • a device of special nuts and studs allow it to be hermetically fixed on the head of the shaft.
  • An air purge cleats water from cavities 77 and 78 at the same time.
  • This method allows an easy access to the head of the shafts which remain in the open air.
  • said water-tight flexible connecting means disposed between said base pivot and said well comprises a flexible membrane, a set of flanges one carried by said well and the other by said base pivot for gripping the edges of said membrane, and a presser cylinder and piston units positioned to exert a pressure on the membrane portion lying inside said well and to react against a fixed point on said base pivot to balance the external pressure.
  • said means for rotatably driving said base pivot comprises propeller power units having horizontal axes and disposed externally and at spaced intervals about the periphery of said well.
  • said well comprises at its lower end a working chamber at atmospheric pressure and a double-walled body constituting a fluid-tight annular jacket receptive of a ballast material for compensating the Archimedean thrust.
  • said base pivot comprises a cylindrical body having a relatively thick wall, means defining channels extending longitudinally in said wall opening at one end into said body and at the other end to the outside of said body to permit the injection of concrete, a retaining bell for preventing the injected concrete from rising, a first drilling tube housed within said base pivot, a drilling rod and head unit housed in said first drilling tube, and at least one tube for injecting water under pressure and evacuating the drilling products disposed in the annular space bound and defined by the cylindrical body of said base pivot and said internal drilling tube.
  • said mechanical means comprises a ball-joint, and sealing elements fitted in said ball-joint.
  • a partly reusable installation for extracting products from a sea bed comprising: a reusable well section having an elongated, hollow configuration and having sufiicient interior transverse dimensions to enable workmen to pass through said well section from one end to the other end and positionable in a vertical disposition in the sea to communicate said one end with the atmosphere whereby the interior of said well section is at atmospheric pressure during use of the installation; a well base section having anchoring means responsive to rotation thereof for permanently anchoring said well base section in the sea bed; water-tight flexible connecting means releasably and flexibly connecting together said reusable well section and said well base section to enable relative movement therebetween; extracting apparatus disposed within said reusable well section at said other end thereof and extendable through said well base section into the sea bed to extract products from the sea bed; and drive means for rotationally driving said anchoring means to effect permanent anchorage of said well base section in the sea bed.
  • said water-tight flexible connecting means includes means connecting said reusable well section and said well base section together for rotation as an integral unit; and wherein said drive means comprises a plurality of ro ellers connected in circu ere tiall s ac d-a art i elafionship around the exter ib r o said riisa ble vell section for effecting rotation thereof.

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