WO2002092965A1 - Systeme a surpression pour la production en trou de sonde - Google Patents

Systeme a surpression pour la production en trou de sonde Download PDF

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WO2002092965A1
WO2002092965A1 PCT/GB2002/002255 GB0202255W WO02092965A1 WO 2002092965 A1 WO2002092965 A1 WO 2002092965A1 GB 0202255 W GB0202255 W GB 0202255W WO 02092965 A1 WO02092965 A1 WO 02092965A1
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David Eric Appleford
Brian William Lane
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Alpha Thames Ltd.
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Priority to DE60209022T priority patent/DE60209022D1/de
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Priority to NO20035070A priority patent/NO20035070D0/no

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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
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/12—Methods or apparatus for controlling the flow of the obtained fluid to or in wells
    • E21B43/121—Lifting well fluids
    • E21B43/124—Adaptation of jet-pump systems
    • 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
    • E21B43/34—Arrangements for separating materials produced by the well

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  • the present invention relates to a method and system for boosting the supply of production fluid from a hydrocarbon wellbore or borehole.
  • One technique is to install a mechanical pump at a "downhole" location.
  • Such pumps are typically electrically driven by a supply of high voltage electricity provided from an associated host facility which may be tens of kilometres away.
  • the provision of a high voltage power supply for the pump motors is expensive.
  • the pump is installed in a hostile environment which is hot and corrosive and relatively inaccessible. Pump maintenance, which is almost inevitably required, necessitates shutting the well in, thus interrupting production and possibly leading to restarting problems.
  • Another newer but existing technique is to install a hydraulically driven mechanical pump at a downhole location.
  • Such pumps are typically driven by a supply of pressurised water, the supply of which is costly. Accessibility and maintenance problems apply as discussed above .
  • a different technique is to use a jet pump which is installed at a downhole location. Such a pump is supplied with pressurised jetting water from the host facility which is mixed with the production fluid by the jet pump. The resulting mixture is then conveyed back to the host facility. Additional costs arise from:
  • An object of the invention is to provide a method and system which overcome at least some of the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art.
  • a method of boosting production from a wellbore having a downhole jet pump and a remote host facility comprising the steps of:
  • a single separation facility may provide jetting fluid to a plurality of and possibly all wellbores in a field.
  • Such a method may only require a relatively small diameter conduit for supplying a batch of jetting fluid to the separation facility. Once adequate jetting fluid has been provided, this conduit will no longer be required for this purpose.
  • the pipe for conveying production fluid from the separation facility to the host facility need not be enlarged to cater for conveying the jetting fluid. Separation at the host facility can be avoided as can the provision, from the host, of a continuous flow of appropriately treated jetting fluid. The problems associated with a downhole mechanical pump discussed above are also avoided.
  • the jetting fluid is separated from the mixture by the separation facility in order to minimise the volume of fluid for conveyance to the host facility and in order to minimise or preferably eliminate the requirement for additional jetting fluid from the host facility.
  • the separation facility is preferably situated at or close to the wellbores.
  • the separation facility includes a pump which is used to pressurise the separated jetting fluid for assisting its recirculation.
  • Separation is preferably effected by gravity separation which relies on the jetting fluid and the production fluid having different specific gravities. Gravity separators are robust and suitable for use in a hostile location which may be difficult to access.
  • a system for boosting production from a wellbore situated remotely from a host facility comprising a downhole jet pump, pressurising means for supplying the jet pump with pressurised jetting fluid for forming a mixture of jetting fluid and wellbore production fluid, separation means situated substantially closer to the wellbore than the host facility including separator means for separating a majority of the jetting fluid from the mixture and recirculation means for delivering the separated jetting fluid back to the jet pump for entraining further production fluid.
  • the separator means includes at least one gravity separation chamber.
  • the separator means includes at least two separators for separating the mixture which are connected in parallel with each other.
  • the separator means includes throttling means arranged to control flows of production fluid and jetting fluid out of the separation chamber, control of the separation means can be easily effected, possibly from a control module situated at the separation means.
  • FIG. 1 shows a system suitable for putting the invention into practice
  • FIG. 2 shows the components of the system of Fig. 1 in greater detail
  • FIG. 3 shows a typical jet pump which will be situated at a downhole location in the systems shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
  • production fluid and jetting fluid will be employed. These will generally be oil and water (appropriately treated) respectively but could comprise other fluids or mixtures of fluids.
  • FIG. 1 A system for putting the invention into practice is shown in Fig. 1.
  • the system includes at least one wellhead tree 2 which routes fluids from a wellbore or lower production tubing 4 to a separation facility 6 via a mixture pipe 8.
  • a jetting fluid delivery pipe 10 extends from the separation facility 6 to the wellhead tree 2 for supplying jetting fluid to a downhole jetting fluid conduit 12 and hence to a downhole jet pump 14.
  • the separation facility 6 is connected to a host facility 16 by a production pipeline 18 and a jetting fluid supply pipe 20.
  • the components of the system will be described in detail with reference to Fig. 2.
  • the separation facility 6 includes first and second duplicated separating means 22 and 24 only the first 22 of which will be described in detail. Only one separating means may be provided.
  • the mixture pipe 8 from the wellhead tree is connected to a mixture inlet 26 which is connected via a failsafe valve 28 to an inlet 30 of a separator chamber 32 containing a weir 34.
  • a first outlet 36 of the chamber 32 is connected by a jetting fluid conduit 39 containing a recirculation pump 38, a throttle valve 40 and a nonreturn valve 42 to a jetting fluid outlet 44 of the separation facility 6.
  • a recirculation loop pipe 46 containing a non-return valve 48 and a pressure restricting device 49, connects the jetting fluid conduit 39, downstream of the recirculation pump 38, to the inlet 30 of the chamber 32.
  • the chamber 32 includes a level sensor 56 for determining the level of the interface between the production fluid 58 and jetting fluid 60 within the chamber 32.
  • the jetting fluid supply pipe 20 from the processing equipment on the host facility is connected to a jetting fluid inlet 62 of the separation facility which is connected via a jetting fluid conduit 64, containing a non-return valve 66, to the jetting fluid outlet 44.
  • the host facility 16 includes apparatus (not shown) for processing production fluid 58 received through the production pipeline 18 and a pump 68 for pumping jetting fluid (water treated as required to inhibit corrosion and hydrate formation problems etc. upon mixing with the production fluid) to the separation facility 6.
  • apparatus not shown
  • jetting fluid water treated as required to inhibit corrosion and hydrate formation problems etc. upon mixing with the production fluid
  • the jet pump 14 shown in Fig. 3 is a conventional jet pump and will accordingly only be described in outline.
  • the jet pump includes a nozzle 69 into which jetting fluid is fed (arrow A) from the jetting fluid conduit 12.
  • Production fluid is routed to the jet pump via a lower production tubing conduit 70 (arrow B) from the lower production tubing 4, which opens into a low pressure entrainment region 72 at an outlet end of the nozzle 68.
  • An intake nozzle 74 also opening into the low pressure entrainment region 72, is connected to upper production tubing 76 for delivering a mixture of production and jetting fluid (arrow C) to the wellhead tree 2 via the wellbore riser 76.
  • a batch of jetting fluid will be pumped by the host pump 68 down the jetting fluid supply pipe 20 to the jetting fluid inlet 62 of the separation facility 6 where it passes through the conduit 64 to the jetting fluid outlet 44 and on through the jetting fluid delivery pipe 10 to the downhole jetting fluid conduit 12.
  • the jetting fluid then enters the jet pump 14 (arrow A) and is forced through the nozzle 69 into the entrainment region 72 where a lower pressure zone occurs causing production fluid to be drawn into the jet pump through the lower production tubing conduit 70 (arrow B) where it mixes in the entrainment region 72 with the jetting fluid.
  • the resulting mixture then passes into the intake nozzle 74 and leaves the jet pump 14 up the upper production tubing 76 (arrow C) .
  • the mixture On emerging from the wellhead tree 2, the mixture passes through the mixture pipe 8 and is conveyed to the inlet 30 of the chamber 32 via the mixture inlet 26 and the failsafe valve 28.
  • the denser jetting fluid 60 water
  • the less dense production fluid passes over the weir 34 into the region to the right thereof.
  • jetting fluid 60 is drawn from the chamber 32 by the recirculating pump 38 and routed to the jetting fluid outlet 44 via the jetting fluid conduit 39 from where it travels on to the jet pump and recombines with further production fluid as described above. Meanwhile, production fluid leaves the chamber 32 via the second outlet 50 (as a consequence of chamber pressure) and passes via the throttle valve 52 to the production fluid outlet 54 and through the production pipeline 18 to the host facility for processing.
  • a control system receives signals from the level sensor 56 and a pressure sensor 78 and controls the throttle valves 40 and 52 and the recirculation pump 38 to maintain the interface between the fluids in the chamber 32 at the required level and the overall pressure in the chamber 32 at an appropriate level. For example, if the amount of jetting fluid in the chamber 32 needs to be increased, the throttle valve 40 will be closed slightly in order that jetting fluid will be forced through the recirculation loop pipe 46 back into the chamber 32.
  • the same batch of jetting fluid will be cycled repeatedly between the jet pump 14 and the separation facility 6.
  • a relatively small bore pipe 20 will be required for delivering the initial batch of jetting fluid to the separation facility 6 and the production pipeline 18 does not need to be unnecessarily enlarged so as to accommodate a flow of jetting fluid in addition to production fluid.
  • any tariff charged by the host facility owner will only be in respect of production fluid delivered thereto and will not be increased as a consequence of delivering jetting fluid thereto.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un appareil destinés à faciliter l'écoulement d'un fluide de production à partir d'un puits de forage d'hydrocarbures (4) vers une installation hôte éloignée (16) comprenant des moyens de séparation (6) situés à proximité du puits de forage (4). Un fluide de perforation par jet est tout d'abord envoyé de l'installation hôte (16) vers une pompe de forage à jet (14) au fond du puits, via les moyens de séparation (6) en vue de faciliter l'écoulement du fluide de production à partir du puits de forage (4) vers lesdits moyens de séparation (6), où le mélange résultant pénètre dans l'une des deux chambres de séparation par gravité (32) montées en parallèle. Le fluide séparé de perforation par jet (60) est recyclé vers la pompe de forage à jet (14) via une pompe (38), et le fluide de production est envoyé vers l'installation hôte via une conduite de production (18). Le tuyau (20) d'alimentation en fluide de perforation par jet peut être d'un diamètre relativement faible, et la conduite de production n'a nul besoin d'être agrandie pour recevoir le fluide de perforation par jet recyclé vers l'installation hôte (16).
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US10/477,274 US20040154794A1 (en) 2001-05-17 2002-05-14 Borehole production boosting system
BR0209622-6A BR0209622A (pt) 2001-05-17 2002-05-14 Sistema de reforço da produção de poço
EP02769513A EP1392955B1 (fr) 2001-05-17 2002-05-14 Systeme a surpression pour la production en trou de sonde
DE60209022T DE60209022D1 (de) 2001-05-17 2002-05-14 System zur verstärkung von bohrlochförderung
NO20035070A NO20035070D0 (no) 2001-05-17 2003-11-14 Hjelpesystem for produksjon fra et borehull

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