WO2004016899A2 - Systeme de tete de puits equipee d'un arbre a raccord horizontal et procede associe - Google Patents

Systeme de tete de puits equipee d'un arbre a raccord horizontal et procede associe Download PDF

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WO2004016899A2
WO2004016899A2 PCT/US2003/025749 US0325749W WO2004016899A2 WO 2004016899 A2 WO2004016899 A2 WO 2004016899A2 US 0325749 W US0325749 W US 0325749W WO 2004016899 A2 WO2004016899 A2 WO 2004016899A2
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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
    • E21B33/00—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells
    • E21B33/02—Surface sealing or packing
    • E21B33/03—Well heads; Setting-up thereof
    • E21B33/035—Well heads; Setting-up thereof specially adapted for underwater installations
    • 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
    • E21B33/02—Surface sealing or packing
    • E21B33/03—Well heads; Setting-up thereof
    • E21B33/04—Casing heads; Suspending casings or tubings in well heads
    • E21B33/047—Casing heads; Suspending casings or tubings in well heads for plural tubing strings
    • 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

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  • This invention relates generally to a subsea wellhead system for use in the drilling and completion of oil or gas wells at substantial depths beneath the water surface and, more particularly, to a wellhead system with a horizontal spool tree.
  • Conventional wellhead system includes a wellhead housing mounted on the upper end of a subsurface casing string extending into the well bore.
  • a riser and blowout preventer (BOP) are then installed.
  • the BOP is installed above a wellhead housing (casing head) to provide pressure control as casing is installed, with each casing string having a hanger on its upper end for landing on a shoulder within the wellhead housing.
  • the BOP is replaced by a Christmas tree installed above the wellhead housing, with the tree having a valve to enable the oil or gas to be produced and directed into flow lines for transportation to a desired facility.
  • the conventional casing and tubing heads making up the Christmas tree are replaced by a horizontal tree which comprises a spool with a generally horizontal through port mounted above and in axial ahgnment with a horizontal through port in the wellhead housing.
  • the hangers for the casing strings are supported one above the other within the bore of the wellhead housing, and the tubing hanger for the production or tubing string is supported in the bore of the spool to suspend the production string within the casing strings.
  • the vertical bore through the tubing hanger of a horizontal tree may be closed by a wire line tool to direct production fluid through aligned side ports (generally horizontal through ports) in the hanger and spool for recovery and delivery of production fluid to a suitable location.
  • a redundant seal may be provided by a well cap installed in the tree above the tubing hanger, with the vertical bore aligned with that of the tubing hanger closed by a wire line plug to permit vertical access to the production tubing string upon removal of the plug.
  • the completion of a well with a horizontal tree conventionally includes an isolation orientation sleeve which is installed within the tree bore in order to isolate and thus allow testing from the exterior of a metal seal between the adjacent ends of the wellhead housing and spool.
  • a portion of the sleeve also carries a guide tube with an upwardly contoured guide surface positioned to cooperate with a lug on the tubing hanger to rotate the tubing hanger into a desired position as it is lowered onto a shoulder in the bore of the spool. This technique automatically aligns the side port in the hanger with the side port in the tree bore.
  • a BOP stack then is lowered onto the upper end of the spool with a bore in ahgnment with the spool bore, and a tubing hanger then lowered through the BOP and into the spool bore.
  • a lug on the lower end of the hanger cooperates with the guide surface to orient the hanger into a proper landed position on a seat in the bore of the spool.
  • a tree cap is then lowered into a landed position, following which the BOP may be removed to permit installation of a cover on the top of the tree.
  • the complete drilling and completion operation involves lowering a wellhead housing at the upper end of a production casing string onto an outer housing at the upper end of a conductor casing surrounding the production casing string.
  • the conductor casing and housing at its upper end conventionally have been lowered onto the ocean floor to suspend the production casing string within a well bore by means of a permanent base having guide posts, using cables extending to the surface.
  • the wellhead housing is lowered with the casing by a running tool on a drill pipe into the upper end of a BOP whose lower end is connected to the wellhead housing by means of a releasable connector, with the bores of the wellhead housing, the BOP and drill pipe in axial alignment.
  • the BOP is normally of the ram type well known in the art and having a stack including at least one pipe ram and at least one blind ram.
  • the upper outer diameter of the wellhead housing may have grooves thereabout to receive teeth of the releasable latch of the connector.
  • An outer casing hanger on the upper end of the casing may be lowered for landing onto a shoulder in the bore of the wellhead housing to suspend it within the conductor casing.
  • An inner casing hanger in turn may be lowered into a landed position on the outer casing hanger to suspend an inner production casing within the casing.
  • the hangers and the strings on which they are mounted may thus be lowered into the well on miming strings through the riser and BOP bore.
  • a wear bushing may then be lowered through the riser and BOP for landing with its bore aligned with that of the casing hanger and extending upwardly within the bore of the wellhead housing so as to prevent wear on the seal at the upper bore of the wellhead housing during drilling of the production well.
  • the lower portion of this bore is aligned with the bore of the upper casing hanger, while the upper end is enlarged to provide a tapered seat at its lower end.
  • Each of the casing hangers and the wear bushings are releasably locked in place and the outer diameters of the hangers are sealed with respect to the bore of the wellhead housing.
  • the wear bushing may be raised by a suitable ranndng tool, and the BOP and connector at its lower end are released from the upper end of the wellhead housing and raised to the surface to enable the spool of a horizontal tree to be lowered on a running tool releasably connected to its upper end.
  • the tree may then be guidably lowered onto the upper end of the wellhead housing by means of sleeves lowered over the guide posts.
  • the tree may be releasably connected at its lower end to the upper end of the wellhead housing.
  • the connector has latches on its lower end which move over the upper end of the housing for locking thereto with their bores aligned.
  • a lower end of an orientation sleeve in the tree moves into the upper enlarged end of the casing hanger to form a continuation of the bore therethrough.
  • This lower end of the orientation sleeve carries a seal assembly for sealing between it and the upper enlarged bore of the casing hanger.
  • a seal which was lowered with the upper casing hanger seals off the annulus between the casing hanger and well bore housing.
  • a metal seal ring is carried by the tree to land upon and form a seal with a tapered seat on the inner diameter of the upper end of the bore of the housing so as to be energized as the tree is connected to the housing by a connector.
  • the upper portion of the bore through the horizontal tree may be enlarged to receive an elongated wear bushing which is lowered with the tree to land on an intermediate shoulder in the upper enlarged bore of the tree.
  • the wear bushing has an inner diameter somewhat less than that of the bore of the tree so as to prevent wear on the seal surfaces of the tree bore as tools are lowered into and raised from the well bore during drilling of the hole to receive the tubing.
  • the sleeve isolates the metal seal ring to permit the ring to be tested from the outside of the tree.
  • the sleeve has an upwardly extending guide surface which cooperates with a lower guide surface on a tubing hanger to orient the tubing hanger into a desired rotational position as it is lowered into the tree bore.
  • a side port in the tubing hanger is aligned with side port in the tree to direct production fluid to a flow line.
  • a first plug is lowered on a wire line and locked within the upper end of the hanger bore above its side port, and a tree cap that may contain another wire line plug is lowered into and locked within the bore of the tree.
  • the BOP is then removed and replaced by a protective cover which is axially aligned and rotationally oriented into a position over the upper end of the tree.
  • the conventional procedure for mstalling a horizontal tree on a subsea wellhead involves the installation and the removal, and the subsequent reinstallation, of the BOP stack.
  • the present invention provides an improved horizontal spool tree wellhead system and method in which only one installation of the BOP stack is required.
  • the disadvantages of the prior art are overcome by the present invention, and improved horizontal spool tree wellhead system and method are hereinafter disclosed which does not require repeated installation and removal of the BOP stack.
  • a subsea well is drilled and completed with a casing installed in the well bore and a wellhead housing having a wellhead housing bore installed on the upper end of the casing.
  • the method includes lowering a spool of a horizontal tree for connection with an upper end of the wellhead housing, with the spool having a spool bore and at least one spool side port extending radially from the spool bore.
  • a BOP may then be installed on the upper end of the tree, with the BOP having a BOP bore aligned with a spool bore and the wellhead housing bore.
  • a casing string carrying a casing hanger may be lowered through the bores of the BOP, the spool tree and the wellhead housing and into the large diameter hole. At least one production hole with a smaller diameter may then be drilled with the drill string extending through the tree and the BOP on the wellhead.
  • An orientation/isolation sleeve may then be installed in the tree spool, with the sleeve having a predetermined rotational orientation with the spool tree.
  • a tubing hanger having a side port extending radially from the tubing hanger central bore may be lowered for landing on the orientation sleeve and rotationally oriented by the sleeve to align the tubing hanger side port with the spool side port.
  • a horizontal spool tree includes a spool bore and at least one side port extending radially from the spool bore.
  • a BOP bore is aligned with the spool bore and the wellhead housing bore, and a casing string is supported on a casing hanger from the bore within the wellhead housing.
  • An orientation sleeve may then be installed with a predetermined rotational orientation with respect to the spool tree, with the orientation sleeve having an internal diameter less than the cutting diameter of the drill bit used to drill the production hole.
  • a tubing hanger is then landed on the orientation sleeve, as discussed above, so that its side port is oriented properly with respect to the spool side port.
  • the significant feature of the invention is that the size of the drill bit for ⁇ lling the large diameter hole is not restricted by the tree bore, which may be the full bore of the wellhead.
  • a drill bit at the end of a drill string passes through the BOP through the tree and wellhead housing, and into the formation to drill the casing hole.
  • the size of the bit used to drill the production hole need not be restricted by the orientation sleeve.
  • the orientation sleeve may have an internal diameter substantially less than the cutting diameter of the drill bit used to drill the production hole, since the orientation sleeve is installed after drilling the production well.
  • a sleeve-shaped subsea tree bore protector may be provided within the bore of the tree while drilling the well, and may be removed prior to installing the orientation isolation sleeve.
  • a further feature of the invention is that the orientation/isolation sleeve seals at its lower end to a casing hanger and its upper end to the tree.
  • This sleeve preferably includes an upper guide surface for engagement with the tubing hanger to orient the tubing hanger with respect to the tree.
  • the orientation sleeve also is preferably fixed to the tree to resist vertical and rotational forces applied to the orientation isolation sleeve.
  • the tubing hanger preferably includes a fluid production port which extends laterally from the central tubing hanger bore for producing fluids from production tubing extending from the tubing hanger into the production well.
  • an internal tree cap may be positioned above the production tubing hanger and secured to the tree.
  • One plug may be positioned within a central bore of the tubing hanger, and another plug positioned within a central bore of the tree cap.
  • the casing hanger is preferably landed on a shoulder within the wellhead housing.
  • the orientation sleeve preferably extends from within the wellhead housing into the spool bore of the horizontal tree, while the tubing hanger is positioned within the spool bore of the tree and is supported on the orientation sleeve.
  • a conventional BOP stack may thus be used above the tree.
  • Figures 1 - 4 illustrate the improved procedure in accordance with this invention for drilling and completing a well.
  • the steps of the procedure are numbered sequentially.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a horizontal spool tree wellhead system according to the present invention, with a tree as shown in dashed lines installed on a wellhead housing, and a BOP stack shown in dashed lines positioned above the tree. Conventional tree components and the BOP stack are thus illustrated in dashed lines, with a drill-through tree bore protector lining an interior of the bore through the tree.
  • Figure 2 illustrates an outer casing hanger landed in the wellhead housing, and an inner casing hanger landed on the outer casing hanger, with both hangers being positioned within the wellhead housing. Each hanger supports a respective casing which extends downward into the well.
  • Figure 3 illustrates an orientation/isolation sleeve installed on the inner casing hanger, with the isolation sleeve including a tapered upper guide surface.
  • Figure 4 shows a tubing hanger landed on the isolation sleeve and oriented with respect to the tree by the upper guide surface on the orientationisolation sleeve.
  • Figure 1 illustrates the first stage of operation with the improved system in accordance with the present invention, wherein a horizontal tree 22 has been guidably lowered on a rannin tool (not shown) onto the upper end of the wellhead housing 20: When so lowered, the tree 22 is releasably connected with the upper end of the wellhead housing 20 by a connector 26.
  • a metal seal ring 24 carried in the lower end of the bore lands upon a taper on the upper end of the housing 20, and is caused to seal with the tree 22 upon makeup through the subsea connector 26.
  • an outer casing 16 may be supported on an outer casing housing 11, which in turn is fixed to the guide base 14 configured for landing the tree 22 onto the guide base.
  • the inner casing 12 is supported on the inner casing housing 20 discussed above.
  • Conventional tether lines 18 may be used for lowering and landing the tree 22 onto the guide base 14.
  • the running tool has been removed and a BOP stack 28 has been lowered onto the upper end of the tree 22 for releasable connection thereto by means of another releasable connector.
  • the system is prepared for drilling therethrough, with the outer casing 10 and the inner casing 12 suspended within the well bore.
  • the bore at the upper end of the tree is preferably protected by a protector sleeve 40 landed and held down on a shoulder of the tree.
  • the large diameter hole which subsequently may receive the casing strings 18 and 19, as shown in Figure 2, may thus be drilled into a subsea formation with a large diameter bit 90 as shown in Figure 1 at the lower end of drill string 92.
  • the bit 90 may have a cutting diameter which is only sUghtly less than the internal diameter of the housing 20, since the bore through the tree 22 preferably is at least as large as the most restrictive bore through wellhead 20.
  • a casing hanger 38 as shown in Figure 2 for supporting the casing string 18 may be landed on a shoulder 39 in the bore of the housing 20, and a hanger 42 for the inner casing string 19 may be landed on the hanger 38, or alternatively the hanger 42 may land on the hanger 38 and/or a shoulder on housing 20.
  • a wear bushing (not shown) having a diameter less than the sleeve 40 may be lowered on a running tool into the bore of -the.tree and landed on the upper end of the hanger 42 for axial extension through the bore of the tree and into the bore of the housing 20.
  • the lower end of the wear bushing may fit closely within and seal with the enlarged upper end of the upper casing hanger 42.
  • the wear bushing like the protector sleeve 40, covers the production port 50 in the left side of the spool 23, and the upper and lower ports 52, 54 in the right side of the tree spool.
  • the wear bushing and the protector sleeve 40 are removed, as shown in Figure 3.
  • an orientation/isolation sleeve 60 is then lowered into the bore of the tree 22 and oriented, landed and locked down to the tree above the upper casing hanger 42, as shown in Figure 3.
  • Various mechanisms may be used to orient the sleeve 60 with respect to the tree 22, including an orientation key on the sleeve that fits within a groove in the casing hanger 42.
  • a lower extension 62 of the sleeve 60 extends into and is locked to the enlarged upper end of the upper casing hanger 42, while the upper end 64 of the sleeve seals with the tree spool 23.
  • the orientation sleeve 60 thus seals with the bores of the tree and wellhead housing to isolate the metal seal ring 24 and thus provide two pressure barriers.
  • One or more lock down mechanisms 66 may be used to axially secure the orientation sleeve to the spool 23.
  • the upper end 64 of the orientation sleeve 60 does not block access to the side ports 52, 54 in the tree bore, so that a production tubing hanger 70, as shown in Figure 4, may be lowered through the drilling riser and the BOP 28 to land on the upper end of the orientation/isolation sleeve 60, as shown in Figure 4, in which position a key or lug on the upper tubing hanger engages the tapered guide surface 72 on the orientation sleeve 60, so that the key moves into a vertical locking slot in the sleeve 60. In this position, a shoulder on the tubing hanger lands on a shoulder of the sleeve 60 and is held down in the bore of the tree 22.
  • a production tubing will thus be suspended from the tubing hanger 70 and passed through the orientation/isolation sleeve 60 and into the production well bore. More particularly, the drilling and completion system has reached the same stage as discussed above in connection with the prior art without having to remove the BOP and drilling riser.
  • a tree cap 74 as shown in Figure 4, has been lowered through the riser and BOP and installed in the tree bore above the tubing hanger, with its bore aligned with that of the tubing hanger of the subsea tree. Plugs 76 and 78 are installed in the tree cap and bore of the upper tubing hanger.
  • the completed assembly 10 is thus shown in Figure 4.
  • the riser and BOP may then be removed, and the upper end of the bore of the subsea horizontal tree 22 closed by the protective cover.
  • the tree 22 and spool 23 may include one or more side ports leading to various conduits and controlled by valves to permit various workover tests and other functions to be performed, as shown and described in U.S . Patent No.5,544,707.
  • the tree may be constructed in accordance with one or more of those shown and described in provisional apphcation Serial No.60/295,857, entitled “HORIZONTAL TREE,” filed May 25, 2001 , and in utility application Serial No. 10/155,482 filed May 24, 002, entitled “HORIZONTAL SPOOL TREE ASSEMBLY.”
  • the tree 22 may have different conduit connections with its side port or ports. From the descriptions of the present invention as discussed above, its advantages are attained regardless of the type of horizontal tree.
  • a significant advantage of this invention is that the bore through the horizontal spool of the tree may be at least as large as the most restrictive diameter of the bore through the wellhead. Accordingly, the size of the large diameter well is only restricted by the bore size of the wellhead, even though the tree is already in place on the wellhead when drilling this large diameter well.
  • the maximum bore of the tree is thus significantly greater than the bore through the one or more casing hangers, which is unlike the prior art operation wherein the BOP was removed and the tree first installed after the casing hangers were hung in the well.
  • orientation isolation sleeve need not be installed until just prior to running the tubing string in the well, and after drilling the portion of the hole intended to receive this tubing string. Accordingly, the bore through the tree is not restricted by an orientation/isolation sleeve while the production tubing well is being drilled. By running the sleeve in after the drilling operation is complete, a highly reliable orientation isolation sleeve may be used.
  • the present invention thus makes possible the drilling of a production well for receiving the production tubing string wherein the bit diameter used to drill the production hole is not restricted, and may be only sHghtly less than the diameter of the casing hanger, and only slightly less than the diameter of a protector sleeve provided within the spool 23.
  • Figure 2 depicts a bit 94 suspended on a drill string 96 which may be passed through the tree 22 and through the casing hangers 38 and 42 to drill a production hole.
  • the cutting diameter or bit diameter BD of the bit 94 as shown in Figure 2 may thus be greater than the bore diameter SD of the orientation sleeve 60 as shown in Figure 3, which again is not possible in the prior art technique since the orientation sleeve was installed with the tree before drilling the production hole.
  • the orientation/isolation sleeve as disclosed herein may be a single sleeve that achieves three purposes: (1) sealing between the casing hanger (or the wellhead) and the tree, (2) providing orientation for the tubing hanger so that the side port of the tubing hanger is properly oriented with respect to the side port in the spool, and (3) securing the orientation sleeve to the tree to resist vertical forces, either upward or downward, that may be imparted to the orientation sleeve. If desired, separate components could be used to perform each of these functions. Orientation of the tubing hanger could be achieved with a device separate from the function of sealing between the casing hanger and the tree.
  • the sleeve In many apphcations, it will be desirable to lock the sleeve to the tree, although in other apphcations the sleeve could be locked to the wellhead housing, or could be axially fixed between the casing hanger locked to the wellhead housing and the tubing hanger locked to the tree. In most applications, other functions of the orientation/isolation sleeve are to support the weight of the tubing hanger and thus the tubing string, and to safely withstand the fluid pressure levels in the tree.

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Abstract

Cette invention concerne un système (10) de tête de puits équipée d'un arbre à raccord horizontal, lequel système utilise un tubage (18, 19) placé dans un puits de forage ainsi qu'un logement (20) de tête de puits situé au niveau de l'extrémité supérieure du tubage. Un raccord (23) de l'arbre horizontal (22) est raccordé à l'extrémité supérieure du logement de tête de puits et comprend au moins un orifice latéral s'étendant radialement. Un bloc obturateur de puits (BOP) (28) est également placé au niveau de l'extrémité supérieure du logement et comporte un orifice aligné sur l'orifice du logement de tête de puits. Après le forage du puits, la colonne de tubage (19) portant une suspension (42) de tubage peut être abaissée à travers les orifices du bloc obturateur de puits, l'arbre à raccord et le logement de tête de puits de façon qu'elle atteigne le puits. Un manchon d'orientation/isolation (60) peut être placé selon un sens de rotation prédéterminé par rapport à l'arbre à raccord. Une suspension de tubage (70) comportant un orifice latéral est disposée sur le manchon d'orientation et est automatiquement orientée de façon que l'orifice latéral de la suspension de tubage soit alignée sur l'orifice latéral du raccord.
PCT/US2003/025749 2002-08-16 2003-08-18 Systeme de tete de puits equipee d'un arbre a raccord horizontal et procede associe WO2004016899A2 (fr)

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NO20050545A NO328192B1 (no) 2002-08-16 2005-01-31 Brønnhodesystem med et horisontalt spoleventiltre og fremgangsmåte for boring og komplettering av undervannsbrønner
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