WO2005121502A1 - Erosion resistent aperture for a downhole valve or ported flow control tool - Google Patents
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- WO2005121502A1 WO2005121502A1 PCT/US2005/018273 US2005018273W WO2005121502A1 WO 2005121502 A1 WO2005121502 A1 WO 2005121502A1 US 2005018273 W US2005018273 W US 2005018273W WO 2005121502 A1 WO2005121502 A1 WO 2005121502A1
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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
- E21B34/00—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells
- E21B34/06—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells
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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
- 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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- 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
- E21B34/00—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells
- E21B34/06—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells
- E21B34/14—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells operated by movement of tools, e.g. sleeve valves operated by pistons or wire line tools
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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
- E21B41/0078—Nozzles used in boreholes
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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
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10S166/00—Wells
- Y10S166/902—Wells for inhibiting corrosion or coating
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- the field of this invention is aperture shape for downhole valves or ported flow control tools and more particularly valves or tools of the sliding sleeve type for use in fluid injection wells.
- one way to bolster production is to inject large quantities of fluid such as water or steam into an injection well at one point in the zone or zones in question and take additional production in another well or wells in the field.
- the injection well can have a valve, typically of a sliding sleeve design, to allow access into a single zone at a time and in turn service multiple zones, if desired.
- These sliding sleeve valves have a sleeve with a port where the port can be selectively brought into alignment with the housing around it.
- the injection well can have a service life as long as 15 years or more.
- An aperture design minimizes erosion on the surrounding casing and to the aperture itself and is particularly effective in fluid injection wells where large volumes of fluids over a long period of time with entrained solids are expected to be pumped through.
- the preferred design is an elongated shape with a flaring wider in the downhole direction.
- the downhole end of the opening features an exit that flares in the downhole direction with multiple slopes with an arc transition.
- Other options for the opening configuration are envisioned.
- Figure 1 is an isometric view of the preferred embodiment
- Figure 2 is a section through the assembly along line 2-2 of Figure 1 ;
- Figure 3 is a plan view of the aperture shown in section in Figure 2;
- Figures 4-7 show progressively better performing designs that are an alternative to that shown in Figures 1-3 but each representing a design that is less favored on a performance basis than the preferred embodiment.
- Figure 1 shows an exterior view of the aperture 10 in the housing 12.
- a conforming opening is located on the sliding sleeve (not shown) that can be moved between an open position and a closed position with a known tool.
- One or more assemblies may be mounted on a single string in a wellbore to allow selection of the zone into which the fluid is to be pumped for injection purposes.
- Surrounding this structure shown in Figures 1-3 is generally casing (not shown). The flow comes out of the aperture 10 and into the cased surrounding wellbore.
- Aperture 10 has an uphole end 14 and a downhole end 16. The number of apertures can be varied to accommodate the anticipated flow rates to keep the velocity in a desired range. A range of about 35-65 feet per second is preferred.
- the aperture 10 has an elongated shape. From the inside looking out, in Figure 2, the aperture 10 has a ramp 18 that is preferably at 45 degrees. While a single planar surface is shown for ramp 18 it is also possible to use multiple ramps with or without intervening transitional surfaces. Alternatively a combination of planar and arcuate surfaces can be used where the arcs are at a constant or varying radii. It is preferred that the larger radii be further uphole, if used on surface 18 so that at the outside surface 20 of the body 12 the curvature will be more pronounced.
- the preferred configuration of surface 22 between the inside surface 24 and the outside surface 20 is an initial ramp 26 of about 55 degrees followed by an arcuate segment 28 at about an inch and a quarter radius followed by an exit ramp 30 at about 15 degrees.
- Figure 3 shows the aperture 10 flaring out at a constant angle of about 10 degrees making the aperture 10 wider near the downhole end 16 than at the uphole end 14.
- the aperture 10 shape may feature a flaring wider from uphole to downhole end regardless of the flaring being along a straight line, an arc, a combination of a line or lines and an arc and where the arc segments have the same or varying radii.
- the surfaces can be arranged in any order going between inside surface 20 and outside surface 24. This feature alone without the other illustrated features of Figures 1-3 will perform better from a minimizing erosion point of view than a simple rectangular opening, shown in Figure 4, that has parallel sides 32 and 34 and hence no flaring of a generally rectangular opening.
- uphole surface 36 and downhole surface 38 are flat and are each a single ramp with both oriented perpendicularly to the axis of the tool While surface 36 & 38 are actually shown with perpendicular 90 degree ramp angle, they could be reoriented to improve performance by orienting both of them in down hole direction. While a flare angle of 10 degrees is preferred the flare angle can vary with the diameter of the body 12, the number and length of apertures 10 and the need to accommodate control lines (not shown), which are mounted out of the trajectory of coursing fluid through the apertures 10. Thus straight taper angles from about a degree to about 30 degrees are contemplated while even larger angles are also possible. This flare angle could also increase for the same port in a direction toward downhole by disposing increased angles in the down hole direction or gradual arcing or any combination of the two.
- FIG. 6 Another feature that can also stand-alone and produce erosion- minimizing properties, apart from the flare along the length discussed above, is the shape of the exit at the lower end 16.
- the base feature is to include more than a single surface.
- a single flat exit surface 42 is shown in Figure 6. It should be noted that although the opening in Figure 6 gets wider from the inside of body 12 to outside as indicated by lines 44 and 46, in this view those lines are parallel so that there is no flaring of the width in the Figure 6 design. Accordingly, just improving the exit at the lower end 16 of the aperture 10 without making the other modifications described, will yield erosion minimization. More than a single surface can be accomplished by two flat surfaces with the surface closest to the inside 24 of body 12 having the steeper angle.
- the upper end 14 can also have the same options as outlined for the lower end 16 and if that is the only feature used it will still help to minimize erosion but likely with less effect as a similar change done by itself in the manner described above to the lower end 16.
- the initial ramp can be in the range of about 50 to 90 degrees with 80 degrees being closer to optimal and the final ramp in the direction of flow can be between about 1 to 50 degrees.
- Figures 5-7 represent alternatives within the scope of the invention that show some different permutations over the basic design of an elongated opening, preferably rectangular that still performs better than the known prior art of drilling a hole using a drill held on a slant to the long axis of the housing.
- Fig. 4 is a basic design similar to a current product, which differs by having rounded uphole and downhole ends instead of flat/square ends.
- a feature of the prior art Halliburton ports is that they require multiple ports in series in a direction downstream, with the port sizes reduced in the downstream direction. Reduced port sizes downstream forces more flow through the up hole ports, which would otherwise see significantly reduced flow velocities. The downstream ports would otherwise erode most.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| AU2005252641A AU2005252641B2 (en) | 2004-06-02 | 2005-05-25 | Erosion resistant aperture for a downhole valve or ported flow control tool |
| GB0624767A GB2430956B (en) | 2004-06-02 | 2005-05-25 | Erosion resistant aperture for a downhole valve or ported flow control tool |
| CA002567890A CA2567890C (en) | 2004-06-02 | 2005-05-25 | Erosion resistant aperture for a downhole valve or ported flow control tool |
| CN2005800180018A CN1961133B (en) | 2004-06-02 | 2005-05-25 | Case of downhole tool with aperture |
| NO20065940A NO339466B1 (en) | 2004-06-02 | 2006-12-20 | Opening configuration for a downhole ported sludge transition housing |
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| US57635504P | 2004-06-02 | 2004-06-02 | |
| US60/576,355 | 2004-06-02 |
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| US (1) | US7419003B2 (en) |
| CN (1) | CN1961133B (en) |
| AU (1) | AU2005252641B2 (en) |
| CA (1) | CA2567890C (en) |
| GB (1) | GB2430956B (en) |
| NO (1) | NO339466B1 (en) |
| RU (1) | RU2355871C2 (en) |
| WO (1) | WO2005121502A1 (en) |
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| US5579841A (en) * | 1990-12-03 | 1996-12-03 | Phoenix Petroleum Services Ltd. | Plugs for well logging operations |
| US6161632A (en) * | 1995-10-16 | 2000-12-19 | Hovden; Magne | Purging means for purging upwards in ring spacing between drill pipe and bore hole wall |
| GB2361498A (en) * | 1999-01-06 | 2001-10-24 | Western Well Tool Inc | Drill pipe protector assembly |
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