WO2014088440A1 - A method for applying physical fields of an apparatus in the horizontal end of an inclined well to productive hydrocarbon beds - Google Patents

A method for applying physical fields of an apparatus in the horizontal end of an inclined well to productive hydrocarbon beds Download PDF

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WO2014088440A1
WO2014088440A1 PCT/RU2012/001008 RU2012001008W WO2014088440A1 WO 2014088440 A1 WO2014088440 A1 WO 2014088440A1 RU 2012001008 W RU2012001008 W RU 2012001008W WO 2014088440 A1 WO2014088440 A1 WO 2014088440A1
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Nikita Petrovich AGEEV
Petr Georgiyevich AGEEV
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OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOY OTVETSTVENNOSTYU "NOVAS Sk"
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  • the invention relates to the oil and gas industry and is used to intensify the influx of oil, natural gas, coal gas (methane), and shale gas by initiating physical fields by an apparatus having a combustible calibrated metal wire and placed in the horizontal end of a vertical-inclined well.
  • acid treatment of a horizontal well helps penetrate deep into the bed in an area only a few meters long, while the positive part of the interval remains clogged with mechanical impurities or drilling mud, or other deposits resulting from drilling, development, and operation.
  • Prior art methods apply physical fields to the well bottom zone of vertical wells by generating depressurizing-repressuring pulses (Patents RU 2276722 CI , 2006; RU 2310059 CI, 2007; and RU 2373386 CI , 2009). These methods, however, cannot be used in the horizontal end of a well because of the size of the equipment, structural specifics, and specifics of delivery of the equipment into the horizontal bore of a well.
  • Prior art patents teach methods for intensifying the influx of hydrocarbons by various hydraulic bed fracturing (HBF) techniques (Patents RU 2278955, CI E 21 B 43/16, E 21 B 43/27, 2006; RU 2442886, 2012).
  • the claimed method for intensifying influx of hydrocarbons into the horizontal end of a well is intended to demud the specific working interval of the bit shank and to involve the poorly drained stagnation zones and seams passed up previously so as to operate a well with maximum efficiency and make it absolutely environment friendly without using hydraulic bed fracturing or acid baths at all stages of operation, beginning with development.
  • the claimed method can be used to stimulate the flow repeatedly for as long as well operation remains economically profitable.
  • FIG. 2 is a view of a well plasma pulse generator, wherein 14 is an NKB-3-36 cable tip; 15 is a control and telemetry unit; 16 is an energy storage battery; 17 is a vibrator; 18 is a feeder housing; and 19 is a centering device; and FIG. 3 shows a basic diagram of a special hoist, wherein 20 is a vehicle (undercarriage); 21 is a drum; 22 is a flexible pipe; 23 is a drum drive; 24 is a wellhead feeder; 25 is a wellhead feeder drive; 26 is blowout prevention equipment; 27 is a production tree; 28 is a sealing device; and 29 is an operator's cab equipped with a control system.
  • 20 is a vehicle (undercarriage); 21 is a drum; 22 is a flexible pipe; 23 is a drum drive; 24 is a wellhead feeder; 25 is a wellhead feeder drive; 26 is blowout prevention equipment; 27 is a production tree; 28 is a sealing device; and 29 is an operator's cab equipped with
  • the claimed method is performed as follows: a flexible pipe of the coil tubing type is used to lower into the horizontal end of a well an apparatus generating short periodic directed pulses produced by explosion of calibrated wire to form plasma and a high-pressure radial shock wave.
  • the apparatus comprises a battery of storage capacitors placed in a round metal container connected to a control module and wellhead equipment to transmit the charge and discharge of the storage capacitors for actuating the apparatus to generate a sequence of elastic vibrations at specified points of the horizontal end.
  • the operator sends a signal to discharge the capacitor battery through calibrated wire closing the electrodes to produce periodic high-pressure pulses that demud the well bottom zone and increase the permeability of the missed stagnation zones, making it possible to recover hydrocarbons from the productive bed with maximum efficiency along the full length of the horizontal end.
  • the horizontal end must have a minimum internal diameter of at least 75 mm;
  • the casing string must be fluid-proof
  • - the well must be flushed, with destructor added to the flushing fluid, in need; and - production tree equipment must have through sections of at least 75 mm. Through openings 75 mm large allow essential production equipment to be lowered into a well.

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The invention relates to the oil and gas industry and is used to intensify oil influx. The method comprises delivering and positioning in the horizontal end of a well an apparatus provided with an electric energy storage battery, a vibrator having two electrodes closed by calibrated metal wire on signal from the operator to cause said wire to explode and produce a high-pressure directed pointed shock wave propagating radially from designated points of the horizontal bore of said well in order to increase permeability of the well bottom zone of the working lengths of the horizontal bore. The invention allows an inclined well with a horizontal end to be operated efficiently without harming the environment in the least.

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A Method for Applying Physical Fields of an Apparatus in the Horizontal End of an Inclined Well to Productive Hydrocarbon Beds.
The invention relates to the oil and gas industry and is used to intensify the influx of oil, natural gas, coal gas (methane), and shale gas by initiating physical fields by an apparatus having a combustible calibrated metal wire and placed in the horizontal end of a vertical-inclined well.
The design of wells has rapidly become more complicated in the oil and gas industry in this century. The wells are becoming more inclined and have a horizontal end in order to increase the drainage area of a productive bed. It is believed that a well having a horizontal end may have a larger area of contact with the hydrocarbon bed and increase the recovery ratio of hydrocarbons from the well and the intake capacity of the well. Construction, development, operation, and intensification of hydrocarbon influx differ significantly from hydrocarbon recovery in vertical wells, for which reason the methods used to intensify influx in vertical wells are unsuited, in their great majority, for horizontal wells.
For example, acid treatment of a horizontal well helps penetrate deep into the bed in an area only a few meters long, while the positive part of the interval remains clogged with mechanical impurities or drilling mud, or other deposits resulting from drilling, development, and operation.
Prior art methods apply physical fields to the well bottom zone of vertical wells by generating depressurizing-repressuring pulses (Patents RU 2276722 CI , 2006; RU 2310059 CI, 2007; and RU 2373386 CI , 2009). These methods, however, cannot be used in the horizontal end of a well because of the size of the equipment, structural specifics, and specifics of delivery of the equipment into the horizontal bore of a well. Prior art patents teach methods for intensifying the influx of hydrocarbons by various hydraulic bed fracturing (HBF) techniques (Patents RU 2278955, CI E 21 B 43/16, E 21 B 43/27, 2006; RU 2442886, 2012). These techniques, though, are very complicated and costly, require careful preliminary preparation of the process and well to meet rigid demands on the choice of wells for HBF to be used because of the geological specifics of deposits and location of wells on the terrain, and can only succeed when all technical and technological conditions are met (bed thickness, significant distance from the vertical-inclined string and horizontal inclined string, significant bed separation, specific choice of fracturing and killing fluids, bed anisotropy, and authentic information about permeability), but frequently ignored in oil production, or available information is not sufficient for designing the setup. Not infrequently, HBF attempts cause invasion of stratal water and premature well flooding.
It is common knowledge that horizontal end drilling disrupts the collecting properties of the well bottom zone of the bed, including:
-invasion of some drilling mud into the bed;
- invasion of drilling mud into the bed by filtration;
- invasion of cement into the bed by filtration;
- destruction of perforations and consolidation of the parent material;
- invasion of mechanical impurities in the completion fluid or killing fluid into the bed or clogging of perforations thereby;
- invasion of the killing fluid or well completion fluid into the bed;
- sealing of the bed by native clays;
- deposition of paraffins and asphaltenes in the bed or in perforations;
- deposition of salts in the bed or perforations; - formation or injection of emulsions in the bed; and
- injection of solvents containing mechanical impurities.
All these deficiencies cause reduction in the permeability of the well bottom zone and, therefore, in productivity, frequently by more than 60% of design permeability, and in the worst cases, when damage is caused to a great depth, they lead to complete termination of production from the well.
The claimed method for intensifying influx of hydrocarbons into the horizontal end of a well is intended to demud the specific working interval of the bit shank and to involve the poorly drained stagnation zones and seams passed up previously so as to operate a well with maximum efficiency and make it absolutely environment friendly without using hydraulic bed fracturing or acid baths at all stages of operation, beginning with development. When the well yield declines during operation, the claimed method can be used to stimulate the flow repeatedly for as long as well operation remains economically profitable.
These results are achieved by performing a method for engaging productive hydrocarbon beds through the horizontal end of an inclined well, said method comprising lowering into said horizontal end an apparatus generating short periodic directed pulses by exploding calibrated metal wire and forming plasma and a high-pressure shock wave, and further having a battery of storage capacitors placed in a round metal container of an outer diameter between 42 mm and 55 mm and connected to a control module and equipment at the wellhead in order to initiate a sequence of elastic vibrations at specified points of the horizontal end. The number of pulses and pitch along the horizontal line of the vibrator depend on the geological and technical characteristics and geophysical parameters of the well. The claimed invention is illustrated in the following drawings: FIG. 1 is a view of a horizontal well with a device, wherein: 1 is an apparatus having a container for collecting well fluid; 2 is an operation string of D=146 mm; 3 are tubing string pipes of D=73 mm; 4 is a tubing string funnel; 5 is a shank of D=102 mm; 6 is a flexible pipe; 7 is a geophysical cable; 8 is a tubing sub with a mandrel and a circulation check valve; 9 is a cable head; 10 is a geophysical device (perforator); 1 1 is an autonomous device; 12 is a P S 5T hoist; and 13 is a nitrogen compressor station; FIG. 2 is a view of a well plasma pulse generator, wherein 14 is an NKB-3-36 cable tip; 15 is a control and telemetry unit; 16 is an energy storage battery; 17 is a vibrator; 18 is a feeder housing; and 19 is a centering device; and FIG. 3 shows a basic diagram of a special hoist, wherein 20 is a vehicle (undercarriage); 21 is a drum; 22 is a flexible pipe; 23 is a drum drive; 24 is a wellhead feeder; 25 is a wellhead feeder drive; 26 is blowout prevention equipment; 27 is a production tree; 28 is a sealing device; and 29 is an operator's cab equipped with a control system.
The claimed method is performed as follows: a flexible pipe of the coil tubing type is used to lower into the horizontal end of a well an apparatus generating short periodic directed pulses produced by explosion of calibrated wire to form plasma and a high-pressure radial shock wave. The apparatus comprises a battery of storage capacitors placed in a round metal container connected to a control module and wellhead equipment to transmit the charge and discharge of the storage capacitors for actuating the apparatus to generate a sequence of elastic vibrations at specified points of the horizontal end.
To carry out the claimed method, there is a need, nonexistent during operation of a vertical well where the apparatus is simply lowered, to push forward the apparatus with a measured force. For this purpose, use is made of a flexible pipe of the coil tubing type to lower tubing strings wound on a drum mounted on a specialized truck undercarriage into the well. A flexible pipe provided with a special-purpose tip engaging the hinge of the apparatus head secures the apparatus provided with a centering device and pushes the apparatus into the horizontal bore of the well to a desired depth, the axial pressure being monitored by a pressure sensor to avoid an accident and sensor readings being transmitted to the control module. The working intervals of the horizontal end are determined in advance by geophysical equipment that sets marks on the screen of the control module. As the designated points are reached in the horizontal end, the operator sends a signal to discharge the capacitor battery through calibrated wire closing the electrodes to produce periodic high-pressure pulses that demud the well bottom zone and increase the permeability of the missed stagnation zones, making it possible to recover hydrocarbons from the productive bed with maximum efficiency along the full length of the horizontal end.
For the claimed method to be used efficiently, the well is to meet the following criteria:
- the horizontal end must have a minimum internal diameter of at least 75 mm;
- the casing string must be fluid-proof;
- the tubing string lift must be raised;
- the well must be flushed, with destructor added to the flushing fluid, in need; and - production tree equipment must have through sections of at least 75 mm. Through openings 75 mm large allow essential production equipment to be lowered into a well.
The invention has been disclosed above with reference to a particular embodiment thereof. It may be obvious to persons skilled in the art to use other embodiments of the invention without departing from the idea thereof as it has been disclosed above. Accordingly, the disclosure of this invention may be considered limited in scope by the claim following hereafter.

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A method for applying a physical field to productive hydrocarbon beds through a horizontal end of an inclined well, said method comprising lowering into the horizontal end on a flexible pipe of the coil tubing type an apparatus generating short periodic directed pulses produced by explosion of calibrated wire, forming plasma and a high-pressure radially directed shock wave, and further having a battery of storage capacitors placed in a round metal container and connected to a control module and wellhead equipment to transmit the charge and discharge of said storage capacitors to actuate said apparatus for generating a sequence of elastic vibrations at designated points of the horizontal end.
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