Method of application of low salinity viscous fluid in drilling saline formations

    公开(公告)号:US12123267B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US18112052

    申请日:2023-02-21

    摘要: The present invention addresses to the use of a viscous fluid in continuous pumping to contain the saline dissolution in a homogeneous way (not limited to just one type of evaporite), highlighting the results of seawater with viscosifiers, due to its simplicity, and that does not have the same impact on the logistical chain as a brine supply. The increase in fluid viscosity limits the diffusion of salt into the medium and thus better contains the dissolution of the well walls, while also promoting a laminar flow regime in the annulus of the well, variables desired to achieve the quality of the operation of cementation. The employment of viscous fluid concentrates allows “on the fly” dilutions with the in-line seawater fraction mixture. The technique can also employ solutions of pre-dispersed viscosifying additives which, when added to seawater, result in a substantial increase in the volume of drilling fluid produced, no longer limited by the unit tank capacity. This allows drilling large extensions of salt. The low salinity viscous fluid is used in drilling operations without fluid return to the drilling rig (riserless) in the presence of a predominantly saline formation, aiming at preserving the phase diameter and improve well construction conditions.

    Impact simulation device and simulation method for characteristics of rock chip beds in large displacement wells

    公开(公告)号:US12116888B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-15

    申请号:US18523841

    申请日:2023-11-29

    IPC分类号: E21B47/12 E21B21/08

    摘要: The present disclosure provides an impact simulation device and simulation method for characteristics of a rock chip bed in a large displacement well. The device comprises a wellbore system, a drilling fluid circulation system, a rock chip transportation system, a drill pipe control system, a data acquisition system, and a data processing system. The wellbore system is configured to simulate a horizontal annulus environment for rock chip transportation during drilling. The drilling fluid circulation system is configured to provide drilling fluid to the wellbore system and collect flow data of the drilling fluid. The rock chip transportation system is configured to simulate an output of rock chips in the horizontal annulus environment during drilling and recover the rock chips. The drill pipe control system is configured to implement drilling simulation in the wellbore system. The data acquisition system is configured to collect monitoring data during the drilling simulation and to transmit the monitoring data to the data processing system. The data processing system is configured to determine ECD correction parameters based on the monitoring data.

    METHODOLOGY AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING RIG MUD PUMP ASSEMBLY

    公开(公告)号:US20240309727A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18351204

    申请日:2023-07-12

    IPC分类号: E21B33/13 B28C9/00 E21B21/08

    CPC分类号: E21B33/13 B28C9/004 E21B21/08

    摘要: A technique facilitates a drilling operation, e.g. a land-based drilling operation, by enabling a substantial reduction in the number of equipment components. According to an embodiment, a mud pump assembly is provided with at least one mud pump located on a rig positioned at a wellsite. The mud pumps may be run to perform a mud pumping operation by pumping mud downhole during drilling of a borehole, e.g. a wellbore. During stoppage of the mud pumping operation, the same mud pumps are utilized to perform a cementing operation in which cementing fluid is pumped downhole for cementing of casing. The use of the same mud pumps enables the operator to eliminate not only the separate cement pumps otherwise used for the cementing operation but also the motive units that would be associated with those separate cement pumps.

    PROCESSES FOR INJECTION OF FLUIDS INTO A WELLBORE VIA DRILL PIPE

    公开(公告)号:US20240295153A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-05

    申请号:US18572225

    申请日:2022-06-22

    摘要: Processes for injection of fluids into a wellbore via drill pipe. In some embodiments, the process can include positioning a downhole apparatus on a drill pipe. The process can also include placing the downhole apparatus at a desired station depth within a wellbore. The process can also include attaching a cable to the downhole apparatus from an up-hole environment. The process can also include setting at least one packer to seal a space between at least a portion of the downhole apparatus and an inner surface of the wellbore. The process can also include introducing a fluid to the downhole apparatus through the drill pipe. The process can also include using a pump from the downhole apparatus or a pump located at a surface of the earth to inject at least a portion of the fluid from the downhole apparatus into a geological stratum at the desired station depth.

    Fully integrated flow control module

    公开(公告)号:US12065904B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US18203454

    申请日:2023-05-30

    摘要: A system and method for a fully-integrated flow control module (FI-FCM) in a hydrocarbon reservoir is disclosed. The FI-FCM is a unibody structure or a single-piece machined body having a flow meter integrated to the unibody structure. A choke is to be associated within a provision of the FI-FCM that also has an entry flow path for reservoir fluid and an exit flow path for the reservoir fluid. The entry flow path and the exit flow path inside the unibody structure or the single-piece machined body. Fluid communication is enabled between the flow meter, which is upstream relative to the choke, and an entry flow path. The choke is to control flow between the entry flow path and the exit flow path.

    Evaluating Carbon Dioxide Emission during Drilling Operations

    公开(公告)号:US20240254873A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18112268

    申请日:2023-02-21

    IPC分类号: E21B44/00 E21B21/08

    CPC分类号: E21B44/00 E21B21/08

    摘要: Systems and methods for evaluating carbon dioxide emissions during drilling operations include measuring a plurality of mechanical drilling parameters and a plurality of drilling fluid parameters; determining a hole cleaning index that indicates an effectiveness of removing cuttings from a borehole, the hole cleaning index comprises a cutting concentration in an annulus and a carrying capacity index that specifies the carrying capacity of the drilling fluid, determining being based on the measured parameters; evaluating hydraulic pressures in the borehole and in a drill bit based on the measured parameters; calculating a drilling specific energy based on the hole cleaning index and the evaluated hydraulic pressures; calculating carbon dioxide emissions of the drilling operation based on the drilling specific energy; and determining drilling parameters based on minimizing the drilling specific energy and calculated carbon dioxide emissions.

    Straddle packer testing system
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12049821B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-30

    申请号:US16258930

    申请日:2019-01-28

    摘要: Testing a fluid in a wellbore with a well testing tool carried on a well testing string includes activating a first selectively controllable longitudinal valve and a second selectively controllable longitudinal valve with a communication module. A first and second packer of the well testing tool engages an inner wall of the wellbore to define a zone of interest between the first packer and the second packer. The communication module further activates a selectively controllable radial valve positioned between the first packer and the second packer to flow fluid between the central bore and the annulus formed between the first packer and the second packer, a fluid sample flows from the annulus between the first packer and the second packer through the testing string to a tophole facility.