In the Sichuan Basin,the drilling of complex deep and ultradeep wells is restricted by the casing sequence.Multiple pressure systems are usually encountered in the same open hole section,and narrow safety density wind...In the Sichuan Basin,the drilling of complex deep and ultradeep wells is restricted by the casing sequence.Multiple pressure systems are usually encountered in the same open hole section,and narrow safety density window is observed in vertical strata.The application of managed pressure drilling(MPD)technique which is often used in well drilling ensures the safe and efficient drilling,but it also brings about great challenges to the small-gap liner cementing at the lower part.Therefore,it is of great practical significance to research a cementing technology that can not only satisfy the quality requirement of small gap liner cementing,but also ensure the safe cementing in the strata with narrow safety density window.In this paper,a cementing technology based on precise managed pressure balancing method was proposed by referring to the successful application of MPD technique.According to the cementing design,the hydrostatic column pressure of annulusfluid is under-balanced(slightly lower than the formation pore pressure),and then a precise managed pressure drilling device is adopted to produce back pressure through wellhead restriction or apply wellhead compensation pressure,so that the balanced pore pressure can be reached in the process of cementing via the wellhead pressure and theflow friction offluid in the annulus.After the cementing is completed,a certain compensation pressure is applied to the annulus continuously to prevent annulus channeling during waiting on cement caused by insufficient static pressure and slurry weight loss.After this technology was applied to an ultradeep exploration well in the Sichuan Basin,the qualification rate of borehole cementing quality reached 97%,and the well sections with good cementing quality accounted for 76%.In conclusion,this technology needs no additional equipment,and only by virtue of the MPD equipment,it can achieve safe cementing construction and cementing quality improvement under high displacement efficiency.展开更多
The precise managed pressure drilling(MPD)technology is mainly used to deal with the difficulties encountered when oil and gas open hole sections with multiple pressure systems and the strata with narrow safety densit...The precise managed pressure drilling(MPD)technology is mainly used to deal with the difficulties encountered when oil and gas open hole sections with multiple pressure systems and the strata with narrow safety density window are drilled through.If its liner cementing is carried out according to the conventional method,lost circulation is inevitable in the process of cementing while the displacement efficiency of smallclearance liner cementing is satisfied.If the positive and inverse injection technology is adopted,the cementing quality cannot meet the requirements of later well test engineering of ultradeep wells.In this paper,the cementing operation ofØ114.3 mm liner in Well Longgang 70 which was drilled in the Jiange structure of the Sichuan Basin was taken as an example to explore the application of the cementing technology based on the precise MPD and pressure balancing method to the cementing of long open-hole sections(as long as 859 m)with both high and low pressures running through multiple reservoirs.On the one hand,the technical measures were taken specifically to ensure the annulus filling efficiency of slurry and the pressure balance in the whole process of cementing.And on the other hand,the annulus pressure balance was precisely controlled by virtue of precise MPD devices and by injecting heavy weight drilling fluids through central pipes,and thus the wellbore pressure was kept steady in the whole process of cementing in the strata with narrow safety density window.It is indicated thatØ114.3 mm liner cementing in this well is good with qualified pressure tests and no channeling emerges at a funnel during the staged density reduction.It is concluded that this method can enhance the liner cementing quality of complex ultradeep gas wells and improve the wellbore conditions for the later safe well tests of high-pressure gas wells.展开更多
基金supported by the National Major Science and Technology Project"Development demonstration project of large-scale carbonae gas fields in the Sichuan Basin-Research and application of large-scale deep carbonate gas reservoir drilling and production technology"(No:2016ZX05052-003)Pet roChina Major Science and Technology Project"Research and application of key technologies for maintaining 30billion cubic meters of natural gas production in Southwest Oil and Gas Field-Research and application ofdrilling,completion,and oil testing technologies for high temperature and high pressure sulfur-bearing deep wells in the Sichuan Basin"(No:2016E-0608)。
文摘In the Sichuan Basin,the drilling of complex deep and ultradeep wells is restricted by the casing sequence.Multiple pressure systems are usually encountered in the same open hole section,and narrow safety density window is observed in vertical strata.The application of managed pressure drilling(MPD)technique which is often used in well drilling ensures the safe and efficient drilling,but it also brings about great challenges to the small-gap liner cementing at the lower part.Therefore,it is of great practical significance to research a cementing technology that can not only satisfy the quality requirement of small gap liner cementing,but also ensure the safe cementing in the strata with narrow safety density window.In this paper,a cementing technology based on precise managed pressure balancing method was proposed by referring to the successful application of MPD technique.According to the cementing design,the hydrostatic column pressure of annulusfluid is under-balanced(slightly lower than the formation pore pressure),and then a precise managed pressure drilling device is adopted to produce back pressure through wellhead restriction or apply wellhead compensation pressure,so that the balanced pore pressure can be reached in the process of cementing via the wellhead pressure and theflow friction offluid in the annulus.After the cementing is completed,a certain compensation pressure is applied to the annulus continuously to prevent annulus channeling during waiting on cement caused by insufficient static pressure and slurry weight loss.After this technology was applied to an ultradeep exploration well in the Sichuan Basin,the qualification rate of borehole cementing quality reached 97%,and the well sections with good cementing quality accounted for 76%.In conclusion,this technology needs no additional equipment,and only by virtue of the MPD equipment,it can achieve safe cementing construction and cementing quality improvement under high displacement efficiency.
文摘The precise managed pressure drilling(MPD)technology is mainly used to deal with the difficulties encountered when oil and gas open hole sections with multiple pressure systems and the strata with narrow safety density window are drilled through.If its liner cementing is carried out according to the conventional method,lost circulation is inevitable in the process of cementing while the displacement efficiency of smallclearance liner cementing is satisfied.If the positive and inverse injection technology is adopted,the cementing quality cannot meet the requirements of later well test engineering of ultradeep wells.In this paper,the cementing operation ofØ114.3 mm liner in Well Longgang 70 which was drilled in the Jiange structure of the Sichuan Basin was taken as an example to explore the application of the cementing technology based on the precise MPD and pressure balancing method to the cementing of long open-hole sections(as long as 859 m)with both high and low pressures running through multiple reservoirs.On the one hand,the technical measures were taken specifically to ensure the annulus filling efficiency of slurry and the pressure balance in the whole process of cementing.And on the other hand,the annulus pressure balance was precisely controlled by virtue of precise MPD devices and by injecting heavy weight drilling fluids through central pipes,and thus the wellbore pressure was kept steady in the whole process of cementing in the strata with narrow safety density window.It is indicated thatØ114.3 mm liner cementing in this well is good with qualified pressure tests and no channeling emerges at a funnel during the staged density reduction.It is concluded that this method can enhance the liner cementing quality of complex ultradeep gas wells and improve the wellbore conditions for the later safe well tests of high-pressure gas wells.
