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Martin Cox - Directional Drilling - technology, development and achievements ...MiningInstitute
Presented to the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (8 Dec 2016).
At the end of the 19th Century oil well drilling was a slow process, based on a variety of mining based innovations, combined and adapted to access simple, close to surface reserves. The Spindletop discovery, Beaumont Texas 1901, utilised the rotary drilling process to access a reservoir at +/- 1,000ft, and the Texas Oil Boom soon made the USA the world's leading oil producer.
As the demand for oil and gas increased, the industry faced increasing challenges, the drilling process has required major advances to meet demand and keep the industry competitive. The development of directional drilling technology has had a major impact on the industry’s ability to access smaller, more complex reserves with increasing environmental constraint. Accessing unconventional reserves such as geothermal energy and carbon capture developments will require its use.
Martin Cox began in 1979 as an NCB Student Apprentice in the South Nottinghamshire Area. Graduating in Mining Engineering he joined the offshore oil industry. His 30 years in well engineering activities, overseas & the UK, includes commercialisation and development of directional drilling & related technologies in use today. Now with Aberdeen Drilling Management (ADM) engaged in investment, application of
expertise and technology, with a view to future energy requirements and environmental challenges. Martin is President elect for the Institute IOM3 2017/18.
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1. DEVELOPMENT OF DRILLING
TECHNOLOGIES FOR SHALE
GAS
Prof. Eng. Rafał Wiśniowski
Ph.D. Eng. Adam Jan Zwierzyński
Ph.D. Eng. Aneta Sapińska-Śliwa
MSc Eng. Albert Złotkowski
The Faculty of Drilling, Oil and Gas
The Departament of Drilling and Geoengineering
Gdansk, 8 October 2014
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4. 1. Introduction
One of aplication of petroleum drilling are unconvetional shale gas deposits.
Barnett Field
5. 1. Introduction
The principal aim of works realized for optimization of shale gas drilling should be
working out a drilling technology thanks to which:
- the cost of performing a borehole can be maximally reduced
- maximal safety of drilling
- environmental protection provided.
6. 1. Introduction
In presentation we would like to show the newest
trends in development of directional drilling
7. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Increasing demand for drilling services, especially for the
prospecting of unconventional deposits favors modification of
the existing techniques and technologies as well as development
of new drilling methods.
At present they are connected with both :
9. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs – Development trends depending on the
drilling site
Presently, drilling operations are more and more
frequently performed in hardly accessible onland
places, far away from inhabited areas, e.g.
deserts, forests, highly elevated areas.
Demanded higher automation and mobility of
equipment. New solutions are needed.
10. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs – Development trends depending on the
drilling site
Many oil and gas deposits can be found under
the sea and ocean beds. Marine drillings have
been performed for years. Their particiaption in
oil and gas prospecting keeps increasing.
Solutions applied offshore are technologically
very advanced.
Demanded higher automation and mobility of
equipment. New solutions are needed.
11. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs – Development trends depending on the
drilling site
Depletion of conventional deposits of oil and gas
necessitates prospecting of virgin, unexplored
areas. Drillings start to be commonly performed
in subpolar and polar areas.
Demanded higher automation and mobility of
equipment. New solutions are needed.
12. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs – Development trends depending on the
drilling site
Search for critical elements, water and oxygen,
traces of primitive forms of life on space objects,
analysis of their geology and history necessitate
an increasing interest in the subject of drilling in
space conditions.
New solutions are needed. Part of them will be
applied to drilling in the Earth conditions.
13. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
Among the newest solutions are both small, fully automated rigs and
huge offshore rigs.
14. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Step 1: Rig in position 1
Rigs
Step 2: Rig is moved up using
hydraulic cylinders
Step 3: Rig is moved horizontally
using hydraulic cylinders
Step 4: Rig is moved down. Rig in
position 2
15. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
On the other hand, we have automated, large mobile rigs used for
opencast mining purposes.
16. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
In the case of marine drilling the rigs are mounted on fixed, self-elevating,
semisubmersible platforms or vessals.
17. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Diesel motors Pneumatic motors Hydraulic motors Electrical motors
Low cost of fuel
High power
Universal
applicability
Environmentally-friendly
Possible
overloads
Simple design
High durability
Safety
Reliability
Higher powers as
compared to
pneumatic
motors
Safety
Easily controllable
High powers
Reliability
Applicable in
difficult conditions
Rigs - Drives
18. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs – Drives
Dominating role of electrical and hydraulic drives
Diesel motors Pneumatic motors Hydraulic motors Electrical motors
Low cost of fuel
High power
Universal
applicability
Environmentally-friendly
Possible
overloads
Simple design
High durability
Safety
Reliability
Higher powers as
compared to
pneumatic
motors
Safety
Easily controllable
High powers
Reliability
Applicable in
difficult conditions
19. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
Hydraulic rigs
Advantages of hydraulic rigs
•Quickly assembled/disassembled
•Lower than conventional rig
•Considerably automated drilling
operations
•Lower hourly cost of rig operation
•Lower environmental degrading
20. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
Hydraulic rigs – comparison with traditional rigs
21. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Hydraulic Rigs
Hydraulic rigs for snubbing drilling Electrical rigs for snubbing drilling
• Hoist: 300T
• Snubbing: 130T
• Thanks to the set of wellheads, the sealing
and injection jobs can be performed
efficiently
• Low mass and small size make the rig more
mobile
• Hoist: 250T
• Snubbing: 65T
• Working rate: 1.5 m/s
• Electrical drive
• Anti-buckling system
22. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
New rig designs for space applications, worked out at FDOG
23. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Rigs
New rig designs for space applications, worked out at FDOG
Funded by the Government of
Poland through an ESA Contract
under the PECS (Plan for European
Cooperating States)
The view expressed herein can in no
way be taken to reflect the official
opinion of the European Space
Agency
24. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Development of new solutions: Atestation Laboratory of
Drilling and Exploitation Devices
Perfomed tests:
26. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
String
New designs of drill string and casing mainly rely
on material technologies.
Apart from classic carbon steels and alloys the
casing and collars are made of new-generation
steels withstanding corrosion, high pressure and
temperatures.
27. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
„String”
Drill string can be also made of titanium or various aluminium alloys. Casing, used for
protecting borehole against crushing or contracting rocks used to be made only of
steel; now it is produced also of other materials.
Comparison of properties of mud pipes made of titanium (Ti- 6A1- 4V) and
standard casing (27/8-in. x 0.362 )
Average unit
mass
[lb/ft]
Young modulus
[psi]
Maximum
torsional
moment ,
[ft . lb]
Tensile
strength, [lb]
Minimum yield
Material point Re [psi]
S-135 Steel 135 000 385,820 20 798 30 000 000 10.50
G-105 Steel 105 000 300,082 16 176 30 000 000 10.50
Ti-6A1-4V 120 000 342,951 18 487 17 000 000 6.19
29. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Roller bits
Recently an advancement in bit technology has been
observed. The patented solutions:
•Sealing and lubrication of bearings inside,
•Covering the bearing with plastic materials,
•Hard fastening of teeth on the edge girdle of the bit,
•Hard facing of sides,
•Optimization of shapes and distribution of teeth and cones on
girdles,
•Adjusting movement of particular cones with respect to one
another and their angle, depending on the hardness of drilled
rock,
•Use of directed hydraulic nozzles
created conditions in which cogged bits can transmit large
axial loads at high rotational speeds.
30. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Bits with natural
diamond blades
Impregnated bits
PDC (Polycrystalline Diamond Compact)
bits
Hybrid bits
Considerable advancement in diamond
bit design has been recently observed.
The following drills and bits are
presentely applied:
Diamond bits
31. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drills - Development of new solutions:
Laboratory of Rock Drilling Mechanics
Perfomed tests:
32. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids
33. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids
Various types of fluids are used in drilling
technology, e.g.
•Drilling muds,
•Sealing slurries,
•Buffering fluids,
•Wash out fluids,
•Advancing fluids,
•Cushion fluids,
•Acidifying fluids,
•Fracturing and supporting fluids,
•Overpacker fluids.
34. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids
New recipes of drilling muds and cement slurries used for drilling in
unconventional gas fields have been worked out at the Faculty of Drilling, Oil
and Gas.
Laboratory of Drilling Fluids
Physicochemistry Laboratory of Drilling Fluids
Laboratory of Geoengineering
and Cementing
35. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids – Development of new solutions:
Laboratory of Drilling Fluids Physicochemistry
Perfomed investigations:
36. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids – Development of new solutions:
Laboratory of Drilling Fluids Physicochemistry
Perfomed investigations:
37. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids – Development of new solutions:
Laboratory of Drilling Fluids
Perfomed investigations:
38. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids – Development of new solutions:
Laboratory of Geoengineering and Cementing
Perfomed investigations:
1) Physical parameters of cement slurry:
2) Rheological parameters of cement slurry:
39. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Drilling fluids – Development of new solutions:
Laboratory of Geoengineering and Cementing
Perfomed investigations:
3) Cement – sheath measurements:
41. 2. Review of newest technical solutions
Casing
Casing is an important element of the borehole. Tripping
operation is both time-consuming and complex. Frequently
a few columns of different diameter are driven to the
borehole. New designs of a string which could play the role
of the casing are searched for. Among new technical
solutions are expanding casing pipes.
43. 3. New drilling technologies
New technical possibilities favor the development of
drilling technologies.
The drilling of a borehole lies in making a cylindrical
opening in the Earth crust of specific diameter, depth and
planned trajectory.
For geologic–drilling reasons the borehole cannot be
performed in one technological process; it has to be
drilled section-by-section and the diameter gradually
reduced.
New technological solutions are aimed at shortening the
time of drilling of a borehole having a strictly defined
trajectory.
44. 3. New drilling technologies
Considerable progress has been recently observed in the
directional (also multilateral) drilling technologies.
Drilling with the use of the top drive and downhole
motors: there were worked out new technologies which
can be employed for the prospecting of unconventional
deposits of hydrocarbons.
Coiled Tubing Drilling
Snubbing Drilling
Underbalance Drilling
Managed Pressure Drilling
Slimhole Hydraulic Drilling
Casing Drilling
Expanded Casing Drilling
48. 3. New drilling technologies
UBD - Underbalance Drilling
ADVANTAGES OF UNDERBALANCE DRILLING
• Increases drilling rate
• Provides longer life of the drill
• Eliminates damage to the near-wellbore zone
• Provides higher yield
• Lowers lost circulations of mud
• Provides longer life of the borehole
• Lower cost of the borehole (the borehole starts to bring
profit since the moment the reservoir rock has been drilled)
49. 3. New drilling technologies
MPD – Managed Pressure Drilling
MPD Technology
International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) defined MPD technology as
an adaptative drilling process used to precisely control the pressure in annular
space in the entire wellbore profile. Its main task is to provide constant pressure on
the bottom of the wellbore within appropriate range and good control of dynamic
pressure.
General MPD problem
50. 3. New drilling technologies
MPD – Managed Pressure Drilling
MPD Technology is mainly employed for
drilling zones where the reservoir pressure is
similar to the fracturing pressure in the
layers of the drilled profile.
It is also used for drilling zones where the
risk of lost circulations and simultaneous
kicks is probable.
51. 3. New drilling technologies
MPD – Managed Pressure Drilling
Traditional drilling Underbalance drilling in MPD
technology
52. 3. New drilling technologies
MPD – Managed Pressure Drilling
Specialist equipment used in MPD technology
54. 3. New drilling technologies
Slimhole hydraulic drilling
Working out engineering and technologies of
performing small-diameter multilateral wells
to opening out shale oil and gas deposits in
Poland.
General demonstrator concept of the designed
engineering and technology
55. 3. New drilling technologies
Casing drilling
Depending on the type of drilled rocks and designation of the borehole,
there were produced numerous drilling systems with casing drilling.
Drilling technologies with casing drilling which have been elaborated
and used all over the World differ in the following elements:
•Mode of drilling,
•Type of drive transmitted on the drill and casing,
•Type of drills, their build and use technology,
•Trajectory of wellbore axis.
58. 3. New drilling technologies
Drilling with expanding columns
• Drilling of deep boreholes in complex geologic conditions
necessitates using many casing columns.
• To minimize their number, a new technology of expanding
liner pipes was worked out.
• This new type of the casing can be used for performing and
casing long sections of the wellbore of constant or slightly
reduced diameter.
• This technology also allows for reducing the cost of making
the borehole as the drilling for the surface casing can be
done with a drill of slightly smaller diameter.
59. 3. New drilling technologies
Drilling with expanding columns
Classic casing plan vs. expanding casing plan
Conventional Well Plan
36"
26"
20"
16"
13-3/8"
11-3/4"
9-5/8"
7"
5-1/2”
TD =25,000’
The Vision
60. 3. New drilling technologies
Drilling with expanding liner
Schematic of expanding liner
61. 4. Designing trajectories of boreholes
The planning of an appropriate trajectory of a wellbore can frequently bring about
a higher efficiency of hydrocarbon production from the deposit. This is especially
important while developing unconventional deposits of hydrocarbons.
The process of drilling vertical boreholes (conductor and technical columns) is
frequently associated with unintended displacement of the wellbore axis from
vertical. The supervision of the trajectory of the performed wellbore is very
important.
62. 4. Designing trajectories of boreholes
The rotational system for vertical drilling, initially designed for oil
wells, now also finds an application to:
•Freeze boreholes (while making freeze plates),
•Engineering boreholes near the shaft (to avoid underground mining
infrastructure),
•Geothermal boreholes.
63. 4. Designing trajectories of boreholes
The basic element of keeping a borehole vertical is a
stabilizer equipped with expandable conductor-ribs.
The actual displacement from the vertical is recorded by
sensors.
The correction is made by expanding conductor-ribs and
exerting side force on appropriate part of the wellbore wall,
pushing the stabilizer to the vertical position.
64. 4. Designing trajectories of boreholes
Vertical Rotary Steerable System (VRSS)
V-Pilot PowerV VertiTrak RVDS
65. 4. Designing trajectories of boreholes
Rotary Steerable System (RSS)
Geo-Pilot PowerDrive X5 Autotrak
Push the bit
Point the bit
66. 4. Designing trajectories of boreholes
Multilateral boreholes
Maxon motor
• 200°C
• 100 g
• 5'000 m
• 1 700bar
67. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
While drilling wellbores in unconventional gas deposits located in
mudstone-clayey strata, the following elements should be accounted
for to reduce the cost of drilling and enhance the flow of formation
fluids:
1. Optimize the design of the wellbore in view of lower cost of drilling,
2. Optimize the number of drilled wellbores by performing multilateral
wells,
3. Optimize the trajectory of wellbores, i.e. drill perpendicular to the
strongest rocks,
4. Optimize the risk of drilling works by performing additional wellbores
and well logging.
5. Optimize the proppant used for supporting the fractures.
68. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
While introducing hardware to the wellbore attention should be paid
to the complete recovery of the resource in a long time perspective.
The additional enhancement works should:
• Maximize the completion of the field resources at minimum cost,
• Provide solid fractures, eliminating the risk of closures after the
pumping pressure of sealing slurry has been lowered,
• Provide many year’s operation of the wellbores.
69. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Optimization of the wellbore structure means a casing plan which
minimizes the cost of the used steel.
The difficulties connected with drilling in unstable zones should
be minimized by using properly selected drilling mud which
provides high mechanical rates of drilling, protects the wellbore
wall and gives stability.
Lighter rigs can be used for lighter casing columns
Smaller wellbore diameters reduce the cost of the fluids used for
drilling operations.
70. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Optimum design of a wellbore – most
advantageously on four casing columns
71. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Unconventional deposits of gas are located at condsiderable
depths in Poland, therefore it is more advantageous (considering
the total number of drilled wellbores) to use vertical borehole
sections for multilateral offsprings.
In this type of completion one outlet can open a considerable
part of the rock hosting hydrocarbons.
In this way the cost of the performed wellbores can be reduced
as compared to single-lateral boreholes which are used for
opening out an analogous area.
72. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Single vs. multilateral wellbores
73. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Field completion with multi- and single-lateral wellbore
74. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Unconventional mudstone-clayey reservoir rocks and classic
reservoir rocks have different directional anisotropy of strength
parameters of rock skeleton. Such rocks are layered, which
necessitates a specific way of drilling.
Structure of mudstone-clayey rock
75. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Completion works in this type of rocks should concentrate on
drilling in a perpendicular direction when strongest rocks are
involved. Maintaining appropriate trajectory is decisive at the
successive stages of work in the borehole as far as fracturing of
hydraulic rocks is concerned.
Proper direction of wellbore axis with
respect to rock mass lamination
76. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
By taking into account the directional anisotropy of mechanical
strength of rocks, the rock layers can be 'disrupted' and the
fractures propagate at considerable distances from the wellbore.
In this way a very large area of the reservoir can be opened up
with one offshot of the multi-lateral wellbore.
Influence of directional anisotropy of clayey
mudstone on the range of fractures
77. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Example of a large range of fractures obtained while drilling
perpendicular (left), and a small range when drilling horizontally
81. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
The trajectory of a wellbore can be properly realized only after
well logging, thanks to which the direction of layers can be
identified. For this reason, additional wellbores have to be drilled
for geophones.
Borehole trajectories can be well designed and then gas
production enhanced with the hydraulic frac method only when
the unconventional rock has been correctly recognized.
The auxiliary wellbore should be later used for other completion
works.
82. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Properly recognized build of the rock mass in the completion zone
83. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
The fracturing job is a complex and multistage operation. The
main role in the foractures formation plays the frac fluid, which is
responsible for opening the rock
Opening takes place after a certain value of pressure is exerted
by frac fluid on the rock; as a consequence the continuity of the
medium is disturbed. The mudstone-clayey rock delaminates
necessitating large volumes of fluids to be injected.
This is a rather violent process, requiring large amounts of water
at hand (from a few to tens of thousands m3 of water.)
84. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Fracturing job: pressurize frac fluid parallel to lamination and
obtain fractures between them
85. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Then appropriate proppant is sequentially injected to support the
opened fractures.
Besides, proppant also 'polishes' the main channels in the rock
increasing their diameter.
Complete frac job is connected with a flowback of 20 to 40% of
injected fluid and gas flow from the reservoir.
Inappropriately selected proppant will not protect the fracture; it
will hinder gas flow to the borehole.
86. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Introduction of proppant and flowback of
fracturing fluid; unsupported fractures contract
87. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
•Proper granulation,
•Good geometrical proportions of grains,
•Applied sharpness of edges,
•Sufficient strength of grains,
•Material used.
Selection of size, shape
and sharpness of proppant
edges
Selection of optimum proppant should be based on:
88. 5. Optimization of horizontal drilling
Meeting all requirements set before good wellbores producing
unconventional gas is troublesome.
Experience in designing parameters of boreholes, drilling fluids
and interpretation of well log data helps find the best solution
without unnecessarily risking too much.
Nonetheless, the complexity of this issue makes the specialists
further develop techniques of drilling and completing deposits of
hydrocarbons in mudstone-clayey strata in Poland.
89. 6. Concluding remarks
According to our experiences, optimisation of shale gas drilling can be realized by: