Título: | TRANSIENT MODELING OF HORIZONTAL AND NEAR HORIZONTAL FOR WELLBORE DRILLING | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
SUZANA SANTOS COSTA |
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Colaborador(es): |
SERGIO AUGUSTO BARRETO DA FONTOURA - Orientador SIDNEY STUCKENBRUCK - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 22/AGO/2006 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8883&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8883&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.8883 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Among the costs considered on an oil field exploration,
the drilling process
related ones constitute a significant share. Consequently,
the focus on the
removal of cuttings generated by the drilling process, or
the hole cleaning
operation, is essential. This operation remains a critical
issue in the drilling of
high inclination-wells, since the cuttings tend to deposit
themselves due to
gravity´s action, forming a bed in the annular space
formed between the drill
string and the casing. When this bed takes a sizable
fraction of the annular
space, it becomes responsible for many problems that
appear on the drilling
stage, such as premature bit´s exhaustion, low rates of
penetration, formation
fracture, excessive torque and drag on the drillstring,
stuck pipe, fluid flow
interruption, etc. If this situation is not treated
properly, it may cause the loss of
the well. This present thesis proposes a model for
multiphase flow in the
wellbore drilling, capable of evaluating the formation of
the cuttings´ bed and to
predict oscillations of pressures in annulus due to the
flow. A two-layer model is
adopted, where the annular space is divided in two
regions: bed and suspension.
The bed (Region 1) is formed by the cuttings, which were
deposited due to the
action of gravitational force, while the suspension
(Region 2) is the portion of the
annular above the deposited bed, formed by the drilling
fluid and cuttings. The
constitutive equations of the aforementioned model are
given by the equations of
mass conservation for solids and liquids and the momentum
conservation
equations for the bed and the suspension. The finite
volumes method was used
to turn the differentials equations into discrete ones,
while the Newton´s method
was applied for the solution of the nonlinear system of
equations. The solution is
given through the following variables: bed height, solid
velocity and fluid velocity
both in bed and suspension, annular pressure and solid
concentration in the
annular. Examples of application of the methodology are
presented, showing the
behavior of the involved variables through time. The
examples show the efficacy
of the methodology to simulate drilling operations, in
special hole cleaning ones.
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