Título: | ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF DISPLACEMENT OF LIQUIDS IN WELLS WITH CHANGEABLE ECCENTRICITY | ||||||||||||
Autor(es): |
BERNARDO BASTOS ALEXANDRE |
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Colaborador(es): |
MARCIO DA SILVEIRA CARVALHO - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 24/JUL/2007 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | SENIOR PROJECT | ||||||||||
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/TFCs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=10171@1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/TFCs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=10171@2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.10171 | ||||||||||||
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Cementing job is a crucial operation in the construction
(drilling operation) of an oil and gas well. The cement
must be placed in annulus geometry between the
steel casing and the wall of the well. The key to a
successful cement job is the complete removal of mud from
the annulus by cement slurry that is pumped down
through the casing and return up by the annulus space. The
correct prediction of the flow and consequently of the
displacement of the fluids is very important, because
poor displacement require remedial squeeze cementing which
is both costly and time consuming.
A complete analysis of this situation is extremely
complex: the steel casing is eccentric and the
eccentricity varies along the well, the wellbore wall will
depart significantly from cylindrical, the inclination of
the well affects the flow, fluids are non-Newtonian and
flow is extremely dependent of the rheologies of the
fluids. A complete analysis of this situation would
require the solution of the three-dimensional momentum
equation and would be computationally expensive and
complex. Models available in the literature to study this
situation do consider the non-Newtonian behavior of the
drilling fluids, but assume the relative position of the
inner with respect to the outer cylinders fixed,
neglecting the variation of the eccentricity along
the well and the flow is considered to be fully developed.
This approximation leads to a two-dimensional model to
solve the velocity field of the flow.
The model presented in this work takes into account the
variation of the eccentricity along the well and the
inclination of the well, a more appropriate description of
the configuration of directional wells. Lubrication theory
is used to simplify the three-dimensional governing
equations into a two-dimensional differential equation
that describes the pressure field. The differential
equation was solved by the finite difference method
(central difference). Once the pressure field is
known, the velocity field can be found and the
displacement of the mud (drilling fluid) in annulus can be
evaluated explicit as a time function.
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