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The present invention provides a method and apparatus for handling tubulars and drilling with tubulars such as casing into a formation. In one aspect of the invention, the apparatus comprises a circulating head and a cementing head operatively connectible to a gripping member. The circulating head is used to circulate drilling fluid while drilling with casing, and the cementing head is used to cement the casing string within the formation at a desired depth. The present invention also relates to methods and apparatus for isolating a tensile load from a drilling apparatus rotated by a top drive. In one aspect, the present invention provides a load isolator apparatus having an isolator body operatively connected to the top drive and a torque body at least partially disposed in the isolator body. In operation, the bearing assembly transfers the tensile load from the torque body to the isolator body.

A method for retrieving a subsea pod from a lower marine riser package platform by connecting a buoyant pod retriever to the subsea pod and raising the subsea pod to the surface. In certain aspects, such a method is accomplished without an interruption of associated subsea drilling operations and/or without disconnecting the lower marine riser package from an associated subsea stack. Such a method, in certain aspects, includes: positioning a retrieval module above the pod container, the retrieval module having a pod holder releasably connected thereto; disconnecting the pod holder from the retrieval module; lowering the pod holder to the pod container and releasably connecting the pod holder to the pod container; releasing the pod container from the subsea lower marine riser platform; raising the pod holder to the retrieval module and releasably connecting the pod holder with the pod container to the retrieval module; and raising the retrieval module with the pod container to a location at the surface. Such pod containers are, in certain aspects, part of a multiply redundant control system.

The invention relates to high-efficiency hydrate inhibitive environment-friendly drilling fluid, and particularly relates to the drilling fluid containing water, bentonite, hyamine dimeric surfactant, inorganic salt, sodium carboxymethyl starch, cationic polyacrylamide and solid anti-sloughing lubricating agent GFRH. The high-efficiency hydrate inhibitive environment-friendly drilling fluid can be used for exploiting continental or ocean oil-gas resources and can effectively inhibit the generation of hydrate; moreover, the components of the drilling fluid are small in environment harm, and the drilling fluid has the advantages of high efficiency and environmental protection.

A PCD drill for producing close tolerance holes in multi layer laminates, such as carbon fiber reinforced composites, with minimum fraying of the fibers on both entrance and exit from the hole is provided. The drills provided include a symmetrical cutting point with a self-centering split point and a high shear second cutting lip positioned at the outer diameter of the drill. The drills of the invention may allow for increased cutting speeds and feeds when used with such advanced composite materials, thus increasing tool productivity and providing increased performance.

The invention relates to well bore rail control and design that includes the process of determining well bore section shape, building equation set, expanding equation set, giving known parameters, and solving the equation set. It could meet the request of target intake direction and coordinate location, and could select 4 random feature parameters as the indeterminate parameters. The invention could improve drilling speed and wellbore quality, lower drilling cost.

The invention relates to a pressure-controlled drilling method based on drilling annulus wellbore multi-phase flow computing, which comprises the following steps: obtaining basic parameters for drilling wellbore multi-phase flow computing; determining the variety of fluid in wellbore annulus; considering multi-phase multi-component complex flow factors, and establishing a wellbore annulus internal multi-phase flow control equation group; establishing definite conditions for the multi-phase flow control equation group by combining with technical processes under pressure-controlled drilling different working conditions; carrying out grid division on the time and space domains obtained by multi-phase flow computing; carrying out numerical discretion; solving the wellhead back pressure required by pressure-controlled drilling; and adjusting the wellhead throttling valve based on the computed wellhead back pressure value to realize pressure-controlled drilling. Through the adoption of the method, pressure-controlled drilling can be continued under the condition that the drilling fluid contains gas; the method can be applied to the pressure-controlled drilling process of strata highly containing acidic gases; and the computation accuracy is high, the error is small, the control accuracy of pressure-controlled drilling is improved, and the application range is enlarged.

The invention discloses a compound vibrating well-drilling tool which comprises a sleeve, a vibrating short joint, a vibrating short joint chuck, a screw motor, a conversion short joint connected with the lower end of the screw motor, an annular disc sleeved at the upper end of the conversion short joint, a hydraulic cylinder installed at the lower end of the conversion short joint, an impact short joint arranged in an inner cavity of the hydraulic cylinder and a torque transmitting short joint, wherein the vibrating short joint, the vibrating short joint chuck, the screw motor, the conversion short joint, the annular disc, the hydraulic cylinder, the impact short joint and the torque transmitting short joint are arranged in sequence from top to bottom. The well-drilling tool can be installed at different positions in a well-drilling column, the drilling column generate axial and circumferential high frequency compound vibration through the tool, and phenomena including 'pulling press' and 'stick slip' in the large-inclination well drilling process are eliminated, thereby remarkably improving mechanical drilling speed, prolonging the service life of a drill bit and reducing well-drilling cost.

The invention relates to a debris-core-borehole-reservoir multiscale shale reservoir three-dimensional fracturing evaluation method. The method comprises the steps of: (S1) calculating mineral content brittleness indexes in a shale coring position; (S2) building relations among an internal friction angle, I type and II type fracture toughness and rock mechanical parameters; (S3) building shale fracturing evaluation models comprehensively considering a mineral content, elastic parameters, the internal friction angle, a critical strain energy release rate and the rapture toughness; (S4) applying a support vector machine algorithm to obtain a cluster analysis mode between a reservoir fracturing performance and the elastic parameters; and (S5) applying the cluster analysis mode and a reservoir three-dimensional elastic parameter data body to obtain a debris-core-borehole-reservoir multiscale shale reservoir three-dimensional fracturing model. The method can be applied to obtain the fracturing performance of any space position in a shale reservoir, so that the well position selection blindness is prevented, and the fracturing modification effect and the after-pressing yield are improved.

The invention relates to a drilling engineering technology in petroleum engineering, in particular to a method for monitoring the track of an actually drilled wellbore. The method comprises the following steps: acquisition of inclination survey data and naturalization treatment; determination of characteristic parameters of a wellbore track model; determination of a hole inclination equation and an azimuth equation; calculation of coordinate increment; calculation of surveying point coordinates; and so on. As for large-displacement wells containing catenary or parabola tracks and various directional wells and horizontal wells, the method can accurately monitor the coordinates of various surveying points, so as to make the monitoring result accord with the practice of the drilling engineering, thereby effectively improving the construction precision and the reliability of catenary drilling and parabola drilling.

The invention relates to a well drilling simulation test device. The well drilling simulation test device comprises a rock core clamping mechanism, a drilling mechanism, a pressing mechanism and a pressing control pipeline, wherein the rock core clamping mechanism and the drilling mechanism are concentrically arranged above and below a test frame; constant pressure liquid which is applied to the upper end of the rock core by a constant pressure pump of the pressing mechanism and constant pressure liquid or high pressure gas which is pressed on the rock core by a constant pressure pump of the drilling mechanism or a high pressure gas source are converged in a simulated cavity at the bottom of the well, and are controlled to flow out by the pressing control pipeline consisting of a filter, a back pressure device and a flowmeter; the back pressure device is connected with the high pressure gas source of the drilling mechanism and controls the pressure of the simulated cavity at the bottom of the well by controlling the gas supply pressure of the high pressure gas source; the pressing mechanism, a pressure sensor of the back pressure device and the flowmeter transmit signals to a computer; and change of related parameters is controlled by the computer program, so that various drilling schemes are simulated and tested, and indoor test data is provided for increasing drilling speed,improving drilling quality and reducing drilling cost.

The invention discloses a borehole stability evaluation method for a highly-deviated well. The borehole stability evaluation method includes steps of adopting interval transit time and density logging information to obtain formation pressure Pp, and determining the magnitude and direction of ground stress and formation rock strength parameters; converting the obtained ground stress into borehole stress of deviated well coordinates; determining the criterion of borehole instability judgment of the highly-deviated well; establishing a variation rule between borehole instability and deviation and azimuth angles thereof, and formulating borehole stability countermeasures of the highly-deviated well. In the borehole stability evaluation method, a set of complete and assorted mechanical evaluation methods combined with geology, well drilling, logging, core, laboratory tests and mechanics analysis methods takes shape, mechanical mechanism of borehole stability of the highly-deviated well can be evaluated, so that reliable basis is provided for determination of platform displacement optimization, borehole track optimization and a safe drilling fluid density window determination of the highly-deviated well.

A drill-following reamer comprises an upper joint, a reamer body, a piston nozzle, a piston, a compression spring, a blade, a pin shaft and a limit stop. The upper part of the whole set of device is connected with a drilling tool through the upper joint, while the lower part is connected with a drill bit through a screw thread. During drill-following reaming operation, the liquid piston nozzle pumped on the ground produces pressure drop to push the piston to move downwards, a groove on the piston pushes a gear structure on the blade to rotate the blade outwards by using the pin shaft as the center when the piston moves downwards till the blade is limited by the limit stop, and then the blade is expanded to reach the maximum outside diameter to start the drill-following reaming operation. 78.6 percent of drill hole expansion rate can be achieved by using the drill-following reamer, so the drill hole expansion rate is high; the blade has the mechanical locking function and is not retracted due to the extrusion of the well wall, so the diameter of the reamed drill hole is regular; and because the drilling and the reaming are carried out at the same time, the drilling cost is saved.

The invention discloses a near-bit torsion impactor. The near-bit torsion impactor comprises a drill collar pup joint, a splitter, a torsion impactor body and an impact transmission pup joint. The lower portion of the drill collar pup joint is connected with the impact transmission pup joint, the splitter and the torsion impactor body are installed between the drill collar pup joint and the impact transmission pup joint; a lower port of the splitter is communicated with an inlet of the torsion impactor body; an outlet of the torque impactor body is communicated with the transmission pup joint. The near-bit torsion impactor has the advantages that due to the fact that high-frequency low-amplitude torque impact which is stable in periodicity is generated, impact torque can eliminate the phenomena of PDC bit stick slip and intermittent bit sticking; due to the fact that the near-bit torsion impactor is provided with no electronic part and is of a full-hydraulic mechanical structure, the size is small and the impact process has no interference to an electric instrument which conducts measurement while drilling. The near-bit torsion impactor guarantees that in the drilling process, torque in a drill stem is stable and balanced, drill stem torsion oscillation is reduced and stable work of electric MWD devices, electric LWD devices and the like is facilitated. Parts which are prone to being damaged are few in the near-bit torsion impactor, and the near-bit torsion impactor is stable in work, long in service life and beneficial for lowering well drilling cost.

The invention relates to a mining method for a heavy oil reservoir and a well network used in the same. The mining method comprises a well network arrangement stage, a preheating stage, a gravity fire flooding stage and a steam flooding stage; the gravity fire flooding stage comprises an ignition stage and a fire wire propulsion stage. The well network comprises a plurality of mining well groups. Each mining well group comprises a horizontal well, a middle vertical well and a plurality of side vertical wells, wherein the plurality of side vertical wells are arranged in two lines; the first line of the side vertical wells and the second line of the side vertical wells are symmetrical about the horizontal well; each line of side vertical wells are arranged at intervals in the direction from the tiptoe to the heel of the horizontal well and are in parallel to the horizontal well. According to the invention, combination of gravity fire flooding and steam flooding is adopted, so that utilization of heat after fire flooding is improved; thermal communication of injection and production wells is established by steam huff and puff auxiliary gravity fire flooding, so that a steam flooring mining effect is improved; well completion cost and drilling cost are reduced.

The invention discloses a screw drill transmission shaft assembly which is used in oil and gas drilling and can reduce the drill vibration, prolong the service life of the drill and improve the mechanical drilling rate. The screw drill transmission shaft assembly consists of a shell, an upper transmission shaft, an upper radial bearing static sleeve, an upper radial bearing dynamic sleeve, a loadbearing group, a vibration reducing device, a lower transmission shaft, a lower short section, a central spindle and the like. The technical scheme is that: the upper transmission shaft is mounted inthe shell; the upper radial bearing static sleeve and the upper radial bearing dynamic sleeve are cooperatively mounted in an annular space formed by the shell and the upper transmission shaft; the load bearing group is mounted at the lower ends of the upper radial bearing static sleeve and the upper radial bearing dynamic sleeve; the vibration reducing device is mounted at the lower end of the load bearing group; when in work, a spline slot of the upper transmission shaft is matched with a spline of the lower transmission shaft; the lower short section is in threaded connection with the shell; and the central spindle is in threaded connection with the upper transmission shaft. The screw drill transmission shaft assembly disclosed by the invention does not increase the length of the lowerdrill, brings relatively little influence on the bottom drill combination, and can be applied to the angle building operation and curved borehole.