3333 results about "Oil field" patented technology

The invention discloses a remote automatic control system of a fracturing pump skid used in an oil field. The system is used for remote automatic control of a well service pump skid and a truck-mounted skid used in the oil field; the remote automatic control system consists of a field control system which consists of Siemens S7-315 series PLCs which are taken as a core, a Siemens MP370 which is taken as a remote control human-machine interface, and Ethernet which is taken as a transmission media; the system can achieve remote control functions such as start, stop and emergency stop of an engine, gear shifting, braking, turning back to a neutral position and idle speed of a gearbox and the like, and the system can modify field running parameters in a remote manner, thus realizing bidirectional transmission between the pump skid and the human-machine interface (HMI); the Ethernet is taken for communication so that the pump skid can transmit the field data to a remote controller or a server at the speed of 100MB/S; an industrial exchanger is taken to connect the devices such as the PLC, the HMI and the like to achieve more group controls; the exchanger can convert the field data into the data formats such as a standard *.CSV format and the like, and directly transmit the data to the server for data processing.

The invention relates to a method of performing a drilling operation for an oilfield, which has a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs. The method includes collecting oilfield data, at least a portion of the oilfield data being generated from a wellsite of the oilfield, selectively manipulating the oilfield data for real-time analysis according to a defined configuration, comparing the real-time drilling data with oilfield predictions based on the defined configuration, and selectively adjusting the drilling operation based on the comparison.

The present invention overcomes many of the disadvantages of prior art mobile oil field heat exchange systems by providing an improved frac water heating system. The present invention is a self-contained unit which is easily transported to remote locations. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a single-pass tubular coil heat exchanger contained within a closed-bottom firebox having a forced-air combustion and cooling system. In another embodiment, the present invention includes multiple, single-pass heat exchanger units arranged in a vertically stacked configuration. The rig also includes integral fuel tanks, hydraulic and pneumatic systems for operating the rig at remote operations in all weather environments. In a preferred embodiment, the improved frac water heating system is used to heat water on-the-fly (i.e., directly from the supply source to the well head) to complete hydraulic fracturing operations. The present invention also includes systems for regulating and adjusting the fuel/air mixture within the firebox to maximize the combustion efficiency. The system includes a novel hood opening mechanism attached to the exhaust stack of the firebox.

The invention discloses a thermal decomposition device of oil field wastes. The thermal decomposition device comprises a casing, wherein a flue and a heating cavity are formed inside the casing; the heating cavity is isolated from the flue; ribs are arranged on the casing with the heating cavity. Fume inside the flue flashes the casing with the heating cavity, so that the heat can be conducted; due to adoption of the ribs on the casing with the heating cavity, the heat exchange area is effectively increased when being compared with that of the prior art, and the heat exchange efficiency of the thermal decomposition device is improved.

Relating to the technical field of harmless treatment of petroleum exploitation sludge, the invention provides a harmless reinjection treatment method for petroleum exploitation sludge. By means of a pump station composed of several hydraulic injection pumps in parallel connection, the sludge generated in petroleum exploitation is sent to an abandoned layer of an oil field. The method provided in the invention employs the hydraulic injection pumps with long stroke, low stroke frequency and high pressure to inject the sludge into the abandoned layer of the oil field, therefore, the treatment problem of oilfield exploitation sludge is solved, and simultaneously the sludge is returned to underground, thus realizing recycling of petroleum resources in the sludge, enhancing the petroleum recovery rate of the oil field, and changing the waste petroleum exploitation sludge into things of value.

The invention discloses an oil field fracturing system with antifreezing performance. The oil field fracturing system comprises a clear water tank, a mixing vehicle, a buffer tank, a sand mixing vehicle, a fracturing device, a well mouth and a throttling manifold, wherein the outlet of the clear water tank is connected with the inlet of the mixing vehicle, the outlet of the mixing vehicle is connected with the inlet of the buffer tank, and the outlet of the buffer tank is connected with the inlet of the sand mixing vehicle, the outlet of the sand mixing vehicle is connected with an inlet of the fracturing device, a plurality of flanges are arranged at the well mouth, and one flange of the well mouth is connected with the throttling manifold, the other flanges of the well mouth are connected with the outlet of the fracturing device, and the outlet of the throttling manifold flows back to the clear water tank to form a closed circulation system. The oil field fracturing system has the beneficial effects that the liquid can be rapidly heated by adopting a steam automobile, so that the guanidine gum is fully swelled; and when there is no construction at night, the normal operation of the equipment is guaranteed by adopting the full-pipeline circulation and heat preservation, the pipeline is prevented from being disassembled, and equipment freeze-plugging is prevented.

The present invention relates to the development of tracer fluids, more generally, that of aqueous liquids, intended to be injected under pressure in an oil reservoir, for example from an injection well up to a production well.

The object of the invention is to propose a new method of study of a solid medium, i.e. an oil reservoir, by diffusion of a liquid (i.e. injection waters) containing tracers, through said solid medium, which is simple to implement and economical and which remedies the drawbacks of the known tracers for injection waters of oil reservoirs.

This method essentially consisting of injecting, in this solid medium, an injection liquid comprising a nanoparticle-based tracer having average dimensions comprised between 20 and 200 nm, detectable by means of one or several S signals at dilutions of less than or equal to 10⁻⁷, adapted to form a stable colloidal suspension in a saline medium, at least a portion of which is constituted of a core and a coating provided with an adjustable hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) and comprising at least one organic and/or organosilicon component; recovering the liquid having diffused; and analyzing this liquid having diffused to measure the quantity of tracer by detection of the signal or signals S.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a thermal decomposition device of oil field wastes. The thermal decomposition device comprises a casing, wherein a flue and a heating cavity are formed inside the casing; the heating cavity is isolated from the flue. The oil field waste thermal decomposition device is characterized in that a plurality of partitioning plates are arranged on the inner wall of the casing; the flue is of a snakelike structure through the adoption of the partitioning plates. Through the adoption of the partitioning plates on the inner wall of the casing of the thermal decomposition device disclosed by the invention, the flue inside the casing is of the snakelike structure, so that the flowing direction and the flowing speed of fume are changed, the turbulent flow effect is improved, the retention time is prolonged, and the heat exchange efficiency of the heating cavity and the fume is improved.

An apparatus and a method is disclosed for storage of solar energy in a subsurface geologic reservoir. The method includes transferring concentrated solar thermal energy to a fluid, thereby generating a supercritical fluid. The supercritical fluid is then injected into the subsurface geologic reservoir through at least one injection well. The subsurface geologic reservoir may be a highly permeable and porous sedimentary strata, a depleted hydrocarbon field, a depleting hydrocarbon field, a depleted oil field, a depleting oil field, a depleted gas field, or a depleting gas field. Once charged with the supercritical fluid, the subsurface geologic formation forms a synthetic geothermal reservoir.

The invention provides a quantitative characterization method of low penetration double-medium sandstone oil reservoir microscopic aperture structure, which comprises the following steps: selecting experiment samples, effectively combining various experiments, distributing samples, processing and analyzing experiment test data, combining macroscopic background and microscopic rock core, and combining static state analysis and dynamic production reality, thereby realizing quantitative characterization of ultra-low penetration double-medium sandstone oil reservoir microscopic aperture structure from qualitative analysis and semi-quantitative evaluation. The invention has the advantages that more comprehensive influence factors and micro crack, aperture throat parameter and nuclear magnetic resonance movable fluid parameter are considered, so the characterization result can better reflect change characteristics of ultra-low penetration double-medium sandstone oil reservoir microscopic aperture structure, which are consistent to the production exploitation real cases of the oil field, thereby effectively avoiding one-sidedness and limitation of single aspect evaluation result.

The invention relates to a method of performing a gas operation of an oilfield having a subterranean formation with at least one reservoir positioned therein. The method steps include modeling the gas operation of the oilfield using a multi-domain simulator by coupling a static model of the subterranean formation, a dynamic model of the subterranean formation, and a well model, wherein the multi-domain simulator comprises the static model, the dynamic model, and the well model, defining a development plan for the gas operation based on the modeling, and performing gas injection according to the development plan.

The invention provides a method for analyzing remaining oil distribution of a fractured-vuggy reservoir, belonging to the fields of numerical reservoir simulation and oil-gas field development. In the method, a complex medium consisting of a cave medium, a crack medium and a pore medium is partitioned into a plurality of space unit blocks in a space field; each block consists of V, F and M units which represent a cave, a crack and a substrate in the block respectively and constitute a V-F-M model; the flow of a multi-phase fluid in the complex medium is described by the motion of a fluid among the units in each block and the motion of a fluid among the units of different blocks; and the flow of the fluid among the units can be considered as infiltration flow, pipe flow or laminar flow between parallel walls, Darcy flow or non-Darcy flow. According to the method, scientific description and accurate numerical simulation of the fractured-vuggy reservoir are realized, and technical foundations are laid for the alignment of the remaining oil distribution position of the fractured-vuggy reservoir with a numerical simulation technology, quantitative determination of the reserves abundance of the reservoir, scientific and reasonable development of oil fields provided with the reservoir and final increase in the recovery ratio.

The invention relates to a preparation method of an emulsion deep profile/displacement control agent containing gel microspheres of a core shell structure. According to the method, materials are fed many times to carryout inverse emulsion low-temperature oxidation and reduction to initiate free radical polymerization so that water-solubility monomers (including acrylamide, ionic monomer I, the ionic monomer II and the third monomer) react with a cross-linking agent to generate the emulsion deep profile/displacement control agent containing gel microspheres of a core shell structure. The invention also relates to the emulsion deep profile/displacement control agent containing gel microspheres of a core shell structure, which is prepared by using the method. The profile/displacement control agent is a water-solubility microgel oil displacement material containing gel microspheres from nano scale to micron scale; with small initial grain size, the profile/displacement control agent can enter into the deep part of stratum; in addition, the profile/displacement control agent has high emulsion active component content and good flowability, can have volume expansion and mutual cementation under the actions of formation water and temperature according to the condition whether charges carried by the ionic monomers at a core layer and a shell layer are same or not; therefore the profile/displacement control requirements of different geological oil deposits of oil fields can be met.

A method for generating new water with attached water rights comprising identifying a source of production water and treating the water in appropriate ways to provide water appropriate for beneficial use such as agriculture, irrigation, industrial or municipal or potable applications. Appropriate permits are obtained to create the new water with attached water rights.

A method for creating an integrated asset management system for an oilfield, the method including: creating a plurality of models representing asset components each model having more than one levels of detail; connecting the more than one models to communicate with one another to create an integrated asset management system; selecting the levels of detail for the more than one models; and performing an analysis on the integrated asset management system utilizing the selected levels of detail to predict a characteristic of the integrated asset management system.

The invention relates to a method and system for establishing a multilayer oil pool inter-well connectivity model. The multilayer oil pool inter-well connectivity model capable of simulating oil and water dynamic states is established oriented to the limitation that by means of a current connectivity model, only the dynamic change of production liquid can be predicted, the dynamic states of the oil phase and the water phase cannot be calculated respectively, and connectivity analysis cannot be carried out layer by layer. According to the model, an oil pool system is layered and scattered into a series of inter-well communication units, matter balance equation calculation is carried out with the inter-well communication units as simulating objects, pressure solving and inter-well flow calculation are achieved, an inter-well saturation degree tracking calculating method is established with the combination of the lead edge boosting theory, and the output dynamic states of oil and water of all layers at well points are obtained; a model parameter inversion method is established in a fitting mode through dynamic states based on a random disturbance approximation method, a projection gradient method and the like. Layered inter-well flow distribution coefficients, single well longitudinal production liquid and production oil splitting coefficients and other information can be obtained in real time, the oil pool plane, the longitudinal oil and water flow relation and the production measure change can be more accurately reflected to guide the practical production of an oil field.

A method and a plant for simultaneous production of a gas for injection into an oil field and production of methanol, dimethyl ether and/or other oxygenated hydrocarbons or production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas is disclosed. An air separation unit (ATR) for production of pure nitrogen for injection and pure oxygen for production of synthesis gas ("syngas") by authermal reformation of a natural gas is an essential part of the method and plant.

The invention provides a novel process for comprehensively treating oily sludge of an oil field, which comprises processes for separating oil, water and sludge from the oily sludge. The process is characterized in that the processes for separating oil, water and sludge comprise a first process of fluidizing and pre-treating sludge, a second process of hardening and tempering the sludge, and a third process of mechanically separating the oily sludge; water separated through the processes can be used as process water to a circulating water recycling process; the separated cleaned oil enters an oil chamber of an oil-water separation device; and solid particles, namely the centrifuged sludge, are discharged through a screw conveyer. The process has the recovery ratio reaching 95 percent for recovering effluent oil to the utmost extent; and the treated sludge has water content less than 60 percent and oil content less than 2 percent, and can be used for underlaying a road of a well site or carrying out subsequent depth treatment. The process cyclically utilizes wastewater, prevents secondary pollution of sewage and slurry, and has large treatment capacity, wide treatment range, advanced technical proposal, high automatic degree, low operation cost, simple operation and clean production.

The invention provides a method of treating oiliness sludge in oil field or refinery, which is economical, quick, and large-scaled in use. The method applies thermally washing oiliness sludge by a hyperacoustic washing apparatus with a low frequency and a highpower, then assisting to air flotation, in order to effectively recycle the dirty oil in sludge. The whole art is provided with four treating units of a warm-up conditioning, a hyperacoustic irradiation, an aerating flotation, and gravity settling. It does not have any medicament, so is without a secondary pollution. The invention recycles cleaning liquid.

The invention relates to an abrasive jetting device and a method for abrasive water jet perforation and multiple fracturing; wherein the abrasive jetting device has multistage jet guns which are connected in series; the jet guns are all hollow columns; the side walls thereof are respectively provided with at least two nozzles; the lower part of each stage of jet gun is provided with a packer; the side wall of the packer is provided with a sealing sleeve which can expand outward under the action of high-pressure liquid; the jet guns comprise a first stage bottom jet gun arranged at the lower part of the abrasive jetting device and multistage upper jet guns arranged above the bottom jet gun; wherein all the upper jet guns are respectively provided with a sliding sleeve which can seal the nozzle of the stage of jet gun and sealing sleeve; and the sliding sleeve can slide to the lower part of the sealing sleeve under the action of external force so as to open the nozzle and the sealing sleeve. The invention can be used for casing straight wells or horizontal wells, solves the problem of layered or staged fracturing in the straight wells or the horizontal wells in oil fields, and achieves the purposes of saving fracturing cost, improving fracturing effect and reducing the construction risk.

Methods for drilling a new well in a field having a plurality of existing cased wells using magnetic ranging while drilling are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of drilling a new well in a field having an existing cased well includes drilling the new well using a bottom hole assembly (BHA) having a drill collar having by an insulated gap, generating a current on the BHA while drilling the new well, such that some of the current passes through a surrounding formation and travels along a casing of the existing cased well, measuring from the BHA a magnetic field caused by the current traveling along the casing of the existing cased well, and adjusting a trajectory of the BHA to avoid a collision between the new well and the existing cased well based on measurements of the magnetic field.

A method for increasing oil recovery from an oil reservoir in which method surplus gas streams from a plant for synthesis of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas is injected into the reservoir, is described. The surplus streams from the plant is the tailgas from the synthesis and optionally nitrogen from an air separation unit which delivers oxygen or oxygen enriched air to the plant for synthesis of higher hydrocarbons.

A method, system and computer program product for performing a drilling operation for an oil field, the oil field having a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs therein. The method involves creating a finite-difference model to simulate behavior of a drilling assembly used to drill a wellbore in the drilling operation, performing a simulation of the drilling operation using the finite-difference model, analyzing a result of the simulation, and selectively modifying the drilling operation based on the analysis.

The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one wellsite, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method includes determining a time-step for simulating the reservoir using a reservoir model, the reservoir being represented as a plurality of gridded cells and being modeled as a multi-phase system using a plurality of partial differential equations, calculating a plurality of Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) conditions of the reservoir model corresponding to the time-step, the plurality of CFL conditions being calculated for each of the plurality of gridded cells and comprising a temperature CFL condition, a composition CFL condition, and a saturation CFL condition calculated concurrently, simulating a first cell of the plurality of gridded cells using the reservoir model with an Implicit Pressure, Explicit Saturations (IMPES) system to obtain a first simulation result, the first cell having no CFL condition of the plurality of CFL conditions with a value greater than one, and simulating a second cell of the plurality of gridded cells using the reservoir model with a Fully Implicit Method (FIM) system to obtain a second simulation result, the second cell having at least one CFL condition of the plurality of CFL conditions with a value greater than one, and performing the oilfield operation based on the first and second simulation results.

The invention discloses an oil deposit inter-well dynamic connectivity inverting method. The oil deposit inter-well dynamic connectivity is obtained by adopting oil deposit injection and withdrawal dynamic data inverting based on signal processing technology. Firstly a multiple regression model of oil deposit inter-well dynamic connectivity is established, a first order linear system convolver is built according to the transmission characteristic of injectivity signal in oil deposit, the convolver is applied to pre-treatment on the injectivity signal, genetic algorithm is induced into optimization solution of inverting model, systematic training is carried out on parameters to be optimized, and inverting is carried out to obtain connectivity factor representing oil deposit inter-well dynamic connectivity and time constant representing time delay and attenuation properties of the injectivity signal. The invention has strong practicability and high universality, is mainly used for evaluating oil deposit inter-well dynamic connectivity and further guides oil-field development scheme formation and production optimization.

Systems and methods for managing large oil field operations are provided. A oil field map is displayed on a monitor. The oil field map includes oil well objects, oil field facility objects, surface work crew objects, subsurface work crew objects, safety zones objects, and work equipment rig objects associated with at least one work crew object and having a geographic locater device for tracking its location, each of the objects include a date attribute and a location attribute. The oil field map is customizable by date and has a date selector tool. At least two surface or sub-surface work crew objects are scheduled via a domain-specific software application from which the surface or sub-surface work crew object was extracted. The scheduling of the surface or sub-surface work crew objects is repeated until all surface and sub-surface work crews are scheduled for a date range of interest.

The invention relates to an integral treatment process of the oily sewage of an oil field. The process flow in the invention is as follows: settling sand, removing oil, breaking emulsion through air flotation, treating with a microwave-enhanced Fenton system, performing flocculation and air flotation, performing precision filtering, performing catalytic ozonation with an activated carbon fiber felt, and performing ultrafiltration to obtain clean water. By adopting the integral treatment process, the operations of oil removal, emulsion breaking, advanced oxidation, flocculation, catalytic ozonation and membrane separation can be continuously realized. The floor space of equipment in the invention is small; the treatment process is suitable for various oily sewage and has obvious treatment effect; the removal rate of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of raw water is more than 96%, and the oil content and the removal rate of suspended matters are 100%; and the turbidity of the obtained water is 4-6 NTU. The main indexes of the process provided by the invention such as the COD, oil content, suspended matters, turbidity and the like are better than those of the current oily sewage treatment process in oily sewage treatment; and the quality of the treated water can meet the related rules of the Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB8978-1996) and the Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water (GB3838-2002).

The invention relates to the field of oil-field drilling operation and provides an automatic control system and method of a petroleum drilling machine. The automatic control system comprises a master station and a plurality of slave stations, wherein a winch, an automatic driller, a rotary table and a mud pump are centrally controlled so that processes of well drilling operation can be dynamically, accurately and automatically controlled and good operation environment and work environment are provided for operating personnel.

A composition for reducing lost circulation in a well, while drilling the well with a drilling mud, which is composed of a base fluid, a mixture of particles, and a blend of fibers. The composition is used by stopping drilling with the mud, injecting a spacer, injecting the water-based composition, injecting a spacer, and resuming drilling with the oil-based mud.

The present invention is method of regulating oil field water injecting and oil producing system in very high water containing stage, and aims at solving the problems of too great ratio between oil producing well number and water injecting well number, too high water injecting pressure, and too low stratum pressure and flow pressure in very high water containing stage. The present invention adopts water injecting and oil producing mode with transverse linear water injecting well net, five point area well net, longitudinal linear water injecting well net, and determinant type water injecting well net. The present invention can raise oil output greatly.