5158 results about "Oil well" patented technology

A method of managing a fluid or gas reservoir is disclosed which assimilates diverse data having different acquisition time scales and spatial scales of coverage for iteratively producing a reservoir development plan that is used for optimizing an overall performance of a reservoir. The method includes: (a) generating an initial reservoir characterization, (b) from the initial reservoir characterization, generating an initial reservoir development plan, (c) when the reservoir development plan is generated, incrementally advancing and generating a capital spending program, (d) when the capital spending program is generated, monitoring a performance of the reservoir by acquiring high rate monitor data from a first set of data measurements taken in the reservoir and using the high rate monitor data to perform well-regional and field-reservoir evaluations, (e) further monitoring the performance of the reservoir by acquiring low rate monitor data from a second set of data measurements taken in the reservoir, (f) assimilating together the high rate monitor data and the low rate monitor data, (g) from the high rate monitor data and the low rate monitor data, determining when it is necessary to update the initial reservoir development plan to produce a newly updated reservoir development plan, (h) when necessary, updating the initial reservoir development plan to produce the newly updated reservoir development plan, and (i) when the newly updated reservoir development plan is produced, repeating steps (c) through (h). A detailed disclosure is provided herein relating to the step (a) for generating the initial reservoir characterization and the step (b) for generating the initial reservoir development plan.

A system for hydraulically fracturing an underground formation in an oil or gas well to extract oil or gas from the formation, the oil or gas well having a wellbore that permits passage of fluid from the wellbore into the formation. The system includes a plurality of electric pumps fluidly connected to the well, and configured to pump fluid into the wellbore at high pressure so that the fluid passes from the wellbore into the and fractures the formation. The system can also include a plurality of natural gas powered generators electrically connected to the plurality of electric pumps to provide electrical power to the pumps.

A well treating composition contains an aqueous acid and at least one relatively lightweight proppant, preferably having an apparent specific gravity (ASG) less than or equal to 2.45. The acid fracturing composition may used to acid fracture a hydrocarbon reservoir within a subterranean formation of an oil or gas well. The composition may further be used to stimulate the production of hydrocarbons. The proportion of relatively lightweight proppant to acid in the composition is such that the dimensional fracture conductivity (C_fD) is in excess of 1.0. The aqueous acid typically has an ASG substantially equal to the ASG of the relatively lightweight particulate. As such, the relatively lightweight particulate is suspended in the aqueous acid.

A plug for a pipe in an oil or gas well includes a packer, a slip ring and a cone disposable on a mandrel and pressed between an upper push sleeve and a lower anvil on the mandrel. The plug can be field configurable with a frac plug kit, a bridge plug kit and a soluble insert plug kit. A pair of concentric locking rings is disposed between the push sleeve and the mandrel with an outer annular cone with an outer conical shape tapered upwardly and inwardly.

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 disclosed invention provides intelligent adaptive control for optimization of production output, energy efficiency and safety of a linear reciprocating long stroke hydraulic lift system, for use at the surface of oil and gas wells to extract fluids or gas after free flowing stopped due to natural decline of reservoir pressure.

The hydraulic pump and its adaptive control system introduced in this invention are capable of optimizing its production capacity by varying multiple operating parameters, including its stroking length and speed characteristics continuously and instantaneously at any point. Merits and benefits of this invention include significant increase in production efficiency, improved durability and longevity of the pumping equipment, significant power consumption savings and an ability to adapt effectively to changing well conditions.

A cement composition comprises fine pumice particles, for use in cementing subterranean wells, and oil and gas wells in particular. The pumice containing cement blends feature enhanced compressive strength, and favourable compressive strength to Young's Modulus ratios. Lightweight cement blends containing pumice, and their use in cementing oil and gas wells are also described.

A fiber optic sensor has a hollow tube bonded to the endface of an optical fiber, and a diaphragm bonded to the hollow tube. The fiber endface and diaphragm comprise an etalon cavity. The length of the etalon cavity changes when applied pressure or acceleration flexes the diaphragm. The entire structure can be made of fused silica. The fiber, tube, and diaphragm can be bonded with a fusion splice. The present sensor is particularly well suited for measuring pressure or acceleration in high temperature, high pressure and corrosive environments (e.g., oil well downholes and jet engines). The present sensors are also suitable for use in biological and medical applications.

Automated monitoring and management of well tests of hydrocarbon wells in a production field. Routing of the output of a well to a flow meter, separated from the output from other wells in the field, is detected by a computer system such as a server. Measurement data including the flow as measured by the flow meter, and also other measurements such as temperatures and pressures contemporaneous with the flow meter measurements, are acquired by the computer system; a stable period is identified, over which the flow test measurement data are considered valid. Upon completion of a specified duration or upon a change in the flow environment, the computer system notifies the user of the completion of the flow test. The flow test results can be used to modify predictive well models, with the modification dependent on validation by the user. The system can also plan and schedule future flow tests.

A sleeve valve for fluid flow between a hydrocarbon reservoir and a well includes a first sleeve and a second sleeve which are relatively movable between a first position in which at least one opening in the first sleeve is aligned or misaligned with at least one opening in the second sleeve in order to admit or shut off the fluid flow. The first sleeve is provided with a radially movable sealing element that has a sealing surface adapted to rest against the second sleeve around the second sleeve opening, and at least one tension element presses the sealing element with its sealing surface against the second sleeve. A method for the assembly of such a sleeve valve includes a sealing element and a tension element placed in the outer sleeve opening and a clamping tool is adapted to the opening in the sealing element and moved outwards together with the sealing element until the sealing element is flush with the inner surface of the outer sleeve. Thereafter, the inner sleeve is inserted into the outer sleeve and the sealing element is allowed to rest against the inner sleeve and the clamping tool is removed.

Fluids comprising an aqueous acid, synthetic polymer, metal crosslinking agent and lactic acid or a salt thereof have particular applicability in fracturing subterranean formations of an oil or gas well. The lactic acid acts as a delaying agent. As a result, crosslinking of the synthetic polymer and metal crosslinking agent typically occurs at a temperature of 100° F. or higher.

The present invention provides a microbial consortium containing three hyperthermophilic, barophilic, acidogenic, anaerobic bacterial strains for enhanced oil recovery from oil reservoirs where temperatures range from 70° C. to 90√ C. The said microbial consortium is unique in producing a variety of metabolic products mainly CO₂, methane, biosurfactant, volatile fatty acids and alcohols in the presence of specially designed nutrient medium. These metabolic products increase sweep efficiency of crude oil from oil bearing poles of rock formation. The present invention also provides a process for enhancing the oil recovery by in situ application of the said microbial consortium.

[Purpose]To provide a threaded connection capable of preventing deterioration of gas tightness from occurring when a tensile stress acts thereon after a compressive force in the direction of the axis of a pipe is applied.[Means of Solving Problems](1) A threaded connection for oil country tubular goods wherein a length (15) of a thick walled portion with a diameter defined in the formula (1), is longer than the length (16) from seal contact to the extremist of the pin section, shorter than a half of the length (17) of the pin section, the rest of inside diameter is equal to the inside diameter of pipe proper, having smooth tapered inner wall between thick walled portion and pipe proper. The inside diameter of the box section of torque shoulder section is the same as inside diameter of thick wall.Where dx(mm)=inside diameter of the thick walled portion of the pin section, and d0(mm)=inside diameter of the pipe proper.

An unlimited stroke drive method for pumping fluid from an oil well in which the well has a tubing string extending from the earth's surface down to a fluid producing formation. The method includes the steps of positioning a pump barrel within the tubing, an upper end of the pump barrel having communication through a standing valve with the interior of the tubing string, vertically reciprocating a length of flexible cable within the tubing string to vertically reciprocate a plunger within the pump barrel to allow a lower portion to quickly fill with fluid from the producing formation and then to a downward position in which fluid within the pump barrel lower portion is transferred through a traveling valve to an area within the pump barrel above the plunger to move formation fluid from within the pump barrel to the interior of the tubing and thence to the earth's surface.

The invention relates to a method for the sidetrack drilling of radial branch well bores through hydraulic jet and a device thereof. The device comprises a first oil pipe and a second oil pipe, wherein the external diameter of the first oil pipe is smaller than the internal diameter of a sleeve arranged inside an oil well; and the end part of the first oil pipe is connected with a deflector. The external diameter of the second oil pipe is smaller than the internal diameter of the first oil pipe; and the second oil pipe is connected with a sidetrack drilling tool carrying out the sidetrack drilling of the radial branch well bores. The external dimensions of the deflector are smaller than the internal diameter of the sleeve; the deflector has a through passage communicated with the top and the side wall; and the sidetrack drilling tool is deflected to the side wall from the top of the deflector via the through passage. The device overcomes well-known defects, can correctly and conveniently fix the deflector at a set stratum position and have a correct drilling position. The device is particularly suitable for the sidetrack drilling of a well with an ultra short radius, can operate conveniently on a ocean platform, thereby avoiding the downhole accidents caused by a downhole tool, effectively shortening the drilling cycle, saving the drilling cost, reducing the labor intensity ofworkers, improving the construction effects and having great market potential.

Methods and compositions comprising particles for use in various aspects of the life cycle of an oil and/or gas well are provided.

A flow rate control device (18) placed down an oil well in production comprises holes (24) formed in the production tubing (16), a closure sleeve (26) suitable for sliding facing the holes (24), an actuator (31) disposed eccentrically relative to the tubing (16), and an intermediate part (29). The intermediate part (29) is guided on the tubing (16) in a manner such as to withstand the tilting torque due to the eccentricity of the actuator (31). A coupling (46) that is flexible except in the direction in which the sleeve is moved connects the part (29) to the closure sleeve (26) symmetrically about the axis of the tubing (16). The resulting decoupling guarantees that the sleeve (26) is self-centering, which improves the life-span of the device (18) significantly.

The present invention relates to a block polymeric material. Typically the block polymer comprises units capable of having an average cationic charge density of about 15 or less, preferably 5 or less, more preferably from about 0.05 to about 5, even more preferably from about 0.05 to about 2.77, even more preferably from about 0.1 to about 2.75, most preferably from about 0.75 to about 2.25 units per 100 daltons molecular weight at a pH of from about 4 to about 12. The polymeric material is a suds enhancer and a suds volume extender for personal care products such as soaps and shampoos. The compositions have increased effectiveness for preventing re-deposition of grease during hand and body washing. The polymers are also effective as a soil release agent in fabric cleaning compositions. The polymeric material is also effective in oil well treating foam, fire-fighting foam, hard surface cleaning foam, shaving cream, post-foaming shaving gel, dephiliatories and as a coagulant/retention aid for titanium dioxide in paper making.

The invention relates to a coiled tubing supercritical CO2 jet fracturing method. The method is used for performing jet fracturing on oil well reservoirs by taking supercritical CO2 as fracturing fluid. By the method, a supercritical CO2 fluid is used as the fracturing fluid to perform the jet fracturing; a supercritical CO2 sand jet perforating hole can reduce system pressure; the pressure needed by fissure extension can be further reduced by the characteristics of low viscosity and high dispersion performance of the supercritical CO2 fluid; most importantly, the supercritical CO2 jet fracturing does not pollute the reservoirs, but the supercritical CO2 can further improve the oil and gas recovery ratio after entering the reservoirs; the return discharge is not needed after the fracturing is completed; when the stage-by-stage jet fracturing is performed by using the coiled tubing, a tube pillar can be lifted or put down without mineshaft pressure relieving, the operation process is reduced and the operation cost is reduced, so that the method is extremely suitable for fracturing modification of unconventional oil-gas reservoirs such as thick oil reservoirs, low permeability and super-low permeability oil-gas reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, coal bed methane reservoirs and the like of which the effects are low by using the conventional water-based fracturing fluid.

A section mill for casings used in oil wells to cut predetermined portions for repair purposes. An elongated cylindrical assembly is inserted through the casing and it includes at least two spaced apart apertures with one blade member pivotally mounted within each aperture. First and second coaxially disposed tubular shaft assemblies with teethed portions to coact with the blades to selectively move them between two extreme position upon the application of a pressurized fluid. The fluid needs to overcome the spring biased applied to the shaft assemblies. The first set of blades is stopped and slidably rotates in contact with the internal surface of the casing. The second set cuts through the casing with one end and sections the casing with the other end. After wearing off, the first set of blades continues the sectioning work.

A method of treating a well consists of introducing into the wellbore a biodegradable fluid system containing a blend of lactic acid ester, such as ethyl lactate, and a fatty acid ester, such as methyl soyate. The fluid system may be further in the form of a microemulsion that is formed by combining a blend with one or more emulsifiers, an alcohol, and water. The fluid system may be used in displacement, well remediation and stimulation as well as additional, alternative applications such as the cleaning of surface and/or downhole equipment.

A settable thixotropic material comprises a thixotrope and a settable substance, the material being capable of gelling reversibly in a gelling time of less than 60 seconds. The thixotrope conveniently comprises a fine grained clay, especially smectite clays, e.g. hectorites. It is preferred to use synthetic smectite type clay colloids, and goods results have been obtained with the synthetic clay known as Laponite RDS. The settable material conveniently comprises cement, particularly Portland cement. The thixotropic material finds use generally in oilwell applications, e.g. to plug lost circulation zones, to repair damaged or corroded casing, as grouts, and to limit annular gas migration. The material also finds particular application in techniques for completion of horizontal wells completed with slotted or pre-drilled liners.

The invention discloses an exploitation method for a wax precipitation oil reservoir. The method comprises the step of adding a chemical agent and thermal fluid into an oil layer to make crude oil in the oil layer smoothly seep into an oil well and then rise to the ground surface. The method has the advantages of effectively solving the problem of wax precipitation of the crude oil in the oil layer and exploiting the wax precipitation oil reservoir, greatly reducing the exploitation cost of the wax precipitation oil reservoir, prolonging the production period and increasing the yield of the oil well and enhancing the final recovery efficiency of the oil reservoir, along with easy implementation, safety and reliability and obvious economic benefit.

Provided are coated sleeved oil and gas well production devices and methods of making and using such coated sleeved devices. In one form, the coated sleeved oil and gas well production device includes an oil and gas well production device including one or more bodies and one or more sleeves proximal to the outer or inner surface of the one or more bodies, and a coating on at least a portion of the inner sleeve surface, outer sleeve surface, or a combination thereof, wherein the coating is chosen from an amorphous alloy, a heat-treated electroless or electro plated based nickel-phosphorous composite with a phosphorous content greater than 12 wt %, graphite, MoS₂, WS₂, a fullerene based composite, a boride based cermet, a quasicrystalline material, a diamond based material, diamond-like-carbon (DLC), boron nitride, and combinations thereof. The coated sleeved oil and gas well production devices may provide for reduced friction, wear, erosion, corrosion, and deposits for well construction, completion and production of oil and gas.

The invention provides a channeling preventing and plugging agent and a construction method for controlling plugging and sealing channeling by utilizing the channeling preventing and plugging agent. The channeling preventing and plugging agent comprises a high-temperature-resistance pre-plugging agent serving as a pre-posed pre-plugging plug, an enhanced gel plugging agent serving as an intermediate enhanced plug and a high-strength resin plugging agent serving as a postposed sealing plug. The channeling preventing and plugging agent has the characteristics of high temperature resistance, long-term stability, good plugging performance and the like. The invention further provides a construction method for controlling plugging and sealing channeling by utilizing the channeling preventing and plugging agent. The method has a simple constructing process, and can be used for constructing after the channeling preventing and plugging agent is directly prepared on the spot. The channeling preventing and plugging agent can be used for effectively solving the adverse impact of the steam/air channeling phenomenon of a heavy oil thermal production well on production, and has an important effect on prolonging the production cycle of a heavy oil well and improving the recovery efficiency.

A well treating composition of a composite containing a scale inhibitor adsorbed onto a water-insoluble adsorbent is useful in the control, formation and treatment of inorganic scales in a subterranean formation or wellbore. In addition, the well treating composition is useful in controlling the rate of release of scale inhibitor in the wellbore. The water-insoluble adsorbent may be activated carbon, silica particulate, precipitated silica, zeolite, diatomaceous earth, ground walnut shells, fuller's earth and organic synthetic high molecular weight water-insoluble adsorbents. The composite may be introduced into an oil or gas well with a carrier fluid.

The invention relates to a determining method for surveying the reserves of hypotonic clastic rock oil-gas reservoir positioned on a clastic rock oil (gas) geological reservoir enrichment boundary, comprising the following steps of: carrying out statistical regression on the daily produced oil-gas data and water data of the traditional testing oil well and the traditional testing gas well and thecorresponding physical data, oil-bearing data and electrical data of an oil layer to determine the physical lower limit value, the oil-bearing lower limit value and the electrical lower limit value of an oil-gas layer, which correspond to industrial oil-gas flows; determining the minimum values of output and a sand body thickness according to the relationship between an effective thickness and test oil output and between the sand body thickness and test production; determining the area boundary of the oil-gas reservoir by using a sandrock thickness isoline method and an effective thickness isoline method; and calculating the reserves of the hypotonic clastic rock oil-gas reservoir. The invention solves the problem that the oil-bearing area of the traditional hypotonic clastic rock oil (gas) reservoir is extrapolated depending on artificial well points, is convenient to apply in the calculation of the reserves, can not only be used for more accurately calculating the reserves of oil (gas) reservoir, but also furthest save the exploration discovery workload and reduce the discovery cost of ton reserves, thereby enhancing the economic benefits of oil-gas exploration and development.

A well screen assembly (70) with a controllable variable flow area. The well screen assembly (70) comprises an outer tubular section (80), the outer tubular section (80) containing a first plurality of openings (90) disposed in a pattern (100) throughout a length “L” of the outer tubular section (80); an inner tubular section (110) that is disposed within the outer tubular section (80), the inner tubular section (110) containing a second plurality of openings (120) disposed in the same pattern (100) throughout a length L of the inner tubular section (110), and when the first plurality of openings (90) and second plurality of openings (120) align, the openings form a plurality of passageways (130) through the outer tubular section (80) and inner tubular section (110). The well screen assembly (70) may therefore, vary the flow of production fluid through it and upwards through the interior of a production tubing (40).

The invention relates to a microemulsion-type fracture acidizing cleanup additive, and a preparation method and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of petrochemical industry. The microemulsion-type fracture acidizing cleanup additive is prepared from the following components in percentage by weight:5-10% of surfactant, 2-8% of cosurfactant, 35-45% of oil phase, 35-45% of water phase and 3-10% of inorganic electrolyte. The microemulsion-type fracture acidizing cleanup additive provided by the invention has a function of restoring reservoir permeability; and compared with the existing cleanup additive system, the microemulsion-type fracture acidizing cleanup additive provided by the invention can reduce the degree of reservoir damage, which is caused by incompatibility of water locks, residues and formation fluids in the wellbore area of an oil well in the fracture acidizing process of an oil and gas well, by more than 50%.

The invention provides a method for measuring the liquid-producing of oil well and optimizing the working condition, and the system. The method comprises obtaining the floor data transferred by sensor on the oil pumping unit in oil well, transferring the floor data to condition collection and monitor cell by no-wire communicated net; taking over said floor data by condition collection and monitor cell and transferring the floor data to the measuring cell for liquid-producing and monitoring the running condition of oil well; after taking over the floor data by the measuring cell for liquid-producing, calculating liquid-producing according to the floor data and the base data stored in database. By the invention, under the condition that there in no measuring station in oil well, the automatic extraction for the floor data of remote oil well is realized and the dynamic change can be mastered in time under no-human on duty.