WO2004051129A2 - Expandable composite tubulars - Google Patents
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- WO2004051129A2 WO2004051129A2 PCT/US2003/038267 US0338267W WO2004051129A2 WO 2004051129 A2 WO2004051129 A2 WO 2004051129A2 US 0338267 W US0338267 W US 0338267W WO 2004051129 A2 WO2004051129 A2 WO 2004051129A2
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- tubular string
- wellbore
- tubular
- expanding
- healing agent
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B17/00—Drilling rods or pipes; Flexible drill strings; Kellies; Drill collars; Sucker rods; Cables; Casings; Tubings
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
- E21B43/02—Subsoil filtering
- E21B43/10—Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
- E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
- E21B43/02—Subsoil filtering
- E21B43/10—Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells
- E21B43/103—Setting of casings, screens, liners or the like in wells of expandable casings, screens, liners, or the like
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- the field of this invention relates to tubulars that are expanded downhole and more particularly to composite tubulars that can be expanded wherein the expansion triggers a polymerization reaction to lend rigidity to the expanded tubular or the reaction is otherwise triggered independent of the expansion.
- U.S. Patent 5,634,743 uses a flexible lining that contains a curable synthetic resin in conjunction with a device advanced with the lining to apply ultrasonic energy to the leading end of the lining, as the lining is unfurled along the center of the pipe to be lined. Expansion is not contemplated in this process.
- U.S. Patent 5,925,409 shows a multi step procedure where a resin containing hydrogen is reacted with a polycarbodiimide to make a tube that can be inserted into another tube for the purpose of lining it. The inner tube is inflated to contact the outer tube and then cured in place with hot air or water, electricity or radiation. The liner tube is inflated as opposed to expanded. A similar concept is employed in German Application DE 3732694 Al .
- U.S. Application U.S. 2001/0010781 Al involves putting cables in a strip and then inflating a liner over the strip. The final step is to set the body with hot water in the liner or heat from cables that run through the body.
- the object of this invention is to employ non-traditional materials for well tubulars by taking advantage of their properties to allow the tubular to be rapidly deployed into a wellbore and then expanded in place.
- the expansion can trigger a reaction that will harden the tubular in place to allow it to function downhole.
- the reaction can be otherwise triggered and the tubular expanded.
- healing agents can also be encapsulated in the tubular to heal subsequently forming cracks that may develop during the service life of the expanded tubular.
- composites that are flexible until a reaction occurs are envisioned as the preferred material
- other materials are envisioned that preferably can be coiled with the catalyst encapsulated and that become rigid on expansion with the liberation of the catalyst.
- Composite tubulars that have not been polymerized and are thus flexible enough to be coiled are delivered into a wellbore and expanded.
- the expansion occurs from an external catalyst such as heat or releases the internal catalyst and allows the expanded tubular to become rigid.
- the reaction can be triggered independently of the expansion.
- healing agents can be imbedded in the tubular wall to be released to seal subsequently forming cracks.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the wall of the tubular showing the catalyst that can be released on expansion and healing agent that can subsequently be released to fill stress cracks;
- Figure 2 is a schematic view of the tubing fed into a wellbore off of a reel prior to expansion
- Figure 3 is the view of Figure 2 shown after the tubing is expanded and made rigid from the expansion.
- Figure 4 shows release of the catalyst occurring independently of expansion with a swage as the swage is advanced.
- Figure 1 shows a schematic representation of a wall of a tubular that is preferably a composite epoxy resin system composed of a fiber material 10 and further featuring encapsulated catalysts and hardeners 12 that are liberated when the tubular 14 is placed downhole as shown in Figure 2 and then expanded by any one of a variety of known techniques such as by a swage 16.lt should be noted that the tubular that is initially in a flexible state can be reshaped to its original dimension without being expanded in the context used herein. Expansion is an increase in size above the original dimension when in the flexible state, regardless of the manner such increase in dimension is accomplished. After expansion, the encapsulated catalyst is liberated and a hardening reaction takes place.
- the reaction can be instigated by a mechanism independent of the expansion or the two events can occur contemporaneously.
- an energy source such as electro-magnetic, acoustic, or nuclear can be secured to an advancing swage where the source triggers the reaction in the tubular by permitting the catalyst to operate to trigger the reaction and the swage 16 expands the tubular.
- the two events would occur contemporaneously rather than one triggering the other.
- This mode of operation is shown in Figure 4.
- the formerly limp tubular, that can optionally be lined with a metallic sacrificial inner sleeve 18 comes off a reel 20 and can be rapidly deployed downhole.
- the tubular 14 can also be partially or fully inflated to its original maximum dimension for insertion but not expanded. When it is in position, it can be expanded to trigger the release of the catalyst to begin the hardening of the tubular 14.
- the catalyst and/or hardening agents can be selected for the expected temperatures and the desired final mechanical properties with materials currently available from General Pacific Chemical.
- a healing agent 24 can be encapsulated 26 in a manner that will retain the healing agent even despite prior expansion. Only a subsequently formed stress crack 28 will allow the healing agent 24 to flow into it to seal it up.
- the encapsulation 26 for the healing agent 24 will thus need to be severed or otherwise defeated.
- Simple expansion of the tubular 14 will release the catalyst 12 so that a reaction will commence with the fiber reinforced epoxy material that forms the tubular 14.
- the liner 18 can remain intact or actually rip during the expansion.
- liner 18 may be fully omitted.
- the catalyst 12 can be tied up in the wall of the tubular in a physical or chemical way and can be liberated at the required time in a variety of techniques.
- the encapsulation of the catalyst can be defeated to trigger the desired hardening reaction by applying nuclear, magnetic, electric or electromagnetic energy or light radiation or the addition of or exposure to a chemical.
- Yet other ways include applied force or pressure or the introduction of a chemical to break the encapsulation for the catalyst.
- the catalyst can be selectively deposited to straddle the expected pay zones so that in the region of expected production the tubular will remain unhardened and could permit production while above or below that zone the expanded tubular is hardened to preclude production or channeling between zones.
- the healing agent 24 can be similarly distributed.
- the fracture-healing feature is an adaptation of the process developed at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and adapted to a tubular structure for downhole use.
- the tubular 14 can be made of a shape memory material that originally has a desired final diameter.
- the preformed material is heated under an applied force to alter its shape and then cooled to be able to advance it into the wellbore. After being advanced into the wellbore, the downhole temperature or additional supplied heat causes the material to resume its original shape at the desired diameter downhole.
- This approach adapts a spacecraft application of such materials to a tubular structure for downhole use. It should be noted that expansion is not required as the original tubular shape is already of the desired dimension, without expansion. However, to the extent that the elastic memory composite can withstand expansion forces, then some expansion can also be undertaken.
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Priority Applications (5)
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CA2508453A CA2508453C (en) | 2002-12-04 | 2003-12-03 | Expandable composite tubulars |
GB0511674A GB2411922B (en) | 2002-12-04 | 2003-12-03 | Expandable composite tubulars |
AU2003297615A AU2003297615B2 (en) | 2002-12-04 | 2003-12-03 | Expandable composite tubulars |
NO20052713A NO340299B1 (en) | 2002-12-04 | 2005-06-06 | How to install a pipe string in a borehole |
AU2008237556A AU2008237556B2 (en) | 2002-12-04 | 2008-10-28 | Expandable composite tubulars |
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US43086402P | 2002-12-04 | 2002-12-04 | |
US60/430,864 | 2002-12-04 |
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CA (1) | CA2508453C (en) |
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DE3732694A1 (en) | 1987-09-29 | 1989-04-13 | Roland Herr | Process and apparatus for lining sewers |
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DE3732694A1 (en) | 1987-09-29 | 1989-04-13 | Roland Herr | Process and apparatus for lining sewers |
WO1993015131A2 (en) | 1992-01-17 | 1993-08-05 | Brian Burnett Chandler | Curable resin systems and applications thereof |
US5634743A (en) | 1995-06-10 | 1997-06-03 | Sound Pipe, Ltd. | Lining of pipelines and passageways |
US5925409A (en) | 1997-08-27 | 1999-07-20 | Reichhold, Inc. | Resins for lining surfaces |
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