Directional drilling involves three sections—vertical, curved, and horizontal—and is used for drilling offshore wells and mining unconventional resources. The initial design of a well trajectory is important because the total length of the well trajectory is associated with the drilling cost; furthermore, the drag force and torque may cause buckling and damage the drill pipe. The well trajectory should be optimized considering the length and load of drill pipes. In this study, a new method of optimizing directional well trajectory is used to formulate the objective function considering the length, drag, and torque. To verify the applicability of this method, we applied it to an actual oil well and a theoretical oil well. The results obtained show that the use of the proposed method in the initial design of drilling trajectory can reduce the torque by up to 15%, drag by 2.6%, and length by 8.5% for the two models used in this study. This method is safer as it reduces the risk of buckling compared to the design that relies on the previous designer’s experience, and it reduces the trajectory length; thus, it can save time and costs of drilling.
Abstract. Hydrocarbon leaks have a major accident potential and it could give significant damages to human, property and environment.To prevent these risks from the leak in design aspects, installation of ESD system is representative. Because the ESD system should be operated properly at any time, It needs high reliability and much cost. To make ESD system with high reliability and reasonable cost, it is a need to find specific design method.In this study, we proposed the multi-objective design optimization method and performed the optimization of the ESD system for 1st separation system to satisfy high reliability and costeffective.'NSGA-II (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II)' was applied and two objective functions of 'Reliability' and 'Cost' of system were defined. Six design variables were set to related variables for system configuration. To verify the result of the optimization, the results of existing design and optimum design were compared in aspects of reliability and cost. With the optimization method proposed from this study, it was possible to derive the reliable and economical design of the ESD system.
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