The effect of drill–pipe rotation on improving hole cleaning using polypropylene beads in water-based mud at different hole angles

Katende, Allan; Segar, B.; Ismail, Issham; Sagala, Farad; Saadiah, Halimatun; Samsuri, Ariffin

doi:10.1007/s13202-019-00815-1

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“…1-The average error ratio between the results of the numerical simulation is 5 % with the experimental results of researcher Ismail [19]. From this ratio, it is clear that there is reliability in the use of numerical simulation programs.…”

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“…In order to reach high reliability in the use of numerical simulation programs to explain the parameters associated with the process of drilling oil wells and their impact on the ability of drilling fluid to transport cuttings, simulations of experimental models were conducted for other researcher (Ismail et al [19]) using the Eulerian-Eulerian model. Fig.…”

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Lifting capacity efficiency using polyethylene beads: A numerical investigation

Gholam

Alhamdoa

Hussein

et al. 2021

QJES

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Global demand growth has driven the development of more inventive methods for enhancing oil well drilling at lower prices and avoiding operational issues that slow down oil well drilling. The present research is significant because the lifting capacity may be increased by inserting polymer beads into drilling mud instead of high-cost additives. The numerical cuttings trajectory simulation was performed using the commercial ANSYS FLUENT 2019 R3 software to account for the influence of cuttings collisions. To test the cuts transport behavior owing to the presence of liquid and solid phases, the (Eulerian-Eulerian) model was utilized. The mind transfer rate is determined in this simulation by varying the operating parameters (drilling mud flow rate and temperature, cuttings size and inclination, drill pipe rotation and eccentricity) with and without polyethylene (PE) beads. The result show that the average error ratio between the results of the numerical simulation is 5 % with the experimental results of researcher Ismail. The higher the percentage of PE beads entering with the drilling fluid, the lower the concentration of the cuttings within the annular space of the simulation model. The concentration of cuttings within the annular space reaches 28 % when drilling fluid flows at a speed of 1.2 m/s without adding polyethylene PE beads. While it decreases to (17, 21, 24) % when adding beads by (6, 4, 2) %, respectively, at the same flow velocity of drilling fluid. The decrease in the concentration of cuttings within the annular space of the simulation model reaches 14 % when PE beads are inserting with drilling fluid by 6 % and the drill pipe rotation speed is 0 rpm, While the percentage increases to 65 % when the drill pipe rotation speed is increased to 120 rpm at the same ratio of PE beads entering with the drilling fluid. The reduction percentage of the cuttings concentration within the annular space of the simulation model reaches 30 % when 6 % of PE beads are entered into the drilling fluid at a temperature of 20 ℃, while the percentage is reduced to 14 % when the drilling fluid temperature is 50 ℃ at the same percentage of PE beads is inserting. The inserting of polyethylene (PE) beads with the drilling fluid has increased the ability of the drilling fluid to move the cuttings, but it is affected by the amount of drilling angle, as we found that the effect of the polyethylene (PE) beads is effective and clear when the drilling angle is 0˚ (vertical). While its effect becomes less at the drilling angle of directional wells and becomes very weak at the drilling angle of 90˚ (horizontal).The inserting of polyethylene (PE) beads with drilling fluid has a good and positive effect with large-sized cuttings when compared with the impact of the beads with smaller-sized cuttings.

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Lifting capacity efficiency using polyethylene beads: A numerical investigation

Gholam

Alhamdoa

Hussein

et al. 2021

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“…Similarly to the Boycott settling phenomena described in 1920 [11], which showed that blood corpuscles settle faster in inclined test tubes than in vertical ones; the drilled cuttings tend to settle faster in inclined trajectories. Among the different researchers, the common results showed that between 45 • and 60 • is the most critical angle for cuttings lifting and transport [12][13][14][15][16]. Nevertheless, the critical angle can swift between 60 • and 90 • depending on the drilling fluid type, flow rate [17] and the drill-pipe rotation and practical setup, as well as the conditions used for research.…”

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Fundamentals and Physical Principles for Drilled Cuttings Transport—Cuttings Bed Sedimentation and Erosion

2021

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The increasing necessity of challenging wellbore structures and drilling optimization for improved hole cuttings cleaning has been growing along time. As a result, operator companies have been researching and applying different hole cleaning techniques. Some of these are applied as traditional rules of thumb but are not always suitable for the new and up-coming challenges. This may result in inefficient hole cleaning, non-productive times, pipe stocking and low rate of penetration (ROP), among other problems. Here are presented some results and improvements for hole cleaning optimization obtained by the different research groups. The different authors mainly focus on specific cuttings transport parameters and sometimes combination of some of them. For this reason, there has not been a study that takes into account all of the different factors at the same time to accurately predict the cuttings bed height, formation and erosion, critical fluid velocity and properties and other key parameters. Consequently, there is a lack of understanding about the relation between different factors, such as the cohesiveness of the drilled cuttings with the different interstitial drilling fluids within the cuttings-bed. This relation can be analyzed establishing a wet-granular approach to obtain more efficient cuttings transport mechanism in challenging conditions.

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“…The influence of DS rotation on mud transport was confirmed, as well as a decrease in the "turbulent effect" with an increase in DF viscosity [13]. In 2018-2019 a group of international researchers published the results of the effect of rotation of the DF on cleaning the well with the use of polypropylene particles in DF at different zenith angles [26][27][28]. In 2020-2021 a group of Norwegian scientists published the results [29,30] of hydraulic studies and mud transport with oil-based solutions in deviated wells, using a large-scale laboratory facility developed with the support of Aker BP and M-I SWACO.…”

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Development of Technology for Hydromechanical Breakdown of Mud Plugs and Improvement of Well Cleaning by Controlled Buckling of the Drill String

Kadochnikov

Dvoynikov

2022

Applied Sciences

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The article provides brief information about a non-standard experimental setup developed in the laboratory of the St. Petersburg Mining University Well Drilling Department. The developed technique presented makes it possible to simulate well cleaning process of cuttings by incorporating the variation of the parameters (the zenith angle of the well, the volume flow and rheological properties of the cleaning agent, the rotation frequency, the number and length of the drill string half-waves) that cause buckling. For the first time, the positive side of the drill string (DS) buckling phenomenon is considered. A positive hydro-mechanical effect on mud plugs and improved well cleaning were revealed. The results of the experimental study confirm an intense difficulty in transporting cuttings to the surface at a critical zenith angle of the well of 55°. Regularities have been established making it possible to determine the effect of DS buckling on the cutting-carrying capacity when drilling deviated and extended reach wells. It is proposed to use hydromechanical impact on the accumulated cuttings by artificially controlling the resulting DS buckling in order to destroy the mud plug and increase the efficiency of well cleaning without the use of specialized devices. A conceptual solution aimed at implementing a method for hydromechanical destruction of mud plugs—the use of drill pipes equipped with a quasi-distributed differential measuring system of strain gauges based on a fiber-optic Bragg grating—is presented.

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The effect of drill–pipe rotation on improving hole cleaning using polypropylene beads in water-based mud at different hole angles

Cited by 38 publications

References 57 publications

Lifting capacity efficiency using polyethylene beads: A numerical investigation

Lifting capacity efficiency using polyethylene beads: A numerical investigation

Fundamentals and Physical Principles for Drilled Cuttings Transport—Cuttings Bed Sedimentation and Erosion

Development of Technology for Hydromechanical Breakdown of Mud Plugs and Improvement of Well Cleaning by Controlled Buckling of the Drill String

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