Research on the wellbore stability based on the porous elastic model and the dynamic temperature field
Author of the article:LIU Yupei1, YUE Jiaping1, PENG Tao2, LI Baixue3, PING Wei4
Author's Workplace:1. CNOOC Research Institute Ltd., Beijing, 100020, China; 2. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Jianghan Oilfield Branch Petroleum Engineering Technology Research Institute, Wuhan, Hubei, 430033, China; 3. School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430100, China; 4. West-East Gas Pipeline Branch of State Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200120, China
Key Words:Complex formation; Thermal porous elastic model; Drilling fluid circulation; Wellbore stability
Abstract:
The instability and collapse of the wellbore are the
problems that must be dealt with in the drilling engineering. Aiming at the
ultra-deep drilling (>6 000 m) process of complex formations, especially
discontinuous formations, the stability of the wellbore in complex and special
formations is analyzed through the coupling effects of rock mechanical
properties, pore seepage, wellbore stress and temperature field. This paper
uses the linear superposition principle to combine the thermally induced stress
components which caused by the influence of formation seepage, pore pressure
changes and changes in the formation temperature field into the in-situ porous
elastic model, built up a thermal porous elastic model, and combined the D-P
failure criterion and the “stress cloud” idea to establish a wellbore instability analysis model coupled
with a porous elastic model and a dynamic temperature field, and the drilling
process of an example well in the shallow part of deep water block is
validated. The results show that longer drilling circulation time can achieve
better formation cooling and hole cleaning effects, but as the circulation time
increases, the temperature difference between the wellbore and the formation is
too large, and the superimposed thermally induced stress value will increase.
The stress difference in all directions of a large rock formation is more prone
to instability. The research results broaden the range of application of the
previous method of wellbore stability analysis and improve the calculation
accuracy.