131results about "Fluid removal" patented technology

A hydrocarbon drilling fluid system is disclosed including a hydrocarbon fluid and a foaming composition, where the foaming composition includes a polymer, a gelling agent and its cross-linking agent, an optional foaming agent, or mixtures or combinations thereof. Uses of this drilling fluid system in a variety of downhole application are also disclosed.

The invention provides a system comprising: a tubular containing a first surface comprising a coating made of a first swellable material coating said first surface, wherein said coating has a second surface and said first swellable material is able to swell in contact with a first fluid on said second surface; and a composition made of a settable material and a second swellable material able to swell in contact with a second fluid. The invention also discloses the method associated with the use of such a system.

A method of preventing fluid loss to a wellbore that includes pumping a wellbore fluid into the wellbore through a subterranean formation, the wellbore fluid comprising: a base fluid; and a plurality of particulate bridging agents comprising a solid breaking agent encapsulated by one of an inorganic solid material and an oil-soluble resin; and allowing some filtration of the wellbore fluid into the subterranean formation to produce a filter cake comprising the particulate bridging agents is disclosed.

Gas from a tight gas formation may be produced using a drain hole having a juncture to a main wellbore and a terminal end at a depth higher than the juncture. The terminal end may be positioned in the tight gas formation.

Method of imaging seismic data recorded using a set of seismic receivers positioned to receive seismic responses from a subsurface formation upon activating a seismic source. The seismic responses are direction-sensitive responses. A virtual signal received by receiver k from the virtual source at the position of receiver m is determined by processing involving cross correlating at least part of the responses of a receiver m with at least part of the responses of a seismic receiver k. Part of direction-sensitive responses or part of the virtual signal that contains a component of the wave field at receiver m traveling in a first direction and part of the direction-sensitive responses or part of the virtual signal that contains a component of the wave field at the receiver k traveling in a second direction may be removed.

Communications cable is provided for use in downhole wells wherein the cable will be exposed to a temperature of at least 280° C., the cable including as a component thereof a composition comprising melt-fabricable tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer and melt flowable polytetrafluoroethylene, said polytetrafluoroethylene by itself having no tensile property and being present in said composition in an amount effective to enable the component to withstand this temperature, with the high temperature exposure of the cable component being effective to thermally transform the composition in the solid state, thereby obtaining epitaxial co-crystallization.

A method and system for treating a portion of a hydrocarbon-bearing formation of a crude oil reservoir containing heavy hydrocarbons using a microwave enhanced heavy hydrocarbon recovery system includes forming a horizontal injection well having an injection horizontal run, forming a horizontal microwave source well having a microwave source horizontal run, forming a horizontal production well having a production horizontal run, introducing a treatment fluid into the crude oil reservoir through the horizontal injection well, introducing a microwave antenna having a microwave emitter into the horizontal microwave source well, introducing electrical power to the microwave emitter such, forming a microwave energy field which reduces the viscosity of the heavy hydrocarbons and forms a production fluid forms, and extracting the production fluid through the horizontal production well. The injection horizontal run is positioned below both the microwave source horizontal run and the production horizontal run.

The flow of a stimulation fluid may be diverted from a high permeability zone to a low permeability portion of a subterranean formation by use of an acid soluble or acid degradable solid particulate and a composite of an acid or an acid generating compound adsorbed onto a water-insoluble adsorbent. Conductive flow of hydrocarbons from an occluded fracture may be resumed by release of the acid from the adsorbent or the acid generating compound.

The invention relates to a carbon dioxide drive oil reservoir production method capable of realizing stage control on fluidity. The method is characterized in that for an oil reservoir formed by homogeneous cores and heterogeneous cores with the permeability ratio not exceeding 30, a water and gas alternate injection method is adopted for production; for an oil reservoir formed by heterogeneous cores with the permeability ratio in a range of 30 to 100, a carbon dioxide drive method is adopted for production; in the carbon dioxide drive process, when gas channeling occurs in a production well, small aliphatic amine molecules are used as main agents to be injected into the formation for sealing and plugging; for an oil reservoir formed by heterogeneous cores with the permeability ratio being higher than 100, the carbon dioxide drive method is adopted for production; in the carbon dioxide drive process, when the gas channeling occurs in the production well for the first time, elastic strong glue is injected into the formation for sealing and plugging; and when the gas channeling occurs in the production well again, the small aliphatic amine molecules are used as main agents to be injected into the formation for sealing and plugging.

Recovery of viscous hydrocarbon by hot fluid injection into subterranean formations is assisted by using a specially designed and under-reamed vertical wellbore with multiple injection perforations separated from the production perforations by a moveable packer. In this oil recovery method the operator drills a typical vertical well, in which a cavity is developed below the pay zone by under-reaming the vertical wellbore to form a collection cavity. This under-reaming can be made up to several feet in diameter using standard reaming technology and tools. Steam is injected into the upper perforations and is prevented from bypassing the cold formation by a vertical hydraulic seal developed in an annular communication zone. Hot oil is produced into the lower perforations and is collected in the reamed out production cavity. A producing mechanism including pumping equipment lifts the produced oil from the central cavity to the surface.

The invention discloses a preparation method of an oleophilic hydrophobic coated proppant. The method comprises the following steps: 1) mixing a thermoplastic resin and petroleum asphalt, heating to 70-100 DEG C, melting, stirring and compounding to obtain a compounded resin; and weighing 20-40-mesh quartz sand and haydite aggregate, adding into a resin sand mill, heating to 140-230 DEG C, sequentially adding a silane coupling agent, the compounded resin, a plasticizer and an amine curing agent while stirring, adding a dispersing agent when a dispersion evidence occurs, discharging, cooling, and screening to obtain the oleophilic hydrophobic coated proppant. After adding the asphalt, the coated proppant product has favorable oleophilicity and hydrophobicity, has higher flow conductivity in crude oil than the traditional coated proppant, is beneficial to petroleum exploitation, enhances the oil output of the crude oil, and has crucial importance for enhancing crude oil production rate and grade of China.

This disclosure concerns a static oil/water separation chamber that is installed in a well extending to an underaround production formation containing hydrocarbon oil and water. The separation chamber has an inlet for receiving well fluid from a section below the separation chamber and two outlets. One outlet discharges a water-enriched component into a discharge well section, and the other outlet produces an oil-enriched component. The height of the separation chamber is larger than the thickness of the dispersion band that is formed under normal operating conditions.

The disclosure is drawn to methods of drilling wells utilizing blow out prevention components of differing pressure ratings. In the initial drilling phase, a lower pressure rated blow out prevention component is used. In a subsequent drilling phase where a reservoir of a natural resource is penetrated, a higher pressure rated blow out prevention component is used.

The invention provides a hot-dry rock fracturing high-pressure extraction laboratory simulation device. The device comprises a fracturing fluid injection system, a proppant injection system, a high-pressure gas boosting injection system, a fracturing body, an annular pressure applying system and a high-pressure pipe valve. The proppant injection system comprises indirect proppant injection and curing. The high-pressure gas boosting injection system comprises gas boosting and indirect gas injection. The fracturing body comprises a sample fracturing chamber and a sample annular-pressure chamber. The fracturing chamber comprises a three-dimensional fixing support and a three-dimensional hydraulic system. The three-dimensional hydraulic system comprises a hydraulic sliding cavity and a hydraulic moving plug. The sample annular-pressure chamber comprises an annular-pressure chamber steel plate and an inner gum sleeve, a cavity is formed between the gum sleeve and the steel plate, and fluid is injected to realize pressure coating effect. Fracturing fluid injection and annular pressure application are both realized by connection of a high-pressure pipeline with a high-pressure control component. A split module combination structure is adopted, original samples of fracturing samples are ensured to be unchanged, proppant injection is performed accurately, high-pressure gas is injected for displacement and reproduction, and recovery ratio is increased. The device has the advantages of novel structure and safety and durability.

A service/completion liner having a plurality of downhole selectable indicating tools and being used in sand control (gravel pack) placement systems in conjunction with a straddle packer service tools or with conventional crossover type service tools. Each indicating collar has a downhole selectable indicating collar providing a robust, landing profile for precisely locating and maintaining service tool position during well treatment operations. The landing collars accommodate hydraulic and/or thermal effects commonly referred to as tubing move effects which are the principle cause of tool position error and excessive seal wear. The landing collar is downhole convertible between a pass through (Go) and non pass through (No-go) condition by simple upward and downward cycling via the tool running and treatment fluid tubing and a shifting tool, which may also be referred to as a set down collet. The shifting/set down collet is also used to open and close a downhole sliding sleeve valve and may be an integral part of an injection tool or a tool for gravel or fracture packing. A sliding sleeve valve design and a straddle packer configuration that protects the primary PBRs in the gravel pack system and also protects the sliding sleeve while sand is placed in the screen casing annulus.

The invention relates to a low-density high-intensity ceramsite fracturing propping agent and a preparation method thereof. The low-density high-intensity ceramsite fracturing propping agent has a core material body which is composed of the following materials in percentage by weight: 30-40% of bauxite, 10-15% of talcum, 10-12 % of mullite, 12-15% of metakaolin, 6-15% of potassium feldspar, 3-6.5% of titanium dioxide, 1-3% of manganese powder, 3-4.5% of nano calcium carbonate, 2.5-3.5% of iron trioxide and 2.5-3.5% of magnesium orthosilicate; a gel breaker layer is arranged outside the core material body, and the gel breaker layer is sequentially coated with an external coating and a lubricant layer. When in preparation, various materials are firstly ball-milled, sieved and graded, and then matched in different ways; the potassium feldspar and the titanium dioxide both can reduce reaction temperature to a certain extent; the added manganese powder mainly plays a role in catalyzing; the nano calcium carbonate plays a role in reducing density of product; sintering temperature needed by the product is 1250 DEG C; the product is low in density, strong in anti-fracture capacity and high in sphericity; and meanwhile, the production technology is simple and easy to popularize and implement.

The present invention is directed to novel additives packages, to fluid compositions including the additives, to methods of using the fluid compositions and the additives package, to methods of recovering hydrocarbons, and to petroleum products made from hydrocarbons derived from these methods. The novel additives packages may be used in a fluid composition for fracturing a subterranean. The additives package of the present invention include one or more gelling agents; one or more cross-linking agent; and one or more high temperature stabilizers; wherein the additives package further comprises one or more ingredients selected from the group consisting of a clay stabilizer, a metallic base, a cross-link retarder, and a gel breaker, and any combination thereof; and wherein the additives package optionally includes a diluent.

Casing cutter for severing multiple tubulars in a well bore has a pair of cutter blades pivotally mounted on a support body. The blades are pivotally mounted for gradual movement outside of the support body when downward force is applied to proximate ends of the cutter blades. The support body is rotated inside the innermost of the multiple tubulars, while the cutter blades sever the tubulars of progressively increasing diameter. Should the cutter blades or pivotal connections become unusable, the tool body can be rotated about the vertical axis and secured to a downhole string by the opposite end. A substitute pair of cutter blades are then engaged on the tool body and operated to cut the casings similar to the first set of the cutter blades.

The invention provides a downhole same-well injection-production gas-liquid separator. The gas-liquid separator is combined with an electric submersible pump, an overhead type electric submersible pump drainage gas production lifting system is adopted, and downhole separation of gas-liquid mixed flow can be achieved. The downhole same-well injection-production gas-liquid separator is characterized in that the gas-liquid separator is further provided with a gas-liquid separator body, a gas-liquid separating cover and a gas-liquid outer spiral body; the gas-liquid separator body is located in a cavity body surrounded by an upper housing, a liquid inlet housing and a lower housing, and formed in the mode that a gas-liquid separating body upper transmission shaft, a gas-liquid separating guide section, a gas-liquid separating body reverse cone section and a gas-liquid separating body lower transmission shaft are connected in sequence from top to bottom; a guide vane is welded outside the gas-liquid separating guide section; a gas inlet is formed in the gas-liquid separating body reverse cone section, and the outlet of a gas hole channel is located in the inner cavity of the upper housing; the gas-liquid separating cover is a hollow inverted frustum, and the gas-liquid outer spiral body is also the hollow inverted frustum.

A coiled tubing injector system which includes transport trailer components for separate transfer to and from a drilling site. Each component is taken to the site with its own transport tractor, a first component including a coil storage reel and a second component including a tubing injector carried on a mast which is raised from a horizontal transport position, through a stabbing and unstabbing position to a raised working position. When the components are arranged together in an end-to-end with the mast in a stabbing position, a tube gripping member is positioned between the storage reel and tubing injector for controlling the handling of a free end of the stored tubing for stabbing and unstabbing of the tubing injector.

The invention discloses a microwave excitation coal-bed gas desorption and seepage experimental device, and belongs to coal-bed gas desorption and seepage experimental devices. The microwave excitation coal-bed gas desorption and seepage experimental device comprises a tri-axial pressure device and a microwave generating device. The tri-axial pressure device comprises an upper gland, a lower gland, a barrel, a piston, a barrier, an upper pressure head and a lower pressure head, the microwave generating device comprises a microwave antenna, a waveguide tube, a resonant cavity, a magnetron and a controller, the upper gland and the lower gland are respectively arranged on the upper portion and the lower portion of the barrel, the piston is arranged inside the lower gland, the barrier is fixed onto the inner side wall of the lower gland, the lower pressure head is arranged inside the lower gland, and the microwave antenna is arranged on the inner side wall of the barrel; the upper pressure head is arranged in the barrel, and the waveguide tube, the resonant cavity, the magnetron and the controller are arranged on the outside of the barrel. The microwave excitation coal-bed gas desorption and seepage experimental device has the advantages that desorption and seepage functional tests can be carried out on coal, desorption and seepage laws of the coal under a microwave effect can be acquired, and reliable data can be provided for reasonably draining and comprehensively utilizing coal-bed gas resources.