Modeling of Three-Phase Flow in the Annuli During Directional UBD Operations
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Abstract
Abstract Underbalanced drilling (UBD) has several advantages compared to conventional drilling. These advantages include the elimination of formation damage, higher penetration rate, reducing circulation loss and the possibility of actually producing hydrocarbons during the drilling process. UBD technology and applications have recently been applied while drilling challenging wells in Iranian fields. It is generally accepted that the success of underbalanced drilling is dependant on maintaining the wellbore pressure in an operational window determined by the formation pressure, wellbore stability, and the capacity of the surface equipment. There are several models which can predict the wellbore pressure. Traditional models are mostly empirical and lead to acceptable results for specific conditions but fail for other conditions. In the last decade of the last century, some mechanistic models have been developed which result in an acceptable range of outcomes for a wide variety of reservoirs. On the other hand due to the dynamic nature of the process, some researchers have recently focused on development of dynamic models. This paper presents an improved, comprehensive, mechanistic model for pressure prediction through a well during UBD operations. The comprehensive model consists of a set of correlations for predicting flow pattern and estimating the pressure in addition to two-phase flow parameters in bubble, dispersed bubble, and slug flow. On the other hand the most recently developed empirical correlations have been applied to determine PVT properties. The accuracy of these correlations has been tested in more than 20 oil wells in Iran. Naseri et al. and Almarhoun correlations was applied to determine the live and dead oil viscosities. Naseri et al. model which was originally developed for Iranian reservoirs was used in our model and the results are promising.
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