CA2371085A1 - A drillpipe assembly and a method of deploying a logging tool - Google Patents

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CA2371085A1
CA2371085A1 CA002371085A CA2371085A CA2371085A1 CA 2371085 A1 CA2371085 A1 CA 2371085A1 CA 002371085 A CA002371085 A CA 002371085A CA 2371085 A CA2371085 A CA 2371085A CA 2371085 A1 CA2371085 A1 CA 2371085A1
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Michael Charles Spencer
Simon Christopher Ash
Michael John Chaplin
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B47/00—Survey of boreholes or wells
    • E21B47/01—Devices for supporting measuring instruments on drill bits, pipes, rods or wirelines; Protecting measuring instruments in boreholes against heat, shock, pressure or the like
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B23/00—Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing, or removing tools, packers or the like in the boreholes or wells
    • E21B23/08—Introducing or running tools by fluid pressure, e.g. through-the-flow-line tool systems
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B23/00—Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing, or removing tools, packers or the like in the boreholes or wells
    • E21B23/14—Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing, or removing tools, packers or the like in the boreholes or wells for displacing a cable or cable-operated tool, e.g. for logging or perforating operations in deviated wells
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B47/00—Survey of boreholes or wells
    • E21B47/09—Locating or determining the position of objects in boreholes or wells, e.g. the position of an extending arm; Identifying the free or blocked portions of pipes
    • E21B47/095—Locating or determining the position of objects in boreholes or wells, e.g. the position of an extending arm; Identifying the free or blocked portions of pipes by detecting an acoustic anomalies, e.g. using mud-pressure pulses
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B2200/00—Special features related to earth drilling for obtaining oil, gas or water
    • E21B2200/06—Sleeve valves

Abstract

In the oil and gas well data logging industry there is a need for an improved apparatus and method for deploying a so-called compact battery / memory logging tool, for acquiring data in deviated or horizontal wells.

A drillpipe assembly (10) includes a drillpipe (11) having secured at a downhole end thereof a delatching latching sub (12) containing an extendable running sub (13) supporting a battery / memory logging tool (14).

The running sub (13) occupies an initial, retracted position during deployment of the drillpipe (11), whereby the logging tool (14) is protected within one or more drillpipe stands.

The running sub is moveable by a messenger (26) to a second, extended position in which its logging tool (14) protruding from the drillpipe (11).

The drillpipe assembly may therefore be used to protect the logging tool (14) during running in operations; and then to extend the logging tool to permit commencement of logging operations.

Claims (36)

1. A drillpipe assembly comprising a drillpipe having secured at a downhole end thereof a delatchable latching sub containing an extendible running sub supporting a logging tool, the running sub being moveable between a first, retracted position, in which it supports the logging tool within one or more stands of drillpipe; and a second, extended position in which it supports the logging tool protruding from the drillpipe, the latching sub, when latched, retaining the running sub in its first position and the latching sub permitting extending of the running sub when delatched.
2. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 1 wherein the logging tool is a compact diameter battery/memory tool.
3. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 1 or Claim 2 including an hydraulic actuator for extending the running sub.
4. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 3 wherein the hydraulic actuator includes one or more seals moveably sealingly interconnecting an outer periphery of the running sub and an inner wall of a drillpipe stand, whereby fluid pressure in the drillpipe acting on one side of a said seal tends to drive the running sub along the drillpipe.
5. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 4 wherein the or each said seal is a flexible cup seal sealingly secured to the running sub and in slideable sealing contact with the said drillpipe stand inner wall.
6. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 4 or any claim dependent therefrom, wherein the running sub defines a closeable fluid flow path bypassing the or each said seal, closing of the said path causing fluid pressure in the drillpipe to act on the or each said seal.
7. A drillpipe assembly according to any preceding claim including a pumpable messenger member moveably disposed in the drillpipe.
8. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 7 when dependent from Claim 6, wherein the said fluid flow path is closeable by the messenger member.
9. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 8 wherein the running sub includes a hollow conduit that is open at either end and defines the fluid flow path bypassing the or each said seal, the messenger member including a sealing member and being insertable into the said conduit at a location uphole of the or each said seal to prevent the flow of fluid via the conduit, thereby closing the said fluid flow path.
10. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 9 wherein the messenger member includes a shield that is moveable between a first position in which it obscures the sealing member and a second position in which the sealing member is exposed for sealing of the conduit uphole of the or each said seal of the running sub.
11. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 10 wherein the latching sub includes a member that moves the shield to its second position on insertion of the messenger member into the conduit.
12. A drillpipe assembly according to any preceding claim, wherein the latching sub includes one or more arms each pivotably secured thereto so as to be moveable between a first position, protruding outwardly from the latching sub; and a second position that is retracted relative to the first position, the drillpipe adjacent the latching sub including an abutment with which each said arm is engageable, when occupying its first position, to prevent movement of the latching sub in a downhole direction, the abutment defining a clearance through which the latching sub is moveable in a downhole direction when the or each said arm occupies its second position.
13. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 12 including a resiliently deformable biasser acting, between the or each said arm and a member that is fixed relative to the latching sub, to bias the or each said arm to its first position.
14. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 12 or Claim 13 when dependent from Claim 7 wherein the or each said arm includes a follower portion protruding into a hollow, interior part of the latching sub, the messenger member being receivable in the said hollow interior and including a surface engageable with the follower portion, on insertion of the messenger member into the hollow interior, whereby to move the or each arm to its second position.
15. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 7 or any claim dependent therefrom wherein the latching sub and the messenger member include a detent arrangement for securing the messenger member to the latching sub following engagement therebetween.
16. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 15 when dependent from Claim 12, wherein the detent arrangement includes a barb formed on part of an arm that is pivotably secured on the latching sub so that the barb protrudes into a hollow interior part of the latching sub; and a notch, of complementary profile to the barb, formed in the messenger member.
17. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 7 or any claim dependent therefrom, wherein the messenger member includes a cylindrical member of smaller diameter than the internal diameter of the drillpipe, the cylindrical member being encircled by one or more cup seals.
18. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 7 or any claim dependent therefrom, wherein the cylindrical member is hollow and closed at at least one end.
19. A drillpipe assembly according to any preceding claim further including a mule shoe landing sub at its furthest downhole extremity, the mule shoe landing sub including an hydraulic signal generator for generating a signal, that is detectable at surface level, indicative of deployment of the logging tool.
20. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 19 wherein the mule shoe landing sub includes a mule shoe drillpipe stand, having a first valve port formed therein providing fluid communication between the interior and exterior of the mule shoe drillpipe stand, and being maintained normally closed by a hollow valve sleeve slidingly sealingly engaged with a surface of the mule shoe drillpipe stand; and wherein the running sub includes a member engageable, on protrusion of the running sub, with the valve sleeve to move it to an open position of the first valve port.
21. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 20 wherein the mule shoe landing sub includes a resiliently deformable biasser biassing the valve sleeve to the closed position of the first valve port.
22. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 20 or Claim 21, wherein the mule shoe drillpipe stand includes a second valve port located downhole of the first valve port and normally closed by the valve sleeve, whereby on further movement of the valve sleeve, away from the normally closed position of the first valve port, the second valve port opens after opening of the first valve port.
23. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 22 wherein the mule shoe landing sub includes an abutment preventing movement of the valve sleeve to open the second valve port, the abutment being retained relative to the mule shoe landing sub by one or more shear fasteners that on shearing permit opening of the second valve port.
24. A drillpipe assembly according to any preceding claim inserted in a wellbore that includes an openhole section downhole of the said latching sub.
25. A drillpipe assembly according to any preceding claim including a hollow float valve sub defining a fluid flow path and located uphole of the latching sub, the float valve sub including two normally closed non-return valves that each prevent fluid overpressure in the drillpipe assembly transmitting to the surface, each said non-return valve being openable by a pumpable messenger passing in the downhole direction through the float valve sub.
26. A drillpipe assembly according to Claim 25, wherein the two non-return valves are spaced apart from one another in the elongate direction of the float valve sub, by a length greater than the length of a messenger member inserted into the drillpipe assembly.
27. A kit of parts, for forming a drillpipe assembly according to any preceding claim, comprising:
a plurality of joints of drillpipe;
a delatchable latching sub capable of containing an extendible running sub;
a pumpable messenger member;
a running sub that is containable in the latching sub; and a battery/memory logging tool.
28. A kit of parts according to Claim 27 further including one or more components selected from:
a mule shoe landing sub; and/or a float valve sub.
29. A method of deploying a battery/memory logging tool in a wellbore, the method comprising the steps of:
(i) securing a delatchable latching sub in a drillpipe assembly;
(ii) supporting a battery/memory logging tool on an hydraulically pumpable running sub that is temporarily latchable in the latching sub;
(iii) latching the running sub in the latching sub so that the logging tool lies within a length of drillpipe;
(iv) running in a plurality of stands of drillpipe above the latching sub, until the drillpipe is of a preferred length;
(v) pumping a pumpable messenger member down the drillpipe to de-latch the latching sub and release the running sub, having the logging tool supported thereon, therefrom; and (vi) when the logging tool reaches an openhole location, commencing logging with the logging tool.
30. A method according to Claim 29 including the further step of, before securing the latching sub, (vi) securing a mule shoe landing sub at the downhole end of the drillpipe assembly; and further including the step of, after release of the running sub, (vii) engaging the running sub and the mule shoe landing sub with one another to generate one or more hydraulic signals indicative of deployment of the logging tool.
31. A method according to Claim 29 or Claim 30 including the sub-steps of, after the step (iv) running in the plurality of stands of drillpipe, (iv)(a) withdrawing the drillpipe from the wellbore by one or more joints; and (iv)(b) removing the withdrawn stands of drillpipe thereby creating an openhole bore before releasing the logging tool.
32. A method according to any of Claims 29 to 31 including the further steps of, after releasing the running sub from the latching sub, (viii) withdrawing and removing each successive stand of drillpipe from the surface of the wellbore, thereby withdrawing the drillpipe assembly; and (ix) during step (viii), logging the openhole bore.
33. A method according to any of Claims 29 to 32 wherein the step (iv) of running in a plurality of stands of drillpipe includes the further sub-steps of (iv)(c) running in the majority of the stands at a first, comparatively high speed; and, when the downhole end of the drillpipe assembly approaches the Total Depth (TD) of the well, (iv)(d) running in the remainder of the stands at a second, lower speed.
34. A method according to Claim 33 including the sub-step of (iv)(e) measuring the length of drillpipe run in during step (iv), in order to gauge when the downhole end of the drillpipe assembly approaches the TD of the well.
35. A method according to any of Claims 29 to 34 wherein the step (v) includes the sub-steps of (v)(a) engaging together the messenger member and an actuator for a moveable detent member to cause disengagement of the detent member from a further member to permit releasing of the running sub; and (v)(b) closing a bypass flow of fluid whereby to divert the flow to pump the running sub in a downhole direction.
36. A method according to Claim 35 wherein the sub-steps (v)(a) and (v)(b) occur substantially simultaneously.
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