This document discusses coiled tubing drilling (CTD) and provides an analysis of its limits and advantages over conventional drilling. CTD uses coiled tubing to drill horizontal re-entry wells, sidetrack wells, and shallow new wells. It allows drilling underbalanced which reduces formation damage in depleted reservoirs. CTD has been used to drill open holes and can reduce drilling time by 30-60% compared to conventional rigs. However, CTD units still require similar equipment to conventional rigs. The advantages of CTD include higher rate of penetration, underbalanced drilling, faster trips, and slimhole capability. CTD also increases safety by reducing spills and risks from pipe handling.
This document discusses coiled tubing drilling (CTD) and provides an analysis of its limits and advantages over conventional drilling. CTD uses coiled tubing to drill horizontal re-entry wells, sidetrack wells, and shallow new wells. It allows drilling underbalanced which reduces formation damage in depleted reservoirs. CTD has been used to drill open holes and can reduce drilling time by 30-60% compared to conventional rigs. However, CTD units still require similar equipment to conventional rigs. The advantages of CTD include higher rate of penetration, underbalanced drilling, faster trips, and slimhole capability. CTD also increases safety by reducing spills and risks from pipe handling.
This document discusses coiled tubing drilling (CTD) and provides an analysis of its limits and advantages over conventional drilling. CTD uses coiled tubing to drill horizontal re-entry wells, sidetrack wells, and shallow new wells. It allows drilling underbalanced which reduces formation damage in depleted reservoirs. CTD has been used to drill open holes and can reduce drilling time by 30-60% compared to conventional rigs. However, CTD units still require similar equipment to conventional rigs. The advantages of CTD include higher rate of penetration, underbalanced drilling, faster trips, and slimhole capability. CTD also increases safety by reducing spills and risks from pipe handling.
This document discusses coiled tubing drilling (CTD) and provides an analysis of its limits and advantages over conventional drilling. CTD uses coiled tubing to drill horizontal re-entry wells, sidetrack wells, and shallow new wells. It allows drilling underbalanced which reduces formation damage in depleted reservoirs. CTD has been used to drill open holes and can reduce drilling time by 30-60% compared to conventional rigs. However, CTD units still require similar equipment to conventional rigs. The advantages of CTD include higher rate of penetration, underbalanced drilling, faster trips, and slimhole capability. CTD also increases safety by reducing spills and risks from pipe handling.
The use of coiled tubing (CT) to drill horizontal re-entry wells,
sidetracking, and shallow new wells has received considerable interest in the industry over the last few years. The benefit of being able to drill at balance, safely and in a controlled manner, with nitrogen to reduce downhole pressure while drilling highly depleted reservoirs, provides an advantage over conventional techniques, particularly in reducing formation damage. For several years, CT has been used to drill scale and cement in cased wells. Recently, CT has been used (in place of a rotary drilling rig) to drill vertical and horizontal open holes. At this time, about 30 openhole CT drilling (CTD) jobs have been performed.
This paper/poster discusses CTD applications and presents an
engineering analysis of CTD. This analysis attempts to define the limits of what can and cannot be done with CTD. The basic limits associated with CTD are weight and size, CT force and life, and hydraulic limits. A common misconception is that a CT-drilling unit is a small self- contained unit that drives up on location ready to drill with a minimum of rig up involved. In truth, the typical CT-drilling unit must have much of the same equipment that a conventional drilling unit has. Even with those credentials it has quite a lot many advantages over the conventional method such as higher ROP, underbalanced drilling situation, faster trips, slimhole capability. Coiled tubing drilling is known for its speed and ability to drill reservoirs in an underbalanced condition and CTD can reduce drilling times between 30%-60% compared with conventional jointed pipe drilling rigs. Therefore, CTD can provide significant economic benefits. It is at times even used for the purpose of oil recovery from mature oil fields. The total 2002 CT-drilling-based revenues are estimated to be approximately U.S. $43,000,000, while drilling revenues are estimated at approximately U.S. $4,000,000,000. Again, the ability to work with surface pressure gives a unique advantage to the CTD process. This capability, combined with reduced pipe handling, helps increase the safety of the operation and minimizes the risk of spills. CT can have electric logging line or other signal telemetry options installed that are fully operational even while tripping. These power and signal paths significantly increase the communication bandwidth available for bidirectional telemetry. The hardwired telemetry data transmission rates surpass any mud pulse telemetry, allowing greater data acquisition while drilling. CTD operations require fewer service personnel because of the reduction in pipe-handling requirements. The market for coiled tubing can be divided into well intervention, drilling and production services based on the service type being deployed in the industry. Well intervention services can be segmented into well cleaning and well completion services. Rising demand of these services is projected to drive the global coil tubing market in future. Some of the operations that this industry caters to are circulation, perforation, logging, pumping and others. The coiled tubing market is getting its market share mainly from four regions they are North America, Europe, APAC, and RoW. The American region remains the largest market for coiled tubing, followed by Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East in 2015. The recent shale gas expansions in the U.S have drove the explorations events in this region, thereby increasing the market for CT services. The Middle East and Africa market remains to be a key growing area due to cumulative demand from innovative technology in the oil & gas industry coupled with new investments.