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Experimental Study on the Effect of Drilling Fluid with Different Mix Designs for Bore Hole Collapse Prevention (시추 안정액 배합설계에 따른 공벽 붕괴방지 효과에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Yoo, Chung-Sik;Choi, Jung-Hyuk;Han, Yun-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents the results of a reduced-scale physical model investigation into the effect of drilling fluid with different mix designs for bore hole collapse prevention. The bore hole collapse prevention mechanism for the bentonite based drilling fluid was first discussed together with the effect of conditioning with different additives on engineering characteristics of bentonite based drilling fluid. Reduced-scale model tests were then carried out considering field procedures for cases with a decomposed granitic soil with 20% fines and a sand with various drilling fluids with different mix designs. The results indicated that the addition of polymer to the bentonite based drilling fluid decreases the amount of drilling fluid injected, the drilling fluid infiltration thickness and increases the final depth of excavation. Also revealed is that the effect of polymer on the performance of drilling fluid is more pronounced in the decomposed granite soil with 20% fines than the sand. Practical implications of the findings from this study are discussed in great detail.

Resource recovery and harmless treatment of waste oil-in-water drilling fluid

  • Tang, Chao;Xie, Shui Xiang
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.277-280
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    • 2017
  • Destablization and demulsification is a difficult task for the treatment of waste oil-in-water drilling fluid because of its "three-high" characteristics: emulsification, stabilization and oiliness. At present, China is short for effective treating technology, which restricts cleaner production in oilfield. This paper focused on technical difficulties of waste oil-in-water drilling fluid treatment in JiDong oilfield of China, adopting physical-chemical collaboration demulsification technology to deal with waste oil-in-water drilling fluid. After oil-water-solid three-phase separation, the oil recovery rate is up to 90% and the recycled oil can be reused for preparation of new drilling fluid. Meanwhile, harmless treatment of wastewater and sludge from waste oil-in-water drilling fluid after oil recycling was studied. The results showed that wastewater after treated was clean, contents of chemical oxygen demand and oil decreased from 993 mg/L and 21,800 mg/L to 89 mg/L and 3.6 mg/L respectively, which can meet the requirements of grade one of "The National Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard" (GB8978); The pollutants in the sludge after harmless treatment are decreased below the national standard, which achieved the goal of resource recovery and harmless treatment on waste oil-in-water drilling fluid.

Numerical Study of Agitation Performance in a Drilling Mud Mixing Tank to Non-Newtonian Rheological Properties (시추용 머드혼합탱크의 비뉴턴 유체 모델에 대한 교반성능의 수치해석적 연구)

  • Im, Hyo-Nam;Lee, Hee-Woong;Lee, In-Su;Choi, Jae-Woong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2014
  • Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics takes charge of an important role in the oil industries. Especially in the oil well drilling process, the drilling fluid such as mud keeps the drill bit cool and clean during drilling, with suspending drill cuttings and lubricating a drill bit. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of fluid mud rheological properties to predict different characteristics of non-Newtonian fluid in the mud mixing tank on offshore drilling platforms. In this paper, ANSYS fluent package was used for the simulation to solve the hydrodynamic force and to evaluate mud mixing time. Prediction of the power consumption and the pumping effectiveness has been presented with different operating fluid models as Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid. The comparison between Newtonain mud model and non-Newtonian mud model is confirmed by the CFD simulation method of drilling mud mixing tank. The results present useful information for the design of the drilling mud mixing tanks and provide some guidance on the use of CFD tool for such non-Newtonian fluid flow.

A Study on Engineering Characteristics of the Drilling Fluid Dependingon the Mix Water (배합수에 따른 안정액의 공학적 특성 분석)

  • Choi, Jung-Hyuk;Yoo, Chung-Sik;Han, Yun-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents the results of a engineering characteristic to the effect of drilling fluid with different mix designs for use in bore hole collapse prevention. The bore hole collapse prevention mechanism for the bentonite based drilling fluid was first discussed together with the effect of conditioning with different additives on engineering characteristics of bentonite based drilling fluid. As result, bentonite with polymer have a outstanding characteristics as compared to CMC Properties thickening effect In the case of sea water with attatulgite be superior to bentonite. Therefore, in this paper presented qualitative result on the performance of the drilling fluid depending on the water.

Experimental Study on Effect of Injected Drilling Fluid for Bore Hole Collapse Prevention (모형실험을 이용한 안정액 주입 시 공벽붕괴방지 효과 분석)

  • Choi, Jung-Hyuk;Yoo, Chung-Sik;Han, Yun-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents the results of a reduced-scale physical model investigation into the effect of drilling fluid with different mix designs for use in offshore bore hole collapse prevention. Compare the bentonite and Attapulgite use. Reduced-scale model tests were then carried out considering field procedures for cases with decomposed granitic soil with fines and a sand with various drilling fluids with different mix designs. The results were indicated that the addition of polymer to the bentonite based drilling fluid decreases the amount of injected drilling fluid and increases the final depth of excavation. Also revealed that the effect of polymer on the performance of drilling fluid is more pronounced in the decomposed granite soil with fines than sand. Practical implications of the findings from this study are discussed in detail.

A Study on Influence of the Cutting Fluid to Machinability in Deep Hole Drilling (Deep Hole Drilling에서 절삭유가 가공성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • 장성규;이충일;전언찬
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.04a
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    • pp.1068-1072
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    • 1997
  • This work deals with on investigation the influence of various additives to a base stock cutting fluid in order to develop a better deep hold drilling. This investigation has been aiming at developing an oil which gives a maximum cutting efficiency at a minimum wear rate of the tool and the guiding pads. The purpose of study is to analyze how guide pad of tools, workpiece and the change of contained quantity of extreme pressure additive in cutting fluids have effects on the hold over size of cutting hole, surface roughness of workpiece,wear rates of guide pad and roundness during the deep hole machining of SM55C with solid BTA drill by using BTA drilling system through experiment. Conclusion reached is as follows. It has been proved that the contained quantity of surphur more affects machinability than that of extreme pressure additive of chlorine of cutting fluid in BTA drilling during Deep Hole Drilling. Considering its base oil, the the contained quantity of extreme pressure assitive of surphur can be different, but it's judged that the range of 1.5 ~ 2.0% is suitable to machinability for workpiece in BTA drilling. Regarding guide pad, it's judged that the reduction of wear is possible in propotion to the contained quantity of exrreme pressure additive of chlorine against supporting of cutting force and Bumishing operation of machining parts in cutting.

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Evaluation of Flow Characteristics of Mud Treatment System for Onshore Drilling (육상시추용 Mud treatment system의 유동특성 평가)

  • Kim, Seung-Chan;Chun, Joong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.24 no.6_2
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    • pp.763-772
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    • 2021
  • Drilling Mud Treatment Systems are widely used for Oil Gas drilling mud circulation, horizontal directional drilling mud recycling, geothermal drilling, mining, coal exploration drilling, water well drilling. Degasser is a device used in drilling to remove gasses from drilling fluid which could otherwise form bubbles. For small amounts of entrained gas in a drilling fluid, the degasser can play a major role of removing small bubbles that a liquid film has enveloped and entrapped. As with the desander, its purpose is to remove unwanted solids from the mud system. The smaller cones allow the desilter to efficiently remove smaller diameter drill solids. In this study, a simulation study is conducted on the degasser of the facility in the Mud Treatment System to conduct a performance review on the gas separation in the mud.

Borehole stability analysis in oil and gas drilling in undrained condition

  • Wei, Jian-Guang;Yan, Chuan-Liang
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.553-567
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    • 2014
  • Borehole instability during drilling process occurs frequently when drilling through shale formation. When a borehole is drilled in shale formation, the low permeability leads to an undrained loading condition. The pore pressure in the compressed area near the borehole may be higher than the initial pore pressure. However, the excess pore pressure caused by stress concentration was not considered in traditional borehole stability models. In this study, the calculation model of excess pore pressure induced by drilling was obtained with the introduction of Henkel's excess pore pressure theory. Combined with Mohr-Coulumb strength criterion, the calculation model of collapse pressure of shale in undrained condition is obtained. Furthermore, the variation of excess pore pressure and effective stress on the borehole wall is analyzed, and the influence of Skempton's pore pressure parameter on collapse pressure is also analyzed. The excess pore pressure decreases with the increasing of drilling fluid density; the excess pore pressure and collapse pressure both increase with the increasing of Skempton's pore pressure parameter. The study results provide a reference for determining drilling fluid density when drilling in shale formation.

A Study on the Micro Hole Machining Characteristics in WEDG method (방전 미세구멍가공 특성의 고찰)

  • 정태현;박규율
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.953-956
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    • 1997
  • Micro drilling characteristics by EDM method was investigated. In detail, Micro tool electrode for EDM drilling was machined by use of WEDG method and micro hole was drilled using the machined tool electrode in SUS plate. The machining accuracy and time was compared in a different dielectric fluid. As a result, it was convinced that this method could be utilized as a fabrication technology of micro mold or micro 3 dimensional parts.

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Numerical Analysis of Borehole Stability Depending on Drilling Fluid (Drilling Fluid를 적용한 시추공의 안정성에 대한 수치해석)

  • Sin, Chun-won;Yoo, Chung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.183-194
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    • 2017
  • When a borehole is drilled, the load distributed by the removal is taken to re-establish equilibrium. As a result, the stresses around the borehole is redistributed. If there is no hydrostatic support pressure by drilling fluid (mud) introduced into the borehole, failure in the formation may take place. The mud pressure boundary that keeps the borehole stable is defined as a mud window. To predict the potential for failures around the borehole, a series of numerical analysis were performed and compared with a mud window. The effect of failure criterion and the intial stress ratio adopted on the mud window was also studied.