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ContEntS
Coiled tubing Gains Pace

Contents of the Short Course Coiled tubing Equipment,

Applications and technology

Programme of the Conference

Welcoming speech of L.M. Hruzdzilovich,

Chairman of the Conference organizing Committee

Abstracts of Reports Presented on the Conference

the List of Participants

Proceedings of the 11
th
International Scientific and Practical
Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conference
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The 11th International Scientific and Practical Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention
Conference, organized by ICoTA (Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association), its
Russian representative CTTDC (Coiled Tubing Technologies Development Center)
and Coiled Tubing Times Journal, took place on September 15-17 in the capital of
Russia in the Renaissance Moscow Hotel. Held under the auspices of Ministry of
Energy of the Russian Federation, the event was sponsored by Foremost, Global
Tubing, Schlumberger, NOV Fidmash, Tegas and Tenaris.
The technical sessions were preceded by a one-day Short Course Coiled Tubing
Equipment, Technologies and Applications, conducted by its author Dr. H.B. (Bernie)
Luft, , PhD, P.Eng. The 10-hour seminar catered for both beginners and experienced
users of coiled tubing. Attendees got information on cutting-edge CT working life
testing systems, the influence of mechanical damage on the CT fatigue life, the ways
to overcome mechanical damage, and state-of-the-art methods of CT repair in the
field and within production facilities. Listeners got acquainted with CT drilling
equipment, BHA and directional drilling system structure, short radius CT drilling
and sidetracking, including that in underbalanced conditions. Each participant got
a Short Course Summary in Russian and a Certificate of Attendance.
CT drilling is gaining in popularity in Russia. There is an intense ongoing growth
in the sidetracking market which is expected to triple over the next five years. That
was the highlight of the introductory speech of Leanid Hruzdzilovich, Head of
Scientific Council, Coiled Tubing Technologies Development Center, addressed to
conference participants. Hruzdzilovich pointed out that over the 12 years since the
first conference on coiled tubing technologies, which was unique in the industry at
that time, many positive changes had taken place. New equipment manufacturers
and companies have appeared to offer high-quality service and the role of local
service companies has matured. The number of coiled tubing units (CTU) operated
in Russia has grown from 46 to over 140, and the growth has been much faster
than the world average. The number of operations using CTU has grown from less
than 1,000 a year to over 10,000. This ten-fold increase has been accompanied by
growing sophistication in operations: apart from simple well flushing, cementing
and isolation jobs, deep CT drilling has become more widespread.
The conference programme included four sessions covering about 30 reports
delivered to a hundred participants representing oil producers (Rosneft, Gazprom,
Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz, Bashneft, Poltava Oil Company, TNK-BP, etc.), service
companies (Schlumberger, Trican Well Service, Weatherford, Kogalymnefteprogress,
Ugra Azot Service, CATOBNEFT, etc.), and equipment manufacturers (Fidmash
and Novinka Joint Ventures, Packer, Yugson Service, Burenie, RosTEKtehnologii,
Foremost, Global Tubing, Tenaris, Tegas, Rosen, etc.).
The attendees appreciated diligent preliminary work of organizers in choosing
papers and build ing-up the conference programme. The utmost intensity of the
CoIled TubIng gaInS PaCe
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proceedings became the hallmark of this year event: every speech aroused great
interest, with questions and answers giving a clue to most intriguing technologies
and techniques.
Significant interest was shown to the report entitled The Experience of
Applying Coiled Tubing Technologies in Tatarstan by Rubin Akhmetshin (Tatneft-
RemService), outlining the principles of conveyor-type workover, which effectively
combines coiled tubing and traditional technologies. No less interesting was
a report by Damir Mukhametshin (Bashneft) summarizing the experience of
applying coiled tubing technologies in Bashkortostan and highlighting the results
of unique intertubular operations performed using the MK-10T unit equipped with
1-in. coiled tubing.
Detlef Boss (Weatherford) draw attention of the audience to the use of a hydraulic
tubing cutter in Kazakhstan fields in conditions when conventional e-line devices
were inoperable. Nikolai Demyanenko (Belorusneft) presented two papers, covering
development of coiled tubing technologies, and also experience and effectiveness
of hydraulic and acid fracturing in terrigenous and carbonate formations in
Belarus. Belorusneft service divisions have fulfilled successful fracturing jobs after
purchasing NOV Fidmash complete set of equipment.
Lyubov Magadova (Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas) shared her
news on penetration tests of polysaccharidic well-killing fluid under conditions
simulating hydraulic fracture crack. Alexander Sorokin (Schlumberger) told the
audience about the first experience of implementation of acid system MaXCO3
compound aimed at oil recovery enhancement of carbonate reservoirs.
Cutting-edge well intervention technologies in intensively developing producing
regions were also brought into sharp focus during the conference. Alexander
Uskov (Verkhnechonskneftegaz) told the participants about solving the problems
of Verkhnechonskoe oil and gas-condensate field, and Stanislav Zagranichny
(Trican Well Service) shared experience of well intervention with coiled tubing on
Vankorskoye field.
Quite a revelation was the report of Sergei Beryuschev (Welltec Oilfield Services)
titled An Introduction to Well Tractor Technology, as downhole tractors are still an
oddity in Russia. The reports by James Chernik (Foremost), Dmitry Zinin (Burenie
Research and Production Association), Yury Shtakhov (RosTEKtekhnologii), Denis
Vladykin (Tegas), were also devoted to equipment.
Sergei Yurutkin of NOV Fidmash, the manufacturer that has produced 75 percent
of all CTU operating in the CIS, informed the audience on the full complex of
the equipment for modern hi-tech operations in oil recovery enhancement and
well cementing. Ivan Pirch (Novinka of the FID Group) delivered a report titled
Technical Means for Directional Drilling in Coal Bed, which covered the latest
patented solution the SNB89-76M directional drilling system that has already
been field-tested.
The paper of Konstantin Burdin (Schlumberger) Realtime Acquisition of
Bottomhole Parameters Data with Coiled Tubing became a sort of premiere
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as it was introduced a week earlier in Russia than in Florence at the SPE Annual
Technical Conference and Exhibition, where the international presentation of this
new technology was held.
Discussions, disputes, debates, round table on development prospects of
oilfield services, boat trip on the Moskva River What else shall these three days
be remembered for? Without any doubt, the most memorable thing will be face-
to-face professional communication that turns colleagues into friends, and unites
conference attendees into the club of the like-minded, open to anyone devoted to
promotion of new oilfield services technologies.
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contents of the short course coiled tubing
equiPMent, aPPlications and technology
Dr. H. B. (Bernie) Luft PhD, MSc, B-AppSc, P. Eng., Fellow, CSME
Dr. Luft is a Mechanical Engineering graduate with a B. App.
Sc. (1967) degree from the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Master of Science, M. Sc. (1971) and Doctor of
Philosophy, Ph. D. (1983) degrees from the University of
Alberta. His post-graduate study majors were in the areas of
thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and other
disciplines involving the thermo-sciences.
He has gained more than 30 years of practical engineering
experience pertaining to the oil and gas industry with
specific emphasis on materials science (welding engineering,
corrosion, composite materials, etc.), thermal enhanced
oil recovery processes (e.g. SAGD), drilling rig design and
manufacture and coiled tubing (CT) research, engineering
and manufacturing. He has published over 30 technical papers, 22 of which pertain to CT
technologies and holds two patents (ICCT and Concentric CT) and CT spoolable connector
the Duralink for which he was awarded the Harts E&P Intl Meritorious Engineering
Award). Dr. Luft has contributed to the development of Alberta industry guidelines
pertaining to sour well operations (IRP-21) and American Petroleum Institute (API)
Standards on welding and collapse ratings of coiled tubing.
Memberships in technical societies include the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and
the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE). He is a member of Association of
Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and is a Fellow
of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) for which he served as Vice-
President of the Western Region, Canada.
His professional engineering experience includes 15 years as Senior Research Associate
and Group Leader in the Coiled Tubing Research & Engineering (CTR&E) division of BJ
Services Company Canada, Manager of the Engineering Department of DRECO involving
the design and manufacture of drilling rigs, sub-structures and mud systems, Manager of
the Solar and Wind Energy Research Program for the Alberta Research Council. While
employed with the Centre for Frontier Engineering Research (C-FER Technologies), he was
the National Research Councils representative as Industrial Technology Advisor (ITA) for
the NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP). He is a certified Welding Engineer
in good standing with the Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB).
As Vice President of Technology, Global Tubing LLC responsible for new and advanced
technology implementations in coiled tubing manufacturing, new product development,
CT failure investigations, customer and sales staff support, Dr. Luft was invited as
industry expert and presented a special 1-day course on coiled tubing drilling, fracturing,
manufacturing, CT equipment, maintenance and CT operations at the September 2010
ICoTA Conference in Moscow, Russia. He is currently President and Chief Engineer of HBL
Engineering Consulting & Research Inc., located in Bragg Creek, near Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Chapter 1. Coiled tubing equipment
Chapter 2. Coiled tubing
Chapter 3. Coiled tubing material
performance
Chapter 4.Coiled tubing Failure
Investigations
Chapter 5. Coiled tubing management
& maintenance
Chapter 6. Coiled tubing applications
Wellbore Cleaning
Chapter 7. Coiled tubing applications
Ct drilling and milling
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Programme of the 11
th
international scientific
and Practical coiled tubing and Well intervention
conference
Welcoming address of Leanid Hruzdzilovich, Chairman of the Organizing
Committee
ICota in Russia New Possibilities for Oil and Gas Specialists.
E. Boeke, Senior co-chairman, ICoTA
SESSion 1.
Modern technologies for Well data acquisition. oilfield cheMistry.
Solving the Problems of Verkhnechonskoe Oil and Gas-Condensate Field
by Coiled Tubing Application.
A. Uskov, Senior CT Engineer, Well Servicing and Workover Department of
VCNG
Penetration Tests of polysaccharidic Well Killing Fluid (PSWKF)
under Conditions, Which Simulate Hydraulic Fracture Crack.
L. Magadova, Deputy-director of Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
An Introduction to Well Tractor Technology.
A. McKay, Vice-president, Europe and former USSR, Welltec Oilfield Services
Acid System MAXCO3 Technologies of Oil Recovery Enhancement
of Carbonate Reservoirs.
A. Sorokin, Senior CT Application Engineer, Schlumberger
Challenges of Well Intervention with Coiled tubing on Vankorskoe Field.
S. Zagranichny, Project Engineer, Trican Well Service
Development of Method for Coiled tubing Surface Passivation in Order to
Decrease the Degree of Its Corrosion after Acid Treatments.
K. Poteshkina, student, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
The API Specification for Coiled Tubing Production.
R. Stanley, Representative of the Coiled Tube Resource Management, Head of the
Working Group of American Petroleum Institute (API) on CT Fatigue Life
SESSion 2.
neW technologies for oil recovery enhanceMent and Production
stiMulation
The Experience of Coiled Tubing Technologies Implementation in
Tatarstan.
R. Ahmetshin, Deputy Director, Chief Engineer, Tatneft RemService
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Use of a Hydraulic Tubing Cutter When Conventional E-Line Devices Were
Inoperable Facilitates Workover in Giant Kazakhstan Field.
D. Boss, Thru Tubing Service Product Line Manager for the FSU Region
Experience and Effectiveness of Hydraulic and Acid Fracturing in
Terrigenous and Carbonate Formations of Belarusian Field.
N. Demyanenko, Director of the Belarusian Research and Design Institute of Oil
(BelNIPIneft), Production Association Belorusneft
Technical Means for Directional Drilling in Coal Bed.
I. Pirch, First Deputy Director of Novinka
Coiled Tubing Technologies for Thermal Treatment.
B. Luft, Vice-President of Technology, Global Tubing
Development of Coiled Tubing Technologies in RUP PO Belorusneft.
N. Demyanenko, Director of the Belarusian Research and Design Institute of Oil
(BelNIPIneft), Production Association Belorusneft
Coiled Tubing Technologies in OAO ANK Bashneft.
D. Muhametshin, Chief Expert of the Department for Oil and Gas Production,
Treatment and Sales, Bashneft
SESSion 3.
equiPMent and tools for Well servicing and Workover oPerations
Advantages of Hybrid Coiled Tubing Drilling Units.
J. Chernyk, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Foremost
Full complex of equipment for performing of high-technology oil and gas
recovery enhancement and well cementing operations.
S. Yurutkin, Head of Sales and Promotion Department of Fidmash
Device for Creation of Axial Weight on Drill Bit During Coiled Tubing
Drilling.
A. Tretyak, Head of the Subdepartment of the Oil and Gas Wells Drilling and
Geophysics, South-Russian State Technical University
Nitrogen Compressor Units of Industrial Group TEGAS Important
Technical Component of Coiled Tubing Operations.
D. Vladykin, Deputy Commercial Director for Development, Tegas Industrial Group
Case History of Downhole Tools Produced by RosTEKtehnologii.
Y. Shtakhov, Head of Development Department, RosTEKtehnologii
Case Records and Technological Capabilities of Coiled Tubing Downhole
Equipment Application.
D. Zinin, Chief of the Laboratory for Drilling and Workover Operations Equipment,
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Burenie Research and Production Association
SESSion 4.
asPects of standardization, inforMational and engineering suPPort
of Well intervention oPerations
Realtime Acquisition of Bottomhole Parameters Data with Coiled Tubing
Utilization.
K. Burdin, Chief Engineer of the CT Workover Department, Schlumberger
A New Assessment System for Coiled Tubulars.
R. Stanley, Coiled Tube Resource Management, Houston, Texas, USA, Chairman, API
Resource Group for Coiled Tubulars
Prediction of Coiled tubing Lifetime Taking Into Account the Internal
Pressure of Process Fluid.
A. Molchanov, Head of the Subdepartment of Engineering mechanics, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Evolution of Coiled Tubing Supply.
Eric Boeke, Tenaris
Round table. Development Prospects of Oilfield Services
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Welcoming speech of l.M. hruzdzilovich,
chairman of the conference organizing committee, chairman of CTTDC
scientific council, senior co-chairman of Russian Chapter of The
Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA)
Dear colleagues and friends!
This conference is the eleventh in succession. As always it gathered together
representatives of major oil and gas service and producing companies, as well as
spokesmen from oil and gas equipment manufacturing companies. The organizers
of the conference are The Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA), Coiled
Tubing Technologies Development Centre (CTTDC) and Coiled Tubing Times Journal,
which is the main interpreter of the knowledge about new coiled tubing technologies.
Representatives of international service companies always took part in the conference,
but during the recent years it has been organized in collaboration with ICoTa, which
gives her complete international status.
I want to express my thanks to our sponsors: Foremost (platinum), Global Tubing
(gold), Shlumberger (silver), NOV Fidmash (sponsor of short course), Tegas and Tenaris
(sponsors of the conferences proceedings).
The first and at that time the only in Russia specialized conference that was dedicated
to coiled tubing technologies took place in far 1998. Particular goals connected with
the development of coiled tubing technologies in Russia and CIS countries were set at
that time. Today we can state that these goals have been achieved. What are the main
landmarks of these twelve years? Our conference, a stable platform for specialists, has
appeared and got firmly established. Since 2008 it was the first conference in Russia,
which started to offer a full-fledged short course about the newest technical and
technological developments, and possibilities of their application. We have started the
publication of Coiled Tubing Times Journal, which has become a real guide-book and
popularizer of knowledge. According to the opinion of its readers, no other journal on
the territory of CIS countries has such a high concentration of information about oil
and gas service.
New manufacturers of equipment and young companies that perform service
operations have appeared during these years.
But what, as chemists say, is a takeaway? The quantity of coiled tubing units operating
in Russia has increased from 46 to more than 140, the growth rate being larger than
the average rate over the world. Spectrum of operations performed has become
more complicated. Heretofore these operations were mostly connected with
simple flushings. Nowadays this spectrum includes very complicated technological
operations, such as water shutoff and sidetracking at high depth.
In 1990s we copied the foreign experience, said in particular, L. Hruzdilovich.
Nowadays, such works as underbalanced CT drilling and well completion at the depths
of more than 3.5 km, which were done in Surgut, have become the topic for discussion
and possibly emulation all over the world.
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AbSTrACTS of rePorTS PreSeNTeD oN The CoNfereNCe
solving the ProbleMs of vogcf With coiled tubing
utilization
A. A. Uskov, Y. I. Gordeev, OAO VCNG
K. P. Basanov, K.V. Burdin, Schlumberger
Verhnechonskoe oil and gas condensate field (VOGCF), which belongs to
OAO VCNG, is a remote field situated at a distance of 684 miles from Irkutsk. Its
commercial development started in 2008. The peculiarity of VOGCF lies in its
complex geological structure, low formation temperature (53.6 0F), high content
of salts and tendency to formation of asphalt, resin and paraffin deposits (in the
bottomhole formation zone (BFZ) and the tubing). 80% of operating wells are
openhole wells with horizontal end. The length of openhole can reach the value
of 1640 ft, its diameter is 6/8.5-in. There is also a tight section in the tubing with
diameter of 1.9-in. In connection with the above-mentioned peculiarities of the
field there arose a necessity in performing downhole operations with coiled tubing
utilization.
Coiled tubing project started at VOGCF in August, 2009. At the beginning
of operations main project goals were performing of geophysical well logging
(GWL), BFZ treatment and after fracturing flushing of well. In connection with
field remoteness Shlumberger delivered and brought into service an autonomous
nitrogen mini-plant in order to meet the project demands.
Following the results of GWL pilot project, which was performed in the horizontal
holes of VOGCF with coiled tubing utilization, we obtained important data on the
boreholes conditions: the presence of water, asphalt, resin and paraffin deposits in
BFZ, openhole sloughing. We obtained valuable information about the flow rates of
wells. As a result of performed operations we revealed a number of drawbacks in the
method, which was used for wells survey. These drawbacks were connected with
the construction of geophysical tool as well as with interpretation methods. There
was a necessity in water removal from the horizontal sections of wellbores.
Due to subnormal bottomhole temperature and low oil saturation pressure
(asphalt, resin and paraffin deposits formation in BFZ) there was a need in complex
BFZ treatment. Shlumberger has completed a large amount of lab investigations.
Subsequent to the results of lab tests we made a decision to perform a test treatment
with the use of complex system CLEAN SWEEP I* (Shlumberger). In the nearest time
we also plan to perform BFZ treatment with heat generating reaction utilization.
During the period of March April, 2010 our crew has performed 9 operations
of well flushing and after fracturing completion. We have revealed significant
problems in the performance of these operations under conditions of VOGCF
horizontal wells.
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Penetration tests of Polysaccharidic Well killing
fluid (PsWkf) under conditions, Which siMulate
hydraulic fracture crack
L. A. Magadova, E.G. Gaevoy, V. B. Gubanov, V. R. Magadov, M.V. Trofimova,
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Oilfield Chemistry Institute
Water based or salt-water based polysaccharidic well killing fluids (PSWKF) are
gels on the basis of modified guars (gelling agent GPG-3), which have low viscosity
and penetration. Thanks to the addition of thickening agents (thickening agent
SPRD) polysaccharidic aqueous gel forms a unified network structure, which
effectively blocks air pockets and fractures at formation temperatures up to 212F.
To estimate recovery rate of fracture conductivity after application of PSWKF in
after fracturing wells, we performed complex laboratory research. This research
included filtration of well killing fluid through a water-saturated sand packed tube
with Saint-Gobain (Norton) UltraProp proppant packing of fraction 18/40, as well
as determination of the stable value of pressure drop after replacement of water
with gel. After that we filtrated water through a sand-packed tube in the opposite
direction and watched the dynamics of pressure drop reduction in the course of gel
cleanout. Upon reaching of the minimal value of pressure drop we stopped water
filtration and performed proppant extraction out of formation model. Accurate
determination of PSWKF contamination level of proppant was performed with the
help of KCES-100 unit, which measures proppant conductivity.
The first part of research was performed with the help of HP-CFS unit using
temperature-controlled sand-packed formation model stuffed with Saint-Gobain
UltraProp proppant of fraction 18/40. Model was saturated with brine (density
63.18 lbs/ft
3
, viscosity 0.0007 lbs/(ft*sec)).
After that a head end of the model was connected with a stand-up high-pressure
vessel filled with PSWKF gel. By means of paraffin oil pumping into the upper part
of the vessel we secured injection of gel, which does not mix with paraffin oil and
has higher density, into a porous medium of the model.
PSWKF injection rate was 0.003 ft3/hour. Temperature of the experiment was
176F, which corresponds to the conditions of terrigenous reservoirs at a number
of oilfields of Western Siberia and Orenburg region. Preliminary rheogoniometry
of PSWKF with rotational viscometer Rheotest-2 utilization showed that effective
viscosity at a shear rate of 170 sec-1 and a temperature of 75 F equals to 0.05 lbs/
(ft*sec), at a temperature of 176 F 0.016 lbs/(ft*sec).
Gel filtration was performed at a continuous increase of pressure drop. After 1
threshold volume of gel was filtrated and appeared at the model back end, pressure
drop stabilized at the level of 30.45 psi.
At the next stage we filtered brine in the opposite direction at the same injection
rate as was during gel filtration. We did it in order to compare the stable value of
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pressure drop obtained during gel injection with the value of pressure drop during
brine filtration.
Maximal value of pressure drop during brine filtration turned out to be 12.18 psi.
Consequently, during the process of well development in order to perform gel
cleanout one need to apply far less pressure than that required for its injection.
Brine filtration at a given injection rate continued till the value of pressure drop
(measured with differential pressure meter) reached the zero level. After that the
process of filtration was stopped.
Removal of proppant out of the formation model showed partial presence of gel
at a depth up to 1/5 of the model length. It is obvious that in ordeer to remove this
gel we need additional brine filtration.
Nevertheless we took samples of this proppant and proppant from the other
part of the model (with liquid phase) for further investigations at KCES-100 unit
(determination of proppant conductivity and level of PSWKF gel contamination of
proppant).
It is necessary to mention that proppant Saint-Gobain UltraProp of fraction
18/40 was chosen (because of its high strength) in order to eliminate the influence
of proppant mechanical breakdown on its conductivity. Moreover, tests were
performed in a conductivity cell at a minimal compression pressure of 1000 psi.
Experiments were conducted at a room temperature (75 F). The value of gel
viscosity at this temperature is more than at formation temperature.
The results of investigations are shown in Table 1.
As one can see in the table conductivity restoring coefficient of two proppant
samples with reference to conductivity of a clean proppant slug after PSWKF
injection is equal to 54.31% for proppant from the most polluted part of the model
and 89.09 for proppant from the other part of the formation model.
The obtained results allow recommending the application of PSWKF for after
fracturing well killing.
Table 1 The results of comparative investigations of proppant conductivity
Characteristics Values
Proppant, Designation, fraction Saint-Gobain (Norton) UltraProp 18/40
Proppant load, lb/ ft
2
2.0
Compression pressure, psi 1000
Exposure time, hours 2
Temperature, F 75
Conductivity of a clean proppant slug, mD*ft,
tested at injection rates of 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03
ft
3
/hour
13906
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Proppant slug from the sand-packed model
after PSWKF treatment
Sample #1
(from 1/5 of the
model length)
Sample #2
(from the other
part of the model)
Conductivity of proppant slug from the sand-
packed model, mD*ft, tested at injection rates
of 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03 ft
3
/hour
7553 12389
Conductivity restoring coefficient, % 54.31 89.09
Besides, these results are in agreement with the previous results of PSWKF
investigations obtained at OAO NPC Tvergeophizika using nuclear magnetic
resonance method and penetration tests of core samples (Investigations of the
impact of well killing fluids and acid solutions on clogged terrigenous reservoirs /
T.V. Hismetov et al.) // Neftyanoe hozyaistvo. - 2007. Vol. 3. - P. 92-95).
introduction into the aPPlication of doWnhole
tractors technology
A. McKay, Welltec Oilfield Services
S. E. Beryuschev, OOO Welltec Oilfield Services (RUS)
Welltec Oilfield Services is one of the major companies that provide services with
utilization of downhole tractors and other lightweight mechanical devices, which
provide an alternative to well intervention technologies that use such heavyweight
equipment as conventional workover and coiled tubing units.
The company started its operation in Russia in 2008. At first its services were
connected mostly with conveyance of logging tools and perforators to horizontal
wellbores with the help of downhole tractors. Now on the Russian oil and gas
market Welltec provides its customers with other types of services, such as milling,
bottomhole cleaning and other e-line controlled mechanical operations. Using
these technologies our clients immediately obtain the result owing to application
of faster, safer and more effective (with relation to cost optimization) service.
Utilization of Welltec equipment significantly simplifies logistics during well
intervention operations due to its low weight and small size. Besides, utilization
of this equipment essentially increases operational safety at the expense of job
duration time reduction, decreases the number of engaged personnel since in most
cases there is no need to use conventional workover and coiled tubing units.
Nowadays the company provides its services in all regions of Russian Federation.
Conveyance of equipment to horizontal wellbores with e-line downhole tractors
utilization is in demand among Welltec customers because of its economic
effectiveness, better operational and ecological safety.
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acid systeM MaXco3 technologies of oil
recovery enhanceMent of carbonate reservoirs
A. N. Sorokin, I.V. Chen, K.V. Burdin, Shlumberger
V.V. Kunavin, R. E. Zontov ,OOO Gazprom dobycha Astrahan
During three years of collaboration between Shlumberger and OOO Gazprom
dobycha Astrahan in the sphere of utilization of coiled tubing for well workover
operations at Astrahanskoe gas condensate field (AGCF) we performed a huge
volume of work on selection of technologies that allow performing operations
under conditions of AGCF. In Coiled Tubing Times journal we continually told
about utilization of coiled tubing in the wells of AGCF. In this report we will
consider a technology of selective treatment of carbonate reservoirs with the use
of acid system MaxCO3. This technology has been applied in Russia for the first
time.
Acid treatment of bottomhole zone in gas wells with productive zone thickness
more than 656 ft is connected with a number of difficulties. Performing of high-
quality treatment of the whole interval is a very complicated task. Situation at
AGCF is redoubled by a complex well design production interval is overlapped
by a blank liner by 80-90%. This limits access to upper and middle parts of
production interval and forces to perform acid treatment of bottomhole zone
through the lower part of interval. This process is accompanied by the raising
of stimulation fluid in the annulus along the whole formation. Such operation is
impossible without utilization of high-quality systems of acid deflection, especially
in the presence of high-permeability layers and fractured zones that are common
for carbonate reservoirs.
Utilization of coiled tubing, besides other traditional advantages over well
workover, allows performing of borehole and tubing cleanout before acid
treatment. This helps to avoid additional contamination of bottomhole zone.
Utilization of JetBlaster bottomhole tool and water jet effect enables to remove
filter cake and cement leavings.
Application of polymer deflecting systems is impossible due to aggressive
formation conditions formation fluid acidity, presence of hydrogen sulfide
(molar concentration up to 25%), formation temperature up to 230 F, formation
pressure more than 8700 psi. A significant drawback of polymer systems is that
they cause residual contamination of formation matrix.
Taking into account all above-mentioned peculiarities of AGCF Shlumberger
has introduced complex approach of AGCF wells maintenance. It includes a large
number of operations on borehole cleanout from sediment and contaminants,
as well as a full complex of bottomhole formation zone treatments. Besides
successful and proven VDA system, last introduction of the company was the
application of acid system MaxCO3 the newest polymer-free system for
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carbonate reservoirs treatment, which has been applied in Russia for the first time.
The advantage of this technology consists in complex (chemical and physical)
temporary blocking of the most permeable (drained) zones. Increasing of the
efficiency of chemical blocking, which is performed by VDA system, is realized due
to utilization of dissolvable fibers of prolonged action. Owing to these fibers active
acid is transported directly to weakly drained part of formation, which is saturated
with hydrocarbons.
Currently we have performed a pilot selective acid treatment of AGCF well with
MaxCO3 system utilization. As a result of utilization of multi-stage treatment
program with 15% solution of hydrochloric acid (HCl) as a basic fluid we got a
200% increase in productivity.
challenges of Well intervention With coiled
tubing on vankorskoe field
Suleyman Sitdikov , Rosneft
Stanislav Zagranichniy, Trican Well Service
The article reviews the engineering, operational and logistical issues related to
utilizing coiled tubing in Vankor oil field and the innovative solutions required to
overcome these issues.
The Vankorskoe field is a one of the major sources of Rosnefts production
growth in the mid-term, and was launched in the second half of 2009
The Vankorskoe field has all the wells drilled on pads. Each pad has multiple
wells drilled on it, all at different trajectories to maximize the contact to
recoverable reserves. Each well is drilled with a complex trajectory into the
producing zone. The wells are designed with a reverse bend in it allowing the
horizontal section of the wellbore to be directly beneath the wellhead. The field is
drilled primarily with horizontal wells, 75% of which have smart completion.
Two sizes of coiled tubing are used in the Vankorskoe field, 38.1 mm and 44.45
mm. The 38.1 mm is used in wells were downhole completions or restrictions
prevent the use of the 44.45 mm coiled tubing. The 44.45 mm coiled tubing is the
work string used on the majority of the treatments performed. These treatments,
to date, are clean outs, kick offs, stiff wireline logging and hydrate removals.
The complicate well profile demands the special approach for intervention
techniques. In the given well profiles, conventional wireline techniques are
not appropriate to convey tools the producing intervals. On the other hand,
Coiled Tubing is well suited to conduct such operations in the extended reach
wells. The definition of an extended reach well is a well with a measured depth
to true vertical depth ratio (MD/TVD) greater than 2.0 which is very applicable
for Vankorskoe field wells profile. The coiled tubing technology is used for
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wellbore cleanout operations after the completion and workover, well kickoff and
production logging.
The string lengths vary from an average of 4059 m for the short strings to an
average of 5757 m for the long strings. The wireline installed in the stiff wireline
strings is a seven conductor, double armour style. There are currently 2 stiff
wireline strings, 44.45 mm, which for logistical reasons are long strings.
The single most persistent issue encountered so far in the Vankorskoe field is
the inability to get the coiled tubing to TD. There are multiple possible reasons for
this, ranging from wellbore deviation, dog leg severity, wax build-up, well bore
completions, residual drilling or workover debris, equipment malfunction and
operator error.
As the Vankorskoe field continues to grow, with more wells coming on line,
the role of the coiled tubing units are also changing. In order to meet the current
challenges and to address the changes in operations, new technologies are being
investigated to work in the Vankorskoe field. Some ideas are old technology,
proven in the past in other oil fields, but so far, have not been used in Vankorskoe,
others are custom solutions to be used on the unique challenges provided by these
wells.
develoPMent of Method of coiled tubing surface
Passivation in order to decrease the degree of its
corrosion after acid treatMents
M. A. Silin, L. A. Magadova, L. F. Davletshina, O.Yu. Efanova, K. A. Poteshkina,
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Most of the oil fields on the territory of Russian Federation are under production
stage, which is characterized by decreasing production rates because of the gradual
depletion of their reserves. Thats why it is very important to apply oil production
technologies that allow restoring and often even improving filtration characteristics
of reservoir, as well as increasing oil recovery factor.
The most promising and important technologies of production stimulation and
oil recovery enhancement are those with coiled tubing (CT) utilization. The main
advantages of these technologies include mobility and low time and material costs of
well workover operations.
Taking into account the complexity of RIH and POOH operations, operations on
injection of corrosive medium through CT system, a question of CT wear resistance is
investigated by various scientific institutes. The main part of investigations is connected
with the study of CT fatigue during reel-in/reel-out. The problem of CT corrosion is
usually given little attention.
At Chemicals Technologies for Oil and Gas Industry Department of Gubkin Russian
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State University of Oil and Gas the investigation of corrosion of steel, which is used
for CT manufacturing, has been performed. Chemical compounds on the basis of
SKA modifier for CT surface passivation have been developed in order to decrease the
degree of CT corrosion after acid treatments.
the aPi sPecification (5st) for coiled tubing
Production
R. K. Stanley, Coiled Tube Resource Management
We review the new standard (5ST1) for the production, testing and nondestructive
inspection of coiled tubing, and compare it with the existing standard for coiled
line pipe (API Spec 5LCP2) The former contains a customer requirement for full-
body inspection after hydrostatic test, while the latter requires only a re-inspection
of the full length seam weld.
5LCP material must pass all the requirements of 5LCP and can be made from a
variety of steels. There are no fatigue requirements, and neither are there in 5ST.
ASTM A606/7 steels are commonly used for both coiled tubing (CT) and coiled
line pipe (CLP), although other steels could be used for CLP. There is no mention of
these steels having to pass any NACE tests, although these might be ordered by the
customer.
Following the hiatus to develop 5LCP, the Resource Group for Coiled Tubulars
(RGCT) returned to the development of 5ST, which was finally accepted in April
2010. The final document covers the grades, sizes, wall thicknesses, destructive
and non-destructive tests (X-ray, electro-magnetic, ultrasonic) for the tubes, and
finished welds. Grades are CT70, CT80, CT90, CT100 and CT110 only.
5ST and 5LCP are manufacturing documents. As such they contain no information
about operation in sour service, because the RGCT did not feel that enough was
known about the performance of the then-manufacturers grades in sour service.
Further, the wide spread of data from fatigue machines, the variations in fatigue
machine design, and the different steels used to produce CT do not permit
comment with regard to standardization. Rather, general comment on the fatigue
life issues is better suited to a recommended practice or technical bulletin than to a
manufacturing standard.

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case records of coiled tubing technologies at
tatarstan fields
R. M. Achmetshin, OOO Tatneft-AktyubinskRemService
OOO Tatneft-AktyubinskRemService delivers services in the sphere of well
wokover with coiled tubing technologies utilization. Our major customers are
Oil-and-Gas Production Department OAO Tatneft, Tatburneft, enterprises that
form a part of Tatneft-Remservice and small oil producers. We have used coiled
tubing technologies since 1998. More than 6000 wells of different function have
been repaired and more than 400 conventional workover operations have been
performed since that time. We have also mastered 32 technological operations.
Every year we perform more than 700 treatments with coiled tubing units
utilization. Operations are usually carried out in the Republic of Tatarstan, Samara
and Orenburg regions.
With application of coiled tubing we perform almost full spectrum of
workover operations:
Control of oil deposits development:
reservoir part shutoff;
reservoirs and horizons shutoff;
Production stimulation:
underbalanced bottomhole zone treatment (BZT);
overbalanced BZT;
vibrowave action;
preparation of wells for oil enhancement operations;
annular space operations;
preparation of wells for acid hydraulic fracturing;
preparation of wells for sidetracking.
Special operations:
abandonment and reabandonment of wells;
pipelines flushing;
selective access to wellbores of multilateral wells;
operations at bituminous wells.
Full spectrum of conventional workover services:
after fracturing proppant cleanout;
stuck tubing cutting-off;
cleanout of bridged tubing;
well killing;
production string reaming;
drilling out of cement plugs.
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The main part of operations is occupied by BZT of injection wells, bottomhole
flushing with solvents utilization and well stimulation through annular space.
We also perform small amount of water shutoff operations, reservoir shutoff and
tubing sealing operations, after drilling development of wells and after fracturing
proppant cleanout. We can exclusively perform operations of fiber-optic cable
reeving into coiled tubing and subsequent lowering the coiled tubing into
bituminous wells to control formation warm up and to deliver logging tools during
horizontal wells survey.
Since 2003 we use the method of well workover without pulling-out of
downhole pumping equipment. In the framework of this method 1'' coiled tubing
is lowered down via annular space through a hole for geophysical survey in the
handing flange of wellhead equipment. Method is used in the wells equipped with
sucker-rod pumps. More than 1000 workover operations have been performed
during this period.
The main part (more than 800 wells) of them falls at BZT for the purpose of
production stimulation. There is also a small amount of operations connected
with injection of chemicals for oil recovery enhancement and solvents for asphalt,
resin and paraffin deposits removal.
This year for the first time we have successfully lowered down coiled tubing into
the annular space of a well equipped with electric submersible pump. It means that
in the annular space we had both the coiled tubing and a domed rubber armored
cable. There were no problems during the coiled tubing lowering down and
pulling out operations. Successful performing of these operations creates
additional possibilities for expansion of coiled tubing applications.
Next technology is a selective access to wellbores of multilateral wells.
Currently in OAO Tatneft there are more than 100 wells with two,
three and four wellbores. In order to reduce costs and increase the success
rate of operations in these wells we use universal hydraulic coiled tubing
deflector OGGTU 90-1, which is intended for accessing two or more wellbores
of multilateral well in a single run and subsequent BZT of them with various
chemical agents.
We continue operations at bituminous fields that are operated using steam
assisted gravity drainage method.
Starting from 2008 OAO Tatneft uses the technology of investigation and
isolation of water inflows in horizontal wells with inflatable packers utilization.
The technology includes performing of geophysical survey operations with the
help of coiled tubing and identification of water- and oil-bearing sections in
openhole horizontal wells. By lowering down the inflatable packer we perform
separation of oil-bearing section with the possibility of further carrying out of
isolating operations in the water-bearing section of formation.
During this operation we have revealed a set of drawbacks connected with
utilization of inflatable packers. There were problems with hermiticity after packer
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setting (perhaps, due to the state of walls in the openhole or filtration of liquid
through formation); packer releasing occurred during the process of chemicals
injection.
In order to increase the efficiency of operations there were suggested to use
hydraulic fracturing fluid (polysaccharidic gel with decomposition after 48
hours) as a packer. The volume of injection should be equal to the volume of the
oil-bearing section of the openhole. Estimated volume of polysaccharidic gel was
prepared directly at the wellsite with the help of standard equipment and there
was no need in special training of servicers. Conveyance of gel to the preselected
interval was conducted with coiled tubing unit utilization. Isolating operations
were performed in 17 horizontal wells; in the eight of them we used gel as a packer.
The analysis of performed operations shows that the quality of water shutoff
operations does not decrease when using the liquid packer.
In 2010 we tested the technology of crossover circulation of wells through
1-1/2'' coiled tubing. Thickened solutions (0.08-0.1 lb/(ft*s) viscosity) were used
as process liquids. Given technology in conjunction with solvents application
allowed to better prepare wells for geophysical survey.
OOO Tatneft-AktyubinskRemService is always looking for innovative methods
of well workover that increase the number of used coiled tubing technologies
and the efficiency of workover operations. We do not try to compete with
conventional well workover. We significantly expand the possibilities of well
workover operations.
use of a hydraulic tubing cutter When
conventional e-line devices Were inoPerable
facilitates Workover in giant kazakhstan field
Detlef Boss, Weatherford International Ltd.
The Kashagan East field, located in the North Caspian Sea contract area in
Kazakhstan, was discovered in July 2000 and is one of the most significant
discoveries in the past 30 years with recoverable reserves estimated at 7-13 billion
barrels of oil from the deep high pressure reservoir. Production is of 45API
light crude with a high gas/oil ratio having H2S content in the region of 19%.
Development of the field continues with first production anticipated in 2012
and, as a result of the production characteristics, wells are typically completed
with a single string of 25% chrome tubing to an integral permanent packer with
all completion components being either Inconel 718 or 925. In 2007 while
performing a routine tubing caliper survey on a completed well, the cable head
released and the caliper tool string fell to bottom. Subsequent efforts to fish the
caliper using heavy duty wireline and coil tubing methods failed and it was left
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in the hole at a depth of 4688 meters (15,381 ft.). Over time settlings and swarf
from the tubing covered the fish to where it acted as a check valve, hindering any
pumping into the well, but allowing bottom hole pressure to pass, and so it was
decided to work the well over.
This necessitated cutting the tubing above the packer and, to use an electric
line conveyed Radial Cutting Torch (RCT), it was first necessary to punch holes
in the tubing, close to the intended cut area, because the fish acting like a check
valve would eliminate the shockwave compensation created by the RCT. However
attempts to punch holes as required failed for reasons as yet unverified and so the
only available alternative was to run a coiled tubing conveyed hydraulic cutter
powered by a downhole motor, since it only required circulation to surface and no
punched holes. This was run successfully and the tubing was cut in a period of 35
minutes allowing the planned workover to continue.
In this paper the author will review the background history of the well and
the series of events that led to the need to work it over. He will go on to describe
in detail the problems that were faced in attempting to cut the tubing and the
hydraulic cutting mechanism and operation that overcame them.
technological tools for iMProving the efficiency
of hydrocarbons Production and coal beds
degasification
I.Ya. Pirch, SZAO Novinka, FID Group
For many oil and gas companies implementation and development of coiled tubing
directional drilling technologies, including underbalanced drilling, is economically
prospective. This technology is rather effective for preservation and even increase of
hydrocarbons production level both at mature and green fields. Also coiled tubing
directional drilling technology can be effectively used for well drilling in coal beds.
Success and effectiveness of coiled tubing technologies applications in many
respects is determined by the reliability and effectiveness of utilization of special
BHAs that operate as part of coiled tubing complexes. For this purpose SZAO Novinka
created the corresponding equipment directional drilling system DDS89.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned purposes FID Group is ready to present
a special coiled tubing complex. This complex is based on coiled tubing equipment
and directional drilling system DDS89, which provides the possibility of directional
drilling of all well types, including horizontal wells and formations of various
thicknesses.
DDS89 system includes BHA and a set of surface equipment that provides
communication with downhole equipment and its proper operation, as well as
processing and visualization of data received from measuring units.
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Bottomhole assembly (for directional drilling system with wireline
communication channel) includes a set of elements that provide measuring and
recording of: inclination angle, azimuth, the angle of downhole drilling motor
(DDM) steering tool arrangement, temperature, pressure on DDM, annular
pressure, weight on bit, level of rocks natural gamma-activity and BHA vibration
level. Orientator, which forms a part of directional drilling system, provides control
of drilling direction in order to secure a predetermined well trajectory. Circulation
valve is used for alteration of drilling fluid flow direction without passing through
DDM. It is also used when there is a need to disconnect the lower part of BHA from
the upper one. Communication with surface equipment is realized via electric cable
that goes through coiled tubing.
For operation as part of conventional complexes SZAO Novinka is ready to offer
directional drilling system with hydraulic communication channel.
Communication with surface equipment in this case is realized by means of pulser
utilization. Pulser forms a part of BHA and transmits information via drilling mud
column.
Directional drilling systems with hydraulic or wireline communication channel
are offered by SZAO Novinka in two modifications: 3 or 3-1/2 diameter.

develoPMent of coiled tubing technologies
in ruP Po belorusneft
N. A. Demyanenko, M. I. Galay, U. A. Butov, A. I. Gavrilenko, D. L.Tretjakov, A. N. Bogatko,
BelNIPIneft RUP PO Belorusneft
Applicability and practicability of coiled tubing technologies utilization
is determined by the necessity of application of more effective measures for
extraction of remaining and hard to recover reserves. For the last 3 years coiled
tubing technologies have been applied at the fields of Belarus too. Performing
of oilfield coiled tubing operations at bottomhole zone is provided by MK-30T
unit. Unit works in conjunction with coiled tubing of 1-1/2, 1-3/4 and 2'' (for
sidetracking) diameter.
The results of coiled tubing operations connected with washing of bottomholes
of injection wells and flushing of production strings with fluid or foam, removal
of salt and paraffin plugs, after fracturing Stops, production stimulation
(hydrochloric bath, acid treatment), development of wells with utilization of
nitrogen unit and compensation technique, as well as with well development after
acid fracturing, are represented in the report.
We introduce the results of pilot field operations, which were performed in
well #289 of Rechickoe field with application of the developed technology and
equipment that orient coiled tubing into the sideholes of multibranch well. These
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sideholes allow performing of selective treatment of each borehole in order to
increase well production rate.
According to perspective plans of construction of wells with complex hole paths
and approbation of underbalanced drilling technologies we present the results of
directional drilling system (DDS) field tests in the well # 9012 of Kotelnikovskoe
and well # 44 of Novo-Sosnovskoe fields. Following the results of the field tests it
can be concluded that DDS, despite of some construction omissions, is serviceable
and can be used for hole drilling.
coiled tubing technologies in oao ank bashneft
D. M. Muhametshin, OAO ANK Bashneft
Today OAO ANK Bashneft steadily holds leading positions in Russian oil sector
because of its high rates of production volumes increase. Drilling of new wells
is the most capital intensive part in the structure of costs of all oil production
process. Thats why specialists from Oil Production Department of our company
pay special attention to optimization of existing well stock operation. Obviously,
it is impossible to achieve this goal without recruitment of well workover crews.
Specialists of Bashneft today carry out different kinds of operations in order to
optimize costs. There are already some results, including those connected with
service costs optimization. Against this background coiled tubing technologies
appear to be extremely actual and prospective. All seven coiled tubing units that
service Bashneft well stock are 100% busy. Mainly (6 out of 7 units) they are busy
performing operations that support injection well stock. In particular, on the fields
of OAO ANK Bashneft we have introduced technologies of complex bottomhole
formation zone (BFZ) treatment of injection wells with utilization of hydrocarbon
solvents and acids. Also there has been introduced a method of well hydro-
swabbing (drainage by means of water injection and subsequent bleeding with
formation energy utilization). Operations success is 96.3%. The major obstacle
on the way to achievement of 100% success is the unfitness of wells for workover
operations (perforation interval shutdown, the presence of thickened adapters in
a tubing string, packers with small diameter of the opening, leakage of installed
packers). We have also introduced technologies of acid, foam-acid and oil-acid
treatments.
Besides, the company has a unit that allows to perform operations in the annular
space without any preliminary steps connected with preparation of a wellhead and
a pump jack. This unit is the only in Russia, which has light injector with pulling
capacity of 17,650 lbs. By this moment the unit has performed 92 operations in the
annular space, which has allowed to produce additional 24,248.5 tons of oil.
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advantages of hybrid coiled tubing rigs
D. F. Chernik, M. M. Kursakova, Foremost Industries LP
We consider the advantages of hybrid coiled tubing rigs, which were manufactured
by Foremost, in comparison with conventional rigs on the basis of practical data
received from customers of Foremost.
In the first part we give the definition of hybrid coiled tubing rigs. Then we give
general information about Foremost Company and the number of hybrid coiled
tubing rigs that have been manufactured by the company since 2001. By this
moment the company has manufactured 64 rigs, the largest of which weights 150
tons. In the next part we list the major customers of Foremost Company in North
America Nabors Industries Ltd., Trailblazer Drilling Corporation, Xtreme Coil
Drilling Corporation. After that we pay attention to the main advantages of hybrid
coiled tubing rigs. The first advantage is their universality. The second advantage is
their high performance, i.e. the number of drilled wells in a definite period of time.
It is verified by the results received from Foremosts customers. We focus on the
fact that utilization of hybrid rigs allows to reduce drilling time in comparison with
conventional rigs. The third advantage is the drilling depth. On March 29th, 2007
Xtreme Coil Drilling Corporation jointly with EnCana Oil and Gas Incorporated set
a new world record in the depth of drilling (8,123 ft). The record was set in Colorado;
the drilling operation was performed with utilization of Foremosts hybrid coiled
tubing unit. Another feature of hybrid rigs is their safety. It is provided by the presence
of automatic platform for tubes, tubing elevators and top drive system. Those
components minimize the contact of operator with a rig during operations with
tubes, eliminating the necessity to use personnel at the wellsite. Besides the above-
mentioned advantages we emphasize that rig-up time of hybrid rigs is very small
between 2 and 8 hours in Canada. Also in the report we give a review of technical
characteristics of Foremosts hybrid coiled tubing rigs components injector head
and top drive. Top drives can be noted for their compactness and excellent power -
weight ratio. They can be easily adapted for most of coiled tubing units used in
Russia.
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full coMPleX of equiPMent for PerforMing
of high-technology oil and gas recovery
enhanceMent and Well ceMenting oPerations
A. M. Verigo, leading expert of Sales and Products Promotion Department,
NOV Fidmash
S.V. Yurutkin, head of Sales and Products Promotion Department, NOV Fidmash
Life dictates its own rules, that's why under conditions of severe competition the
necessity in application of new technologies moves to the forefront. Therefore, the
demand for state-of-the-art, high-technology equipment also grows. In particular,
a very important role over that period plays an effective cooperation between
manufacturers and service companies. This cooperation results in creation of
equipment, which satisfies the most severe technological requirements.
Fidmash is not the exception. The company continuously cooperates with its
customers and improves standard models of equipment, designs and manufactures
the newest machinery and upgrades previously produced units.
In this report we present complexes of equipment for performing of high-technology
oil and gas recovery enhancement and well cementing operations, namely:
cement squeeze;
bottomhole zone treatments;
remedial actions;
well logging with coiled tubing utilization;
coiled tubing drilling, including underbalanced drilling;
hydraulic fracturing;
well cementing;
and so on.
We also present new equipment and modifications of standard units developed
by NOV Fidmash specialists:
coiled tubing unit MK30T-60 with Terberg (Volvo) chassis;
coiled tubing unit MK30T-40 capable of operating both at onshore fields and
offshore platforms (modular construction mounted on a chassis);
two-pump cementing unit H1000C with automatic cement preparation
system;
associated equipment
In addition we present a review of standard technical equipment, possibilities of
spare parts delivery and rendering of maintenance services.
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device for creation of aXial Weight on drill bit
during coiled tubing drilling
A.Ya. Tretjak, Yu. F. Litkevich, A. E. Aseeva, South-Russian State Technical University
(SRSTU (NPI))
Generation of weight on drill bit during coiled tubing drilling (CTD) is a relevant
objective nowadays. During the process of horizontal drilling, especially when the
length of horizontal section is considerable, most of the axial load is lost on the way
to bottomhole.
At present time there are several devices for generation of weight on drill
bit. Bashkir State Institute for Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry Plants
Designing (patent 2006563), NPO Burovaya Technika VNIIBT (standard series
commercial output) and Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (patent 2124617)
offer the device on the basis of hydro loader. SZAO Novinka of FID Group and BP
company propose to generate weight on drill bit with the help of downhole tractor.
Developments of all organizations, except VNIIBT, are of experimental character.
Staff members of Oil and gas wells Drilling and Geophysics Department of SRSTU
(NPI) have developed a method of generation of axial load on horizontal well
bottomhole and a corresponding device for its realization. The essence of method
lies in generation of axial load by a single or a set of tandem assemblies, which consist
of hydraulic kicker and hydraulic power cylinders. Principle of device operation
consists in the following: a power cylinder, which has a piston inside, is connected
with drill pipes by means of square joint (splined tube assembly). Hydraulic kicker
and hydraulic power cylinders rods have channels for circulation fluid. Hydraulic
power cylinder is connected with hydraulic kicker cylinder by means of coupling
joint. Together they form an assembly. Hydraulic kicker cylinder has a piston,
arbitrary motion of which is prevented by a spring. The rod of this cylinder, which
has a channel for circulation fluid, is connected with the rod of hydraulic power
cylinder by means of a valve. When the pressure of circulation fluid is not enough
to start the operation of downhole drilling motor, drilling tool does not rotate
and there is no axial load. Circulation fluid just performs flushing of bottomhole.
With pressure of circulation fluid increases DDM starts to rotate drilling tools. The
piston of hydraulic kicker cylinder compresses a spring and its rod pushes the rod
of hydraulic power cylinder out of the valve so that circulation fluid travels into
hydraulic power cylinder bottom (head end) through a calibrated orifice. Hydraulic
power cylinder generates axial load and performs axial movement on the length of
stroke.
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nitrogen coMPressor units of industrial
grouP tegas iMPortant technical coMPonent
of coiled tubing oPerations
D. Vladykin, Industrial group TEGAS
Increase in coiled tubing utilization at the facilities of oil and gas industry.
Industrial safety of facilities. Requirements and regulations.
Nitrogen recommended industrial gas for coiled tubing applications.
Options of nitrogen delivery to the facilities of oil and gas industry.
Nitrogen compressor units important technical component of coiled tubing
operations.
Coiled tubing operations performed with nitrogen compressor units
utilization.
Technical capabilities and design variants of nitrogen compressor units.
Industrial group Tegas manufacturer of the extended range of nitrogen
compressor units of increased capacity.
Differential characteristics of nitrogen compressor units manufactured by
Industrial group Tegas.
Application of nitrogen compressor units manufactured by Industrial group
Tegas at oil and gas facilities.
Nitrogen modernization of air compression units of different
manufacturers
Maintenance department possibilities, variants of service maintenance of
nitrogen compressor units.
Conclusion.
eXPerience in aPPlication of doWnhole tools
Manufactured by ooo nPP rostektechnologii
together With coiled tubing units
Yu. N. Shtahov, OOO NPP RosTEKtechnologii
One of the main directions of OOO NPP RosTEKtechnologiis activity is
development, manufacturing and delivery of downhole tools intended for well
workover operations with coiled tubing units utilization.
The above-mentioned tools allow to perform the following types of
operations:
well cleanout;
well completion;
bottomhole zone treatments;
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water shutoff operations;
fishing operations.
According to statistics taken form different sources, the main types of coiled
tubing operations in Russia and CIS countries are well cleanout and completion
operations, bottomhole zone treatments and fishing operations.
In this connection the most popular assemblies are the following.
1. Well cleanout and completion:
milling adapter;
flapper-type backpressure valve;
jetting nozzles.
2. Fishing operations:
milling adapter;
flapper-type backpressure valve;
emergency breaker switch;
overshots, wireline catchers, special catchers.
The main requirements for manufactured tools are their reliability, resistance
to impacts of aggressive environment and maximal overhaul period. In order
to determine these parameters our company jointly with OOO Integra-Service
and OOO Gazprom podzemremont Orenburg performed successful bench and
borehole tests of well cleanout assemblies, including a milling adapter, a flapper-
type backpressure valve and a jetting nozzle.
A significant part of coiled tubing operations is connected with fishing of broken
wirelines, cables, logging tools, stems and so on. Downhole tool manufactured
by OOO NPP RosTEKtechnologii allowed to successfully perform all fishing
operations.
Currently OOO NPP RosTEKtechnologii cooperate with OOO Gazprom
podzemremont Urengoi, OOO Gazprom podzemremont Orenburg, OAO
Surgutneftegas and OOO Integra-Service in the field of development and delivery
of downhole equipment intended for well workover operations. Around 2500 tools
of 34 designations have been delivered to our customers since 2008.
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case records and technological caPabilities of
coiled tubing doWnhole equiPMent utilization
D.V. Zinin, OAO NPO Burenie
Long-length flush-joint pipe.
Obvious advantages of coiled tubing.
Coiled tubing units.
Complex of downhole and backup tools.
More than 40 kinds of tools were developed and tested.
OAO NPO Burenie is looking to cooperate with.
Development of new equipment and tools.
Upgrading of machinery and downhole equipment utilization technologies.
realtiMe acquisition of bottoMhole ParaMeters
data With coiled tubing utilization
K.V. Burdin, Schlumberger
ACTive* Technologies family is based on utilization of fiber-optic cable, which
is situated within the standard coiled tubing (CT), for real-time transmission of
bottomhole data to the surface. Fiber-optic cable is situated within a tube of 7/10-in.
diameter, which is resistant to acids and other aggressive media. In comparison with
cable, which is often used for well logging operations with CT utilization, ACTive*
technology on the basis of fiber-optic cable is 20 times lighter. It is also corrosion-
resistant and can operate at temperatures up to 300 F.
Surface-mounted reading system that does not interfere with the
process of injection and has a high density of real-time bottomhole data
acquisition allows ACTive* monitoring of wells and treatments. It consists
of the following elements:
Communication with bottomhole with the help of fiber-optic cables
Compensated neutron logging (CNL) (BHP, BHT and CCL)
DTS (distributed temperature sensing)
Surface-mounted electronics and software
By means of fiber-optic cable ACTive* system transmits the following
bottomhole data:
depth (the parameter is obtained using casing-collar locator (CCL));
CT internal pressure at the bottomhole;
bottomhole pressure (BHP);
bottomhole temperature (BHT).
Integrated services allow substantially reducing of operations time.
Today the family of ACTive* technological services includes almost all
types of CT services:
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ACTive Perforation
ACTive Flushing out
ACTive Bottomhole treatment
ACTive Sealing
ACTive Development
ACTive Profiling
For the first time the family of ACTive* services allows real-time monitoring of wells
and operations with CT utilization and provides the possibility of optimizing
current and subsequent well operations.
results froM the neW coiled tubing assessMent
systeM
R. K. Stanley, ItRobotics, IOS-PCI, and Coiled Tube Resource Management
Hall effect sensors are used to measure the magnetic flux leakages (MFL) Bx
(axial field) and Br (radial field). A second sensor set measure Bx for wall thickness
measurement. Eddy current lift of measurement sensors are used to determine
diameter and for the ovality computation.
Round-bottomed pits with maximal depth of 0.018-in. or 8.5% of specified wall;
MFL signals of a row of pits in the OD of stored pipe.
The research performed at the University of Tulsa has shown that OD surface
round-bottomed pitting that is less than 10% of the specified wall thickness deep
does not have a serious effect on the fatigue life of the tubing.
Used String:
Acid pitting, shallow gouges and some wall loss found in the bottom of the string;
Gouge MFL breaking threshold and the magnetic noise from the seam weld.
We recommended removal of the bottom of the string because of the acid damage
and corrosive wall loss. In cases where acid is run through CT strings, it is also
essential to neutralize the acid immediately with an alkaline solution. Otherwise the
acid will congregate in small puddles at the bottom of each wrap of the string, and
cause severe pitting at these locations.
Besides, in the report one can see the main characteristics of FlexorTU fatigue
model software. Input parameters are diameter, wall thickness, grade, pressure, real
diameter, guide-arch radius. These data permit the program to calculate the cycles
on a fatigue machine, or the trips into a well, as the case may be.
An inspector can then enter defect length, width and depth in the upper right of
the screen, and immediately compute the effect of that defect on the fatigue life of
the tubing at that point. Finally, the inspector can compute the effect of removing
the defect by sanding.
The model is based upon statistical analyses of real data taken on fatigue machines
at the University of Tulsa, and elsewhere. Both unflawed and flawed samples were
used.
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Prediction of coiled tubing string lifetiMe taking
into account the internal Pressure
of Process fluid
A.G. Molchanov, S.V. Romanenko, A. A. Klimenchekov, Gubkin Russian State University
of Oil and Gas
During the process of drilling or well workover coiled tubing string is exposed
to complex influence of different forces. On practice the most dangerous section
(from the point of view of tubing durability and lifetime) is the section between a
reel and injector head. In this section the tubing bends and is exposed to significant
plastic yields and influence of internal pressure at the same time. It is typical that the
value of this pressure affects (decreases) the tubing lifetime in a substantial way.
Nowadays in order to determine coiled tubing lifetime different empirical methods
are used. Manufacturers perform fatigue tests under various external conditions,
on the basis of which it is possible to make all necessary calculations. Among the
advantages of this method one can find a high confidence of obtained results.
The main disadvantage of this technique is that it is necessary to make full-scale
specimens. Under conditions of batch production of coiled tubing manufacturing
of specimens is not a difficult task. But if there is a need in exploration works (for
example, selection of chemical composition of tubing metal), the cost and the
duration of manufacturing process can significantly increase.
The most optimal method of calculation of coiled tubing string estimated
lifetime is analytical calculation on the basis of fatigue tension-compression tests of
standard specimens with allowance for the stress state. Such practice is widely used
for calculation of lifetime of details, load on which periodically changes and causes
strain with magnitude not exceeding elastic limit. Fatigue strength that forms the
basis of such calculations is determined almost for all grades of materials, which
are used in mechanical engineering. In the case of coiled tubing strings, material of
which is exposed to strain with magnitude exceeding yield limit, such database is
missing.
For calculation of coiled tubing lifetime it is necessary to perform analysis of
stress-strain state that provides a transfer from three-dimensional stress state to
monoaxial state, which is, in its turn, characterized by the magnitude of equivalent
strains and stresses. It is also necessary to obtain experimental data that specify low
cycle fatigue life beyond the elastic limit.
During the coiled tubing reel on/off there appear stresses

(), which are caused

by the cyclic load of the tubing when it envelopes a reel and a guiding arc, and
stresses
m
(p) caused by the internal pressure. It is typical that stresses caused by
the tubing bending act during the hard loading cycle, which is characterized by the
strain regulation. Stresses caused by the internal pressure act during the soft loading
cycle.
Performed investigations showed that neither of existing dependencies of
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plasticity theory can be used since there is a combination of plastic and elastic
strains. It was established that the calculation of equivalent state of specimen, which
simulate the tubing material, should be made on the basis of strains calculation.
Taking Menson investigation as a basis it is possible to determine the influence of
desired dependency. However, as opposed to the accepted statements one should
use the value of secant modulus of elasticity, which characterizes the strain process
beyond the yield limit.
Magnitudes of equivalent strains, which a specimen being under conditions
of monoaxial tension should withstand, after N loading cycles followed by the
specimen failure will satisfy the equation

a equiv
= 77,6 N
-0,79
+
-1
(1-
m
/
vr
) N
0
1/m
N
-1/m
/
sec
(
a equiv
)

,
where N the number of cycles till specimen failure; N0 base number of
cycles, which corresponds to the value of fatigue limit
-1
;
sec
(

) secant modulus
of elasticity that depends on the strains
a equiv
,which appear when the tubing
envelopes a reel and a guiding arc;
m
(p) stresses caused by the internal pressure,
m exponent of power that characterizes material fatigue properties.
Obtained dependency allows determination of equivalent strains that should
be created during material specimens testing at a given stress state of a specimen.
Comparison of the results of specimens testing at monoaxial stress state with testing
parameters determined by the above-mentioned formula and the results of tubing
full-scale tests showed that discrepancy did not exceed 7-9%. Thus it is possible to
perform fatigue tests of specimens, simulating not only the values of plastic strains
caused by the tubing bending but also the ones caused by the internal pressure
influence.
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. Baker Hughes Andrey Smarovozov
. Baker Hughes Vitaly Vidavsky
Baker Oil Tools Distributor Ltd. Sergey Lisov
Basheft-Geostroy Sergey Goryuhin
Bashneft Damir Muhametshin
Bashneft Dobycha Oleg Serdukov
Belorusneft Mikhail Halai
Belorusneft Yuriy Butov
Belorusneft Nikolay Demyanenko
Bico Drilling Tools Michael Philpot
Blagodarov Oil Rinat Xuzin
Burenie Dmitry Zinin
Catobneft Alexander Davydov
Catobneft Dudnikov Andrey
Coiled Tube Resource Management Roderic K Stanley
Coiled Tubing Service Almas Khamidullin
Coiled Tubing Times Sergey Torpachev
Coiled Tubing Times Halina Bulyka
Coiled Tubing Times Olga Gabdulkhakova
CTTDC Vladimir Shurinov
CTTDC Boris Vydrik
CTTDC Leanid Hruzdzilovich
CWS International Sergey Grunin
Eriell Corporation s.r.o. Jamolidin Rahmonov
Foremost Industries LP James Frederick Chernyk
Foremost Industries LP Maria Kursakova
Foremost Industries LP Irina Matkovskaya
Foremost Industries LP Tatiana Shubaeva
Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan Igor Polyakov
tHE LiSt oF PARtiCiPAntS
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Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan Vyacheslav Vasiliev
Gazprom Neft Andrei Demenkov
Gazprom Neft-Vostok Mikhail Dviborodchin
Global Tubing Jacques Attie
Global Tubing C. Robert Bunch
Global Tubing H.B. Luft
Haihua Industry Group Li Jiavchen
Haihua Industry Group Yang Ponglin
Haihua Industry Group Yu Han
Haihua Industry Group Xlian Linyun
Haihua Industry Group Zhang Chunfeng
ICoTA Eric Boeke
ICoTA Allison Babin
Immertechnik Grigoriy Zhuravlev
Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Lubov Magadova
Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Luchia Davletshina
Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Oxana Efanova
Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Kira Poteshkina
Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Gubkin
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Alexander Molchanov
Kogalymnefteprogress Ivan Kuzmin
Maximum Service Alexei Antropov
Ministry of Industry and Trade of the
Russian Federation
Leonid Kondratov
National Oilwell Varco Alexey Anopov
National Oilwell Varco Andy Jenkinson
NOV Fidmash Alena Lapatsentava
NOV Fidmash Sergey Yurutkin
NOV Fidmash Andrei Verigo
NOV Fidmash Sergey Kablash
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Novinka Ivan Pirch
Novinka Sergei Atrushkevich
Novinka Pavel Laktionov
OFTC Vyacheslav Gorobiychenko
OFTC Viktor Ternavshenko
Oil and Gas Eurasia Marina Alyoshina
Oil and Gas Technologies Natalie Kutasova
Oil and Gas Vertical Tatiana Adyakova
OMK Anna Hasanova
OMK Stal Viacheslav Afanacev
Packer Elmir Kabirov
Packer Alexander Lukin
Poltava Oil and Gas Company Aleksandr Kryvenko
Poltava Oil and Gas Company Vladimir Taran
Region Yuriy Kitsenko
Rosen Europe B.V. Rutger Van Kampen
Rosen Russia Igor Bogatyrev
Rosen Swiss A.G. Marc Seeger
Rosneft Viktor Bochkarev
RosTEKtehnologii Yury Shtakhov
Schlumberger Aleksandr Sorokin
Schlumberger Konstantin Burdin
Schlumberger Konstantin Basanov
Schlumberger Igor Chen
SERVAgroup Ray Backer
SERVAgroup Doug Reder
SMM Alexey Smirnov
SMM Vyacheslav Savasteev
outh-Russian State Technical University
(Novocherkassk Polytechnical Institute)
Alexander Tretyak
Surgutneftegas Andrey Popov
Surgutneftegas Sergey Gabrelyan
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Surgutneftegas Viktor Sysoev
Surgutneftegas Oleg Nagibin
Surgutneftegas Andrei Krylov
Surgutneftegas Denis Sultanov
Tatneft RemService Oleg Kiselev
Tatneft RemService Yury Sterliadev
Tatneft-Aktubinsk RemService Rubin Ahmetshin
Tegas Denis Vladykin
Tenaris Jorge Mitre
TMK Poman Groh
TNK-BP Sergey Tretyakov
Trican Well Service Alexander Novichkov
Trican Well Service Dmitry Kholodov
Trican Well Service Stanislav Zagranichny
Trican Well Service Glen McGregor
Trican Well Service Tom Brocklebank
Trican Well Service Steve Scherschel
Ugra Azot Service Anatoliy Nastevich
Uraltrubmash Artem Balabanov
VCNG Yaroslav Gordeev
VCNG Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
Weatherford International Mark Ziegler
Weatherford International Blake Ducharme
Weatherford International Frederic Perrier
Weatherford International Detlef Boss
Weatherford International Blake Hammond
Weatherford International Artem Tzin
Weatherford International Ekaterina Nortzova
Welltec Oilfield Services Sergey Beryuschev
Welltec Oilfield Services Alexander McKay
Yugson Service Anatoli Kireev
ZapolarStroyResurs Sergey Jatsynenko