CN1289788C - Inflow detection apparatus and system for its use - Google Patents

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CN1289788C
CN1289788C CNB998037389A CN99803738A CN1289788C CN 1289788 C CN1289788 C CN 1289788C CN B998037389 A CNB998037389 A CN B998037389A CN 99803738 A CN99803738 A CN 99803738A CN 1289788 C CN1289788 C CN 1289788C
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Abstract

There is provided a method for monitoring fluid flow within a region to be measured of a subterranean formation, said method comprising placing at least one source within said subterranean formation; placing at least one sensor within said region to be measured, wherein each said at least one sensor is adjacent to at least one source such that said sensor measures changes to said fluid caused by said source; and providing at least one means for transmitting data from each said at least one sensor to at least one data collection device, said at least one data collection device capable of communicating with an operator.

Description

The method that monitoring subterranean zone inner fluid flows
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of method that fluid flows in the stratum of measuring; The particularly measurement of the flow rate of the liquid in the stratum, gas and fluid-mixing.
Background technology
Along with for example latest development of the oil drilling industry of horizontal well and multilateral well of wellbore construction technology, the new challenge to completion and petroleum production engineering standard has appearred.High load capacity horizontal well under deep water conditions also promotes the perfect of technical tool that the Petroleum Engineer uses, to be used for safety and exploit oil-producing formation modestly.
Permeability (" K ") and thickness (" H ") that the typical method of reservoir monitoring is suitable for well exploitation area are known.Should " KH " often periodically determine, and common water is for being constant by production logging.Concerning calculated most of reservoirs, " KH " of well was primary.In horizontal well or multilateral well, the H that penetrates the pit shaft of reservoir is learnt by electrical logging, and is learnt by the technology of drilling well simultaneous logging recently.But the reservoir interval that has write down may promote that the H of well exploitation is different with reality, and in fact H can watch at any time and change.
Industrial hypothesis to the inflow characteristic in horizontal well and the multilateral well has been taked passive (lazefaire) attitude.The main hypothesis relevant with flowing into well performance is based on surface data (being flow rate, pressure, water content etc.), possible pressure bomb and warp. test rule.The fact is that these hypothesis can cause bad well performance, the management of bad reservoir, and the damage of completion equipment and in the worst case, the calamity of well is damaged.
The variation of the only obtainable at present monitoring of oil production engineer or production engineer " H " and the method for loss are operation wire rope or duct arrangement production logging between the well intervention period.These well loggings particularly are difficult to explain under the situation of level and high angle hole.This is because flow meter energy measurement 3 phase flow rates are not thought the gentle body drain output of specific retention (water hold up) (gas blow by) usually in the literature.This method of production logging and need rig to move by the production logging method known to asking in 0442188 and 0508894 in the European patent, this can cause exploitation losses in the upper and lower process of the rig of logging equipment, and the danger that equipment gets loose in the well occurred.Production logging is not always possible (for example, some subsea-completed wells or well are wherein installed electric submersible pump (ESP)).And, because the production logging data through interpretive analysis, determine not move the production logging group thus through regular meeting.Last result keeps exploitation by increase restriction size in the surface.This may cause bigger danger, and finally causes sieve plate and borehole failure, or big moisture hydrate exploitation, and bleed or steam.
European patent application 0442188 promptly discloses a kind of method that fluid flows of monitoring, and this method comprises: place at least one source in described subterranean zone; Place at least one sensor in described zone to be measured, wherein each described at least one sensor is near at least one source, the variation of the described fluid that described like this sensor measurement is caused by described source; Provide at least one to be used for data are sent to the device of at least one transacter from each described at least one sensor, described at least one transacter can be got in touch with the operator.In known method, Doppler flowmeter is placed on the logging cable and drops in the wellhole then temporarily.Another kind of well logging probe is equipped with the fibre optics signal to produce and sniffer, it by in the european patent application 0508894 as can be known.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is the solution the deficiencies in the prior art and proposes a kind of method that the subterranean zone inner fluid flows of monitoring, and described method comprises: place at least one source in described subterranean zone; Place at least one sensor in described zone to be measured, wherein each described at least one sensor is near at least one source, the variation of the described fluid that described like this sensor measurement is caused by described source; Provide at least one to be used for data are sent to the device of at least one transacter from each described at least one sensor, described at least one transacter can be got in touch with the operator; It is characterized in that described source and/or sensor comprise a thermal source and a heat sensor, this thermal source and heat sensor forever are installed in the underground well bore and/or stratum.
Method of the present invention provides monitoring a kind of measure that fluid flows, and wherein fluid refers to from the liquid on stratum or the mixture of gas or liquid and gas.Measure.Directly carry out in the zone that hope is measured.Under the situation of flowing well, in recovery well, measure.Heat and/or sound source are placed on the fluid flow path, and near placing and can monitor temperature or the change of fluid that causes of the sensor detection resources of sound variation in the source.
The specific embodiment
One embodiment of the present of invention provide a kind of method, and the fluid that this method is used for detecting in the tested zone on stratum flows.At least one source is placed in the stratum.Placement is quite permanent, and the source that this means is stayed then and measured the area through setting.At least one sensor also is placed in the tested zone.Each sensor should be near one or more sources, and this sensor close enough source is so that the change of fluid that the measurement source causes.Also must provide at least one device, be used for data are sent at least one transacter from sensor.Transacter can be underground, and from the teeth outwards, perhaps in air, but it must be got in touch with the operator.As employed here, an operator can be an object, for example active station or people.
The source can be light source, electric heat source, sound source or its. combination.Example comprises thermistor, light heater, continuous heating element, cable, sonar generator and vibration machine.Because the limitation on its optimum restriction stratum, preferred sensor is an optical fiber, and these optical fibers are little of not producing interference.Optical fiber also can be used as data link, therefore as two purposes.Source and sensor are preferably perpendicular to fluid stream location.
When the stratum was well, tested fluid flowed, and the zone is typically in pit shaft, and this pit shaft is vertical, level or inclination.Sensors configured and with the device of the data link of the mode quite do not disturbed through blank pipe shape parts.
Wish that this system that favores with uses the application drilling technology that is known as low-light sensing technology (" MOST ") to finish drilling well.MOST allows the miniaturization of the sensing equipment in diving apparatus.Fundamentally, the oil and natural gas well environment has the geometrical condition and the hostile condition of limited temperature and pressure.MOST can be used in these environment, and this is to surpass 200 ℃ temperature because it can use the unusual data link of minor diameter (optical fiber) and use sensor to bear.
Because source, sensor and data link for good and all are installed in the desired area on stratum, do not need the well intervention, for example production logging.The shaft bottom that this method can be provided at the stratum on the real-time basis flows into dynamic outline, and can monitor the multistage stream probe node along the stratum.
The use of thermal source and sensor will be as an example.The thermal source of a series of electricity or luminous energy can be parallel to a series of heat sensors along the well bore axis arranged.Thermal source can be a various ways, includes but are not limited to for example electro-hot regulator, light heating element or continuous heater element cable for example of single-point heater element.
The preferably single or many optical fibers of heat sensor.These fibers can be placed in the well of multiple device and multiple geometry.The protection fiber is for example arranged temperature pick up and data link in the pipe so that make its profile instance that is not exposed in the hydrogen be at little hollow member.By before heating element, behind the heating element or under these two situations, optical fiber is placed in the stream that flows, form the mobile monitoring system.Other embodiment uses the placement that is parallel to each other, and structure centers on mutually and the optical fiber and the heating element of many other geometries to coil.Preferred embodiment is arranged thermal source and heat sensor perpendicular to fluid flow direction in well bore, thermal source has heated fluid like this, and the thermal change of the fluid stream of thermal source is flow through in the heat sensor measurement.Then, according to the hot-fluid formula of simplifying below, this system has formed the heat flowmeter of a series of classics:
Q=WCp(T 2-T 1)
Wherein:
The heat (BTU/Hr) that Q=transmits;
The mass flowrate of W=fluid (1bm/Hr); With
The specific heat of Cp=fluid (BTU/1bm ).
The precision of flow meter depends on the precision of the ratio dsc data of streaming flow.The specific heat of the fluid in the well in time, flowing pressure and reservoir condition (for example taper) and change.
Suitable well exploitation needs thermal source and temperature measurement equipment little, and can not invade the internal diameter inboard of well bore.Do not have the layout of invading and allow well to open fully, allow to be provided with the source of permanent installation like this, the completion of sensor and data link adopts: excitation, squeezing or logging technique.
Preferred sensor of the present invention and/or data link are optical fibers.Optical fiber is rare glass fiber, and the various production method by many different coating and the optical characteristics by influencing them obtains this fiber.In the time of in being exposed to hydrogen, the optical fiber function reduces fast, and underground water is the hydrogen carrier that easily obtains certainly.Therefore, fiber must be placed in the carrier.But fibre-optic another makes characteristic allow the continuous multiple variation of getting along fibre length of a fiber, a tangible advantage.
Fiber can be used in the oil and natural gas well, and is used in combination optics time delay reflectometer (" OTDR ") device (so-called " the inherent measurement ").Inherent sensing along fiber has utilized quantrm electrodynamics (" QED ").QED relate to the subatomic particle science for example light in, electronics etc.For this application, interest is the photon motion through the very special subatomic matrix of glass.For each particular light guide fiber, the possibility or the possibility amplitude of the photon of known and the subatomic structural interaction of silica.Have and the known relation of fibre-optic refractive index as final backscattering at the light of the function of the inferior former heat affecting in structure of glass.Draw or the energy and the frequency of the light of emission through optical fiber, allow to calculate in the given length upper edge, optical fiber sends or backscattered predetermined light and frequency.
Method of the present invention uses OTDR and heat and/or sound source with flowing in the measuring well. and can monitor flowing over time of each node, the observational measurement on the real-time permanent basis is provided.Known use glass and laser, can according to following formula with " OTDR ' measure the energy that backscattering is returned:
P bs(1)=1/2P 0ΔtV gC sNA 2exp(∫-2αdx)
Wherein
P Bs=from the distance 1 backscattering energy that returns;
P 0=emitted energy;
Δ t=source time pulse width is a unit with time;
V g=group velocity;
C s=scattering constant;
The numerical aperture of NA=fiber; With
α=complete attenuation loss coefficient.
OTDR can be successfully and can repeatedly be measured backscattered variation as temperature funtion, and this changes the light wave by fibre-optic laser pulse, causes by relevant Cs and α.
Cs ≅ ( α r ) C 0 + ( α s ) C 0 + Pc + Pt ( α s ) d
With
α=α C0+Pc/Pt(α d)
Wherein
α r=Raman scattering coefficient;
α s=rayleigh scattering coefficient;
() C 0=the parameter relevant with fibre core;
() C 1=the parameter relevant with cladding of fiber; With
P C1/ P Tota1=in covering because the ratio of the whole energy that the evanescent wave effect produces.
The OTDR device uses lasing light emitter, photosphere fiber; The directional coupler, optoelectronic receiver, signal processor and the data that connect fiber are adopted the qualifying device.
Method of the present invention does not need surperficial intervention simply to implement in the down-hole, and allows to use 4D earthquake and other technical monitoring down-hole reservoir characteristic.The present invention also is used for other flow process (being pipeline, refining process etc.).

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1. monitor the method that the subterranean zone inner fluid flows for one kind, described method comprises:
In described subterranean zone, place at least one source;
Place at least one sensor in described zone to be measured, wherein each described at least one sensor is near at least one source, the variation of the described fluid that described like this sensor measurement is caused by described source;
Provide at least one to be used for data are sent to the device of at least one transacter from each described at least one sensor, described at least one transacter can be got in touch with the operator;
It is characterized in that described source and/or sensor comprise a thermal source and a heat sensor, this thermal source and heat sensor forever are installed in the underground well bore and/or stratum.
2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that described thermal source is an electric heat source.
3. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that the selection from thermistor, light heating element, continuous heating element, cable and its combination of described thermal source.
4. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that described sensor comprises one or more optical fibers.
5. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that described heat sensor and thermal source locate perpendicular to described fluid flows.
6. the described method of one of claim as described above is characterized in that described thermal source heats described fluid, and the thermal change of the fluid stream of thermal source is flow through in described heat sensor measurement.
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