WO2015069398A1 - Elément d'emballage dégradable - Google Patents

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WO2015069398A1
WO2015069398A1 PCT/US2014/058997 US2014058997W WO2015069398A1 WO 2015069398 A1 WO2015069398 A1 WO 2015069398A1 US 2014058997 W US2014058997 W US 2014058997W WO 2015069398 A1 WO2015069398 A1 WO 2015069398A1
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packing apparatus
sealing element
degradable material
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Bennett M. Richard
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B33/00—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells
    • E21B33/10—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells in the borehole
    • E21B33/12—Packers; Plugs
    • E21B33/1208—Packers; Plugs characterised by the construction of the sealing or packing means
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B23/00—Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing or removing tools, packers or the like in boreholes or wells
    • E21B23/06—Apparatus for displacing, setting, locking, releasing or removing tools, packers or the like in boreholes or wells for setting packers
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B33/00—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells
    • E21B33/10—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells in the borehole
    • E21B33/12—Packers; Plugs
    • E21B33/128—Packers; Plugs with a member expanded radially by axial pressure

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  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a packing apparatus according to a first embodiment
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a packing apparatus according to another embodiment
  • Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a seat member of the plug assembly illustrated in Fig. 3.
  • the sealing element 1 10 is at least partially formed from a degradable material.
  • the degradable material may be a polymer, such as a degradable polymer or biodegradable polymer.
  • biodegradable is defined broadly to include materials that degrade in the presence of naturally occurring fluids, such as water, as well as enzymes and other biological compounds. While other elements of packing apparatuses, such as plugs, have been constructed of dissolvable or otherwise degradable materials, the creation of a sealing surface formed from a degradable material is
  • poly(hydroxyalkanoate)s modified poly(saccharide)s, and other naturally occurring and synthetic polymers. These materials may be used in combination with each other and with other degradable and non-degradable polymers and other substances to achieve the desired mechanical properties, including degradation rate at a particular pressure and temperature.
  • the body 105 of the packing apparatus 100 comprises those elements that, when combined with the sealing element 110 and deployed, obstruct the flow of fluid in a tubular.
  • the body 105 comprises a plug member 115, a seat member 120, a cone 125, and one or more slips 130.
  • the body 105 may comprise a single element or an arrangement of numerous elements, as may be desired for a particular application.
  • the body 105 of the packing apparatus 100 is at least partially formed from a degradable material.
  • the degradable material chosen for the sealing element 1 10 may be the same degradable material selected for at least a portion of the body 105.
  • a first degradable material of the body 105 is selected to have a greater hardness than a second degradable material of the sealing element 110, thereby allowing the sealing element 110 to undergo some deformation to form the seal.
  • the degradable material of the sealing element 1 10 may also be selected to have a slower rate of degradation than a degradable material selected to form at least a portion of the body 105.
  • the body 105 of the packing apparatus 100 is at least partially formed from a degradable material that may be activated, for example, by an acid or base solution.
  • the selected degradable material is adapted to degrade at a predictable rate when exposed to a selected fluid.
  • the degradable material is a controlled electrolytic metallic (CEM) material proprietary to Baker Hughes Incorporated.
  • CEM materials generally comprise a nanomatrix metal composite containing a disintegrating agent.
  • These lightweight, high-strength and selectably and controllably degradable materials include fully-dense, sintered powder compacts formed from coated powder materials that include various lightweight particle cores and core materials having various single layer and multilayer nanoscale coatings.
  • These powder compacts are made from coated metallic powders that include various electrochemically-active (e.g., having relatively higher standard oxidation potentials) lightweight, high-strength particle cores and core materials, such as electro chemically active metals, that are dispersed within a cellular nanomatrix formed from the various nanoscale metallic coating layers of metallic coating materials, and are particularly useful in borehole applications.
  • Suitable core materials include electro chemically active metals having a standard oxidation potential greater than or equal to that of Zn, including as Mg, Al, Mn or Zn or alloys or combinations thereof.
  • tertiary Mg-Al-X alloys may include, by weight, up to about 85% Mg, up to about 15% Al and up to about 5% X, where X is another material.
  • the core material may also include a rare earth element such as Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd or Er, or a combination of rare earth elements.
  • the materials could include other metals having a standard oxidation potential less than that of Zn.
  • suitable non-metallic materials include ceramics, glasses (e.g., hollow glass microspheres), carbon, or a combination thereof.
  • the material has a substantially uniform average thickness between dispersed particles of about 50nm to about 5000nm.
  • the coating layers are formed from Al, Ni, W or A1203, or combinations thereof.
  • the coating is a multi-layer coating, for example, comprising a first Al layer, a A1203 layer, and a second Al layer. In some embodiments, the coating may have a thickness of about 25nm to about 2500nm.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate a plug assembly 200 in accordance with the present disclosure employing a sealing element in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • the plug assembly 200 includes a first sealing element 205, disposed on an outer surface of a seat member 210.
  • the first sealing element 205 is configured to form a sealing relationship with the inner surface of a tubular.
  • the plug assembly 200 also comprises a second sealing element 215 disposed on an inner surface of the seat member 210.
  • the second sealing element 215 is configured to interface with a plug member to form a seal.
  • the first sealing element 205 and the second sealing element 215 are formed from a material that includes a degradable polymer, such as polyglycolic acid. Other additives, which may include other degradable substances, may be added to the material of the first sealing element 205 and the second sealing element 215 to achieve the desired hardness and degradation rate.
  • the first sealing element 205 and the second sealing element 215 can be formed using the same materials, or may be formed from different materials. The use of different materials in the sealing elements could be advantageous where the plug member and the tubular are formed from different substances.
  • the present disclosure provides a method for well completion.
  • a packing apparatus is arranged in a tubular, such as a casing or a piping string.
  • the packing apparatus includes a body, formed at least partially from a degradable material, and at least one sealing element, formed at least partially from a degradable polymer.
  • a plurality of packing apparatuses may be used at one or more stages.
  • the packing apparatus is arranged in the tubular at a selected location and deployed to obstruct the flow of fluid.
  • the casing is then perforated, for example, just above the selected location.
  • the well may then be stimulated, for example, using proppant stimulation or another known process.
  • the body of the packing apparatus is degraded, for example, by deploying a selected fluid that triggers a reaction in the degradable material.
  • the sealing element is also degraded by fluid flow.
  • the degradable material may degrade into small particles in a matter of minutes while the degradable polymer will decompose over a number of days.

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L'invention concerne un appareil d'emballage comprenant au moins une surface de scellement formée à partir d'un matériau dégradable. Le matériau dégradable peut être un polymère biodégradable tel qu'un acide polyglycolique, un acide polylactique ou leurs copolymères. Le corps de l'appareil d'emballage peut aussi être formé d'un matériau dégradable. L'appareil d'emballage peut être déployé dans un puits souterrain et mis au rebut sans broyage.
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