Method and system for hydraulic friction controlled drilling and completing geopressured wells utilizing concentric drill strings
AssigneeInnovative Drilling Technologies LLC
InventorRobert Gardes
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Abstract
A method and system of drilling straight directional and multilateral wells utilizing hydraulic frictional controlled drilling, by providing concentric casing strings to define a plurality of annuli therebetween; injecting fluid down some of the annuli; returning the fluid up at least one annulus so that the return flow creates adequate hydraulic friction within the return annulus to control the return flow within the well. The hydraulic friction should be minimized on the injection side to require less hydraulic horsepower and be maximized on the return side to create the desired subsurface friction to control the well.
Claims5
A method of controlling the drilling of wells under pressure, comprising the following steps:
- a) providing a principal drill string in a principal wellbore;
- b) providing at least one concentric casing string surrounding at least a portion of the principal drill string in the principal wellbore;
- c) pumping a controlled volume of fluid down the at least one concentric casing string and returning the fluid up a common return annulus in the principal wellbore, so that the friction caused by additional fluid flow up the return annulus is greater than the friction caused by the fluid flow from the principal drill string to frictionally control the well.
A method of drilling oil and gas wells under pressure, utilizing hydraulic frictional controlled drilling, comprising the steps of:
- a. providing at least one concentric casing string to define an plurality of annulus;
- b. injecting fluid down some the annulus;
- c. returning the fluid up at least one return annulus so that the return flow creates adequate hydraulic friction within the annulus to control the return flow within the well.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.