US 7,066,268 B2Granted

Well jet device for well testing and developing and the operating method for the well jet device

OwnerZinoviy Dmitrievich Khomynetsinventor

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Abstract

The invention relates to jet device used for extracting oil from wells. The inventive device comprises a packer, a pipe column, a jet pump, a transmitter and a receiver of physical fields. The body of the pump comprises a through stepped channel embodied in a parallel position with respect to the axes of the pipe column and having a seat disposed between steps for arranging a sealing unit, which is provided with an axial channel. Said pump body is also provided with an active nozzle. The axis of the active nozzle is disposed in a parallel position with respect to the axis of the through channel at a distance equal to or higher than 1.1 of the radius thereof. The diameter of the through channel above the seat is 0.5 mm greater than the diameter thereof below said seat. The diameter of the axial channel of the sealing unit is equal to or less than 0.6 of the external diameter thereof. The sealing unit is arranged in such a way that it is movable along a cable above a bit and successfully replaceable by the following functional inserts: a blocking insert, depression insert etc. Said inserts are provided with attachments for transporting them to the pump and extracting therefrom and for arranging instruments and samplers thereon. Said invention makes it possible to optimise the dimensions of the elements of the device and increases the reliability thereof.

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Dependent claims

The well jet device comprising a packer, a piping string and a jet pump, in a body of which an active nozzle with a mixing chamber are arranged and a stepped through passage is made with a mounting seat between steps for installing a sealing assembly having an axial passage, said device being provided with a transmitter and a receiver-transducer of physical fields, which is arranged at the jet pump side for entry of medium pumped out of the well, the jet pump output side is connected to space around the piping string, the input side of the jet pump passage for supplying the pumped out medium is connected to an inner cavity of the piping string below the sealing assembly, and the input side of the passage for supplying the working medium to the active nozzle is connected to the inner cavity of the piping string above the sealing assembly, and the through passage of the jet pump is made parallel to the axis of the piping string, characterized in that the axis of the active nozzle is parallel to the axis of the through passage and being located from the latter's axis at a distance equal to at least 1.1 radii of the bigger step of the through passage, the diameter of the bigger step in the through passage, which is located above the mounting seat, is at least 0.5 mm greater than the diameter of the step in the through passage, which is located below the mounting seat;

the sealing assembly is arranged on a well-logging cable or on a wire fed through the axial passage and replaceable by functional inserts, including at least one of a hydrostatic testing insert, a depression insert, a blocking insert, an insert for recording stratum pressure restoration curves and an insert for hydrodynamic impact on the stratum;
the diameter of the axial passage in the sealing assembly is not greater than 0.6 outer diameter of the sealing assembly;
the axes of the sealing assembly and the functional inserts are aligned with the axis of the through passage in the jet pump;
the functional inserts are adapted for installation thereon autonomous well instruments and sampling devices and are made with a tool for delivery and removal of the same from the jet pump with the use of cable equipment, the sealing assembly being installed moveably along the well-logging cable or a wire above a cap on which a transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields are arranged, the latter being connected to the well-logging cable cap replaceable by other well instruments, including at least one of a perforator, an ultrasonic transmitter, a sampling device, a thermometer, a pressure gauge, which all may be connected, either in turns or jointly, to the well-logging cable or a wire.

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The method of operation of the well jet unit, including installation on a piping string of a packer and a jet pump having a through passage with a mounting seat, lowering of that assembly into the well, releasing the packer and arrangement in the well, below the jet pump, of a transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields, characterized in lowering said transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields together with a sealing assembly arranged on a well-logging cable or a wire above a cap with the transmitter and receiver-transducer connected to the latter, when lowering into the well, using the transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields for background measurements of temperature and other physical fields before the well bottom, installing the sealing assembly onto the mounting seat in the through passage without impeding the back and forth motion of the well-logging cable or wire, then arranging the transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields in a stratum interval under exploration and, by supplying working medium to the nozzle of the jet pump, successively creating several values of pressure drawdown on the stratum and, at each of said several values, measuring bottom-hole pressures, compositions of the fluid coming from the stratum and the well flow rate, after which, recording the parameters of physical fields by moving the transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields along the well axis in the speed range from 0.1 to 100 meters per minute and at bottom-hole pressures changing stepwise from the stratum pressure to 0.01 stratum pressure, said moving being performed along the well axis both when the jet pump is operated and when it is shut down;

then lifting the transmitter and receiver-transducer of physical fields out of well, and lowering the functional insert for recording stratum pressure restoration providing said insert with a pressure sensor and a sampling device, installed in the through passage of the jet pump, creating a required pressure drawdown on the stratum with the use of the jet pump, and, sharply stopping of supplying the liquid working medium to the jet pump and thereafter, recording a stratum pressure restoration curve for the well zone under the packer wherein said recording of stratum pressure restoration curves done repeatedly at different pressure drawdown on the stratum;
thereafter, processing the results and taking a decision whether repair works on the well are necessary, such works being conducted with the use of the jet pump and alternatively applied functional inserts being lowered into the well with the sealing assembly on the well-logging cable or wire and including at least one of a perforator, an ultrasonic transmitter, a sampling device, a thermometer and a pressure gauge;
after completion of the said works the cycle of well exploration is repeated.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.