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Annular Pressure Losses Prediction Using Power-Law Model with Polymer Water-Base Mud

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Petroleum Engineering

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Bottomhole Pressure (BHP) determination is quite crucial in the success of the drilling operations, especially on tight-drilling window environment. The calculation becomes much more critical when drilling with near-balance bottomhole pressure on the unconventional drilling techniques like Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD). Although Pressure-While-Drilling (PWD) technology can provide measured values of Bottomhole Pressure, it is so expensive and needs circulation to convey readings. Also, in case of tool failure, it consumes a lot of time to trip out of hole in order to change the tool, especially on deep-well drilling. On this paper, Bingham, Power-Law, Herschel-Bulkley and API RP13D rheological models have been utilized to calculate the Annular Pressure Loss (APL) on a deep well with polymer Water-Base Mud (WBM). A comparative study between model-calculated and PWD-measured values of APL for 15 points along the wellbore was conducted on the calculation of Annular Pressure Loss. Power-Law model was found the most optimum rheological model for polymer Water-Base Mud, due to exhibiting no Yield Stress. Power-law model gave 35 psi average error which can be tolerated most of the time during drilling operations.

DOI

10.21608/jpme.2018.38799

Keywords

Bottomhole Pressure, Calculation, Rheological models, Power-Law model, Polymer Water-Base Mud

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George

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Kheir

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Halliburton

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Ahmed

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El Gibaly

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Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

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Mohamed

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Farahat

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Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Egypt

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20

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1

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6129

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2018-12-01

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2018-02-02

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2018-12-01

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58

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65

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1110-6506

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2682-3292

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Journal of Petroleum and Mining Engineering

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22 Jan 2023