西南石油大学学报(自然科学版) ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 158-165.DOI: 10.11885/j.issn.1674-5086.2019.04.08.02

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Contact Forms of Casing with Centralizer and Its Effect on Friction

HU Xihui1, LI Wei1, XU Bihua2, MA Jinglun1, YUAN Bin2   

  1. 1. Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, PetroChina, Chengdu, Sichuan 610017, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
  • Received:2019-04-08 Online:2020-04-10 Published:2020-04-10

Abstract: During the running casing operation, the casing will be bent and contact the well wall due to the influence of gravity and well trajectory. Therefore, an additional friction is generated, which affects running casing when it is too large. In particular, a large number of centralizers are used to ensure displacement efficiency and cementing quality in horizontal wells, which brings greater difficulties to running casing operations due to the increase of friction coefficient. Aiming to this problem, the paper first points out the three contact forms of the casing and the well wall:free state, point contact and line contact. It is also points out that the friction is different under different contact form. Then, the casing tortuous equation and contact from judgment model are built. According to the model segmentation calculation method, the friction of the casing under different contact modes is accurately calculated. The field example analysis shows that the method can accurately predict the friction and has a good guiding significance for calculating the friction.

Key words: horizontal well, running casings, contact form, centralizer, frictional resistance

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