Pressure Loss at the Bit While Drilling with Foam

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2009-01-01

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Ozbayoglu, E. M.

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Foam is one of the most frequently used drilling fluids at underbalanced drilling operations. As foam flows, due to the pressure drop, a volumetric expansion is observed, which causes the foam quality to increase in the same direction with flow. Flow of foams through circular pipes and annular geometries are well studied. Interestingly, although one of the major sources of pressure drop is at the bit, there have been few studies of this subject for foams. Many drilling parameters including hole cleaning capacity, volumetric requirements of liquid and gas phase, and backpressure are out of control if the pressure drop at the bit is not accurately determined, even though pressure drops inside the pipes and wellbore are properly determined. This article introduces a more accurate model for estimating the pressure drop of foam flowing through the bit. The major difference between the proposed and the existing models is that the proposed model includes the effect of foam expansion and velocity change as a function of pressure. Pressure drop has been observed to increase significantly as the upstream pressure and foam average velocity increases when compared with the existing models. For the same flow conditions, pressure drop decreases as the foam quality increases, and as the upstream pressure increases, pressure drop also increases. The existing models cannot detect this event at all. In some cases, the pressure drop at the bit can be 10 times greater than the pressure drop predicted from existing models.

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Fuel Technology, Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, General Chemistry, General Chemical Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63362

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PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10916460802105625

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Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Article

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E. M. Ozbayoglu, “Pressure Loss at the Bit While Drilling with Foam,” PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, pp. 687–698, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63362.