EFFECT OF DRILLING PARAMETERS ON DRILLING PERFORMANCE FACTORS IN HORIZONTAL WELLS USING SIMULATION APPROACH.
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Emem Ayankop Andi
Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.
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Ja’afaru Yahaya Bawa
Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.
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Emem A. A
Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna
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’afaru Y. B
Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.
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- Keywords:
- Drilling fluid velocity, Drill pipe rotation speed, Annular pressure losses, Cuttings concentration.
- Abstract
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The effect of drilling parameters on drilling performance factors in horizontal wells using simulation approach is studied in this paper. The inhomogeneous (Eulerian-Eulerian) model is employed to simulate a two-phase solid-fluid flow; the solid flow is the cuttings while the liquid flows are water and aqueous solution of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (mud) respectively. The simulation was conducted using the workbench platform of ANSYS CFX 15.0. The focus is on evaluating the influence of fluid velocity, drill pipe rotation and fluid type on annular pressure loss and cuttings concentration when the diameter ratio and eccentricity are constant during horizontal well drilling. Results showed that at 80rpm, pressure loss simulations were slightly higher at fluid velocity of 2.743m/s as compared to prediction for water flow cuttings injection. Also, at fluid velocities of 1.524m/s to 2.438m/s pressure loss simulations were seen slightly higher as compared to prediction for mud flow with cuttings injection. As both water and mud velocities increased, the annular pressure loss also increased with mean percentage error of 9% and 13% deviation from ANSYS simulation for water and mud-cuttings transport respectively. It was observed that the cuttings concentration was highest with 16% when the annular velocity was at the lowest reading 1.524m/s for both water and mud-cuttings transport at 80rpm and 120rpm respectively. The comparison of cuttings concentration between ANSYS simulations for water and mud-cuttings transport for 80rpm and 120rpm showed deviation by a mean percentage error of 65% and 100% respectively in the initial flow rate.
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