DTC's High Pressure Well is a 4,900 ft deep, near vertical well providing downhole fluid injection and elevated bottom hole pressure capabilities.
The well is drilled 24" to 318 ft and 17.1/2" to 4,900 ft. It is cased with 18.5/8" to 312 ft and 14" to 4,800 ft. It is completed with 9.5/8" 53.5 lb/ft P110 casing suspended from the wellhead. The 9.5/8" casing is sealed with a packer and drillpipe retrievable plug at 4,708 ft.
A 1" coiled tubing line penetrates the wellhead and is ported into the 9.5/8" casing near TD.
Two surface read-out Panex pressure and temperature gauges are installed in the 9.5/8" : 14" annulus and ported into the 9.5/8" casing. These are situated at 4692 ft and 2323 ft DD below RT.
The 9.5/8" casing, coiled tubing and pressure gauges are retrievable. Their retrieval and subsequent re-installation would take in the order of six working days. The removal of the 9.5/8" casing would permit access to a 12.1/4" drift wellbore. This would also be required before any additional drilling could be undertaken in this well.
Because of a strong natural deviation trend, the well-deviates to the SSW. It reaches a maximum deviation of 12 degrees at a depth of approximately 2,500 ft. There are no significant dog-legs in the well. The well surveyed with the Eastman Ferranti FINDS tool. More detailed information is available on request.
High Pressure Well Summary
- Elevations: Rotary table - ground level = 30 ft.
Rotary table - top of wellhead C section = 32.52ft.
Rotary table - base of cellar = 39.50 ft.
- Total Depth: 4,900 ft (Driller's Measured Depth) from rotary table.
- Well Status: Completed with 9.5/8" casing as removable inner string.
- Hole Sizes: 39.4" and 35.4" augered to 91 ft.
24" drilled to 318 ft.
17.1/2" drilled to 4,900 ft.
- Wellhead: Vetco Gray 10,000 psi flanged system
- 'A' section: CWCT 18.5/8" socket weld bottom x 21.1/4", 2,000 psi RX-73flange top.
- 'B' section: CWCT 14" x 21.1/4", 2,000 psi
RX-73 flange bottom x 13.5/8�, 5,000 psi
BX-160 flange.
- 'C' section: 9.5/8" x 13.5/8", 5,000 psi BX- 160 flange bottom x 11�, 10,000 psi BX-158 flange top.
- Casing: 30" conductor pipe: 1" wall, X-52, welded.
Shoe depth 91ft, cemented back to the cellar floor.18.5/8"
- surface casing:
87.5lbs/ft, X-56, GEM. Shoe depth 312ft, cemented back to 47ft, later cemented to
cellar floor.
- 4" intermediate casing: 37 - 350ft, 86 lbs/ft, C-95 Mannesman HPC-12. 350 - 4,800 ft
86 bls/ft, L80 British Steel GEM.
- Shoe depth 4,800 ft, cemented back to 400 ft (loss zone). Squeezed from surface with
78 bbls slurry - no pressure increase obtained
The 14" casing was cleaned out with a 12.1/4" bit and scrapers to 4,750 ft PBTD.
The 14" casing was pressure tested to 3,000 psi.
- Completion: 9.5/8" casing:
35 - 45 ft, 53.5 lbs/ft, P110, Hydril MAC
45 - 853 ft, 53.5 lbs/ft TAC 110, Hydril MAC
853 - 4713 ft, 53.5 lbs/ft, P110, Hydril MAC
1" coil tubing, 0.087" wall, QT-70, with 0.75", 0.08" wall seamless stainless steel tubing through wellhead.
| MD (ft) | TVD (ft)
| Pressure/temperature
sub sensor | 2322.69 | 2304.33 |
Injection sub | 4684.28 | 4623.30 |
Pressure/temperature | 4691.87 | 4630.88 |
sub sensor
"DR" latch anchor top | 4704.76 | 4643.57 |
Type "D" packer top | 4708.08 | 4646.84 |
9.5/8" casing pin end | 4713.42 | 4652.10 |
14" casing PBTD | 4750.00 | 4688.13 |
The 9.5/8" casing was pressure tested to 9,000 psi |
The 1"/0.75" coil tube was pressure tested to 5,000 psi |
Pressure Gauges
An Exal system of suface readout, downhole pressure and temperature gauges had been installedin the high pressure well.
This consists of two Panex quartz capacitance gauges, a signal conditioning unit and a stand-alone PC
for data display and logging.
Gauge | Depth | Range | Accuracy | Resolution
| 1250X | 2323ft | 10,000 psi |
+/- 0.025% | +/- 0.025% |
| | 165�C | +/- 1.0�C | +/- 0.01�C |
1525 | 4692ft | 15,000psi | +/- 0.025%
| +/- 0.01 psi |
| | 175�C | +/- 0.5�C | +/- 0.01�C |
A Model 420/Host 420 system provides data logging and real time display. This offers display of both gauge pressure and temperature outputs on the PC screen, in a variety of display formats and units. Data can be printed during operation. They can be stored in several file formats - �raw data�binary file, �print� ASC11 file or �afile� PANEX ASC11 file format. The user can select logging frequency up to 1 HZ.