Method for real time flow control adjustment of a flow control device located downhole of an electric submersible pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10794162-B2
Application number	US-201715838817-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2017
Priority date	Dec 12, 2017
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

A method of controlling flow in a tubular including developing a pressure in the tubular with an electric submersible pump (ESP), directing a flow of fluid through a flow control device arranged on the tubular downhole of the ESP in response to the pressure, sensing a parameter of the flow of fluid, and adjusting, in real time, a flow parameter of the flow control device with a coil tubing in response to the parameter of the fluid.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling flow in a tubular extending into a wellbore comprising:
developing a pressure in the tubular with an electric submersible pump (ESP);
directing a flow of fluid through a flow control device into a collector arranged on the tubular downhole of the ESP in response to the pressure;
deploying coiled tubing supporting a distributed sensor into the tubular, the coiled tubing being independent of the tubular;
sensing a parameter of the flow of fluid with the distributed sensor;
generating a parameter profile corresponding to a plurality of locations along the collector; and
adjusting, in real time, a flow parameter of the flow control device with a shifting tool supported by the coiled tubing in response to the parameter of the fluid.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the parameter of the flow of fluid is selected from at least one of a fluid flow rate and a temperature of the flow of fluid.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein sensing the parameter of the flow of fluid includes exposing a distributed sensor to the flow of fluid.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein exposing the distributed sensor to the flow of fluid includes operatively exposing a fiber optic sensor arranged in the coiled tubing to the flow of fluid.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein adjusting the flow parameter of the flow control device includes adjusting the flow control device reduce fluid flow into the tubular.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein adjusting the flow parameter with the coiled tubing includes operating the shifting tool connected to coiled tubing extending past the ESP.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein operating the shifting tool includes expanding the shifting tool.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the parameter profile includes detecting a breakthrough of an injected fluid into the collector based on the parameter profile.

9. A resource recovery and exploration system comprising:
a valve assembly;
a plurality of tubulars fluidically connected to the valve assembly, at least one of the plurality of tubulars defining a collector having at least one selectively adjustable flow control device;
an electric submersible pump (ESP) fluidically connected to collector uphole relative to the at least one selectively controllable flow control device;
a coiled tubing extending along and independent of the plurality of tubulars, the coiled tubing having a terminal end arranged downhole of the ESP and supporting a distributed sensor;
a shifting tool coupled to the terminal end section of the coiled tubing the shifting tool being configured to adjust the selectively adjustable flow control device; and
a processing device operatively connected to the distributed sensor, the processing device generating a parameter profile corresponding to a plurality of locations along the collector to determine an adjustment for the selectively adjustable flow control device.

10. The resource recovery and exploration system according to claim 9 , wherein the distributed sensor comprises a fiber optic sensor.

11. The resource recovery and exploration system according to claim 9 , wherein the distributed sensor comprises at least one of a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system and a distributed temperature sensing (DTS) assembly.

12. The resource recovery and exploration system according to claim 9 , wherein the at least one selectively adjustable flow control device includes a selectively shiftable sleeve.

13. The resource recovery and exploration system according to claim 9 , wherein the processing device is configured to detect a breakthrough of an injected fluid into the collector based on the parameter profile.

Assignees

• Stolboushkin Eugene
• Hammer Aaron C
• Allen Jason
• Mitchell Ian
• Snitkoff Joshua Raymond
• Baker Hughes A Ge Co Llc

Inventors

• Stolboushkin Eugene
• Hammer Aaron C
• Allen Jason
• Mitchell Ian
• Snitkoff Joshua Raymond

Classifications

• E21B43/128 Primary

  Adaptation of pump systems with down-hole electric drives · CPC title

• E21B47/07 Primary

  Temperature · CPC title

• E21B34/06

  in wells · CPC title

• E21B43/2408

  SAGD in combination with other methods · CPC title

• E21B49/0875

  determining specific fluid parameters · CPC title