Automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11193333-B2
Application number	US-202017079655-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2020
Priority date	Nov 8, 2019
Publication date	Dec 7, 2021
Grant date	Dec 7, 2021

Abstract

The present invention provides an automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate, which mainly includes an upper joint, an outer cylinder, an inner sliding sleeve, a lockup sliding sleeve, a thrust bearing, a spring, a jet joint, a telescopic jet sprinkler, a plug block and an extrusion seal ring. The present invention mainly adopts the principle of throttling control pressure to control the position of the inner sliding sleeve by controlling a flow rate of a drilling fluid, so as to turn on and turn off the jet breaking tool. The application of the present invention can realize automatic jet breaking of solid fluidization exploitation of the natural gas hydrate, reduce procedures of a round trip operation, and effectively improve the efficiency and safety of the exploitation operation of the natural gas hydrate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate, comprising: an upper joint ( 1 ), an outer cylinder ( 2 ), an inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ), a lockup sliding sleeve ( 4 ), a thrust bearing ( 5 ), a spring ( 6 ), a jet joint ( 7 ), a telescopic jet sprinkler ( 8 ), a plug block ( 9 ) and an extrusion seal ring ( 10 ), wherein the upper joint ( 1 ) is located on the leftmost side of the whole device, the outer cylinder ( 2 ) is connected to the right side of the upper joint ( 1 ) by thread, the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is mounted inside the outer cylinder ( 2 ), the lockup sliding sleeve ( 4 ) is mounted to an outer ring side of the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ), the thrust bearing ( 5 ) is disposed on the right side of the lockup sliding sleeve ( 4 ), the spring ( 6 ) is disposed between the thrust bearing ( 5 ) and an inner side of the outer cylinder ( 2 ), the jet joint ( 7 ) is connected to the right side of the outer cylinder ( 2 ) by thread, the plug block ( 9 ) is connected to the interior of the jet joint ( 7 ) by thread, the telescopic jet sprinkler ( 8 ) is connected to an outer ring side of the jet joint ( 7 ) by thread, and the extrusion seal ring ( 10 ) is mounted to an outer ring side of the plug block ( 9 ) through a seal ring mounting groove ( 901 ).

2. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein the upper joint ( 1 ) is provided with a self-locking guide groove ( 106 ), an unlocking guide bevel ( 105 ) and a locking bevel ( 107 ) at a lower end.

3. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is designed with a self-locking guide block ( 302 ), an inner sliding sleeve self-locking bevel ( 303 ), a pressure balance hole ( 304 ) and a discharge groove ( 305 ) on an upper-end outer ring side, and the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is designed with an extrusion seal face ( 307 ) at the lowest end.

4. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein the lockup sliding sleeve ( 4 ) is provided with a lockup sliding sleeve bevel ( 401 ) and a lockup sliding sleeve guide groove ( 402 ) on an outer ring side and is provided with a bearing groove ( 403 ) at the lowest end.

5. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein the jet joint ( 7 ) is provided with 24 sprinkler holes ( 702 ) in uniform staggered arrangement on a surface, is internally provided with a sliding passage ( 703 ) and a plug block mounting thread ( 704 ) and is provided with an annular hollow flow channel ( 705 ) at the lowest end.

6. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein the telescopic jet sprinkler ( 8 ) is internally provided with a jet nozzle ( 801 ), and the jet nozzle ( 801 ) is internally provided with a pressurized nozzle flow channel ( 804 ), is provided with a nozzle spring ( 805 ) on an outer side and is provided with a spring stop ( 806 ) at a lower end.

7. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein the plug block ( 9 ) is provided with the seal ring mounting groove ( 901 ).

8. The automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate according to claim 1 , wherein in a normal drilling stage, the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is not locked, a jet tool is turned off, and a drilling fluid flows out only through the flow channel ( 705 ) for a drilling operation; in a jet breaking stage, a sufficiently large flow rate of the drilling fluid is introduced, the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is locked, the jet sprinkler is opened, and the jet nozzle ( 801 ) in the telescopic jet sprinkler ( 8 ) extends and ejects the drilling fluid for circumferential jet breaking; in an operation stop stage, the flow rate of the drilling fluid is first increased to push the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) to unlock, then reduced and finally stopped, and the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) rebounds by a thrust of the spring ( 6 ), and the jet tool is turned off; in the next jet breaking stage, a sufficiently large flow rate of the drilling fluid is introduced, the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is locked, the jet tool is turned on, and the jet nozzle ( 801 ) in the telescopic jet sprinkler ( 8 ) extends and ejects the drilling fluid for circumferential jet breaking; and in the next operation stop stage, the flow rate of the drilling fluid is first increased to push the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) to unlock, then reduced and finally stopped, and the inner sliding sleeve ( 3 ) rebounds by a thrust of the spring ( 6 ), and the jet tool is turned off; in this way, the jet breaking tool is reusable.

Assignees

• Univ Southwest Petroleum
• Southern Marine Science And Eng Guangdong Laboratory Zhanjiang

Inventors

• Tang Yang
• Huang Shunxiao
• Wang Guorong
• Liu Qingyou
• Zhou Shouwei
• Li Xushen
• Zhong Lin
• Li Qingping
• He Yufa
• Li Zhong
• Li Yanjun
• Liu Hexing
• Zhu Jianglin
• Yao Jiaxin
• Lu Jiang
• Wang Leizhen

Classifications

• E21B7/18 Primary

  Drilling by liquid or gas jets, with or without entrained pellets (E21B7/14 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E21B21/103

  Down-hole by-pass valve arrangements, i.e. between the inside of the drill string and the annulus (valves specifically for maintaining circulation of drilling fluid while connecting or disconnecting tubular joints E21B21/019) · CPC title

• E21B41/0099 Primary

  specially adapted for drilling for or production of natural hydrate or clathrate gas reservoirs; Drilling through or monitoring of formations containing gas hydrates or clathrates · CPC title

• E21B7/28

  Enlarging drilled holes, e.g. by counterboring · CPC title

• E21B43/01 Primary

  specially adapted for obtaining from underwater installations · CPC title