Integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11767746-B2
Application number	US-202117512684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2021
Priority date	Aug 20, 2021
Publication date	Sep 26, 2023
Grant date	Sep 26, 2023

Abstract

An integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases is provided. The wellhead device comprises a horizontal tank body that is internally provided with an injected gas filtering system and a produced gas filtering system. The injected gas filtering system is internally provided with an oxygen removal chamber. A gas inlet of the injected gas filtering system is connected with an injected high-pressure gas source, and a gas outlet of the injected gas filtering system is connected with a gas injection well casing of Christmas tree. The produced gas filtering system is internally equipped with an oxygen removal chamber, a sulfur removal chamber and a carbon dioxide removal chamber. A gas inlet of the produced gas filtering system is connected with a gas production tubing of the Christmas tree, and a gas outlet of the produced gas filtering system is connected with a produced gas transmission pipe.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases, comprising a horizontal tank and spacer plates inside the horizontal tank, wherein the spacer plates divide the internal space of the horizontal tank into an upper space, a lower space and a right space, the upper space and the lower space are connected to the right space, and an injected gas filtering system and a produced gas filtering system are provided in the horizontal tank;
the injected gas filtering system comprises an injected gas inlet, an injected gas channel, an oxygen removal chamber, and an injected gas outlet that are connected in sequence; the injected gas inlet is fitted on the top of the horizontal tank, the injected gas channel penetrates the spacer plate and is connected with the oxygen removal chamber located in the lower space, and the injected gas outlet is fitted at the bottom of the horizontal tank;
the produced gas filtering system comprises a filtering system, a quasi-overpressure gas direct drainage system, and an overpressure gas direct drainage system;
the filtering system comprises a produced gas inlet, a gas deposition chamber, a gas removal chamber, a gas retention chamber, a gas acceleration channel, and a produced gas outlet that are sequentially connected; the gas removal chamber comprises oxygen removal chamber two, sulfur removal chamber and carbon dioxide removal chamber that are connected in any order; the right space is the gas retention chamber; the produced gas inlet is located at the top left end of the horizontal tank, and the gas deposition chamber and the gas removal chamber are located in the upper space, the gas acceleration channel is arranged in the lower space and penetrates the gas removal chamber one, and the produced gas outlet is set at the left end of the horizontal tank; the gas deposition chamber is provided with a pressure monitoring device;
the quasi-overpressure gas direct drainage system comprises a gas flow channel, a safety ball valve, a spring one, a spring fixing block one, and a quasi-overpressure gas direct drainage channel that are connected in sequence; the spring fixing block one is set on the spacer plate, and the quasi-overpressure gas direct drainage channel is connected to the gas retention chamber; and
the overpressure gas direct drainage system comprises a safety floating plate, a safety spring, a safety baffle, an overpressure gas drainage chamber, and a safety gas outlet that are connected in sequence; the safety baffle is provided with a overpressure gas drainage channel; the safety floating plate is cut from the spacer plate, the safety baffle is located in the lower space facing the gas deposition chamber, a gap is left between the safety baffle and the spacer plate to provide a gas flow channel when the gas is overpressured, and the safety gas outlet is arranged at the bottom of the horizontal tank.

2. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 1 , wherein the horizontal tank comprises a left end cap, a straight section and a right end cap; the left end cap is connected to the left end of the straight section and is detachable, and the right end of the straight section is connected to the right end cap and is detachable.

3. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 1 , wherein the gas acceleration channel comprises an acceleration channel of the acceleration cylinder and an acceleration channel of the acceleration nozzle, and the right end of the acceleration cylinder is connected to the gas retention chamber, the left end of the acceleration cylinder is connected with the right end of the acceleration nozzle, and the left end of the acceleration nozzle is connected with the gas outlet; the acceleration cylinder is fixed by an acceleration cylinder positioning plate.

4. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 3 , wherein the acceleration channel of the acceleration cylinder comprises a first-stage acceleration channel, a straight section one, a second-stage acceleration channel, and a straight section two that are connected from right to left sequentially;
the acceleration channel of the acceleration nozzle comprises a third-stage acceleration channel and a straight section three that are connected from right to left; and
the internal diameter of the left end of the first-stage acceleration channel is smaller than that of the right end, the internal diameter of the left end of the second-stage acceleration channel is smaller than that of the right end, and the internal diameter of the left end of the third-stage acceleration channel is smaller than that of the right end.

5. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 1 , wherein a speed-up cylinder is provided between the first and second gas removal chambers; a speed-up cylinder channel is set at the center of the speed-up cylinder to connect the two oxygen removal chambers; the internal diameter of the left end of the speed-up cylinder channel is greater than that of the right end.

6. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 5 , wherein a sieve plate one is provided between the first gas removal chamber and the gas deposition chamber, a sieve plate two is provided between the first gas removal chamber and the speed-up cylinder, a sieve plate three is provided between the speed-up cylinder and the second gas removal chamber, a sieve plate four is provided between the second gas removal chamber and the third gas removal chamber, and a sieve plate five is provided between the third gas removal chamber and the gas retention chamber.

7. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 6 , wherein the number of sieve holes of the sieve plates one, sieve plates two, sieve plates three and sieve plates five decreases in order, and the number of holes of the sieve plate four is the same as that of the sieve plate one.

8. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 6 , wherein the sieve plate five is provided with a fixing plate at its right end.

9. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 6 , wherein a left baffle clamping plate is provided in the horizontal tank and comprises a upper left baffle clamping plate set inside the gas deposition chamber and a lower left baffle clamping plate set between the overpressure gas drainage chamber and the oxygen removal chamber one; the top of the upper left baffle clamping plate is connected with the internal top wall of the horizontal tank, and the height of the upper left baffle clamping plate is less than that of the upper space; the upper and lower ends of the lower left baffle clamping plate are respectively connected with the spacer plate and the internal bottom wall of the horizontal tank.

10. The integrated wellhead device for filtering injected and produced gases according to claim 9 , wherein the upper left baffle clamping plate is provided with a spring fixing block two on the right, at the right end of the spring fixing block two is provided with a spring two, and at the right end of the spring two is provided with a hold-down plate.

Assignees

• Univ Southwest Petroleum

Inventors

• Li Yongming
• Chang Tai
• Peng Yu
• Li Yibo
• Luo ang
• Li Shuxuan

Classifications

• E21B43/34 Primary

  Arrangements for separating materials produced by the well · CPC title

• B01D46/62

  connected in series · CPC title

• B01D53/48

  Sulfur compounds · CPC title

• B01D53/62

  Carbon oxides · CPC title

• B01D2257/104

  Oxygen · CPC title