Organization
Research Institute of Drilling and Production Engineering Technology, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company, CNPC, Guanghan 618300, China
School of Petroleum Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu 610000, China
Abstract
After formation is drilled, the drilling fluid filtrates into the formation and forms an additional pressure near the wellbore, called the supercharging. At this time, the formation pressure obtained by test while drilling deviates from the true values, which seriously affects the drilling optimization decision and late reservoir evaluation. Using radial-flow theory and nonlinear mud cake growth theory, this paper establishes supercharging model and analyzes the relationship between the supercharging and wellbore environment and formation characteristics. The groud simulation and underground experiments of formation pressure test while drilling are conducted. Study shows that formation permeability, mud cake permeability and mud cake compaction coefficient affect supercharging greatly; the thickness of mud cake and the porosity affect supercharging weakly. The supercharged model can effectively predict the supercharging characteristics, which can provide for strong technical support for obtaining the high accuracy of formation pressure value.