Research method of trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of shale oil horizontal well

• US 10,689,954 B1
• Filed: 02/14/2020
• Issued: 06/23/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dagang Oil Field Company of CNPC
• Original Assignee: Dagang Oil Field Company of CNPC
• Inventors: Zhou, Lihong, Zhao, Xianzheng, Pu, Xiugang, Jiang, Wenya, Jin, Fengming, Liu, Zicang, Guan, Quansheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Bemko, Taras P
• Application Number:
  US16/791,481
• Time in Patent Office: 130 Days
• Field of Search: 175 61
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/305 comprising at least one inclined or horizontal well
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 47/022 of the borehole, e.g. using geomagnetism
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 7/10 Correction of deflected boreholes

Abstract

The present invention discloses a research method of trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well, including identification and evaluation of shale oil sweet spots, optimal selection and trajectory design of the horizontal well, and on-site tracking and adjustment of the shale oil horizontal well. The “four-optimal and two-fine” practice in the research method of trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of the shale oil horizontal well of the present invention lays a foundation for high and stable production of shale oil in closed lake basins and the integration of production and reserves increase. It provides a set of technical methods for the design and research of optimal selection of horizontal well locations and dynamic tracking analysis of drilling in shale oil development areas, and has great significance for reference and popularization.

Claims

1. A method for trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well, comprising:

step A;

identifying and evaluating shale oil sweet spots, comprising;

based on analytical and assay results of a system-cored well, carrying out research on a seven-property relationship among source rock, lithology, electrical property, physical property, brittleness, oil-bearing probability and earth stress, establishing a standard for geophysical response characteristics of a shale oil layers for a single well, and determining planar distribution of sweet spots;

Step B;

a “

four-optimal”

method for trajectory design of the shale oil horizontal well, comprising;

(1) optimal selection of a target area;

selecting a favorable exploration target area based on the thickness and buried depth of a shale oil sweet spot interval, and its coupling relationship with the degree of thermal evolution of shale;

(2) optimal selection of a target layer;

carrying out fine correlation of oil layers in the optimal target area, determining an optimal sweet spot interval based on the principles of a large oil layer thickness, stable distribution, a high drilling success rate of a known well, and easy identification of seismic characteristics in logging;

(3) optimal selection of a target direction;

comprehensively analyzing factors including attitude of stratum, fault influence, and fracture development direction of the determined target layer, and selecting an optimal drilling direction; and

(4) optimization of a trajectory;

carrying out fine seismic calibration, and further optimizing a horizontal well trajectory scheme based on a drilling direction determined by the optimal target direction to ensure a maximum drilling success rate of the optimal sweet spot interval;

Step C;

a “

two-fine”

method for tracking and adjustment of the shale oil horizontal well, comprising;

(1) fine analysis and accurate target entering;

during a drilling process, timely analyzing the accuracy of a stratum velocity and the reasonableness of a seismic interpretation scheme, and timely making adjustments to ensure precise target entering; and

(2) fine tracking to prevent off-target;

performing fine correlation according to comprehensive mud logging data and a logging-while-drilling curve, and correcting the trajectory to ensure the drilling success rate of a high-quality small layer.

2. The method for trajectory designing and on-site tracking and adjusting of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the step A, a standard for identifying shale oil sweet spot intervals is established to identify the sweet spots for a single well and determine the planar distribution of the sweet spots, by using following logging data:

interval transit time, natural gamma, resistivity, and nuclear magnetic logging.

3. The method for trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the optimal selection of a target area of the step B, seismic interpretation and structural mapping are carried out on the top of the shale oil sweet spot interval, and a Ro contour map is drawn according to analytical and test results, wherein the buried depth of the shale oil sweet spot interval, the degree of thermal evolution of shale and the thickness of the shale oil sweet spot interval are coupled to select the favorable exploration target area.

4. The method for trajectory designing and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the optimal selection of a target layer of the step B, the fine correlation of oil layers for wells is carried out in subdivisional small layers by using the known wells, and a small layer with a large thickness and stable distribution is selected as an objective layer.

5. The method for trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the optimal selection of a target direction of the step B, the attitude of stratum factor indicates that the stratum is as flat and straight as possible with few flexural structures;

the fault influence factor indicates that the well trajectory is 150 m or above away from a fault, and the fracture development direction factor indicates that an included angle between the direction of the well trajectory and the direction of a maximum horizontal principal stress is an acute angle greater than 30°

.

6. The method for trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the optimization of a trajectory of the step B, a relationship is established between clear geological information of small layers of the oil layers and a seismic reflection event through fine well-seismic calibration, and the seismic event is endowed with geological significance, to increase the horizontal footage in an optimal small layer.

7. The method for trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the fine analysis and accurate target entering of the step C, horizon calibration is carried out timely by using logging curves of sonic waves, resistivity, and natural gamma, and the velocity accuracy is analyzed;

and constraint and verification are carried out by using multiple sets of data or multiple interpretation schemes.

8. The method for trajectory design and on-site tracking and adjustment of a shale oil horizontal well according to claim 1, wherein in the fine tracking to prevent off-target of the step C, velocity fitting is carried out in conjunction with adjacent well data, so that the stratum velocity is most accurate, thereby obtaining the most reasonable actual trajectory.