Electric powered pump down

• US 9,745,840 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2016
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: U.S. Well Services, LLC (ProFrac Holding Corp.)
• Original Assignee: U.S. Well Services, LLC (ProFrac Holding Corp.)
• Inventors: Oehring, Jared, Hinderliter, Brandon N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Kenneth L
• Application Number:
  US15/291,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20170030178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 321 Days
• Field of Search: 166 52, 166 50, 166245, 166297, 166299, 166 63, 1663081, 1661772, 1661775
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 23/08 Introducing or running tools by fluid pressure, e.g. through-the-flow-line tool systems
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/26 by forming crevices or fractures
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/2607 Surface equipment specially adapted for fracturing operations
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/267 reinforcing fractures by propping
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 15/08 Adaptations for driving, or combinations with, pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 15/10 Adaptations for driving, or combinations with, electric generators
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 3/22 the fuel or oxidant being gaseous at standard temperature and pressure F02C3/28 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 17/03 driven by electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 19/22 of reciprocating-piston type
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 23/04 Combinations of two or more pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 47/02 the driving mechanisms being situated at ground level F04B47/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 49/065 and making use of computers
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 49/20 by changing the driving speed
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/32 in gas turbines
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 23/00 Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by a control method other than vector control

Abstract

A method of operations in a subterranean formation, including driving a pump with an electrically powered motor to pressurize fluid, inserting a tool into a wellbore that intersects the formation, and directing the pressurized fluid into the wellbore above the tool to push the tool into the wellbore.

Claims

1. A method of operations in a subterranean formation, the method comprising:

driving a pump with an electrically powered motor to pressurize fluid;

inserting a tool into a wellbore that intersects the formation;

pressurizing fluid with a boost pump to form a boost fluid;

directing the boost fluid to the pump; and

directing the pressurized fluid into the wellbore above the tool to push the tool into the wellbore.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising urging the tool into the wellbore with the pressurized fluid until the tool reaches a predetermined location in the formation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the tool comprises a perforating gun.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the wellbore comprises a first wellbore, and wherein the pressurized fluid is simultaneously directed to a second wellbore that also intersects the subterranean formation.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein hydraulic fracturing is performed in the second wellbore.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the pump comprises a first pump and a second pump, and wherein fluid pressurized by the first pump is directed into the first wellbore to push the tool into the first wellbore, and fluid pressurized by the second pump is directed into the second wellbore to use in hydraulic fracturing.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the boost pump is an electric blender.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein electricity that powers the motor is generated with a generator that is proximate the electric motor.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a wireline system is powered by the electricity.

10. A method of inserting a tool in a subterranean formation, the method comprising:

generating electricity;

energizing electric motors with the electricity;

pressurizing fluid with a boost pump to form a boost fluid;

directing the boost fluid to a pump down pump;

driving a fracturing pump with at least one of the electric motors; and

driving the pump down pump with at least one of the electric motors to push the tool in the wellbore.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the electricity is generated by a diesel generator.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the electricity is generated by a turbine generator.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising powering a sand conveyer and hydration unit with the electricity.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising using a first fluid pressurized by the fracturing pump to fracture the formation, and using a second fluid that is pressurized by the pump down pump in a pump down operation.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first fluid is directed to a first wellbore that intersects the formation, and the second fluid is directed to a second wellbore that intersects the formation.

16. A system for use in a subterranean formation operation comprising:

a pump down pump in communication with a wellbore that intersects the formation, and that pressurizes fluid in the wellbore;

a hydraulic fracturing pump in communication with the wellbore that intersects the formation, and that pressurizes fluid in the wellbore;

an electric motor that drives the pump down pump;

a tool positioned in the wellbore below at least a portion of the fluid pressurized by the pump down pump, and that is pushed toward the bottom of the wellbore by the fluid.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the electric motor is a first electric motor and a second electric motor, the first electric motor driving the pump down pump, and the second electric motor driving the hydraulic fracturing pump.

18. The system of claim 16, further comprising gas powered turbine generators.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising a wireline system that is in electrical communication with the turbine generators.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the wellbore is a first wellbore and a second wellbore, the pump down pump is in communication with the first wellbore, and the hydraulic fracturing pump is in communication with the second wellbore.