摘要:
A method to design a rotary drill bit with a desired bit walk rate comprises the following steps: (a) determining the drilling conditions and the formation characteristics to be drilled by the rotary drill bit; (b) simulating drilling of at least one portion of a wellbore using the drilling conditions; (c) calculating (886b) a bit walk rate by using walk force, bit tilt or tilt rate, and steer force, or by using walk moment, bit tilt or tilt rate, and steer moment; (d) comparing (888b) the calculated bit walk rate to the desired bit walk rate; (e) if the calculated bit walk rate does not approximately equal the desired bit walk rate, modifying at least one bit geometry of the rotary drill bit selected from the group consisting of bit profile, cutter location, cutter orientation, cutter density, gauge length, and gage diameter; and (f) repeating steps (a) through (e) until the calculated bit walk rate approximately equals the desired bit walk rate.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a method for designing a roller cone drill bit, comprising simulating the bit drilling through an earth formation wherein the simulating comprises determining an axial force on a cutting element, based on a means for determining an axial force, determining an axial force on the roller cones, based on the axial forces on the cutting elements, and angularly rotating the bit; adjusting at least one design parameter of the bit; repeating the simulating the bit drilling; and comparing a distribution of axial forces among the roller cones prior to the adjusting the at least one design parameter with a distribution of axial forces among the roller cones after adjusting the at least one design parameter.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a method of designing a roller cone bit, comprising the steps of:
Calculating the trajectory of at least one tooth on each cone through formation material at the cutting face; and Jointing optimising both the orientations of said teeth and the width of uncut rings on said cutting face, in dependence on said trajectory.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a method for designing a roller cone drill bit having a plurality of roller cones and initial design parameters, comprising: simulating drilling an earth formation with the bit and determining as a result of the simulating, a drilling parameter of the bit; adjusting at least one of the initial design parameters; repeating the simulating drilling; and repeating the adjusting, the simulating and the determining until the drilling parameter is optimised.
摘要:
A method of designing a roller cone drill bit is disclosed. The method comprises:
(a) calculating the force balance conditions of a bit; (b) defining design variables; (c) determine lower and upper bounds for the design variables; (d) defining objective functions; (e) defining constraint functions; (f) performing an optimisation means; and (g) evaluating an optimised cutting structure by modelling.
摘要:
In a downhole drilling tool (100) designed to form a wellbore (30), cutting elements (60) are disposed at respective locations on exterior portions of each of a plurality of blades (131) based at least in part on a level of force balancing resulting in a cutting face profile and force balancing each respective group of three neighbor cutting elements (60) on the cutting face profile to further minimize imbalance forces associated with each respective group of three neighbor elements acting on the downhole drilling tool. A method of designing a downhole drilling tool is also disclosed.
摘要:
Methods and systems are disclosed which provide simulating forming a wide variety of directional wellbores including wellbores with variable tilt rates and/or relatively constant tilt rates. The methods and systems may also be used to simulate forming a wellbore in subterranean formations having a combination of soft, medium and hard formation materials, multiple layers of formation materials and relatively hard stringers disposed throughout one or more layers of formation material. Values of steer force, bit walk rate and average walk rate from such simulations may be used to design and/or select drilling equipment for use in forming a directional wellbore.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a method of designing a roller cone bit, comprising the steps of:
calculating the curved trajectory of a non-axisymmetric tooth through formation material at the cutting face, as the bit and cones rotate; calculating a straight line approximation to said curved trajectory; and orienting said tooth with respect to said approximation, and not with respect to said curved trajectory.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a method for optimising drilling performance of a roller cone drill bit, comprising simulating drilling with the bit in a selected earth formation to determine at least one drilling performance parameter, adjusting, an orientation of at least one non-axisymmetric cutting element on the bit, repeating the simulating the drilling and determining the at least one performance parameter, and repeating the adjusting and simulating the drilling until the at least one performance parameter is determined to be at an optimum value.