GAS-LIFT MANDREL PROVIDED WITH A SCALE INHIBITOR INJECTION SYSTEM

Abstract

The invention discloses a chemical injection system adapted inside of the gas lift mandrel, such scale inhibitor injection system being intended to protect the chemical injection valve as well as the check valves and will also prevent scale deposition on the column above the gas lift mandrel due to dehydration caused by dry gas.

Claims

1. A gas-lift mandrel provided with a scale inhibitor injection system, characterized by comprising a rupture disc and a double check valve present in the chemical injection valve (9), a system to avoid breakage of the column above or below the chemical injection valve (09) inside the chemical injection mandrel (08), a gas lift mandrel body (02), a valve of the gas mandrel (03), a gas inlet hole (04), a gas lift mandrel (07), a valve (14), and a chemical injection ring (10) inserted into the gas lift mandrel structure (07).

2. The mandrel, according to claim 1, characterized in that the chemical injection ring (10) has four injector nozzles (11).

3. The mandrel of claim 1, characterized in that the chemical injection mandrel (MIQ) is inserted at a site above the gas lift mandrel (07).

4. The mandrel of claim 1, characterized by the injection of scale inhibitors.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0016] The present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the attached figures which represent examples of its embodiments schematically and non-exhaustively. In the drawings:

[0017] FIG. 1 illustrates the types of gas lift valves, blind type (A), orifice type (B) and calibrated type (C);

[0018] FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic cross-section of the gas lift mandrel;

[0019] FIG. 3 illustrates another schematic cross-section of the gas lift mandrel;

[0020] FIG. 4 illustrates in detail the chemical injection ring inserted in the gas lift mandrel structure;

[0021] FIG. 5 illustrates the scheme of the chemical injection ring injecting scale inhibitor;

[0022] FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic detail of the chemical injection ring inserted into the gas lift mandrel structure;

[0023] FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic cross-section of the gas lift mandrel showing the chemical injection mandrel (MIQ) inserted above the gas lift mandrel.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0024] Below is a detailed, non-exhaustive and exemplary description of a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Nevertheless, possible additional embodiments of the present invention still comprised by the essential and optional features below will be evident to a person skilled in the art from reading this description.

[0025] The invention solves or minimizes the problems described above by adapting a chemical injection system inside of the gas lift mandrel, such scale inhibitor injection system being intended to protect the chemical injection valve as well as the check valves and will also prevent scale deposition on the column above the gas lift mandrel a dehydration caused by dry gas.

[0026] The technical advantages are a better efficiency of the gas lift mandrel and therefore a better management of the production and reservoirs through a guarantee of efficient flow. The economic advantages are avoiding production losses associated with stoppages to carry out scale removal operations and/or replacement of gas lift mandrel valves when they fail, and also the reduced costs associated with the elimination of operations that use critical resources such as intervention probes and/or stimulation boats to meet the described operations in wellbores.

[0027] The technology of the gas lift mandrel with inhibitor injection can be fully applied in the development of Petrobras' E&P production, in production systems both in the pre-salt and in the post-salt, in elevation and flow sites aiming at guaranteeing the flow (Garantia de Escoamento, GARESC), in wellbore sites in wellbore completion projects, requiring only adjustments in the manufacturing project of the gas lift mandrels to include adaptation of the chemical injection system in the lower part of the gas lift mandrel, exactly at the interface of the check valves with the annulus of the well, so that the chemical inhibitor can reach the planned position to guarantee the effectiveness of the treatment, aiming to protect, respectively, the check valves, the mandrel injection valve and the production column at the portion above the mandrel.

[0028] The mandrel of the present invention guarantees the yield of oil fields and their economy. It reduces the need to remove saline scaling. It reduces the use of critical resources such as completion probes and or stimulation boats. It reduces production losses associated with scaling formation in production columns. It improves the technique aiming at inhibiting organic depositions. Significantly lower costs than conventional squeeze and or removal because since once installed in the column it allows management of the scaling. It reduces the use of critical resources such as probes and/or stimulation boats as proportionally this reduction in the number of operations with critical resources promotes an increase in safety conditions so as not to cause impacts on the health of professionals and society. It also reduces the waste discharged by these vessels (probes and/or stimulation boats) into sea during the period where they are operating in the sea through the UEP's in the subsea production systems, thus reducing the environmental impacts.

[0029] The chemical injection system consists of a rupture disk and a double check valve. The system to prevent breakage of the column will be adapted at the bottom of the gas lift mandrel in order to ensure that the injected inhibitor flow promotes protection of the check valves of the gas lift mandrel as well as the gas lift mandrel valve. The system to prevent column breakage can be installed above or below the chemical injection valve (09) inside the chemical injection mandrel (08) inserted into the gas lift mandrel. The system to avoid column breakage is used to avoid discharging the bulk of scaling-inhibiting fluid due to the large hydrostatics that depends on the length of the hydraulic line, which can cause effects such as loss of product dosage and clogging of the hydraulic line due to evaporation of the inhibitor solvent.

[0030] FIG. 1 illustrates the types of gas lift valves, blind type (A), orifice type (B) and calibrated type (C);

[0031] FIG. 2 shows a schematic cross section of the lift gas mandrel showing the gas lift valve and the gas inlet hole coming from the annulus to the inside of the mandrel. It shows the casing (01), the gas lift mandrel body (02), the gas mandrel valve (03), the gas inlet hole (04) coming from the annulus of the gas mandrel, gas flowing down (05) through the annulus of the gas mandrel and the completion fluid level in the annulus (06).

[0032] FIG. 3 shows a schematic cross-section of the gas lift mandrel (07) showing the lift gas valve and the hydraulic line machined into the mandrel body to the gas inlet hole coming from the annulus to the inside of the mandrel (dashed line).

[0033] FIG. 4 illustrates in detail the chemical injection ring (10) inserted into the gas lift mandrel structure placed internally to the hole through which the gas enters the gas lift mandrel. Showing side and front views of the ring (10) with four injector nozzles (11).

[0034] FIG. 5 illustrates the scheme of the chemical injection ring (10) injecting scale inhibitor (12) into the gas (13) when the gas passes from the annulus of the wellbore to the gas lift mandrel.

[0035] FIG. 6 illustrates in detail a scheme of the chemical injection ring (10) inserted into the gas lift mandrel structure (07) placed internally to the hole through which the gas (13) enters the valve (14) of the gas lift mandrel (07). Injection of inhibitor fluid (15) is further illustrated in the figure.

[0036] FIG. 7 illustrates a schematic cross-section of the gas lift mandrel showing the chemical injection mandrel (MIQ) inserted above the gas lift mandrel. The idea is to include a chemical injection system in the design of the gas lift mandrel at the top of the MGL to inhibit scaling. Thus, the gas lift mandrel will come from the factory with the chemical injection system included, which will allow chemical injection to be used to protect the check valves and the MGL valve from the formation of scale deposits. FIG. 7 shows the chemical injection mandrel inserted into the gas lift mandrel (08), the chemical injection valve of the injection mandrel (09) and the gas lift mandrel (07) with the hydraulic line inserted into the structure of the gas lift mandrel. The chemical injection valve of the chemical injection mandrel (09) includes the rupture disc and the double check valve.