Accumulation of associated petroleum gas in the annulus is one of the negative factors that impede the intensification of mechanized oil production. An increase in annular gas pressure causes growth of bottomhole pressure, a decrease in back pressure to the formation and the inflow of formation fluid. In addition, accumulation of gas in the annulus leads to displacement and a decrease in the liquid level above the submersible pump. Insufficient level of the pump submersion (rod or electric submersible) causes a number of complications in the operation of mechanized production units associated with overheating of the elements in pumping units. Therefore, the development of technologies for optimizing the gas pressure in the annulus is relevant. Method for calculating the intensity of gas pressure increase in the annulus of production wells operated by submersible pumps has been developed. Analytical dependence for calculating the time interval of gas accumulation in the annulus, during which the dynamic level decreases to the pump intake, is obtained. This value can be used to estimate the frequency of gas withdrawal from the annulus using compressors. It has been found that the rate of increase in annular gas pressure in time increases non-linearly with a rise in the gas-oil ratio and a decrease in water cut, and also linearly increases with a rise in liquid flow rate. Influence of the operating (gas-oil ratio) and technological (value of the gas pressure maintained in the annulus) factors on the flow rate of the suspended reciprocating compressor driven by the beam engine, designed for forced withdrawal and redirection of the annular gas into the flow line of the well is analyzed.

МЕТОДИКА РАСЧЕТА ШТАНГОВЫХ КОЛОНН ДЛЯ ВИНТОВЫХ НАСОСНЫХ УСТАНОВОК

The relevance of the research is caused by the need to increase the reliability and resource of progressing cavity pumps, used in complicated well operating conditions, since they have low reliability in comparison with electrical submersible pumps, that limits their application. Progressing cavity pumps are used in well conditions characterized by a high viscosity of the pumped fluid (more than 30 mPa·s) and a high content of solid particles in it (the coefficient of suspended particles is more than 500 mg/liter). Experience in operating progressing cavity pumps shows that the reliability of pumping installations depends primarily on the reliability of the rod string. In addition to the torque load required to transfer the rotation from the induction motor to the screw pump, immersed on more than one kilometer from the wellhead, the sucker string experiences tensile loads from the weight of the pump rods and the axial load of the screw pump, as well as bending loads caused by the spatial curvature of the wellbore . The paper proposes the implementation of methodology for calculating the sucker rod columns of progressing cavity pumps with regard to axial, torsional and bending loads in the Python programming language. The proposed method for calculating the rod column of a screw pumping unit takes into account the rod column friction on tubing pipes arising from the Eulerian forces pressing the rods to the pipes due to the spatial curvature of the wellbore. Using software implemented in the python programming language, the authors have made calculations that showed the influence of various complicating factors on the magnitude of the loads on the rod string. As a result of calculations of the fatigue strength of the pump rods, cyclic loads during the rotation of the rods in the local sections of the local curvature of the wellbore was shown. The developed software allows you to take into account the degree of influence of complicated well operating conditions at the design stage, and thus, significantly increase the turnaround time of the rod screw pumping units. The main aim of the research is to assess the influence of various operating factors on the loads acting on the string of pump rods during well operation, as well as on the fatigue strength of the pump rods. Methods. Using software implemented in the python programming language, calculations were performed that showed the influence of various complicating factors on the magnitude of the loads on the rod string. The paper demonstrated the effect of loads on the fatigue strength of sucker rods caused by cyclic loads during rotation of the rods in the areas of local curvature of the wellbore. The developed software allows taking into account the degree of influence of complicating factors at the stage of selecting the layout of a PCP, as well as during operation, and thereby significantly increasing the overhaul period of PCP operation. Актуальность исследования обусловлена необходимостью повышения надежности и ресурса штанговых винтовых насосных установок, используемых для осложненных условий эксплуатации скважин, поскольку они имеют низкую надежность в сравнении с электроцентробежными насосами, что ограничивает их применение. Винтовые насосные установки используются в скважинных условиях, характеризующихся высокой вязкостью откачиваемой пластовой жидкости (более 30 мПа·с) и высоким содержанием механических примесей в ней (коэффициент взвешенных частиц более 500 мг/литр). Опыт эксплуатации винтовых насосных установок показывает, что надежность насосных установок зависит в первую очередь от надежности штанговой колонны. Помимо крутящей нагрузки, необходимой для передачи вращения от асинхронного двигателя к винтовому насосу, погруженному на расстояние более одного километра от устья скважины, штанговая колонна испытывает растягивающие нагрузки от веса насосных штанг и осевой нагрузки винтового насоса, а также изгибающие нагрузки, вызванные пространственным искривлением ствола скважины. Цель исследования заключается в оценке влияния различных факторов эксплуатации на нагрузки, действующие на колонну насосных штанг в процессе эксплуатации скважины, а также на усталостную прочность насосных штанг. Методы: методика расчета штанговых колонн винтовых насосных установок с учетом осевых, крутящих и изгибающих нагрузок, учитывающая процессы трения штанговой колонны о насосно-компрессорные трубы, возникающие от Эйлеровых сил прижатия штанг к трубам из-за пространственного искривления ствола скважины, реализованная на языке программирования Python;...