EP4555191A1 - Ensemble actionneur électromécanique - Google Patents

Ensemble actionneur électromécanique

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EP4555191A1
EP4555191A1 EP23840379.4A EP23840379A EP4555191A1 EP 4555191 A1 EP4555191 A1 EP 4555191A1 EP 23840379 A EP23840379 A EP 23840379A EP 4555191 A1 EP4555191 A1 EP 4555191A1
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Prior art keywords
actuator
ema
flow control
assembly
control valve
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Eric Grandgirard
Arunkumar Arumugam
Cassius Alexander ELSTON
Oguzhan Guven
Ivan Caliu CANDIANI
Bernardo MACHADO
Eduardo SCUSSIATO
David LARDY
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Services Petroliers Schlumberger SA
Schlumberger Technology BV
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Services Petroliers Schlumberger SA
Schlumberger Technology BV
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B34/00—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells
    • E21B34/06—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B34/00—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells
    • E21B34/06—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells
    • E21B34/066—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells electrically actuated
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B47/00—Survey of boreholes or wells
    • E21B47/01—Devices for supporting measuring instruments on drill bits, pipes, rods or wirelines; Protecting measuring instruments in boreholes against heat, shock, pressure or the like

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  • the present disclosure generally relates to electromechanical actuators. Description of the Related Art
  • An oil well may have multiple production zones or intervals. It is of interest for the operator to be able to produce these zones altogether (commingled production) to maximize production and the return on investment made in such well.
  • the different producing zones may have different pressures and may deplete at different rates.
  • FCVs downhole flow control valves
  • FCVs are traditionally hydraulically operated from surface by hydraulic control lines running from in the well and fed through the well head and packers. Because the number of penetrators or allowable control lines is limited, this may restrict the number of valves that can be installed in a well. Moreover, such a well often includes chemical injection lines and electrical cable for communication and power of downhole sensors, thus restricting even further the number of hydraulic penetrations left at the well head or packer.
  • an electro-mechanical actuator assembly includes an actuator and an electronics cartridge.
  • the actuator and electronics cartridge are disposed parallel to each other.
  • the EMA assembly can further include a single housing, with the actuator and electronics cartridge both disposed in or housed by the single housing.
  • the actuator can be enclosed in a first welded and sealed unit, and the electronics cartridge can be enclosed in a second welded and sealed unit.
  • An electric wire can extend downhole from a bottom or downhole end of the second unit. A splice to the electric wire can be made below or downhole of a downhole tool including the EMA assembly.
  • the first unit can contain dielectric fluid.
  • the assembly can further include a bellows configured to compensate volume changes of the dielectric fluid due to pressure and temperature changes downhole.
  • the second unit can contain inert gas.
  • the assembly can further include a junction box coupling the first and second units.
  • the junction box can have a curxed shape or profile.
  • the assembly can include a bellows configured to compensate volume changes due to extension and/or retraction of the actuator in use.
  • a flow control valve includes a generally cylindrical housing, a choke sleeve disposed within the housing, and an electro-mechanical actuator housed by the housing.
  • the EMA assembly includes an actuator and an electronics cartridge. The actuator and electronics cartridge are disposed parallel to and at least partially circumferentially aligned with each other.
  • Figure 1 shows a flow control valve including a standard EMA configuration.
  • Figure 2 shows a parallel EMA configuration
  • Figures 3A-3D show the EMA of Figure 2 disposed in a single housing.
  • Figures 4A-4C shows various transverse cross-sectional views of the assembly of Figure 3. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
  • connection As used herein, the terms “connect”, “connection”, “connected”, “in connection with”, and “connecting” are used to mean “in direct connection with” or “in connection with via one or more elements”; and the term “set” is used to mean “one element” or “more than one element”. Further, the terms “couple”, “coupling”, “coupled”, “coupled together”, and “coupled with” are used to mean “directly coupled together” or “coupled together via one or more elements”. As used herein, the terms “up” and “down”; “upper” and “lower”; “top” and “bottom”; and other like terms indicating relative positions to a given point or element are utilized to more clearly describe some elements.
  • these terms relate to a reference point at the surface from which drilling operations are initiated as being the top point and the total depth being the lowest point, wherein the well (e.g., wellbore, borehole) is vertical, horizontal or slanted relative to the surface.
  • the well e.g., wellbore, borehole
  • downhole tools e.g., valves
  • hydraulic systems It has been difficult to implement an electric actuation mechanism with comparable capabilities (e.g., force, stroke) to hydraulic systems on downhole products.
  • an electro-mechanical system requires many gear stages, increasing the length of the actuator. Resulting electrical actuation systems can therefore become quite long, which increases the overall product cost.
  • the present disclosure provides an electro-mechanical actuation system, or EMA, in which the actuator and electronics are placed in a side-by-side or parallel configuration.
  • This side-by-side or parallel configuration advantageously reduces product cost.
  • Actuation systems are installed onto expensive housings, and longer actuation systems require longer housings and therefore higher costs.
  • EMAs of the present disclosure are shorter, thereby reducing costs.
  • the parallel configuration of the present disclosure advantageously improves the OD-to-ID ratio for the downhole tool. Shortening the actuation system enables the actuator to fit onto a single housing with milled slots. This enables the best OD-to-ID ratio for the product. For comparison, if the system has to span multiple housings, each housing needs a threaded connection, which takes up cross-sectional space, worsening the product’s OD-to-ID ratio.
  • an EMA system includes a motor, gearbox, and power screw (although other electric actuator configurations are also possible), and a cartridge containing downhole electronics boards.
  • systems according to the present disclosure can also include a valve. The components are placed in a parallel configuration to optimize the system length, and all components are located on a single housing to optimize the OD-to-ID ration (i.e., smallest possible OD and biggest possible ID). Maximizing the inner diameter for a given outer diameter results in the largest possible flow area. Eccentricity between the OD and ID can also be reduced or eliminated.
  • the electronics, motor, gearbox, and screw are sealed in welded tubes to a welded bellows, such that all components are sealed in a controlled environment with clean fluid and not exposed to well fluid.
  • the system includes two bellows - a first bellows that compensates volume changes of the sealed dielectric fluid due to pressure and temperature changes downhole, and a second bellows for compensating volume changes due to extending/retracting the actuator.
  • the actuator e.g., motor, gearbox, and/or screw
  • the electronics cartridge can be enclosed in a second welded and sealed unit.
  • the electronics cartridge is sealed separately from the EMA, as the EMA requires lubrication oil (dielectric fluid), while the electronic boards in the electronics cartridge cannot be exposed to liquid and are therefore sealed in inert gas.
  • the electric wire comes out of the bottom or downhole end of the electronics cartridge and/or unit containing the electronics cartridge.
  • the splice for the wire is therefore down below the valve (or other tool) instead of above the valve or tool as in a conventional arrangement.
  • the EMA and electronics cartridge units are connected via a junction box.
  • the junction box is welded and contains wires going between the electronics cartridge and EMA.
  • the junction box has a curved profde or shape to correspond to the curved cylindrical profde of the housing and allow the tubes or units of the electronics cartridge and EMA to be disposed in parallel about the circumference of the housing.
  • the junction box can coupled to the top or uphole ends of the EMA unit and electronics cartridge unit.
  • systems according to the present disclosure include a pressure/temperature gauge.
  • the gauge can be coupled to the junction box.
  • the gauge is positioned between (e g., radially or circumferentially between) the actuator and electronics cartridge.
  • the gauge can be a DC gauge.
  • a well run on AC power includes an AC gauge assembly in the completion.
  • the gauge itself requires DC power, so the AC gauge assembly includes an AC to DC transformer.
  • a DC gauge can utilize the AC to DC transformer already present in the electronics cartridge. Eliminating the AC to DC transformer that would be required in a typical AC gauge assembly advantageously reduces cost and improves reliability (due to removing the risk of unreliability of a second transformer).
  • Figure 1 shows a flow control valve including a standard EMA configuration, with the actuator and electronics axially aligned. Due to the length of the EMA, the assembly includes two housings connected via a threaded connection. The EMA must be disposed radially outside of the thread, which worsens the OD-to-ID ratio. In the illustrated example, the eccentricity of the flow control valve is about 0.5.
  • Figures 2-4 show an EMA according to the present disclosure, in which the actuator and electronics are disposed in a parallel arrangement, relative to each other and a longitudinal axis of the valve or other product.
  • the electronics and actuator are at least partially circumferentially aligned with each other rather than axially aligned and are side-by-side circumferentially.
  • Figure 2 shows the actuator and electronics arranged in a substnatially parallel configuration.
  • Figures 3A-3D show the EMA components of Figure 2 disposed in the single housing.
  • Figure 4A-4C show various transverse cross-section views of the assembly of Figures 3A-3D, taken at various points along the length of the housing.
  • the table below compares various values of an example flow control valve including an EMA with a conventional configuration compared to an example flow control valve including a parallel configuration EMA according to the present disclosure.
  • the parallel configuration reduces the eccentricity of the valve from 0.5 to 0.25 (e.g., by 50% in the example) and the length of the product (e g., by 28% in the example).
  • the eccentricity of the valve s below 0.3. ;
  • the terms “generally parallel” and “substantially parallel” or “generally perpendicular” and “substantially perpendicular” refer to a value, amount, or characteristic that departs from exactly parallel or perpendicular, respectively, by less than or equal to 15 degrees, 10 degrees, 5 degrees, 3 degrees, 1 degree, or 0.1 degree.

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Abstract

Des actionneurs électromécaniques sont prévus. De tels actionneurs électromécaniques peuvent être utilisés dans des soupapes de régulation de débit à passage intégral. Les soupapes de régulation de débit comprennent un boîtier généralement cylindrique, un manchon d'étranglement placé à l'intérieur du boîtier et un ensemble actionneur électromécanique (EMA) logé par le boîtier. L'ensemble EMA comprend un actionneur et une cartouche électronique. L'actionneur et la cartouche électronique sont placés parallèlement l'un à l'autre et sont au moins partiellement alignés de manière circonférentielle l'un par rapport à l'autre.
EP23840379.4A 2022-07-15 2023-07-17 Ensemble actionneur électromécanique Pending EP4555191A1 (fr)

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