A pressure-driven hole cleaning model and its application in real-time monitoring with along-string pressure measurements

F Zhang, A Islam - SPE Journal, 2023 - onepetro.org
… quantitatively by using along-string annular pressure (ASAP) data… development, a solid factor
(S F ) is used to represent the … transportation of cuttings from one interval to another can be …

Modeling cuttings transport and annular pack-off using local fluid velocities with the effects of drillstring rotation and eccentricity

O Erge, E van Oort - SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and Exhibition, 2020 - onepetro.org
… on cuttings transport, it is important that hole cleaningsolid-liquid two-phase flow, proposing
a solid flow configuration map. Additionally, their work shows how the annular pressure

… experimental investigation of hole cleaning performance in horizontal wells including the effects of drill string eccentricity, pipe rotation, and cuttings size

AK Abbas, MT Alsaba… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… fluid has lower fractions of inert solids when compared to the … through measuring CTR in
different annular fluid velocity. It … were used to evaluate the transport of three various sizes of …

[HTML][HTML] A novel automated model for evaluation of the efficiency of hole cleaning conditions during drilling operations

M Al-Rubaii, M Al-Shargabi, D Al-Shehri - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
… , and high-speed digital images to identify the solid, liquid, … fluid transport velocity divided by
the average mud annular velocity … transport percentage as achieving complete hole cleaning

[HTML][HTML] A new real-time hole cleaning monitoring method based on downhole multi-point pressure measurement and data driven approach

F Zhang, B Li, C Yu, J Chen, T Peng, X Wang - Natural Gas Industry B, 2023 - Elsevier
along-string measurement (ASM) data were proposed. The results depict that, the relationship
between hole cleanliness and annular pressure loss in different hole … were transported in …

Hole cleaning case studies analyzed with a transient cuttings transport model

AH Fallah, Q Gu, G Saini, D Chen, P Ashok… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2020 - onepetro.org
… on the rig for monitoring the hole cleaning operation and … location of solid particles in the
well, proper hole cleaning of … suspension, pressure, and annular solid velocity profiles along the …

Investigation on horizontal and deviated wellbore cleanout by hole cleaning device using CFD approach

T Yan, J Qu, X Sun, Z Li, W Li - Energy Science & Engineering, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… to solid-liquid two-phase flow and the corresponding transportsize as the experiment of Han
et al7 The hole cleaning device is … drilled cuttings enter into the annular space from the inlet …

Modeling the effects of drillstring eccentricity, pipe rotation and annular blockage on cuttings transport in deviated wells

O Erge, E van Oort - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
used as hole cleaning indicators are the standpipe pressure … occur with solid-liquid two-phase
flow, proposing a solid flow … show the variations in the annular pressure profile due to the …

Hole cleaning and drilling fluid sweeps in horizontal and deviated wells: Comprehensive review

H Mahmoud, A Hamza, MS Nasser, IA Hussein… - Journal of petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
… have been implemented to transport cuttings out of horizontal … required to clean the wellbore
with an annular fluid velocity … have been used to enhance the solids transport efficiency of …

Hole Cleaning during Drilling Oil and Gas Wells: A Review for HoleCleaning Chemistry and Engineering Parameters

M Al-Rubaii, M Al-Shargabi… - Advances in Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
used for controlling solids in mud to improve hole cleaning … , pump capacity, and allowable
annular pressure. Samples with a … transport ratio index of hole-cleaning efficiency was used to …