Research ArticleCoupled THM Modelling of Wellbore Stability with DrillingUnloading Fluid Flow and Thermal Effects Considered
Shanpo Jia 12 CaoxuanWen 3 Fucheng Deng 3
Chuanliang Yan 4 and Zhiqiang Xiao 3
1e State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Chengdu China2Institute of Unconventional Oil amp Gas Northeast Petroleum University Daqing China3Yangtze University Jingzhou China4China University of Petroleum Qingdao China
Correspondence should be addressed to Fucheng Deng dengfucheng128163com
Received 26 December 2018 Revised 18 February 2019 Accepted 11 March 2019 Published 9 April 2019
Academic Editor Francisco J Montans
Copyright copy 2019 Shanpo Jia et al This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensewhich permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited
Both overbalanced drilling and underbalanced drilling will lead to the change of pore pressure around wellbore Existing researchis generally based on hydraulic-mechanical (HM) coupling and assumes that pore pressure near the wellbore is initial formationpressure which has great limitations According to the coupled theory of mixtures for rockmedium a coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical (THM) model is proposed and derived which is coded with MATLAB language and ABAQUS software as the solverThen the wellbore stability is simulated with the proposed model by considering the drilling unloading fluid flow and thermaleffects between the borehole and the formationThe effect of field coupling on pore pressure stress redistribution and temperaturearound a wellbore has been analyzed in detail Through the study of wellbore stability in different conditions it is found that (1)for overbalanced drilling borehole with impermeable wall is more stable than that of ones with permeable wall and its stabilitycan be improved by reducing the permeable ability of the wellbore wall (2) for underbalanced drilling the stability condition ofpermeable wellbore is much higher than that of impermeable wellbore (3) the temperature has important influence on wellborestability due to the variation of pore pressure and thermal stress the wellbore stability can be improved with cooling drilling fluidfor deep well The present method can provide references for coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processanalysis for wellbore
1 Introduction
Boreholes as the access for the development of oil gasand geothermal energy as well as deep geological storageof CO2 experience instability phenomena such as sloughingand borehole wall fracturing during drilling process whicharise from removal of the original supporting rock and theinteraction between the drilling fluid and formation [1ndash3]Wellbore stability is an important factor considered in drillingengineering which seriously affects the quality of the welland even leads to drilling failure Wellbore instability alwayshas been a major problem in petroleum geomechanics andengineering
The causes of wellbore instability can be classified intoeithermechanical (ie failure of the rock around the borehole
because of high stresses low rock strength or inappropri-ate drilling practice) or chemical effects which arise fromdamaging interaction between the rock and the drillingfluid [4ndash6] In recent years wellbore stability analysis hasmainly focused on the chemical interaction between rockand drilling fluid It is generally believed that the wellboreinstability by hydration also is caused by the stress aroundwellbore exceeding a certain limit value due to the decreasingof rock strength [6ndash8] Therefore the accurate calculationof the stress state near wellbore is of great significance forjudging whether the wellbore is unstable or not With thedevelopment of analysis models for wellbore stability it wasfound that the formation fluid drilling fluid properties andtemperature have a great influence on the wellbore stability[9ndash11] Mechanical behavior pore pressure and heat flux all
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influence wellbore stability while instances of instability area result of a combination of coupled effects Analysis involvesstudying the interactions among changes of related effectivestress temperature and pore pressure during drilling processIn the process of overbalanced drilling the pressure ofdrilling fluid column is greater than formation pressurewhich would cause dynamic and static water loss of drillingfluid into formationThe stress state near awellbore is affectedseriously due to drilling fluid into formation For air or foamdrilling (underbalanced) the drilling fluid column pressurecan be lower than formation pressure which may causeformation fluid flow into wellbore resulting in the change ofpore pressure and stress state near wellbore In geothermalenvironments drilling fluid circulation will lead to relativelygreater disturbance near the well resulting in higher thermalstress which will affect wellbore stability More and moreanalytical models on wellbore stability issues have focused oncouplingmechanisms but these studies generally assume thatthe pore pressure around wellbore is the initial pore pressure[12ndash14] When the formation is drilled the equilibriumstate is disturbed causing the stress redistribution aroundborehole The drilling is essentially an excavation unloadingprocess [15] For numerical analysis of wellbore stability moststudies have focused on HM coupling elastic behavior andoverbalanced drilling without considering the influence ofdrilling unloading process stress redistribution filter cakequality and permeability change of the borehole wall [16 17]which is not consistent with the real case
In this article thermal effect and drilling unloadingprocess will be introduced into wellbore stability analysis in anumerical modeling framework to make such analyses moregeneral According to the previous studies the THM coupledmathematical model of rock medium has been proposedand the strategy to solve this model is discussed Then thedrilling unloading fluid flow and thermal effect of wellboreare analyzed in overbalanced drilling and under balanceddrilling and the influence of drilling fluid and thermal effecton pore pressure and stress redistribution around boreholewith time are all discussed
2 Coupled THMModelling Framework forWellbore Stability
21 e Basic Idea of Excavation Unloading Before theformation is drilled the stress state of rock mass is mainlycontrolled by in-situ stress and the stress state in the forma-tion is in equilibrium During the drilling process the initialstress equilibrium in the formation is disturbed causing thestress redistribution around the surrounding rock until a newbalance is reached (as shown in Figure 1)The change of stressand displacement field in the formation caused by drillingis essentially an unloading process After the formation isdrilled the excavated rock in the hole is replaced by drillingfluid and the stress state near the wellbore is redistributedand the mechanical characteristics of the rock around thewellbore will inevitably be affected
For unloading process modelling external boundaryloading method and excavation unloading method are usu-ally used [6 7 15]The displacement obtained by the external
Initial stress equilibrium Drilling unloadingDrilling fluid
Hσ Hσ
hσhσ
Figure 1 Drilling unloading process
boundary loading method is actually a comprehensive resultof the initial stress field and the excavation boundary whichhas no obvious practical significance while the excavationunloading method truly reflects the displacement changescaused by excavation Correct modelling the unloading pro-cess is the key to analyze thewellbore stability in drilling engi-neering The element removing and reactivating techniqueis an ideal method to realize wellbore unloading processwhich is realized bymodifying the stiffness of element set Forelement removing process the element is not really removedbut instead the stiffness of the element is multiplied by a verysmall coefficient (usually 1times10minus6) The mass of the removedelement and other parameters are set to 0 thus the load andstrain of the element is equal to 0
Before the elements are removed the mechanical equilib-rium equation is defined as [15]
P = [K] U (1)
where [K] is stiffness matrix of element U is node displace-ment array and P is the load array
Introducing the parameter 120589119894 to control the elementremoving and reactivating the modified equilibrium equa-tion is given
P = [K] U (2)
where
[K] =[[[[[[[
1205891111989611 1205891211989612 sdot sdot sdot 120589111989911989611198991205892111989621 1205892211989622 sdot sdot sdot 12058921198991198962119899 sdot sdot sdot 12058911989911198961198991 12058911989921198961198992 sdot sdot sdot 120589119899119899119896119899119899
]]]]]]] (3)
22 ermal Transfer Model of Rock Assuming the porosityof a rock element is 119899 the proportion of solid skeleton is 1 minus119899 According to the principle of conservation of energy andFourierrsquos law [16 17] the energy conservation equation of thesolid skeleton is as follows
nabla [(1 minus 119899) 120582snabla119879] + (1 minus 119899) [119902s minus 3119870120573119897 (119879 minus 1198790) 120597120576v120597119905 ]= 120597 [(1 minus 119899) 120588s119888s (119879 minus 1198790)]120597119905
(4)
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where 120582s 119888s and 120588s are the thermal conductivity specificheat and density of the solid skeleton respectively 119902s isthe energy generated per unit volume of skeleton per unittime 119879 is the temperature 1198790 is the initial temperature 120573119897 islinear expansion coefficient119870 is the volumemodulus of rockmedium and 120576V is volume strain
The energy conservation equation of the fluid phase canbe established in a similar way Since the fluid flow velocityin the formation is small the kinetic energy of the fluid canbe ignored The energy equation considering convection andconduction is given as
nabla (119899120582fnabla119879) + 119899119902f = 120597 [119899120588f119888f (119879 minus 1198790)]120597119905+ 119899119888f (119879 minus 1198790) 120597120588f120597119905 + 120588f119888f (119907nabla) 119879
(5)
where 120582119891 119888119891 and 120588119891 are thermal conductivity specificheat and density of the fluid respectively 119902119891 is the energygenerated per unit volume of fluid per unit time 119907 is Darcyflow velocity and (119907nabla)119879 is convection item which indicatesthe change rate of temperature caused by the movement offluid particles
According to theory of mixtures [18] the total energyequation of the rockmedium is superimposed by the propor-tion of material component
nabla (120582nabla119879) + 119902 minus 3119870120573119897 (119879 minus 1198790) (1 minus 119899) 120597120576V120597119905 = 119888120597119879120597119905+ 120588f119888f (119907nabla) 119879 + (119879 minus 1198790)sdot [(120588f119888f minus 120588s119888s) 120597119899
120597119905 + (1 minus 119899) 119888s 120597120588s120597119905 + 119899119888f 120597120588f120597119905 ](6)
where 120582 = (1minus119899)120582s+119899120582f 119902 = (1minus119899)119902s+119899119902f 119888 = (1minus119899)120588s119888s+119899120588f119888f 23 Coupled Flow Model Combined with Darcyrsquos law theflow equation considering rock deformation is defined as[16 17]
119896120583f [
12059721199011205971199092 +
12059721199011205971199102 +
12059721199011205971199112 ] = 120572120597119901
120597119905 minus 120573120597119879120597119905 + 120572120597120576V120597119905 + 119876f (7)
where 120583f is fluid viscosity 119896 is permeability of rock 119901 ispore pressure 120572 = 119899120572f + (1 minus 119899)120572s is comprehensivecompressibility 120572s is the compressibility of solid skeleton120572f is the compressibility of fluid 120573 = 119899120573f + (1 minus 119899)120573s iscomprehensive thermal expansion coefficient 120573s = 3120573l isvolumetric thermal expansion coefficient of solid skeleton 120573fis volumetric thermal expansion coefficient of fluid 120572 is Biotcoefficient and 119876f is internal and external fluid sources
In the process of fluid flow the permeability is relatedto the change of porosity and the change of pore volumeis related to pore pressure and stress so the permeability is
minus10 minus05 00 05 100
10
20
30
40
Volume strainn0=01n0=03
n0=05n0=07
kk 0
Figure 2 The relationship curve between permeability and volumestrain (negative volume strain represents in the compression)
dynamic change with fluid flow [15] The relations betweenpermeability porosity and volumetric strain are given
119899 = 1 minus 1 minus 1198990120576v + 1 (8)
119896 = 1198960 [( 11198990) (1 + 120576v)23 minus (1 minus 11989901198990 ) (1 + 120576V)minus13]
3
(9)
where 1198960 and 1198990 are initial permeability and porosity respec-tively
The relationship between permeability and volume strainis shown in Figure 2 The smaller the porosity the moreobvious is the effect of deformation on permeability
24 Coupled Mechanical Model According to Biotrsquos consoli-dation theory the effective stress can be expressed as
d1205901015840119894119895 = d120590119894119895 + 120572120575119894119895d119901 (10)
where 1205901015840 is the effective stress 120590119894119895 is total stress and 120575119894119895 isKronecker symbol In this study tensile stress is positive andcompressive stress is negative
To describe the thermal expansion and plastic deforma-tion of a rockmedium the total stress can be expressed in theform of increment
d120590119894119895 = d1205901015840119894119895 minus 120572120575119894119895119901= 119863e
ijkl (d120576kl minus d120576pkl minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895(11)
where119863e is elastic stiffness matrix 120576 is total strain tensor 120576pis plastic stiffness tensor and 120576T is strain tensor caused by thechange of temperature
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hσ
HσbR
aR0R
Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Hole
Undisturbed zone Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Figure 3 Excavation damaged zone
unstable
failure line
mσ
3
1
(a)
mσ
unstable
failure line
3
1
(b)
Figure 4 Two types of Mohr-Coulomb criterion (a) Shear failure (b) Tensile failure
Equation (11) can be rearranged as
d120590119894119895 = 119863epijkl (d120576119896119897 minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895 (12)
where 120576119894119895 = (119906119894119895 + 119906119895119894)2 d120576119894119895 = d119906119894119895 d120576T119894119895 = 120573119897d119879120575119894119895 119906119894 isdisplacement components of rock and 119863ep is elastic-plasticstiffness matrix
Drilling excavation causes stress redistribution aroundwellbore and the zone where the stress state changes isusually called the excavation disturbed zone (as shown inFigure 3)That drilling changes the original equilibrium stateof the formation would cause stress concentration aroundthe wellbore and may lead to wellbore instability Wellboreinstability is generally divided into two types one is collapsecaused by shear failure and another is the fracturing causedby tensile stress
Due to the simplicity and practicability of the Mohr-Coulomb criterion it is the most commonly used for eval-uating wellbore stability (as shown in Figure 4) The shear
Mohr-Coulomb criterion is generally written in terms ofstress invariants [19]
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + 1205901198701015840 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (13)
where 120590m 120590 119888 120601 denote the average stress equivalent stresscohesion and friction angle respectively 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and friction angle 120601
1198701015840 = cos 120579 minus 1radic3 sin 120601 sin 120579 (14)
In (13) 120590m and 120590 are defined by
120590m = 12059010158401 + 12059010158402 + 120590101584033 120590 = radic1198692
(15)
where 12059010158401 12059010158402 12059010158403 are the three principal stresses and 1198692 is thesecond invariant of the deviatoric stress
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tσ Average stress mσ
Equi
vale
nt st
ress
σ
tσTensile Mohr-coulomb yield surface ( )Shear Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c )Modified Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c m)
Figure 5 Modified Mohr-Coulomb criterion in the meridionalplane
The tensile Mohr-Coulomb criterion is defined in termsof stress invariants [15]
119865 = 2radic3120590 sin (120579 + 1200) + 120590m minus 120590t = 0 (16)
where 120590t is the tensile strengthConsidering both tensile strength and shear strength of a
formation the yield surface is a combination of two differentfailure criteria shear failure and tensile failure The modifiedMohr-Coulomb (MMC) function is defined as follows (asshown in Figure 5)
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120601 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (17)
where 0 le 119898 le 1 is a parameter reflecting the tensilestrength of formationWhen119898 = 0 indicating a higher tensilestrength the MMC yield criterion becomes the shear Mohr-Coulomb criterion 119898 = 1 denotes that there is no tensilestrength In addition the parameter119898 can smooth the vertexof the yield surface and avoid the numerical divergence andslow convergence
The plastic potential function can be defined from theyield function as follows
119866 = 120590m sin 120593 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120593 (18)
where 120593 is the dilatancy angle Similarly 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and the dilatancy angle 120593 Associated flowoccurs if 120593 = 120601 while nonassociated flow occurs if 0 le 120593 lt 120601
According to the MMC criterion the quantitative evalu-ation indices for wellbore collapse and rupture are given as[14]
119891119887 = 119888 + 120590119899120591 = 2119888 cos 120601 + (12059010158401 + 12059010158403) minus (12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) sin2120601(12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) cos2120601119891119891 = 2 minus 12059010158403120590119905
(19)
where 120590119899 120591 are normal stress and shear stress on the shearsurface The wellbore would collapse for 119891119887 le 1 and fracturefor 119891119891 le 13 Solution Strategy
The decoupled solution method is applied for the solution ofthis THM coupling model The HM coupling module andthermal module in ABAQUS software is used to solve thestress field flow field and temperature field The decoupledsolution between two modules is performed in MATLABThen the THM coupling software for rock medium canbe developed using MATLAB language as the platform andABAQUS software as the solver in which different partssuch as thermal hydraulic and mechanical modules canbe called The software framework for THM is shown inFigure 6 The solution method has been verified through atypical example of one-dimensional thermal consolidation[20 21]The decoupled method is also efficient and easy to bedeveloped which can be applied to the analysis of thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupling for rock
The programming process is given as follows(1) The main program of MATLAB is compiled and thecalculation parameter setting and control precision of cycleiteration are defined(2) Different physical fields are analyzed by ABAQUSsolver in sequence write command file (lowast inp) for differentphysical field based on ABAUQS and USDFLD subroutinefile (lowast for) for parameter evolution such as permeabilitychange with strain based on FORTRAN Call ABAUQSsolver to solve different field modules by the command code(system) in MATLAB(3) Compile ABQMAIN subroutine for data conversionthe field variable node data file (lowast fil) is formed for otherphysical field modules to call as field variable values(4) The coupled parameters in the command file (lowastinp)of ABAQUS is modified and updated in MATLAB(5) Compile the coupled cycle processing subroutinein MATLAB call the updated command file (lowastinp) andABAQUS solver to calculateThen read the current result file(lowastdat) of ABAQUS and compare it with the previous resultfile until the convergence tolerance error is satisfied and thecyclic iteration is completed
4 Parametric Study
During drilling fluid flow in the formation and the tem-perature difference between formation and drilling fluid willcause changes of pore pressure and temperature around the
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Updated coupled parameters
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
Input initial parameters
Convergence
Judge the final time
Cycle iteration setting
No
Yes
End
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
ABAQUS
Figure 6 Flow chart of THM analysis
Table 1 Material parameters of rock media
ElasticmodulusMPa
Poissonrsquosratio
CohesionMPa
Frictionangle∘
TensilestrengthMPa
PorosityThermal
conductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C)
2 000 02 8 30 12 02 308 15times10minus5 840
Table 2 Fluid parameters
BulkmodulusMPa
Dynamicviscosity(Pasdots)
ThermalconductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C) Permeability
ms
5 000 0001 058 20times10minus4 4200 1times10minus12
wellbore which will inevitably affect wellbore stability Inthis section a conceptual numerical model is applied tostudy the wellbore stability influenced by flow conditions andtemperature
41 Modelling Approach A plane strain model was studiedbased on the proposed method (as shown in Figure 7) Theradius of the wellbore is 0108 m Due to the symmetry of themodel a 14 portion with the length and the width of 5 mwasestablished
The overburden strata stress 120590V horizontal maximumtotal stress 120590119867 the minimum total stress 120590ℎ and the for-mation pressure 119875119901 are 69MPa 75MPa 54MPa and 45Mparespectively The fluid column pressure of drilling fluid is50MPa for overbalanced drilling and 40 for underbalanceddrilling The properties of the rock and the fluid are listed in
vσ
Hσhσ
x
z
y
Figure 7 Calculation model
Tables 1 and 2 respectively The hydration effect by drillingfluid is not considered in this analysis
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(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
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S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
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C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
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Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
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330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
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240270
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Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
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6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
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180
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240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
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0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
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150
180
210
240270
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330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
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PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
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where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
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Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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influence wellbore stability while instances of instability area result of a combination of coupled effects Analysis involvesstudying the interactions among changes of related effectivestress temperature and pore pressure during drilling processIn the process of overbalanced drilling the pressure ofdrilling fluid column is greater than formation pressurewhich would cause dynamic and static water loss of drillingfluid into formationThe stress state near awellbore is affectedseriously due to drilling fluid into formation For air or foamdrilling (underbalanced) the drilling fluid column pressurecan be lower than formation pressure which may causeformation fluid flow into wellbore resulting in the change ofpore pressure and stress state near wellbore In geothermalenvironments drilling fluid circulation will lead to relativelygreater disturbance near the well resulting in higher thermalstress which will affect wellbore stability More and moreanalytical models on wellbore stability issues have focused oncouplingmechanisms but these studies generally assume thatthe pore pressure around wellbore is the initial pore pressure[12ndash14] When the formation is drilled the equilibriumstate is disturbed causing the stress redistribution aroundborehole The drilling is essentially an excavation unloadingprocess [15] For numerical analysis of wellbore stability moststudies have focused on HM coupling elastic behavior andoverbalanced drilling without considering the influence ofdrilling unloading process stress redistribution filter cakequality and permeability change of the borehole wall [16 17]which is not consistent with the real case
In this article thermal effect and drilling unloadingprocess will be introduced into wellbore stability analysis in anumerical modeling framework to make such analyses moregeneral According to the previous studies the THM coupledmathematical model of rock medium has been proposedand the strategy to solve this model is discussed Then thedrilling unloading fluid flow and thermal effect of wellboreare analyzed in overbalanced drilling and under balanceddrilling and the influence of drilling fluid and thermal effecton pore pressure and stress redistribution around boreholewith time are all discussed
2 Coupled THMModelling Framework forWellbore Stability
21 e Basic Idea of Excavation Unloading Before theformation is drilled the stress state of rock mass is mainlycontrolled by in-situ stress and the stress state in the forma-tion is in equilibrium During the drilling process the initialstress equilibrium in the formation is disturbed causing thestress redistribution around the surrounding rock until a newbalance is reached (as shown in Figure 1)The change of stressand displacement field in the formation caused by drillingis essentially an unloading process After the formation isdrilled the excavated rock in the hole is replaced by drillingfluid and the stress state near the wellbore is redistributedand the mechanical characteristics of the rock around thewellbore will inevitably be affected
For unloading process modelling external boundaryloading method and excavation unloading method are usu-ally used [6 7 15]The displacement obtained by the external
Initial stress equilibrium Drilling unloadingDrilling fluid
Hσ Hσ
hσhσ
Figure 1 Drilling unloading process
boundary loading method is actually a comprehensive resultof the initial stress field and the excavation boundary whichhas no obvious practical significance while the excavationunloading method truly reflects the displacement changescaused by excavation Correct modelling the unloading pro-cess is the key to analyze thewellbore stability in drilling engi-neering The element removing and reactivating techniqueis an ideal method to realize wellbore unloading processwhich is realized bymodifying the stiffness of element set Forelement removing process the element is not really removedbut instead the stiffness of the element is multiplied by a verysmall coefficient (usually 1times10minus6) The mass of the removedelement and other parameters are set to 0 thus the load andstrain of the element is equal to 0
Before the elements are removed the mechanical equilib-rium equation is defined as [15]
P = [K] U (1)
where [K] is stiffness matrix of element U is node displace-ment array and P is the load array
Introducing the parameter 120589119894 to control the elementremoving and reactivating the modified equilibrium equa-tion is given
P = [K] U (2)
where
[K] =[[[[[[[
1205891111989611 1205891211989612 sdot sdot sdot 120589111989911989611198991205892111989621 1205892211989622 sdot sdot sdot 12058921198991198962119899 sdot sdot sdot 12058911989911198961198991 12058911989921198961198992 sdot sdot sdot 120589119899119899119896119899119899
]]]]]]] (3)
22 ermal Transfer Model of Rock Assuming the porosityof a rock element is 119899 the proportion of solid skeleton is 1 minus119899 According to the principle of conservation of energy andFourierrsquos law [16 17] the energy conservation equation of thesolid skeleton is as follows
nabla [(1 minus 119899) 120582snabla119879] + (1 minus 119899) [119902s minus 3119870120573119897 (119879 minus 1198790) 120597120576v120597119905 ]= 120597 [(1 minus 119899) 120588s119888s (119879 minus 1198790)]120597119905
(4)
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where 120582s 119888s and 120588s are the thermal conductivity specificheat and density of the solid skeleton respectively 119902s isthe energy generated per unit volume of skeleton per unittime 119879 is the temperature 1198790 is the initial temperature 120573119897 islinear expansion coefficient119870 is the volumemodulus of rockmedium and 120576V is volume strain
The energy conservation equation of the fluid phase canbe established in a similar way Since the fluid flow velocityin the formation is small the kinetic energy of the fluid canbe ignored The energy equation considering convection andconduction is given as
nabla (119899120582fnabla119879) + 119899119902f = 120597 [119899120588f119888f (119879 minus 1198790)]120597119905+ 119899119888f (119879 minus 1198790) 120597120588f120597119905 + 120588f119888f (119907nabla) 119879
(5)
where 120582119891 119888119891 and 120588119891 are thermal conductivity specificheat and density of the fluid respectively 119902119891 is the energygenerated per unit volume of fluid per unit time 119907 is Darcyflow velocity and (119907nabla)119879 is convection item which indicatesthe change rate of temperature caused by the movement offluid particles
According to theory of mixtures [18] the total energyequation of the rockmedium is superimposed by the propor-tion of material component
nabla (120582nabla119879) + 119902 minus 3119870120573119897 (119879 minus 1198790) (1 minus 119899) 120597120576V120597119905 = 119888120597119879120597119905+ 120588f119888f (119907nabla) 119879 + (119879 minus 1198790)sdot [(120588f119888f minus 120588s119888s) 120597119899
120597119905 + (1 minus 119899) 119888s 120597120588s120597119905 + 119899119888f 120597120588f120597119905 ](6)
where 120582 = (1minus119899)120582s+119899120582f 119902 = (1minus119899)119902s+119899119902f 119888 = (1minus119899)120588s119888s+119899120588f119888f 23 Coupled Flow Model Combined with Darcyrsquos law theflow equation considering rock deformation is defined as[16 17]
119896120583f [
12059721199011205971199092 +
12059721199011205971199102 +
12059721199011205971199112 ] = 120572120597119901
120597119905 minus 120573120597119879120597119905 + 120572120597120576V120597119905 + 119876f (7)
where 120583f is fluid viscosity 119896 is permeability of rock 119901 ispore pressure 120572 = 119899120572f + (1 minus 119899)120572s is comprehensivecompressibility 120572s is the compressibility of solid skeleton120572f is the compressibility of fluid 120573 = 119899120573f + (1 minus 119899)120573s iscomprehensive thermal expansion coefficient 120573s = 3120573l isvolumetric thermal expansion coefficient of solid skeleton 120573fis volumetric thermal expansion coefficient of fluid 120572 is Biotcoefficient and 119876f is internal and external fluid sources
In the process of fluid flow the permeability is relatedto the change of porosity and the change of pore volumeis related to pore pressure and stress so the permeability is
minus10 minus05 00 05 100
10
20
30
40
Volume strainn0=01n0=03
n0=05n0=07
kk 0
Figure 2 The relationship curve between permeability and volumestrain (negative volume strain represents in the compression)
dynamic change with fluid flow [15] The relations betweenpermeability porosity and volumetric strain are given
119899 = 1 minus 1 minus 1198990120576v + 1 (8)
119896 = 1198960 [( 11198990) (1 + 120576v)23 minus (1 minus 11989901198990 ) (1 + 120576V)minus13]
3
(9)
where 1198960 and 1198990 are initial permeability and porosity respec-tively
The relationship between permeability and volume strainis shown in Figure 2 The smaller the porosity the moreobvious is the effect of deformation on permeability
24 Coupled Mechanical Model According to Biotrsquos consoli-dation theory the effective stress can be expressed as
d1205901015840119894119895 = d120590119894119895 + 120572120575119894119895d119901 (10)
where 1205901015840 is the effective stress 120590119894119895 is total stress and 120575119894119895 isKronecker symbol In this study tensile stress is positive andcompressive stress is negative
To describe the thermal expansion and plastic deforma-tion of a rockmedium the total stress can be expressed in theform of increment
d120590119894119895 = d1205901015840119894119895 minus 120572120575119894119895119901= 119863e
ijkl (d120576kl minus d120576pkl minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895(11)
where119863e is elastic stiffness matrix 120576 is total strain tensor 120576pis plastic stiffness tensor and 120576T is strain tensor caused by thechange of temperature
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hσ
HσbR
aR0R
Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Hole
Undisturbed zone Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Figure 3 Excavation damaged zone
unstable
failure line
mσ
3
1
(a)
mσ
unstable
failure line
3
1
(b)
Figure 4 Two types of Mohr-Coulomb criterion (a) Shear failure (b) Tensile failure
Equation (11) can be rearranged as
d120590119894119895 = 119863epijkl (d120576119896119897 minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895 (12)
where 120576119894119895 = (119906119894119895 + 119906119895119894)2 d120576119894119895 = d119906119894119895 d120576T119894119895 = 120573119897d119879120575119894119895 119906119894 isdisplacement components of rock and 119863ep is elastic-plasticstiffness matrix
Drilling excavation causes stress redistribution aroundwellbore and the zone where the stress state changes isusually called the excavation disturbed zone (as shown inFigure 3)That drilling changes the original equilibrium stateof the formation would cause stress concentration aroundthe wellbore and may lead to wellbore instability Wellboreinstability is generally divided into two types one is collapsecaused by shear failure and another is the fracturing causedby tensile stress
Due to the simplicity and practicability of the Mohr-Coulomb criterion it is the most commonly used for eval-uating wellbore stability (as shown in Figure 4) The shear
Mohr-Coulomb criterion is generally written in terms ofstress invariants [19]
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + 1205901198701015840 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (13)
where 120590m 120590 119888 120601 denote the average stress equivalent stresscohesion and friction angle respectively 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and friction angle 120601
1198701015840 = cos 120579 minus 1radic3 sin 120601 sin 120579 (14)
In (13) 120590m and 120590 are defined by
120590m = 12059010158401 + 12059010158402 + 120590101584033 120590 = radic1198692
(15)
where 12059010158401 12059010158402 12059010158403 are the three principal stresses and 1198692 is thesecond invariant of the deviatoric stress
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tσ Average stress mσ
Equi
vale
nt st
ress
σ
tσTensile Mohr-coulomb yield surface ( )Shear Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c )Modified Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c m)
Figure 5 Modified Mohr-Coulomb criterion in the meridionalplane
The tensile Mohr-Coulomb criterion is defined in termsof stress invariants [15]
119865 = 2radic3120590 sin (120579 + 1200) + 120590m minus 120590t = 0 (16)
where 120590t is the tensile strengthConsidering both tensile strength and shear strength of a
formation the yield surface is a combination of two differentfailure criteria shear failure and tensile failure The modifiedMohr-Coulomb (MMC) function is defined as follows (asshown in Figure 5)
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120601 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (17)
where 0 le 119898 le 1 is a parameter reflecting the tensilestrength of formationWhen119898 = 0 indicating a higher tensilestrength the MMC yield criterion becomes the shear Mohr-Coulomb criterion 119898 = 1 denotes that there is no tensilestrength In addition the parameter119898 can smooth the vertexof the yield surface and avoid the numerical divergence andslow convergence
The plastic potential function can be defined from theyield function as follows
119866 = 120590m sin 120593 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120593 (18)
where 120593 is the dilatancy angle Similarly 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and the dilatancy angle 120593 Associated flowoccurs if 120593 = 120601 while nonassociated flow occurs if 0 le 120593 lt 120601
According to the MMC criterion the quantitative evalu-ation indices for wellbore collapse and rupture are given as[14]
119891119887 = 119888 + 120590119899120591 = 2119888 cos 120601 + (12059010158401 + 12059010158403) minus (12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) sin2120601(12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) cos2120601119891119891 = 2 minus 12059010158403120590119905
(19)
where 120590119899 120591 are normal stress and shear stress on the shearsurface The wellbore would collapse for 119891119887 le 1 and fracturefor 119891119891 le 13 Solution Strategy
The decoupled solution method is applied for the solution ofthis THM coupling model The HM coupling module andthermal module in ABAQUS software is used to solve thestress field flow field and temperature field The decoupledsolution between two modules is performed in MATLABThen the THM coupling software for rock medium canbe developed using MATLAB language as the platform andABAQUS software as the solver in which different partssuch as thermal hydraulic and mechanical modules canbe called The software framework for THM is shown inFigure 6 The solution method has been verified through atypical example of one-dimensional thermal consolidation[20 21]The decoupled method is also efficient and easy to bedeveloped which can be applied to the analysis of thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupling for rock
The programming process is given as follows(1) The main program of MATLAB is compiled and thecalculation parameter setting and control precision of cycleiteration are defined(2) Different physical fields are analyzed by ABAQUSsolver in sequence write command file (lowast inp) for differentphysical field based on ABAUQS and USDFLD subroutinefile (lowast for) for parameter evolution such as permeabilitychange with strain based on FORTRAN Call ABAUQSsolver to solve different field modules by the command code(system) in MATLAB(3) Compile ABQMAIN subroutine for data conversionthe field variable node data file (lowast fil) is formed for otherphysical field modules to call as field variable values(4) The coupled parameters in the command file (lowastinp)of ABAQUS is modified and updated in MATLAB(5) Compile the coupled cycle processing subroutinein MATLAB call the updated command file (lowastinp) andABAQUS solver to calculateThen read the current result file(lowastdat) of ABAQUS and compare it with the previous resultfile until the convergence tolerance error is satisfied and thecyclic iteration is completed
4 Parametric Study
During drilling fluid flow in the formation and the tem-perature difference between formation and drilling fluid willcause changes of pore pressure and temperature around the
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Updated coupled parameters
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
Input initial parameters
Convergence
Judge the final time
Cycle iteration setting
No
Yes
End
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
ABAQUS
Figure 6 Flow chart of THM analysis
Table 1 Material parameters of rock media
ElasticmodulusMPa
Poissonrsquosratio
CohesionMPa
Frictionangle∘
TensilestrengthMPa
PorosityThermal
conductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C)
2 000 02 8 30 12 02 308 15times10minus5 840
Table 2 Fluid parameters
BulkmodulusMPa
Dynamicviscosity(Pasdots)
ThermalconductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C) Permeability
ms
5 000 0001 058 20times10minus4 4200 1times10minus12
wellbore which will inevitably affect wellbore stability Inthis section a conceptual numerical model is applied tostudy the wellbore stability influenced by flow conditions andtemperature
41 Modelling Approach A plane strain model was studiedbased on the proposed method (as shown in Figure 7) Theradius of the wellbore is 0108 m Due to the symmetry of themodel a 14 portion with the length and the width of 5 mwasestablished
The overburden strata stress 120590V horizontal maximumtotal stress 120590119867 the minimum total stress 120590ℎ and the for-mation pressure 119875119901 are 69MPa 75MPa 54MPa and 45Mparespectively The fluid column pressure of drilling fluid is50MPa for overbalanced drilling and 40 for underbalanceddrilling The properties of the rock and the fluid are listed in
vσ
Hσhσ
x
z
y
Figure 7 Calculation model
Tables 1 and 2 respectively The hydration effect by drillingfluid is not considered in this analysis
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(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
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S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
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C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
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0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
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Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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where 120582s 119888s and 120588s are the thermal conductivity specificheat and density of the solid skeleton respectively 119902s isthe energy generated per unit volume of skeleton per unittime 119879 is the temperature 1198790 is the initial temperature 120573119897 islinear expansion coefficient119870 is the volumemodulus of rockmedium and 120576V is volume strain
The energy conservation equation of the fluid phase canbe established in a similar way Since the fluid flow velocityin the formation is small the kinetic energy of the fluid canbe ignored The energy equation considering convection andconduction is given as
nabla (119899120582fnabla119879) + 119899119902f = 120597 [119899120588f119888f (119879 minus 1198790)]120597119905+ 119899119888f (119879 minus 1198790) 120597120588f120597119905 + 120588f119888f (119907nabla) 119879
(5)
where 120582119891 119888119891 and 120588119891 are thermal conductivity specificheat and density of the fluid respectively 119902119891 is the energygenerated per unit volume of fluid per unit time 119907 is Darcyflow velocity and (119907nabla)119879 is convection item which indicatesthe change rate of temperature caused by the movement offluid particles
According to theory of mixtures [18] the total energyequation of the rockmedium is superimposed by the propor-tion of material component
nabla (120582nabla119879) + 119902 minus 3119870120573119897 (119879 minus 1198790) (1 minus 119899) 120597120576V120597119905 = 119888120597119879120597119905+ 120588f119888f (119907nabla) 119879 + (119879 minus 1198790)sdot [(120588f119888f minus 120588s119888s) 120597119899
120597119905 + (1 minus 119899) 119888s 120597120588s120597119905 + 119899119888f 120597120588f120597119905 ](6)
where 120582 = (1minus119899)120582s+119899120582f 119902 = (1minus119899)119902s+119899119902f 119888 = (1minus119899)120588s119888s+119899120588f119888f 23 Coupled Flow Model Combined with Darcyrsquos law theflow equation considering rock deformation is defined as[16 17]
119896120583f [
12059721199011205971199092 +
12059721199011205971199102 +
12059721199011205971199112 ] = 120572120597119901
120597119905 minus 120573120597119879120597119905 + 120572120597120576V120597119905 + 119876f (7)
where 120583f is fluid viscosity 119896 is permeability of rock 119901 ispore pressure 120572 = 119899120572f + (1 minus 119899)120572s is comprehensivecompressibility 120572s is the compressibility of solid skeleton120572f is the compressibility of fluid 120573 = 119899120573f + (1 minus 119899)120573s iscomprehensive thermal expansion coefficient 120573s = 3120573l isvolumetric thermal expansion coefficient of solid skeleton 120573fis volumetric thermal expansion coefficient of fluid 120572 is Biotcoefficient and 119876f is internal and external fluid sources
In the process of fluid flow the permeability is relatedto the change of porosity and the change of pore volumeis related to pore pressure and stress so the permeability is
minus10 minus05 00 05 100
10
20
30
40
Volume strainn0=01n0=03
n0=05n0=07
kk 0
Figure 2 The relationship curve between permeability and volumestrain (negative volume strain represents in the compression)
dynamic change with fluid flow [15] The relations betweenpermeability porosity and volumetric strain are given
119899 = 1 minus 1 minus 1198990120576v + 1 (8)
119896 = 1198960 [( 11198990) (1 + 120576v)23 minus (1 minus 11989901198990 ) (1 + 120576V)minus13]
3
(9)
where 1198960 and 1198990 are initial permeability and porosity respec-tively
The relationship between permeability and volume strainis shown in Figure 2 The smaller the porosity the moreobvious is the effect of deformation on permeability
24 Coupled Mechanical Model According to Biotrsquos consoli-dation theory the effective stress can be expressed as
d1205901015840119894119895 = d120590119894119895 + 120572120575119894119895d119901 (10)
where 1205901015840 is the effective stress 120590119894119895 is total stress and 120575119894119895 isKronecker symbol In this study tensile stress is positive andcompressive stress is negative
To describe the thermal expansion and plastic deforma-tion of a rockmedium the total stress can be expressed in theform of increment
d120590119894119895 = d1205901015840119894119895 minus 120572120575119894119895119901= 119863e
ijkl (d120576kl minus d120576pkl minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895(11)
where119863e is elastic stiffness matrix 120576 is total strain tensor 120576pis plastic stiffness tensor and 120576T is strain tensor caused by thechange of temperature
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
hσ
HσbR
aR0R
Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Hole
Undisturbed zone Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Figure 3 Excavation damaged zone
unstable
failure line
mσ
3
1
(a)
mσ
unstable
failure line
3
1
(b)
Figure 4 Two types of Mohr-Coulomb criterion (a) Shear failure (b) Tensile failure
Equation (11) can be rearranged as
d120590119894119895 = 119863epijkl (d120576119896119897 minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895 (12)
where 120576119894119895 = (119906119894119895 + 119906119895119894)2 d120576119894119895 = d119906119894119895 d120576T119894119895 = 120573119897d119879120575119894119895 119906119894 isdisplacement components of rock and 119863ep is elastic-plasticstiffness matrix
Drilling excavation causes stress redistribution aroundwellbore and the zone where the stress state changes isusually called the excavation disturbed zone (as shown inFigure 3)That drilling changes the original equilibrium stateof the formation would cause stress concentration aroundthe wellbore and may lead to wellbore instability Wellboreinstability is generally divided into two types one is collapsecaused by shear failure and another is the fracturing causedby tensile stress
Due to the simplicity and practicability of the Mohr-Coulomb criterion it is the most commonly used for eval-uating wellbore stability (as shown in Figure 4) The shear
Mohr-Coulomb criterion is generally written in terms ofstress invariants [19]
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + 1205901198701015840 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (13)
where 120590m 120590 119888 120601 denote the average stress equivalent stresscohesion and friction angle respectively 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and friction angle 120601
1198701015840 = cos 120579 minus 1radic3 sin 120601 sin 120579 (14)
In (13) 120590m and 120590 are defined by
120590m = 12059010158401 + 12059010158402 + 120590101584033 120590 = radic1198692
(15)
where 12059010158401 12059010158402 12059010158403 are the three principal stresses and 1198692 is thesecond invariant of the deviatoric stress
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tσ Average stress mσ
Equi
vale
nt st
ress
σ
tσTensile Mohr-coulomb yield surface ( )Shear Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c )Modified Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c m)
Figure 5 Modified Mohr-Coulomb criterion in the meridionalplane
The tensile Mohr-Coulomb criterion is defined in termsof stress invariants [15]
119865 = 2radic3120590 sin (120579 + 1200) + 120590m minus 120590t = 0 (16)
where 120590t is the tensile strengthConsidering both tensile strength and shear strength of a
formation the yield surface is a combination of two differentfailure criteria shear failure and tensile failure The modifiedMohr-Coulomb (MMC) function is defined as follows (asshown in Figure 5)
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120601 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (17)
where 0 le 119898 le 1 is a parameter reflecting the tensilestrength of formationWhen119898 = 0 indicating a higher tensilestrength the MMC yield criterion becomes the shear Mohr-Coulomb criterion 119898 = 1 denotes that there is no tensilestrength In addition the parameter119898 can smooth the vertexof the yield surface and avoid the numerical divergence andslow convergence
The plastic potential function can be defined from theyield function as follows
119866 = 120590m sin 120593 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120593 (18)
where 120593 is the dilatancy angle Similarly 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and the dilatancy angle 120593 Associated flowoccurs if 120593 = 120601 while nonassociated flow occurs if 0 le 120593 lt 120601
According to the MMC criterion the quantitative evalu-ation indices for wellbore collapse and rupture are given as[14]
119891119887 = 119888 + 120590119899120591 = 2119888 cos 120601 + (12059010158401 + 12059010158403) minus (12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) sin2120601(12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) cos2120601119891119891 = 2 minus 12059010158403120590119905
(19)
where 120590119899 120591 are normal stress and shear stress on the shearsurface The wellbore would collapse for 119891119887 le 1 and fracturefor 119891119891 le 13 Solution Strategy
The decoupled solution method is applied for the solution ofthis THM coupling model The HM coupling module andthermal module in ABAQUS software is used to solve thestress field flow field and temperature field The decoupledsolution between two modules is performed in MATLABThen the THM coupling software for rock medium canbe developed using MATLAB language as the platform andABAQUS software as the solver in which different partssuch as thermal hydraulic and mechanical modules canbe called The software framework for THM is shown inFigure 6 The solution method has been verified through atypical example of one-dimensional thermal consolidation[20 21]The decoupled method is also efficient and easy to bedeveloped which can be applied to the analysis of thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupling for rock
The programming process is given as follows(1) The main program of MATLAB is compiled and thecalculation parameter setting and control precision of cycleiteration are defined(2) Different physical fields are analyzed by ABAQUSsolver in sequence write command file (lowast inp) for differentphysical field based on ABAUQS and USDFLD subroutinefile (lowast for) for parameter evolution such as permeabilitychange with strain based on FORTRAN Call ABAUQSsolver to solve different field modules by the command code(system) in MATLAB(3) Compile ABQMAIN subroutine for data conversionthe field variable node data file (lowast fil) is formed for otherphysical field modules to call as field variable values(4) The coupled parameters in the command file (lowastinp)of ABAQUS is modified and updated in MATLAB(5) Compile the coupled cycle processing subroutinein MATLAB call the updated command file (lowastinp) andABAQUS solver to calculateThen read the current result file(lowastdat) of ABAQUS and compare it with the previous resultfile until the convergence tolerance error is satisfied and thecyclic iteration is completed
4 Parametric Study
During drilling fluid flow in the formation and the tem-perature difference between formation and drilling fluid willcause changes of pore pressure and temperature around the
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Updated coupled parameters
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
Input initial parameters
Convergence
Judge the final time
Cycle iteration setting
No
Yes
End
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
ABAQUS
Figure 6 Flow chart of THM analysis
Table 1 Material parameters of rock media
ElasticmodulusMPa
Poissonrsquosratio
CohesionMPa
Frictionangle∘
TensilestrengthMPa
PorosityThermal
conductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C)
2 000 02 8 30 12 02 308 15times10minus5 840
Table 2 Fluid parameters
BulkmodulusMPa
Dynamicviscosity(Pasdots)
ThermalconductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C) Permeability
ms
5 000 0001 058 20times10minus4 4200 1times10minus12
wellbore which will inevitably affect wellbore stability Inthis section a conceptual numerical model is applied tostudy the wellbore stability influenced by flow conditions andtemperature
41 Modelling Approach A plane strain model was studiedbased on the proposed method (as shown in Figure 7) Theradius of the wellbore is 0108 m Due to the symmetry of themodel a 14 portion with the length and the width of 5 mwasestablished
The overburden strata stress 120590V horizontal maximumtotal stress 120590119867 the minimum total stress 120590ℎ and the for-mation pressure 119875119901 are 69MPa 75MPa 54MPa and 45Mparespectively The fluid column pressure of drilling fluid is50MPa for overbalanced drilling and 40 for underbalanceddrilling The properties of the rock and the fluid are listed in
vσ
Hσhσ
x
z
y
Figure 7 Calculation model
Tables 1 and 2 respectively The hydration effect by drillingfluid is not considered in this analysis
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
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S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
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20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
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06
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16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
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330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
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6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
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TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
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0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
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240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
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6090
120
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240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
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240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
hσ
HσbR
aR0R
Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Hole
Undisturbed zone Elastic zone
Damaged zone
Figure 3 Excavation damaged zone
unstable
failure line
mσ
3
1
(a)
mσ
unstable
failure line
3
1
(b)
Figure 4 Two types of Mohr-Coulomb criterion (a) Shear failure (b) Tensile failure
Equation (11) can be rearranged as
d120590119894119895 = 119863epijkl (d120576119896119897 minus d120576T119896119897) minus 120572d119901120575119894119895 (12)
where 120576119894119895 = (119906119894119895 + 119906119895119894)2 d120576119894119895 = d119906119894119895 d120576T119894119895 = 120573119897d119879120575119894119895 119906119894 isdisplacement components of rock and 119863ep is elastic-plasticstiffness matrix
Drilling excavation causes stress redistribution aroundwellbore and the zone where the stress state changes isusually called the excavation disturbed zone (as shown inFigure 3)That drilling changes the original equilibrium stateof the formation would cause stress concentration aroundthe wellbore and may lead to wellbore instability Wellboreinstability is generally divided into two types one is collapsecaused by shear failure and another is the fracturing causedby tensile stress
Due to the simplicity and practicability of the Mohr-Coulomb criterion it is the most commonly used for eval-uating wellbore stability (as shown in Figure 4) The shear
Mohr-Coulomb criterion is generally written in terms ofstress invariants [19]
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + 1205901198701015840 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (13)
where 120590m 120590 119888 120601 denote the average stress equivalent stresscohesion and friction angle respectively 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and friction angle 120601
1198701015840 = cos 120579 minus 1radic3 sin 120601 sin 120579 (14)
In (13) 120590m and 120590 are defined by
120590m = 12059010158401 + 12059010158402 + 120590101584033 120590 = radic1198692
(15)
where 12059010158401 12059010158402 12059010158403 are the three principal stresses and 1198692 is thesecond invariant of the deviatoric stress
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
tσ Average stress mσ
Equi
vale
nt st
ress
σ
tσTensile Mohr-coulomb yield surface ( )Shear Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c )Modified Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c m)
Figure 5 Modified Mohr-Coulomb criterion in the meridionalplane
The tensile Mohr-Coulomb criterion is defined in termsof stress invariants [15]
119865 = 2radic3120590 sin (120579 + 1200) + 120590m minus 120590t = 0 (16)
where 120590t is the tensile strengthConsidering both tensile strength and shear strength of a
formation the yield surface is a combination of two differentfailure criteria shear failure and tensile failure The modifiedMohr-Coulomb (MMC) function is defined as follows (asshown in Figure 5)
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120601 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (17)
where 0 le 119898 le 1 is a parameter reflecting the tensilestrength of formationWhen119898 = 0 indicating a higher tensilestrength the MMC yield criterion becomes the shear Mohr-Coulomb criterion 119898 = 1 denotes that there is no tensilestrength In addition the parameter119898 can smooth the vertexof the yield surface and avoid the numerical divergence andslow convergence
The plastic potential function can be defined from theyield function as follows
119866 = 120590m sin 120593 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120593 (18)
where 120593 is the dilatancy angle Similarly 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and the dilatancy angle 120593 Associated flowoccurs if 120593 = 120601 while nonassociated flow occurs if 0 le 120593 lt 120601
According to the MMC criterion the quantitative evalu-ation indices for wellbore collapse and rupture are given as[14]
119891119887 = 119888 + 120590119899120591 = 2119888 cos 120601 + (12059010158401 + 12059010158403) minus (12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) sin2120601(12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) cos2120601119891119891 = 2 minus 12059010158403120590119905
(19)
where 120590119899 120591 are normal stress and shear stress on the shearsurface The wellbore would collapse for 119891119887 le 1 and fracturefor 119891119891 le 13 Solution Strategy
The decoupled solution method is applied for the solution ofthis THM coupling model The HM coupling module andthermal module in ABAQUS software is used to solve thestress field flow field and temperature field The decoupledsolution between two modules is performed in MATLABThen the THM coupling software for rock medium canbe developed using MATLAB language as the platform andABAQUS software as the solver in which different partssuch as thermal hydraulic and mechanical modules canbe called The software framework for THM is shown inFigure 6 The solution method has been verified through atypical example of one-dimensional thermal consolidation[20 21]The decoupled method is also efficient and easy to bedeveloped which can be applied to the analysis of thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupling for rock
The programming process is given as follows(1) The main program of MATLAB is compiled and thecalculation parameter setting and control precision of cycleiteration are defined(2) Different physical fields are analyzed by ABAQUSsolver in sequence write command file (lowast inp) for differentphysical field based on ABAUQS and USDFLD subroutinefile (lowast for) for parameter evolution such as permeabilitychange with strain based on FORTRAN Call ABAUQSsolver to solve different field modules by the command code(system) in MATLAB(3) Compile ABQMAIN subroutine for data conversionthe field variable node data file (lowast fil) is formed for otherphysical field modules to call as field variable values(4) The coupled parameters in the command file (lowastinp)of ABAQUS is modified and updated in MATLAB(5) Compile the coupled cycle processing subroutinein MATLAB call the updated command file (lowastinp) andABAQUS solver to calculateThen read the current result file(lowastdat) of ABAQUS and compare it with the previous resultfile until the convergence tolerance error is satisfied and thecyclic iteration is completed
4 Parametric Study
During drilling fluid flow in the formation and the tem-perature difference between formation and drilling fluid willcause changes of pore pressure and temperature around the
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Updated coupled parameters
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
Input initial parameters
Convergence
Judge the final time
Cycle iteration setting
No
Yes
End
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
ABAQUS
Figure 6 Flow chart of THM analysis
Table 1 Material parameters of rock media
ElasticmodulusMPa
Poissonrsquosratio
CohesionMPa
Frictionangle∘
TensilestrengthMPa
PorosityThermal
conductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C)
2 000 02 8 30 12 02 308 15times10minus5 840
Table 2 Fluid parameters
BulkmodulusMPa
Dynamicviscosity(Pasdots)
ThermalconductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C) Permeability
ms
5 000 0001 058 20times10minus4 4200 1times10minus12
wellbore which will inevitably affect wellbore stability Inthis section a conceptual numerical model is applied tostudy the wellbore stability influenced by flow conditions andtemperature
41 Modelling Approach A plane strain model was studiedbased on the proposed method (as shown in Figure 7) Theradius of the wellbore is 0108 m Due to the symmetry of themodel a 14 portion with the length and the width of 5 mwasestablished
The overburden strata stress 120590V horizontal maximumtotal stress 120590119867 the minimum total stress 120590ℎ and the for-mation pressure 119875119901 are 69MPa 75MPa 54MPa and 45Mparespectively The fluid column pressure of drilling fluid is50MPa for overbalanced drilling and 40 for underbalanceddrilling The properties of the rock and the fluid are listed in
vσ
Hσhσ
x
z
y
Figure 7 Calculation model
Tables 1 and 2 respectively The hydration effect by drillingfluid is not considered in this analysis
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
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180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
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0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
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where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
tσ Average stress mσ
Equi
vale
nt st
ress
σ
tσTensile Mohr-coulomb yield surface ( )Shear Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c )Modified Mohr-coulomb yield surface (c m)
Figure 5 Modified Mohr-Coulomb criterion in the meridionalplane
The tensile Mohr-Coulomb criterion is defined in termsof stress invariants [15]
119865 = 2radic3120590 sin (120579 + 1200) + 120590m minus 120590t = 0 (16)
where 120590t is the tensile strengthConsidering both tensile strength and shear strength of a
formation the yield surface is a combination of two differentfailure criteria shear failure and tensile failure The modifiedMohr-Coulomb (MMC) function is defined as follows (asshown in Figure 5)
119865 = 120590m sin 120601 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120601 minus 119888 cos 120601 = 0 (17)
where 0 le 119898 le 1 is a parameter reflecting the tensilestrength of formationWhen119898 = 0 indicating a higher tensilestrength the MMC yield criterion becomes the shear Mohr-Coulomb criterion 119898 = 1 denotes that there is no tensilestrength In addition the parameter119898 can smooth the vertexof the yield surface and avoid the numerical divergence andslow convergence
The plastic potential function can be defined from theyield function as follows
119866 = 120590m sin 120593 + radic(1205901198701015840)2 + 11989821198882cos2120593 (18)
where 120593 is the dilatancy angle Similarly 1198701015840 is a function ofthe Lode angle 120579 and the dilatancy angle 120593 Associated flowoccurs if 120593 = 120601 while nonassociated flow occurs if 0 le 120593 lt 120601
According to the MMC criterion the quantitative evalu-ation indices for wellbore collapse and rupture are given as[14]
119891119887 = 119888 + 120590119899120591 = 2119888 cos 120601 + (12059010158401 + 12059010158403) minus (12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) sin2120601(12059010158401 minus 12059010158403) cos2120601119891119891 = 2 minus 12059010158403120590119905
(19)
where 120590119899 120591 are normal stress and shear stress on the shearsurface The wellbore would collapse for 119891119887 le 1 and fracturefor 119891119891 le 13 Solution Strategy
The decoupled solution method is applied for the solution ofthis THM coupling model The HM coupling module andthermal module in ABAQUS software is used to solve thestress field flow field and temperature field The decoupledsolution between two modules is performed in MATLABThen the THM coupling software for rock medium canbe developed using MATLAB language as the platform andABAQUS software as the solver in which different partssuch as thermal hydraulic and mechanical modules canbe called The software framework for THM is shown inFigure 6 The solution method has been verified through atypical example of one-dimensional thermal consolidation[20 21]The decoupled method is also efficient and easy to bedeveloped which can be applied to the analysis of thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupling for rock
The programming process is given as follows(1) The main program of MATLAB is compiled and thecalculation parameter setting and control precision of cycleiteration are defined(2) Different physical fields are analyzed by ABAQUSsolver in sequence write command file (lowast inp) for differentphysical field based on ABAUQS and USDFLD subroutinefile (lowast for) for parameter evolution such as permeabilitychange with strain based on FORTRAN Call ABAUQSsolver to solve different field modules by the command code(system) in MATLAB(3) Compile ABQMAIN subroutine for data conversionthe field variable node data file (lowast fil) is formed for otherphysical field modules to call as field variable values(4) The coupled parameters in the command file (lowastinp)of ABAQUS is modified and updated in MATLAB(5) Compile the coupled cycle processing subroutinein MATLAB call the updated command file (lowastinp) andABAQUS solver to calculateThen read the current result file(lowastdat) of ABAQUS and compare it with the previous resultfile until the convergence tolerance error is satisfied and thecyclic iteration is completed
4 Parametric Study
During drilling fluid flow in the formation and the tem-perature difference between formation and drilling fluid willcause changes of pore pressure and temperature around the
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Updated coupled parameters
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
Input initial parameters
Convergence
Judge the final time
Cycle iteration setting
No
Yes
End
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
ABAQUS
Figure 6 Flow chart of THM analysis
Table 1 Material parameters of rock media
ElasticmodulusMPa
Poissonrsquosratio
CohesionMPa
Frictionangle∘
TensilestrengthMPa
PorosityThermal
conductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C)
2 000 02 8 30 12 02 308 15times10minus5 840
Table 2 Fluid parameters
BulkmodulusMPa
Dynamicviscosity(Pasdots)
ThermalconductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C) Permeability
ms
5 000 0001 058 20times10minus4 4200 1times10minus12
wellbore which will inevitably affect wellbore stability Inthis section a conceptual numerical model is applied tostudy the wellbore stability influenced by flow conditions andtemperature
41 Modelling Approach A plane strain model was studiedbased on the proposed method (as shown in Figure 7) Theradius of the wellbore is 0108 m Due to the symmetry of themodel a 14 portion with the length and the width of 5 mwasestablished
The overburden strata stress 120590V horizontal maximumtotal stress 120590119867 the minimum total stress 120590ℎ and the for-mation pressure 119875119901 are 69MPa 75MPa 54MPa and 45Mparespectively The fluid column pressure of drilling fluid is50MPa for overbalanced drilling and 40 for underbalanceddrilling The properties of the rock and the fluid are listed in
vσ
Hσhσ
x
z
y
Figure 7 Calculation model
Tables 1 and 2 respectively The hydration effect by drillingfluid is not considered in this analysis
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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Updated coupled parameters
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
Input initial parameters
Convergence
Judge the final time
Cycle iteration setting
No
Yes
End
HM coupling module ermal module
Data conversion
ABAQUS
Figure 6 Flow chart of THM analysis
Table 1 Material parameters of rock media
ElasticmodulusMPa
Poissonrsquosratio
CohesionMPa
Frictionangle∘
TensilestrengthMPa
PorosityThermal
conductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C)
2 000 02 8 30 12 02 308 15times10minus5 840
Table 2 Fluid parameters
BulkmodulusMPa
Dynamicviscosity(Pasdots)
ThermalconductivityJ(msdot∘C)
Thermalexpansion∘Cminus1
Specific heatJ(kgsdot∘C) Permeability
ms
5 000 0001 058 20times10minus4 4200 1times10minus12
wellbore which will inevitably affect wellbore stability Inthis section a conceptual numerical model is applied tostudy the wellbore stability influenced by flow conditions andtemperature
41 Modelling Approach A plane strain model was studiedbased on the proposed method (as shown in Figure 7) Theradius of the wellbore is 0108 m Due to the symmetry of themodel a 14 portion with the length and the width of 5 mwasestablished
The overburden strata stress 120590V horizontal maximumtotal stress 120590119867 the minimum total stress 120590ℎ and the for-mation pressure 119875119901 are 69MPa 75MPa 54MPa and 45Mparespectively The fluid column pressure of drilling fluid is50MPa for overbalanced drilling and 40 for underbalanceddrilling The properties of the rock and the fluid are listed in
vσ
Hσhσ
x
z
y
Figure 7 Calculation model
Tables 1 and 2 respectively The hydration effect by drillingfluid is not considered in this analysis
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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(a) (b)
Figure 8 The technique of element birth and death for drilling (a) Initial state (b) Drilling excavation
TemperaturePore pressure
Pressure surface load
Symmetry boundarySymmetry boundary
XY
Z
Vertical stress
Fixed displacement
Fixed displacementFixed displacement
Figure 9 Definition of wellbore boundary conditions
The numerical calculation process of wellbore stabilityincludes three steps which are defined as follows (1) Infirst step in-situ stress initial temperature and pore pressureare applied to the rock mass to simulate the undisturbedstate of formation (Figure 8(a)) (2) To simulate the drillingunloading the element removing technique is used to dealwith the excavated part of wellbore (Figure 8(b)) (3) Thedrilling fluid is injected and fluid temperature pore pressureand fluid pressure surface load are applied on the wall ofborehole (Figure 9)
42 Effect of Filtrate Cake Quality on Wellbore Stability Foroverbalanced drilling the drilling fluid column pressure isgreater than the formation pressure and the drilling fluidcan form a mud filtrate cake on the wellbore (as shown inFigure 10) The fluid flow depends greatly on the differentialpressure and filtrate cake quality which are the direct causesof fluid flow and pore pressure changes around wellboreTherefore the wellbore stability is influenced by filtrate cakequality
Two kinds of extreme conditions for filtrate cake qualitywere discussed One is impermeable wall or closed wellborewhich indicates that the filtrate cake is impermeable and thusthere is no fluid communication between the wellbore andthe formation Another scenario is permeable wall conditionwhich means drilling fluid and formation is connected Tostudy the influence of the filtrate cake quality on wellbore
FormationFiltrate cake
Drilling fluid
Figure 10 Diagram of mud filtrate cake
stability the temperature of drilling fluid is assumed the sameas that of the formation in this section
Compared with the initial stress state (Figure 11) theeffective radial stress near the wellbore decreased rapidlyafter drilling unloading and the stress continues to decreasegradually due to pore pressure change with time as shownin Figure 12 For a permeable wall condition the pressuresupport on the wellbore by drilling fluid will be reducedby seepage and the effective radial stress at the wellboredecreases gradually until to zero ultimately As for an imper-meable wall condition the hydraulic connection between thedrilling fluid and the formation water is eliminated by theclosure of good filtrate cake and then the liquid column
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
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180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
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0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
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where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
S S11(Avg 75)
-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07-3000e+07
Y
X
(a)
S S22(Avg 75)
-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06-9000e+06
Y
X
(b)
Y
X
POR(Avg 75)
+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07+4500e+07
(c)
Figure 11 Initial effective stress and pore pressure of the formation (a) 1205901015840x (b) 1205901015840y (c) Initial pore pressure
of drilling fluid can provide an effective supporting for thewellbore The effective radial stress on the inner wall is -65MPa after 24 hours for impermeable wall whereas it is 0MPafor permeable wall
Figure 13 shows the effective hoop stress distributionnear wellbore region The maximum hoop stress is atthe location 05119903119908 from the wall after drilling unloadingFor a permeable wall the hoop stress decreases graduallywith time and shows a trend from compression to ten-sion after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the hoopstress is gradually reduced and stays in a compressive stressstate
Due to the impact of drilling unloading the pore pressurenear wellbore decreases rapidly after drilling excavation(Figure 14) For a permeablewall theminimumpore pressureis 28MPa at the location 04119903119908 from the wall Since thedrilling fluid in the wellbore is connected with formationfluid the pore pressure around wellbore increases to 50MPagradually after 24 hours For an impermeable wall the pore
pressure around wellbore goes to initial pore pressure 45MPagradually (Figure 11)
Figure 15 shows the distribution of quantitative evalua-tion indices 119891119887 and 119891119891 near wellbore region respectively Itcan be found that the wellbore is easiest to collapse when 120579is equal to 90∘ or 270∘ and the wellbore is easiest to fracturewhen 120579 is equal to 0∘ or 180∘ (the direction of the maximumprincipal stress is horizontal)
For an impermeable wall drilling fluid and formationwater is separated by the filtrate cake The pore pressure nearwellbore changes obviously by drilling unloading After thatthe pore pressure near wellbore gradually tends to initialpore pressure In the condition of overbalanced drillingthe collapse resistance of the wellbore is improved with thesupporting effect by liquid column pressure on the boreholewall
For a permeable wall the drilling fluid is connected withthe formation fluid Due to the drilling liquid column asthe inner boundary of seepage field the supporting effect by
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
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270
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330
06
08
10
12
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10
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22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
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16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
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6090
120
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240270
300
330
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1
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4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
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Well
bore
enla
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ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
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[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
C
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
B
minus30
minus27
minus24
minus21
minus18
minus15
minus12
minus9
minus6
minus3
0Ra
dial
stre
ss (M
Pa)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation2 h
9 h24 h
B C
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 12 Radial stress distribution along BC (negative represent compressive stress) (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6minus4minus2
02
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
(a)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 13 The distribution of hoop stress along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
liquid column pressure on the formation is gradually reducedto zero while the effective load on far field boundary isthe difference between initial total stress and pore pressureThe pore pressure gradient is gradually decreased along thedirection of far field which can make a certain inhibitoryeffect on the wellbore deformation but the reduction ofwall support load promotes the wellbore deformation Inthe condition of overbalanced drilling the pore pressureof borehole wall gradually tends to the pressure of liquidcolumn which is higher than that of far field With thedecrease of effective stress the capacity of the wellbore toresist tension failure decreased
Due to the effect of pore fluid pressure gradient andreduction of wellbore supporting load both radial stress and
hoop stress of permeable wellbore are lower than those ofimpermeable wellbore Thus wellbore stability of imperme-able wall is higher than that of permeable wellbore so it isparticularly important to improve the filter cake quality ofdrilling fluid under the condition of overbalanced drilling
43 Effect of Fluid Flow on Wellbore Stability for Under-balanced Drilling In the process of underbalanced drillingformation fluid can flow into the borehole and the stressaround the wellbore will be redistributed with the seepageof formation fluid thus affecting the wellbore stability Twokinds of wellbore conditions were analyzed in this sectionone is impermeable wall of wellbore another scenario ispermeable condition
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 3526283032343638404244464850
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
242628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 14 The distribution of pore pressure near borehole along BC (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
The radial stress near wellbore decreased rapidly afterdrilling unloading as shown in Figure 16 After that theseepage effect makes the stress decrease continuously Fora permeable wall the supporting load of wellbore wall isdecreased by the seepage and the effective radial stress of rockaround wellbore decreased gradually and tends to 0 MPaFor an impermeable wall the pressure of liquid column islower than the initial pore pressure of formation and thedeformation of wellbore makes the stress state of rock intotension
Figure 17 shows the hoop stress distribution aroundwellbore The maximum hoop stress is at the location 04119903119908from the wall The hoop stress keeps in compressive stressstate with time
Figure 18 shows pore pressure distribution of near well-bore region For a permeable wall the pore pressure aroundwellbore tends to 40MPa after 24 hours For an impermeablewall the drilling fluid in wellbore cannot connect with the farpore pressure field and the pore pressure goes to initial porepressure gradually with time
For an impermeable wall in underbalanced drilling con-dition thewellbore shrinkage and a large change of pore pres-sure near the wellbore occurred The pore pressure aroundwellbore has the tendency to initial formation pressure andthe radial stress is in tension gradually which make wellborestability worse For a permeable wall the pore pressure nearwellbore wall tends to the pressure of liquid column whichis lower than the far formation pressure and the stabilityof wellbore increased Therefore the wellbore stability withpermeable wall is higher than that of impermeable wall inunderbalanced drilling condition (Figure 19)
44 Effect of Temperature onWellbore Stability To discuss theeffect of temperature on wellbore stability different coupledrelationships are illustrated through the following three cases
which are shown in Figure 20 Case 1 and case 2 are twotypes of incomplete coupling forms while case 3 is fullycoupled THM form For case 1 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and stress field is not considered but theinfluence of temperature field and stress field on seepagefield is considered For case 2 the coupling effect betweentemperature field and seepage field is not considered but theinfluence of seepage field and temperature field on stress fieldis considered Taking overbalanced drilling with good filtratecake quality as an example the importance of temperaturecoupling on wellbore stability is analyzed in which thetemperature of drilling fluid and formation are 120 degreesCelsius and 70 degrees Celsius respectively
Figures 21 and 22 show the comparison of temperaturedistribution after 24 hours under different cases Due to lowerthermal conductivity and higher specific heat of fluid thetemperature field is least affected in case 1 The temperaturefield ismost affected in case 2 for higher thermal conductivityof solid skeleton Because the theory of mixtures is applied inthis fully coupled THM model [18] the temperature field ofcase 3 has shown a moderate degree
Figure 23 shows the comparison of pore pressure after24 hours under different cases Due to the fact that thethermal-hydraulic coupling (TH) is not considered in case2 the pore pressure difference between wellbore wall andthe formation is the smallest For case 3 the THM couplingis fully considered so the pore pressure difference betweenwellbore and the formation is the largest For stress field(Figure 24) the radial and hoop stress are basically in acompressive state and the distributions around wellbore aresimilar for different cases The temperature on stress field isaffected most in case 3 and least in case 2 which is similar topore pressure
Figure 25 shows the distribution of collapse index andfracture index under different cases It can be found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
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[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
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[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
0
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330
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
06
08
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
Permeable wellbore) Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
60
90
120
150
180
210
240
270
300
330
0123456789
0123456789
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 15 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in overbalanced condition (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
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12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus32
minus28
minus24
minus20
minus16
minus12
minus8
minus4
0
4
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(b)
Figure 16 Radial stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
Normalized radial distance rrw
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
(a)
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
minus22
minus20
minus18
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 17 Hoop stress distribution along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
distributions of failure indices under three cases are similarFor collapse failure the collapse index under case 2 is thesmallest and thewellbore ismost easy to collapse For fracturefailure the fracture index under case 2 is the smallest and thewellbore is most easy to break There are obvious differencesin stress pore pressure and temperature of wellbore by full-coupled model and partial-coupled models During drillingthe temperature difference between the drilling fluid and theformation will lead to temperature change near wellboreThe disturbed range of temperature is related to the thermaldiffusivity of the formation and the fluid inside which leadsto the great change of pore pressure and effective stress inthe near-wellbore zone and inevitably affects the wellborestability Therefore it is necessary to take full-coupled model
into account when dealing with the evaluation of wellborestability [22]
The influence of temperature fluctuation on wellborestability is studied by changing drilling fluid temperatureusing THM fully coupled model The results are shownin Figures 26 and 27 When the formation is heated bythe drilling fluid the larger the temperature difference thesmaller the collapse index and fracture index of wellborewhich indicates that the instability possibility of wellbore isgreater When the drilling fluid temperature is lower thanthe formation temperature the stress around wellbore tendsto decrease with the increase of temperature difference Thelarger the temperature difference is the smaller the instabilitypossibility of wellbore occurs
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
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Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
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Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
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Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
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Journal of
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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 13
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
2628303234363840424446
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
(a)
Drilling excavation 2 h
9 h 24 h
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
Normalized radial distance rrw
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 352022242628303234363840424446
(b)
Figure 18 The distribution of pore pressure along BC for underbalanced drilling (a) Permeable wall (b) Impermeable wall
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06
08
10
12
14
16
06
08
10
12
14
16
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
Permeable wellbore Closed wellbore
(b)
Figure 19 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices near the wall in underbalanced drilling (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index119891119891
T
H M
T
H M
T
H M
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Figure 20 Three cases of temperature coupling
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
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[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
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[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
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[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Probability and StatisticsHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Function SpacesAbstract and Applied AnalysisHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2013Hindawiwwwhindawicom
The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018Volume 2018
Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisAdvances inAdvances in Discrete Dynamics in
Nature and SocietyHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom
Dierential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
AnalysisInternational Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts atwwwhindawicom
14 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1200e+02+1161e+02+1122e+02+1084e+02+1045e+02+1006e+02+9672e+01+9284e+01+8896e+01+8508e+01+8120e+01+7732e+01+7344e+01
Y
X
(a)
TEMP(Avg 75)
+1197e+02+1157e+02+1117e+02+1077e+02+1037e+02+9972e+01+9573e+01+9174e+01+8775e+01+8376e+01+7977e+01+7578e+01+7179e+01
Y
X
(b)
TEMP
Y
X
(Avg 75)+1199e+02+1159e+02+1119e+02+1079e+02+1039e+02+9993e+01+9594e+01+9194e+01+8795e+01+8395e+01+7996e+01+7596e+01+7197e+01
(c)Figure 21 Temperature distribution after 24 hours under different cases (a) Case 1 (b) Case 2 (c) Case 3
65707580859095
100105110115120125
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 22 Comparison of temperature distribution along BC
353637383940414243444546
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Pore
pre
ssur
e (M
Pa)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
Figure 23 Comparison of pore pressure distribution along BC
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 15
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
minus32minus30minus28minus26minus24minus22minus20minus18minus16minus14minus12minus10
minus8minus6
Radi
al st
ress
(MPa
)
(a)
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
minus16
minus14
minus12
minus10
minus8
minus6
minus4
minus2
0
2
Hoo
p str
ess (
MPa
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Normalized radial distance rrw
(b)
Figure 24 Comparison of radial stress and hoop stress distribution along BC (a) Radial stress (b) Hoop stress
0812162024283236
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0812162024283236
case 1 case 2 case 3
(a)
2468
10121416
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
case 1 case 2 case 3
(b)
Figure 25 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices under different cases (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fracture index 119891119891
45 Discussion A well located in the Jidong oilfield ofChina is selected as an example to investigate the wellborestability in a mudstone formation According to laboratorytests field data logs and related geological data the cal-culation parameters at the depth of 4100m are defined asoverburden strata stress 916MPa the maximum horizontalstress 812MPa the minimum horizontal stress 687MPaand the formation pressure 425MPa the elastic modulus ofrock 202GPa Poissonrsquos ratio 016 cohesion 241MPa andthe internal friction angle 217∘ permeability of formation101mD and the porosity 9The thermal expansion of rock
media is 54times10minus5 specific heat 886 Jkg∙∘C and thermalconductivity 325 J(m∙∘C) In drilling stage the temperatureof drilling fluid is 10 degrees Celsius lower than that of theformation
The failure process of wellbore is simulated with thedrilling fluid density of 11 12 and 13 gcm3 respectivelyThedistribution of damaged zone caused by drilling unloadingis shown in Figures 28 and 29 In the drilling unloadingthe drilling time is short and thus the borehole stability ismainly controlled by the liquid column pressure of drillingfluid When the drilling fluid density is 11 the failure
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Probability and StatisticsHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Function SpacesAbstract and Applied AnalysisHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2013Hindawiwwwhindawicom
The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018Volume 2018
Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisAdvances inAdvances in Discrete Dynamics in
Nature and SocietyHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom
Dierential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
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Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
AnalysisInternational Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts atwwwhindawicom
16 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
06081012141618
06081012141618
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
1234567
1234567
T-T0=35 T-T0=20 T-T0=10
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 26 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is heated by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
0510152025303540
0510152025303540
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(a)
0
30
6090
120
150
180
210
240270
300
330
2468
10121416
2468
10121416
T-T0=-50 T-T0=-35 T-T0=-20
∘C∘C∘C
(b)
Figure 27 Distribution of quantitative evaluation indices when the formation is cooled by drilling fluid (a) Collapse index 119891119887 (b) Fractureindex 119891119891
depth of wellbore is about 007m in the horizontal mini-mum principal stress (EF line) with a maximum equivalentplastic strain of 4574times10minus3 after drilling unloading Withthe increasing of drilling fluid density the failure depthdecreases gradually When the drilling fluid density is 13the failure depth of wellbore is about 002m When thedrilling fluid density is greater than 135 the rock massaround the wellbore is basically in an elastic state and has
reached a stable state which is consistent with that of fieldtesting
According to the failure depths in horizontal and verticaldirection the enlargement rate of wellbore can be defined as(Figure 3)
120596r = 119877 minus 11987701198770 times 100 (20)
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Probability and StatisticsHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Function SpacesAbstract and Applied AnalysisHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2013Hindawiwwwhindawicom
The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018Volume 2018
Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisAdvances inAdvances in Discrete Dynamics in
Nature and SocietyHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom
Dierential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
AnalysisInternational Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts atwwwhindawicom
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 17
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+4574e-03+4192e-03+3811e-03+3430e-03+3049e-03+2668e-03+2287e-03+1906e-03+1525e-03+1143e-03+7623e-04+3811e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(a)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+2906e-03+2664e-03+2422e-03+2179e-03+1937e-03+1695e-03+1453e-03+1211e-03+9686e-04+7265e-04+4843e-04+2422e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(b)
PEEQ(Avg 75)
+1567e-03+1436e-03+1305e-03+1175e-03+1044e-03+9138e-04+7833e-04+6527e-04+5222e-04+3916e-04+2611e-04+1305e-04+0000e+00
X
Y
(c)
Figure 28 The failure distribution of wellbore with different drilling fluid density (a) Drilling fluid density of 11 gcm3 (b) Drilling fluiddensity of 12 gcm3 (c) Drilling fluid density of 13 gcm3
00
10x10minus3
20x10minus3
30x10minus3
40x10minus3
50x10minus3
F
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
E
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(a)
00
50x10minus5
10x10minus4
15x10minus4
20x10minus4
25x10minus4
Density 11 Density 12 Density 13
CB
Equi
vale
nt p
lasti
c str
ain
005 010 015 020000Distance from the wellbore wall (m)
(b)
Figure 29 The failure depth of wellbore along EF and BC (a) Along EF (b) Along BC
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Probability and StatisticsHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Function SpacesAbstract and Applied AnalysisHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2013Hindawiwwwhindawicom
The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018Volume 2018
Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisAdvances inAdvances in Discrete Dynamics in
Nature and SocietyHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom
Dierential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
AnalysisInternational Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts atwwwhindawicom
18 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
where 1198770 is the radius of the bit and 119877 = (119877a + 119877b)2 is theaverage radius of wellbore after drilling
The traditional analytical model for collapse pressureprediction is given as [12]
119875119888 = 3120590119867 minus 120590ℎ minus 2119888119870 + [120575120585 + 1205751198991198702 + 120572 (1 + 1198702) (1 minus 120575) 119875119901 + 119864120573119904 (119879 minus 1198790) [3 (1 minus 120583)]]1 minus 120575120585 + 120572120575 + 1198702 (1 minus 120575119899 minus 120572120575) (21)
where 119875119901 is the formation pressure of 119870 = 119888119905119892(45 minus 1206012)120585 = 120572(1 minus 2120583)2(1 minus 120583) and 120575 is the seepage ability coefficientof filtrate cake 120575 = 1 for a permeable wellbore wall and 120575 = 0for an impermeable wall
Although the influence of temperature and seepage abilitycan be considered in the analytical models (Eq (21)) itonly provide a static value that cannot consider the porepressure and effective stress change with time as a transientresponse In the traditional model the wellbore is thoughtinstability once shear failure occurs around wellbore Inpractical engineering the wellbore can be allowed certainlocal failure and the enlargement rate of wellbore can becontrolled within 15 if the rock debris can be carried fromthe bottom of the well in time [23] In this numerical modelthe initial enlargement rate of wellbore is 108 when thedrilling fluid density is 13 As for the drilling fluid density of12 and 11 the wellbore enlargement rate is 181 and 325respectively The actual density of drilling fluid used in thiswell is 13 there is only slight sloughing in the constructionprocess and the stability condition of borehole meets therequirements of drilling construction which is consistentwith the numerical results
According to field data the studied wellbore is stable inthe drilling stages but local instability of wellbore appearsafter 2 days The reason is that the open-hole section is toolong (500m) in mudstone formation and thus the immersiontime of wellbore is increased by drilling fluid Thus thehydration effect cannot be neglected for long time drillingThe hydration effect causes the decrease of rock strengthand the increase of collapse pressure The drilling fluiddensity of 13 at this early stage can support the wellbore tomake wellbore stable but the drilling fluid density must beincreased to 159 after 2 days for keeping the wellbore stablein engineering field Therefore the wellbore instability is adynamic process and the collapse pressure is also a dynamicvalue which cannot be predicted by the traditional analyticalmodel
According to the laboratory tests [24 25] the hydrationeffect causes the surrounding rock to be deteriorated Theinitial water content of this mudstone formation is 2 andthe saturated water content is 10 after long time immersionby drilling fluid The evolution of strength parameters isgiven
119888 = 1198880 minus 27 (119908 minus 1199080)120601 = 1206010 minus 25 (119908 minus 1199080) (22)
where 1198880 and 1206010 are the cohesion and friction angle at initialwater content1199080 respectively and119908 is current water content
The evolution of strength parameters of rock is codedby USDFLD (user subroutine to redefine field variables ata material point) subroutine The enlargement rate curvesof wellbore considering the effect hydration are shown inFigure 30 It can be found that the enlargement rate increaseswith the increase of drilling fluid immersion time and thecollapse pressure increases accordingly
Wellbore stability is affected by in-situ stress drillingfluid temperature change wellbore seepage hydration effectcreep etc According to the above analysis if the immersiontime of wellbore is too long the hydration and creep effectsof wellbore need to be considered which should be coupledwith three fields of THM model The complete couplingbetween hydration creep and THM needs to be furtherstudied theoretically and experimentally
5 Conclusions
Based on continuum mechanics and the theory of mixturesa THM coupling model of rock medium is established andthen it is coded with MATLAB language as platform andABAQUS software as the solver Considering the drillingunloading the numerical model for wellbore analysis isestablished The variation laws of temperature pore pressureand stress around wellbore under different physical fieldcoupling are compared The results show that the stresspore pressure and temperature around wellbore obtained byfull-coupling and partial-coupling are quite different whichprove that the fully coupled model is reasonable for wellborestability analysis
The change of pore pressure near wellbore is large atthe moment of drilling unloading For overbalanced drillingwellbore stability with permeable wall is lower than that ofimpermeable wall Under the condition of underbalanceddrilling the wellbore shrinkage will occur in impermeablewall which makes the wellbore in tension state and reducesthe wellbore stability but the wellbore stability will beimproved by the connectivity of permeable wall Under thecondition of overbalanced drilling something should payattention to the filtrate cake by reducing the disturbance ofdrill string and improving the protected capacity of drillingfluid as much as possible For underbalanced drilling thedrilling fluid should be selected to delay the formation offiltrate cake
As for designing drilling fluid for deep wells and wellswith large temperature gradient the variation of pore pres-sure and thermal stress caused by temperature change shouldbe taken into account When the formation temperature islower than the drilling fluid the possibility of wellbore failureincreases with the increase of temperature difference If the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Probability and StatisticsHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Function SpacesAbstract and Applied AnalysisHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2013Hindawiwwwhindawicom
The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018Volume 2018
Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisAdvances inAdvances in Discrete Dynamics in
Nature and SocietyHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom
Dierential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
AnalysisInternational Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts atwwwhindawicom
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 19
Density 11 nonhydration Density 12 nonhydration Density 13 nonhydration Density 11 hydration Density 12 hydration Density 13 hydration
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Well
bore
enla
rgem
ent r
ate (
)
2 4 6 8 10 12 140Time (day)
Figure 30 The enlargement rate change with time
drilling fluid temperature is lower than that of the formationthe larger the temperature difference is the smaller theinstability possibility of wellbore occurs In deep well drillingif equipped with cooling drilling fluid equipment it canincrease wellbore stability but also conducive to the normaloperation of logging and downhole instruments
The method proposed in this study provides an effectiveway to analyze the THM coupling process for wellbore andlays a foundation for further study of the THMC couplingproblem on wellbore stability
Data Availability
The data used to support the findings of this study areincluded within the article
Disclosure
Caoxuan Wen is a co-first author
Conflicts of Interest
There is no conflict of interests regarding this paper
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the OpenResearch Fund of State Key Laboratory of the Oil and GasReservoir Geology and Exploitation (Grant No PLN1507)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo 51504040)
References
[1] M A Islam ldquoUnderbanced drilling in shale-perspective offactors influences mechanical borehole instabilityrdquo in Proceed-ings of the international Petroleum Technology Coference DohaQatar 2009
[2] B Wu X Zhang R G Jeffrey and B Wu ldquoA semi-analyticsolution of a wellbore in a non-isothermal low-permeabilityporous medium under non-hydrostatic stressesrdquo InternationalJournal of Solids and Structures vol 49 no 13 pp 1472ndash14842012
[3] S He Y Chen D Ma J Zhou and W Wang ldquoA review onwellbore stability with multi-field coupling analysisrdquo Journal ofSouthwest Petroleum University vol 39 no 2 pp 81ndash92 2017
[4] M A Islam P Skalle A B M O Faruk and B Pierre ldquoAnalyti-cal and numerical study of consolidation effect on time delayedborehole stability during underbalanced drilling in shalerdquo inProceedings of the Kuwait International Petroleum Conferenceand Exhibition KIPCE 2009 Meeting Energy Demand for LongTerm Economic Growth SPE 127554 Kuwait 2009
[5] H Cheng and M Dusseault ldquoDevelopment and applicationof a fully-coupled two-dimensional finite element approach todeformation and pressure diffusion around a boreholerdquo Journalof Canadian Petroleum Technology vol 32 no 10 pp 28ndash381993
[6] H Roshan and S S Rahman ldquoAnalysis of pore pressure andstress distribution around awellbore drilled in chemically activeelastoplastic formationsrdquo RockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 44 no 5 pp 541ndash552 2011
[7] S Yin B F Towler M B Dusseault and L Rothenburg ldquoFullycoupledTHMCmodeling ofwellbore stabilitywith thermal andsolute convection consideredrdquo Transport in Porous Media vol84 no 3 pp 773ndash798 2010
[8] G ChenM E ChenevertMM Sharma andMYu ldquoA study ofwellbore stability in shales including poroelastic chemical andthermal effectsrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineeringvol 38 no 3-4 pp 167ndash176 2003
[9] M Frydman and S Fontoura ldquoWellbore stability consideringthermo-poroelastic effectsrdquo in Proceedings of the Rio Oil amp GasConference pp 16ndash19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2000
[10] Y Wang and M B Dusseault ldquoA coupled conductivendashconvec-tive thermo-poroelastic solution and implications for wellborestabilityrdquo Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering vol 38no 3-4 pp 187ndash198 2003
[11] M Li G Liu and J Li ldquoThermal effect on wellbore stabilityduring drilling operation with long horizontal sectionrdquo JournalofNaturalGas Science andEngineering vol 23 pp 118ndash126 2015
[12] C Yan J Deng B Yu et al ldquoBorehole stability in high-temperature formationsrdquoRockMechanics andRock Engineeringvol 47 no 6 pp 2199ndash2209 2014
[13] H Shiming A Wenhua W Shuqi C Mian L Faqian and CJun ldquoEffect of percolation on wellbore stability of underbal-anced drillingrdquo Oil Drilling amp Production Technology vol 30no 4 pp 12ndash18 2008
[14] G Li ldquoThe impact of geological environment on wellholestabilityrdquo Journal of Southwest Petroleum University vol 34 no1 pp 103ndash107 2012
[15] S P Jia L W Zhang B S Wu et al ldquoA coupled hydro-mechanical creep damagemodel for clayey rock and its applica-tion to nuclear waste repositoryrdquo Tunnelling and UndergroundSpace Technology vol 74 pp 230ndash246 2018
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
[20] S Jia X Ran Y Wang T Xiao and X Tan ldquoFully cou-pled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical model and finite elementanalysis for deformation porous mediardquo Chinese Journal ofGeotechnical Engineering vol 31 no S2 pp 3547ndash3556 2012
[21] B Bai ldquoOne-dimensional thermal consolidation characteristicsof geotechnical media under non-isothermal conditionrdquo Engi-neering Mechanics vol 22 no 5 pp 186ndash191 2005
[22] X Li L Cui and J-C Roegiers ldquoThermoporoelastic modellingof wellbore stability in non-hydrostatic stress fieldrdquo Interna-tional Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 35no 4-5 p 584 1998
[23] X Weiliang W Yan H Guoli et al ldquoApplication of underbal-anced drilling technology in igneous rock formation gas wellrdquoDrilling amp Production Technology vol 33 no 6 pp 12ndash14 2010
[24] L Chao L Xiangjun D Zhuang and L Meng ldquoExperimentalresearch of shalewellbore stability in an east areardquo West-ChinaExploration Engineering vol 31 no 11 pp 26ndash28 2015
[25] Z Kuanliang C Jinxia and L Shuqin ldquoStudy on stabilitymechanism of brittle shale borehole deep in Nanpu- structureand its applicationrdquo Drilling amp Production Technology vol 39no 5 pp 1ndash4 2016
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Probability and StatisticsHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Engineering Mathematics
International Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Function SpacesAbstract and Applied AnalysisHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2013Hindawiwwwhindawicom
The Scientific World Journal
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018Volume 2018
Numerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisNumerical AnalysisAdvances inAdvances in Discrete Dynamics in
Nature and SocietyHindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom
Dierential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2018
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
AnalysisInternational Journal of
Hindawiwwwhindawicom Volume 2018
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts atwwwhindawicom
20 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
[16] Z Zhai K Zaki S Marinello and A Abou-Sayed ldquoCoupledthermo-poro-mechanical effects on borehole stabilityrdquo in Pro-ceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition2009 ATCE 2009 SPE 123427 pp 216ndash224 New OrleansLouisiana USA October 2009
[17] M Gomar I Goodarznia and S R Shadizadeh ldquoA transientfully coupled thermo-poroelastic finite element analysis ofwellbore stabilityrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciences vol 8 no 6pp 3855ndash3865 2014
[18] G Voyiadjis andM Abu-Farsakh ldquoCoupled theory of mixturesfor clayey soilsrdquo Computers amp Geosciences vol 20 no 3-4 pp195ndash222 1997
[19] J J Munoz and J J Munoz ldquoThermo-hydro-mechanical analy-sis of soft rock Application to a large scale heating test and largescale ventilation testrdquo in Dessertation Universitat PolitecnicaDe Catalunya 2007
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