Dynamic simulation of double-cased perforation in deepwater high temperature and high-pressure oil and gas wells

Abstract

In order to ensure the penetrability of double-cased perforation in offshore oil and gas fields and to maximize the capacity of perforation completion, This study establishes a dynamic model of double-cased perforation using ANSYS/LS-DYNA simulation technology. The combination of critical perforation parameters for double casing is obtained by studying the influencing factors of the jet-forming process, perforation depth, diameter, and stress changes of the inner and outer casing. The single-target perforation experiments under high-temperature and high-pressure (HTHP) conditions and ground full-scale ring target perforation tests are designed to verify the accuracy of numerical simulation results. The reduced factor is adopted as the quantitative measure of perforation depth and diameter for different types of perforation charge under different conditions. The results show that the perforation depth reduction increases with temperature and pressure, and the reduced factor is between 0.67 and 0.87 under HTHP conditions of 130 °C/44 MPa and 137 °C/60 MPa. Comparing the results of the numerical simulation and the full-scale test correction, the maximum error is less than 8.91%, and this numerical simulation has strong reliability. This research provides a basis for a reasonable range of double-cased perforation parameters and their optimal selection.