Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies

Offshore oil and gas production has become an important growth pole to ensure national energy security. However, China's offshore oil and gas production is lack of key core technologies and weak in tool and equipment foundation and can hardly support the optimized fast development of important...

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Main Authors: Zhong Li, Renjun Xie, Yi Wu, Junliang Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2022-04-01
Series:Natural Gas Industry B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352854022000183
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Renjun Xie
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description Offshore oil and gas production has become an important growth pole to ensure national energy security. However, China's offshore oil and gas production is lack of key core technologies and weak in tool and equipment foundation and can hardly support the optimized fast development of important fields. To solve these technological difficulties, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) insisted on independent technological innovation and overcame a series of key core technologies through theoretical research and key technology research and test during the 13th Five-Year Plan. And the following research results are obtained. First, several key technologies are broken through, including efficient drilling and completion in the middle and deep layers of the Bohai Sea, offshore large-scale heavy oil thermal recovery, deep-water oil and gas field development, and high temperature and high pressure well drilling and completion in the South China Sea, unconventional oil and gas stimulation, and offshore emergency rescue. Domestic first independently operated ultra deep water giant gas field, namely “Deepsea 1” is successfully put into production, so that the leap from 300 m to 1500 m of water depth and from exploration to development is realized. Second, key tools and equipment are developed, such as logging while drilling and rotary steering drilling system, deep-water drilling surface conductor, underwater emergency killing device, and underwater wellhead Christmas tree, which promote the high-quality development of China's offshore oil industry. Finally, some suggestions are proposed as follows. In the future, CNOOC shall strengthen independent technological innovation, quicken the pace to deepsea oil and gas, and continue to research key core technologies for oil and gas reserves and production increase (e.g. continuous localization of drilling and completion technologies, equipment and materials in complex fields), commingled gas production and test and green energy transformation (e.g. geothermal energy), so as to make greater contributions to ensure national energy security and build a maritime power.
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spelling doaj.art-7bb56c6c92524e689d1bec9b5813875e2024-03-02T07:01:47ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Natural Gas Industry B2352-85402022-04-0192209217Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologiesZhong Li0Renjun Xie1Yi Wu2Junliang Yuan3CNOOC Research Institute Company Limited, Beijing, 100028, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Offshore Oil Exploitation, Beijing, 100028, PR China; Corresponding author. CNOOC Research Institute Company Limited, Beijing 100028, PR China.CNOOC Research Institute Company Limited, Beijing, 100028, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Offshore Oil Exploitation, Beijing, 100028, PR ChinaCNOOC Research Institute Company Limited, Beijing, 100028, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Offshore Oil Exploitation, Beijing, 100028, PR ChinaCNOOC Research Institute Company Limited, Beijing, 100028, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Offshore Oil Exploitation, Beijing, 100028, PR ChinaOffshore oil and gas production has become an important growth pole to ensure national energy security. However, China's offshore oil and gas production is lack of key core technologies and weak in tool and equipment foundation and can hardly support the optimized fast development of important fields. To solve these technological difficulties, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) insisted on independent technological innovation and overcame a series of key core technologies through theoretical research and key technology research and test during the 13th Five-Year Plan. And the following research results are obtained. First, several key technologies are broken through, including efficient drilling and completion in the middle and deep layers of the Bohai Sea, offshore large-scale heavy oil thermal recovery, deep-water oil and gas field development, and high temperature and high pressure well drilling and completion in the South China Sea, unconventional oil and gas stimulation, and offshore emergency rescue. Domestic first independently operated ultra deep water giant gas field, namely “Deepsea 1” is successfully put into production, so that the leap from 300 m to 1500 m of water depth and from exploration to development is realized. Second, key tools and equipment are developed, such as logging while drilling and rotary steering drilling system, deep-water drilling surface conductor, underwater emergency killing device, and underwater wellhead Christmas tree, which promote the high-quality development of China's offshore oil industry. Finally, some suggestions are proposed as follows. In the future, CNOOC shall strengthen independent technological innovation, quicken the pace to deepsea oil and gas, and continue to research key core technologies for oil and gas reserves and production increase (e.g. continuous localization of drilling and completion technologies, equipment and materials in complex fields), commingled gas production and test and green energy transformation (e.g. geothermal energy), so as to make greater contributions to ensure national energy security and build a maritime power.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352854022000183CNOOC13th five-year planDeep-water oil and gas well drillingDeep-water oil and gas field development“Deepsea 1” giant gas fieldHigh temperature and high pressure
spellingShingle Zhong Li
Renjun Xie
Yi Wu
Junliang Yuan
Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
Natural Gas Industry B
CNOOC
13th five-year plan
Deep-water oil and gas well drilling
Deep-water oil and gas field development
“Deepsea 1” giant gas field
High temperature and high pressure
title Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
title_full Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
title_fullStr Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
title_full_unstemmed Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
title_short Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
title_sort progress and prospect of cnooc s oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies
topic CNOOC
13th five-year plan
Deep-water oil and gas well drilling
Deep-water oil and gas field development
“Deepsea 1” giant gas field
High temperature and high pressure
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352854022000183
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