FACILITY AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PRESSURE PULSES IN DRILLING AGENT, INSTRUMENT FOR BOREHOLE MEASUREMENTS AT DRILLING IN DRILLING AGENT AND CENTRALISERS FOR SAID FACILITIES Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC E21B47/18 E21B47/01 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to oil producing industry and is designed for generating pressure pulses in drilling agent in drill string and for measurements during drilling. For this purpose the bell of the pulse generator travels up and down to shift drilling agent from pressure reservoir into a chamber of sliding pressure and out of it and along corresponding upper and lower connecting channels. The bell is actuated by means of certain sequence of manipulations performed with solenoids with a bidirectional disk valve. The circular channel of the pulse generator is designed to decrease turbulence of drilling agent flow and to generate practically laminar flow in a pulsation region. A pulse or absence of a pulse is converted into a digit signal transmitted to surface with a pressure sensor implementing algorithm of decoding. Further a signal is visualised by a drill foreman and operators who obtain valid data about direction and geologic formation; these data assist an operator in determining direction of drilling. Additional pulse generators increasing rate of data transmitting can be introduced in the given instrument. Raised velocity of data transmitting facilitates obtaining more thorough information, decreases drilling expenditures and increases yield of oil deposit.

EFFECT: raised information value and reliability of methods and facilities due to insensitivity of facility to flow velocity and pressure; skipping over adjustment during operation; forming recognisable, repeated, reproducible and pure signals of pressure pulses at minimal consumption of power.

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