METHOD OF FITTING WELL SCREEN IN HORIZONTAL STEAM-INJECTION WELL Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC E21B43/08 E21B43/10 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: method includes drilling of a horizontal well, running in of a production casing with a well screen with shear plugs in openings, and packers. In the drilling process permeability properties are defined, the borehole is divided into zones having the permeability properties differentiating per 1.5-1.6 times, a flow area of the screen openings and a number of openings for each zone is selected. At the mouth the well screen is equipped with a shear funnel and water-swellable packers from the outside, the string is run in into the well and the well screen is fitted so that the water-swellable packers are within boundaries of the formation zones with different properties. The hole is lined, and the following layout is assembled at the mouth: a fishing magnet, a pusher, a rigid centraliser with overflow channels. The assembly is run in to the well until the pusher is rested on the shear funnel, the string is slacked off, and the shear funnel is moved until it rests on the first row of the shear plugs, the string is slacked off completely to the funnel and the first row of the shear plugs is destroyed. The string is moved from the mouth to the bottomhole and the next row of the shear plugs is destroyed and fixed by the fishing magnet. The string is slacked off completely to the funnel again and the remaining rows of plugs are destroyed, the pipe string is run out with the assembly. Openings are isolated in the lower perimeter of the well screen.

EFFECT: improved quality of the formation drilling, reduced time for the well screen fitting.

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