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Casing Design

1.8-1

1.8-2 Casing Design


Why Run Casing?
Types of Casing Strings
Classification of Casing
Burst, Collapse and Tension
Effect of Axial Tension on Collapse Strength

1.8-3 Casing Design


What is casing?

Casing

Why run casing?

Cement

1. To prevent the hole from caving in


2. Onshore - to prevent contamination of
fresh water sands
3. To prevent water migration to
producing formation
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1.8-4 Casing Design


4. To confine production to the wellbore
5. To control pressures during drilling
6. To provide an acceptable environment for
subsurface equipment in producing wells
7. To enhance the probability of drilling to total
depth (TD)
e.g., you need 14 ppg mud to control a lower zone,
but an upper zone will fracture at 12 lb/gal.
What do you do?
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1.8-5 Types of Strings of Casing


Diameter Example
1. Drive pipe or structural pile
{Gulf Coast and offshore only}
150-300 below mudline.

2. Conductor string. 100 - 1,600


(BML)

3. Surface pipe. 2,000 - 4,000

16-60

30

16-48

20

8 5/8-20

13 3/8

(BML)

1.8-6 Types of Strings of Casing


Diameter Example

4. Intermediate String
5. Production String (Csg.)

7 5/8-13 3/8
4 1/2-9 5/8

9 5/8
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6. Liner(s)
7. Tubing String(s)
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1.8-7 Example Hole and String Sizes (in)


Hole Size
36
26

Pipe Size

Structural casing
Conductor string

17 1/2

Surface pipe

12 1/4

IntermediateString

8 3/4

Production Liner

30
20

13 3/8
9 5/8
7
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1.8-8 Classification of CSG.


1. Outside diameter of pipe

(e.g. 9 5/8)

2. Wall thickness

(e.g. 1/2)

3. Grade of material

(e.g. N-80)

4. Type to threads and couplings

(e.g. API LCSG)

5. Length of each joint (RANGE)

(e.g. Range 3)

6. Nominal weight

(Avg. wt/ft incl. Wt. Coupling)


(e.g. 47 lb/ft)
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1.8-9

1.8-10 Casing Threads and Couplings


API round threads - short

{ CSG }

API round thread - long

{ LCSG }

Buttress

{ BCSG }

Extreme line
Other

{ XCSG }

See Halliburton Book...


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Burst, Collapse, and Tension


1.9-1

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1.9-2 API Design Factors (typical)


Required

Design

10,000 psi

Collapse 1.125

11,250 psi

100,000 lbf

Tension

1.8

180,000 lbf

10,000 psi

Burst

1.1

11,000 psi
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1.9-3

Abnormal

Normal Pore Pressure


0.433 - 0.465 psi/ft

Abnormal Pore Pressure


gp > normal

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1.9-4 Casing Design


Tension

Tension
Depth

Burst
Collapse

Collapse
Burst:
Burst
Collapse:
Tension:

STRESS
Assume full reservoir pressure all along the wellbore.
Hydrostatic pressure increases with depth
Tensile stress due to weight of string is highest at top

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1.9-5 Casing Design


Unless otherwise specified in a particular
problem, we shall also assume the following:
Worst Possible Conditions
1. For Collapse design, assume that the
casing is empty on the inside (p = 0 psig)
2. For Burst design, assume no backup
fluid on the outside of the casing (p = 0 psig)
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1.9-6 Casing Design


Worst Possible Conditions, contd
3. For Tension design,
assume no buoyancy effect
4. For Collapse design,
assume no buoyancy effect
The casing string must be designed to stand up to the
expected conditions in burst, collapse and tension.
Above conditions are quite conservative. They are also
simplified for easier understanding of the basic concepts.
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1.9-7 Casing Design - Solution


Burst Requirements (based on the expected pore
PB pore pressure * Design Factor
6,000 psi *1.1
PB 6,600 psi

Depth

pressure)

Pressure

The whole casing string must be capable of


withstanding this internal pressure without failing in
burst.
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1.9-8 Casing Design - Solution


Collapse Requirements
For collapse design, we start at the bottom
of the string and work our way up.

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1.9-9 Tension Check


The weight on the top joint of casing
would be
(6,369 ft * 47.0# / ft ) (1,631 ft * 53.5# / ft )
386,602 lbs actual weight

With a design factor of 1.8 for tension, a


pipe strength of
1.8 * 386,602 695,080 lbf is required
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