How to use and maintain casing and tubing ?

Date:2024-04-28Tags:casing pipe, Casing and Tubing, Steel casing pipe

With the advancement of industrialization, whether in construction, chemical industry, energy or other fields, pipelines are increasingly used everywhere. As an important transportation tool, pipelines are particularly important to ensure their quality and service life. Oil casing and tubing is an important part of the oil drilling and production process and is critical to ensuring the safe operation and extending the service life of downhole equipment. In order to ensure the normal operation of pipelines and extend their service life, we need to know some knowledge about daily maintenance of casing and tubing.Things that need to be paid attention to in the early stage of running down the well, and preparation and inspection before casing and tubing is run down the well.

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1. Newly delivered casing and tubing shall be inspected according to the method specified in SY/T6194 and there shall be no defects. Some users have found that these inspection methods cannot detect all casing and tubing defects and cannot meet the requirements of a few wells with harsh conditions. Therefore, users use various non-destructive inspection methods to ensure that high-quality casing and tubing is run into the well. In view of this situation, users are advised to:

a) Be familiar with the inspection methods specified in the standard and used by each factory, and correctly understand the definition of "defect" in the standard.

b) Comprehensively evaluate any non-destructive inspection method that the user uses for the pipe to ensure that the inspection work can accurately indicate the location of the defect and distinguish the defect from other non-defect signals. When using these inspection methods, the cause of unreal "defects" may be, and often is, due to these non-defect signals.


2. All casings and tubing, whether new, used or repaired, should always wear thread protectors on their threaded parts. At any time, the casing should be placed on a bench, wooden surface, or metal surface free of rocks, sand, or sludge (except normal drilling fluid). If the casing is accidentally dragged into the soil, it is best to clean the threads again and handle them according to the standard requirements before reuse.


3. The protection of oil casing and tubing does not allow the use of wear bands, the carbonization of drill pipes to remove tungsten wear bands, and during the wearing band dressing process, due to various reasons, the quality of the wear bands is unqualified and needs to be re-welded. The previous measure was manual grinder polishing, which was time-consuming and inefficient.


Maintenance of oil pipes after use

Clean regularly

The cleaning of pipelines is an important part of protecting the quality of pipelines. Regular pipe cleaning can prevent dirt and impurities from accumulating on the inner walls of the pipes, leading to blockage and corrosion. When cleaning, you can use special pipe cleaning agents and choose appropriate cleaning methods according to different pipe materials, such as high-pressure water flushing, chemical cleaning, etc.


Pay attention to the lubrication of the pipes

For some pipelines that require moving parts, such as valves, pipe joints, etc., regular lubrication is necessary. Proper lubrication can reduce friction and wear and ensure the normal operation of pipelines. Select the appropriate lubricant and lubrication method, and operate according to the specific pipe material and usage environment.


Cleaning of oil casing and tubing

The cleaning of oil casing and tubing reaches the pipe processing plant. Before formal processing, the oil, dust, oxidized rust and old coating on the inner and outer surfaces of the pipeline must be cleaned. There are many rust removal methods, such as manual, mechanical, spraying and pickling. In the past, oxidants were used to remove rust from oxygen pipelines. Now use pickling to remove rust and it works great.


Anti-corrosion countermeasures for oil casing and tubing

First of all, we must ensure that water quality reaches standards and strictly monitor and manage water quality. Implement separate cleaning and injection, strengthen the cleaning work of main water pipelines, ensure that the water quality inside the station and at the bottom of the well reaches the standard, and reduce the introduction of corrosion sources into the annular space; for newly put into production water injection wells, use annulus protection fluid mainly for sterilization , and form a system to add it regularly; in view of the corrosion of oil casing caused by mechanical scratches - rubber or adding a centralizer in the severely deviated part of the well to prevent the oil pipe from scratching the casing and contacting the casing on one side during the operation and water injection process.


Regular pipe maintenance is key to protecting pipe quality and extending its service life. Maintenance includes comprehensive inspection of pipelines, timely repair of problems found, and replacement of aging and damaged pipeline components. Regular maintenance can prevent potential problems and detect and solve potential accident risks in advance.By understanding and mastering the daily maintenance knowledge of pipes, we can better protect the quality of pipes and extend their service life. The normal operation of pipelines is crucial to the production and transportation of various industries. Therefore, we should pay attention to and strictly implement daily maintenance measures for pipes. Only by keeping pipelines in good condition can work efficiency be improved and production safety guaranteed.

 

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