US 11,952,869 B1
High-efficiency yield-increasing exploitation method for natural gas hydrates
Jianbo Zhang, Qingdao (CN); Zhiyuan Wang, Qingdao (CN); Yuting Wang, Qingdao (CN); Baojiang Sun, Qingdao (CN); Jie Zhong, Qingdao (CN); Jihao Pei, Qingdao (CN); Nan Ma, Qingdao (CN); Xueqi Liu, Qingdao (CN); and Junjie Hu, Qingdao (CN)
Assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA), Qingdao (CN); and SHANDONG PENGBO SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SERVICE CO., LTD., Yantai (CN)
Filed by CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA), Qingdao (CN); and SHANDONG PENGBO SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SERVICE CO., LTD., Yantai (CN)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/341,816.
Claims priority of application No. 202211106650.5 (CN), filed on Sep. 13, 2022.
Int. Cl. E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 7/04 (2006.01); E21B 33/138 (2006.01); E21B 43/24 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); E21B 43/30 (2006.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 41/0099 (2020.05) [E21B 7/046 (2013.01); E21B 33/138 (2013.01); E21B 43/24 (2013.01); E21B 43/26 (2013.01); E21B 43/305 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high-efficiency yield-increasing exploitation method for natural gas hydrates, comprising the following steps:
(i) drilling of natural gas hydrate reservoirs along horizontal wells
as for the natural gas hydrate reservoirs, drilling well arrays in an exploratory trench drilling manner along the horizontal wells, each of which comprising three horizontal wells: a first horizontal well, and a second horizontal well and a third horizontal well positioned on two sides of the first horizontal well, and each of the horizontal wells comprising a vertical well section, an inclined well section, and a horizontal well section;
(ii) seepage increasing by fracturing for fracture forming and stability improvement by grouting in the natural gas hydrate reservoirs
after completing a drilling operation, implementing fracturing for fracture forming at the horizontal well section of the first horizontal well, injecting a seawater fracturing fluid into the first horizontal well, and allowing the seawater fracturing fluid to flow into the natural gas hydrate reservoirs along the horizontal well section, so that fractures are formed in the hydrate reservoirs between the first horizontal well and the second horizontal well, and between the first horizontal well and the third horizontal well,
then, injecting foam cement slurry into the horizontal well section of the first horizontal well, allowing the foam cement slurry to be distributed all over the natural gas hydrate reservoirs, and curing for forming, and
finally, injecting a resin or oligomer chemical sand control agent into a periphery of the well to reduce or avoid a sand production rate during an exploitation of the natural gas hydrates at a later period; and
(iii) yield improvement by combined exploitation of depressurization of the horizontal wells and heat injection
injecting seawater into the natural gas hydrate reservoirs along the first horizontal well at a temperature of above 60° C., and meanwhile, reducing a bottom pore pressure of the second horizontal well and the third horizontal well, so as to improve a decomposition rate of the natural gas hydrates in the reservoirs under a collaborative action of the two operations.