Hydraulics modelling for drilling automation

Project Information

HYDRA

Grant agreement ID: 675731

DOI 10.3030/675731

Project closed

EC signature date 11 December 2015

Start date 1 March 2016

End date 29 February 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 773 624,16

EU contribution € 773 624,16

Coordinated by

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN
Netherlands

Deliverables

Documents, reports (11)

Personal career development plan ESRs

Personal career development plans for all ESRs

Definition case study on complex influx/loss scenarios
Model validation for complex influx/loss scenarios
Definition case study on standard (non-complex) influx/loss scenarios
Final report on project achievements
Automatic model order reduction techniques for multi-phase hydraulic drilling models for simulation and estimation & control
Multi-phase flow model description
Definition case study on normal drilling operations without influx/loss
Physics-based model complexity reduction approach for multi-phase hydraulic drilling models
Model validation for normal drilling operations without influx/loss
Model validation for standard (non-complex) influx/loss scenarios

Other (9)

Recruitment ESRs completed

Recruitment ESRs completed: summary report

Awarded PhD degrees ESRs

Awarded PhD degrees ESRs. Note that PhD programs at TU/e are fixed to 4 years and as a consequence the PhD defense of the ESRs at TU/e will be later than month 42.

Completed training program on Core Skill Areas 2&3
Publication of at least two peer-reviewed journal paper per ESR
Invited session proposals for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control on modelling of multiphase flow for drilling automation
Workshop on future valorisation of the results and industrial knowledge transfer
All the ESRs pass their first-year Ph.D. evaluation at their respective institutions
Matlab code implementing the multi-phase flow model
Completed training programs on Core Skill Area 1

Completed training programs on Core Skill Area 1, involving mainly training activities Teaching Activities 1-3

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website

Publications

Conference proceedings (4)

Model Order Reduction for Managed Pressure Drilling Systems based on a Model with Local Nonlinearities

Author(s): S. Naderi Lordejani, B. Besselink, M.H. Abbasi, G.-O. Kaasa, W. H. A. Schilders, N. van de Wouw
Published in: Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production (IFAC OOGP 2018), 2018
Publisher: IFAC

An Extended Model Order Reduction Technique for Linear Delay Systems

Author(s): Naderi, S., Besselink, B., van de Wouw, N.
Published in: in the Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Decision and Control, 2019
Publisher: IEEE

Transient Modeling of Influx and Observer Implementation for Estimation While Drilling

Author(s): N. Velmurugan and F. Di Meglio
Published in: Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Control, 2018
Publisher: IEEE

Observer Design for a Coupled ODE-PDE System from a Wellbore Reservoir Drilling Model

Author(s): L. Camacho-Solorio, N. Velmurugan, F. Di Meglio and M. Krstic
Published in: Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Control, 2019
Publisher: IEEE

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Model order reduction for linear time delay systems: a delay-dependent approach based on energy functionals

Author(s): Naderi, S., Besselink, B., CHaillet, A., van de Wouw, N.
Published in: Automatica, Issue Volume 112, 2020, ISSN 0005-1098
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.

A Godunov-type scheme for the drift flux model with variable cross section

Author(s): Mohammad Abbasi, Sajad Naderilordejani, Naveen Velmurugan, Christian Berg, Laura Iapichino, Wil Schilders, Nathan van de Wouw
Published in: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Issue Volume 179, 2019, ISSN 0920-4105
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Modelling and numerical implementation of managed pressure drilling systems for the assessment of pressure control systems

Author(s): S. Naderi Lordejani, M. H. Abbasi, N. Velmurugan, C. Berg, J. A. Stakvik, B. Besselink, L. Iapichino, F. Di Meglio, W.H.A. Schilders, N. van de Wouw
Published in: SPE Drilling and Completion, 2020, Page(s) SPE-201108-PA, ISSN 1930-0204
Publisher: SPE

A Well-Balanced Godunov-Type Scheme for the Isothermal Euler Equations and the Drift Flux Model with Laminar Friction and Gravitation

Author(s): M.H. Abbasi, S. Naderi Lordejani, C. Berg, L. Iapichino, W.H.A. Schilders and N. van de Wouw
Published in: Journal of Computational Physics, Issue Submitted, 2019, ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher: Academic Press

Error estimation in reduced basis method for systems with time-varying and nonlinear boundary conditions

Author(s): M.H. Abbasi, L. Iapichino, B. Besselink, W.H.A. Schilders and N. van de Wouw
Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Issue Vol. 360, number 112688, 2020, ISSN 0045-7825
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Reduced Basis Method for Managed Pressure Drilling Based on a Model with Local Nonlinearities

Author(s): M.H. Abbasi, L. Iapichino, S. Naderi Lordejani, W.H.A. Schilders and N. van de Wouw
Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Issue Submitted, 2020, ISSN 0029-5981
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Control-oriented modelling for managed pressure drilling automation using model order reduction

Author(s): S. Naderi Lordejani, B. Besselink, M. H. Abbasi, G.-O. Kaasa, W. H. A. Schilders and N. van de Wouw
Published in: IEEE transactions on control systems technology, 2020, ISSN 1063-6536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Influx Management Envelope Considering Real Fluid Behaviour

Author(s): C. Berg, G. Evjen, N. Velmurugan, M. Culen
Published in: SPE Drilling & Completion, 2019, ISSN 1064-6671
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc.

The Influx Management Envelope Considering Real Fluid Behaviour Drilling Controls

Author(s): Christian Berg, Geir Arne Evjen, Naveen Velmurugan, Martin Culen
Published in: SPE Drilling and Completion, Issue 10.2118/198916-PA, 2019, ISSN 1064-6671
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc.