Drilling motor drill bit reaming stabilizer

Abstract:

In one embodiment, the invention provides a drilling assembly comprising a motor, a reaming stabilizer and a drill bit. The motor is adapted to be attached to a drill string, the motor includes a drive shaft with a mandrel mounted at the bottom end of the shaft. The reaming stabilizer is attached to the shaft of the motor by the mandrel, so that the stabilizer may be rotatably driven by the motor. The drill bit is attached to the stabilizer to be rotatably driven by the stabilizer. The stabilizer is sized so that the overall length of the drilling assembly is increased by a maximum of about 16 inches. Greater lengths may reduce motor bearing life, adversely affect the steering of the tool or result in drive shaft breakage with consequent loss of the drill bit and stabilizer in the hole.

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Claims:

What is claimed is:

1. A drilling assembly comprising:

a downhole drilling motor having a top end and a bottom end, the top end being adapted for connection to a drill string, the motor having a rotatable longitudinal driven shaft connected to a longitudinal cylindrical mandrel on the bottom end ofthe motor, the mandrel having a transverse diameter and a distal end opposite the shaft, the distal end of the mandrel having an axial internally threaded mandrel box;

a longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer having a top end and a bottom end, the top end of the stabilizer being threadably connected to the internally threaded mandrel box, the stabilizer having longitudinal flutes and lands, the landsdefining a transverse stabilizer diameter greater than the transverse diameter of the mandrel, the bottom end of the stabilizer having an axial internally threaded stabilizer box;

a drill bit threadably received in the stabilizer box, the drill bit having a transverse diameter substantially the same as the transverse diameter of the stabilizer;

wherein the stabilizer is sized so that the drill bit is longitudinally spaced apart from the distal end of the mandrel by the stabilizer by no more than about 16 inches.

2. The drilling assembly of claim 1 wherein the stabilizer is sized so that the drill bit is longitudinally spaced apart from the distal end of the mandrel by the stabilizer by no more than about 10 inches.

3. The drilling assembly of claim 1 wherein the stabilizer is sized so that the drill bit is longitudinally spaced apart from the distal end of the mandrel by the stabilizer by no more than about 8 inches.

4. The drilling assembly of claim 1 wherein the lands are provided with a plurality of hardened inserts extending outwardly from the lands to define the transverse diameter of the stabilizer.

5. The drilling assembly of claim 2 wherein the lands are provided with a plurality of hardened inserts extending outwardly from the lands to define the transverse diameter of the stabilizer.

6. The drilling assembly of claim 3 wherein the lands are provided with a plurality of hardened inserts extending outwardly from the lands to define the transverse diameter of the stabilizer.

7. The drilling assembly of claim 4 wherein the hardened inserts comprise a polycrystaline diamond coating.

8. The drilling assembly of claim 5 wherein the hardened inserts comprise a polycrystaline diamond coating.

9. The drilling assembly of claim 6 wherein the hardened inserts comprise a polycrystaline diamond coating.

10. The drilling assembly of claim 4 wherein the inserts extend outwardly from the lands by no more than about 5/16 inch, and the inserts have a hemispherical conformation.

11. The drilling assembly of claim 9 wherein the inserts extend outwardly from the lands by no more than about 5/16 inch, and the inserts have a hemispherical conformation.

12. The drilling assembly of claim 4 wherein the hardened inserts are removably mounted in the stabilizer by brazing.

13. The drilling assembly of claim 9 wherein the hardened inserts are removably mounted in the stabilizer by brazing.

14. The drilling assembly of claim 11 wherein the hardened inserts are removably mounted in the stabilizer by brazing.

15. The drilling assembly of claim 1 wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer.

16. The drilling assembly of claim 3 wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer.

17. The drilling assembly of claim 4 wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer, wherein hardened inserts aremounted on the steps.

18. The drilling assembly of claim 6 wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer, wherein hardened inserts aremounted on the steps.

19. The drilling assembly of claim 9 wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer, wherein hardened inserts aremounted on the steps.

20. The drilling assembly of claim 14 wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer, wherein hardened inserts aremounted on the steps.

21. The drilling assembly of claim 1 wherein the lands and flutes are spirally arranged.

22. The drilling assembly of claim 20 wherein the lands and flutes are spirally arranged.

23. The drilling assembly of claim 1 wherein the motor, the stabilizer and the drill bit are provided with internal channels to permit a drilling fluid to flow from the drilling string to the bit.

24. A longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer to be connected at one end to a motor mandrel box and threadedly connected to a drill bit at an opposite end, wherein the stabilizer is sized so that the drill bit is longitudinally spaced apartfrom the distal end of the mandrel by the stabilizer by no more than about 16 inches.

25. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 24, wherein the stabilizer is sized so that the drill bit is longitudinally spaced apart from the distal end of the mandrel by no more than about 10 inches.

26. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 24, wherein the stabilizer is sized so that the drill bit is longitudinally spaced apart from the distal end of the mandrel by the stabilizer by no more than about 8 inches.

27. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 24, wherein the stabilizer has longitudinal flutes and lands, the lands defining a transverse stabilizer diameter greater than the transverse diameter of the mandrel.

28. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 27, wherein the lands are provided with a plurality of hardened inserts extending outwardly from the lands to define the transverse diameter of the stabilizer.

29. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 28, wherein the hardened inserts comprise a polycrystaline diamond coating.

30. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 29, wherein the inserts extend outwardly from the lands by no more than about 5/16 inch, and the inserts have a hemispherical conformation.

31. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 30, wherein the hardened inserts are removably mounted in the stabilizer by brazing.

32. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 31, wherein the lands comprise steps, steps towards the bottom end of the stabilizer extending outwardly from the stabilizer less than steps towards the top end of the stabilizer,wherein the hardened inserts are mounted on the steps.

33. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 32, wherein the lands and flutes are spirally arranged.

34. The longitudinal cylindrical reaming stabilizer of claim 33, wherein the stabilizer is provided with internal channels to permit drilling fluid to flow through the stabilizer.

Patent number:
6213229
View patent at USPTO

Filing date:
October 13, 1998

Issue date:
April 10, 2001

Inventor:
Davor Majkovic (Edmonton, CA)

Primary Examiner:
Frank Tsay

Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

Current U.S. Classification: 175/325.2 175/325.5