Prior to the closing of the thirteenth China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition, shale pressure cracking device become hot attention. 3000 China Petrochemical Petroleum Engineering Machinery Company assumed complete fracturing equipment items breakthrough in the development of key technologies, to meet the special needs of the "continuous construction, big load, prolonged shale Pressure crack. According to reports, the fracturing technology in 3000 as the world's first core technology has reached the world advanced level, large-scale production is expected within two years. Sinopec official said, to be constantly in the the fracturing equipment research and development platform products, but also the core technology to support the sustainable development of shale gas exploration and development.
However, according to the reporter, the fracturing equipment has become a hot, not only because of the shale gas heat. Of low permeability oil and gas resources in the status quo, and also determines the broad demand for fracturing equipment.
Gas Flushing fracturing outfit peak demand in the following sets of rigs from a variety of long-term point of view, very promising, but for now, the most realistic of the market in North America, the potential market is China Petroleum Group Consulting Center experts Europe, the Chinese market is lagging behind.
Dense oil and gas development capable equipment
It is understood, cementing, fracturing and acidizing a mature stimulation technology is widely used in the world, oil and gas yield wells by injection of an important process measures, is also an important means to enhance oil recovery. In the early 1990s, the Daqing Oilfield, Zhongyuan Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield in succession from the United States to introduce the sets fracturing equipment.
Rich oil and gas resources of low-permeability (tight), accounting for more than two-thirds of the national oil reserves. Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Research Institute of Changqing Branch President Wang Changning said, in 2013, the Changqing Oilfield production target of 50 million tons, is expected to mostly rely on the contribution of low permeability reservoirs. Permeability reservoir storage as key areas of future oil and gas resource development, fracturing is an important part of the reserves into production. The fracturing equipment market is vast.
Wuhan Chuan, chief engineer of the China Petrochemical Petroleum Engineering Machinery Co., Ltd., said that the rapid growth in demand for fracturing equipment in recent years, the main pull factors have two: one in Xinjiang and Sichuan, as represented by block gas transformation; another is dense oil and gas development . Shale gas still accounted for a small percentage.
According to reports, oil and gas extraction process a large number of applications the fracturing process. Fracturing operations fracturing truck group will carry the liquid is injected through the high-pressure pump to the destination layer of chemical additives and quartz sand, and the reservoir rock fracture cracks. Quartz sand in the fracturing fluid several times larger than the density of formation sand can play a supporting role in the fracture, the fracture is on long-term, to form a crude oozing channels, to improve the environment of the oil flow to increase crude oil production.
The main equipment is the fracturing fracturing operations car group or fracturing skid. Fracturing truck group generally contains fracturing pump, sand car, car dashboard, and manifold car.
Shale gas development with the thermal potential market
Although shale gas development is still very small, the pulling effect on the fracturing equipment yet to play out, but in the next few years, the shale gas represented by unconventional oil and gas will drive the rapid growth of the total of fracturing and scale and driven the fracturing equipment market prosperity.
Reporter learned that the most important technology of shale gas two: horizontal wells and fracturing techniques. The former can greatly improve the production per well; latter to deal with the problem of low porosity shale gas play cracks through artificial fracturing method. According to experts, China's current horizontal well technology has been a lot of development of the fracturing level there are still a large gap compared with the United States. China is only a preliminary master horizontal drilling segment fracturing technology has not yet formed a key technology system of shale gas development, there is still a long way to go away from the large-scale development.
UBS Securities analyst, said future shale gas development in China will give rise to the shale gas industry chain, market demand, horizontal drilling, well completion, and fracturing equipment will be the first to be boosted. " .
Currently the world's major drilling equipment suppliers have targeted the fracturing market. In the country, Jianghan Oilfield Petroleum Machinery Factory, Yantai Jerry Petroleum Equipment Co., Ltd., Lanzhou General Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Dagang into equipment manufacturing company in the development of fracturing equipment. Jiyi science and technology enterprises have begun to enter the the fracturing equipment market.
Yantai Jerry Oilfield Services Group Co. vice president Jiang Xiao Bao said shale gas reserves and advance them earlier, and accumulated some experience, mutatis mutandis, the demand of the United States an annual increase of 700-800 fracturing trucks to see, the expected demand for large-scale development of China's shale gas fracturing truck will be very considerable. On the basis of an annual output of more than 100 fracturing truck in 2012, the 2013 has a capacity reserve.
New technology brings new problems to be addressed
It is understood that China's foreign from 1970s small fracturing units, and fracturing equipment design and manufacturing technology is monopolized by Europe and the United States and other countries. After the end of the 1980s, Jianghan four machine imported from the United States through trade and technology combined with fracturing unit design and manufacturing technology, this pattern was challenged.
In recent years, the domestic production of fracturing equipment quickly replaced by imports, domestic fracturing equipment accounted for the main body of the domestic market, and gradually enter the international market.
Wuhan Chuan experimental platform is one of the hallmarks of measure of the level of the equipment manufacturing industry. After several years of development, the domestic fracturing equipment has established three experimental platform: experimental materials and basic experiment platform; experiment platform is established for key components of the fracturing equipment as well as detection; Third, reach the highest international level, mixed experimental platform. These experimental platform a strong impetus to the development of fracturing equipment.
Industry sources, with the deep development of domestic oil and gas fields, the formation pressure is growing deeper and deeper wells, large fracturing operation to become the development direction, which put a higher demand for fracturing equipment. In addition, the widespread use of the new fracturing technology, such as the injection of nitrogen, carbon dioxide fracturing, required to solve the problem of the drastic changes in temperature and corrosion, which requires fracturing equipment to achieve high power, large displacement, must also improve material performance. Domestic fracturing equipment to really catch up with the world advanced level, we must face these new changes in market demand and solve new problems.
Wuhan Chuan should focus on the future development of unconventional oil and gas system, including equipment, control systems, as well as technology and services.