Integrated installation workover control system
View Patent ↗A subsea production system for controlling fluid flow from a well. The system includes a subsea production tree and a drilling riser engageable with the well. The tree includes electrical and hydraulic lines to communicate with equipment in the tree and downhole in the well. The system also includes a tieback tool that can be installed in the tree through the drilling riser to establish communication with the tree electrical and hydraulic lines and permit access into the well bore. The system also includes an umbilical connectable with the tieback tool and extendable inside the drilling riser to the surface. The umbilical can be used to communicate the tieback tool. The umbilical can also be used to communicate with the tree and downhole equipment through the tieback tool connection with the tree.
1. A subsea production system for controlling fluid flow from a well, the system including:
a subsea production tree and a drilling riser engageable with the well, the tree including electrical and hydraulic lines to communicate with equipment in the tree and downhole in the well;
a tieback tool that can be installed in the tree through the drilling riser to establish at least one of electrical and hydraulic communication with the tree electrical and hydraulic lines;
an umbilical connectable with the tieback tool and extendable inside the drilling riser to the surface;
where the umbilical can be used to communicate at least one of electrically and hydraulically with the tieback tool;
where the umbilical can be used to communicate at least one of electrically and hydraulically with the tree and downhole equipment through the tieback tool connection with the tree; and
where the umbilical can at least one of control and monitor the tieback tool and the tree equipment.
2. The subsea production system of claim 1 , where the tieback tool includes at least one of a tubing hanger running tool and a subsea test tree.
3. The subsea production system of claim 1 , where the umbilical can at least one of control and monitor the downhole equipment.
4. The subsea production system of claim 1 , where the umbilical can be used to perform at least one of pressure testing, hanger installation, production flow testing, downhole well logging, chemical injection, wireline activities, and well monitoring.
5. The subsea production system of claim 1 , where the umbilical is a multi-plex electro-hydraulic umbilical.
6. The subsea production system of claim 1 , where the tieback tool is installed using a completion riser system.
7. The subsea production system of claim 1 , the tree equipment includes fluid control valves and the downhole equipment includes at least one of pressure and temperature sensors.
8. A subsea production system for controlling fluid flow from a well, the system including:
a subsea production tree and a drilling riser engageable with the well, the tree including electrical and hydraulic lines to communicate with equipment in the tree and downhole in the well;
a tieback tool, including a tubing hanger running tool and a subsea test tree, that can be installed in the tree through the drilling riser to establish communication with the tree electrical and hydraulic lines;
an umbilical connectable with the tieback tool and extendable inside the drilling riser to the surface;
where the umbilical can be used to control the tieback tool; and
where the umbilical can also be used to control tree valves and monitor at least one of downhole pressure and temperature sensors through the tieback tool connection with the tree.
9. The subsea production system of claim 8 , where the umbilical can at least one of control and monitor the tieback tool, the tree equipment, and the downhole equipment.
10. The subsea production system of claim 8 , where the umbilical can be used to perform at least one of pressure testing, hanger installation, production flow testing, downhole well logging, chemical injection, wireline activities, and well monitoring.
11. The subsea production system of claim 8 , where the umbilical is a multi-plex electro-hydraulic umbilical.
12. The subsea production system of claim 8 , where the tieback tool is installed using a completion riser system.
13. A method of controlling fluid flow from a subsea well including:
installing a subsea production tree and a drilling riser to the well, the tree including electrical and hydraulic lines for controlling equipment on the tree and communicating with downhole equipment in the well;
installing a tieback tool to the tree through the drilling riser, the tieback tool establishing at least one of electrical and hydraulic communication between the tree electrical and hydraulic lines and an umbilical extending inside the drilling riser;
communicating at least one of electrically and hydraulically with the tieback tool and the tree and downhole equipment using the umbilical to control fluid flow from the well; and
using the umbilical to control and monitor at least one of the tieback tool and the tree equipment.
14. The method of claim 13 , where the tieback tool includes at least one of a tubing hanger running tool and a subsea test tree.
15. The method of claim 13 further including using the umbilical to control and monitor the downhole equipment.
16. The method of claim 13 , where controlling fluid flow from the well includes at least one of pressure testing, hanger installation, production flow testing, downhole well logging, chemical injection, wireline activities, and well monitoring.
17. The method of claim 13 , where the umbilical is a multi-plex electro-hydraulic umbilical.
18. The method of claim 13 , further including installing the tieback tool using a completion riser system.
19. The method of claim 13 , where the tree equipment includes fluid control valves and the downhole equipment includes at least one of fluid control valves and pressure and temperature sensors.