The screw motor generates downhole annular pressure drop through fluid drive during the drilling process, and accurate prediction of this pressure drop is crucial for ensuring drilling safety and stable operation. Traditional physical models, constrained by idealized assumptions, are limited in fully reflecting the multi-source coupling characteristics, while purely data-driven methods are susceptible to data quality and external disturbances, leading to insufficient model generalization.To address these issues, DeepONet (deep operator network) was integrated with physical constraints, and an improved DON-PINN model based on physical information neural networks was proposed. The model directly learns the complex mapping relationship between input and output by incorporating the flow mechanism of the screw motor into the loss function, while using the wellbore annular fluid dynamics equation as a physical constraint to ensure the consistency and accuracy of the prediction results. Based on experimental data obtained from a self-designed screw motor pressure drop system, the performance of the DON-PINN model was compared with that of MLP (multilayer perceptron) and FCNN (fully connected neural network). The results showed that DON-PINN outperformed the two traditional methods in terms of training efficiency, prediction accuracy, and generalization ability, and was able to accurately capture the nonlinear trends of pressure drop with changes in parameters under the dominance of different variables. This approach, by combining physical mechanism constraints with data-driven learning capabilities, provided a new solution for predicting the pressure drop effect of downhole screw motors and had the potential to improve operational safety and continuity under complex drilling conditions.
LI Ji-xin, LI Jun-chao, SU Bin, QUAN Heng-jie, SUN Mao-yuan.
Downhole Pressure Drop Prediction Model for Screw Motors Drilling Based on Physics-informed Neural Networks[J].
Science Technology and Engineering, 2026, 26(14): 5992-6003 DOI:10.12404/j.issn.1671-1815.2505523
基于物理机理建模的方法通常依托特定条件和已有的大量实验或现场数据,构建物理模型以进行归纳与总结。然而,该类方法受模型差异性和运行工况多变性的限制,往往缺乏通用性,且预测结果易产生较大偏差。北欧创新可持续性研究所(Institute for Research in Innovative Sustainability,IRIS)[14]通过耦合钻柱与环空内的质量守恒和动量守恒方程,构建了井筒压力动态模型,用以评估控制算法的应用效果。但其结构相对简化,在动态预测的过程中仍存在不足。Shishavan等[15]使用经典Kaasa井筒水力学模型以及井筒与钻柱参数间的耦合数学关系,构建了一个全局钻井预测模型。但当钻井液密度不均时,该模型的适用性和稳定性均受到限制。Yang等[16]针对深水油气井在测试及初期生产阶段的工况,基于能量守恒原理与井筒传热分析,推导出深水井套管环空温度计算公式,并结合PVT状态方程(Pressure、Volume和Temperature)建立了套管环空压力预测模型。该模型考虑了套管径向热膨胀与收缩、环空流体热膨胀与冷缩等因素对环空体积的影响,但未充分反映实际钻具组合进入环空时对套管的作用效果。
为了更好地评估预测模型在数据集中测试的可靠性,使用了决定系数(coefficient of determination,R2)、均方误差(mean squared error,MSE)、平均绝对误差(mean absolute error,MAE)和均方根误差(root mean squared error,RMSE)4种评估指标来表示实际值和预测值之间的关系,其定义为
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