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Reactive torque
Last Updated on Mon, 02 Oct 2017 | Briling Engineering
Reactive torque is ereated by the driling fluid pushing against the stator.
Since the stator is bonded to the body of the motor the effect of this force isto
twist the motor and BHA anti-clockwise, AS weight-on-bit is increased, the
rling torque ereated by the motor Increases, and reactive toraue increases In
direct proportion, Thus a reasonable, although simplistic, way to view this is that
the clockwise drillng torque generated at the bit isthe “action” and the counter-
clockwise torque on the motor housing isthe “reaction”. The reactive torque at
the motor is equal to the driling torque.
Reactive torque causes a problem for directional drillers when they are using a
‘moter and bent sub to deflect the well-bore, The twisting of the BHA caused by
reactive torque changes the tool face orientation of the bent sub. If they are
obtaining tool face orientation from single shot surveys, the directional driller
has to estimate how much turn to the left they will get due to reactive torque.
‘They wil set the tool face that number of degrees round to the right of the
esired tool face, s0 that the reactive torque will bring it back to the setting
required while diling
Drill string design wil also affect the extent of "él string twist.” This concept is
Important to understand because it can directly affect the tool face orientation of
the downhole motor. This twisting becomes more cxitieal at greater depths,
especially when using smaller OD drilpipe
When driting isin progress, every effart must be made to keep the driing
parameters constant and obtain a constant reactive torque, and a steady tool
face setting. Reactive torque occurs with both types of downhole motors.
Obviously, high torque motors produce higher reactive torque.
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