Entered the drilling line, and always became a driller. Choosing a direction, for a key core technology problem, unremittingly tackling the key problems, will definitely be Yuru Yucheng.
——Zhou Yingcao
"Petroleum science and technology workers are employees of PetroChina, but they are doing the work of the state. Along the way, we have experienced a lot of the pain of failure and the hardships of hard work, and more feelings are the joy after the success of technical research. All achievements come from the cultivation of organizations at all levels of CNPC, the support and help of leaders and colleagues at all levels, and the joint efforts of senior masters and research teams. Everyone's efforts have made great progress in the drilling and completion technology of the mainland. On January 14, 2022, Zhou Yingcao, an oil and gas well engineering technology expert of the Academy of Engineering and Technology, was the only winner of the "2021 Outstanding Achievement Award of the Group Company" and delivered his "acceptance speech".
On January 14, 2022, Dai Houliang, chairman of the board of directors and secretary of the party group of the group company, presented awards to Zhou Yingcao, Jin Tian, Chang Zhengle, and photo report
Winning this award is also a summative affirmation of his 38 years of dedication to drilling and completion technology. From graduating from university to nearly the age of Huajia, he spent half his life devoting himself to the research and application of new drilling processes and new technologies, drilling new equipment and new tools, shortening the gap between China Petroleum's drilling and completion technology and international big oil service companies in this field. He led the innovation team to achieve a role change from follower to leader in fine pressure control drilling technology.
The habit of "going to the scene" has never changed in 38 years
Bench Gan sat ten years cold. After 38 years of work, Zhou Yingcao has an extraordinary persistence in all aspects of his work. From Daqing to Beijing, from the well field to the laboratory, his unit has changed, his identity has changed, and his position has changed, but his dedication to "going to the scene" has never changed.
"We must go to the site, especially if we are engaged in drilling." Problem-oriented and result-oriented are the most important. This is what Zhou Yingcao often said. His requirements for team members and students are that all materials must be first-hand.
After graduating from university in 1984, Zhou Yingcao began 8 years of on-site technical work in the drilling team. On the first day of his employment, he was led by his master to the drilling team and stationed in the well for one year. He regarded everyone on the well team as a teacher, asked the drillers of the drilling team for on-site experience, continued to practice observation and pondering, and effectively solved the complex problems such as card drilling that often occurred at the drilling site at that time through the development and application of the drilling shock device and its supporting technology.
Zhou Yingcao provided technical support on site
After 1986, he was stationed in Hailar, Chaoyanggou, Xujiaweizi and other difficult conditions of the exploration area for a long time, responsible for the prevention and treatment of complex accidents in deep well drilling, drilling speed, implementation of unbalanced drilling technology, etc., and solved the technical problems of the drilling site. Through the development and application of drill string vibration reduction technology such as "drill tool two-way shock absorber", the serious damage caused by the three-dimensional vibration of the deep well drill string to the drilling tool has been solved, and it is still being promoted and applied, and the benefits are remarkable. He presided over the design and led the on-site implementation of the drilling technology research and on-site construction operations of the first and second unbalanced wells in Daqing, and achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of deep gas in the Songliao Basin.
In 2002, as the project director of the National Science and Technology Research Project, in view of the many drilling engineering problems faced by the oilfield entering the late development of high water content, a set of supporting technologies for high water content late drilling engineering was innovatively formed, reaching the international advanced level, of which the cementing technology of the thin differential layer of the adjustment well reached the international leading position. After the promotion and application of this technology in Daqing Oilfield, it has created direct economic benefits of hundreds of millions of yuan. In 2005, this achievement won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
In April 2011, as the director of the national science and technology major special project and the head of the innovation team, Zhou Yingcao presided over the design and led the implementation of the drilling technology research and on-site construction operation of the first fine pressure control drilling well in China, Penglai 9 Well, and achieved a major breakthrough in fine pressure control drilling technology and equipment.
A major component of the PCDS fine pressure control drilling system
The accuracy and effectiveness of each research and development result is because Zhou Yingcao is "one step closer" to the scene. From Daqing Oilfield to Southwest Oilfield to Tarim Oilfield, every place where there is a drilling team has left the figure and footprint of Zhou Yingcao. Going to the scene became a sticking stick throughout his career.
"We have to have our own fine pressure control drilling technology!"
Let China's drilling and completion technology grow as soon as possible, and let China's drilling industry have the right to speak in the international market, which is the wish of Zhou Yingcao and his team members. He not only hangs on his lips, but also implements it in a successful scientific research. The success of the fine pressure control drilling technique is the best answer he handed over with his actions.
Pressure control drilling is equipped for NEBasement-I well applications
In 2008, under his leadership, the research team of the Institute of Engineering and Technology began the research of fine pressure control drilling technology. After more than 10 years of dedicated research, they have made major breakthroughs in the complete set of process equipment for fine pressure control drilling, and have reached the international leading level in terms of unbalanced fine pressure control drilling process technology, pressure control drilling condition simulation device and system evaluation method, breaking the monopoly of foreign technology, filling the domestic gap, and making China one of the few countries that have mastered the technology.
Pressure control drilling equipment is used in medieval 5-H2 wells
In August 2012, at the scene of the 26-7H well in the tower, Zhou Yingcao and his team members faced a battle that decided success or failure. At that time, the results of the first phase of the project landed, and they wanted to "compete on the same stage" with internationally renowned oil service companies. In the past many years, the domestic market has been served by this international oil service company, and on the maturity of empiric technology, domestic technology is not dominant. However, the results of the competition made Chinese excited - domestic technology created a new record for the longest horizontal section extending length of 1561 meters, "zero leakage and zero complexity". This is the first major breakthrough in China's fine pressure control drilling technology and equipment.
Pressure control drilling equipment is used in the tower 721-8H well
Since then, this set of technology and equipment has been popularized and applied in 12 oil and gas fields at home and abroad, and innovative and formed the advantages of narrow density window pressure control drilling, fracture-type carbonate horizontal well pressure control drilling, low-permeability ultra-low permeability reservoir underbalance control drilling, high-pressure brine safe and efficient pressure control drilling, offshore platform pressure control drilling and other advantageous characteristic technologies. In the international market, it competes with international famous companies on the same stage and wins the same stage bidding, showing strong technical strength and international competitiveness, and at the same time realizing the leapfrog development of technology in this field, it has created great value for the production and operation of the group company.
"Let the new scientific research forces grow vigorously from generation to generation!"
"Create a rigorous and pragmatic scientific research atmosphere with innovative ideas and innovative culture, so that young scientific research staff can devote themselves to scientific research without distraction and grow up as soon as possible." This is Zhou Yingcao's greatest wish, and it is also his long-term plan for this industry.
In 2013, Zhou Yingcao received the award at the Great Hall of the People
He has won 1 second prize of national scientific and technological progress, 1 third prize of national invention, 1 special prize, 2 first prizes and 7 second prizes of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress; 23 invention patents and 45 utility model patents; published 7 monographs and 109 papers, including 51 in SCI and EI; and supervised more than 40 doctoral and master's degrees. Zhou Yingcao's personal resume is densely filled with achievements, but in an interview, he is reluctant to talk more. In his heart, the achievements represent the past, and the scientific research work of drilling and completion technology has a long way to go.
"In order to make the team achieve higher goals, he has been working hard to create a good atmosphere of scientific and technological innovation, and he is also continuing to cultivate the replacement force for scientific research work." Zhao Qing, director of the Drilling Technology Research Institute of the Academy of Engineering technology, said.
Zhou Yingcao gave special lectures to young employees
In recent years, Zhou Yingcao has cultivated many young talents such as outstanding innovative talents, young talents, sun Yueqi excellent youth award winners of the group company, and trained more than 40 postdoctoral, doctoral and master's degrees, ensuring the sustainable development of the innovation team.
Speaking of the innovation team he has led, each team member is as proud and proud as several family treasures: "Our pressure control drilling technology innovation team has won the honors of the Group Company's Iron Man Pioneer, the Science and Technology Work Innovation Team, the Scientific and Technological Innovation Struggle Team, and the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Innovation Team Award. ”
In his daily work, Zhou Yingcao's most common requirement for young team members and students is "pragmatic". The words on the lips are: "To engage in scientific research, we must be down-to-earth and not blindly arrogant." He will not explain what is the "spirit of scientists", but will teach young colleagues how to maintain a "rigorous and realistic" scientific research style.
Zhou Yingcao communicated with students
Regarding the future, Zhou Yingcao has a sincere hope: "Talent growth needs a good environment. I think that the ideal environment is that everyone respects labor, respects knowledge, respects talents, respects creation, makes a good atmosphere become the norm, and makes the new scientific research forces grow vigorously from generation to generation, which is the hope of our Oil Drilling and Completion Technology of China, and it is also the endogenous driving force for the industry and the country's scientific research undertakings to inherit unceasingly. ”
Zhou Yingcao in the eyes of colleagues
Feng Yancheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Director of the Academy of Engineering and Technology
He has the "great power of the country" in mind, and has spared no effort to carry out state-level strategic planning such as the continuation of major national science and technology projects and top-level designs of oil and gas; he "dares to be the first", tackling the technical problems of deep wells and ultra-deep wells, and promoting the successful application of domestically produced controlled pressure drilling technology in the ocean for the first time; he "sticks to his heart" and writes his papers on well sites and drilling platforms, and writes them on the main battlefield of oil and gas exploration and development and quality improvement and efficiency improvement of the group company; he "is willing to be a ladder" and has trained a number of drilling and completion technical experts and scientific research backbones for the national oil drilling industry.
Liu Wei, deputy director of the Drilling Technology Research Institute of the Academy of Engineering technology
"Heart has a dream, the heart has an ideal", has been running on the road of "pursuing dreams, chasing ideals", 38 years of arduous scientific research road has never been slackened, everything is pursued to excellence, just to make the mainland petroleum engineering technology to a higher level. This is the Zhou Yingcao in my eyes. After more than 10 years of hard work, the complete set of process equipment for fine pressure control drilling has finally made a major breakthrough, filling the domestic gap, creating one industry record after another, and obtaining more and more wide applications.
Guo Qingfeng, assistant director of the Drilling Technology Research Institute of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
He repeatedly demonstrated and verified every technical goal and every technical solution; on-site response to the complex moment of the underground, considered the drilling engineering design of each well and every complex working condition; guided the master's and doctoral students, constantly discussed and revised every thesis and every topic selection direction... In this way, it has converged into the image of Zhou Yingcao's rigorous scientific research and rigorous management.
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Xue Mei, Wang Jing, Wei Feng, and Zhang Yunpu also contributed to this article
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