US Patent Application 17752317. NUMERICAL SIMULATION CAPABILITY FOR DETERMINING BLOCKAGES WITHIN A WELLBORE AND WELLBORE COMPLETION SETUPS simplified abstract
NUMERICAL SIMULATION CAPABILITY FOR DETERMINING BLOCKAGES WITHIN A WELLBORE AND WELLBORE COMPLETION SETUPS
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Inventor(s)
Osman Hamid of Houston TX (US)
Hussain Albahrani of Al Qatif (SA)
NUMERICAL SIMULATION CAPABILITY FOR DETERMINING BLOCKAGES WITHIN A WELLBORE AND WELLBORE COMPLETION SETUPS - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17752317 titled 'NUMERICAL SIMULATION CAPABILITY FOR DETERMINING BLOCKAGES WITHIN A WELLBORE AND WELLBORE COMPLETION SETUPS
Simplified Explanation
- This patent application describes systems and methods for installing a wellbore completion setup based on the probability within a reservoir. - The systems and methods involve measuring properties of the formation and using them as input conditions to a finite element model of the wellbore. - The finite element model is solved to determine the stresses of the formation surrounding the wellbore. - Based on whether the determined stresses exceed a threshold stress of a failure criterion, the systems and methods determine the size of rock fragments. - The systems and methods also determine the probability and select the wellbore completion setup based on this probability. - Finally, the selected wellbore completion setup is installed in the wellbore.
Original Abstract Submitted
The systems and methods described in this specification relate to installing a wellbore completion setup of a wellbore based on a probability within a reservoir. The systems and methods measure one or more properties of the formation and receive data representing the one or more measured properties. The systems and methods use the one or more properties as input conditions to a finite element model of the wellbore. The systems and methods solve the finite element model to determine stresses of the formation surrounding the wellbore. The systems and methods determine a size of one or more rock fragments based on whether the determined stresses from the finite element model are greater than a threshold stress of a failure criterion. The systems and methods determine the probability, select the wellbore completion setup of the wellbore based on the bridging probability, and install the selected wellbore completion setup in the wellbore.
