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US 11,236,610 B2Granted
Apparatus and methods to manage wellbore fluid properties
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsKevin Gregory Kleinguetl, Dale E. Jamison, Jason Glen Bell
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Abstract
A corrective product addition treatment or surface treatment to a wellbore fluid is based on performing an artificial intelligence technique and/or a closed form solution with respect to one or more fluid properties. Pilot testing and operational testing to operatively dose a fluid at a drilling site may be integrated into the corrective product addition treatment or surface treatment to a wellbore fluid.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- measuring a fluid property of a wellbore fluid such that a measured value of the fluid property is provided;
- determining whether the measured value is within an assigned specification of the fluid property;
- determining a product addition treatment or a surface treatment for the wellbore fluid by performing an artificial intelligence technique and a closed form solution upon determination that the measured value is not within the assigned specification of the fluid property;
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- executing corrective product addition treatment or surface treatment based on performing the artificial intelligence technique and the closed form solution.
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A system for use with a measurement tool, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory module operable with the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors and the memory module are structured to operate to:
- measure a fluid property of a wellbore fluid by use of the measurement tool to provide a measured value of the fluid property;
- determine whether the measured value is within an assigned specification of the fluid property;
- determine a product addition treatment or a surface treatment for the wellbore fluid by performance of an artificial intelligence technique and a closed form solution upon determination that the measured value is not within the assigned specification of the fluid property;
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- execute corrective product addition treatment or surface treatment based the performance of the artificial intelligence technique or the closed form solution.
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A system for use with a mud pit at a rig site, comprising:
- a fluids supply system to extract fluid from the mud pit at the rig site;
- a pilot tester operatively coupled to the fluids supply system and capable of receiving the extracted fluid and one or more additives;
- an automatic mud measuring equipment system operatively coupled to the fluids supply system and the pilot tester and operable to test the extracted fluid and one or more additives to generate data;
- a dosing system operable to inject the one or more additives into the mud pit;
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- a processor programmed to use a modeling module to generate input to the dosing system for adding the one or more additives based on the data from the automatic mud measuring equipment system.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a sample of mud from a fluids supply system;
- adding one or more additive materials to the sample to generate a new fluid;
- mixing and conditioning the new fluid;
- testing fluid properties of the mixed and conditioned new fluid with an automatic mud measuring equipment system operable to generate data on the new fluid for modeling and
- repeating the above to maintain real time fluid properties models.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.