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US 2016/0102528 A1Published application
Methods and systems for complex hydraulic fracturing operations and hydrocarbon recovery
AssigneeMelior Innovations, Inc.
InventorsRebecca Wise, David Bernstein, Mark Land, John Ely, Jacob Thomas
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Abstract
There is provided a solutions systems for modeling complex hydraulic and mechanical-hydraulic activities, including methods for obtaining and implementing augmented hydraulic fracturing and reservoir management of hydrocarbons.
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An augmented hydraulic fracturing system at a fracturing site associated with a well in a formation, the system comprising:
- a. an information unit, the information unit in communication with a network;
- b. a solution system for providing a simulation of the hydraulic and mechanical-hydraulic properties of the formation;
- c. the solution system in communication with the network;
- and,
- d. the solution system comprising a processor, memory, actual formation data, an orchestration segment, and a plurality of engines, wherein the orchestration segment facilitates the transmission and prioritization of information and data between the engines;
- e. whereby, the augmented hydraulic fracturing system is capable of providing a model of the hydraulic and mechanical-hydraulic properties of the formation.
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An augmented hydraulic fracturing system at a fracturing site for an oil field, the system comprising:
- a. an information unit, the information unit comprising a mobile container housing a solution system;
- b. the solution system comprising:
- a source for geologic data for a hydrocarbon bearing formation associated with an oil field, a source to an orchestration segment associated with a first engine and a second engine;
- and,
- c. the information unit comprising a means to display a computational augmented hydraulic fracturing plan;
- d. whereby the information unit comprises a 3-D representation of an augmented fracturing plan.
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As system for reducing the measured depth of a borehole and optimizing the hydraulic fracturing of the formation adjacent to the borehole, the system comprising:
- a. means for advancing a borehole;
- and,
- b. a solution system comprising a source for geologic data for a hydrocarbon bearing formation associated with an oil field, a source to an orchestration segment associated with an engine;
- c. whereby the system is capable of generating a borehole plan to reduce the measured depth of the borehole and optimize the orientation of the borehole with respect to the formation.
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A solution system for facilitating communication to obtain an augmented hydraulic fracturing plan, the system comprising comprising:
- network for facilitating the communication between a plurality of components;
- the components comprising:
- a client subject having a processor and a memory, the client subject having a first data input, a second data input, and a data output in association with an MHI;
- a data base storage and management segment (DBS) in two-way communication with the client subject;
- an orchestration segment in two-way communication with the DBS, whereby information from the DBS is routed to and received from the orchestration segment;
- a plurality of engines in operational association with the orchestration engine, whereby the the orchestration engine controls the flow of information from the engines;
- and, the engines are selected from the group consisting of LAPACK, DORSAL, DOLFIN, OPM, MRST, UFL, FIAT, INSTANT, FFC, DUNE, GCC OPENMP, LLVM, OPENMP, openMPI, PETSC, SLEPC, UMFPACK, CHOLMOD, SCOTCH, METIS, CGAL, ZLIB, PYTHON, HDF5, QT, GMSH, BOOST, EIGEN, NUMPY, SCIPY, MUMPS, and Node.JS.
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A solution system for facilitating communication to obtain an augmented hydraulic and mechanical-hydraulic model of a formation, the system comprising comprising:
- network for facilitating the communication between a plurality of components;
- the components comprising:
- a client subject having a processor and a memory, the client subject having a first data input, a second data input, and a data output in association with an MHI;
- a data base storage and management segment (DBS) in two-way communication with the client subject;
- an orchestration segment in two-way communication with the DBS, whereby information from the DBS is routed to and received from the orchestration segment;
- a plurality of engines in operational association with the orchestration engine, whereby the the orchestration engine controls the flow of information from the engines;
- and, at least one of the plurality of engines is selected from the group consisting of LAPACK, DORSAL, DOLFIN, OPM, MRST, UFL, FIAT, INSTANT, FFC, DUNE, GCC OPENMP, LLVM, OPENMP, openMPI, PETSC, SLEPC, UMFPACK, CHOLMOD, SCOTCH, METIS, CGAL, ZLIB, PYTHON, HDF5, QT, GMSH, BOOST, EIGEN, NUMPY, SCIPY, MUMPS, and Node.JS.
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A reservoir management system, the system comprising:
- a. an information unit, the information unit in communication with a network;
- b. a solution system for providing a simulation of the hydraulic and mechanical-hydraulic properties of the reservoir;
- c. the solution system in communication with the network;
- and,
- d. the solution system comprising a processor, memory, actual reservoir data, an orchestration segment, and a plurality of engines, wherein the orchestration segment facilitates the transmission and prioritization of information and data between the engines;
- e. whereby, the reservoir management system is capable of providing an augmented reservoir management plan.
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A solution system for providing virtual simulations, the system comprising:
- a. an orchestration segment;
- b. a first engine;
- and,
- c. a second engine
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An augmented workover and completion system at a site associated with a formation, the system comprising:
- a. a information unit, the information unit in communication with a network,
- b. a solution system for providing a simulation of at least the hydraulic or mechanical-hydraulic properties of the formation;
- c. the solution system in communication with the network;
- d. the solution system comprising actual data from the formation, an orchestration segment, and a plurality of engines, wherein the orchestration segment facilitates at least the transmission or prioritization of information between the engines;
- wherein the solution system is cable of providing a downhole model;
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- e. a means to display the down hole model.
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A method of hydraulically fracturing a formation having a borehole located in the formation, the method comprising:
- a. obtaining actual data defining a physical characteristic of a formation in an area adjacent to a borehole in the formation;
- b. providing the actual data to a solution system, the solution system comprising an orchestration system, a first engine and a second engine;
- c. obtaining from the solution system a model of the mechanical and hydro-mechanical properties of the area of the formation adjacent to the borehole;
- and,
- d. combining the model and a second actual data defining a physical characteristic of the formation with the model;
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- e. thereby providing an augmented hydraulic fracturing plan for the formation.
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A method of hydraulically fracturing a formation having a borehole located in the formation, the method comprising:
- a. obtaining actual data defining a physical characteristic of a formation in an area adjacent to a borehole in the formation;
- b. providing the actual data to a solution system, the solution system comprising an orchestration system, a first engine and a second engine;
- and,
- c. obtaining from the solution system an augmented hydraulic fracturing plan for the formation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.