Determining Drilling Fluid Loss In A Wellbore
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsClinton Cheramie Galliano, Mathew Dennis Rowe, Walter Varney Andrew Graves
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Abstract
A location of a fracture can be determined in a wellbore. Micro-electro-mechanical (“MEM”) devices of different sizes and shapes can be included in a sweep and injected into a wellbore. A MEM reader can be positioned within a downhole tool for detecting MEM devices in the wellbore after a sweep returns to the surface of the wellbore. The MEM reader can be disposed in the wellbore for measuring the position of the MEM devices remaining in the wellbore. A location, size, and shape of a fracture in the wellbore can be determined based on the position of the MEM devices in the wellbore.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) reader in a wellbore, MEM devices in the wellbore subsequent to a sweep exiting the wellbore, the sweep containing MEM devices of different sizes and shapes;
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- transmitting data representing a position, an amount, and types of the MEM devices in the wellbore to a computing device for determining a location, size, and shape of a fracture in the wellbore based on the data.
A system comprising:
- micro-electro-mechanical (“MEM”) devices of different sizes and shapes disposable in a sweep injected into a wellbore;
- a MEM reader positionable in the wellbore by a downhole tool for detecting MEM devices at a position in the wellbore subsequent to the sweep returning to a surface of the wellbore;
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- a processing module communicatively coupled to the MEM reader for receiving data representing a position, an amount, and types of the MEM devices in the wellbore for determining a location, size, and shape of a fracture in the wellbore based on the data.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code that is executable by a processor device to cause a computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- generating data for determining a location of a fracture in a wellbore using data transmitted from a micro-electro-mechanical (“MEM”) reader, the data representing a position, an amount, and types of MEM devices in the wellbore;
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- outputting data for determining the location the fracture in the wellbore using the data transmitted from the MEM reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.