Determining spacing between wellbores
AssigneeDrilling Info, Inc.
InventorsMark Jeffrey Emanuel, Brendan Nealon, Tyler Krolczyk, Sean W. Moore
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Abstract
Techniques for determining a spacing, such as one or more distances, between two or more wellbores formed from a terranean surface to a subterranean formation are described. In some aspects, a wellbore segment is determined for both a first and a second wellbore. One or more distances between the wellbore segments on the first and second wellbores, respectively, is determined. From the determined distance between the wellbore segments on the first and second wellbores, one or more distances between the first and second wellbores may be determined.
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A computer-implemented method for determining wellbore spacing, comprising:
- identifying, with one or more hardware processors, a first wellbore formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean formation of a plurality of wellbores formed from the terranean surface toward the subterranean formation;
- determining, with the one or more hardware processors, at least one second wellbore formed from the terranean surface toward the subterranean formation of the plurality of wellbores based on one or more wellbore search criteria;
- determining, with the one or more hardware processors, at least two locations on the first wellbore that define a wellbore segment of the first wellbore;
- determining, with the one or more hardware processors, at least two locations on the at least one second wellbore that define a wellbore segment of the at least one second wellbore;
- determining, with the one or more hardware processors, at least one distance between the wellbore segment of the first wellbore and the wellbore segment of the at least one second wellbore;
- determining, with the one or more hardware processors, at least one distance between the first wellbore and the at least one second wellbore based on the determined at least one distance between the wellbore segment of the first wellbore and the wellbore segment of the at least one second wellbore;
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- generating, with the one or more hardware processors, a graphical representation of the determined at least one distance between the first wellbore and the at least one second wellbore.
A computing system for determining wellbore spacing, the system comprising:
- one or more hardware processors;
- at least one memory in communication with the one or more hardware processors, the memory storing instructions operable when executed by the one or more hardware processors to cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a first wellbore formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean formation of a plurality of wellbores formed from the terranean surface toward the subterranean formation;
- determining at least one second wellbore formed from the terranean surface toward the subterranean formation of the plurality of wellbores based on one or more wellbore search criteria;
- determining at least two locations on the first wellbore that define a wellbore segment of the first wellbore;
- determining at least two locations on the at least one second wellbore that define a wellbore segment of the at least one second wellbore;
- determining at least one distance between the wellbore segment of the first wellbore and the wellbore segment of the at least one second wellbore;
- determining at least one distance between the first wellbore and the at least one second wellbore based on the determined at least one distance between the wellbore segment of the first wellbore and the wellbore segment of the at least one second wellbore;
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- generating a graphical representation of the determined at least one distance between the first wellbore and the at least one second wellbore.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.