Evaluating subsurface properties through monitoring of electric pumps
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsZhijie Sun, Derek Shelby Bale, Yang Yu
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Abstract
A method for evaluating one or more properties of a wellbore. The method may include generating a tube wave in a wellbore, measuring one or more parameters of an electrical pump motor; and establishing a pump model and a wellbore model. The method may further include evaluating one or more properties of the wellbore based at least in part on the one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating a tube wave in a tubular of a wellbore with an electrical pump motor;
- measuring one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor;
- establishing a pump model and a wellbore model based at least in part on the one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor;
- and
- evaluating one or more properties of the wellbore formed at least in part by the pump model and the wellbore model.
A system comprising:
- an electrical pump motor fluidly connected to a tubular in a wellbore;
- and
- an information handling system connected to the electrical pump motor and configured to:
- generate a tube wave in the tubular by slowing the electrical pump motor;
- measure one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor;
- establish a pump model and a wellbore model based at least in part on the one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor;
- and
- evaluate one or more properties of the wellbore formed at least in part by the pump model and the wellbore model.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having data stored therein representing a software executable by a computer, the software executable comprising instructions configured to:
- generate a tube wave in a tubular of a wellbore by slowing an electrical pump motor fluidly connected to the tubular;
- measure one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor;
- establish a pump model and a wellbore model based at least in part on the one or more parameters of the electrical pump motor;
- and
- evaluate one or more properties of the wellbore formed at least in part by the pump model and the wellbore model.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.