Detection and quantification of proppant for optimized fracture treatment design in in-fill and new wells

J Ciezobka, S Eisenlord, D Maity - US Patent 10,781,680, 2020 - Google Patents
A system and method for detecting and quantifying proppant for optimized fracture treatment
design in in-fill and new wells. Proppant is isolated from drilling fluids and then analyzed to …

Method of determining fracture interference in a hydraulically fractured well

OMM Ortiz - US Patent 11,308,409, 2022 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for quantifying frac hits within a few days using a novel pressure-
transient analysis technique called differ ential pressure-transient analysis (DPTA). Unlike …

Subsurface lithological model with machine learning

KL Prindle, A Goncharuk, ND Treat, KF Smith… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
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Improved fracture matching for completion operations

J Ma, A Lin - US Patent App. 15/574,689, 2018 - Google Patents
An example method may include receiving data corresponding to microseismic events
within a subterranean formation generated by a stimulation operation and correlating at …

Subsurface lithological model with machine learning

KL Prindle, A Goncharuk, ND Treat, KF Smith… - US Patent …, 2024 - Google Patents
This disclosure describes a system and method for generating a subsurface model
representing lithological characteristics and attributes of the subsurface of a celestial body or …

Hydraulic fracturing system

R Xu, S Wisaksono - US Patent 12,141,509, 2024 - Google Patents
A method can include receiving a stimulated rock volume dimension for a hydraulic fracture
in a reservoir where the stimulated rock volume dimension defines a stimulated rock volume …

Quantitative hydraulic fracturing surveillance from fiber optic sensing using machine learning

W Li, F Hveding - US Patent 12,123,299, 2024 - Google Patents
A system and methods for quantitative hydraulic fracturing surveillance from fiber optic
sensing using machine learning is described herein. An exemplary method provides …

Hydraulic integrity analysis

DD Cramer - US Patent 12,006,819, 2024 - Google Patents
An economical process in which cement sheath integrity, perforation cluster spacing and
frac plug integrity can be assessed for every frac stage, potentially leading to improvements …

Determining a characteristic associated with a reservoir

EWC Coenen - US Patent 11,767,751, 2023 - Google Patents
Techniques for determining a reservoir characteristic include determining, with an analytical
solution, a change to at least one control point of a boundary of a control volume defined in a …

Evaluating hydraulic fracturing breakdown effectiveness

VN Martysevich, RG Dusterhoft, J Ma - US Patent 11,098,561, 2021 - Google Patents
The disclosure improves the analysis of the hydraulic fracturing (HF) break down process of
a well system. The analysis can use as inputs collected HF data such as the HF fluid …