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Title: System for kick detection during a drilling operation

Abstract

The disclosure provides a kick detection system for use during a drilling operation where wellbore kick warnings are provided based on indications of standoff conditions in a compensated instrument system. The system provides a warning of a potential kick condition by analyzing a current instrument compensation against a time series of past compensations, in order to monitor whether conditions within the standoff region of the wellbore are unexpectedly changing. The system comprises a source, a short-spaced detector, and a long-spaced detector, and a processor receives the short-spaced signal and the long-spaced signal, compensates the long-spaced signal, and generates standoff data reflecting the corrections applied to the long-range signal. The processor determines and maintains the standoff data as a time series and periodically compares a recent data point to a moving average in order to evaluate indications of a potential well kick.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1568171
Patent Number(s):
10253620
Application Number:
14/852,845
Assignee:
Rose, Kelly, Albany, OR (United States); Tost, Brian, Albany, OR (United States); Aminzadeh, Fred, Woodland Hills, CA (United States)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01V - GEOPHYSICS
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 09/14/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Rose, Kelly K., Tost, Brian C., and Aminzadeh, Fred. System for kick detection during a drilling operation. United States: N. p., 2019. Web.
Rose, Kelly K., Tost, Brian C., & Aminzadeh, Fred. System for kick detection during a drilling operation. United States.
Rose, Kelly K., Tost, Brian C., and Aminzadeh, Fred. Tue . "System for kick detection during a drilling operation". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1568171.
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abstractNote = {The disclosure provides a kick detection system for use during a drilling operation where wellbore kick warnings are provided based on indications of standoff conditions in a compensated instrument system. The system provides a warning of a potential kick condition by analyzing a current instrument compensation against a time series of past compensations, in order to monitor whether conditions within the standoff region of the wellbore are unexpectedly changing. The system comprises a source, a short-spaced detector, and a long-spaced detector, and a processor receives the short-spaced signal and the long-spaced signal, compensates the long-spaced signal, and generates standoff data reflecting the corrections applied to the long-range signal. The processor determines and maintains the standoff data as a time series and periodically compares a recent data point to a moving average in order to evaluate indications of a potential well kick.},
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