Simulating current flow through a well casing and an induced fracture

Bartel, Lewis C.

Title: Simulating current flow through a well casing and an induced fracture

Patent · Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020

OSTI ID:1735232

Bartel, Lewis C.

A system includes a receiver component that receives a model of a well system, the model comprising a representation of an electrically energized well casing and/or a fracture as a transmission line that leaks electric current as the current traverses the well casing and/or fracture. The receiver component also receives a value that indicates an amount of the current that is applied to the well casing and a location of a source of the current on the well casing. The system further includes an electromagnetic field calculator component that calculates an estimated electromagnetic field at at least one location on the surface of the earth based at least in part upon the representation of the electrically energized well casing and/or fracture, the value that indicates the amount of current that is applied to the well casing, and the location of the source of the current on the well casing.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Assignee:: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, NM)

Patent Number(s):: 10,767,465

Application Number:: 15/412,374

OSTI ID:: 1735232

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 01/23/2017

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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