Patent classifications
G01V1/288
FRACTURING CONTROL
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Systems and methods are provided for receiving diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore, accessing a fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracture completion with respect to surface variables of the hydraulic fracturing completion, selecting one or more subsurface objective functions from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures, and applying the fracture formation model based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables for controlling the formation characteristics of the fractures to converge on the one or more subsurface objective functions.
WELLBORE INTERFERENCE OPERATION CONTROL
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Systems and methods are provided for receiving diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore, accessing a fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracturing completion with respect to surface variables of the hydraulic fracturing completion, selecting one or more subsurface objective functions from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures, the one or more subsurface objective functions including an objective function for wellbore interference, the objective function for wellbore interference including interference information from a neighboring wellbore, and applying the fracture formation model based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables.
FRACTURE COMPLEXITY OPERATION CONTROL
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore can be received. A fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracturing completion with respect to surface variables can be accessed. A subsurface objective function of fracture complexity can be selected from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures. The fracture formation model can be applied based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables for controlling the formation characteristics of the fractures to converge on the subsurface objective function of fracture complexity. As follows, a fracture completion plan can be formed based on the values of the surface variables.
CLUSTER EFFICIENCY OPERATION CONTROL
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Systems and methods are provided for receiving diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore, accessing a fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracturing completion with respect to surface variables of the hydraulic fracturing completion, selecting one or more subsurface objective functions from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures, the one or more subsurface objective functions including an objective function for cluster efficiency, the objective function for cluster efficiency including flow distribution throughout a plurality of clusters of perforations, and applying the fracture formation model based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables.
Estimation Of Fracture Complexity
A method of determining fracture complexity may comprise receiving one or more signal inputs from a fracturing operation, calculating an observed fracture growth rate based at least partially on the one or more signal inputs, calculating a predicted fracture growth rate, determining a fracture complexity value, and applying a control technique to make adjustments a hydraulic stimulation operation based at least in part on the fracture complexity value. Also provided is a system for determining a fracture complexity for a hydraulic fracturing operation may comprise a hydraulic fracturing system, a sensor unit to receive one or more signal inputs, a calculating unit, a fracture complexity unit, and a controller unit to apply a control technique to adjust one or more hydraulic stimulation parameters on the hydraulic fracturing system.
Bayesian polarity determination
A device for assigning to the unknown onset of a signal in a noisy time series a probability of that onset having a signed excursion away from the trace mean including one or more means arranged to: define a polarity at a given time sample by reference to the sign of the amplitude difference between the extrema immediately before and after the given time sample in the time series; define a positive and a negative polarity probability density function; take the respective products of the positive and negative polarity probability density functions with an onset probability density function defining the probability that the onset of the signal occurs at a given time sample; and marginalize the respective products of the positive and negative polarity probability density functions with the onset probability density function over time to estimate final probabilities that the onset has a positive or a negative polarity.
Multi-system, multi-parameter, integrated, comprehensive early warning method and system for coal and rock dynamic disaster
A multi-system, multi-parameter, integrated, comprehensive early warning method for a coal and rock dynamic disaster includes: obtaining monitoring data of a plurality of monitoring systems for the coal rock dynamic disaster, and extracting multivariate characteristic parameters capable of reflecting precursor information of the coal and rock dynamic disaster in each monitoring system based on the monitoring data; screening out a combination of characteristic parameters with a highest early warning effectiveness in each monitoring system and an optimal critical value of each characteristic parameter based on the multivariate characteristic parameters; calculating a comprehensive early warning index and an early warning effectiveness of each monitoring system; and calculating a multi-system comprehensive early warning result of the coal and rock dynamic disaster based on the comprehensive early warning index and the early warning effectiveness of each monitoring system.
Microseismic Wireless Monitoring, Receiving and Early Warning System of Rock
The present invention discloses a microseismic wireless monitoring, receiving and early warning system of rock, which is connected with microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission systems of rocks through a satellite. The microseismic wireless monitoring, receiving and early warning system of rock comprises a wireless receiving module, used for receiving a microseismic data packet processed by each microseismic signal wireless transmission system of rock through the satellite; a storage module, connected with the wireless receiving module, internally saving basic data information of each microseismic signal transmission system of the rock, automatically and correspondingly storing the microseismic data packet in real time and managing the microseismic data packet; a processing module, connected with the storage module and used for computing and analyzing to obtain microseismic source level information of a rock breakage signal and transmitting the information to the storage module to be stored.
Microseismic Intelligent Acquisition and Data Wireless Transmission System of Rock
The present invention discloses a microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission system of rock. The microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission system of rock comprises a data acquisition and intelligent process module, used for acquiring an original microseismic signal and intelligently processing the original microseismic signal to obtain a timed second microseismic signal data packet; a wireless transmission module, connected with the data acquisition and intelligent process module. The data acquisition and intelligent process module transmits the timed second microseismic signal data packet to a satellite in a wireless manner through the wireless transmission module such that the satellite receives and stores the timed second microseismic signal data packet. The microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission system of rock of the present invention is free from the wire transmission, largely reduces the workload of manual field monitoring, and improves the quality of monitoring data.
System and method for real-time passive seismic event localization
A computer-implemented method for seismic event localization includes: generating, with at least one processor, a vectorized snapshot matrix representing wave propagation data at a series of snapshots in time for a subterranean formation; computing a reduced orthonormal column basis matrix based on the vectorized snapshot matrix; constructing a reduced order wave propagation model based on the reduced orthonormal column basis matrix; receiving seismic data collected from a plurality of receivers at the subterranean formation; generating a time-domain coefficient matrix based on back propagation of the received seismic data and the reduced order wave propagation model; reconstructing time-reversed wavefield data based on the time-domain coefficient vector; and generating signals for outputting wavefield or seismic event location information based on the time-reversed wavefield data.