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Granted Patent B2
US 11,719,096 · App. 17/971,957 · Granted Aug 8, 2023

Contamination prediction of downhole pumpout and sampling

Inventors: Peter Ojo Olapade (Richmond, TX); Bin Dai (Spring, TX); Christopher Michael Jones (Katy, TX); James Martin Price (Cypress, TX); Dingding Chen (Tomball, TX); Anthony Herman Van Zuilekom (Houston, TX)
Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
E21B49/081E21B47/06E21B49/10G01N33/2823E21B21/003E21B47/12E21B49/0875
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Patent No.
US 11,719,096
App. No.
17/971,957
Granted
Aug 8, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method may comprise positioning a downhole fluid sampling tool into a wellbore; performing a pressure test operation within the wellbore; performing a pumpout operation within the wellbore; identifying one or more formation parameters at least in part from the at least one pressure test operation or the at least one pumpout operation; building a correlation model that relates a pumpout trend to the one or more formation parameters; determining a time when the downhole fluid sampling tool takes a clean fluid sample utilizing at least the correlation model; and acquiring the clean fluid sample with the downhole fluid sampling tool from the wellbore. Additionally, a system may comprise a downhole fluid sampling tool configured to: perform a pressure test operation within a wellbore; and perform a pumpout operation within the wellbore.

Claims (34)

1. A method comprising:

positioning a downhole fluid sampling tool into a wellbore;

performing at least one pressure test operation within the wellbore;

performing at least one pumpout operation within the wellbore;

identifying one or more formation parameters at least in part from the at least one pressure test operation or the at least one pumpout operation;

building a correlation model that relates a pumpout trend to the one or more formation parameters;

determining a time when the downhole fluid sampling tool takes a clean fluid sample utilizing at least the correlation model; and

acquiring the clean fluid sample with the downhole fluid sampling tool from the wellbore.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating the pumpout trend from the at least one pumpout operation.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising optimizing the one or more formation parameters with the pumpout trend.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising identifying a contamination within the at least one pumpout operation from the pumpout trend.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising relating the pumpout trend to the one or more formation parameters with a dataset.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the dataset includes one or more samples from at least one location outside the wellbore.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the dataset includes data from one or more previous pumpout operations within the wellbore.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the dataset includes a pumpout volume.

9. The method of claim 4 , further comprising mapping the contamination at an area.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clean fluid sample is found by using at least two properties of a fluid density, a drawdown mobility, a formation pressure, a drawdown and overbalance pressure, a formation property, or a predicted contamination value.

11. A system for estimating at least one of a clean fluid composition comprising:

a downhole fluid sampling tool configured to:

perform a pressure test operation within a wellbore; and

perform a pumpout operation within the wellbore; and

an information handling system for:

building a correlation model that relates a pumpout trend to one or more formation parameters;

determining when the downhole fluid sampling tool may take a clean fluid sample from at least the correlation model; and

acquiring the clean fluid sample with the downhole fluid sampling tool from the wellbore.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the information handling system further generates the pumpout trend from the pumpout operation.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the information handling system further measures pumpout data including an accumulated volume and density.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the information handling system further identifies a contamination within the pressure test operation from the pumpout trend.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the information handling system further relates the pumpout trend to the one or more formation parameters with a dataset.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the dataset includes one or more samples from at least one location outside the wellbore.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the dataset includes data from one or more previous pumpout operations within the wellbore.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the dataset includes a pumpout volume.

19. The system of claim 14 , further comprising mapping the contamination at a certain area.

20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the clean fluid sample may be found by using at least two properties of a fluid density, a drawdown mobility, a formation pressure, a drawdown and overbalance pressure, a formation property, or a predicted contamination value.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: OLAPADE, PETER OJO; DAI, BIN; JONES, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL; PRICE, JAMES MARTIN; CHEN, DINGDING; VAN ZUILEKOM, ANTHONY HERMAN
To: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
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Continuity (3)
Continuation 17237851 · Apr 22, 2021
Continuation 16447808 · Jun 20, 2019
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