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公开(公告)号:US20200217191A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16709754
申请日:2019-12-10
Applicant: ConocoPhillips Company
Inventor: Joshua C. HAYES , Leo C. HAYES , Kyle R. FONTENOT
Abstract: An inexpensive electrically conductive carrier is added to well bore fluids thereby allowing for a closed loop real-time data communication system for topside management of all downhole equipment including drilling, completion, production, logging, and workover equipment. Conductive carrier fluid provides a “real-time” digital and analog bi-directional data and communication solution between the surface operations of a well-bore and downhole tools. Conductive carrier fluid provides for the application of more sophisticated software essential for exact control requirements of sophisticated downhole equipment, thereby achieving optimized tool performance as well as future downhole tools.
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公开(公告)号:US10648308B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US15968087
申请日:2018-05-01
Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
Inventor: Bo Chen , Thomas James Wheeler , Pradeep Ananth Govind
Abstract: A variation of expanding solvent steam assisted gravity drainage (ES-SAGD) production of heavy oil wherein steam and hydrocarbon solvent are co-injected into a heavy oil reservoir and water, hydrocarbon solvent and heavy oil are produced by gravity drainage until the steam chamber is well developed or until oil recovery reaches about 20-30% of oil in place. At that time, the wells are switched to a lateral sweep using non-condensible gas (NSG) and steam co-injection, where more hydrocarbon solvent is recovered than is recovered with ES-SAGD used alone and where the cumulative steam to oil ratio is reduced over using -ES-SAGD alone.
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公开(公告)号:US20200142087A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-07
申请号:US16723738
申请日:2019-12-20
Applicant: ConocoPhillips Company
Inventor: Peter M. EICK , Joel D. BREWER
Abstract: The presently disclosed technology relates to an arrangement for seismic acquisition where the spacing between adjacent pairs of receiver and sources lines is not all the same. Some receiver and/or source lines and/or receiver and/or source spacings are larger and some are smaller to provide a higher quality wavefield reconstruction when covering a larger total area or for a similar total area of seismic data acquisition, while providing a wavefield that is optimally sampled by the receivers and sources so that the wavefield reconstruction is suitable for subsurface imaging needs.
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公开(公告)号:US10605941B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US14974060
申请日:2015-12-18
Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
Inventor: Chengbo Li , Chuck Mosher , Leo Ji , Joel Brewer
Abstract: A multi-stage inversion method for deblending seismic data includes: a) acquiring blended seismic data from a plurality of seismic sources; b) constructing an optimization model that includes the acquired blended seismic data and unblended seismic data; c) performing sparse inversion, via a computer processor, on the optimization model; d) estimating high-amplitude coherent energy from result of the performing sparse inversion in c); e) re-blending the estimated high-amplitude coherent energy; and f) computing blended data with an attenuated direct arrival energy.
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公开(公告)号:US10605043B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US15680986
申请日:2017-08-18
Applicant: ConocoPhillips Company
Inventor: Zachary L. Zbranek , Charles Colpitt , James G Nanney , Matthew L. White
IPC: E21B33/13 , E21B33/12 , E21B33/134 , E21B33/16 , E21B17/14
Abstract: By incorporating a dissolvable or degradable material into the wiper dart and/or float equipment, a fluid can be pumped during the cement phase (or spotted by other means) to begin degradation of the dissolvable material. Once the material is dissolved, a flow path is exposed, allowing communication to the backside or formation of the wellbore through the plug set and shoe track.
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公开(公告)号:US10508515B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-17
申请号:US15898937
申请日:2018-02-19
Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
Inventor: Rick D. Watts , Dianne Tompkins , Helen Haneferd , Lars Hovda , Edvard Omdal , Hardy Hartmann Nielsen , Lars Vedvik
Abstract: The invention relates to the decommissioning of hydrocarbon wells. It concerns the artificial promoting or inducing of creep in the overburden formation 3 surrounding an oil well 1, so that the formation rock 3 encroaches against the casing 5 to form a seal. This avoids the need to plug the annulus between the casing 5 and formation 3 with cement. The overburden may be caused to creep by reducing the pressure in the annulus, by applying heat to the overburden rock or by stressing the rock repeatedly to cause fatigue in the rock 3.
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公开(公告)号:US10467357B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-05
申请号:US15204249
申请日:2016-07-07
Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
Inventor: Yongshe Liu , Lin Ying Hu , Jianbing Wu , Claude Scheepens
Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method that improves the long-range geobody continuity in Multiple Point Statistical methods, wherein the coarsest multi-grid level cells are simulated in a regular path, and the subsequent level cells are simulated in a random path as usual. The method is general and is applicable to different cases: such as hard data conditioning, soft data conditioning, non-stationarity modeling, 2 or more than 2 types of facies modeling, and 2D and 3D modeling. The method is particularly useful in reservoir modeling, especially for the channelized systems, but can be generally applied to other geological environments.
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公开(公告)号:US20190301276A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-03
申请号:US16365173
申请日:2019-03-26
Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
Inventor: Ge JIN , Kyle R KRUEGER , Baishali ROY
Abstract: A method of assessing cross-well interference and/or optimizing hydrocarbon production from a reservoir by obtaining low frequency DAS and DTS data and pressure data from a monitor well, when both the monitor and production well are shut-in, and then variably opening the production well for production, and detecting the temperature and pressure fluctuations that indication cross-well interference, and localizing the interference along the well length based on the low frequency DAS data. This information can be used to optimize well placement, completion plans, fracturing plans, and ultimately optimize production from a given reservoir
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公开(公告)号:US20190292895A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-26
申请号:US16364553
申请日:2019-03-26
Applicant: ConocoPhillips Company
Inventor: Bradford L. Cobb , Stacey C. Ramsay
IPC: E21B44/00 , H04L12/819
Abstract: A system and method to conform data flow are provided. The system includes a queue configured to receive at least one data stream, and a processor configured to convert the at least one data stream to a continuous data stream, and output the continuous data stream at a constant rate.
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公开(公告)号:US10416349B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-17
申请号:US15263501
申请日:2016-09-13
Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
Inventor: Vishal Bang , Olufemi A. Jokanola
Abstract: Methods for developing equation-of-states (EOS) composition models for predicting petroleum reservoir fluid behavior and understanding fluid heterogeneity in unconventional shale plays are described. In particular, limited geochemical data from samples taken from the reservoir of interested are utilized to build and tune the EOS model and improve predictions. Real-time applications are also described.
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