METHOD OF LOGGING A WELL USING A THERMAL NEUTRON ABSORBING MATERIAL
    2.
    发明申请
    METHOD OF LOGGING A WELL USING A THERMAL NEUTRON ABSORBING MATERIAL 有权
    使用热中性吸收材料记录方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090205825A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-20

    申请号:US12358168

    申请日:2009-01-22

    IPC分类号: E21B43/267 E21B43/16 G01V5/10

    CPC分类号: E21B43/26 G01V5/101 G01V5/107

    摘要: A method for determining the location and height of a fracture in a subterranean formation using a neutron emitting logging tool. The method includes obtaining a pre-fracture data set, fracturing the formation with a slurry that includes a proppant doped with a high thermal neutron capture cross-section material, obtaining a post-fracture data set, comparing the pre-fracture data set and the post-fracture data set to determine the location of the proppant, and correlating the location of the proppant to a depth measurement of the borehole to determine the location and height of the fracture. Using the PNC tool, it is also possible to determine whether the proppant is located in the fracture, in the borehole adjacent to the fracture, or in both. The method may also include a plurality of post-fracture logging procedures used to determine various fracture and production characteristics in the formation.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用中子发射测井工具确定地下地层断裂位置和高度的方法。 该方法包括获得裂缝前数据集,利用包含掺杂有高热中子俘获横截面材料的支撑剂的浆料压裂地层,获得断裂后数据集,比较裂缝前数据集和 断裂后数据集来确定支撑剂的位置,并将支撑剂的位置与钻孔的深度测量相关联,以确定裂缝的位置和高度。 使用PNC工具,还可以确定支撑剂是否位于裂缝中,邻近裂缝的钻孔中,或两者中。 该方法还可以包括用于确定地层中各种断裂和生产特性的多个后裂缝测井程序。

    SPECTRAL IDENTIFICATION OF PROPPANT IN SUBTERRANEAN FRACTURE ZONES
    3.
    发明申请
    SPECTRAL IDENTIFICATION OF PROPPANT IN SUBTERRANEAN FRACTURE ZONES 有权
    在地下断裂带中的特征的光谱鉴定

    公开(公告)号:US20120080588A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-04-05

    申请号:US13237406

    申请日:2011-09-20

    IPC分类号: G01V5/10

    CPC分类号: G01V5/101

    摘要: Proppant placed in a subterranean fracture zone is detected with a spectral identification method in which capture gamma ray spectra are obtained during a logging run carried out with a logging tool having a neutron emitting source and at least one detector sensitive to thermal neutron capture gamma rays. Capture gamma rays from one or more high thermal neutron cross-section materials in the proppant are distinguished from capture gamma rays produced by thermal neutron capture reactions with other downhole formation and borehole constituents utilizing a spectral processing/deconvolution technique. The capture gammas rays from the high thermal neutron capture cross section material in the proppant are used to identify propped fracture zones either alone or in combination with other proppant identification methods which rely on measuring thermal neutron related count rates and/or thermal neutron capture cross-sections from neutron, compensated neutron, and/or pulsed neutron capture logging tools.

    摘要翻译: 使用光谱识别方法检测放置在地下断裂带中的支架,其中在使用具有中子发射源的测井工具进行测井运行期间获得捕获伽马射线光谱,并且至少一个对热中子捕获伽马射线敏感的检测器。 从支撑剂中的一个或多个高热中子横截面材料捕获伽马射线与使用光谱处理/去卷积技术的其他井下形成和钻孔成分的热中子捕获反应产生的捕获伽马射线不同。 来自支撑剂中高热中子捕获截面材料的捕获伽马射线用于单独地或与依赖于测量热中子相关计数速率和/或热中子捕获截面的其它支撑剂识别方法的组合来识别支撑的断裂带, 中子,补偿中子和/或脉冲中子捕获测井工具的截面。

    Treatment of Cesium-Containing Fluids
    4.
    发明申请
    Treatment of Cesium-Containing Fluids 审中-公开
    含铯液体的处理

    公开(公告)号:US20090277633A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-12

    申请号:US12460102

    申请日:2009-07-14

    IPC分类号: E21B43/40

    摘要: Cesium solutions are treated in a cavitation device to increase their temperature and facilitate the removal of water from them. The context is normally an oil well fluid or a mining solution. The concentrated solutions can be reused, in the case of oil well fluids, or more easily handled for recovery of the elemental cesium or cesium in the form of a salt. Thermal energy is saved by using the concentrate or the water vapor to heat various streams within the system.

    摘要翻译: 在空化装置中处理铯溶液以增加其温度并便于从它们中除去水。 上下文通常是油井液或采矿解决方案。 浓缩溶液可以在油井液的情况下重复使用,或者更容易处理以回收盐形式的元素铯或铯。 通过使用浓缩物或水蒸气来加热系统内的各种流,可节省热能。

    Use of PNC Tools to Determine the Depth and Relative Location of Proppant in Fractures and the Near Borehole Region
    5.
    发明申请
    Use of PNC Tools to Determine the Depth and Relative Location of Proppant in Fractures and the Near Borehole Region 有权
    使用PNC工具确定支架在骨折和近孔眼区域的深度和相对位置

    公开(公告)号:US20130292109A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-07

    申请号:US13461498

    申请日:2012-05-01

    IPC分类号: E21B47/085 E21B47/005

    摘要: Methods are provided for identifying the location and height of induced subterranean formation fractures and the presence of any associated frac-pack or gravel pack material in the vicinity of the borehole using pulsed neutron capture (PNC) logging tools. The proppant/sand used in the fracturing and packing processes is tagged with a thermal neutron absorbing material. When proppant is present, increases in detected PNC formation and/or borehole component cross-sections, combined with decreases in measured count rates, are used to determine the location of the formation fractures and the presence and percent fill of pack material in the borehole region. Changes in measured formation cross-sections relative to changes in other PNC parameters provide a relative indication of the proppant in fractures compared to that in the borehole region.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于使用脉冲中子捕获(PNC)测井工具来识别诱发的地层岩石断裂的位置和高度以及在钻孔附近存在任何相关压裂填料或砾石填充材料的方法。 在压裂和包装过程中使用的支撑剂/砂用热中子吸收材料标记。 当支撑剂存在时,检测到的PNC形成和/或钻孔组分横截面的增加以及测量计数率的降低结合使用来确定地层断裂的位置以及在井眼区域中包装材料的存在和百分比填充 。 相对于其他PNC参数的变化,测量地层横截面的变化提供了与井眼区域相比,支撑剂在裂缝中的相对指示。

    Trifunctional membrane tube arrays
    6.
    发明申请
    Trifunctional membrane tube arrays 审中-公开
    三功能膜管阵列

    公开(公告)号:US20090166171A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-07-02

    申请号:US12006362

    申请日:2008-01-02

    IPC分类号: B01D3/10

    摘要: Membrane tubes or similar membrane devices are arrayed in layers so that liquid placed on their outer surfaces may be evaporated and also drain onto lower membrane devices. The entire array is subjected to moving air to enhance evaporation. The membrane devices function as filters while permeating water from industrial fluids while also providing evaporative surfaces to reduce the volume of used aqueous industrial fluids. The retentate surfaces of the membrane devices may also be on the interiors of the devices, and the permeate contacted with flowing air to evaporate the permeate. Unevaporated permeate is collected in either configuration for use as clean water, and concentrated fluid may be more easily handled, disposed or, and/or its components recycled. A cavitation device may be used to heat the aqueous industrial fluid to enhance permeation and evaporation rates with minimal scaling.

    摘要翻译: 膜管或类似膜装置分层排列,使得放置在其外表面上的液体可能被蒸发并且也排放到下膜装置上。 整个阵列经受移动空气以增强蒸发。 膜装置用作过滤器,同时从工业流体渗透水,同时还提供蒸发表面以减少使用的水性工业流体的体积。 膜装置的滞留表面也可以在装置的内部,并且渗透物与流动的空气接触以蒸发渗透物。 未蒸发的渗透物被收集在任何构造中用作清洁水,并且浓缩流体可以更容易地处理,处理或/或其组分被再循环。 可以使用气穴装置来加热含水工业流体,以最小的结垢提高渗透和蒸发速率。

    Method of removing dissolved iron in aqueous systems
    7.
    发明申请
    Method of removing dissolved iron in aqueous systems 审中-公开
    在水体系中除去溶解铁的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090183922A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-07-23

    申请号:US12009915

    申请日:2008-01-23

    IPC分类号: E21B21/06

    摘要: Oilfield completion, drilling and workover fluids containing iron are treated to remove the iron by passing them through a cavitation device together with an oxidizing agent. The cavitation device intimately mixes the oxidizing agent with the fluid while increasing the temperature of the fluid, thus promoting the oxidation reaction. Ferric hydrate and other solids or colloidal iron are removed in a filter capable of removing particles as small as 0.5 micron. The system may be enhanced by the addition of a bed of activated carbon capable of catalyzing the oxidation reaction.

    摘要翻译: 处理含铁的油田完井,钻井和修井液通过与氧化剂一起通过空化装置来除铁。 气蚀装置将氧化剂与流体紧密地混合,同时增加流体的温度,从而促进氧化反应。 在能够去除小至0.5微米的颗粒的过滤器中除去水合铁和其它固体或胶体铁。 可以通过加入能够催化氧化反应的活性炭床来增强该体系。

    Fluid Separator With Smart Surface
    8.
    发明申请
    Fluid Separator With Smart Surface 有权
    具有智能表面的流体分离器

    公开(公告)号:US20090127179A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-05-21

    申请号:US12266293

    申请日:2008-11-06

    IPC分类号: B03C5/02 G01N33/00

    CPC分类号: B03C9/00 B03C5/02 B03C2201/02

    摘要: A separating system for separating a fluid mixture incorporates a smart surface having reversibly switchable properties. A voltage is selectively applied to the smart surface to attract or repel constituents of a fluid mixture, such as oil and water produced from a hydrocarbon well. The smart surface can be used in a conditioner to increase droplet size prior to entering a conventional separator, or the smart surface and other elements of the invention can be incorporated into an otherwise conventional separator to enhance separation. In a related aspect, a concentration sensor incorporating smart surfaces senses concentration of the fluid mixture's constituents.

    摘要翻译: 用于分离流体混合物的分离系统包括具有可逆切换特性的智能表面。 选择性地将电压施加到智能表面以吸引或排斥诸如由烃井产生的油和水的流体混合物的成分。 智能表面可以在调节剂中用于在进入常规分离器之前增加液滴尺寸,或者将本发明的智能表面和其它元件并入另外常规的分离器中以增强分离。 在相关方面,包含智能表面的浓度传感器感测流体混合物组分的浓度。

    Lithology and Borehole Condition Independent Methods For Locating Tagged Proppant in Induced Subterranean Formation Fractures
    9.
    发明申请
    Lithology and Borehole Condition Independent Methods For Locating Tagged Proppant in Induced Subterranean Formation Fractures 有权
    岩石和钻孔条件独立方法用于定位诱导地下形成骨折中的标记支架

    公开(公告)号:US20130062057A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-14

    申请号:US13227949

    申请日:2011-09-08

    IPC分类号: E21B47/00

    摘要: Subterranean formation locations/heights of tagged proppant doped with a high thermal neutron capture cross-section material are determined using data obtained from before and after frac logging passes through a well of a logging tool having near and far neutron dectors. Proppant location inaccuracies arising from changes in lithology between a zone of no interest and a proppant-containing formation zone are made, after any required normalization for a between-log change in borehole fluid, using an observed difference between the near/far detector count rate ratios in the two passes to determine a count rate differential correction to be applied to the before frac detector count rate. The corrected before frac count rate log is then overlaid with the after frac count rate log such that suppression in the after frac count rate log relative to the corrected before frac count rate log indicates the presence of proppant.

    摘要翻译: 用高热中子捕获截面材料掺杂的标记的支撑剂的地层形成位置/高度使用从压裂测井之前和之后获得的数据来确定,该数据通过具有近和远中子分界器的测井工具的井。 在使用观察到的近/远检测器计数率之间的差异之后,在对井眼流体的对数之间变化进行任何所需的归一化之后,制造由不感兴趣区域和含支撑剂的形成区域之间的岩性变化引起的支撑位置不准确性 以确定要应用于之前的压裂检测器计数率的计数率差分校正。 然后,在压裂计数率对数之前校正的压缩率计数率记录与之后的裂纹计数率对数重叠,使得压裂后计数速率对数相对于修正的压裂比计数率对数之前的抑制表明存在支撑剂。

    Fluid Separator with Smart Surface
    10.
    发明申请
    Fluid Separator with Smart Surface 失效
    具有智能表面的流体分离器

    公开(公告)号:US20120187030A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-26

    申请号:US13440281

    申请日:2012-04-05

    IPC分类号: B01D17/02 B01D17/038

    CPC分类号: B03C9/00 B03C5/02 B03C2201/02

    摘要: A separating system for separating a fluid mixture incorporates a smart surface having reversibly switchable properties. A voltage is selectively applied to the smart surface to attract or repel constituents of a fluid mixture, such as oil and water produced from a hydrocarbon well. The smart surface can be used in a conditioner to increase droplet size prior to entering a conventional separator, or the smart surface and other elements of the invention can be incorporated into an otherwise conventional separator to enhance separation. In a related aspect, a concentration sensor incorporating smart surfaces senses concentration of the fluid mixture's constituents.

    摘要翻译: 用于分离流体混合物的分离系统包括具有可逆切换特性的智能表面。 选择性地将电压施加到智能表面以吸引或排斥诸如由烃井产生的油和水的流体混合物的成分。 智能表面可以在调节剂中用于在进入常规分离器之前增加液滴尺寸,或者将本发明的智能表面和其它元件并入另外常规的分离器中以增强分离。 在相关方面,包含智能表面的浓度传感器感测流体混合物组分的浓度。