Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Water breakthrough in hydrocarbon wellbores
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Application No.: US17451432Application Date: 2021-10-19
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Publication No.: US11920462B2Publication Date: 2024-03-05
- Inventor: Abdullah M. Al-Dhafeeri , Cornel Dodan , Rashed H. Al-Obaid
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company , Kuwait Gulf Oil Company
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: E21B43/32
- IPC: E21B43/32 ; E21B47/06 ; E21B47/10

Abstract:
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating, based on production data for a wellbore, (i) a water-oil-ratio with respect to time (WOR) dataset for the wellbore, (ii) a time-derivative dataset (WOR′) of the WOR dataset; generating a WOR log-log plot of the WOR dataset and a WOR′ log-log plot of the WOR′ dataset; identifying at least one trend in the WOR log-log plot and the WOR′ log-log plot; determining, based on the at least one identified trend, a first type of water breakthrough; generating, based on pressure data from a build-up pressure test in the wellbore, a log-log plot of time-derivative pressure data with respect to time (P′); determining, based on the P′ log-log plot, a second type of water breakthrough; correlating the first and second type of water breakthrough; and determining, based on the correlation, whether to perform a water treatment for the wellbore.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230123032A1 WATER BREAKTHROUGH IN HYDROCARBON WELLBORES Public/Granted day:2023-04-20
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