Landmark Graphics Corporation

Aravind Prabhakar

Robello Samuel

Christopher Neil Marland

Travis St George Ramsay

Systems and methods for predicting drilling tool failure based on an analysis of at least one of a plot of jerk and inverse jerk for the drilling tool and a plot of drilling tool failure pattern trends data.

Predicting drilling tool failure

A system can access geological data describing a plurality of rock types in a physical rock sample drilled from a reservoir. The system can generate synthetic rock samples and execute single phase upscaling to compute absolute permeabilities for the physical rock sample and the synthetic rock samples. The system can execute a first multiphase upscaling based on the single phase upscaling to determine relative permeabilities for the physical rock sample and the synthetic rock samples. The system can compare the relative permeability of the physical rock sample to the relative permeabilities for the synthetic rock samples and select a synthetic rock sample that varies the least from the physical rock sample. The system can perform at least one additional multiphase upscaling on the physical rock sample and the synthetic rock samples to determine a second multiphase upscaling result and to develop a plan for drilling operations.

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Aravind Prabhakar