Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC

Kedar M Deshpande

Paul R Northam

Pravin Sadashiv Naphade

Rajesh Kumar Saini

Clayton S Smith

Ovunc Mutlu

Leonid Vigderman

Chih-Chau Hwang

Jian Huang

Kern L Smith

Duane Treybig

Mathew M Samuel

Mohammad Reza Safariforoshani

A flow measurement apparatus can include a main flow passage, a bypass flow passage having an inlet and an outlet connected with the main flow passage, a mass flowmeter connected in the bypass flow passage between the inlet and the outlet, and a flow restrictor connected in the bypass flow passage between the inlet and the outlet. A method can include connecting the flow measurement apparatus, so that a fluid flow in the well also flows through the flow measurement apparatus, and determining at least one rheological parameter of a non-Newtonian fluid, based on an output of the flow measurement apparatus.

Real time flow rate and rheology measurement

Systems and methods generate optimized formation fracturing operational parameters by iteratively optimizing bottom hole temperature design, perforation design, fracturing fluid pulse design, and proppant design based on formation properties, proppant properties, candidate selection, flow and geomechanical modeling, and engineering design, where the systems and methods as implemented on a digital processing unit.

Systems and methods for optimizing formation fracturing operations

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Kedar M Deshpande