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Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Weatherford Technology Holdings, Llc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mojtaba Pordel Shahri, Houston, TX (US);

Jennifer Anne Market, Tomball, TX (US);

Mohammadreza Safariforoshani, Houston, TX (US);

Ovunc Mutlu, Pearland, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2006.01); G01V 1/22 (2006.01); E21B 47/14 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/50 (2013.01); E21B 47/14 (2013.01); E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 43/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

Predicting downhole acoustic tool responses due to stress-induced anisotropy by performing at least the following: receiving a plurality of input data corresponding to at least one well site comprising a wellbore; constructing a three-dimensional geomechanical model based at least in part on the input data; creating at least one near field versus far field stress distribution that corresponds to the wellbore from the three-dimensional geomechanical model; creating, at least one near wellbore versus far-field velocity distribution using the at least one near field versus far field stress distribution; comparing the downhole acoustic tool response property that indicates a downhole acoustic tool's penetration depth for a subsurface geological formation with the near wellbore velocity fields; and flagging, where the downhole acoustic tool response property stays within the near-wellbore velocity field.


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