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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
May. 11, 2017
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Ronald Johannes Dirksen, Spring, TX (US);
Daniel David Gleitman, Houston, TX (US);
William W. Shumway, Spring, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for modifying a return fluid in a wellbore comprising disposing at least one valve along a drill pipe section of a drill string in the wellbore. At least one parameter of interest is determined at at least one location along the wellbore. At least one valve is controllably actuated to discharge at least a portion of at least one fluid from inside the drill string to an annulus in the wellbore to modify a local property of the return fluid in the annulus based at least in part on the measured parameter of interest.