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Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Covar Applied Technologies, Inc., McLean, VA (US);

Inventor:

George Martin Milner, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 21/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 21/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for determining if well influx is due to ballooning or a formation kick. The system and method employing flow-in, flow-out, and pit volume data from a series of both pumps-off and pumps-on events. The system determining a standard amount of fluid lost into the formation at a previous pumps-on event and comparing that with the amount of fluid released into the well during a pumps-off event. The system and method producing a confidence reading that the influx is due to ballooning as opposed to a formation kick.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Milner, George. (2020). Ballooning diagnostics (U.S. Patent No. 10550652). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10550652

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