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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Bp Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Joseph J. Beaman, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Scott Fish, Austin, TX (US);
David A. Foti, Waco, TX (US);
Warren J. Winters, Cypress, TX (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A well monitoring system particularly useful in detecting kicks in the well includes a well, a well system, and a computing apparatus. The well defines a wellbore and the well system includes at least one sensor measuring at least one well condition. The computing apparatus hosts a well monitoring software component that performs a method to detect a kick in a well. The method includes: storing a set of real-time data from a measurement of a well condition by the sensor, the measurements being correlative to an unplanned fluid influx into the well; modeling the operation of the well with a physics-based, state space model of the well system to obtain an estimate of the well condition; and applying the real-time data set and the estimate to a probabilistic estimator to yield a probability of an occurrence of a kick and a confidence measure for the probability.