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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Krishna M. Ravi, Houston, TX (US);

Mark W. Roberson, Houston, TX (US);

Scott Goodwin, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/113 (2012.01); G01V 15/00 (2006.01); E21B 47/10 (2012.01); E21B 47/13 (2012.01); E21B 47/005 (2012.01); G01V 3/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/113 (2020.05); E21B 47/005 (2020.05); E21B 47/10 (2013.01); E21B 47/13 (2020.05); G01V 3/34 (2013.01); G01V 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are presented in this disclosure for determining information (e.g., visual information) about locations of different fluids flowing along a casing in a wellbore. A plurality of radio frequency (RF) micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) tags is placed in a plurality of fluids flowing through an annulus region between a casing string in the wellbore and a reservoir formation. At a plurality of sensing nodes located along the casing string, information about the fluids is gathered by communicating with the RF MEMS tags placed in the fluids. The information about fluid locations along the casing gathered by the sensing nodes is communicated to a receiving device, and appropriate operation in relation to the wellbore is performed based on the communicated information.


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