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Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Manisha Bhardwaj, Houston, TX (US);

Dwight David Fulton, Cypress, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/22 (2012.01); E21B 47/022 (2012.01); E21B 47/04 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/022 (2013.01); E21B 47/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wellbore trajectory survey includes an ordered plurality of survey points, each of which has a measured depth, an inclination, and a geographic location. The wellbore trajectory survey is ordered on measured depth. A minimum lateral measured depth (min_LMD) as a measured depth of a first point in the ordered plurality of survey points for which the inclination exceeds an inclination threshold angle is identified. A maximum lateral measured depth (max_LMD) as a measured depth of a last point in the ordered plurality of survey points for which the inclination exceeds the inclination threshold angle is identified. The processor determines from the wellbore trajectory survey that the wellbore at measured depths between the min_LMD and the max_LMD exhibits porpoising into and out of a formation.


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