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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. 10, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Inventor:

Khaqan Khan, Dhahran, SA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/11 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 49/006 (2013.01); E21B 49/003 (2013.01); G06F 17/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining a state of in-situ earth stresses around a wellbore located in a formation; transforming the in-situ earth stresses from a global Cartesian coordinate system to a local wellbore coordinate system; calculating, based on the transformed in-situ earth stresses in the local wellbore coordinate system, principal stresses around the wellbore; generating, using a failure criterion that incorporates (i) principal stresses, (ii) mud weight, and (iii) rock strength, a function for calculating a rock compressive failure; and predicting, using the function, a failure zone around the wellbore.


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