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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
May. 20, 2016
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
John Paul Bir Singh, Kingwood, TX (US);
Sandeep D. Kulkarni, Kingwood, TX (US);
Vitor Lopes Pereira, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Krishna Babu Yerubandi, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The equivalent circulating density ('ECD') in a wellbore may be managed during a wellbore operation using ECD models that take into account the rheology of the wellbore fluid and the rotational speed of tubulars in the wellbore. For example, a method may include rotating a rotating tubular in a stationary conduit while flowing a fluid through an annulus between the rotating tubular and the stationary conduit; calculating an equivalent circulating density ('ECD') of the fluid where a calculated viscosity of the fluid is based on an ECD model ?_eff=f(? ?_eff)*h(Re), wherein ?_eff is the viscosity of the fluid, ? ?_eff is an effective shear rate of the fluid, and Re is a Reynold's number for the fluid for the rotational speed of the rotating tubular; and changing an operational parameter of the wellbore operation to maintain or change the ECD of the fluid.