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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2022
Applicant:
Nabors Drilling Technologies Usa, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
David Hasler, Houston, TX (US);
Pradeep Annaiyappa, Houston, TX (US);
David G. Shackelford, Magnolia, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 21/08 (2006.01); E21B 21/01 (2006.01); E21B 47/003 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 21/08 (2013.01); E21B 21/019 (2020.05); E21B 47/003 (2020.05);
Abstract
A method for performing a subterranean operation that can include operations of engaging a tubular with a pipe handler, calculating, via a processor, an internal volume of the tubular, determining, via the processor, a number of pump strokes required to fill at least a percentage of the internal volume with fluid, pumping the fluid to the tubular by running a pump the number of pump strokes, and filling the internal volume of the tubular to at least the percentage of the internal volume with the fluid.