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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2023
Exxonmobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US);
Limin Song, West Windsor Township, NJ (US);
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods of characterizing a spatial property of a previously fractured stage of a hydrocarbon well and hydrocarbon wells that perform the methods. The hydrocarbon wells include a wellbore that extends within a subsurface region. The methods include receiving a received acoustic wave. The received acoustic wave is initiated by a downhole acoustic wave source that is positioned within an uphole region of the wellbore. The uphole region of the wellbore extends within a subsequently fractured stage of the hydrocarbon well and is uphole from a downhole region of the wellbore, which extends within the previously fractured stage of the hydrocarbon well. The received acoustic wave includes a previously fractured stage characteristic acoustic component generated via propagation of the received acoustic wave within the downhole region of the wellbore. The methods also include analyzing the previously fractured stage characteristic acoustic component to characterize the spatial property of the previously fractured stage.