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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX (US);
Dung T. Phan, Brookshire, TX (US);
Chao Liu, Brookshire, TX (US);
Younane N. Abousleiman, Norman, OK (US);
SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A system and method for determining a mud-weight window is disclosed. The method includes determining, for each of a plurality of borehole-formation training models, a fracture mud weight using a first physics-based method and a collapse mud weight using a second physics-based method, and training, using the plurality of borehole-formation training models, an artificial intelligence (AI) network to predict the fracture and collapse mud weights for a borehole formation model. The method further includes determining, using the trained AI network, an AI fracture and an AI collapse mud weight from an observed borehole-formation model, and a search window surrounding each AI mud weight. The method further includes predicting a final fracture mud weight within the fracture search window using the first physics-based method and a final collapse mud weight within the collapse search window using the second physics-based method, and determining the mud-weight window bounded by the two final mud weights.