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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2002
William Henry von Eberstein, Jr., Slidell, LA (US);
George Herbert Mayo, Toomsuba, MS (US);
Mark Allen Weaver, Church Point, LA (US);
Eric van Oort, Mandeville, LA (US);
Ernest Benedict Kotara, Jr., Mandeville, LA (US);
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for addressing the problem known as formation breathing occurring during the drilling of a subsea well in an earth formation in performing a series of leak off tests to determine the earth formation fracture propagation pressure and the earth formation fracture reopen pressure and maintaining the hydrostatic pressure on the earth formation in a range between the fracture reopen pressure and the fracture propagation pressure.
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