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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2005
Applicants:
Quanxin Guo, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Thomas Geehan, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Quanxin Guo, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Thomas Geehan, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
M-I, L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/10 (2006.01); G06G 7/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for simulating cuttings re-injection in a wellbore, that includes defining a mass balance equation for a solids bed, defining a mass balance equation for a suspension solids, segmenting the wellbore into a plurality of elements, wherein each element includes a plurality of nodes, segmenting a simulation into a plurality of time intervals, and for each the plurality of time intervals: simulating cuttings re-injection by solving the mass balance equation for the solids bed and the mass balance equation for the suspension solids for each of the plurality of nodes.