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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2012
Applicants:

Robello Samuel, Houston, TX (US);

Olivier R. Germain, Houston, TX (US);

Umesh N. Reddy, Houston, TX (US);

R. Daniel Colvin, Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Ramakrishna R. Chada, Cypress, TX (US);

Inventors:

Robello Samuel, Houston, TX (US);

Olivier R. Germain, Houston, TX (US);

Umesh N. Reddy, Houston, TX (US);

R. Daniel Colvin, Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Ramakrishna R. Chada, Cypress, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 47/08 (2012.01); E21B 43/30 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/08 (2013.01); E21B 43/30 (2013.01); E21B 41/0092 (2013.01);
Abstract

Planning and/or drilling wellbores. At least some of the various embodiments are methods including: receiving data indicative of position of a first wellbore; reading data indicative of position of an offset wellbore; reading data indicative of a fracture diameter for the offset wellbore; calculating a first positional uncertainty of the first wellbore; calculating a second positional uncertainly of the offset wellbore taking into account the data indicative of position and the data indicative of fracture diameter; and generating a value indicative of proximity of the positional uncertainties.


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