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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Kashif Rashid, Newton Center, MA (US);
William J. Bailey, Somerville, MA (US);
Benoit Couet, Belmont, MA (US);
Terry Wayne Stone, Kings Worthy, GB;
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for managing a subterranean formation including collecting information about a flow control valve in a wellbore traversing the formation, adjusting the valve in response to the information wherein the adjusting includes a Newton method, a pattern search method, or a proxy-optimization method. In some embodiments, adjusting comprises changing the effective cross sectional area of the valve. A method and an apparatus for managing a subterranean formation including collecting information about an inflow control valve in a wellbore traversing the reservoir and controlling the valve, wherein the control includes a direct-continuous approach or a pseudo-index approach.