Drilling/completion fluids

Method Provides Real-Time Anomaly Detection for Drilling-Fluid Properties

This paper presents the concept of a supervisory and advisory system dedicated to support the detection of abnormal events and to provide guidelines for fluid treatment.

Front view of experimental flow loop for drilling-fluid production and monitoring.
Fig. 1—Front view of experimental flow loop for drilling-fluid production and monitoring.
Source: SPE 212443

Online drilling-fluid-measurement technologies have become an essential tool for drilling automation. While online density measurements are widespread, the availability of rheology measurements is increasing quickly, and additional properties are central to ongoing field trials. The complete paper presents the concept of supervisory and advisory systems dedicated to support the detection of abnormal events and to provide guidelines for fluid treatment.

Introduction

The Laboratory of Fluid Flow of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and Petrobras developed a flow loop for the proposal and validation of online sensors for the measurement of drilling-fluid properties. In previous work, the authors described the development of a set of online sensors to measure fluid properties with control of operational conditions of temperature, pressure, and fluid flow rate.

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