US 11,921,248 B2
Tube wave analysis of well communication
John Thomas Mayo, Stafford, TX (US); Andrey Vladimirovich Bogdan, Richmond, TX (US); Adam Ethan Keilers, Richmond, TX (US); and Dmitriy Usoltsev, Richmond, TX (US)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 16/308,641
Filed by SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 20, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/038207
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 10, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/223007, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 28, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/352,376, filed on Jun. 20, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0146115 A1, May 16, 2019
Int. Cl. G01V 1/50 (2006.01); E21B 43/25 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01); E21B 47/18 (2012.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/42 (2006.01); G01V 1/48 (2006.01)
CPC G01V 1/50 (2013.01) [E21B 43/25 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01); E21B 47/18 (2013.01); E21B 49/006 (2013.01); G01V 1/42 (2013.01); G01V 1/48 (2013.01); G01V 2210/163 (2013.01); G01V 2210/6222 (2013.01); G01V 2210/6248 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
performing a first fracturing operation in a first well, wherein the fracturing operation generates a pressure wave within the first well extending into a subterranean formation;
receiving a pressure response associated with the pressure wave in a second well extending into the subterranean formation, wherein measured parameters of the pressure response include a delay in an arrival time of the pressure wave at the second well, an amplitude of the pressure wave at the second well, and a period of the pressure wave at the second well;
receiving an additional pressure response associated with the pressure wave in a third well extending into the subterranean formation;
determining, based on the measured parameters of the pressure response in the second well, information associated with at least one of:
the subterranean formation,
or a fracture connected to:
the first well, or
the second well;
determining, based on the information derived from the measured parameters of the pressure response in the second well, a quantity of diversion materials for a second fracturing operation that minimizes a respective pressure response associated with an additional pressure wave that would be generated by the second fracturing operation in the first well; and
performing the second fracturing operation in the first well based on the determined quantity of the diversion materials.