US 12,260,158 B2
Flow control device openings for completion design
Kim Fah Goh, Pune (IN); Trevor Tonkin, Abingdon (GB); Mohamed Osman Mahgoub Ahmed, Abingdon (GB); and Matthew Worthington, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/595,939
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/035171
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/246954, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0229403 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 30/27 (2020.01); E21B 43/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/12 (2006.01); E21B 43/14 (2006.01); G01V 20/00 (2024.01); G05B 13/04 (2006.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G01V 99/00 (2024.01)
CPC G06F 30/20 (2020.01) [E21B 43/00 (2013.01); E21B 43/12 (2013.01); E21B 43/14 (2013.01); G01V 20/00 (2024.01); G05B 13/041 (2013.01); G06F 30/27 (2020.01); E21B 2200/20 (2020.05); E21B 2200/22 (2020.05); G01V 99/00 (2013.01); G01V 2210/61 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining a collection of flow control device settings defined in continuous space;
performing, individually for each number of clusters of a plurality of numbers of clusters, a cluster analysis on the collection of flow control device settings to obtain a set of flow control device configurable positions comprising a number of flow control device configurable positions,
wherein performing the cluster analysis across the plurality of numbers of clusters generates a plurality of sets of flow control device configurable positions for the plurality of numbers of clusters;
comparing the plurality of sets of flow control device configurable positions via a processor executing instructions stored on tangible non-transitory storage to obtain a selected set of flow control device configurable positions;
presenting the selected set of flow control device configurable positions as a set of static positions of a flow control device to be manufactured and deployed; and
manufacturing the flow control device having the selected set of flow control device configurable positions, wherein the flow control device comprises at least one of a discrete flow control device, an inflow control device, or active inflow control devices.