Patent ID: 6826482
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: E21B,G06N

Abstract:
A computer system to help in selecting a well treatment fluid comprising:a) a set of fluids families each fluid family comprising a set of fluid characteristics determining the relevance of a specific fluid family for a specific treatment and a set of digital ratings related to these characteristics; b) a set of job parameters comprising information pertaining to the formation to be treated and to the job schedule wherein for one or more job parameters, a set of scenarios corresponding to a range of values of the one or more parameters is provided, each scenario being assigned a qualitative rating defining its importance in the success of a treatment; c) a set of connecting rules matching the fluid families characteristics and the job parameters, said set including filtering rules that trigger the elimination of fluid families whose characteristics are not compatible with a job parameters; d) a user interface for entering values of the job parameters known to the user; e) calculating tools including a spreadsheet to eliminate the fluids whose characteristics are not compatible with one or more known job parameters and to compute confidence index the remaining fluid families, said confidence index based on the sum of the products of the fluid family digital ratings and on the rating of the known job parameters; and f) means to display the subset of non-eliminated fluid families and their respective confidence index.