PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754200
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["166", "280100"]

Abstract:
Diagnostic or assisting lateral wellbores can have a significant benefit for injecting and distributing treatment fluids and other materials within complex fracture networks that surpass conventional injection at the primary lateral wellbore perforations for acquiring empirical knowledge about the numerous processes that influence shale reservoir production which occur after primary shale reservoir stimulation. Injection of diagnostic treatment fluids or treating chemicals for understanding production optimization, such as water-block removal, fines migration removal, and treating chemicals for prevention of scale and paraffin deposition, can be injected along the diagnostic lateral wellbore or frac interval lateral wellbores to give broader and/or deeper distribution into the fracture network than by using mono-bore-centric diagnostic injection techniques. Diagnostic lateral treatment techniques can also improve fluid or chemical distribution, such as the use of gas injection to help energize fluid flow to the primary lateral during production optimization treatments, including reverse diversion methodology.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 1  the fracture network is a first fracture network and where:\n the at least one primary lateral wellbore and the at least one assisting lateral wellbore each have a heel and toe with a lateral wellbore length between the heel and toe; \n the at least one first shale interval is near the toe of the at least one primary lateral wellbore and the at least one assisting lateral wellbore, the at least one primary lateral wellbore and the at least one assisting lateral wellbore being within the at least one first shale interval; \n there is present a second shale interval between the first shale interval and the heel of the at least one primary lateral wellbore and the at least one assisting lateral wellbore, the at least one primary lateral wellbore and the at least one assisting lateral wellbore being within the second shale interval; \n where the method further comprises:\n temporarily isolating a portion of the at least one primary lateral wellbore within the at least one first shale interval from the second shale interval; \n temporarily isolating a portion of the at least one assisting lateral wellbore within the at least one first shale interval from the second shale interval; \n hydraulically fracturing second shale interval from the at least one primary lateral wellbore in the direction of the at least one assisting lateral wellbore to create a second fracture network; \n a sub-method selected from the group consisting of:\n (1) ultra-high resolution imaging utilizing moderately-close to ultra-close proximity imaging instruments and processes for determining reservoir production flow within the fractured network to the primary lateral wellbore; \n (2) introducing at least one diagnostic agent into the at least one primary lateral wellbore through the second fracture network and the at least one assisting lateral wellbore; \n (3) introducing at least one treatment fluid into the at least one lateral wellbore and the second fracture network for treating the at least one lateral wellbore and/or the first fracture network with the treatment fluid; \n (4) imaging flow and changes of flow within the fracture network; and \n (5) combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60825
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14870880', '15147449', '13578805', '13970880', '13662243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8462747574623684
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5654453583425582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8181918175503873
- Mean Citation Score: 372.70604
- Max Citation Score: 474.40994000000006
- Similarity Product: 443.40761987744105

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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