PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975596
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["702", "006000"]

Abstract:
A method of evaluating a geometric parameter of a first fracture emanating from a first wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is provided. The method includes the steps of forming the first fracture in fluid communication with the first wellbore; forming a second fracture in fluid communication with a second wellbore; measuring a first pressure change in the second wellbore in proximity to the first wellbore; and determining the geometric parameter of the first fracture using at least the measured first pressure change in an analysis which couples a solid mechanics equation and a pressure diffusion equation.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of evaluating a geometric parameter of a first fracture emanating from a first wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, the method comprising the steps of:\n (a) providing pressure data comprising a first pressure change, due to forming the first fracture, measured in a second wellbore comprising a second fracture; (b) performing a simulation, using an analysis which couples a solid mechanics equation and a pressure diffusion equation to resolve the effective stress field and the fluid pressure field from which an expected pressure change in the second fracture at a certain distance to the first fracture is obtained; (c) repeating step (b), in a series of simulations, for various distances between the two fractures; (d) generating fracture geometry specific data sets that provide the expected pressure changes as a function of a spatial relationship between the first fracture and the second fracture; and (e) determining the geometric parameter of the first fracture using at least the measured first pressure change and the fracture geometry specific data sets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10417
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14788056', '15201470', '14618865', '14845783', '14575176']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2118052324509362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5324204718960794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2438667563954505
- Mean Citation Score: 278.627586
- Max Citation Score: 376.42966
- Similarity Product: 355.6353582676935

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

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