PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026301
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["166", "250100"]

Abstract:
A method for optimizing well spacing for a multi-well pad which includes a first group of wells and a second group of wells is provided. The method includes the steps of: creating a fracture in a stage in a first well in the first group of wells; isolating a next stage in said first well in the first group of wells from said stage; creating a fracture in said next stage in the first well in the first group after the step of isolating; measuring a pressure by using a pressure gauge in direct fluid communication with said next stage in the first well in the first group of wells; creating a fracture in one or more stages in a well in the second group of wells in a manner such that the fracture in the well in the second group of wells induces the pressure measured in the first well to change; and recording the pressure change in the next stage of the first well.

Claim (Index 16):
A well system, comprising:\n a first hydraulic fracture formed in a stage of a first well in a first group of wells of a multi-well pad; a second hydraulic fracture formed in a next stage of the first well in the first group of wells of the multi-well pad; an isolation device positioned between the stage of the first well and the next stage of the first well; a hydraulic fracture formed in one or more stages in a well in a second group of wells of the multi-well pad; a pressure gauge positioned in the first well in the first group of wells and in direct fluid communication with the next stage in the first well, the pressure gauge configured to measure a pressure change in the next stage induced by formation of the hydraulic fracture in the one or more stages in the well in the second group of wells while the next stage of the first well is isolated from the stage of the first well; a pressure measurement recorder configured to communicably couple to the pressure gauge to record the measured pressure change in the next stage in the first well a computing system configured to communicably couple to at least one of the pressure measurement recorder or the pressure gauge and perform operations comprising:\n processing the measured pressure change to obtain information related to the geometry of the fractures emanating from the next stage in the first well in the first group of wells and any stages in the well in the second group of wells; and \n evaluating fluid communication between the first well in the first group of wells and the well in the second group of wells using the obtained information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.10714
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14618865', '14788056', '15975596', '14575176', '15201470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7685213398501533
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385189755668466
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7455211034218225
- Mean Citation Score: 290.184652
- Max Citation Score: 398.90195
- Similarity Product: 328.255153402096

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

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