Systems and methods for real time monitoring and management of wellbore servicing fluids
US8575541B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 13, 2012 |
| Grant date | Nov 5, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 13, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N21/85
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring wellbore servicing fluids. One system includes a flow path fluidly coupled to a borehole and containing a wellbore servicing fluid that is exiting the borehole, the wellbore servicing fluid being configured to chemically react with and remove filter cake from the borehole, an optical computing device arranged in the flow path and having at least one integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the wellbore servicing fluid and thereby generate optically interacted light, and at least one detector arranged to receive the optically interacted light and generate an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the wellbore servicing fluid, the characteristic of the wellbore servicing fluid corresponding to a concentration of a filter cake chemical constituent.
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