Abstract: A system includes a first wellbore operation controller for controlling a wellbore operation and generating a first broadcast indicating a first data topic desired for controlling the wellbore operation. The system also includes a second wellbore operation controller for generating a data stream associated with a wellbore and for generating a second broadcast indicating a second data topic that promotes the data stream. The system includes a mediator computing device that receives the first broadcast and the second broadcast and determines that the first wellbore operation controller is subscribed to the data stream by comparing the first data topic to the second data topic. In response to determining that the first wellbore operation controller is subscribed to the data stream, the mediator computing device creates a data link between the first wellbore operation controller and the second wellbore operation controller.

Abstract: A mill bit and a well system are covered. The mill bit, in one aspect, includes a tubular having an uphole end and a downhole end. The mill bit, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a first cutting section having one or more first cutting surfaces disposed about the tubular, the first cutting section having a first material removal rate and configured to engage with wellbore casing disposed within a wellbore. The mill bit, in accordance with this disclosure, further includes a second cutting section having one or more second cutting surfaces disposed about the tubular, the second cutting section having a second material removal rate less than the first material removal rate and configured to engage with a whipstock disposed within the wellbore.

Abstract: A wellbore pumping unit comprising a main pump, a power source, a controller, and a plurality of sensors is provided. A method of performing a diagnostic check of the unit controller and the plurality of sensors when power is applied to the unit controller. A diagnostic application executing in memory writes a status of the plurality of analog inputs of a plurality of valve position sensors, a status of a plurality of frequency inputs of a plurality of flowmeters, and a plurality of calibration data files that correlate to a plurality of sensors to a diagnostic report file. The status of the sensor inputs and calibration data files can be a pass or a fail. The status of the sensor inputs can be displayed on a human machine interface.

Abstract: An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration that includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump that is mounted on the single pump trailer. A pump configuration includes a single VFD configuration, the single shaft electric motor, and the single shaft hydraulic pump mounted on the single pump trailer. The single VFD configuration converts the electric power at the power generation voltage level distributed from the power distribution trailer to a VFD voltage level and drives the single shaft electric motor to control the operation of the single shaft electric motor and the single hydraulic pump. The VFD voltage level is a voltage level that is required to drive the single shaft electric motor. The VFD configuration also controls operation of the auxiliary systems based on the electric power at the auxiliary voltage level.

Abstract: A method includes deploying an optical fiber attached to a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) interrogator in a wellbore, pre-setting gauge length of the DAS interrogator based on an expected measurement signal, interrogating the optical fiber using the DAS interrogator, receiving reflected DAS signals along a length of the optical fiber using the pre-set gauge length, performing an analysis to estimate a location and a magnitude of a strain source associated with the reflected DAS signals, and dynamically adjusting the gauge length for at least a portion of the optical fiber within a pre-defined limit of the DAS interrogator as a function of the estimated location and magnitude of the strain source to enhance sensitivity and to optimize signal-to-noise ratio.

Abstract: A swellable metallic material is activated upon functional movement of a tubular member to lock the tubular member in place. In one example, a well tool includes a tubular member moveable within a through bore of a tool housing from a first position to a second position to perform a tool function. A swellable metallic material is captured in a cavity. The tubular member blocks flow to the cavity in the first position and opens the cavity for exposure of the swellable metallic material to an activation fluid in the second position. The swellable metallic material is configured to swell into engagement with the tubular member in response to the exposure to the activation fluid to hold the tubular member in the second position.

Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to a portable support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material and output bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. The portable support structure may include a frame for receiving and holding the one or more portable bulk material containers in an elevated position proximate the blender hopper, as well as one or more gravity feed outlets for routing the bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. In some embodiments, the portable support structure may be transported to the well site on a trailer, unloaded from the trailer, and positioned proximate the blender unit. In other embodiments, the portable support structure may be a mobile support structure that is integrated into a trailer unit.

Abstract: A wiper plug can be used in wellbore operations. The wiper plug can include a fishing neck located at a rear portion of the plug. The fishing neck can be a male or female fishing neck. A corresponding male or female fishing tool can be used to retrieve the wiper plug from a tubing string. The wiper plug can include a nose that can land on a landing tool or a female fishing neck of another wiper plug. The wiper plug can be introduced into the tubing string before or after a cement composition. The wiper plug can include a rupture disk that allows an operator at a wellhead to observe a pressure change to indicate the location of the wiper plug and fluid within the tubing string.

Abstract: A video clip showing a wellsite activity can be extracted from a video and then labeled for use in training a machine-learning model in some examples described herein. In one such example, a system can train a model with a set of training data to identify an object and a corresponding spatial location of the object in each image frame in a video depicting a wellsite activity. The system can analyze image frames in the video using the trained model to identify a target image frame in which the object is present in a predefined spatial area thereof, where the predefined spatial area is associated with the wellsite activity. The system can then generate a video clip that includes only a subpart of the video based on the target image frame, where the subpart includes a series of consecutive image frames containing the target image frame.

Abstract: Provided is a clutch assembly, a SSSV, and a method for operating an SSSV. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, includes an output coupler housing, an input shaft, and an electromagnet coupled to the input shaft. In at least one aspect, the electromagnet is configured to axially translate the output coupler housing from a de-coupled state to a coupled state when the electromagnet is energized. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, further includes one or more grooves located in one of an outer surface of the input shaft or an inner surface of the central opening, and one or more engagement members located in the other of the inner surface of the central opening or the outer surface of the input shaft.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to calibration of resistivity logging tool. A method to calibrate a resistivity logging tool comprises disposing the resistivity logging tool into a formation; acquiring a signal at each logging point with the resistivity logging tool; assuming a formation model for a first set of continuous logging points in the formation; inverting all of the signals for unknown model parameters of the formation model, wherein the formation model is the same for all of the continuous logging points in the first set; assigning at least one calibration coefficient to each type of signal, wherein the calibration coefficients are the same for the first set; and building an unknown vector that includes the unknown model parameters and the calibration coefficients, to calibrate the resistivity logging tool.

Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatus and methods implemented to take into consideration gauge length in optical measurements. In an embodiment, systems and methods are implemented to interrogate an optical fiber disposed in a wellbore, where the optical fiber is subjected to seismic waves, and to generate a seismic wavefield free of gauge length effect and/or to generate a prediction of a seismic wavefield of arbitrary gauge length, based on attenuation factors of a plurality of wavefields acquired from interrogating the optical fiber. In an embodiment, systems and methods are implemented to interrogate an optical fiber disposed in a wellbore, where the optical fiber is subjected to seismic waves, and to convert a seismic wavefield associated with a first gauge length to a seismic wavefield associated with a different gauge length that is a multiple of the first gauge length. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: An ingress-barrier assembly for use with pressure-operated downhole equipment can be used to limit hydraulic fluid flow in a wellbore environment for completions and operations through the life of a well. An assembly can comprise a first port to communicate hydraulic fluid with a first fluid conveyance line. The assembly can include a second port to communicate hydraulic fluid with a second fluid conveyance line. The assembly can further include a first-end stop, a second-end stop, and a moveable seal. The moveable seal can move within a bore of the assembly between the first-end stop and the second-end stop to communicate pressure between the first port and the second port.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for monitoring for monitoring and evaluating conditions associated with a wellbore and wellbore operations that use neural operators instead of computationally intensive iterative differential equations. Such systems and techniques allow for determinations to be made as operations associated with a wellbore are performed. Instead of having to wait for computationally intensive tasks to be performed or take risks of proceeding with a wellbore operation without real-time evaluations being performed, these wellbore operations may be continued while determinations are timely made, thus improving operation of computing systems that perform evaluations and that make decisions regarding safely and efficiently performing wellbore operations such as drilling a wellbore, cementing wellbore casings in place, or injecting fluids into formations of the Earth.

Abstract: A method and system for identifying a fluid sample. The method may comprise disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a wellbore fluid as a fluid sample through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, obtaining a fluid measurement of the fluid sample, comparing the fluid measurement to a plurality of fingerprints that populate a database, and identifying the fluid sample based at least in part on one of the plurality of fingerprints.

Abstract: A method and system for identifying scale. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a formation fluid, as a fluid sample, through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, perturbing the formation fluid, and analyzing the fluid sample in the fluid sampling tool for one or more indications of scale.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for identifying the quality of cement bonding of an exterior surface of a wellbore casing to an Earth formation. Methods of the present disclosure may allow for bond indexes to be identified in real-time as a cementing operation is performed even when tools that perform the cementing operation generate acoustic noise that interfere with measurements used to evaluate cement bonding quality. These methods may include transmitting acoustic signals, receiving acoustic signals, filtering the received acoustic signals, identifying magnitude and attenuation values to associate with the received acoustic signals, and comparing trends in the magnitudes with the identified attenuation values. These methods may also include correcting attenuation values associated with measured data based on a set of correction rules such that bond indexes can be identified. Such correction rules may be associated with data generated by a computer model.

Abstract: A method may include: introducing a resin modified cement slurry into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, the subterranean formation comprising a caprock and a carbon dioxide injection zone, the resin modified cement slurry comprising: a resin; a hardener; a hydraulic cement; and water; and setting the resin modified cement slurry to form a set cement wherein the set cement forms a carbonation-resistant barrier in the carbon dioxide injection zone in the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A system for inspecting a tubular may comprise an electromagnetic (EM) logging tool and information handling system. The EM logging tool may further include a mandrel, one or more sensor pads attached to the mandrel by one or more extendable arms, and one or more partial saturation eddy current sensors disposed on each of the one or more sensor pads.

Abstract: A bulk dry cement may comprise a cement; a solid particle; and a liquid resin accelerator, wherein the liquid resin accelerator is disposed on a surface of the solid particle.