Patents by Inventor Jose Ignacio Adachi

Jose Ignacio Adachi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System for optimizing a drilling operation and method for using same
    Patent number: 8768671
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing a drilling operation is provided. The system has a drilling a drilling operation optimization unit. The drilling operation optimization unit has a base model unit for producing a base model of the reservoir and a reservoir stress unit for producing a three dimensional stress model of the reservoir. The drilling operation optimization unit has a trajectory unit for determining at least one property for at least one wellbore trajectory based on the base model and the three dimensional stress model, wherein each of the wellbore trajectories is selectable by an operator. The system has an operator station for inputting data into the drilling operation optimization unit at the wellsite and a drilling tool for forming a wellbore along at least one of the at least one selected wellbore trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Donald W. Lee, Jose Ignacio Adachi, John R. Waggoner, Carmen Elena Alvarez, Jorge Aurelio Santa Cruz Pastor
  • SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING A DRILLING OPERATION AND METHOD FOR USING SAME
    Publication number: 20110264429
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing a drilling operation is provided. The system has a drilling a drilling operation optimization unit. The drilling operation optimization unit has a base model unit for producing a base model of the reservoir and a reservoir stress unit for producing a three dimensional stress model of the reservoir. The drilling operation optimization unit has a trajectory unit for determining at least one property for at least one wellbore trajectory based on the base model and the three dimensional stress model, wherein each of the wellbore trajectories is selectable by an operator. The system has an operator station for inputting data into the drilling operation optimization unit at the wellsite and a drilling tool for forming a wellbore along at least one of the at least one selected wellbore trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Donald W. Lee, Jose Ignacio Adachi, John R. Waggoner, Carmen Elena Alvarez, Jorge Aurelio Santa Cruz Pastor
  • SYSTEM AND TECHNIQUE TO QUANTIFY A FRACTURE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100256964
    Abstract: A technique includes generating a fracture network model to characterize a fracture system in a reservoir that is associated with a well. The generation of the model includes constraining the model based at least in part on identified naturally occurring fractures and microseismic measurements that were acquired during a fracturing operation that was conducted in the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Donald W. Lee, Jose Ignacio Adachi, Lennert David den Boer, Joel Herve Le Calvez
  • Interpretation and design of hydraulic fracturing treatments
    Patent number: 7377318
    Abstract: Solutions for the propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a permeable elastic rock and driven by injection of a Newtonian fluid. Through scaling, the dependence of the solution on the problem parameters is reduced to a small number of dimensionless parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Inventors: Emmanuel Detournay, Jose Ignacio Adachi, Dmitriy Igor Garagash, Alexei A. Savitski
  • Interpretation and design of hydraulic fracturing treatments
    Patent number: 7111681
    Abstract: Solutions for the propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a permeable elastic rock and driven by injection of a Newtonian fluid. Through scaling, the dependence of the solution on the problem parameters is reduced to a small number of dimensionless parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Emmanuel Detournay, Jose Ignacio Adachi, Dmitriy Igor Garagash, Alexei A. Savitski
  • Interpretation and design of hydraulic fracturing treatments
    Publication number: 20040016541
    Abstract: Solutions for the propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a permeable elastic rock and driven by injection of a Newtonian fluid. Through scaling, the dependence of the solution on the problem parameters is reduced to a small number of dimensionless parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Emmanuel Detournay, Jose Ignacio Adachi, Dmitriy Igor Garagash, Alexei A. Savitski