Product · Balloon
Kick or ballooning.
The look-alikes, weighed over time: influx, ballooning, connection, pump ramp, sensor fault, or unexplained.
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Six explanations, with probabilities
2
Ballooning breathes with the pumps
3
Unexplained is an answer
What it would do
Four things that look like a kick
Connection
Pumps off, the flowline drains back. Every stand.
Ballooning
The formation takes mud in, gives it back on pumps-off.
Sensor fault
A stuck paddle, a drifting pit level.
Simulation: 1 % of held-out ballooning runs read as influx; sensor faults 9 %.
What it needs
- Rig state
Works with
See Balloon on your asset.
Tournament run checked in. Simulation only. Not yet on a real asset. A conversation first; a data pilot when the engine has earned it.