Summary The inspection of casing integrity is an important field of study regarding well safety assessment. In casing design, casing wear prediction is usually performed with a torque and drag model calibrated with laboratory simulation results. The availability of ultrasonic logging data makes it possible to calibrate these models, correlating actual conditions with similar equipment, operations, and trajectory. This work presents an accurate methodology that quantifies casing wear under a certain uncertainty level using data from ultrasonic logging tools. An ellipse equation is adopted to estimate the prewear condition of the cross section, and then it is applied to calculate wear. Also, a methodology to generate synthetic tube cross sections with prescribed ovality, eccentricity, and groove wear, with any intensities and locations, is presented. A model error analysis is carried out to compare the accuracy of the proposed strategy with others found in the literature. A statistical error analysis shows how the measurement noise is related to the estimated wear. This provides the level of uncertainty of the response, which can improve the right interpretation of data. Results demonstrate that the strategy successfully achieves an adequate quantification and can be applied to estimate casing wear profiles, under an admissible uncertainty tolerance.
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