SERIALIZATION AND DATABASE METHODS FOR TUBULARS AND OILFIELD EQUIPMENT
First Claim
1. A system for managing oil field tubular goods, comprising:
- a tubular member having a remotely machine readable identification tag; and
a detector positioned within an inventory location to read the identification tag, wherein the detector is positioned and configured to automatically track movement of the tubular member into and out of the inventory location.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus identify downhole equipment and correlate input data with the equipment to improve planning and/or inventory operations. For some embodiments, oilfield equipment or tubular goods such as drill pipe include a shaped recess along an outer circumference for receiving a tag cartridge by shrink fitting. Once tagged, detector system configurations at pipe yards may facilitate logging the presence and location of each drill pipe and correlating specific data, such as inspection data, to each drill pipe. Further, this correlation populates a database utilized to achieve other business functions such as forecasting number of additional drill pipe needed to purchase, invoicing customers according to actual tracked wear/use of the drill pipe being returned, and providing well or job specific drill string population using known history pipe joints.
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29 Claims
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1. A system for managing oil field tubular goods, comprising:
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a tubular member having a remotely machine readable identification tag; and
a detector positioned within an inventory location to read the identification tag, wherein the detector is positioned and configured to automatically track movement of the tubular member into and out of the inventory location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of managing oil field tubular goods, comprising:
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providing a tubular member having a unique identification tag; and
tracking movement of the tubular member into and out of an inventory location by reading the identification tag with a detector. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method of managing oil field tubular goods, comprising:
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providing a tubular member having a remotely readable identification tag;
gathering data associated with the tubular member;
correlating the data and an identification code of the identification tag in a signal bearing medium; and
invoicing for actual wear to the tubular member as determined based on the correlating. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A method of managing items of oilfield equipment, comprising:
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providing each item of oilfield equipment with a remotely readable identification tag;
gathering data associated with the items of oilfield equipment;
correlating the data with an identification code of the identification tag of each item of oilfield equipment in a signal bearing medium;
storing the data cross-referenced to the identification code in a computer system;
interrogating the computer system to locate items of oilfield equipment according to one or more criterion based upon the stored data; and
identifying the location of each item of oilfield equipment which satisfies the given one or more criterion. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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