Remote monitoring of wellsite data

• US 20080181230A1
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Original Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Inventors: Reed, Thomas D., Nguyen, Viendung D., Chenevert, Wilbert Joseph, Hitt, Thomas Lee, Franssens, Douwe
• Application Number:
  US11/824,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20080181230A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/395.1
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 44/00 Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which function to carry out or modify a drilling operation without intervention of a human operator, e.g. computer-controlled drilling systems; Systems specially adapted for monitoring a plurality of drilling variables or conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving, at a client machine, data related to a well. The method also includes executing on the client machine, an instantiation of an application to view or manipulate the data, wherein the application is not installed on the client machine. At least one of a control, a plug-in and a runtime engine used in executing the instantiation of the application is not stored on an internal non-volatile machine-readable medium that is within the client machine.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a client machine, data related to a well; and

executing on the client machine, an instantiation of an application to view or manipulate the data, wherein the application is not installed on the client machine and wherein at least one of a control, a plug-in and a runtime engine used in executing is not stored on an internal non-volatile machine-readable medium that is within the client machine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the control, the plug-in and the runtime engine used in executing is stored an external non-volatile machine-readable medium or an external volatile machine-readable medium that is coupled to an external port of the client device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein executing on the client machine comprises retrieving the at least one of the control, the plug-in and the runtime engine from the external non-volatile machine-readable medium that is coupled to the external port of the client device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one of the control, the plug-in and the runtime engine is used in executing the instantiation of the application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the internal non-volatile machine-readable medium of the client device comprises a magnetic disk storage media, an optical storage media or a FLASH memory.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a system registry of the client machine is not updated with an identification of the application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the data is based on a communication protocol that is selected from the group consisting of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, ADI and Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the data comprises receiving data that is from more than one well.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the data comprises receiving the data from a well over a network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving the data from the well over the network comprises receiving the data using a wireless communication.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the data comprises receiving the data from a data source that is remote from the well that is used to archive the data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein receiving the data from the data source that is remote from the well that is used to archive the data comprises receiving the data using a wireless communication.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein data related to a well comprises at least one of data related to drilling a well and data related to a completed well.

14. A machine-readable medium including instructions which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving, into a client machine that is remote from a well, well data from the well; and

initiating execution of a well monitoring application for monitoring the well data, wherein the well monitoring application is not installed on the client machine and wherein at least one of a control, a plug-in and a runtime engine used in execution of the well monitoring application is not stored on an internal non-volatile machine-readable medium that is within the client machine;

retrieving the at least one of the control, the plug-in and the runtime engine from an external non-volatile machine-readable medium; and

executing, by a processor in the client machine, an instantiation of the well monitoring application using the at least one of the control, the plug-in and the runtime engine retrieved from the external non-volatile machine-readable medium.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the internal non-volatile machine-readable medium of the client device comprises a magnetic disk storage media, an optical storage media or a FLASH memory.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein a system registry of the client machine is not updated with an identification of the well monitoring application.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein receiving the well data is based on a communication protocol that is selected from the group consisting of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, ADI and Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein receiving the well data comprises receiving well data that is from more than one well.

19. An apparatus comprising:

a client device comprising,

a volatile machine-readable medium to store at least part of an instantiation of an application to monitor well data related to a well activity at a well;

a non-volatile machine-readable medium to store a system registry, wherein the system registry is not updated to identify the application and wherein the application is not installed on any non-volatile machine-readable medium, including the non-volatile machine-readable medium, within the client device;

a port to communicate with an external non-volatile machine-readable medium that is to store application support data used for execution of an instantiation of the application; and

a processor to execute the instantiation of the application.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the client device is remote from the well.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the application support data is at least one of a control, a plug-in, a runtime engine and a library support function.

22. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor is to retrieved the application support data from the external non-volatile machine-readable medium as part of the execution of the instantiation of the application.

23. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the internal non-volatile machine-readable medium of the client device comprises a magnetic disk storage media, an optical storage media or a FLASH memory.

24. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the client device is to receive the well data based on a communication protocol that is selected from the group consisting of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, ADI and Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language

25. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the client device is to receive the well data from a data source that is remote from the well.

26. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the client device is to receive the well data from a device that is local to the well.