SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING DATA

• US 20110213803A1
• Filed: 10/23/2009
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Radoslav Mroz
• Original Assignee: Radoslav Mroz
• Inventors: Mroz, Radoslav (Rado)
• Application Number:
  US13/125,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20110213803A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/775
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/24215 Scada supervisory control and data acquisition

Abstract

A system operating on one or more computers for accessing sensing data is operable to retrieve time-based measurement data from a system storing the time-based measurement data, display the time-based measurement data in a user interface, and receive an input corresponding to a time of an event of interest in the time-based measurement data. The system is further operable to retrieve sensing data from a sensing system generally corresponding to the time of the event of interest and display the sensing data in the user interface.

Claims

1. A system operating on one or more computers for accessing sensing data, the system operable to:

retrieve time-based measurement data from a system storing the time-based measurement data;

display the time-based measurement data in a user interface;

receive an input corresponding to a time of an event of interest in the time-based measurement data;

retrieve sensing data from a sensing system generally corresponding to the time of the event of interest; and

display the sensing data in the user interlace.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the system storing the time-based measurement data is a SCADA system; and

the sensing system is a distributed temperature sensing (DTS) system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the sensing data retrieved from the DTS system comprises:

a first data series corresponding to a time prior to the time of the event of interest; and

a second data series corresponding to a time after the time of the event of interest.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the system is capable of retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system corresponding to one or more wells.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the system is capable of retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system corresponding to one or more sensors.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the SCADA time-based measurement data is displayed in a graphical form.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the input corresponding to the time of the event of interest is generated by a pointing device.

8. A method for operating one or more computers for accessing sensing data, comprising:

retrieving time-based measurement data from a system storing the time-based measurement data;

displaying the time-based measurement data in a user interface;

receiving an input corresponding to a time of an event of interest in the time-based measurement data;

retrieving sensing data from a sensing system generally corresponding to the time of the event of interest; and

displaying the sensing data in the user interface.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the system storing the time-based measurement data is a SCADA system; and

the sensing system is a distributed temperature sensing (DTS) system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein retrieving sensing data from the DTS system is accomplished by:

retrieving a first data series corresponding to a time prior to the time of the event of interest; and

retrieving a second data series corresponding to a time after the time of the event of interest.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system is accomplished by retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system corresponding to one or more wells.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system is accomplished by retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system corresponding to one or more sensors.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein displaying the SCADA time-based measurement data in the user interface is accomplished by displaying the SCADA time-based measurement data in a graphical form.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving the input corresponding to the time of the event of interest is accomplished by receiving an input from a pointing device.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

directing a pointing device to a location in the user interface proximate a representation of the event of interest; and

actuating the pointing device to generate the input corresponding to the time of the event of interest.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising inspecting the displayed SCADA time-based measurement data to determine the event of interest.

17. The method of claim 9, further comprising inspecting the displayed DTS data.

18. Software for accessing sensing data, the software embodied in a computer-readable medium and when executed operable to:

retrieve time-based measurement data from a system storing the time-based measurement data;

display the time-based measurement data in a user interface;

receive an input corresponding to a time of an event of interest in the time-based measurement data;

retrieve sensing data from a sensing system generally corresponding to the time of the event of interest; and

display the sensing data in the user interface.

19. The software of claim 18, wherein:

the system storing the time-based measurement data is a SCADA system; and

the sensing system is a distributed temperature sensing (DTS) system.

20. The software of claim 19, wherein the sensing data retrieved from the DTS system comprises:

a first data series corresponding to a time prior to the time of the event of interest; and

a second data series corresponding to a time after the time of the event of interest.

21. The software of claim 19, wherein the software, when executed, is capable of retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system corresponding to one or more wells.

22. The software of claim 19, wherein the software, when executed, is capable of retrieving time-based measurement data from the SCADA system corresponding to one or more sensors.

23. The software of claim 19, wherein the SCADA time-based measurement data is displayed in a graphical form.

24. The software of claim 18, wherein the input corresponding to the time of the event of interest is generated by a pointing device.

25. A system for accessing and displaying downhole sensor data, the system operable to:

store time-based data from multiple or distributed downhole sensors installed in a wellbore;

monitor measurements from a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system;

receive an input corresponding to an event of interest in the monitored measurements;

retrieve a first data series from the stored data, wherein the first data series corresponds to a first interval of time before the event of interest;

retrieve a second data series from the stored data, wherein the second data series corresponds to a second interval of time after the event of interest; and

display in graphical form the first and second data series on a user interface.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the graphical display incorporates elements of the first and second data series and data from the SCADA system.

27. The system of claim 25 wherein the input is the time of an event of interest in the monitored measurements identified by a pointing device.

28. A method for identifying, accessing and displaying downhole sensor data, comprising the steps of:

storing in a first storage device time-based data from multiple or distributed downhole sensors installed in a wellbore;

retrieving measurements from a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system;

identifying an event of interest in the retrieved measurements;

retrieving a first data series from the first storage device, wherein the first data series corresponds to a first interval of time before the event of interest;

retrieving a second data series from the first storage device, wherein the second data series corresponds to a second interval of time after the event of interest; and

displaying in graphical form the first and second data series on a user interface.

29. The method of claim 28 wherein the identification of the event of interest is performed by activation of a pointing device on a graphical display of the SCADA system measurements.