MODELING POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS SITES AND PREDICTING HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS

• US 20150149377A1
• Filed: 11/18/2014
• Published: 05/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WellAware Holdings, Inc.
• Original Assignee: WellAware Holdings, Inc.
• Inventors: Lee, Cody James, Sisk, David Allen, Almendarez, Roel
• Granted Patent: US 10,068,305 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/325
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety

Abstract

Implementations include methods for monitoring and reporting on actual hazardous conditions at a facility including actions of receiving data associated with a site, the site being susceptible to potentially hazardous conditions, processing the data, one or more models, and one or more prediction rules, determining that a hazardous condition is predicted to occur at the site, providing output data reflecting the hazardous condition, processing the output data to provide indicator data for providing a graphical representation of the site, the graphical representation providing a graphical depiction of the hazardous condition, and providing the indicator data to one or more user devices, the indicator data being processed by each of the one or more user devices to display the graphical representation.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for predicting hazardous conditions at a facility, the method being executed using one or more processors and comprising:

receiving data associated with a site, the site being susceptible to potentially hazardous conditions;

processing, by the one or more processors, the data, one or more models, and one or more prediction rules;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a hazardous condition is predicted to occur at the site;

providing, by the one or more processors, output data reflecting the hazardous condition;

processing, by the one or more processors, the output data to provide indicator data for providing a graphical representation of the site, the graphical representation providing a graphical depiction of the hazardous condition; and

providing the indicator data to one or more user devices, the indicator data being processed by each of the one or more user devices to display the graphical representation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the output data comprises one or more predicted values reflective of the hazardous condition, a predicted value comprising a value that is provided based on an actual value and the one or more models.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more models comprise at least one of a site model, a fluid-flow model, and a weather model.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the site model models physical features of the site.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the site model models topographical features of the site.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein topographical features of the site comprise topographical features that are within a threshold distance from the site.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the fluid-flow model models flow of one or more fluids.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more fluids comprise at least one of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein data comprises data measured at the site.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises weather data received from one or more weather sources.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the weather data comprises at least one of local weather data, regional weather data and national weather data.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein a weather source comprises a weather station located at the site.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation comprises an indicator of the hazardous condition at the site.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the indicator comprises location and severity of the hazardous condition with respect to the site.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the graphical representation further comprises a time indicator, the time indicator indicating a date and/or time, at which the hazardous condition is predicted to be present.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the site comprises at least one of a production well-site, an exploration well-site, a configuration well-site, an injection well-site, an observation well-site, and a drilling well-site.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the site comprises at least a portion of an above-ground appurtenance.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the above-ground appurtenance comprises a pipeline.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for monitoring and reporting on actual hazardous conditions at a facility, the operations comprising:

receiving data associated with a site, the site being susceptible to potentially hazardous conditions;

processing the data, one or more models, and one or more prediction rules;

determining that a hazardous condition is predicted to occur at the site;

providing output data reflecting the hazardous condition;

processing the output data to provide indicator data for providing a graphical representation of the site, the graphical representation providing a graphical depiction of the hazardous condition; and

providing the indicator data to one or more user devices, the indicator data being processed by each of the one or more user devices to display the graphical representation.

20. A system, comprising:

a computing device; and

a computer-readable storage device coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for monitoring and reporting on actual hazardous conditions at a facility, the operations comprising;

receiving data associated with a site, the site being susceptible to potentially hazardous conditions;

processing the data, one or more models, and one or more prediction rules;

determining that a hazardous condition is predicted to occur at the site;

providing output data reflecting the hazardous condition;

processing the output data to provide indicator data for providing a graphical representation of the site, the graphical representation providing a graphical depiction of the hazardous condition; and

providing the indicator data to one or more user devices, the indicator data being processed by each of the one or more user devices to display the graphical representation.