INTERACTIVE WELL PAD PLAN

• US 20150331971A1
• Filed: 05/14/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (SLB)
• Original Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (SLB)
• Inventors: Scollard, Aaron, Lu, Zhengang
• Application Number:
  US14/712,496
• Publication Number:
  US 20150331971A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/30 Specific pattern of wells, e.g. optimising the spacing of wells
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 43/305 comprising at least one inclined or horizontal well
• 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: G01V 20/00 Geomodelling in general
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads

Abstract

A method can include rendering at least a portion of a plan to a display of a computing system where the plan includes at least one pad that includes associated wells; receiving input that generates an edited plan; and responsive to receiving the input, calculating a production metric for at least a portion of the edited plan and rendering at least a portion of the edited plan and a representation of the production metric to the display.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

rendering at least a portion of a plan to a display of a computing system wherein the plan comprises at least one pad that comprises associated wells;

receiving input that generates an edited plan; and

responsive to receiving the input, calculating a production metric for at least a portion of the edited plan and rendering at least a portion of the edited plan and a representation of the production metric to the display.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the production metric comprises a drainage area for a pad of the edited plan.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the calculating comprises determining at least one heel to toe length of at least one well associated with the pad.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the representation of the production metric comprises a boundary that defines an area.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising checking the input against one or more constraints prior to generation of the edited plan.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the rendering at least a portion of the plan comprises rendering at least one cost surface.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the at least one cost surface is determined based at least in part on one constraint specified at a ground level or specified at a reservoir level.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the input comprises a parameter value that adjusts a dimension of at least one well of a pad.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the production metric comprises a drainage area for the pad wherein the drainage area depends at least in part on the dimension.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the input comprises information for a new pad.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the input comprises information for a pad of the plan.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the edited plan comprises a total drainage area that exceeds a total drainage area of the plan.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving addition input to edit the edited plan and rendering a graphic to the display that comprises a representation of the production metric and a representation of a production metric that is calculated at least in part on at least a portion of the additional input.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the plan comprises a pad oriented at an angle and wherein the edited plan comprises the pad oriented at a different angle wherein the different angle acts to minimize or maximize alignment of at least one well associated with the pad with respect to local stress of a stress map.

15. A system comprising:

a processor;

memory operatively coupled to the processor;

one or more modules that comprise processor-executable instructions to instruct the system to

render at least a portion of a plan to a display wherein the plan comprises at least one pad that comprises associated wells;

receive input that generates an edited plan; and

responsive to the input, calculate a production metric for at least a portion of the edited plan and render at least a portion of the edited plan and a representation of the production metric to the display.

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising the display wherein the display comprises a touch screen display and wherein the input comprises touch input received via the touch screen display.

17. The system of claim 15 further comprising location circuitry that outputs a position of the system wherein the instructions comprise instructions to render the position of the system to the display.

18. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising processor-executable instructions to instruct a computing system to:

render at least a portion of a plan to a display wherein the plan comprises at least one pad that comprises associated wells;

receive input that generates an edited plan; and

responsive to the input, calculate a production metric for at least a portion of the edited plan and render at least a portion of the edited plan and a representation of the production metric to the display.

19. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 18 wherein the instructions to instruct a computing system comprise a plug-in to a framework.

20. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 18 comprising instructions to instruct a computing system to render a graphical user interface to the display and wherein the input corresponds to one or more graphical controls of the graphical user interface.