WELL TASK SCHEDULING

• US 20180106134A1
• Filed: 04/18/2016
• Published: 04/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (SLB)
• Original Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (SLB)
• Inventors: Meehan, Richard John, Foubert, Benoit, Poyet, Jean-Pierre
• Granted Patent: US 10,794,153 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 21/00 Methods or apparatus for flushing boreholes, e.g. by use of exhaust air from motor freeing objects stuck in boreholes by flushing E21B31/03
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 41/00 Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
• 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: E21B 47/00 Survey of boreholes or wells monitoring pressure or flow of drilling fluid E21B21/08
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0421 Multiprocessor system
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25232 DCS, distributed control system, decentralised control unit
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25419 Scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32197 Inspection at different locations, stages of manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

A method can include receiving scheduled tasks associated with subsystems of a wellsite system wherein the scheduled tasks are associated with achievement of desired states of the wellsite system; transmitting task information for at least a portion of the scheduled tasks to computing devices associated with the subsystems; receiving state information via the wellsite system; assessing the state information with respect to one or more of the desired states; based at least in part on the assessing, scheduling a task; and transmitting task information for the task to one or more of the computing devices associated with the subsystems.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving scheduled tasks associated with subsystems of a wellsite system wherein the scheduled tasks are associated with achievement of desired states of the wellsite system;

transmitting task information for at least a portion of the scheduled tasks to computing devices associated with the subsystems;

receiving state information via the wellsite system;

assessing the state information with respect to one or more of the desired states;

based at least in part on the assessing, scheduling a task; and

transmitting task information for the task to one or more of the computing devices associated with the subsystems.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the assessing comprises determining whether the wellsite system achieved one of the desired states based at least in part on transmitted task information for one of the scheduled tasks.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the scheduling a task comprises rescheduling the one of the scheduled tasks where the wellsite system did not achieve the one of the desired states.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the scheduling a task comprises scheduling a new task where the wellsite system did not achieve the one of the desired states.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the scheduling a task comprises scheduling a new task based at least in part on the assessing.

6. The method of claim 1 comprising repeating the receiving of state information after the transmitting task information for the task.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the task information comprises task information for a mud subsystem.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the task information comprises task information for maintenance of a piece of equipment of one of the subsystems.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the state information comprises sensed information acquired by one or more sensors of the wellsite system.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the state information comprises user input information input via a graphical user interface rendered to a display operatively coupled to one of the computing devices.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the scheduling a task comprising interacting with a graphical user interface rendered to a display operatively coupled to a wellsite computing system.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the graphical user interface comprises a timeline and subsystem information.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the graphical user interface comprises at least one task creation control graphic.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the graphical user interface comprises a plurality of task creation control graphics wherein each of plurality of task control graphics is specialized for a corresponding one of the subsystems.

15. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors; and

processor-executable instructions stored in the memory and executable by at least one of the processors to instruct the system to

receive scheduled tasks associated with subsystems of a wellsite system wherein the scheduled tasks are associated with achievement of desired states of the wellsite system;

transmit task information for at least a portion of the scheduled tasks to computing devices associated with the subsystems;

receive state information via the wellsite system;

assess the state information with respect to one or more of the desired states to provide one or more assessments;

based at least in part on at least one of the one or more assessments, schedule a task; and

transmit task information for the task to one or more of the computing devices associated with the subsystems.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the instructions to instruct the system to assess, assess the state information dynamically responsive to receipt of the state information.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein the instructions to instruct the system to schedule, schedule the task dynamically responsive to one or more of the one or more assessments.

18. The system of claim 15 comprising a display operatively coupled to the one or more processors wherein the instructions to schedule a task comprises instructions to receive input via a graphical user interface rendered to the display.

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

receive scheduled tasks associated with subsystems of a wellsite system wherein the scheduled tasks are associated with achievement of desired states of the wellsite system;

transmit task information for at least a portion of the scheduled tasks to computing devices associated with the subsystems;

receive state information via the wellsite system;

assess the state information with respect to one or more of the desired states to provide one or more assessments;

based at least in part on at least one of the one or more assessments, schedule a task; and

transmit task information for the task to one or more of the computing devices associated with the subsystems.

20. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 19 comprising computer-executable instructions executable to instruct a computing system to receive input via a graphical user interface rendered to a display.