Method and apparatus for centralized processing of oilfield or waterfield engineering data for design and analysis from distributed locations

• US 6,498,988 B1
• Filed: 09/20/2000
• Issued: 12/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (SLB)
• Original Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (SLB)
• Inventors: Jee, Virginia J., Robert, Joel A., Weng, Xiaowei
• Primary Examiner(s): McElheny, Jr., Donald E.
• Application Number:
  US09/666,729
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 702/2, 702/3, 702/5, 702/6, 702/11, 702/12, 702/13, 702/14, 707/10, 703/10
• US Class Current: 702/6
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 11/00 Prospecting or detecting by methods combining techniques covered by two or more of main groups G01V1/00 - G01V9/00

Abstract

A technique for centralized processing of oilfield or waterfield engineering data for design and analysis from distributed locations is disclosed. In one aspect, the invention includes a method comprising: acquiring a plurality of oilfield or waterfield data; establishing a communications link between a client computing device to a server computing device; inputting data from the client computing device to the server computing device; processing the data at the server computing device; and communicating the results to the client computing device. In a second aspect, the invention includes a computing system, comprising: a client computing device; a server computing device interconnected with the client computing device; and an analysis tool resident on the server. The analysis tool includes a calculation engine capable of analyzing the data entered from the client computing device; and a plurality of program utilities for use by the calculation engine in analyzing the data.

Claims

1. A method for centralized processing of oilfield or waterfield data for design and analysis from distributed locations, the method comprising:

acquiring a plurality of oilfield or waterfield engineering data;

establishing a communications link between a client computing device and a server computing device;

inputting the oilfield or waterfield engineering data from the client computing device to the server computing device;

processing the data at the server computing device invoking a program utility; and

communicating the results to the client computing device and;

tracking the locations employing a particular program utility.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein acquiring the plurality of oilfield or waterfield data includes performing at least one of a measurement while drilling operation and a wireline measurement operation.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the input data on at least one of the client and the server computing device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein storing the data includes storing the data in a data structure selected from the group consisting of a database, a linked list, and a file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing a communications link from the client computing device to the server computing device includes establishing the communications link over the Internet, an intranet, a local area network, or a wide area network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the data at the server computing device includes at least one of:

determine the volume of scale inhibitor required for a squeeze treatment in an existing fracture;

calculate the injection pressure as a function of pumping time for a squeeze treatment in an existing fracture,

determine the volume of mud filter cake removal treatment need to treat an open hole portion of a well;

determine the time required to place a mud filter cake removal treatment;

determine the amount of bridging material dissolver needed for a mud filter cake removal treatment;

determine the concentration of bridging material dissolver needed for a mud filter cake removal treatment;

or

estimate post-treatment skin.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the analysis results from the server computing device to the client computing device includes communicating the data over the Internet, a local area network, or a wide area network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication link between the client computing device and the server computing device employs the LDAP protocol for client login.