Systems and methods of harvesting information from a well-site

• US 9,322,247 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2011
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Original Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Inventors: Rojas, Fabian Fidel, Davies, Evan, Dirksen, Ronald Johannes, Crawford, Donald Leon
• Primary Examiner(s): Neuder, William P
• Application Number:
  US14/114,982
• Publication Number:
  US 20140083688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,623 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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

Abstract

A method and system for collecting information of a rig operation, including subterranean operations at a rig-site. The system may include an integrated control system, wherein the integrated control system monitors one or more rig operations, and comprises a centralized data acquisition server coupled to one or more sensor units of the rig operations. The system may further include a central computer that can communicate with sensor units, and store the data in a central time-synchronized database accessible by a central data acquisition server, wherein the central time-synchronized database collects data from the various sensors to generate a time-synchronized overview of rig operations.

Claims

1. A system for collecting information of a rig operation, the system comprising:

an integrated control system;

wherein the integrated control system monitors one or more rig operations;

wherein the integrated control system comprises a centralized data acquisition server communicatively coupled to one or more functional units;

at least one memory;

at least one processor executing the steps comprising;

receiving data from a sensor corresponding to the one or more functional units;

storing the data in a central time-synchronized database in the at least one memory, wherein the central time-synchronized database is accessible by the centralized data acquisition server;

collecting the data from a plurality of the functional units to generate a time synchronized overview of rig operations;

wherein the overview of rig operations is operable to monitor the data from the plurality of the functional units at a single location;

monitoring a quality of the data based, at least in part, on a flag status;

processing the data from the plurality of functional units to generate a report, wherein the report is accessible by a rig operation personnel on a display, further wherein the report is operable to identify a metric, wherein the metric is operable to assist the rig operation personnel in analyzing deviations in the one or more rig operations.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more functional units are selected from the group consisting of a Wireline drum, an underbalanced/managed pressure drilling unit, a tool box containing self-check, a fluid skid, and a measurement while drilling toolbox.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more functional units comprises sensors that can measure one of surface sources, rig, motors, pumps, tanks, stress, torque, load, flow, temperature, levels, speed, current, voltage, power, audio, video, worker, location, position, inventory, or RFID.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more functional units communicate with the integrated control system through a common communication protocol.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the centralized data acquisition server is communicatively coupled to a remote information handling system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the centralized data acquisition server processes information received from the one or more functional units, and wherein the centralized data acquisition server uses the processed information to monitor the rig operations.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the centralized functional unit at least one of collects, stores, and reports data received from the one or more functional units.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the centralized data acquisition server comprises at least one of a data management component, a data connection interface, a data quality control component, and a database.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the centralized data acquisition server further comprises a user interface, wherein the user interface is capable of providing access to the system, wherein the access may be one of local or remote to the rig.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the central time-synchronized database is stored locally in a hardened environment.

11. A method of integrating rig operations comprising:

monitoring one or more rig operations, wherein an integrated control system comprises a centralized data acquisition server communicatively coupled to one or more functional units;

receiving data from a sensor corresponding to the one or more functional units;

storing the data in a central time-synchronized database in at least one memory, wherein the central time synchronized database is accessible by the centralized data acquisition server;

collecting the data from a plurality of the functional units to generate a time synchronized overview of rig operations, wherein the overview of rig operations is operable to monitor the plurality of the functional units at a single location;

monitoring a quality of the data based, at least in part, on a flag status; and

processing the data from the plurality of functional units to generate a report, wherein the report is accessible by a rig operation personnel on a display, further wherein the report is operable to identify a metric, wherein the metric is operable to assist the rig operation personnel in analyzing deviations in the one or more rig operations.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the centralized data acquisition server comprises at least one of a data management component, a data connection interface, a data quality control component, and a database.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more functional units are selected from the group consisting of a Wireline drum, an underbalanced/managed pressure drilling unit, tool boxes containing self-check, a fluid skid, and a measurement while drilling toolbox.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising communicatively coupling the centralized data acquisition server to a remote information handling system.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising processing the data received from the one or more functional units and using the processed data to monitor the rig operations.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the centralized data acquisition server further comprises a user interface, wherein the user interface is capable of providing access to the centralized data acquisition server, wherein the access may be one of local or remote to the rig.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the centralized data acquisition server further receives instructions from a remote location to adjust a parameter of a functional unit during performance of a rig operation.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the parameter comprises one of a downhole parameter or a directional target parameter.

19. An integrated rig operation control system comprising:

an integrated control system comprising a centralized data acquisition server communicatively coupled to one or more functional units;

wherein the centralized data acquisition server receives data from a sensor communicatively coupled to one or more functional units;

wherein the data is collected in a central time-synchronized database accessible by the centralized data acquisition server;

wherein the central time-synchronized database collects the data from the plurality of the functional units to generate a time synchronized overview of rig operations, wherein the overview of rig operations is operable to monitor the plurality of the functional units at a single location;

wherein the centralized data acquisition server provides realtime access to the status of the one or more functional units at a central database;

wherein the centralized data acquisition server monitors a quality of the data based, at least in part, on a flag status;

wherein the centralized data acquisition server processes the data from the plurality of functional units to generate a report, wherein the report is accessible by a rig operation personnel on a display, further wherein the report is operable to identify a metric, wherein the metric is operable to assist the rig operation personnel in analyzing deviations in the one or more rig operations.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the one or more functional units communicate with the integrated control system through a common communication protocol.