Automated delivery of wellbore construction services

• US 9,909,406 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2014
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Baker Hughes Company)
• Original Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC (Baker Hughes Company)
• Inventors: Dashevskiy, Dmitriy
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Philip
• Application Number:
  US14/279,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20150330201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,390 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 47/26 Storing data down-hole, e.g. in a memory or on a record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

A system and a method to providing a drilling service are described. The system includes a processor to identify two or more tasks associated with the service and one or more procedures associated with each of the one or more tasks. The system also includes an output interface to output commands to complete the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks, the commands being directed to actors that complete the one or more procedures, the actors including a downhole tool, a surface tool, or a human operator.

Claims

1. A system to provide a drilling service, the service corresponding with a goal, the system comprising:

a processor configured to identify two or more tasks associated with the service and one or more procedures associated with each of the one or more tasks; and

an output interface configured to output commands to complete the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks based on an occurrence of corresponding one or more trigger conditions, the commands being directed to actors that complete the one or more procedures, the actors including a downhole tool, a surface tool, or a human operator, wherein the one or more trigger conditions include an encounter of a borehole shape, and the processor is further configured to prioritize two or more of the two or more tasks that involve a same actor among the actors.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to identify the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks based on a look-up table.

3. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an input interface configured to receive sensor data, wherein the processor is configured to identify the one or more procedures associated with at least one of the two or more tasks based on the sensor data.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a storage device configured to store information associated with best practices, wherein the processor is configured to identify the one or more procedures associated with at least one of the two or more tasks based on the information.

5. The system according to claim 1, when the actors include the human operator, the commands include step-by-step instructions output to a display.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein, in an autonomous mode, the commands directed to the actors are processed automatically.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein, in a manual mode, the commands directed to the acors are output as information to an operator.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein, in a semi-autonomous mode, the commands directed to the actors are output as instructions to an operator.

9. A method of providing a drilling service, the service corresponding with a goal, the method comprising:

identifying, using a processor, two or more tasks required to provide the service;

identifying one or more procedures associated with completing each of the two or more tasks; and

outputting commands to complete the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks upon occurrence of corresponding one or more trigger conditions, the commands being directed to actors that complete the one or more procedures, the actors including a downhole tool, a surface tool, or a human operator, wherein the one or more trigger conditions include an encounter of a borehole shape, and the outputting the commands includes prioritizing two or more of the two or more tasks that involve a same actor among the actors.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the identifying the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks includes using a look-up table.

11. The method according to claim 9, further comprising receiving sensor data, wherein the identifying the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks is based on the sensor data.

12. The method according to claim 9, further comprising storing information associated with best practices, wherein the identifying the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks is based on the information.

13. The method according to claim 9, further comprising automatically processing the commands directed to the actors when an operating mode is an autonomous mode.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising outputting the commands directed to the actors as information to the human operator when an operating mode is a manual mode.

15. The method according to claim 9, further comprising outputting the commands directed to the actors as instructions to the human operator when an operating mode is a semi-autonomous mode.

16. A method of providing a drilling service, the service corresponding with a goal, the method comprising:

identifying, using a processor, two or more tasks required to provide the service based on selecting the two or more tasks from among a plurality of tasks in a look-up table;

identifying one or more procedures associated with completing each of the two or more tasks; and

outputting commands to complete the one or more procedures associated with each of the two or more tasks upon occurrence of corresponding one or more trigger conditions, the commands being directed to actors that complete the one or more procedures, the actors including a downhole tool, a surface tool, or a human operator, wherein the one or more trigger conditions include an encounter of a borehole shape.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising automatically processing the commands directed to the actors when an operating mode is an autonomous mode.

18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising outputting the commands directed to the actors as information to the human operator when an operating mode is a manual mode.

19. The method according to claim 16, further comprising outputting the commands directed to the actors as instructions to the human operator when an operating mode is a semi-autonomous mode.