DRILLING COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE

• US 20080208475A1
• Filed: 02/25/2008
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2007
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Network Technology PLC, Schlumberger Canada Limited (Schlumberger NV), Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Schlumberger NV), Services Petroliers Schlumberger (Schlumberger NV)
• Original Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Schlumberger NV)
• Inventors: Landgren, Ken, Karr, George, Fleury, Simon, Shaw, Kevin Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,945,488 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/6
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 47/00 Survey of boreholes or wells monitoring pressure or flow of drilling fluid E21B21/08
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/002 with telemetering systems telemetering in general G08C

Abstract

Methods and systems facilitate collaboration between users at an oil well site and users at a remote location. Multiple types of oil well data are collected at the oil well site to form aggregated data. The aggregated data is stored in a data aggregation server at the oil well site. Users at the oil well site and users at the remote location are allowed to access the aggregated data on the data aggregation server using a standard data format.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating collaboration between users at an oil well site and users at a remote location, comprising:

collecting multiple types of oil well data at the oil well site to form an aggregated data;

storing the aggregated data in a data aggregation server at the oil well site; and

allowing a first user at the oil well site and a second user at the remote location to access the aggregated data on the data aggregation server using a standard data format.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

conforming the aggregated data to the standard data format in a data repository;

storing a local copy of the aggregated data on a local server at the remote location; and

allowing the users at the remote location to access the aggregated data on the local server.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the users at the oil well site access the multiple types of oil well data via one or more private virtual local area networks, each local area network allowing a different level of access to the multiple types of oil well data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the users at the remote location access the multiple types of oil well data via a satellite communication link.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising providing an operations support center at the remote location and allowing the users at the remote location to monitor collection of the multiple types of oil well data in real time from the operations support center.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the users at the oil well site and the users at the remote location access the multiple types of oil well data using one or more of:

a Web-based viewer and an interactive viewer.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the oil well site is an offshore site and the remote location is an onshore location.

8. A system for facilitating collaboration between users at an oil well site and users at a remote location, comprising:

a set of data aggregation servers configured to collect multiple types of oil well data at the oil well site, wherein the set of data aggregation servers is configured to store the multiple types of oil well data as aggregated data;

a first set of subsystems configured to conform the aggregated data to a standard data format in a data repository; and

a second set of subsystems configured to allow a first user at the oil well site and a second user at the remote location to access the aggregated data using the standard data format.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the first user at the oil well site accesses the multiple types of oil well data via one or more private virtual local area networks, each local area network allowing a different level of access to the multiple types of oil well data.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the second user at the remote location accesses the multiple types of oil well data via a secured satellite connection.

11. The system according to claim 8, further comprising:

an operations support center located at the remote location, wherein the operations support center comprises a third set of subsystems configured to allow a third user at the remote location to monitor collection of the multiple types of oil well data in real time from the operations support center.

12. The system according to claim 8, further comprising a fourth set of subsystems certified for use at the oil well site for hazardous areas, wherein the fourth set of subsystems includes computing and communication equipment.

13. The system according to claim 8, wherein the first user at the oil well site and the users at the remote location access the multiple types of oil well data using one or more of:

a Web-based viewer and an interactive viewer.

14. The system according to claim 8, wherein the oil well site is an offshore site and the remote location is an onshore location.

15. An oil rig located at a well site for facilitating collaboration between users at the well site and users at a remote location, the oil rig comprising:

a drilling tool advanced into a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs therein;

a set of data aggregation servers configured to collect multiple types of oil well data at the oil well site, wherein at least one data aggregation server is configured to store the multiple types of oil well data as aggregated data;

a first set of subsystems configured to conform the aggregated data to a standard data format in a data repository; and

a second set of subsystems configured to allow a first user at the oil well site and a second user at the remote location to access the aggregated data using the standard data format.

16. The oil rig of claim 15, wherein the first user at the oil well site accesses the multiple types of oil well data via one or more private virtual local area networks, each local area network allowing a different level of access to the multiple types of oil well data.

17. The oil rig of claim 15, wherein the second user at the remote location accesses the multiple types of oil well data via a secured satellite connection.

18. The oil rig of claim 15, further comprising

a third set of subsystems certified for use at the oil well site for hazardous areas, the at least one subsystem including computing and communication equipment.

19. The oil rig of claim 15, wherein the first user at the oil well site and the second user at the remote location access the multiple types of oil well data using one or more of:

a Web-based viewer and an interactive viewer.

20. The oil rig of claim 15, wherein the oil well site is an offshore site and the remote location is an onshore location.

21. A method for controlling a drilling operation for an oilfield, the oilfield having a wellsite with a drilling tool advanced into a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs therein, comprising:

collecting multiple types of oil well data at the oil well site to form an aggregated data;

storing the aggregated data in a data aggregation server at the oil well site;

allowing a first user at the oil well site and a second user at a remote location to access the aggregated data on the data aggregation server using a standard data format; and

controlling drilling operations based on the aggregated data.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

storing a local copy of the aggregated data on a local server at the remote location; and

allowing the second user at the remote location to access the aggregated data on the local server.

23. The method according to claim 21, wherein the users at the oil well site access the multiple types of oil well data via a set of private virtual local area networks and wherein each private virtual local area network in the set of private virtual local area networks allows a different level of access to the multiple types of oil well data.

24. The method according to claim 21, wherein the second user at the remote location accesses the multiple types of oil well data via a satellite communication link.

25. The method according to claim 21, further comprising providing an operations support center at the remote location and allowing the second user at the remote location to monitor collection of the multiple types of oil well data in real time from the operations support center.

26. The method according to claim 21, wherein the users at the oil well site and the second user at the remote location access the multiple types of oil well data using one or more of:

a Web-based viewer and an interactive viewer.

27. The method according to claim 21, wherein the oil well site is an offshore site and the remote location is an onshore location.