Wellbore non-retrieval sensing system
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsBodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
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Abstract
A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
Claims13
A computer-implemented system, comprising:
- a non-retrieval sensing system (NRSS) comprising:
- at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system;
- a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS, at different intervals, and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS;
- locational/movement components including a 3-axis magnetometer, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a 3-axis gyroscope;
- and
- a microcontroller configured to control the NRSS and including a timer, a central processing unit (CPU), input/output (I/O) ports, random access memory (RAM), interrupts, and read-only memory (ROM), wherein the microcontroller determines the different intervals using information from at least one of the locational/movement components and the timer;
- and
- plural DMs configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- initiating a survey of a wellbore using a NRSS;
- preloading plural DMs into the NRSS;
- configuring the NRSS to gather and store sensing data for the wellbore;
- deploying the NRSS into the wellbore at different intervals, wherein the NRSS includes:
- (i) locational/movement components including a 3-axis magnetometer, a 3-axis accelerometer, and a 3-axis gyroscope, and (ii) a microcontroller configured to control the NRSS and including a timer, a central processing unit (CPU), input/output (I/O) ports, random access memory (RAM), interrupts, and read-only memory (ROM), wherein the microcontroller determines the different intervals using information from at least one of the locational/movement components and the timer;
- gathering and storing environmental condition or wellbore information using NRSS;
- monitoring conditions for release of the plural DMs into the wellbore;
- deploying the plural DMs into the wellbore;
- gathering and storing environmental conditions using battery-powered ones of the plural DMs;
- acquiring data from the plural DMs;
- and
- using the acquired data for making operational decisions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.