# US 11,306,563 B2 · Drilling rig communication systems, devices, and methods

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- Number: US 11,306,563 B2
- Document ID: US11306563B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/887,729
- Filed: 2018-02-02
- Published: 2019-08-08
- Granted: 2022-04-19
- Earliest claimed: 2018-02-02
- Assignees: Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.
- Applicants: Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.
- Inventors: Sri Valleru; Eric D. Sawyer; Divye Kumar
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11306563B2

## CPC

- G06Q 10/06: Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
- E21B 41/00: Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
- 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
- E21B 47/00: Survey of boreholes or wells (monitoring pressure or flow of drilling fluid E21B21/08)
- G06Q 10/06314: {Calendaring for a resource}
- G06Q 50/02: Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- E21B: EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS

## Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods for carrying out communications on a drilling rig are presented. A drilling collaboration platform may be used to schedule tasks on the drilling rig and communicate with third parties. The drilling collaboration platform may be configured to generate vendor lists, send notifications and alerts to third parties, generate forms required for completing tasks, and gather data from the drilling rig.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of communicating for a drilling operation, comprising:
receiving, with a controller in communication with a drilling rig, user input of drilling operation tasks to be executed on the drilling rig; wherein a first task must be completed before a second task is started;
generating, with the controller, a drilling rig schedule to execute the tasks;
communicating, with the controller, a Request For Quote (RFQ) for a first task of the tasks to a plurality of third parties;
receiving, with the controller, responses to the RFQ from the plurality of third parties; wherein the responses comprise data relating to the plurality of third parties;
selecting, with the controller, and based on the responses to the RFQ, a first third party to execute the first task;
notifying, with the controller, the first third party that the first third party has been selected to execute the first task;
generating, with the controller, a field ticket based on the first task for the first third party; wherein the field ticket includes data received in a response to the RFQ from the first third party;
executing, with the drilling rig, at least a portion of the first task for the third party;
wherein the drilling rig comprises a drive system and a drawworks;
measuring, with one or more sensors operably associated with the drilling rig, one or more drilling parameters during the execution of the first task;
receiving, with the controller, the one or more drilling parameters measured by the one or more sensors during the execution of the first task;
determining, based on the received one or more drilling parameters, that there is a potential problem with the first task;
modifying, with the controller, the drilling rig schedule to delay the second task until the potential problem with the first task is resolved;
sending, with the controller, an alert regarding the delay to the second task to a second third party that is associated with the second task;
generating, with the controller, a task report of the executed first task based on the received one or more drilling parameters;
and
storing, in a database, communications sent to and from the plurality of third parties;
wherein the communications are correlated in the database by each third party in the plurality of third parties.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, with a display device in communication with the controller, the drilling rig schedule generated by the controller.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying, with the display device in communication with the controller, the task report generated by the controller.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, with the controller, drilling data from a second drilling rig.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, further comprising comparing, with the controller, the one or more drilling parameters to the received drilling data from the second drilling rig.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, wherein the task report is based on a comparison of the received one or more drilling parameters and the received drilling data from the second drilling rig.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1,
wherein the drilling rig further comprises the controller; and
wherein the plurality of third parties comprises any one or more of a contractor, contracted vendor, part-time worker, and specialized crew.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the drilling operation task comprises any one or more of surface casing, intermediate casing, drilling, and cementing.