Method for equipment control
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsMikko Jaaskelainen, Joshua Lane Camp, Ian Bradford Mitchell
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Abstract
A method of controlling a pumping sequence of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite. A managing application executing on a computer in the control van can retrieve the pumping sequence from a local or remote storage computer. The managing application can establish an electronic communication link to receive sensor data from a plurality of fracturing units. The managing application can control the plurality of fracturing units with a stage script with multiple sequential instructions for a pumping stage of a pumping sequence while receiving one or more periodic data sets from the plurality of fracturing units wherein the data sets are indicative of the current state of the pumping stage of the pumping sequence.
Claims21
A method of controlling a pumping sequence of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite, comprising:
- retrieving, by a managing application executing on a computer at the wellsite, a pumping sequence from a storage computer;
- establishing electronic communication between a managing application and a plurality of fracturing units located at the wellsite;
- receiving, by the managing application, an indication of status from at least one sensor associated with each of the plurality of fracturing units;
- starting a stage script, by the managing application, with multiple sequential instructions for a pumping stage of the pumping sequence;
- controlling, by the managing application, the plurality of fracturing units in accordance with the stage script;
- receiving, by the managing application, one or more periodic data sets from the at least one sensor associated with each of plurality of fracturing units, wherein the one or more data sets comprise periodic equipment data indicative of a current state of a pumping stage of a pumping sequence;
- determining, by the managing application, the current state of the pumping stage of the pumping sequence;
- comparing, by the managing application, the current state of the pumping stage to a pumping sequence target;
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- in response to the current state of the pumping stage failing to satisfy the pumping sequence target, modifying one or more instructions of the stage script by the managing application.
A method of controlling a pumping sequence of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite, comprising:
- monitoring a status of a plurality of fracturing units by a managing application executing on a computer, wherein the status of each fracturing unit is indicated by data from one or more equipment sensors associated with each fracturing unit;
- starting, by the managing application, an automated script with multiple sequential instructions for operating the plurality of fracturing units to conduct the pumping sequence;
- monitoring, by the managing application after each instruction, for an exception notification generated from the automated script, wherein the exception notification is associated with a failure to execute one or more instructions provided to the fracturing units;
- in response to receiving the exception notification from the automated script, starting, by the managing application, an automated exception sub-script to correct the failure to execute one or more instructions provided to the fracturing units associated with the exception notification;
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- creating a readable log of a resultant condition of the automated exception sub-script upon execution thereof by the managing application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.