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AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsStanley Vernon Stephenson, Harold Grayson Walters, Shahab Jamali Ghare Tape, Joseph A Beisel
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The life of internal components of a frack pump is affected by the frack fluid being pumped. Manually trying to keep track of the frack fluid type being pumped is a tedious task that is susceptible to incorrect data or missing data. As such, the disclosure provides automated tracking of the amount of time or fluid volume that frack pumps pump the different fluid types and managing usage of the frack pumps using a history of the pumping. An example method of managing usage of a frack pump includes: (1) obtaining, for a time period or fluid volume, a proppant presence for a frack fluid being pumped by a frack pump, (2) automatically determining a flow type history for the frack pump over the time period or fluid volume based at least on the proppant presence, and (3) controlling a usage of the frack pump using the flow type history.
A method of managing usage of a frack pump of a fracking system, comprising:
A fracking system for a wellbore, comprising:
A computer program product having a series of operating instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium that directs one or more processors when executed thereby to perform operations to manage usage of a frack pump, the operations comprising:
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