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US 12,760,608 B2Granted
Reel deployment for centralized pad system
AssigneeFMC Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJames Cook, Corey Massey, Julian Keihany, Thiago Machado, Rajeev Pillai
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Abstract
A pipe deployment system includes a vehicle, a deployment tool having a body with a spool engagement slot and a hydraulic motor mounted to the body, a spool having a pin extending along a rotational axis of the spool from an end of the spool, and an engagement spline rotationally engaging the hydraulic motor with the pin. The deployment tool is removably connected to the vehicle.
Claims12
A method, comprising:
- providing a spool of flexible pipe on a deployment tool;
- attaching a first end of the flexible pipe to a pump manifold in a pump pad, wherein the pump pad comprises hydraulic pumps fluidly connected to the pump manifold;
- moving the deployment tool in a direction away from the pump pad while the first end of the flexible pipe is connected to the manifold to unreel the flexible pipe from the spool;
- using a hydraulic motor mounted to the deployment tool to control tension in the flexible pipe as the flexible pipe is unreeled from the spool;
- unreeling the flexible pipe until a first well pad is reached, the first well pad comprising a well manifold fluidly connected to a first well;
- fluidly connecting a second end of the flexible pipe to the well manifold;
- providing a central operation system on one of the pump pad or the first well pad, the central operation system comprising a primary computer system with a primary user interface;
- providing a remote operation system located on the other of the pump pad or the first well pad, the remote operation system comprising a remote computer system in communication with the primary computer system and electronic controllers in the other of the pump pad or the first well pad;
- and
- sending signals between the central operation system and the remote operation system to control fluid flow through the flexible pipe.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a spool of flexible pipe on a deployment tool;
- attaching a first end of the flexible pipe to a pump manifold in a pump pad, wherein the pump pad comprises hydraulic pumps fluidly connected to the pump manifold;
- moving the deployment tool in a direction away from the pump pad while the first end of the flexible pipe is connected to the manifold to unreel the flexible pipe from the spool;
- using a hydraulic motor mounted to the deployment tool to control tension in the flexible pipe as the flexible pipe is unreeled from the spool;
- using the deployment tool to connect multiple lines of the flexible pipe from the pump manifold to multiple well manifolds located in different well pads, wherein each well pad is spaced apart from each other and from the pump pad;
- providing a central operation system on the pump pad, the central operation system comprising a primary computer system with a primary user interface;
- providing a remote operation system located on each of the well pads, wherein each remote operation system comprises a remote computer system in communication with the primary computer system and electronic controllers in the well pad;
- and
- sending signals between the central operation system and the remote operation systems to control fluid flow through the flexible pipe between the pump pad and each of the well pads.
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A pipe deployment system, comprising:
- a vehicle;
- a deployment tool attached to the vehicle, the deployment tool comprising:
- a body having a spool engagement slot;
- and
- a hydraulic motor mounted to the body,
- wherein the deployment tool is configured to deploy a flexible pipe between a pump manifold on a pump pad and a well manifold on a well pad in a well system;
- a spool rotatably connected to the deployment tool by a pin extending along a rotational axis of the spool from a first end of the spool to a second end of the spool,
- wherein the pin is held within the engagement slot at the first end;
- and
- an engagement spline rotationally engaging the hydraulic motor with the pin at the second end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.