Mobile wellsite monitoring
AssigneeOccidental Permian Ltd.
InventorsKirk Hobbs, Terrell Rowe, Judy Sisson
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Abstract
Methods for monitoring a wellsite include transporting a mobile monitoring platform to a wellsite. The mobile monitoring platform includes a transportable chassis including two or more wheels; a mast supported by the platform and extendable vertically upward from the chassis; a transceiver including a wireless modem and an antenna; a controller adapted to communicate with the transceiver; and a power module electrically coupled to at least one of the transceiver and the processor. The methods include wirelessly receiving, at the transceiver, wellsite data from a plurality of sensors at or adjacent the wellsite; and wirelessly transmitting, in real-time, the wellsite data to a remote monitoring station
Claims33
A method for monitoring a wellsite, comprising:
- transporting a mobile monitoring platform to a wellsite, the mobile monitoring platform comprising:
- a transportable chassis including two or more wheels;
- a mast supported by the platform and extendable vertically upward from the chassis;
- a transceiver including a wireless modem and an antenna;
- a controller adapted to communicate with the transceiver;
- and
- a power module electrically coupled to at least one of the transceiver and the processor;
- wirelessly receiving, at the transceiver, wellsite data from a plurality of sensors at or adjacent the wellsite;
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- wirelessly transmitting, in real-time, the wellsite data to a remote monitoring station.
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A method for remotely monitoring a wellsite, comprising:
- receiving at a remote monitoring station in real-time, via a wireless communication link, a plurality of measured wellsite values wirelessly received at a mobile monitoring platform at or adjacent a wellsite, the mobile monitoring platform comprising:
- a transportable chassis including two or more wheels;
- a mast supported by the platform and extendable vertically upward from the chassis;
- a transceiver including a wireless modem and an antenna;
- a controller adapted to communicate with the transceiver;
- and
- a power module electrically coupled to at least one of the transceiver and the processor;
- classifying each of the plurality of measure values into a wellsite image, a wellsite environmental data, and a wellsite operation data;
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- displaying the classified values at the remote monitoring station substantially simultaneously to receiving the measure wellsite values from the mobile platform.
A wellsite monitoring system, comprising:
- a plurality of sensors adapted to be positioned at or adjacent a wellsite and measure wellsite values from the wellsite;
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- a monitoring platform adapted to be transported between a plurality of wellsite locations, the platform comprising:
- a receiver adapted to wirelessly receive the measured wellsite values from the plurality of sensors;
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- a transmitter adapted to wirelessly transmit the measured wellsite values to a remote computing device in real-time.
A wellsite monitoring system comprising:
- a transportable chassis comprising:
- a trailer including:
- two or more wheels;
- a hitch adapted to be coupled to a vehicle;
- and
- a platform including at least one enclosure;
- an equipment mast supported by the platform and extendable vertically upward from the platform;
- at least one optical receiver coupled to the equipment mast, the optical receiver adapted to capture a plurality of video images at a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint;
- a communication module including a wireless modem and an antenna;
- a geographic positioning module adapted to calculate at least one global location of the chassis;
- a processor module adapted to communicate with at least one of the optical receivers, the communication module, and the geographic positioning module;
- a mobile device dock adapted to receive at least one handheld computing device and facilitate data communication between the handheld computing device and the processor;
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- a power generation module electrically coupled to at least one of the optical receiver, the communication module, the geographic positioning module, the processor module, and the mobile device dock;
- one or more remote wireless sensors, each sensor adapted to receive data reflecting at least one wellsite condition and communicate the data to the chassis on a real-time basis;
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- at least one remote computing system communicatively coupled to the chassis, the remote computing system comprising:
- a memory comprising a wellsite monitoring module;
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- one or more processors operable to execute the wellsite monitoring module, the wellsite monitoring module operable when executed to:
- receive at least one video image from the first viewpoint in real-time;
- present the video image from the first viewpoint through a graphical user interface;
- receive a user command to rotate the one or more optical receivers from the first viewpoint to the second viewpoint;
- rotate the optical receiver from the first viewpoint to the second viewpoint;
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- receive at least one video image from the second viewpoint.
The wellsite monitoring system of claim 0, wherein the wellsite monitoring module is further operable to:
- receive the data reflecting at least one wellsite condition;
- store the data in the memory;
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- graphically present at least a portion of the data reflecting a predetermined time duration to a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.