Automated Pump-down
AssigneeImpact Selector International, LLC
InventorsJason Allen Hradecky, James Patrick Massey, Travis Hubbard
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for performing automated pump-down operations. An apparatus may include a control system configured to be communicatively connected with a fluid pump disposed at a wellsite surface and with a conveyance device disposed at the wellsite surface. The control system may be operable to cause the conveyance device to unwind a conveyance line connected with a tool string disposed within a wellbore, and cause the fluid pump to pump a fluid into the wellbore such that the fluid moves the tool string along the wellbore while the conveyance device unwinds the conveyance line.
Claims27
An apparatus comprising a control system having a processor and a memory storing computer program code, wherein the control system is configured to be communicatively connected with a fluid pump disposed at a wellsite surface and with a conveyance device disposed at the wellsite surface, and wherein the control system is operable to:
- cause the conveyance device to unwind a conveyance line connected with a tool string disposed within a wellbore;
- and
- cause the fluid pump to pump a fluid into the wellbore such that the fluid moves the tool string along the wellbore while the conveyance device unwinds the conveyance line.
A method comprising:
- commencing operation of a control system for controlling:
- a fluid pump disposed at a wellsite surface;
- and
- a conveyance device disposed at the wellsite surface;
- wherein operation of the control system:
- causes the conveyance device to unwind a conveyance line connected with a tool string disposed within a wellbore;
- and
- causes the fluid pump to pump a fluid into the wellbore such that the fluid moves the tool string along the wellbore while the conveyance device unwinds the conveyance line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.