Autonomous wellbore cleaning system
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsMichael Linley Fripp, Mark S. Holly, Wei Zhang, Aswin Balasubramanian
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are an apparatus, system, and method directed for an autonomous wellbore cleaner. In one embodiment, an apparatus for cleaning a wellbore, the apparatus comprising: an autonomous robot, wherein the robot is self-propelled; a power source for the robot; a motor for propelling the robot axially within the wellbore; at least one cleaning tool positioned on the robot; at least one sensor to detect an initiate-cleaning attribute downhole in the wellbore; and a processor to direct the robot to initiate a cleaning operation in response to the initiate-cleaning attribute exceeding a threshold.
Claims20
An apparatus for cleaning a wellbore, the apparatus comprising:
- an autonomous robot, wherein the robot is self-propelled:
- a power source for the robot:
- a motor for propelling the robot axially within the wellbore:
- at least one cleaning tool positioned on the robot:
- at least one sensor to detect an initiate-cleaning attribute downhole in the wellbore;
- and
- a processor to direct the robot to initiate a cleaning operation in response to the initiate-cleaning attribute exceeding a threshold.
A system comprising:
- a wellbore:
- a cleaning apparatus positioned in the wellbore, the cleaning apparatus including:
- an autonomous robot, wherein the robot is self-propelled:
- a power source for the robot:
- a motor for propelling the robot axially within the wellbore:
- at least one cleaning tool positioned on the robot:
- at least one sensor to detect an initiate-cleaning attribute downhole in the wellbore:
- and
- a processor to direct the robot to initiate a cleaning operation in response to the initiate-cleaning attribute exceeding a threshold.
A method comprising:
- positioning into a wellbore, an autonomous cleaning apparatus, the autonomous cleaning apparatus including:
- a robot, wherein the robot is self-propelled:
- a power source for the robot:
- a motor for propelling the robot axially within the wellbore:
- at least one cleaning tool positioned on the robot;
- and
- at least one sensor:
- detecting an initiate-cleaning attribute by the at least one sensor;
- and
- initiating, by a processor, a cleaning operation by the autonomous cleaning apparatus in response to the sensor detecting the initiate-cleaning attribute.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.