Obtaining data from an underwater component
AssigneeGE Oil & Gas UK Limited
InventorsGraham Thomas Morley, Steven Lewis Simpson
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Abstract
A method of obtaining data from a subsea control module of an underwater well facility is provided. The method comprises: providing a tag which stores data relating to the module, the tag being operable to wirelessly transmit the data to a reader device; locating the tag at the module; providing a reader device; and interrogating the tag using the reader device, such that the tag is caused to wirelessly transmit the data to the reader device, wherein the tag is communicatively connected to a subsea electronics module for receiving information therefrom.
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A method of obtaining data relating to a component installed at an underwater well facility, the method comprising:
- providing a tag which stores data relating to the component, the tag being operable to wirelessly transmit the data to a reader device;
- locating the tag at the component;
- providing the reader device;
- interrogating the tag using the reader device, such that the tag is caused to wirelessly transmit the data to the reader device, wherein:
- the component comprises a subsea control module;
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- the tag is communicatively connected to a subsea electronics module and is located within and/or proximate the subsea electronics module, wherein the subsea electronics module comprises a processor for a functioning of the underwater well facility and wherein the tag receives information from the subsea electronics module to control a reprogramming of the tag, wherein the reprogramming comprises changing the data stored in the tag in response to changes to data associated with the component due to the functioning of the underwater well facility;
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- resetting communications parameters within a communications system between the subsea control module and a surface location of the underwater well facility based on the data obtained from the tag.
A method of resetting communications parameters within a communications system between a subsea control module and a surface location of an underwater well facility, comprising:
- providing a tag which stores data relating to the subsea control module, the tag being operable to wirelessly transmit the data to a reader device;
- locating the tag within or proximate a subsea electronics module, wherein the subsea electronics module comprises a processor for a functioning of the underwater well facility and wherein the tag receives information from the subsea electronics module to control a reprogramming of the tag,
- wherein the reprogramming comprises changing the data stored in the tag in response to changes to data associated with the subsea control module due to the functioning of the underwater well facility;
- providing a reader device;
- interrogating the tag using the reader device, such that the tag is caused to wirelessly transmit the data to the reader device, the tag being communicatively connected to the subsea electronics module for receiving information therefrom;
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- resetting the communications parameters between the subsea control module and the surface location of the underwater well facility based on the data obtained from the tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.