US 12,241,323 B2
Conveyance deployment systems and methods to deploy conveyances
Robello Samuel, Cypress, TX (US); Yuan Zhang, Missouri City, TX (US); and Vakkeyil Naveen Nair, Edmonton (CA)
Assigned to Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/628,883
Filed by Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/058914
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/034337, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/890,020, filed on Aug. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0251911 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. E21B 23/00 (2006.01); E21B 31/00 (2006.01); E21B 31/107 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 23/001 (2020.05) [E21B 31/005 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method to deploy a conveyance during a well operation, the method comprising:
receiving data indicative of a well operation involving deploying a conveyance to a predetermined location;
determining one or more conditions that impact deployment of the conveyance to the predetermined location;
determining a likelihood of occurrence of the one or more conditions;
determining one or more operations which, when performed by one or more tools used during the well operation, overcome the one or more conditions;
determining a thrust force of a thruster, which when generating the thrust force, overcomes the one or more conditions;
actuating the thruster to generate the thrust force to overcome the one or more conditions, wherein generation of the thrust force by the thruster is an operation of the one or more operations; and
determining a number of rotations to rotate the conveyance, which when rotated the number of rotations in a first direction and rotated the number of rotations in a second and opposite direction, overcomes the one or more conditions; and
requesting a top drive that is coupled to the conveyance to rotate the conveyance the number of rotations in the first direction then rotate the conveyance the number of rotations in the second direction, wherein rotation of the conveyance the number of rotations in the first direction and then in the second direction is an operation of the one or more operations.