US 12,366,152 B2
Well construction workstation and control
Paal Gundersen, Kristiansand (NO); and Anstein Jorud, Kristiansand (NO)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/044,409
Filed by SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed May 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/033425
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/236287, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/680,025, filed on Jun. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0115776 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. E21B 44/00 (2006.01); E21B 19/16 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 44/00 (2013.01) [E21B 19/165 (2013.01); E21B 41/00 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G08B 21/187 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. An apparatus comprising:
a control system operable to control a well construction system for performing well construction operations at an oil/gas wellsite according to a well construction plan that comprises project phases, wherein the well construction system comprises a plurality of pieces of equipment, and wherein the control system comprises:
a processor and memory storing a computer program code;
a left touchscreen and a right touchscreen operable via finger contact therewith by a human wellsite operator to enter control commands to control automated operation of one or more of the pieces of equipment; and
a video output device operable to display information indicative of operational status of the well construction system and operable to display a list of operational steps of the well construction operations to be performed, wherein display of the list comprises a concurrent display of two or more of the operational steps and wherein the list of operational steps is accompanied by a field that indicates that the list of operational steps are for one of the project phases,
wherein the control system is further operable to:
receive sensor information from a plurality of sensors of the well construction system;
detect unintended operational events occurring in the well construction system based on the received sensor information; and
upon detecting one of the unintended operational events:
automatically display on the video output device information indicative of operational status of a piece of equipment associated with the detected unintended operational event;
automatically replace the display of the list by display on the video output device of one or more corrective actions accompanied by a field that indicates that the one or more corrective actions are for the detected unintended operational event being of a particular event type; and
automatically cause the well construction system to perform at least one of the one or more corrective actions to counteract the detected unintended operational event.