US 12,134,991 B1
Monitoring system for a gaseous fuel supply to an engine at a wellbore
Brenden Chenoweth, Norman, OK (US); Timothy Holiman Hunter, Duncan, OK (US); Christopher Ryan Almon, Duncan, OK (US); Austin Carl Schaffner, Bixby, OK (US); Billy D. Coskrey, Duncan, OK (US); and Adam Lynn Marks, Duncan, OK (US)
Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/240,932.
Int. Cl. F02D 41/00 (2006.01); F02D 41/14 (2006.01)
CPC F02D 41/0027 (2013.01) [F02D 41/1446 (2013.01); F02D 2041/1412 (2013.01); F02D 2200/0611 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
an engine of an equipment configurable to perform a wellsite operation at a wellsite;
a fuel supply line coupled to the engine of the equipment for transporting a fuel supply;
a sensor apparatus configurable to monitor the fuel supply for the engine, the sensor apparatus positionable upstream of the engine with respect to the fuel supply line;
a processing device communicatively couplable to the sensor apparatus; and
a memory device that includes instructions executable by the processing device for causing the processing device to perform operations comprising:
diverting a portion of the fuel supply of the engine from the fuel supply line to a fuel sampling line;
receiving, from the sensor apparatus, a fuel property measurement of the fuel supply;
determining that the fuel property measurement is outside of a predefined range associated with a target performance level of the engine; and
in response to determining that the fuel property measurement is outside of the predefined range, performing a mitigation operation to cause the fuel supply to enable the engine to operate at the target performance level.