Real-Time Well Log Dashboard for Drilling Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current drilling technologies face challenges in preventing rig blowouts, controlling relief wells during fires, preventing toxic gas emissions over populated areas, and maintaining drill bit accuracy within target zones, leading to safety risks for workers.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a processor with data storage and network-connected client devices to create a continuously updated executive dashboard for real-time monitoring and geo-steering, providing early warnings for potential blowouts, toxic gas zones, and lithology information to ensure safe and accurate drilling operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time monitoring and geo-steering systems are implemented, then drilling safety and accuracy are improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the wellbore into discrete intervals and processes data in segments, allowing real-time monitoring without requiring complete data processing. The well log is created incrementally as drilling progresses, with each section analyzed independently to identify hazards like blowout risks and toxic gas zones.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing system that sits between the drilling operations and the control decisions. This system includes automated algorithms that interpret sensor data and generate warnings, acting as a mediator that reduces the complexity burden on operators while maintaining high safety standards.
2Loss of time
If continuous real-time data processing is performed, then response time to hazards is reduced, but computational energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs partial processing of data in real-time, focusing only on critical parameters that indicate immediate hazards such as pressure anomalies, gas concentrations, and lithology changes. Not all data is processed at full depth, allowing rapid response to emergencies while conserving computational energy for when it is most needed.
Solution Approach 2:
When hazard conditions are detected, the system rushes through rapid analysis of the critical data stream to provide immediate warnings. The system can skip detailed analysis of non-critical parameters during emergency situations, prioritizing speed of detection over comprehensive analysis.
3Measurement precision
If multiple sensors and monitoring devices are deployed, then detection precision of hazards is improved, but device complexity and initial cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple sensor inputs and data sources into a unified well log and integrated monitoring dashboard. By combining pressure sensors, gas detectors, temperature sensors, and lithology analysis into a single coherent system, the patent achieves high detection precision without proportionally increasing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system is designed with multi-functional capabilities where a single integrated platform performs multiple functions: real-time well log creation, hazard detection, geo-steering guidance, and historical data analysis. This universal system reduces the need for separate specialized equipment for each function.
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AI summary
A system to create a well log by using a processor connected to data storage on a network that creates and executive dashboard of well log information using computer instructions to (a) form an editable well log template, (b) import user information, well sensor information, well event based observation data; well fluid testing data, (c) scale the imported data, forming scaled values, (d) computing a microview and a macroview log plot using the scaled values; (e) creating an executive dashboard, (f) inserting the log plots onto the executive dashboard and other real time well logging information allowing viewing of the log plots simultaneously with the other information on a real time basis, enabling safety interpretations for drilling, geological interpretations for drilling, operational interpretations for drilling, and combinations of these interpretations, in real time.