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, maintaining drill bit accuracy within target zones, and ensuring worker safety, leading to potential accidents and loss of life.
Innovation Solution
A computer-readable medium that creates a real-time well log using an executive dashboard to monitor drilling operations, providing up-to-the-minute lithology information for geo-steering, detecting hazardous gas zones, and enabling safer drilling practices by integrating real-time data from sensors and cameras to prevent unscheduled events and accidents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time monitoring and data integration are implemented, then worker safety and drilling control are improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments monitoring functions into separate modular components: well log generation module, executive dashboard module, sensor integration module, and camera integration module. Each module performs a specific function and can be independently configured, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The executive dashboard serves multiple functions simultaneously: displaying real-time well log data, monitoring drilling parameters, visualizing lithology information, and providing alerts for hazardous conditions. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single integrated platform.
2Manufacturing precision
If real-time well log creation and monitoring are implemented, then drilling accuracy and blowout prevention are improved, but data processing time and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing of sensor data and camera images as they are acquired, immediately generating well log entries and updating the executive dashboard in real-time. This continuous preliminary action ensures drilling accuracy without significant processing delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical well logging methods with automated electronic sensor arrays and digital image processing. Sensors continuously measure drilling parameters and lithology properties, while cameras capture real-time images of drill cuttings, eliminating the need for manual sampling and laboratory analysis.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive sensor and camera integration is implemented, then hazardous zone detection and geo-steering capability are improved, but device complexity and operational difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically processes sensor data and camera images to generate well log information and update the executive dashboard without requiring manual intervention. The automated well log creation and real-time display features enable operators to monitor drilling conditions and detect hazardous zones with minimal operational effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The executive dashboard provides continuous feedback by displaying real-time well log data, lithology information, and drilling parameters. This immediate feedback loop enables operators to make informed decisions about geo-steering and respond quickly to detected hazardous conditions, simplifying the operational process despite the complexity of integrated sensors.
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AI summary
A non-transitory computer readable medium to create a well log by using computer instructions to form an editable well log template, import user information, continuously import well sensor information, well event based observation data; well fluid testing data, scale the imported data, forming scaled values, compute a microview log plot and a macroview log plot using the scaled values; populating the editable well log template creating an executive dashboard, insert real time well logging information into the executive dashboard as the well logging information is detected, enabling safety interpretations for drilling, geological interpretations for drilling, operational interpretations for drilling, and combinations of these interpretations, in real time.