Tube Digital Tracking for Well Integration Status Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for controlling and monitoring tubes and pipes during well construction are inefficient due to manual data entry errors, lack of real-time parameter updates, and inability to track modifications throughout the routing process, leading to increased rejections and back-and-forth movements between sites.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a digital descriptor with a tracking code, completion status, and planning status, managed by a server, which authenticates the tube, generates requests for data, and sends alerts when predefined thresholds are exceeded, ensuring accurate inventory, completion, and planning status verification, and automatically calculating parameters like mud gain and cement volume.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual data entry and visual checking methods are used for tube control, then operators can enter tube data into computers and record parameters, but input errors occur and the process takes a long time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical data entry with automatic optical reading systems. Cameras capture images of tracking codes on tubes, and image processing algorithms automatically extract tube parameters, eliminating manual typing and reducing both time and errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates digital copies of tube information through photographing tracking codes. The captured images serve as digital replicas of the physical tube identifiers, enabling automatic data extraction without manual intervention.
2Loss of information
If tags are placed on tubes for inventory checking and tracking, then tube identification and location following-up are enabled, but the method fails to ensure control of tube modifications throughout routing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where captured tube data is automatically compared against planned well parameters. The system provides real-time feedback on whether tubes match requirements, enabling automatic rejection or acceptance decisions without manual verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary verification of tube parameters before tubes are physically introduced into the well. All checking, validation, and parameter verification occur in advance during the routing process, preventing incorrect tubes from reaching the wellsite.
3Measurement precision
If manual processes are used between visual checking and generation of well parameter values, then operators can control tubes and record data, but the operation takes a long time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual calculation and data processing with automated image processing and computational algorithms. The system automatically extracts parameters from images, calculates well parameters, and generates reports without human intervention in the computational steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables continuous automated processing of tube data throughout the routing process. From capture to validation to parameter generation, the system operates continuously without manual interruptions, maintaining constant data flow and processing.
4Adaptability or versatility
If changes in tube planning and modifications are frequent during extraction structure assembly, then adaptability to well constraints is improved, but tube rejections and back-and-forth movements between sites increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs all necessary verification, validation, and parameter checking in advance during the routing process. Tubes are pre-validated against well constraints before reaching the assembly site, eliminating last-minute rejections and back-and-forth movements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables tubes to essentially self-verify their compliance with well requirements through automatic tracking code reading and parameter validation. The tube's own identification data is used to automatically determine its suitability for the specific well application.
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AI summary
A method for controlling a state of a first tube, said first tube being intended to be integrated in an extraction structure, a first server managing a digital descriptor of the first tube, said digital descriptor having a first set of data stored on at least a first memory, said first set of data comprising at least: one identification number of the first tube and; a completion status and a planification status, the method includes generating a first request to a first server from a computer located near the first tube acquiring the identification number in order to generate an inventory status of the first tube, acquiring a first value of a completion status of the first tube, acquiring a second value of a planification status of the first tube, and generating at least one alert when the first or the second value is equal to a predefined state value.