WDestimator Estimating Missing Data in Intelligent Wells

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Solution Overview

Problem

The oil and gas industry faces challenges with unreliable, invalid, and incomplete data from intelligent field components, leading to gaps in data streams and malfunctions that affect well performance and productivity.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a system, termed 'WDestimator,' which employs reservoir management and production engineering logics, along with artificial intelligence and mathematical models, to detect and estimate missing or faulty data in real-time, providing dynamic data substitution to ensure continuous, reliable data streams for intelligent field components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If real-time data collection from intelligent field components is implemented, then well performance monitoring capability is improved, but data reliability deteriorates due to gaps and malfunctions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata completenessVSAvoiddata reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by detecting faulty data patterns and triggering estimation processes before complete data loss occurs. The WDestimator proactively identifies gaps in data streams and initiates reconstruction using engineering logics and artificial intelligence models to prevent information loss before it becomes critical.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary estimation system (WDestimator) that mediates between faulty data sources and the monitoring system. This intermediary uses reservoir management logics, production engineering knowledge, and AI models to generate estimated values that bridge gaps in unreliable data streams, ensuring continuous monitoring capability despite component malfunctions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If data substitution using engineering logics and AI models is implemented, then data reliability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The WDestimator system is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple types of faulty data from various intelligent field components using a single integrated architecture. It combines reservoir management logics, production engineering knowledge, and artificial intelligence models into one multi-functional system that can estimate different parameters (pressure, temperature, flow rates) across different well conditions, reducing the need for separate specialized systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service by automatically detecting faulty data, selecting appropriate estimation methods from its knowledge base, executing the estimation algorithms, and substituting values without human intervention. The WDestimator autonomously monitors data quality, triggers reconstruction processes, and validates results, reducing operational complexity despite the sophisticated underlying technologies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9429678B2Apparatus, computer readable media, and computer programs for estimating missing real-time data for intelligent fields
Publication Date: 2016.08.30 SAUDI ARABIAN OIL CO
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AI summary

Apparatus, computer readable media, and computer programs for managing an intelligent field, are provided. An exemplary apparatus can include, for example, a computer configured to perform the operations of receiving well instrument data, processing the data, detecting a missing or faulty data period, applying a rule set and logics, estimating values for the missing or faulty data, validating the estimated values, and inserting the data in the data period.