Well Design System with Real-Time Alert Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current well design and drilling operations face challenges in efficiently evaluating and optimizing design parameters across various subsystems, leading to potential inefficiencies and increased costs due to the lack of real-time alert systems for unacceptable design specifications.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising computing devices executing applications with a graphical user interface for well design, where design parameters are analyzed against specifications, and alerts are transmitted to indicate unacceptable parameters, enabling immediate corrections and optimizing the well design process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If real-time alert systems are implemented to monitor design parameters, then design efficiency and quality are improved, but system complexity and implementation costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where design parameters are continuously monitored against specifications, and alerts are generated when deviations occur. This closed-loop feedback system enables real-time detection and correction of design issues, improving design efficiency while maintaining manageable system complexity through automated monitoring and notification protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If continuous evaluation of design parameters is performed, then design quality and compliance are improved, but computational resources and processing time are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign qualityVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs continuous evaluation of design parameters by analyzing critical subsystems and their interrelationships. Rather than evaluating every possible parameter at maximum depth, the system focuses on essential design specifications and triggers detailed analysis only when necessary, achieving high design quality while optimizing computational resource utilization through targeted evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12057005B2Wellsite system services
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 SCHLUMBERGER TECH CORP
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AI summary

A system can include an individual workspace well design application that includes a graphical user interface that includes selectable graphical elements corresponding to subsystems of a wellsite system and graphical alert elements; a collaborative workspace well design application operatively coupled to the individual workspace well design application; and well design evaluators operatively coupled to the individual workspace well design application and the collaborative workspace well design application where the evaluators receive and analyze design parameters associated with one or more subsystems of a wellsite system to control transmission of one or more alerts that activate one or more graphical alert elements of the individual workspace well design application.