Graphical indexing for life cycle management of drilling system assets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10545803-B2
Application number	US-201615099145-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2016
Priority date	Apr 14, 2015
Publication date	Jan 28, 2020
Grant date	Jan 28, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a life cycle tracking system including a memory and a processor. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform certain operations. For example, the operations can include effecting a change in a first database including data related to a set of components installed on a blowout preventer stack, in response to a drag and drop operation having been performed on a human machine interface. The change can include associating information from a second database to the first database. The second database includes data related to a set of spare components.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system configured to interface with a blowout preventer (BOP) stack, the system comprising:
a processor communicatively coupled to the BOP stack;
a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
automatically calibrating the BOP stack, the calibrating including:
tracking a status of the BOP stack by receiving first calibration data of a first sensor of the BOP stack;
maintaining a first database relative to an operational state of the BOP stack, the first database including the first calibration data, wherein the maintaining includes:
in response to a drag and drop operation having been performed on a human machine interface (HMI), detecting a change in the physical configuration of the BOP stack, the change being associated with the first sensor having been replaced with a second sensor, and automatically updating the first database with second calibration data of the second sensor, and automatically updating a second database with the first calibration data;
disassociating the first calibration data with the BOP stack in response to the replacing the first sensor with the second sensor; and
wherein the second database is not updated when the BOP stack is being operated.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second database includes information relating to one or more spare sensors for the BOP stack.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include associating the second calibration data with the BOP stack.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a front-end graphical user interface representative of the BOP stack.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the first database is connected from a back-end to the front-end graphical user interface.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein the second database is connected from a back-end to the graphical user interface.

7. The system, of claim 1 , wherein the first database is a relational database.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second database is a relational database.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first and second databases are relational databases.

Assignees

• Hydril Usa Distrib Llc

Inventors

• Holmes John Steven
• Milliman Douglas
• Arcot Prakash Kumar

Classifications

• E21B44/00 Primary

  Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which function to carry out or modify a drilling operation without intervention of a human operator, e.g. computer-controlled drilling systems; Systems specially adapted for monitoring a plurality of drilling variables or conditions · CPC title

• G06F16/22

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06Q10/20 Primary

  Administration of product repair or maintenance · CPC title

• E21B33/064 Primary

  specially adapted for underwater well heads · CPC title