Analysis of well operations using dimensional measurement data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12049815-B2
Application number	US-202117449166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2021
Priority date	Sep 30, 2020
Publication date	Jul 30, 2024
Grant date	Jul 30, 2024

Abstract

Dimensions of a tool moving in/out of a well may be measured during well operations. The measured dimensions of the tool may be used to analyze the well operations. Analysis of well operations may include identification of types of well operations being performed at the well, monitoring of the well operations, benchmarking of the well operations, identification of tools being used in the well operations, and/or other analysis of the well operations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for analyzing well operations, the system comprising:
a tool for a well, wherein the tool moves into or out of the well to perform an operation at the well;
multiple radio frequency identification tags positioned at multiple locations along the tool, the multiple radio frequency identification tags transmitting information on shape and/or width of the tool at corresponding locations along the tool, the multiple radio frequency identification tags including a first radio frequency identification tag and a second radio frequency identification tag, wherein the first radio frequency identification tag is positioned at a first location along the tool and transmits information on the shape and/or the width of the tool at the first location along the tool and the second radio frequency identification tag is positioned at a second location along the tool and transmits information on the shape and/or the width of the tool at the second location along the tool;
a radio frequency identification reader positioned at the well, the radio frequency receiving the information transmitted by the multiple radio frequency identification tags when the multiple radio frequency identification tags are within a range of the radio frequency identification reader, wherein the radio frequency identification reader receives the information transmitted by the multiple radio frequency identification tags as the tool moves into or out of the well; and
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
determine the shape and/or the width of the tool based on the information on the shape and/or the width of the tool at the multiple locations along the tool received from the multiple radio frequency identification tags by the radio frequency identification reader;
determine whether the tool is incompatible with the well based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool, wherein determination that the tool is incompatible with the well includes determination that the tool is different from a planned tool that was planned to be used for the operation at the well or includes determination that the tool is too large for the well; and
in response to determination that the tool is incompatible with the well, pause or reverse the operation at the well.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the multiple radio frequency identification tags transmit information on the width of the tool at the corresponding locations along the tool, and the shape of the tool is determined based on the width of the tool at the multiple locations along the tool.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the width of the tool includes an external diameter of the tool.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool is used to monitor and/or track size of the tool as the tool moves into or out of the well to perform the operation at the well.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool is used to measure dimension of lateral slices of the tool.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein a type of the operation being performed at the well is determined based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein determination of whether the tool is incompatible with the well based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool includes determination of a type of the tool based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the determination that the tool is too large for the well includes determination that the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool exceeds a minimum restriction of the well.

9. A method for analyzing well operations, the method comprising:
receiving, via a radio frequency identification reader positioned at a well, information transmitted by multiple radio frequency identification tags when the multiple radio frequency identification tags are within a range of the radio frequency identification reader, the multiple radio frequency identification tags positioned at multiple locations along a tool for the well, the multiple radio frequency identification tags transmitting information on shape and/or width of the tool at corresponding locations along the tool, the multiple radio frequency identification tags including a first radio frequency identification tag and a second radio frequency identification tag, wherein the first radio frequency identification tag is positioned at a first location along the tool and transmits information on the shape and/or the width of the tool at the first location along the tool and the second radio frequency identification tag is positioned at a second location along the tool and transmits information on the shape and/or the width of the tool at the second location along the tool, wherein the tool moves into or out of the well to perform an operation at the well and the radio frequency identification reader receives the information transmitted by the multiple radio frequency identification tags as the tool moves into or out of the well;
determining the shape and/or the width of the tool based on the information on the shape and/or the width of the tool at the multiple locations along the tool received from the multiple radio frequency identification tags by the radio frequency identification reader;
determining whether the tool is incompatible with the well based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool, wherein determining that the tool is incompatible with the well includes determining that the tool is different from a planned tool that was planned to be used for the operation at the well or determining that the tool is too large for the well; and
in response to determining that the tool is incompatible with the well, pausing or reversing the operation at the well.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the multiple radio frequency identification tags transmit information on the width of the tool at the corresponding locations along the tool, and the shape of the tool is determined based on the width of the tool at the multiple locations along the tool.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the width of the tool includes an external diameter of the tool.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool is used to monitor and/or track size of the tool as the tool moves into or out of the well to perform the operation at the well.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool is used to measure dimension of lateral slices of the tool.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein a type of the operation being performed at the well is determined based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining whether the tool is incompatible with the well based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool includes determining a type of the tool based on the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining that the tool is too large for the well includes determining that the determined shape and/or the determined width of the tool exceeds a minimum restriction of the well.

Assignees

• Chevron Usa Inc

Inventors

• Gainer Robert Schuyler
• Carroll Caleb Kimbrell
• Nally Douglas Ryan
• Painter Jay Patrick

Classifications

• E21B19/00

  Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole, e.g. in the derrick; Apparatus for feeding the rods or cables · CPC title

• E21B47/08 Primary

  Measuring diameters or related dimensions at the borehole · CPC title