Automated display of wellbore information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021389855-A1
Application number	US-202117343266-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 9, 2021
Priority date	Jun 15, 2020
Publication date	Dec 16, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method is provided that can include collecting, via a processor, operational data about a subterranean operation being performed on a rig, determining, via the processor, a type of the subterranean operation based on the operational data, and automatically updating, based on the type, a user display with display elements associated with the subterranean operation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for conducting subterranean operations comprising:
collecting, via a processor, operational data about a first subterranean operation being performed on a wellbore of a rig; determining, via the processor, a first type of the first subterranean operation based on the operational data; and via the processor, automatically updating, based on the first type, a user display with a first set of display elements associated with the first type, the first set of display elements being selected from a set of available display elements.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first type of the first subterranean operation comprises a rig operation that is one of drilling, casing, treating, tripping, producing, workover, plug and abandon, idle, released, and logging operations.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the rig operation comprises a sub-operation, and wherein the sub-operation for a drilling operation comprises one of rotary drilling, slide drilling, vertical drilling, deviated drilling, rotary deviated drilling, rotary slide drilling, deviated rotary drilling, slide drilling, and slide deviated drilling.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising;
receiving, at the processor, an input from the user to select whether to postpone or allow automatically updating the user display.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
collecting, via the processor, operational data about a second subterranean operation being performed on the wellbore of the rig; determining, via the processor, a second type of the second subterranean operation based on the operational data, the second type being different than the first type; and via the processor, automatically updating, based on the second type, the user display with a second set of display elements associated with the second subterranean operation, the second set of display elements being selected from the set of available display elements.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein at least one display element in the second set of display elements is different than display elements in the first set of display elements.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, at the processor, input from a user; and based on the input, adjusting, via the processor, the first set of display elements by at least one of:
adding, to the first set of display elements, at least one new display element selected from the set of available display elements, thereby adding the at least one new display element to the user display, and
removing, from the first set of display elements, at least one display element of the first set of display elements, thereby removing the at least one display element from the user display.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the next time the first type is determined, automatically updating, via the processor, the user display with the adjusted first set of display elements instead of the first set of display elements.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first set of display elements is associated with the first type of the first subterranean operation via user inputs received by the processor prior to when the first type of the first subterranean operation is performed, and the first set of display elements is stored in a non-transitory memory for later selection by the processor to update the user display when the first type is determined.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first set of display elements associated with the first type comprises display elements that are a subset of preferred display elements, and wherein the preferred display elements are configured to display preferred information for the first type, and the first set of display elements display a subset of the preferred information for the first type.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the first set of display elements are automatically displayed as a high-level view for the first subterranean operation on a portion of the user display that identifies the first subterranean operation being performed and a wellbore on which the first subterranean operation is being performed.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
selecting the high-level view on the user display; and in response to the selecting, displaying, via the processor, the preferred display elements for the first type.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each display element in the first set of display elements comprises a graphical user interface and an associated software program that manages displaying information via the graphical user interface on the user display.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the first type further comprises determining a user type that indicates which type of user is to view the user display; and
automatically updating, based on the user type and the first type, the user display with the first set of display elements associated with the first type of the first subterranean operation and the user type.

15 . A method for conducting subterranean operations comprising:
collecting, via a processor, operational data about subterranean operations being performed for a first wellbore on a first rig and a second wellbore; based on the operational data, determining, via the processor, a first type of first subterranean operation being performed on the first wellbore and a second type of second subterranean operation being performed on the second wellbore; and via the processor, automatically updating, based on the first type, a first portion of a user display with a first set of display elements that are configured to display a first high-level view of parameters for the first type; and via the processor, automatically updating, based on the second type, a second portion of the user display with a second set of display elements that are configured to display a second high-level view of parameters for the second type.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
via the processor, automatically removing the second set of display elements from the user display; and via the processor, automatically updating, based on a third type of a third subterranean operation on a third wellbore, the second portion of the user display with a third set of display elements that are configured to display a third high-level view of parameters for the third type.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein automatically updating the user display based on the third type is in response to the operational data indicating that the third type is a higher priority than the second type.

18 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
selecting one of the first high-level view and the second high-level view on the user display, thereby choosing a selected high-level view; and in response to the selecting, removing, via the processor, the first high-level view and the second high-level view from the user display, and displaying preferred display elements of the first type if the first high-level view is selected, or displaying preferred display elements of the second type if the second high-level view is selected, wherein the preferred display elements display preferred information for a selected type, wherein the selected type is one of the first type or the second type and the selected type is the type of the selected high-level view.

19 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
collecting, via the processor, operational data about a third subterranean operation being performed on the first wellbore; determining, v

Assignees

• Nabors Drilling Tech Usa Inc

Inventors

• Rolong Carlos
• Bott Ryan
• Hamzah Mohammad
• Koritala Chandana

Classifications

• E21B47/00

  Survey of boreholes or wells (monitoring pressure or flow of drilling fluid E21B21/08) · CPC title

• G06F2203/04803

  Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas · CPC title

• G09G5/14

  Display of multiple viewports · CPC title

• G06F3/147 Primary

  using display panels · CPC title

• G06F3/14

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title