Interface for controlling and improving drilling operations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9424667-B2
Application number	US-201213683550-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2012
Priority date	Nov 21, 2011
Publication date	Aug 23, 2016
Grant date	Aug 23, 2016

Abstract

A system including a display for displaying a comparison between a calculated energy value and a desired energy value of a drilling system, the display including a first portion defining a first potential operational issue, a second portion defining a second potential operational issue, a third portion defining a third potential operational issue, and a fourth portion indicating the comparison between the calculated energy value compared and the desired energy value of the drilling system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a display for displaying a comparison between a single calculated energy value for a drilling system and a desired energy value of the drilling system, the display comprising:
a first portion defining a first potential operational issue;
a second portion defining a second potential operational issue;
a third portion defining a third potential operational issue; and
a fourth portion indicating the comparison between the calculated energy value compared and the desired energy value of the drilling system,

wherein the first, second, and third portions are corner portions, and the fourth portion is a central portion, and wherein the display comprises a touch-screen interface configured to interact with each of the first portion associated with the first operational issue, the second portion associated with the second operational issue, and the third portion associated with the third operational issue, and
wherein the interaction with any of the first portion, the second portion, or the third portion provides an adjustment value to a drilling parameter related to the corresponding operational issue.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the display is a triangular-shaped display.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first operational issue is downhole hydraulic efficiency, the second operational issue is downhole mechanical performance, and the third potential operational issue is downhole geo-mechanical integrity.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a communication component for receiving drilling parameter values and a drilling performance value related to operation of the drilling system.

5. The system of claim 1 , the display further comprising:
a first side defining a first scale of a first drilling parameter;
a second side defining a second scale of a second drilling parameter; and
a third side defining a third scale of a third drilling parameter,
wherein the first scale is weight on bit, the second scale is rotations per minute, and third scale is gallons per minute.

6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a memory component for storing code adapted to calculate the calculated energy value.

7. The system of claim 6 , further comprising:
a processor coupled to the communication component and the memory component and for using code stored in the memory component to calculate the calculated energy value and determine an adjustment to a drilling parameter such that, when the adjustment to the drilling parameter is made, the calculated energy value approaches the desired energy value.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the processor determines a deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the display further identifies the drilling parameter value that significantly correlates with the deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value by identifying a drilling parameter value that most predominantly varies with the deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein a first range of the deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value is displayed on the display in a first color, a second range of the deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value is displayed on the display in a second color, and a third range of the deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value is displayed on the display in a third color.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the processor automatically implements an adjustment to a drilling parameter associated with one of the first operational issue, the second operational issue, and the third operational issue when the deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy shown in any of the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion, respectively, is outside the first range of deviation of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein both current drilling parameter values and the adjustment to a drilling parameter value determined by the processor are displayed on a corresponding scale of the display, the corresponding scale being located on a side extending between two corner portions.

13. A method comprising:
determining inefficiencies in a drilling system through potential operational issues, the potential operational issues including overall:
hydraulic efficiency of the drilling system;
mechanical performance of the drilling system; and
geo-mechanical integrity of the drilling system;

displaying the inefficiencies in the drilling system with a comparison between a calculated energy efficiency value and a desired energy efficiency value, wherein displaying the inefficiencies includes allocating entropy in the drilling system to each of hydraulic efficiency, mechanical performance, and geo-mechanical integrity of the drilling system, and displaying relative levels and distribution of the entropy allocated to each of the hydraulic efficiency, mechanical performance, and geo-mechanical integrity of the drilling system;
selecting an area of potential operational issue based on the display of the comparison between a calculated energy efficiency value and a desired energy efficiency value;
calculating adjustment values for drilling parameter values including each of rotations per minute, weight on bit, and gallons per minute to decrease the inefficiencies in the selected area of potential operational issue;
displaying a comparison of a present value for each of rotations per minute, weight on bit, and gallons per minute with the calculated adjustment values for each of rotations per minute, weight on bit, and gallons per minute; and
implementing the calculated adjustment values for each of rotations per minute, weight on bit, and gallons per minute,
wherein implementing the calculated adjustment values is automatically implemented by a processor.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein displaying the inefficiencies of the drilling system with a comparison between the calculated energy efficiency value and the desired energy efficiency value includes displaying at least one of a first color, a second color, or a third color based on a deviation range of the calculated energy value from the desired energy value.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:
code adapted to calculate a single energy value from received drilling parameter values and a received drilling performance value for an overall drilling system;
code adapted to identify a drilling parameter value that significantly correlates with a deviation of the calculated energy value from a desired energy value;
code adapted to perform a statistical analysis for determining an adjustment to the drilling parameter value such that, when the adjustment is made, the energy value approaches the desired energy value;
code adapted to display a comparison between a calculated energy value a desired energy value on a triangular-shaped display, the display comprising:
a first corner portion defining a first potential operational issue;
a second corner portion defining a second potential operational issue;
a third corner portion defining a third potential operational issue; and
a fourth central portion indicating the comparison between the calculated energy value compared and the desired energy value of the overall drilling system; and

code adapted to automatically implement calculated adjustment values of the drilling parameter value directed to at least one of

Assignees

• Schlumberger Technology Corp

Inventors

• Pena Cesar
• Neidhardt Dietmar J

Classifications

• G06T11/26 Primary

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• 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

• G06T11/40

  Filling planar surfaces by adding surface attributes, e.g. adding colours or textures · CPC title

• G06F3/048

  Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title