IP Library Granted Patent US 10,545,803
Granted Patent B2
US 10,545,803 · App. 15/099,145 · Granted Jan 28, 2020

Graphical indexing for life cycle management of drilling system assets

Inventors: John Steven Holmes (Houston, TX); Douglas Milliman (Houston, TX); Prakash Kumar Arcot (Houston, TX)
Assignee: HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION LLC
G06F9/543G06F3/0486G06F3/04842G06F16/22G06Q10/20
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Patent No.
US 10,545,803
App. No.
15/099,145
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (17)

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.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 23, 2016
From: HOLMES, JOHN STEVEN; MILLIMAN, DOUGLAS; ARCOT, PRAKASH KUMAR
To: HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION LLC
Reel/Frame 040409/0359 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62147210 · Apr 14, 2015
Related Publication 20160306831A1 · Oct 20, 2016
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