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Granted Patent B2
US 9,720,424 · App. 14/708,976 · Granted Aug 1, 2017

Submersible pump control

Inventors: Adunola Ige (SugarLand, TX); Obinna Ilochonwu (Edmonton, CA); Arthur I Watson (SugarLand, TX); Grant T Harris (SurgarLand, TX); Ian Roberge (NW Edmonton, CA)
Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
G05D7/0676E21B43/128G05B13/04G05B15/02G05B17/02G06Q10/067
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,720,424
App. No.
14/708,976
Granted
Aug 1, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system can include an interface to receive sensed data and economic data; a production control framework that includes a module for modeling motor efficiency of an electric submersible pump, a module for modeling gas composition of a fluid being pumped by an electric submersible pump, a module for modeling solid dynamics in a fluid being pumped by an electric submersible pump, a module to update one or more of the modules for modeling in response to receipt of data via the interface; and an interface to output control commands to a controller for an electric submersible pump based at least in part on data received by the interface and analyzed by the production control framework. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Claims (13)

1. A method comprising:

receiving economic data;

sensing data associated with operation of a well;

based at least in part on the sensing data, modeling an electric submersible pump disposed in the well,

gas composition of fluid being pumped by the electric submersible pump, and

solid dynamics in a fluid being pumped by the electric submersible pump;

based on the modeling and the economic data, adjusting a speed of the electric submersible pump by adjusting a voltage of a motor of the electric submersible pump while maintaining a constant frequency;

searching for a minimum current draw; and

operating the motor at a voltage that corresponds to the minimum current draw.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein adjusting the voltage of the motor is subject to an adjustment limit.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the adjustment limit is a percentage about a mid-point voltage.

4. The method of claim 1 , additionally comprising monitoring for a ground fault.

5. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising processor-executable instruction to instruct a computing device to perform the method of claim 1 .

Continuity (2)
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