Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Business Center Pte. Ltd.

A-t Controls, Inc.

Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Business Ctr. Pte. Ltd.

Celso Siado

Srikanth G Mashetty

Hassan S Suheil

Ryan Hunnicutt

Owais Kidwai

An actuator with an embedded motherboard is provided. Firmware on the motherboard executes a kickoff mode to bring an oil well online by controlling a control valve of a gas injection line to change pressures and gas flow rates in the injection line. The kickoff mode includes four phases based on the gas flow rates and pressures associated with the gas injection line. Firmware also executes an optimization mode that optimally finds a bottom hole pressure for the oil well by decreasing and increasing the gas injection rates. The optimization mode can continuously be executed after kickoff exits to maintain optimal oil extraction and bottom hole pressures for the well. Firmware further executes a well protection mode that continuously monitors current pressures and flow rates and jumps directly to a needed phase of kickoff based thereon.

Actuator with embedded monitoring and optimizing functionality

A circuit for processing data associated with a well may include a power port that receives an input voltage and a processor. The processor may receive data associated with one or more properties of the well and a well device configured to control a flow of hydrocarbons extracted from the well. The processor may also receive a value that corresponds to the input voltage. The processor may then operate in a first power mode when the value is not greater than a threshold, such that the first power mode may limit one or more processes performed by the processor to conserve power.

Multi-use data processing circuitry for well monitoring

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