Landmark Graphics Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Joseph Blake Winston

Keshava Prasad Rangarajan

Xi Wang

Scott David Senften

Vinicius Michel Gottin

Jonas Furtado Dias

Ashwani Dev

David Michael Holmes

Edward Pacheco

Anuj Jain

Andre Maximo

Clifton Brent Walker

Srinath Madasu

Olivier Germain

Keshava Rangarajan

Avinash Wesley

Romulo D Pinho

Angelo Ciarlini

Chandra Yeleshwarapu

Aimee Jackson Taylor

Yogendra Narayan Pandey

Feifei Zhang, Jr

Nagaraj Srinivasan

Greg Daniel Brumbaugh

Nagaraj Sirinivasan

Jeffery Padgett

Wei Chiu

Andrew Shane Elsey

Jonathan Nguyen

Brent Charles Houchens

Youpeng Huang

Janaki Vamaraju

Jonas F Dias

Vinicius Gottin

David Holmes

Michael Keith Redman

Kaiji Lu

Ethan Myers

Feifei Zhang

A method of managing oilfield activity with a control system is provided having a plurality of virtual sensors and integrating the virtual sensors into a virtual sensor network. The method includes determining interdependencies among the virtual sensors, obtaining operational information from the virtual sensors, and providing virtual sensor output to the control system based on the determined interdependencies and the operational information.

Integrated surveillance and control of oilfield activity

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to projecting control parameters of equipment associated with forming a wellbore, stimulating the wellbore, or producing fluid from the wellbore. A system includes the equipment and a computing device. The computing device is operable to project a control parameter value of the equipment using an equipment control process, and to receive confirmation that the projected control parameter value is within an allowable operating range. The computing device is also operable to adjust the equipment control process based on the confirmation, and to control the equipment to operate at the projected control parameter value. Further, the computing device is operable to receive real-time data associated with the forming of the wellbore, the stimulating of the wellbore, or the producing fluid from the wellbore. Furthermore, the computing device is operable to adjust the equipment control process based on the real-time data.

Operating wellbore equipment using a distributed decision framework

A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for managing execution of a workflow comprising a set of subworkflows, comprising optimizing the set of subworkflows using a deep neural network, wherein each subworkflow of the set of subworkflows has a set of tasks, wherein each task of the sets of tasks has a requirement of resources of a set of resources; wherein each task of the sets of tasks is enabled to be dependent on another task of the sets of tasks, training the deep neural network by: executing the set of subworkflows, collecting provenance data from the execution, and collecting monitoring data that represents the state of said set of resources, wherein the training causes the neural network to learn relationships between the states of said set of resources, the said sets of tasks, their parameters and the obtained performance, optimizing an allocation of resources of the set of resources to each task of the sets of tasks to ensure compliance with a user-defined quality metric based on the deep neural network output.

Workflow optimization

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for intelligent, real-time monitoring and managing of changes in oilfield equilibrium to optimize production of desired hydrocarbons and economic viability of the field. In some examples, a method can involve generating, based on a topology of a field of wells, a respective graph for the wells, each respective graph including computing devices coupled with one or more sensors and/or actuators. The method can involve collecting, via the computing devices, respective parameters associated with one or more computing devices, sensors, actuators, and/or models, and identifying a measured state associated with the computing devices, sensors, actuators, and/or models. Further, the method can involve automatically generating, based on the respective graph and respective parameters, a decision tree for the measured state, and determining, based on the decision tree, an automated adjustment for modifying production of hydrocarbons and/or an economic parameter of the hydrocarbon production.

Intelligent, real-time response to changes in oilfield equilibrium

Integrated surveillance and control

A drill bit subsystem can include a drill bit, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing instructions and for being positioned downhole with the drill bit. The instructions of the non-transitory computer-readable medium can include a machine-teachable module and a control module that are executable by the processor. The machine-teachable module can receive depth data and rate of drill bit penetration from one or more sensors in a drilling operation, and determine an estimated lithology of a formation at which the drill bit subsystem is located. The control module can use the estimated lithology to determine an updated location of the drill bit subsystem, and control a direction of the drill bit using the updated location and a drill plan.

Drill bit subsystem for automatically updating drill trajectory

Various embodiments include systems and methods of operating the systems that include operation of a plurality of first nodes and second nodes in response to a request, where each first node is a first type of processing unit and each second node is a second type of processing unit, where the second type of processing node is different from the first type of processing node. Each of the first and second nodes can be operable in parallel with the other nodes of their respective plurality. Each second node may be operable to respond to the request using data and/or metadata it holds and/or operable in response to data and/or metadata from one or more of the first nodes. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Parallel, distributed processing in a heterogeneous, distributed environment

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Joseph Blake Winston