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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2014
National Oilwell Varco, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Frank B. Springett, Spring, TX (US);
Clayton J. Simmons, Houston, TX (US);
James D. Brugman, Spring, TX (US);
NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A blowout prevent unit and methods for monitoring a blowout preventer at a wellsite are provided. The blowout preventer is activatable to form a seal to prevent leakage of the fluid produced from subsurface formations. The blowout preventer unit includes wellsite databases, at least one control unit, and blowout preventer outputs. The wellsite databases are operatively connectable to the wellsite to receive wellsite data therefrom and have communication links therebetween. The control unit is operatively connectable to the wellsite databases to selectively divert the wellsite data therebetween via the communication links. The at least one control unit includes a processor to determine blowout preventer parameters from the diverted wellsite data. The blowout preventer outputs are operatively coupled to the wellsite databases, and are accessible by users. The blowout preventer outputs include blowout preventer dashboards to selectively display the blowout preventer parameters whereby blowout preventer conditions are viewable by the users.