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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2015
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc, Houston, TX (US);
Chip L. Imel, Edmond, OK (US);
James Douglas Funkhouser, Duncan, OK (US);
Charles Edward Neal, III, Duncan, OK (US);
Derek Williams, Duncan, OK (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of servicing a request during high pressure wellsite pumping operations to manipulate a valve in a manifold system having a plurality of valves includes receiving a plurality of valve configurations that would result in an overpressured manifold system and comparing the request to a proposed valve configuration that would result from a proposed valve manipulation. The method includes determining whether a pump to the manifold system is operating. The method further includes determining whether the proposed valve manipulation inhibits a flow path between the pump and an outlet of the manifold system and would result in an overpressured manifold system. The method also includes in response to a determination that the proposed valve manipulation inhibits the flow path: blocking the proposed valve manipulation and presenting an operator with an override option.