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Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Weatherford Technology Holdings, Llc, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Clark E. Robison, Tomball, TX (US);

Bryan A. Paulet, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/008 (2012.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/008 (2020.05); G08B 21/182 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sensor assembly can include a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a housing assembly containing the gyroscope and the accelerometer. An axis of the gyroscope can be collinear with an axis of the accelerometer. A method of inspecting a well pumping unit can include attaching a sensor assembly to the pumping unit, recording acceleration versus time data, and in response to an amplitude of the acceleration versus time data exceeding a predetermined threshold, transforming the data to acceleration versus frequency data. A method of balancing a well pumping unit can include comparing peaks of acceleration versus rotational orientation data to peaks of acceleration due to circular motion, and adjusting a position of a counterweight, thereby reducing a difference between the peaks of acceleration due to circular motion and the peaks of the acceleration versus rotational orientation data for subsequent operation of the pumping unit.


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