US 11,815,083 B2
Fracturing operations pump fleet balance controller
Nan Mu, Sugar Land, TX (US); Yan P. Kuhn De Chizelle, Sugar Land, TX (US); Florence Binet, Sugar Land, TX (US); Manbro Lee, Beijing (CN); Alexander Tanner Taylor, Missouri City, TX (US); Bryan Suharik, Denton, TX (US); Clare Schoene, Sugar Land, TX (US); James Matthews, Sugar Land, TX (US); Bao Mi, Sugar Land, TX (US); and Muktabh Anchlia, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/291,421
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 5, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/059840
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/097060, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/832,102, filed on Apr. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/755,803, filed on Nov. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0003229 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. F04B 49/06 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); F04B 23/04 (2006.01); F04B 17/06 (2006.01); F04B 17/05 (2006.01)
CPC F04B 49/065 (2013.01) [E21B 43/2607 (2020.05); F04B 17/05 (2013.01); F04B 17/06 (2013.01); F04B 23/04 (2013.01); E21B 2200/20 (2020.05)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a memory storing instructions;
one or more processors configured to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive, from one or more sensors, real-time operational data from individual pumps in a fleet of pumps indicative of an operation of the individual pumps during a hydraulic fracturing operation;
receive degradation data indicative of an amount of degradation for each of the individual pumps in the fleet of pumps;
determine an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each of the individual pumps based on the operational data, the degradation data and a maximum specified pumping capacity for the fleet of pumps;
generate, for a target pumping rate for the fleet of pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using the estimated real-time pumping capacity for each of the individual pumps; and
transmit, via a control interface, the at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings as one or more of the control signals to at least one of the individual pumps.