Patent ID: 11934180
Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G  E  F | IPC E  F  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of controlling a pumping sequence of a fracturing fleet configured to perform a pumping operation on multiple wellbores at a wellsite, comprising:
establishing electronic communication between a managing application executing on a computer at the wellsite and a plurality of fracturing units located at the wellsite;
loading, by the managing application, a pumping sequence;
retrieving, by the managing application via the electronic communication, a unique identifier for each of the plurality of fracturing units;
selecting, by the managing application, a first inventory of fracturing units to perform the pumping sequence on a first wellbore based on a selection criteria;
selecting, by the managing application, a second inventory of fracturing units to perform the pumping sequence on a second wellbore based on the selection criteria;
selecting, by the managing application, a third inventory of fracturing units to be held in reserve at the wellsite;
starting a stage script, by the managing application, with multiple sequential instructions for a pumping stage of a pumping sequence;
receiving, by the managing application, one or more periodic datasets from the first inventory and the second inventory of fracturing units indicative of a current state of a pumping stage of the pumping sequence;
determining, by the managing application, an operational exception within the pumping stage of the pumping sequence from the first inventory or the second inventory of fracturing units; and
in response to receiving the operational exception, starting, by the managing application, one or more fracturing units from the third inventory of fracturing units by i) beginning a pumping load from zero and ii) opening an isolation valve on an instrumented package via an automated exception sub-script, wherein the one or more fracturing units from the third inventory is assigned to the inventory of fracturing units with the operational exception.