Patent ID: 11952886
Assignee: EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC E  G  H | IPC E  G  H

Claim 10:
11. A hydrocarbon system comprising:
a wellbore in the hydrocarbon system, for which well data is available, wherein the well data comprises one or more of seismic data, electromagnetic data, resistivity data, gravity data, well log data, core sample data, and any combination thereof, and wherein the well data further comprises equipment data associated with a plurality of tubular members disposed in the wellbore, and wherein one or more potential locations for sand within the wellbore are determined based on the well data;
the plurality of tubular members disposed in the wellbore;
a communication network associated with the hydrocarbon system, wherein the communication network comprises a plurality of communication nodes that are configured to communicate between two or more of the plurality of communication nodes during operations, wherein the communication nodes comprises sensors, wherein the communication network is determined based on the one or more potential locations for sand and the well data, and wherein sensors within communication nodes of the plurality of communication nodes installed within a vicinity of the one or more potential locations for sand are arranged in a denser configuration as opposed to sensors within communication nodes of the plurality of communication nodes installed in other locations within the wellbore; and
a sand detection system, wherein one or more communication nodes of the plurality of communication nodes are configured to receive acoustic signals sent from others of the plurality of communication nodes, and wherein the acoustic signals are transmitted via data packets to a control unit via the communications network and, thereafter, waveforms of the transmitted acoustic signals are analyzed to determine whether sand is present in the wellbore.