Patent ID: 9410418
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: E21B

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: an alerts module positioned proximate a well and configured to monitor a well component; a plurality of well parameter sensors in communication with the alerts module; a well operation control module in communication with the alerts module; an actuator coupled to the well component and in communication with the well operation control module; a remotely positioned well monitoring station in communication with the alerts module; and a user terminal in communication with and remote from the well monitoring station, wherein sensed well parameters obtained by the plurality of sensors are locally processed by the alerts module to determine if a sensed well parameter is a predetermined parameter selected by a user for transmission, and the alerts module decides which sensed well parameters should be transmitted to the well monitoring station based on the determination, wherein the remote user terminal modifies one or more sensed well parameters forwarded by the well monitoring station based on information desired by the user, and transmits the one or more modified sensed well parameters to the well monitoring station; wherein the well monitoring station: wherein one of the well operation control module and the well monitoring station is in bidirectional communication with the alerts module; wherein the well operation control module outputs the received modified sensed well parameters to the actuator and, in response, the actuator physically adjusts the well component; and wherein, in response to a communications medium between the alerts module and the well monitoring station being inoperative such that the well monitoring station is temporarily unable to communicate with the alerts module, the alerts module alerts local personnel of each alert and stores each alert until the communications medium between the alerts module and the well monitoring station is operative and, upon the communications medium becoming operative, the alerts module immediately transmits each of the stored alerts to the well monitoring station using the communications medium.