Patent ID: 9714568
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: E21B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: in a closed-loop control system, controlling power to an electric submersible pump in a well wherein the electric submersible pump comprises sensors that acquire data, a telemetry link for transmission of acquired data to a controller according to corresponding transmission priorities, and event information; in the electrical submersible pump, detecting a triggering event based on at least a portion of the event information, information utilized in a closed-loop control process, and at least a portion of acquired data; in the electrical submersible pump, based at least in part on the detected triggering event, selecting at least one of the sensors and increasing the transmission priority for the selected at least one of the sensors; receiving by the controller, data acquired by the selected at least one of the sensors; and during the receiving, via the controller, controlling the power supplied to the electrical submersible pump according to the closed-loop control process based on at least a portion of the data acquired by the selected at least one of the sensors.