Patents by Inventor Daniel Lucas-Clements

Daniel Lucas-Clements has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240095429
    Abstract: A method can include generating equipment specifications for a facility project at a field site by simulating physical phenomena using one or more computational simulators; using the equipment specifications and a computational facility planner system, generating a work breakdown structure for the facility project, where the work breakdown structure represents activities to be performed to deliver a defined scope of the facility project within a defined time; rendering a graphical user interface to a display that includes graphical controls for dependencies of the activities and equipment characterized by the equipment specifications; responsive to input received via one or more of the graphical controls, automatically updating at least durations of the activities; and, based at least in part on the updating, generating an optimal scenario for the facility project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Hudson, Krzysztof Sitkowski, Daniel Lucas-Clements, Patricia Alejandra Fleitas Calzadilla, Gary W. Sams, Hooi Hong Pearl Kuan
  • Patent number: 8078444
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for optimal lift resource allocation, which includes optimally allocating lift resource under a total lift resource constraint or a total production constraint, the allocating step including distributing lift resource among all lifted wells in a network so as to maximize a liquid/oil rate at a sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kashif Rashid, Andrew Shand, Trevor Tonkin, Luca Letizia, Andrew John Howell, Daniel Lucas-Clements
  • Patent number: 8073665
    Abstract: A method for analyzing an oilfield network. The method includes collecting oilfield data from an oilfield network, modeling a first wellsite and a second wellsite using the oilfield data to create a first production model of the first wellsite and a second production model of the second wellsite. The method further includes modeling a sub-network of the oilfield network to create a third production model of the sub-network. The modeling of the sub-network includes identifying a junction of branches associated with the first wellsite and the second wellsite. A fourth production model is created for the junction by combining the first production model with the second production model. The production model of the sub-network is created using the fourth production model of the junction. The method further includes solving the oilfield network based on the third production model to create a production result, and storing the production result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Colin Watters, Adrian Ferramosca, James Bennett, Daniel Lucas-Clements
  • Publication number: 20100312536
    Abstract: An example method of integrating field data that includes obtaining the field data associated with a field and performing a production analysis on the field data to generate a production output, the production analysis performed by a production engineering tool. The method further includes transforming the field data to obtain transformed field data requested by a field application and sending the transformed field data from the production engineering tool to the field application, the field application performing a field analysis using the transformed field data to generate a field output. The method further includes generating a comparison of the production output and the field output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Randy J. Vaal, Daniel Lucas-Clements
  • Publication number: 20100049490
    Abstract: A method for performing an analysis of an oilfield network. The oilfield network includes multiple wellsites. The method includes collecting oilfield data from the oilfield network, modeling a first wellsite using the oilfield data to create a first production model of the first wellsite, and modeling a second wellsite using the oilfield data to create a second production model of the second wellsite. The method further includes modeling a sub-network of the oilfield network to create a third production model of the sub-network. The modeling of the sub-network includes identifying a junction of a branch associated with the first wellsite and a branch associated with the second wellsite. A fourth production model is created for the junction by combining the first production model with the second production model. The production model of the sub-network is created using the fourth production model of the junction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Colin Watters, Adrian Ferramosca, James Bennett, Daniel Lucas-Clements
  • Publication number: 20080140369
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for optimal lift resource allocation, which includes optimally allocating lift resource under a total lift resource constraint or a total production constraint, the allocating step including distributing lift resource among all lifted wells in a network so as to maximize a liquid/oil rate at a sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kashif Rashid, Andrew Shand, Trevor Tonkin, Luca Letizia, Andrew John Howell, Daniel Lucas-Clements