RMS 2010 Software
PanQL home page with Log-Log plot.
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RMS is highly flexible, scalable data acquisition software that supports Weatherford’s production optimization–reservoir monitoring optical sensing and electronic gauge product lines. RMS software is a combination of embedded software implemented on custom electronic subsystems and application software that is executed on field-hardened Intel computers running a Microsoft Windows operating system. The design approach uses high-level components of Weatherford’s RMS system for optical sensing systems. A similar architecture supports electronic gauge systems and combined optical sensing and electronic gauge systems.
A two-tier architecture fully enables the separation of the data collection activities from the delivery of the results to the acquisition systems. Embedded software resides on the digital signal processor (DSP) of the optical interrogator. The data collection engine (DCE) running on the instrument computer manages the data acquisition process and schedules signal processing algorithms to compute pressure and temperature. The algorithm manager manages the execution of these calculations. Reliable operation of these devices is ensured by Weatherford Launcher, a design component capable of self-health diagnosis and autonomous failure recovery.
What is new for version 2010?
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Benefits |
- PanQL™ real-time pressure transient analysis
- PanSystem® compatible file (.PLAS) export
- Double-ended sensor processing, using Stokes and anti-Stokes data, for WFT-E10, WFT-6R, and WFT-N4386A DTS instrumentation
- Loss (built-in loss trace similar to but not exactly the same as a Stokes trace) command for WFT-N4386A diagnostics
- External optical switch support for WFT-N4386A DTS instrument
- TLS support for email servers
- Data export from within web data viewer
- Database reporting tool to more easily extract data from the database
- Installation log, created in C:\ drive
- Significant improvements for:
- Diagnostic control for WFT-N4386A DTS instrument
- RMSeq™ error checking/handling
- Program startup, save, and apply
- Error checking and associated messages
- Web-interface change to reflect Field Office look and feel
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PanQL real-time pressure transient analysis is a subset of PanSystem software that has been implemented in the RMS application. It is a software application that will allow a transient analysis quick look at unscheduled buildups from wellhead or downhole gauge data and will email the results to the reservoir engineer.
The quick-look analysis is triggered when a shut-in is detected and the pressure change and duration constitutes a valid data set for interpretation. This is determined by a smart acquisition routine based on defined parameters.
A synopsis of the results is then sent to the reservoir engineer via email. If the reservoir engineer wishes to further investigate the quick look, he or she may log in to the system via a web interface, look at the plots with results, and determine whether or not to download raw data or a wavelet reduced data set for in-depth investigation.
Data calculated; k, S, P* - are graphed to show changing trends in the well over time
- k = the estimated permeability of the formation
S = skin factor, the wellbore damage estimated from the calculated permeability
P* (Horner method) = the extrapolated formation static pressure (estimated)
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What other products does this application link to?
| Weatherford |
Third-party |
- DTSPlus™ distributed temperature data acquisition
- PanSystem downhole well test analysis
- Integration of PanSystem based analysis engine to RMS software in the form of the PanQL application, thus enabling a first line continuous analysis of streaming gauge data with automated warning to user of data of interest
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- Any third party device that will receive Modbus and OPC protocols
- Third-party direct ODBC connection from the resident MySQL database
- Third-party support for PRODML and LAS DTS data format
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What hardware does the application link to?
| Weatherford |
Third-party |
- RMSmr™ multi-receiver optical sensing system
- RMSwh™ wellhead optical sensing system
- RMS-Lite™ single-receiver optical sensing system
- RMSmq™ multi-receiver electronic gauge sensing system
- RMSwhq™ wellhead electronic gauge sensing system
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Third party SCADA data historians |
How does this tool help improve job performance?
| Operators |
Increasingly, operators are using extensive communication networks to manage the data obtained from oilfield operations. RMS software is implemented using COM/DCOM (distributed component object model) technology which allows software components to communicate. Through the use of this technology RMS software enables system administration, maintenance, and reliable data access over a local area network or modem. Client software utilities support basic configuration and diagnostic tasks from remote locations. |
| Engineers |
Asset engineers can monitor the real-time data produced from remote onshore or offshore installations from their shore-based office using the extensible web data viewer clients. |
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