A Working Condition Diagnosis Model of Sucker Rod Pumping Wells Based on Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xiang Wang ◽  
Yangeng He ◽  
Fajun Li ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Xiangji Dou ◽  
...  

Summary Monitoring the working conditions of sucker rod pumping wells in a timely and accurate manner is important for oil production. With the development of smart oil fields, more and more sensors are installed on the well, and the monitored data are continuously transmitted to the data center to form big data. In this work, we aim to utilize the big data collected during oil well production and a deep learning technique to build a new generation of intelligent diagnosis model to monitor working condition of sucker rod pumping wells. More than 5×106 of well monitoring records, which covers information from about 1 year for more than 300 wells in an oilfield block, are collected and preprocessed. To show the dynamic changes of the working conditions for the wells, the overlay dynamometer card is proposed and plotted for each data record. The working conditions are divided into 30 types, and the corresponding data set is created. An intelligent diagnosis model using the convolutional neural network (CNN), one of the deep learning frameworks, is proposed. By the convolution and pooling operation, the CNN can extract features of an image implicitly without human effort and prior knowledge. That makes a CNN very suitable for the recognition of the overlay dynamometer cards. The architecture for a working condition diagnosis CNN model is designed. The CNN model consists of 14 layers with six convolutional layers, three pooling layers, and three fully connected layers. The total number of neurons is more than 1.7×106. The overlay dynamometer card data set is used to train and validate the CNN model. The accuracy and efficiency of the model are evaluated. Both the training and validation accuracies of the CNN model are greater than 99% after 10 training epochs. The average training elapsed time for an epoch is 8909.5 seconds, and the average time to diagnosis a sample is 1.3 milliseconds. Based on the trained CNN model, a working condition monitoring software for a sucker rod pumping well is developed. The software runs 7 × 24 hours to diagnosis the working conditions of wells and post a warning to users. It also has a feedback learning workflow to update the CNN model regularly to improve its performance. The on-site run shows that the actual accuracy of the CNN model is greater than 90%.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Wang ◽  
Yanfeng He ◽  
Fajun Li ◽  
Xiangji Dou ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruidong Zhao ◽  
Cai Wang ◽  
Hanjun Zhao ◽  
Chunming Xiong ◽  
Junfeng Shi ◽  
...  

Abstract The conventional configurations of pumping well IOT consist of electric parameter indicator and dynamometer. The current, voltage, power, and other electrical parameters are easy to access, low costs, stable, and acquired daily during pumping well operation. If the working condition diagnosis and virtual production metering of pumping well can be realized through electrical parameters, the utilization of dynamometers can be cancelled or reduced, which is of great significance to reduce the investment and improve the coverage of IOT in oil wells. The conventional methods of diagnosis and analysis based on electrical parameters and virtual production metering are lack of theoretical basis. The combination of deep learning technology of big data and traditional methods will provide solutions to solve related technical problems. Considering that there are many energy transmission segments from the motor to the downhole pump, the characteristics of the electric parameter curve are more sophisticated and difficult to identify compared with dynamometer card due to the influence of the unbalance, pump fullness, rod/tube vibration, wax deposition and leakage. The shape characteristics of the electric parameter curve of the pumping well are analyzed in the time domain and frequency domain, which provides the basis for further diagnosis, analysis and production measurement. In this paper, an integrated multi-model diagnosis method is proposed. For the working conditions with a large scale of samples, the electrical parameters are converted to dynamometer cards for diagnosis by using the deep learning technology of big data. For the working conditions with sparse samples, the machine learning model is used to diagnosis directly with electrical parameters. The deep learning electric parameter model for production measurement is established. Through the combination of the big data model of electric parameters to dynamometer card, 3D mechanical model of rod string, and big data model of plunger leakage coefficient, the virtual production metering function of pumping well based on electrical parameters is successfully realized. The diagnosis and virtual production metering method and software based on electrical parameters have been applied in many oilfields of CNPC. The accuracy of identifying the upper and lower dead points of electric parameters is 98.0%; the coincidence rate of working condition diagnosis under electrical parameters is 92.0%; the average error of virtual production metering with electric parameters is 13.4%. The dynamometer and gauging room have been canceled in the demonstration area. The application of electrical parameters to diagnose working conditions and meter the production of pumping wells is the key to the low-cost IOT construction. Traditional mathematical and physical methods are difficult to solve this problem, but the application of big data analysis technology could do the job successfully.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao DeChen ◽  
HuaLing Li ◽  
JinYing Huang

Abstract Rotating machinery (RM) is one of the most common mechanical equipment in engineering applications and has a broad and vital role. Rotating machinery includes gearboxes, bearing motors, generators, etc. In industrial production, the important position of rotating machinery and its variable speed and complex working conditions lead to unstable vibration characteristics, which have become a research hotspot in mechanical fault diagnosis. Aiming at the multi-classification problem of rotating machinery with variable speed and complex working conditions, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method based on the construction of improved sensitive mode matrix (ISMM), isometric mapping (ISOMAP) and Convolution-Vision Transformer network (CvT) structure. After overlapping and sampling the variable speed signals, a high-dimensional ISMM is constructed, and the ISMM is mapped into the manifold space through ISOMAP manifold learning. This method can extract the fault transient characteristics of the variable speed signal, and the experiment proves that it can solve the problem that the conventional method cannot effectively extract the characteristics of the variable speed data. CvT combines the advantages of self-attention mechanism and convolution in CNN, so the CvT network structure is used for feature extraction and fault recognition and classification. The CvT network structure takes into account both global feature extraction and local feature extraction, which greatly reduces the number of training iterations and the size of the network model. Two data sets (the HFXZ-I planetary gearbox variable speed data set in the laboratory and the bearing variable speed public data set of the University of Ottawa in Canada) are used to experimentally verify the proposed fault diagnosis model. Experimental results show that the proposed fault diagnosis model has good recognition accuracy and robustness.


Author(s):  
Zhewei Ye ◽  
Qinjue Yi

At present, beam pumping units are the most extensively-applied component in rod pumping systems, and the analysis of the indicator diagram of a rod pump is an important means of judging its downhole working condition. However, the synthetic study and judgment of the indicator diagram by manual means has a low efficiency, large error, and poor immediacy, and it is difficult to apply the conclusions in time and accurately to adjust the operating parameters of the pumping units. Moreover, expert systems rely on expert experience and conventional machine learning requires manual pre-selection of geometric features such as moments and vector curves, which will reduce the accuracy of recognition when similar indicator diagrams appear. To solve the above technical defects, in this paper, a deep-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed using the CNN model based on AlexNet. The automatic recognition of the indicator diagram is thus realized, and, on the basis of previous studies, this model simplifies the structure of the model and takes into account 15 common downhole working conditions of the pumping unit. In this model, the batch normalization (BN) layer is used to replace the local response normalization (LRN) and dropout layers and all kinds of indicator diagrams are put into the same model frame for automatic identification. The experimental application of the measured data shows that the model not only has a short training time, but also has a working-condition diagnosis accuracy of 96.05%, which can solve the deficiencies and defects of artificial identification, expert systems, and conventional machine learning to a certain extent. A deep-learning CNN can provide a new reference for fast working-condition diagnosis of indicator diagram, making indicator-diagram judgment timely and accurate, and thus it is possible to provide a direct basis for parameter adjustment of pumping units.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 5659
Author(s):  
Haibo Cheng ◽  
Haibin Yu ◽  
Peng Zeng ◽  
Evgeny Osipov ◽  
Shichao Li ◽  
...  

Sucker-rod pumping systems are the most widely applied artificial lift equipment in the oil and gas industry. Accurate and intelligent working condition recognition of pumping systems imposes major impacts on oilfield production benefits and efficiency. The shape of dynamometer card reflects the working conditions of sucker-rod pumping systems, and different conditions can be indicated by their typical card characteristics. In traditional identification methods, however, features are manually extracted based on specialist experience and domain knowledge. In this paper, an automatic fault diagnosis method is proposed to recognize the working conditions of sucker-rod pumping systems with massive dynamometer card data collected by sensors. Firstly, AlexNet-based transfer learning is adopted to automatically extract representative features from various dynamometer cards. Secondly, with the extracted features, error-correcting output codes model-based SVM is designed to identify the working conditions and improve the fault diagnosis accuracy and efficiency. The proposed AlexNet-SVM algorithm is validated against a real dataset from an oilfield. The results reveal that the proposed method reduces the need for human labor and improves the recognition accuracy.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1140
Author(s):  
Jeong-Hee Lee ◽  
Jongseok Kang ◽  
We Shim ◽  
Hyun-Sang Chung ◽  
Tae-Eung Sung

Building a pattern detection model using a deep learning algorithm for data collected from manufacturing sites is an effective way for to perform decision-making and assess business feasibility for enterprises, by providing the results and implications of the patterns analysis of big data occurring at manufacturing sites. To identify the threshold of the abnormal pattern requires collaboration between data analysts and manufacturing process experts, but it is practically difficult and time-consuming. This paper suggests how to derive the threshold setting of the abnormal pattern without manual labelling by process experts, and offers a prediction algorithm to predict the potentials of future failures in advance by using the hybrid Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)–Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) algorithm, and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) technique. We found that it is easier to detect abnormal patterns that cannot be found in the existing time domain after preprocessing the data set through FFT. Our study shows that both train loss and test loss were well developed, with near zero convergence with the lowest loss rate compared to existing models such as LSTM. Our proposition for the model and our method of preprocessing the data greatly helps in understanding the abnormal pattern of unlabeled big data produced at the manufacturing site, and can be a strong foundation for detecting the threshold of the abnormal pattern of big data occurring at manufacturing sites.


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