In one aspect, a drone is disclosed for inspecting a wellhead having a transceiver and adjusting an electronic choke. The drone includes a plurality of propellers and a plurality of electric motors where each of the plurality of electric motors is connected to one or more of the plurality of propellers. The drone further includes a camera that captures a survey of the wellhead, a processor coupled to a memory that controls the plurality of electric motors based on the survey to position the drone within a transmission range of the transceiver of the wellhead, and a transceiver of the drone coupled to the processor that receives wellhead data from the transceiver of the wellhead and stores the wellhead data in the memory. In other aspects, a method for operating a drone and a non-transitory computer readable medium (CRM) storing instructions for performing operation of a drone are also disclosed.
DRONE-BASED ACQUISITION OF WELLHEAD DATAAND WIRELESS CHOKE ADJUSTMENT
2024-10-31
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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