Drone conveyance system and method

US10605037B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Christian Eitschberger · Munich, DE
• Liam McNelis · Bonn, DE
• Thilo Scharf · Letterkenny, IE
• Andreas Robert Zemla · Troisdorf, DE
• Shmuel Silverman · Novato, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 28, 2019
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2020
• Expiry date: May 28, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E21B23/08
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A drone conveyance system for deploying drones into an oil or gas wellbore is described. The system includes a platform, a drone magazine, a platform receiver, a conveyance, and a wellhead receiver. A drone magazine contains a plurality of the drones and selectively releases/feeds the drones into the platform receiver. More than one drone magazine, each containing different drone types, may supply drones to the platform receiver such that different drones may be ordered for disposal into the wellbore. The platform receiver prepared the drones to be moved from the platform to the wellhead by the conveyance. The wellhead receiver accepts the drones from the conveyance and prepares each received drone for dropping into the wellbore via the wellhead.