EP 1064604 A4 20050511 - OPTIMAL EQUIPMENT ALLOCATION
Title (en)
OPTIMAL EQUIPMENT ALLOCATION
Title (de)
OPTIMALE AUSRÜSTUNGSZUWEISUNG
Title (fr)
AFFECTATION OPTIMALE D'EQUIPEMENT
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 9825819 W 19981204
- US 6516897 P 19971205
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO9930249A1] A method for optimally allocating equipment to jobs at multiple geographic locations to maximize utilization of scarce and expensive resources needed for oil-well fracturing operations (90). The computer implemented method obtains fracturing problem data (91), determines variable parameters (92) and problem constraints (93) and using an algebraic modeling language, builds a fracturing problem model (94) for optimally allocating fracturing equipment to fracturing jobs at multiple geographic locations. The model is expressed as an objective function (95) and a set of problem constraints (95). An optical solution (96) is generated for the model using a solver software problem to satisfy the problem constraints (93) and optimize the objective function (94). The model can be rerun for different oil-well fracturing operations (90) scenarios and optimal solutions (96) generated for each scenario to determine optimal equipment.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06Q 10/00 (2012.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G06Q 10/06 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
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- See references of WO 9930249A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 9930249 A1 19990617; AU 1711699 A 19990628; CA 2311638 A1 19990617; EP 1064604 A1 20010103; EP 1064604 A4 20050511
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 9825819 W 19981204; AU 1711699 A 19981204; CA 2311638 A 19981204; EP 98961922 A 19981204