Method and apparatus for finding stick-up height of a pipe or finding a joint between two pipes in a drilling environment

摘要

The present invention generally relates to a method, apparatus, a computer program and computer for automated detection of pipe (2) in a drilling operation, where the method comprising: using one or a plurality of sensors (41) to obtain one ore a plurality of data sets and/or images representing the pipe area, the data sets and/or images representing 3D and/or 2D images of the drilling operation; and processing the data sets and/or images to identify the pipe in the data sets and/or images.

主权项

1. A method for automated detection of pipe in a drilling operation comprising:
obtaining one or a plurality of data sets or images representing the pipe area, using one or a plurality of sensors, the data sets or images representing 3D images of the drilling operation; eliminating the surroundings around the pipe from the data sets or images; identifying the pipe in the data sets or images by processing the data sets or images; and guiding a pipe handling means using either a calculated stickup height of the identified pipe for engaging the pipe, or a computed distance between the sensors and a mouse hole for a moving operation of the pipe, as an input parameter.