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US 10,895,556 B2Granted
Predictive integrity analysis
AssigneeBaker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
InventorJeffrey Earle Sutherland
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Abstract
A system includes one or more tools, sensors, or both configured to obtain data related to the one or more pipelines, wherein the data is ultrasonic data, electromagnetic data, or both, and a cloud-based computing system including at least one processor that receives the data from the one or more tools, sensors, or both, performs analysis to generate a virtual structural model of the one or more pipelines based on the data, determines one or more states of the one or more pipelines using the virtual structural model and determines whether to take one or more actions when the one or more states indicate that the one or more pipelines violate a threshold operation boundary.
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A system, comprising:
- a sensor configured to obtain first inspection data related to a condition of one or more pipelines;
- an inline inspection tool configured to obtain second inspection data related to the condition of the one or more pipelines;
- a computing system remote from the sensor and the inline inspection tool, the computing system communicatively coupled to the sensor and to the inline inspection tool, the computing system comprising at least one data processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions stored in a memory of the computing system, which when executed cause the data processor to:
- receive the first inspection data from the sensor and the second inspection data from the inline inspection tool;
- determine a virtual structural model of the one or more pipelines based on the first inspection data and the second inspection data, the virtual structural model including a visualization of the one or more pipelines, the visualization including a three-dimensional spatial grid representation of the first inspection data and the second inspection data;
- determine one or more structural conditions of the one or more pipelines using the virtual structural model;
- determine one or more actions based on at least one structural condition of the one or more structural conditions exceeding a threshold operation boundary for at least one structural condition of the of the one or more pipelines;
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- provide the one or more actions;
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- a computing device configured to receive the visualization of the one or more pipelines from the computing system and to provide the visualization and the one or more actions within a graphical user interface provided in a display of the computing device, the graphical user interface configured to receive a user selection of a portion of the one or more pipelines and provide the three-dimensional spatial grid representation of the first inspection data and the second inspection data corresponding to the portion of one or more pipelines responsive to the user selection, wherein the three-dimensional spatial grid representation corresponding to the portion of the one or more pipelines includes graphical indications of physical characteristics associated with one or more structural conditions present at the user-selected portion of the one or more pipelines.
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A device, comprising:
- a memory storing a first inspection data received from a sensor coupled to the device, the first inspection data corresponding to a structural condition of a pipeline, and a second inspection data received from an inline inspection tool coupled to the device, the second inspection data corresponding to the structural condition of the pipeline, the memory further storing computer-readable instructions;
- and a data processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions, which when executed cause the data processor to:
- receive the first inspection data and the second inspection data from the memory;
- determine a virtual structural model of the pipeline based on the first inspection data and the second inspection data, the virtual structural model including a visualization of the pipeline, the visualization including a three-dimensional spatial grid representation of the first inspection data and the second inspection data;
- determine one or more structural conditions of the pipeline using the virtual structural model;
- determine one or more actions based on the one or more structural conditions exceeding a threshold operation boundary of the pipeline;
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- provide the visualization of the pipeline and the one or more actions to a remote device coupled to the device, the remote device configured to receive the visualization of the pipeline and to provide the visualization and the one or more actions within a graphical user interface provided in a display of the remote device, the graphical user interface configured to receive a user selection ofa portion of the pipeline and provide the three-dimensional grid spatial representation of the first inspection data and the second inspection data corresponding to the portion of the pipeline responsive to the user selection, wherein the three-dimensional spatial grid representation includes graphical indications of physical characteristics associated with one or more structural conditions present at the user-selected portion of the one or more pipelines.
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A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions configured to:
- receive, by a data processor, first inspection data obtained from a sensor coupled to the data processor, the first inspection data related to a condition of a pipeline;
- receive, by the data processor, second inspection data obtained from an inline inspection tool coupled to the data processor, the second inspection data related to the condition of the pipeline;
- determine a virtual structural model of the pipeline based on the first inspection data and the second inspection data, the virtual structural model including a visualization of the pipeline, the visualization including a three-dimensional spatial grid representation of the first inspection data and the second inspection data;
- determine one or more structural conditions of the pipeline using the virtual structural model;
- determine one or more actions based on the one or more structural conditions exceeding a threshold operation boundary of the one or more structural conditions of the pipeline;
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- provide the visualization of the pipeline and the one or more actions to a remote device coupled to the device, the remote device configured to receive the visualization of the pipeline and to provide the visualization and the one or more actions within a graphical user interface provided in a display of the remote device, the graphical user interface configured to receive a user selection of a portion of the pipeline and provide the three-dimensional spatial grid representation of the first inspection data and the second inspection data corresponding to the portion of the pipeline responsive to the user selection, wherein the three-dimensional spatial grid representation includes graphical indications of physical characteristics associated with one or more structural conditions present at the user-selected portion of the one or more pipelines.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.