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US 2026/0228875 A1Published application
Method and apparatus to perform a wireline cable inspection
AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsPablo Paiva, Pratyush Snehi, Gabriel Arrigo Morosini
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to quickly identify defects in a cable used in hydrocarbon recovery wireline operations. A series of high-speed cameras take pictures along a length of the wireline cable, while artificial intelligence data processing algorithms process the camera data.
Claims20
A method for performing a wireline cable inspection, comprising:
- obtaining a wireline cable;
- driving the wireline cable through a visual camera apparatus;
- and using the visual camera apparatus, obtaining photographic data of the wireline cable, wherein an amount of the photographic data per unit length is variable based on differing amounts of stress at different locations along the length of the wireline cable.
A wireline inspection apparatus, comprising:
- a camera system;
- a drive mechanism configured to drive a wireline cable through an image capture area of the camera system;
- and a computer arrangement coupled to the camera system, the computer arrangement configured to obtain photographic data from the camera system and control at least one of the camera system or drive mechanism such that an amount of the photographic data per unit length is variable based on differing amounts of stress at different locations along the length of the wireline cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.