Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Estimating inspection tool velocity and depth
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Application No.: US16971931Application Date: 2019-02-04
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Publication No.: US11649715B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: Steven Helmore , Christopher Scott , Jonathan Thursby , Philip Brown , Fraser Louden , Tobben Tymons
- Applicant: E.V. OFFSHORE LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Norwich
- Assignee: E.V. OFFSHORE LIMITED
- Current Assignee: E.V. OFFSHORE LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Norwich
- Agency: Hayes Soloway PC
- Priority: GB 02808 2018.02.21
- International Application: PCT/GB2019/050289 2019.02.04
- International Announcement: WO2019/162642A 2019.08.29
- Date entered country: 2020-08-21
- Main IPC: E21B47/00
- IPC: E21B47/00 ; E21B47/002 ; E21B47/04 ; G01P3/68

Abstract:
A method for determining a corrected axial displacement parameter of a conduit inspection tool, in particular a downhole inspection tool, during transit of the tool axially along a conduit is disclosed. The tool used in the method has an imaging device and may be attached to a control module with a connecting line. The method comprises obtaining successive axially overlapping images of an internal wall of the conduit, determining, from the images, an observed axial displacement parameter of the tool as a function of transit time, identifying, in the images, a plurality of reference points, determining an estimated axial displacement parameter of the tool over an of transit time between successive reference points, and computing the corrected axial displacement parameter of the tool by applying a correction factor to the observed axial velocity of the tool.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210088546A1 Estimating Inspection Tool Velocity and Depth Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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