US 11,854,254 B2
Systems and methods for initiating adjustment of an operation associated with an underwater drilling system
John Andrew Henley, Houston, TX (US); and Yu Liu, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to SHELL USA, INC., Houston, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/760,620
Filed by SHELL USA, INC., Houston, TX (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/017487
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/076175, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/916,814, filed on Oct. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0270361 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/05 (2022.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); E21B 47/001 (2012.01); E21B 47/002 (2012.01); E21B 44/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/05 (2022.01) [E21B 44/00 (2013.01); E21B 47/001 (2020.05); E21B 47/002 (2020.05); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20132 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of initiating adjustment of an operation associated with an underwater drilling system, the method comprising:
executing a drilling operation comprising drilling an underwater borehole;
receiving, using one or more computing device processors, at least one underwater image;
identifying, using the one or more computing device processors, a reference object in the at least one underwater image, wherein a position of the reference object is fixed relative to the underwater borehole;
determining, using the one or more computing device processors, a first parameter associated with the reference object;
identifying, using the one or more computing device processors, an underwater cloud, which is being expelled from the underwater borehole, in the at least one underwater image;
determining, using the one or more computing device processors, a second parameter associated with the underwater cloud;
adjusting, using the one or more computing device processors, the second parameter associated with the underwater cloud based on the first parameter associated with the reference object; and
initiating, using one or more computing device processors, an adjustment of the operation associated with the underwater drilling system based on the adjusted second parameter associated with the underwater cloud.