Subterranean monitoring using enhanced video

• US 10,323,503 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2014
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Original Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Inventors: Wendorf, Scott, Richards, William Mark, Hamid, Syed, Rodney, Paul F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Loikith, Catherine
• Application Number:
  US15/300,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20170145807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,875 Days
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 47/002 by visual inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 1/20 Arrangements of receiving elements, e.g. geophone pattern
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 1/226 Optoseismic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 8/10 Detecting, e.g. by using light barriers by reflection from the object G01S17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30181 Earth observation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30204 Marker
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0004 Industrial image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/42 of sport video content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/555 for picking-up images in sites, inaccessible due to their dimensions or hazardous conditions, e.g. endoscopes or borescopes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders

Abstract

Video of an above ground effect of a subterranean event is received. The subterranean event is identified using Eulerian video magnification of the received video.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving video of an above-ground effect of a subterranean event, wherein the receiving video includes receiving video of a plurality of upstanding markers supported to move with a terranean surface about a well site; and

identifying the subterranean event using Eulerian video magnification of the received video.

2. The method of claim 1, where identifying the subterranean event comprises identifying one or more of a subterranean fracture or a seismic signal induced by a seismic source device.

3. The method of claim 2, where identifying the subterranean event comprises identifying a characteristic of a subterranean fracture or a seismic signal.

4. The method of claim 1, where receiving video comprises receiving video of equipment at a well site.

5. The method of claim 4, where identifying the subterranean event comprises identifying operation of a tool in a well.

6. The method of claim 5, where identifying the subterranean event comprises identifying a characteristic of the operation of the tool.

7. The method of claim 1, where receiving video comprises receiving video while drilling a well.

8. The method of claim 7, where receiving video comprises receiving video of an effect of the event on drilling equipment;

and

where identifying the event comprises identifying bit whirl, bit wear, or sticking of a drill bit.

9. The method of claim 1, where receiving video comprises receiving video while producing from or injecting into a well.

10. The method of claim 1, where identifying the subterranean event comprises identifying the subterranean event concurrently with occurrence of the subterranean event.

11. The method of claim 1, comprising storing the received video;

and

where identifying the subterranean event comprises identifying the subterranean event after the occurrence of the subterranean event.

12. A system, comprising:

a camera aimed to take video of an above-ground effect of a subterranean event, wherein the video includes a plurality of upstanding markers supported to move with a terranean surface about a well site;

a computing device in communication with the camera to receive the video and apply Eulerian video magnification to the received video to produce enhanced video; and

a display to output the enhanced video.

13. The system of claim 12, where the camera is aimed to take video of a piece of equipment at a well site.

14. The system of claim 13, where the equipment comprises a coating that changes color in response to strain or temperature.

15. The system of claim 12, where the camera comprises a thermal camera.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving video of a site, wherein the receiving video includes receiving video of a plurality of upstanding markers supported to move with a terranean surface about a well site;

applying Eulerian video magnification to the received video to produce an enhanced video; and

identifying a subterranean event from the enhanced video.

17. The method of claim 16, where applying Eulerian video magnification comprises applying Eulerian video magnification to magnify movement or color of the terranean surface or equipment associated with a well.

18. The method of claim 16, where receiving video of a site comprises receiving video of an effect produced by the subterranean event at a well site.

19. A system, comprising:

a camera aimed to take video of an above-ground effect of a subterranean event, where the camera is aimed to take a video of a piece of equipment at a well site, where the equipment comprises a coating that changes in color in response to strain or temperature;

a computing device in communication with the camera to receive the video and apply Eulerian video magnification to the received video to produce enhanced video; and

a display to output the enhanced video.

20. A system, comprising:

a thermal camera aimed to take video of an above-ground effect of a subterranean event;

a computing device in communication with the thermal camera to receive the video and apply Eulerian video magnification to the received video to produce enhanced video; and

a display to output the enhanced video.

21. A system, comprising:

a camera aimed to take video of an effect of a subterranean event;

a housing at least partially in the ground and containing the camera and a target supported on a movement sensitive base, the target being in the view of the camera;

a computing device in communication with the camera to receive the video and apply Eulerian video magnification to the received video to produce enhanced video; and

a display to output the enhanced video.