EMERGENCY DISCONNECT SEQUENCE VIDEO SHARING

• US 20130050480A1
• Filed: 08/30/2011
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hydril USA Manufacturing LLC (GE Aerospace)
• Original Assignee: Hydril USA Manufacturing LLC (GE Aerospace)
• Inventors: EBENEZER, Joseph Prem
• Application Number:
  US13/221,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20130050480A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 47/002 by visual inspection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media

Abstract

Emergency disconnect sequence (EDS) video sharing systems and method. The EDS video sharing system may include, among other features, a storage to store EDS evidence, and at least a portion of a communication link to transmit said EDS evidence from a drilling platform to a remote computing device during a video sharing session between a rig computing device and the remote computing device.

Claims

1. An EDS video sharing system comprising:

a stack screen on a drilling platform, the stack screen including an EDS button to initiate an EDS signal to be sent to multiplex pods resulting in an EDS including a plurality of functions being performed by devices in one or both of a LMRP and a BOP stack, and an EDS function status indicator;

either a video capture device aimed at the stack screen to automatically capture one or more of the initiation of the EDS signal by the EDS button and a progress of the EDS indicated by the EDS function status indicator as EDS evidence, or a video card to capture video captures of one or more of the initiation of the EDS signal by the EDS button and a progress of the EDS indicated by the EDS function status indicator as EDS evidence;

a storage connected to either the video capture device or the video card and configured to store said EDS evidence; and

at least a portion of a communication link to transmit said EDS evidence from the drilling platform to a remote computing device during a video sharing session between a rig computing device and the remote computing device.

2. The EDS video sharing system of claim 1, wherein the storage is part of the rig computing device.

3. The emergency disconnect sequence video sharing system of claim 1, wherein the communication link includes a satellite dish.

4. The EDS video sharing system of claim 1, wherein the communication link includes a point to point transmitter.

5. The EDS video sharing system of claim 4, wherein the point to point transmitter includes a microwave antenna.

6. The EDS video sharing system of claim 1, wherein the communication link includes a radio frequency transmitter.

7. The EDS video sharing system of claim 1, wherein the emergency disconnect sequence evidence is a compressed digital file.

8. An EDS system, the system comprising:

a BOP stack;

a LMRP releasably connectable to the blowout preventer stack;

a multiplex pod connected to the LMRP, the multiplex pods to receive an EDS signal and to transport electric and/or hydraulic control signals to devices in one or both of the LMRP and the BOP stack in response to the EDS signal;

a marine riser connected to the LMRP;

a drilling platform connected to the marine riser; and

a stack screen on the drilling platform, the stack screen including an EDS button to initiate the EDS signal sent to the multiplex pod resulting in an EDS including a plurality of functions being performed by the devices in the one or both of the LMRP and the BOP stack, and an EDS function status indicator;

either a video capture device aimed at the stack screen to automatically capture one or more of the initiation of the EDS signal by the EDS button and a progress of the EDS indicated by the EDS function status indicator as EDS evidence, or a video card to capture videos of one or more of the initiation of the EDS signal by the EDS button and a progress of the EDS indicated by the EDS function status indicator as EDS evidence;

a storage connected to either the video capture device or the video card and configured to store said EDS evidence; and

at least a portion of a communication link to transmit said EDS evidence from the drilling platform to a remote computing device during a video sharing session between a rig computing device and the remote computing device.

9. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the storage is part of the rig computing device.

10. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the communication link includes a satellite dish.

11. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the communication link includes a point to point transmitter.

12. The EDS system of claim 11, wherein the point to point transmitter includes a microwave antenna.

13. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the communication link includes a radio frequency transmitter.

14. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the communication link includes a Voice-Over-Internet Protocol (VOIP) channel with audio and video features.

15. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the communication link includes a mobile transmitter service channel with several repeaters.

16. The EDS system of claim 8, wherein the EDS evidence is a compressed digital file.

17. A method to share EDS evidence, comprising:

receiving, into a rig computing device, a video image from either a video capture device aimed at a stack screen interface or from a video card, the video image including one or both of an initiation of an EDS by an operator touching an EDS button on the stack screen interface, and a progress of the EDS indicated by an EDS function status indicator;

storing, in a storage in communication with the rig computing device, the video image from the video capture device or the video card as the EDS evidence; and

transmitting, via a communication link between the rig computing device and a remote computing device, the EDS evidence to the remote computing device.

19. The method to share EDS evidence of claim 17, wherein the storing operation comprises storing the EDS evidence in the storage in the computing device.

20. The method to share emergency disconnect sequence evidence of claim 17, wherein the transmitting comprises:

initiating a video sharing session between the rig computing device and the remote computing device; and

transmitting the EDS evidence from the rig computing device to the remote computing device via the Internet during the video sharing session.

21. The method to share EDS evidence of claim 20, wherein the initiating of a video sharing session includes sending data to a video sharing service computing device.

22. The method to capture EDS evidence of claim 17, wherein the receiving operation comprises receiving the video image from a digital video capture device, and wherein the storing operation comprises storing the EDS evidence as a digital video file.

18. The method to share EDS evidence of 17, further comprising compressing the video image from the video capture device or the video card.