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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Benjamin Mailly, Cambridge, MA (US);
Eric Daniel Nelson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Yinxiao Liu, Boston, MA (US);
Hugh Enxing, Cambridge, MA (US);
Wei Yu, Salem, MA (US);
Ranxing Nancy Li, Boston, MA (US);
Daniel I. Harjes, Acton, MA (US);
Teddy Sedalor, Brookline, MA (US);
Hector Padilla, Chelsea, MA (US);
Leland Howe Smith, Roxbury, MA (US);
Davis King, Cambridge, MA (US);
SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for positioning oilfield tubulars on a drilling floor (), having an automated tubular handling system, to permit alignment and automated make up and break out of threading operations between a stationary tubular () and a moving tubular (), utilizing image information from radially offset cameras (), processing the image information to recognize the tubulars within the image and develop position information for said tubulars, combining the position information from the two camera systems to develop three dimensional information for each of the tubulars, developing instructions for the automated tubular handling system to bring the stationary and moving tubulars into vertical alignment and lowering the moving tubular into threaded contact, and engaging an automated hydraulic torque wrench to make up the threaded connection.