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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Sakshi Agarwal, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Fahad Ghayas Ahmad, Cypress, TX (US);
Shaun Patrick Lawrence, Spring, TX (US);
Howard James Neil Black, Aberdeen, GB;
Anita Kirsten Torr, Tomball, TX (US);
Varun Tyagi, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Service, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a method for controlling a learning machine used in a drilling operation to drill a well into a subsurface formation includes receiving, via a video stream, an image of debris including cuttings from the drilling operation. The method may further include generating a first mask on the image to identify the cuttings in the debris, generating, via instance segmentation, a second mask for each of the identified cuttings, determining, based on the second masks, one or more properties of each of the cuttings, and associating each of the identified cuttings to a depth interval of the subsurface formation based, at least in part, on the properties of each of the identified cuttings and at least one property of the drilling operation.