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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2012
System and method for generation of alerts and advice from automatically detected borehole breakouts
Stefan Wessling, Lower Saxony, DE;
Christopher Wolfe, Fulshear, TX (US);
Antonio Santagati, Dubai, AE;
Mark Alan Jenkins, Celle, DE;
Stefan Wessling, Lower Saxony, DE;
Christopher Wolfe, Fulshear, TX (US);
Antonio Santagati, Dubai, AE;
Mark Alan Jenkins, Celle, DE;
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for generating an alert or advice for drilling a borehole penetrating an earth formation includes: receiving with a processor a borehole image from a downhole tool disposed at a drill tubular drilling the borehole; detecting a first breakout and a second breakout shifted approximately 180° apart from the first breakout if breakouts are in the image using a method for detecting breakouts implemented by the processor; and generating an alert or advice with the processor if the first and second breakouts are detected.