Method, analysis device and pumping system for detecting an oil leak in a beam pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12546207-B2
Application number	US-202118032181-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2021
Priority date	Oct 22, 2020
Publication date	Feb 10, 2026
Grant date	Feb 10, 2026

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for detecting an oil leak in a beam pump, wherein, during pumping movement of the rod linkage through the wellhead, a stroke region is formed, the method including a) capturing images of an image sequence containing at least the stroke region of the rod linkage, b) detecting soiling in the stroke region of the rod linkage in comparison with a known clean state for an image in question of the image sequence, c) ascertaining the position of the detected soiling for an image in question of the image sequence by the associated position of the rod linkage, d) determining the change in the soiling at the ascertained position over at least one pumping cycle from the images of the image sequence, e) checking if the change in the soiling exceeds a predefined limit value, and if applicable, outputting a warning of an oil leak.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A computer-implemented method for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, wherein the pump has a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, characterized in that during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead, a stroke region is formed which is captured by a camera via an image sequence, the method comprising:
a) capturing images of the image sequence with at least the stroke region of the linkage, b) identifying fouling in the stroke region of the linkage in comparison with a known clean state for a respective image of the image sequence, c) ascertaining the location of the identified fouling for a respective image of the image sequence with the aid of the respective position of the linkage, d) determining a variation of the fouling at the ascertained location over at least one pump cycle from the images of the image sequence, e) checking whether the variation of the fouling exceeds a predetermined limit value and, if appropriate, emitting a warning of an oil escape, wherein a reference marking is applied on the linkage and the location of the identified fouling in relation to the location of the reference marking is ascertained by the reference marking being captured at least partially by the camera via images of the image sequence; and wherein timestamps for the images of the image sequence are respectively captured at an acquisition instant, and the location of the identified fouling in relation to the location of the reference marking is ascertained for the images of the image sequence by means of the timestamps.

2 . The method as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the identification of the fouling takes place by a pixel-by-pixel check being carried out for a respective image of the image sequence against a predefined threshold value or a change of a pixel value.

3 . A computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:
instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 1 .

4 . A non-transitory data carrier, comprising:
the computer program as claimed in claim 3 .

5 . An electronically readable non-transitory data carrier comprising:
readable control information stored thereon, which comprises at least one computer program configured in such a way that it carries out a method as claimed in claim 1 , when the data carrier is used in a computing instrument.

6 . An analysis device for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, wherein the pump has a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, wherein during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead, there is a stroke region which is captured by a camera via an image sequence,
wherein analysis device is adapted to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1 .

7 . A pumping system for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, comprising
a pump having a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, wherein during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead there is a stroke region which is captured by a camera via an image sequence, and an analysis device adapted to perform the method as claimed in claim 1 .

8 . A computer-implemented method for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, wherein the pump has a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, characterized in that during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead, a stroke region is formed which is captured by a camera via an image sequence, the method comprising:
a) capturing images of the image sequence with at least the stroke region of the linkage, b) identifying fouling in the stroke region of the linkage in comparison with a known clean state for a respective image of the image sequence, c) ascertaining the location of the identified fouling for a respective image of the image sequence with the aid of the respective position of the linkage, d) determining a variation of the fouling at the ascertained location over at least one pump cycle from the images of the image sequence, e) checking whether the variation of the fouling exceeds a predetermined limit value and, if appropriate, emitting a warning of an oil escape, wherein the motor is an electric motor and the location of the identified fouling in relation to a position of the linkage is ascertained by a power consumption of the motor being captured with a sensor means during a pumping movement, from which the position of the linkage is ascertained.

9 . A computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:
instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method as claimed in claim 8 .

10 . An analysis device for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, wherein the pump has a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, wherein during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead, there is a stroke region which is captured by a camera via an image sequence,
wherein analysis device is adapted to carry out the method as claimed in claim 8 .

11 . A pumping system for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, comprising
a pump having a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, wherein during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead there is a stroke region which is captured by a camera via an image sequence, and an analysis device adapted to perform the method as claimed in claim 5 .

12 . A computer-implemented method for identifying an oil escape in a beam pump, wherein the pump has a pump head which is connected via a linkage to a kinematic converter and the kinematic converter is driven during operation by a motor, and the linkage is inserted into a wellhead located in the ground, characterized in that during a pumping movement of the linkage through the wellhead, a stroke region is formed which is captured by a camera via an image sequence, the method comprising:
a) capturing images of the image sequence with at least the stroke region of the linkage, b) identifying fouling in the stroke region of the linkage in comparison with a known clean state for a respective image of the image sequence, c) ascertaining the location of the identified fouling for a respective image of the image sequence with the aid of the respective position of the linkage, d) determining a variation of the fouling at the ascertained location over at least one pump cycle from the images of the image sequence, e) checking whether the variation of the fouling exceeds a predetermined limit value and, if appropriate, emitting a warning of an oil escape, wherein a model of a shape and/or a texture and a respective time variation thereof is generated, trained and applied on the ba

Assignees

• Siemens Energy Global Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Hatzl Jürgen
• Küberl Severin
• Mayer Martin
• Wakolbinger Stefan

Classifications

• G06V20/52

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• G06V10/25

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• E21B2200/22

  Fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, neural networks or the like · CPC title

• E21B47/009 Primary

  Monitoring of walking-beam pump systems · CPC title