DIRECTIONAL DRILLING WITH STOCHASTIC PATH OPTIMIZATION OF OPERATING PARAMETERS

• Main Authors: XUE, YUZHEN, DYKSTRA, JASON D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 02.11.2021
• Subjects: EARTH DRILLING; EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; MINING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR ASLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS

A disclosed drilling method includes: obtaining a formation model representing formation properties to be encountered by a drilling assembly being steered towards a target; identifying at least one path-dependent drilling dynamics model for predicting the drilling assembly's response to one or...