Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

Wenquan Li

Brian Roberson

Randal Thomas Beste

Jesse Kevin Hensarling

John Harrison Farrah

Matthew Chase Griffing

Hsu-Hsiang Wu

Faisal Farooq Shah

Tony T Vu

A drilling system, comprising a drill string; and a ranging tool mounted on the drill string, the ranging tool comprising a magnetic sensor pair comprising a first magnetic sensor and a second magnetic sensor mounted radially opposite one another on the ranging tool, wherein each of the magnetic sensors is structured and configured to detect at least a radial component and a tangential component of a magnetic field; a rotatable assembly, comprising a motor structured and arranged to actuate rotation of the magnetic sensor pair around the drill string; and an electronics package connected to at least one of the magnetic sensor pair, and the motor, wherein the electronics package comprises a controller and a wireless telemetry device.

Magnetic sensor rotation and orientation about drill

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for in-situ calibration of magnetic field measurements. In some examples, a method can involve generating a magnetic field via a magnetic field source that is coupled to a downhole tool. The magnetic field source can be located within a fixed distance from one or more sensors coupled to the downhole tool. The method can also involve obtaining respective field measurements of the known magnetic field from the one or more sensors, and comparing the respective field measurements from the one or more sensors with respective reference measurements previously obtained from the one or more sensors to yield respective comparisons. The method can then involve determining, based on the respective comparisons, a respective sensitivity drift for each of the one or more sensors.

Technologies for in-situ calibration of magnetic field measurements

A reduced-cost apparatus for calibrating the sensitivity and orthogonality of a triaxial magnetometer, and a method for adjusting the distance between the two coils of a Helmholtz coil and other related parameters are described herein. A method can include positioning a calibrated magnetometer within a mounting fixture between two coils of a Helmholtz coil, the two coils arranged in mutually parallel planes and separated by the radius of the Helmholtz coil, the mounting fixture mounted such that a position of the mounting fixture is adjustable along an axis orthogonal to the mutually parallel planes; adjusting the position of the mounting fixture over at least some of the positions and measuring the magnetic field at each position to generate a set of magnetic field measurements associated with the positions; and adjusting the first distance based on the first set of magnetic field measurements. Additional apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Calibration of sensitivity and axial orthogonality for magnetometers

A magnetic field measurement device includes an excitation circuit including an excitation coil that is coupled to a resonation control circuit. The excitation coil is wound around an amorphous soft magnetic core. The magnetic field measurement device includes a detection circuit including a detection coil that is wound around the amorphous soft magnetic core. The resonation control circuit is coupled to the excitation circuit and to the detection circuit to adjust a resonant frequency of the detection circuit responsive to temperature variations of the amorphous soft magnetic core.

Low-noise fluxgate magnetometer with increased operating temperature range

In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may include synchronic symmetrical integrator circuitry and a magnetic field measurement device comprising an excitation circuit including an excitation coil, the excitation coil being wound around an amorphous soft magnetic core having a certain temperature coefficient such that inductance of the excitation circuit will change with temperature variations of the amorphous soft magnetic core; a detection circuit including a detection coil, the detection coil being wound around the same amorphous soft magnetic core, such that inductance variation of the detection circuit with temperature of the core can be detected from the excitation coil; and a resonation control circuit coupled to the excitation circuit and to the detection circuit to adjust a resonant frequency of the detection circuit responsive to temperature variations of the core. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

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Kingwood, TX, United States of America

Wenquan Li