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Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Smith International, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Wei Chen, Spring, TX (US);

Yani Dong, Beijing, CN;

Richard Harmer, Surrey, GB;

Yuelin Shen, Spring, TX (US);

Sujian Huang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 10/00 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 44/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 41/00 (2013.01); E21B 10/00 (2013.01); E21B 44/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for selecting a bottomhole assembly, including performing a first dynamic simulation of a first bottomhole assembly, performing at least a second dynamic simulation of the first bottomhole assembly, in which the at least a second dynamic simulation includes a different constraint than the first dynamic simulation, and outputting results for both the first dynamic simulation and the second dynamic simulation, in which the results include at least one output showing performance as a function of position along the bottomhole assembly.


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