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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Yuzhen Xue, Humble, TX (US);

Jason D. Dykstra, Spring, TX (US);

Xiaoqing Ge, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 44/00 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); G05B 13/04 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/00 (2013.01); E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 44/00 (2013.01); G05B 13/041 (2013.01); E21B 47/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some aspects, the present disclosure includes systems and methods for optimizing one or more of a number of sensors on a drillstring or the locations of the sensors on the drillstring, or the types of the sensors. The method includes determining a number of sensors to place on a drillstring, a location for each of the sensors based, and types of sensors based, at least in part, on one or more of a state reduction technique and an optimization framework. The method includes disposing the selected number of sensors along the drilling and performing a drilling operation.


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