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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2019
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Mustafa Naser Al-Ali, Bahrain, SA;
Abdulaziz Mohammad Almuhaidib, Dammam, SA;
Emad Abdo Al-Hemyari, Dhahran, SA;
Pavel Golikov, Dhahran, SA;
Yi Luo, Dhahran, SA;
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
Techniques for determining a drill bit location includes identifying a plurality of acoustic energy signals received at a plurality of sets of acoustic receivers from a passive acoustic energy source that is part of a wellbore drilling system; processing the plurality of acoustic energy signals; determining a location of a drill bit of the wellbore drilling system based on the processed plurality of acoustic signals; and updating a geo-steering path of the drill bit based on the determined location of the drill bit.