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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
Applicant:
National Oilwell Varco, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
National Oilwell Varco, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 44/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 44/00 (2013.01); G05B 19/0426 (2013.01); G05B 2219/23266 (2013.01);
Abstract
Automated drilling may include receiving a tool-agnostic request to perform a process, determining one or more activities to complete the process, identifying a controller module associated with a first activity of the one or more activities, and triggering the controller module to initiate the first activity, wherein the controller module identifies and directs one or more drilling tools to initiate the first activity.