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Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Mark Vincent Collins, Spring, TX (US);

Umut Zalluhoglu, Humble, TX (US);

Wei Zhang, Humble, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/022 (2012.01); E21B 7/04 (2006.01); E21B 44/00 (2006.01); G01V 20/00 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/022 (2013.01); E21B 7/04 (2013.01); E21B 44/00 (2013.01); G01V 20/00 (2024.01);
Abstract

This disclosure presents a method and process to improve the accuracy of the calculations for true vertical depth and Eastings and Northings pair of a borehole while drilling operations are in progress. The method utilizes continuous survey parameters that are collected while drilling operations are in progress, and that have been collected between two neighboring stationary survey parameters. The stationary survey parameters are assumed to be ground truth and are fused with an invertible solution to a low order polynomial to generate the true vertical depth and an Eastings and Northings pair at each continuous survey location. An objective function can be used to optimize and solve the polynomial. The method can be performed on a well site controller, a geo-steering system, a bottom hole assembly, or other computing system capable of receiving the collected measurements, performing the method steps, and communicating the resultant borehole position parameters to other systems.


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