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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2022
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Michael D. Finke, Houston, TX (US);
Boguslaw Wiecek, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method includes directionally drilling, with a pulse power drill string, of a borehole into a subsurface formation using pulse power. The directionally drilling comprises generating, by an electrical source, an electrical energy and storing, by a primary capacitor, the electrical energy. The method includes periodically discharging the electrical energy from the primary capacitor to be received by a switching device having a number of outputs, wherein each output of the number of outputs is electrically coupled to an electrode of a number of electrodes positioned on an electrode assembly; and unevenly distributing, by the switching device, the electrical energy across the number of electrodes based on selecting a subset of the number of electrodes to receive the electrical energy to alter a direction of the drilling of the borehole based on emitting of the electrical energy by the selected subset of the number of electrodes into the subsurface formation.