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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2022
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Sdg Llc, Minden, NV (US);
Michael D. Finke, Houston, TX (US);
Boguslaw Wiecek, Houston, TX (US);
William M. Moeny, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Daniel D. Gleitman, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
SDG LLC, Minden, NV (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises an electrode assembly positioned at a bottom end of a pulse power drill string to be positioned in a borehole formed in a subsurface formation. The electrode assembly comprises multiple electrodes, wherein at least a subset of the multiple electrodes is to periodically emit a pulse of an electrical discharge into the subsurface formation to drill the borehole. The electrode assembly comprises a controller configured to alter a direction of drilling of the borehole based on selection of the subset from the multiple electrodes, wherein an effective attribute of at least one electrode of the multiple electrodes is different than the effective attribute of other electrodes of the multiple electrodes, wherein the effective attribute comprises at least one of a shape and a size.