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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2023
Nabors Drilling Technologies Usa, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Scott Gilbert Boone, Houston, TX (US);
Brian Ellis, Spring, TX (US);
Colin Gillan, Houston, TX (US);
Beat Küttel, Spring, TX (US);
NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA, LTD., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of using a quill to steer a bit when elongating a wellbore, with the method including receiving real-time data associated with elongating the wellbore, wherein the real-time data associated with elongating the wellbore comprises data associated with: actual toolface orientation; surface-measured mud motor ΔP; surface-measured quill torque; surface-measured weight-on-bit ('WOB'); and surface-measured quill position; learning, based on the real-time data, relationships between: surface-measured mud motor ΔP and surface-measured torque; changes in surface-measured WOB and surface-measured torque; and changes in surface-measured quill position and actual toolface orientation; accessing, after learning the relationships, a desired toolface orientation; comparing, by the controller, the desired toolface orientation and the actual toolface orientation; and affecting, by the controller and based on the comparison and the learned relationships, a first change of the quill position and one or more of: mud motor ΔP; surface-measured quill torque; or WOB.