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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2024
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Tingting Zeng, Houston, TX (US);
Robert P. Darbe, Tomball, TX (US);
Eirik Hansen, Stavanger, NO;
Siyang Song, Cypress, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for characterizing a subterranean formation that include a drill bit for drilling a deviated wellbore through the formation and that repeatedly changes direction. Also included is a directional drilling system and measurement equipment to detect a property of the formation. A trajectory control system is operable to: receive a well log; determine a property of the wellbore; segment the well log based on the property; and correlate one of the segments with the well log previous to the segment to determine a matching score for the segment. If the matching score is equal to or greater than a minimum threshold, the segment was taken in the formation and at the same stratigraphical true vertical depth ('STVD'). If the matching score is less than the minimum threshold, the segment was not taken in the formation and not at the same STVD and the STVD is estimated.