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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hubert Fay, L'Etang La Ville, FR;
Assignee:
Institut Francais du Petrole, Rueil Malmaison, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73151 ; 175 39 ;
Abstract
A method for determining the wear of cutting portion of a tool during drilling of a formation wherein a measurement is taken of the weight W applied to the tool and the torque T required to rotate said tool, the weight on the tool W and the torque T being linked by an equation of the type T=uW+vW.sup..alpha. in which u and v are parameters and .alpha. is a coefficient depending in part on the formation.