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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Didier Pavone, Ecully, FR;
Jean-Pierre Desplans, St Garmain les Corbeil, FR;
Assignee:
Institut Francais du Petrole, , FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7315245 ; 7315203 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and to a method designed to estimate the effective displacement of a drill bit fastened to the end of a drill string and driven into rotation in a well by surface driving means. A non-linear physical model of the drilling process based on general mechanics equations is used in the invention. The following stages are performed in the method: