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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2009
Ashley Johnson, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Walter David Aldred, Hertfordshire, GB;
Geoffrey Downton, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Riadh Boualleg, Cambridge, GB;
Kjell Haugvaldstad, Vanvikan, NO;
Michael Sheppard, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Ashley Johnson, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Walter David Aldred, Hertfordshire, GB;
Geoffrey Downton, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Riadh Boualleg, Cambridge, GB;
Kjell Haugvaldstad, Vanvikan, NO;
Michael Sheppard, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates in general to a method and system for controlling a drilling system for drilling a borehole in an earth formation. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for controlling dynamic interactions between the drilling system for drilling the borehole and an inner surface of the borehole being drilled to steer the drilling system to directionally drill the borehole. In another embodiment of the present invention, data regarding the functioning of the drilling system as it drills the borehole may be sensed and interactions between the drilling system for drilling the borehole and an inner surface of the borehole may be controlled in response to the sensed data to control the drilling system as the borehole is being drilled.