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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2011
Jose J. Sequeira, Jr., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Yao-chou Cheng, Houston, TX (US);
Rune Musum, Stavanger, NO;
Jose J. Sequeira, Jr., The Woodlands, TX (US);
Yao-Chou Cheng, Houston, TX (US);
Rune Musum, Stavanger, NO;
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for planning a well path is described. An exemplary method comprises defining a proxy constraint volume as a three-dimensional (3D) cellular volume where each cell has at least one value derived from data from a 3D earth model. An initial well path is defined within user defined drilling parameter constraints. The exemplary method comprises defining acceptable constraint parameters to be applied to values derived from an intersection of the initial well path and the proxy constraint volume. If the intersection of the initial well path and the proxy constraint volume is not within the acceptable constraint parameters, the initial well path may be iteratively adjusted to create successive well paths until at least one of the successive well paths is within the acceptable constraint parameters for the values derived from the intersection of the well path and proxy constraint volume.