Systems and methods for geosteering during well drilling
US11162349B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 3, 2019 |
| Grant date | Nov 2, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 16, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V5/04
- WIPO fieldCivil engineering
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
Systems and methods for conducting drilling operations, including geosteering operations, include generating, at a computing device of a drilling management system, a visualization of a vertical well section for a geological formation from drilling data of a target well and reference data for the geological formation. The computing device generates the visualization by correlating the drilling data and reference data and calculating probabilities that locations along the target well are located at different offsets relative to the reference point. The computing device further varies a visual property at the offsets based on the probabilities such that the visualization simultaneously indicates the probabilities for each the locations. The visualization may then be provided to users for implementing geosteering operations. The probabilities may also be used by the drilling management system to automatically conduct geosteering operations.
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