3381results about "Directional drilling" patented technology

Provided is a two-part drilling and running tool, a well system, and a method for forming a well system. The two-part drilling and running tool, in one aspect, includes a conveyance, a smaller assembly coupled to an end of the conveyance, and a larger bit assembly slidably coupled to the conveyance, the smaller assembly and larger bit assembly configured to slidingly engage one another downhole to form a combined bit assembly. The two-part drilling and running tool, according to this aspect, further includes a one way mechanism coupled between the smaller assembly and the larger bit assembly, the one way mechanism configured to allow the smaller assembly and larger bit assembly to axially slide in one direction relative to one another and prevent the smaller assembly and larger bit assembly from axially sliding in an opposite direction relative to one another.

The present invention relates to a coal mine intelligent directional drill and its drilling method, belonging to the technical field of coal mine drills. It comprises a moving platform, machine frame, clamper, main manipulator, power head, drill pipe storage system, control system, and hydraulic system. The power head structure is improved by adding an angle adjuster with accurate angle adjustment, locking, and anti-rotation functions. The angle adjuster is positioned on the gearbox side opposite the main motor, connected via a driving shaft. The control system includes a toolface azimuth detection and initialization system that works with the angle adjuster. This solves prior issues such as the absence of specialized toolface azimuth adjustment devices, low precision, low track adjustment efficiency, and challenges in achieving automatic directional drilling in the prior art. The invention enhances precision and efficiency, enabling automated, intelligent directional drilling.

The invention provides an intelligent drilling guide method and system for a petroleum drilling tool face, and relates to the technical field of intelligent control, and the method comprises the steps: determining a first target point, a second target point and a third target point in the process of tracking a target azimuth angle according to a dynamic adjustment instruction; constructing a dynamic triangle through the first target point, the second target point and the third target point, and taking the barycentric coordinate of the dynamic triangle as an azimuth angle correction value; correcting forward and reverse rotation angles and periodic parameters of the drill string according to the azimuth angle correction value so as to obtain a corrected dynamic adjustment instruction; and controlling a drill string to act based on the corrected dynamic adjustment instruction, so that the underground tool surface continuously approaches the target azimuth angle through closed-loop iteration adjustment. The control efficiency and stability of the tool face under the complex working condition can be improved.

A method of constructing an injection well for a geothermal energy system comprising determining a fracture area of an injection well with a curved wellbore by inputting the curved wellbore path, a set of formation properties, and a fracturing operation, into a fracturing model. The curved wellbore path can promote fracture interference between fracture stresses extending from the injection wellbore. A production model can determine an economic value of the production fluids produced from at least one production well by determining a contact time for the injection fluids to traverse the formation. A design process can iterate the curved wellbore path of the injection well to produce a production fluid with an economic value above a threshold value.

The invention provides a multi-sensor dynamic calibration method in rotary geosteering drilling, and relates to the technical field of petroleum engineering and drilling, and the method comprises the following steps: collecting original sensing data in real time through a multi-source sensor array deployed on a rotary geosteering drilling tool, wavelet packet decomposition is combined with an improved sliding window algorithm to carry out online denoising processing on original data, and a three-dimensional feature matrix containing environmental interference factors is established; and based on the three-dimensional feature matrix, constructing a dynamic calibration model based on depth time sequence association, respectively processing sensor body feature flow and environment interference feature flow by using a dual-channel LSTM network, performing dynamic weight distribution and fusion on dual-channel features by means of a gating attention mechanism, and outputting a dynamic deviation compensation coefficient of each sensor. The parameter set is generated and reconstructed through the three-dimensional feature matrix, the two-channel network and cooperative calibration, the drilling efficiency and precision are improved, errors are reduced, and intelligent development is promoted.

This invention relates a drill head (4) for use with a microtunneling apparatus (1) having a cutter bar (12) that is rotatable to produce swarf in a working zone. The drill head (4) includes a movable imaging device (46) that is adapted to capture images in the working zone (13). The imaging device (46) is adapted to move from a position within an annular shell (11) to a position external from the annular shell (11).

A system and method may include receiving data acquired by a downhole tool of a tool string disposed at least in part in a borehole in a subsurface region. The system and method may also include inverting the data using a trained machine learning model to generate a structural feature of the subsurface region. The system and method may further include controlling operation of the tool string based at least in part on the structural feature of the subsurface region.

Systems and methods are for autonomous real-time 3D interactive planning and execution of well paths in a reservoir and controlling drilling of wells within the reservoir. A data processing system determines in-situ well placement based on mapping of the subsurface. The data processing system can optimize well placement based on two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) subsurface mapping based on proactive planning and interactive data acquisition and analysis.

The invention provides a well drilling automatic control system which comprises an input establishing module used for inputting well track design parameters and establishing a well drilling system dynamic model; the target trajectory planning module is used for verifying stratum parameters according to the actual drilling data and planning the target trajectory of the current drilling section based on the verification result by using the drilling system dynamics model to obtain the target trajectory; the control quantity feed-forward calculation module is used for calculating the control quantity of the drilling machine by adopting a feed-forward algorithm based on the target track parameters, controlling the drilling real-time calibration module of the drilling machine, and correcting the control quantity in real time based on real-time evaluation of drilling errors in the drilling process; and the data output module is used for outputting logging data in the drilling process of the column after the preset drilling distance of the column is reached. Full-intelligent operation in the drilling process is achieved, and the precision, safety and oil and gas recovery efficiency of drilling operation are effectively improved.

Systems and methods for characterizing a subterranean formation that include a drill bit for drilling a deviated wellbore through the formation and that repeatedly changes direction. Also included is a directional drilling system and measurement equipment to detect a property of the formation. A trajectory control system is operable to: receive a well log; determine a property of the wellbore; segment the well log based on the property; and correlate one of the segments with the well log previous to the segment to determine a matching score for the segment. If the matching score is equal to or greater than a minimum threshold, the segment was taken in the formation and at the same stratigraphical true vertical depth (“STVD”). If the matching score is less than the minimum threshold, the segment was not taken in the formation and not at the same STVD and the STVD is estimated.

This invention relates to a reamer assembly (6) for enlarging a substantially horizontal pilot hole (14) in the ground to produce a bore hole (18), including a cutter (21) which is rotatable about an axis X-X. A gear box (20) is positioned on a first side of the cutter (21) for interacting with a drive shaft (33) which is rotated about the axis X-X by a drive apparatus (2) outside the pilot bore hole (14) and a body (15) positioned on a second side of the cutter (21) for transferring thrust from a thrust apparatus (4) outside of the enlarged bore hole (18) to the cutter (21).

A ground-underground cooperative area weakening based rockburst prevention and control method for a thick and hard roof. The method comprises: first obtaining spatial distribution characteristics of a hard roof; then on the basis of the spatial distribution characteristics of the hard roof, obtaining different types of fracturing prevention and control target horizons and five fracturing prevention and control patterns corresponding thereto, wherein the five fracturing prevention and control patterns comprise: a low-position single thick and hard roof horizon, a low-position composite hard roof horizon, a high-low position composite thick and hard roof horizon, a high-position composite thick and hard roof horizon, and a high-position single thick and hard roof horizon. The method can fundamentally and comprehensively solve the problem of rockburst hazards induced by a thick and hard roof.

The invention discloses a continuous deflecting coring method for realizing wire-line coring orientation, which relates to the technical field of drilling, and specifically comprises the following steps of: selecting a bent screw drill and a matched wire-line coring tool according to geological conditions and a designed drilling track, assembling and connecting the bent screw drill and the matched wire-line coring tool, and putting the bent screw drill and the matched wire-line coring tool into a drilling hole; in the drilling process, the hole bottom power drilling tool provides drilling power, a bent angle of the bent screw drilling tool enables a drilled hole to be inclined according to the design direction, and a rotor cavity of the hollow screw drilling tool allows an internal assembly and a core barrel to pass through. According to the continuous deflecting coring method for wire-line coring orientation, the high-precision directional drilling technology and the wire-line coring technology are organically combined, the problem of exploration of irregular deposited ore deposits and concealed ore deposits is solved, the precision and efficiency of geological exploration are improved, and by adopting the bent screw drill and the matched wire-line coring tool, the geological exploration efficiency is improved. Continuous directional drilling and continuous wire-line coring are carried out at the same time, the number of times of drill lifting is reduced, and the auxiliary time is shortened.

The invention discloses a high gas impact ground pressure mine island working face blasting pre-pressure-relief scour prevention method which comprises the steps that a scour inducing key layer in a top plate above an island working face is determined, a top plate pre-splitting pressure relief roadway with specific construction parameters is arranged in the scour inducing key layer, and by means of the mode, elastic deformation accumulated in the scour inducing key layer can be effectively reduced, and one-time pressure relief can be achieved; then, a plurality of blast holes with specific parameters are constructed from the roof presplitting pressure relief roadway to the inducing key layer, finally, the blast holes are sectioned according to the hole depth and sequentially blasted, energy release of each time of blasting is accurately controlled through sectioned blasting, meanwhile, continuous pressure relief is achieved in time and space through sectioned blasting, and the blasting efficiency is improved. The stress of the inducing key layer is effectively released to realize secondary pressure relief; through mutual cooperation of primary pressure relief of the roof presplitting pressure relief roadway and secondary pressure relief of segmented blasting of the blast hole, the mine roof type impact risk facing high gas, an island working face and mining rock burst is effectively reduced, and subsequent safe mining of the island working face is guaranteed.

A system and method of monitoring a downhole tool implemented in a wellbore that include identifying, from surface parameters, a surface downlink sent from a surface of the wellbore to the downhole tool. The surface downlink indicates a downlink command for the downhole tool to implement. The system and method further include confirming that the downhole tool received the surface downlink based on comparing downhole telemetry data received from the downhole tool to the surface downlink. The system and method additionally include, determining a status of the downhole tool indicated by the surface downlink based on confirming that the downhole tool received the surface downlink.

The invention belongs to the technical field of underground blasting, and discloses a drilling angle lumpiness optimization method and system in bottom upward fanning hole blasting. The method comprises the steps that a displacement detector is used for obtaining the drill hole deflection angle of a plurality of upward fan-shaped hole rock drilling holes, and under the drill hole deflection angle meeting the design requirement of the hole bottom distance, according to the hole row distances set according to different lithology, the drill hole bottom distance is obtained; the blasting construction lumpiness and blasting vibration are controlled by adjusting filling and blasting modes, delay time and one-time blasting quantity parameters; for the steeply-inclined jointed rock stratum, a VCR mining method is adopted for carrying out numerical simulation calculation and field test, blasting parameters are optimized, the filling length, explosive quantity and delay time blasting parameters of the two ends of a blast hole are determined, deep hole blasting in the steeply-inclined jointed rock stratum blasting construction is completed, and the lumpiness is made to be uniform. The mining efficiency of the goaf can be improved, maximum utilization of resources is achieved, and economic benefits are improved.

The invention provides an oil field intelligent drilling system, and relates to the technical field of oil field drilling. The system comprises a data monitoring module, a trajectory prediction module, a control optimization module and an execution control module. Environment parameters and operation parameters are collected; a theoretical well track is generated, well drilling track prediction offset data is obtained, and a final prediction track is obtained; and a control parameter adjustment scheme is generated, and the bit pressure-rotating speed matching curve is adjusted. According to the invention, through cooperative operation of multiple modules, comprehensive monitoring and intelligent management of an oil field drilling process are realized. The efficiency is improved, meanwhile, the abrasion and failure rate of equipment are reduced, and the service life of the equipment is prolonged. By improving the drilling precision and efficiency, reducing accidents and reducing the equipment failure frequency, the drilling cost is optimized on the whole, the drilling period is effectively shortened, the single well yield is improved, and therefore remarkable benefits are brought in economy.

The invention provides a mine water prevention and control risk early warning method and system based on earthquake and geology fusion, and belongs to the field of soil layer or rock drilling, the method comprises the steps that real-time earthquake data of an earthquake monitoring module and geological exploration data of a geological exploration module are received, and the geological exploration module comprises a drilling detection module and a hydrogeological analysis module; based on the real-time seismic data, the geological exploration data and a preset water prevention and control risk early warning model, obtaining a risk level including a risk level and a corresponding water prevention and control execution measure; triggering target execution equipment such as drilling equipment to perform prevention and treatment according to execution measures; drilling a monitoring hole and arranging an optical fiber osmometer to collect osmotic pressure data at a first risk grade; at the second risk level, grouting plugging is conducted on the crack drilling grouting holes; constructing a water guide hole in the aquifer at the third risk level, and guiding underground water to a safe area through a drainage pump group. According to the method, multi-source data are fused to realize graded accurate early warning and prevention.

The invention discloses a self-adaptive rock drilling control method and a drill jumbo. The self-adaptive rock drilling control method comprises the steps that S1, initialization is conducted, specifically, parameters including the quality of a drilling component, a drilling included angle, a calculation coefficient, target propulsion pressure, target impact pressure and control parameters are initialized based on a control system before operation; s2, drilling is conducted according to the initialized parameters, the number of drill rods is recorded by a drill rod number counter, and impact pressure compensation and propelling pressure compensation are conducted according to the increased number of the drill rods; s3, adjusting the output propulsion pressure based on the difference between the target rotation pressure and the actual rotation pressure to enable the actual rotation pressure to tend to the target rotation pressure, adjusting the impact pressure based on the relation between the effective impact pressure and the effective propulsion pressure to enable the effective impact pressure to tend to the target impact pressure, and ensuring that the effective rock drilling parameters at the drill bit are matched with the rock. It is guaranteed that the effective propelling pressure and impact pressure at the drill bit meet the requirements, and therefore the drilling precision and quality are guaranteed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent detection, and particularly discloses an underground engineering intelligent anchor detection system and method.The system comprises a movable chassis, an automatic continuous drilling subsystem arranged on the movable chassis, an automatic monitoring subsystem and a data analysis subsystem, and the automatic monitoring subsystem and the data analysis subsystem are arranged on the automatic continuous drilling subsystem; the automatic continuous drilling subsystem comprises a mechanical large arm connected with the movable chassis, a rotating platform connected to the tail end of the mechanical large arm, and a drilling unit connected with the rotating platform; the automatic monitoring subsystem is used for monitoring while-drilling parameters in the drilling process in real time and transmitting the while-drilling parameters to the data analysis subsystem. The data analysis subsystem inverts rock mass strength parameters and rock mass structural plane characteristics in real time based on a rock mass strength inversion model and a structural plane inversion model, and quantitative evaluation of surrounding rock in the drilling process is achieved, so that a surrounding rock broken area is anchored in time. According to the invention, in-situ detection of deep underground engineering, especially deep mines, can be realized.

The invention relates to an expanding drill device for expanding a pilot bore produced from a starting point to a target point in the ground along a specified drilling line by moving the expanding drill device (10) along the specified drilling line in order to produce a bore in the ground or in rock for introducing a pipeline or a supporting system into the expanded bore, comprising: a housing (11); a drill head (14) that has a cutting wheel (15) which is arranged on the drill side (21) of the expanding drill device (10) so as to be rotatably mounted and driven about a rotational axis and relative to the housing and on which at least one drill tool (16) for loosening the ground or the rock is arranged; and a drill-side connection for producing a connection to a pipe section located in the pilot bore on the drill side, wherein the drill side (21) centrally has at least one receiving chamber (24) for the loosened ground or the loosened rock, said receiving chamber being connected to a material conveyor device of the expanding drill device (10) for the loosened ground or the loosened rock via at least one removal opening (30); the drill side (21) has at least one drill chamber (38) that is equipped with the cutting wheel (15), which is arranged about the receiving chamber (24); the cutting wheel (15) has an annular design and is rotatably arranged about the central receiving chamber (24); and the receiving chamber (24) is connected to the drill chamber (38) via at least one conveyor opening (41) so that the loosened ground or the loosened rock can be conveyed into the receiving chamber (24) through the conveyor opening (41). According to the invention, at least one crusher (46) is provided in the drill chamber (38); the crusher (46) has crusher strips (49) on the rotatable cutting wheel (15) which move together with the cutting wheel (15) and crusher strips (47) on the receiving chamber (24) side facing the drill chamber (38) which are rigidly arranged together with the receiving chamber (24); and the crusher strips (47, 49) are arranged relative to one another such that a crusher gap (50) is produced between the crusher strips.

Some implementations include a system configured for real-time well path optimization of a wellbore being drilled into a subsurface formation, the system comprising: a downhole tool including a resistivity sensor; a drilling assembly coupled to a drill bit, the drilling assembly including the downhole tool; and a learning machine configured to, compare an input image of a resistivity inversion against an archive of historical data; generate, based on the comparison, a real-time well path suggestion; and output the real-time well path suggestion to a user interface.

A method can include rendering a graphical user interface to a display; receiving data; responsive to determining boundary locations for formations in the subsurface environment using the data, automatically rendering the boundary locations in the graphical user interface; responsive to determining extended boundary locations in the subsurface environment for a region beyond an end of the borehole using the boundary locations, automatically rendering the extended boundary locations in the graphical user interface; responsive to determining a target location in the region using the extended boundary locations, automatically rendering the target location in the graphical user interface; and, responsive to generation of a trajectory from an end of the borehole location to the target location, automatically rendering the trajectory in the graphical user interface.

Shown and described herein is a choke assembly for use with a downhole drill string. The choke assembly may include a rotating choke carrier, a stationary seat disposed on the rotating choke carrier and a rotating choke positioned adjacent to the stationary seat to create a seal surface. The choke assembly may further comprise a biasing mechanism applying a biasing force to press the rotating choke against the stationary seat and a flow port within the stationary seat which controls drilling fluid to allow some drilling fluid to become a bypass fluid and pass through the stationary seat.

The invention discloses a drilling equipment three-dimensional track positioning method based on remote control, and relates to the technical field of geological engineering, and the method comprises the following steps: obtaining target point cloud data of a drilling area through a laser scanner or a geological radar; preprocessing the obtained point cloud data, and calculating a normal vector of each measurement point by using a least square method; calculating a local curvature tensor of each measurement point based on the normal vector; performing trajectory optimization by adopting a non-Euclidean geometric model, constructing an objective function and introducing curvature constraint; after the optimized trajectory data is obtained, a three-dimensional finite element model is established, and the movement process of drilling equipment in different geological stratums is simulated; the three-dimensional track of the drilling equipment is monitored in real time through the remote control platform, and if it is detected that the track deviates from the preset path, a correction instruction is automatically sent. Dynamic changes in the underground environment can be effectively handled, the automation and intelligence level of drilling operation is improved, and the accuracy and stability of the drilling track are ensured.

Described herein are methods and systems for non-contact boring of tunnels, trenches, and / or vertical shafts. A system comprises a chassis, a non-contact boring element, and a boring actuator connecting the non-contact boring element to the chassis and configured to position the non-contact boring element relative to the bore face. These three elements may form an internal subsystem as this subsystem within a tunnel, trench, or shaft. In some examples, a system further comprises an external subsystem, which is positioned away from the tunnel, trench, or shaft. The external subsystem is connected to the internal subsystem using an umbilical cord (e.g., providing power and control signals to the internal subsystem). Furthermore, the system may include an ejecta removal subsystem operationally coupled to the internal and external subsystems. Some examples of a non-contact boring element include a combustor (e.g., a jet turbine, a flame jet) and a plasma torch.

The invention discloses a V-shaped mine collecting trench construction method for improving the stability of a roadway in an ore pillar, which comprises the following steps of: constructing a plurality of rows of upward fan-shaped blast holes along the trend of a stope, and adding an empty hole in the middle position of each of the left side hole and the right side hole in the adjacent rows of fan-shaped blast holes; the fan-shaped blast holes are filled with explosives, and newly-added empty holes are not filled with explosives; and the cutting raise is used as a blasting free surface, and the fan-shaped blast holes are detonated row by row in several times to form the V-shaped mine collecting trench. According to the method, through cracks are formed along the center connecting lines of the side holes under the guiding effect of the newly-added empty holes during fan-shaped hole blasting, cutting of the V-shaped boundary is completed, damage of fan-shaped blast hole blasting to ore pillar rock mass is reduced, and the purposes of improving the integrality of ore removal roadway surrounding rock and the stability of an ore removal roadway are achieved. The V-shaped ore collecting trench construction method is suitable for V-shaped ore collecting trench construction of a stope bottom structure of an open stope subsequent filling mining method, damage to ore pillar rock mass can be weakened in the V-shaped ore collecting trench construction process, and then the stability of an ore removal roadway is improved.

A method can include acquiring resistivity measurements using a downhole tool of a drillstring disposed in a borehole in a subsurface environment; performing a resistivity measurement-based inversion to generate a structural representation of a portion of the subsurface environment that includes an end of the borehole; generating a control instruction using an artificial intelligence framework and the structural representation, where the control instruction is for lengthening the borehole along a current borehole trajectory or a different borehole trajectory; and controlling the drillstring to lengthen the borehole based on the control instruction.

This disclosure relates to a predictive lookahead system that generates simulated or predicted wellbore trajectory plans in a drilling environment and determines when a simulated wellbore trajectory plan is at risk based on various lookahead metrics, such as torque and drag (T&D) metrics and hydraulic pressure metrics. For instance, the predictive lookahead system uses a predictive framework with various steps to determine if drilling metrics for a predictive wellbore trajectory plan, such as T&D metrics and / or hydraulic pressure metrics corresponding to subsurface formations, may exceed one or more risk threshold limits and cause damage to the drill bit, drill string, casing, and / or surface rig. The predictive lookahead system determines whether a predictive wellbore trajectory, which aims to converge with a previously planned wellbore trajectory, can proceed safely along the projected trajectory without exceeding T&D, pressure window, or other lookahead metric limits in the wellbore.

The invention relates to the technical field of oil and gas field exploration and development, in particular to a drilling guidance method, system and device based on a dynamic three-dimensional geologic model.The method comprises the steps that a data real-time monitoring service is deployed on a drilling data platform to automatically sense all real-time data on site; transmitting real-time data through the data interface, and preprocessing model update data in the real-time data to obtain standard update data; dynamically updating the three-dimensional geologic model based on a machine learning algorithm and the standard update data; whether a drill bit adjusting strategy is made or not is determined according to the actual drilling track data and the actual drilling well logging curve; and determining a drill bit adjustment strategy according to a judgment result of formulating the drill bit adjustment strategy in combination with reservoir parameters. According to the invention, while real-time updating and real-time guiding are carried out, the requirements of drilling site requirements on guiding accuracy and timeliness are met.