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WO/2016/160698A1
A system and method for controlling drilling of a wellbore. The method may include supporting a tubular string using a top drive connected to a block, and lowering the top drive by lowering the block. The method may also include adjustin...  
WO/2016/161295A1
A method can include selecting a location in an area that includes offset wells; determining design parameters of the offset wells; modeling a modeled well based at least in part on the design parameters of the offset wells to generate d...  
WO/2016/160696A1
A system for a drilling rig, a computer-readable medium, and a method for tracking an oilfield tubular. The method includes applying a tag to the oilfield tubular, the tag including a readable tag identifier, determining a physical param...  
WO/2016/160701A1
A top-drive system and a drilling rig. The top-drive system includes a sheave configured to receive a drilling line, a frame coupled with the sheave and configured to transmit a weight of a tubular string suspended therefrom to the sheav...  
WO/2016/148688A1
A packoff pressure prevention system includes an internal pressure sensor to measure fluid pressure within a drillstring. The system further includes an annular vent to, when open, enable fluid to escape from within the drillstring into ...  
WO/2016/148964A1
In drilling into a subterranean formation, several factors influence the rate of penetration, including, but not limited to, the type of formation being drilled, the weight on bit, and the rotational speed of the drill bit. Disclosed are...  
WO/2016/149525A1
Systems and methods for automatically controlling a band brake handle of a drilling drawworks are provided herein. An automated band brake drawworks system comprising: an electric linear actuator operatively coupled to a band brake; a mo...  
WO/2016/144292A1
In some aspects, the present disclosure includes systems and methods for optimizing one or more of a number of sensors on a drillstring or the locations of the sensors on the drillstring, or the types of the sensors. The method includes ...  
WO/2016/140650A1
A managed pressure drilling (MPD) operation may use an inverse model in conjunction with a hydraulic model and real-time drilling conditions and parameters as inputs to determine a wellhead pressure set point corresponding to a desired b...  
WO/2016/141205A2
A system for stimulating oil or gas production from a wellbore includes a hydraulic fracturing pump unit having one or more hydraulic fracturing pumps driven by one or more electrical fracturing motors, a variable frequency drive (VFD) c...  
WO/2016/140676A1
In some aspects, the present invention comprises a system and method for optimizing the control scheme used for drilling operations based on the complex and large data sets available in realtime during operation of a wellsite and based o...  
WO/2016/134519A1
Disclosed are a winch pressurization control device and a control method therefor, and a rotary drilling rig, which relate to the field of engineering machinery control. The winch pressurization control device comprises a pressurizing wi...  
WO/2016/137920A1
Controlled pressure drilling of a borehole with a drilling system detects events and identifies the events as being one of a gas-at-surface event, a kick event, a high-pressure low-volume depletion event, and a gas expansion event. Param...  
WO/2016/135145A1
Systems and methods are provided for estimating and/or using drilling efficiency parameters of a drilling operation. A method for estimating drilling efficiency parameters may include using a borehole assembly that includes a drill bit t...  
WO/2016/138273A1
A method, system and computer program product for utilizing look-up tables representing all models in an automation control architecture to independently handle uncertainties in sensed data. Data is stored in a form of conditional probab...  
WO/2016/137500A1
Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to correct measured resistivity data for borehole effects to provide borehole-corrected apparent resistivity data for a non-invaded formation. Additional activity may include inverting the meas...  
WO/2016/131135A1
A pressure compensation device for a downhole fluid pressure pulse generator comprising: a membrane sleeve; a membrane support with a bore for receiving a driveshaft, a central section which receives the membrane sleeve, a male mating se...  
WO/2016/133399A1
A production monitoring system (10) comprises a plurality of production and injection wells (80) coupled in operation to sensors (410) for measuring physical processes occurring in operation in the production and injection wells (80) and...  
WO/2016/133517A1
A method to minimize borehole effects upon a multi-component induction tool within a well and borehole with water-based mud includes measuring parameters of the reservoir with the induction tool to create an array of measured components....  
WO/2016/122792A1
A method of performing a fracture operation at a wellsite is provided. The wellsite has a fracture network therein with natural fractures. The method involves stimulating the wellsite by injecting an injection fluid with proppant into th...  
WO/2016/122875A1
Systems and methods for a drilling rig. The method includes receiving, at a rig controller, data from a plurality of rig subsystems, and determining, at the rig controller, a first command based at least partially on the data from the pl...  
WO/2016/118549A1
In some embodiments, a multi-array induction method uses user selectable zoning of a borehole to generate an updated look-up table for borehole corrections based on averaged calipers for the borehole. One example method averages caliper ...  
WO/2016/114765A1
A method and apparatus that includes an elongated base pipe having an external surface at least partially defining an external region and an internal surface at least partially defining an internal region; and a pressure maintenance devi...  
WO/2016/115194A1
A method can include receiving data acquired via a sensor of a component of a plurality of components arranged in an order at respective axial positions of a toolstring; analyzing at least a portion of the data with respect to a model of...  
WO/2016/114766A1
A method and apparatus that includes positioning a completion string that has an internal passageway and that has an external surface that at least partially defines an external region within a wellbore; isolating a zone of the external ...  
WO/2016/111680A1
A system for selecting diversion techniques includes a memory storage device and a processor. The processor is configured to, for each of several well characteristics, assign a weight to each of the several well characteristics, where th...  
WO/2016/112061A1
A plan structure and a method for creating a plan for forming/operating a sub-sea or sub-terranean well, in an automated planner, are disclosed. The plan defines logical, sequential and conditional interrelationships between events in th...  
WO/2016/111678A1
In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to model electromagnetic data to provide modeled electromagnetic data by solving a first set of surface integral equations that include earth mo...  
WO/2016/108897A1
Methods and systems are provided for optimizing a drill path from the surface to a target area below the surface. A method for operating an automated drilling program may comprise drilling to a target location along a drill path, updatin...  
WO/2016/108891A1
A system for optimizing a running operation includes an interface to equipment and sensors for performing the running operation. The interface supplies control signals to the equipment and obtains measurement signals from the sensors. Th...  
WO/2016/108872A1
In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to measure one or more properties associated with a fracture in a geological formation to provide a measured property. Further activities may in...  
WO/2016/108908A1
A method for controlling drilling fluid properties, in some embodiments, comprises determining a predictive model for a fluid circulation system that routes drilling fluid downhole to a drill bit to remove debris from said drill bit; det...  
WO/2016/108807A1
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a control system for optimizing the placement of pillars during a subterranean operation is disclosed. The method includes determining a wave function from a generalized wave...  
WO/2016/108893A1
A system for optimizing a completion operation includes an interface to equipment and sensors for performing the completion operation. The interface supplies control signals to the equipment and obtains measurement signals from the senso...  
WO/2016/108901A1
Locating while drilling systems and methods are disclosed. Some method embodiments include drilling a borehole with a bottom-hole assembly (BHA attached to a drill bit, pausing the drilling to determine a survey position of the bit, obta...  
WO/2016/107593A1
Disclosed are a digitized automatically controlled oil-pumping method and a balance-shifting digitized pumpjack, said pumpjack comprising a main engine (15), a decelerator (8), a crank (9), a connecting rod (6), a walking beam (3), a bal...  
WO/2016/108913A1
System and methods for performing look-ahead and look-around (LALA) inversion are provided. Measurements of formation properties accumulated by a downhole LALA tool are obtained during different stages of drilling a wellbore through laye...  
WO/2016/108858A1
A method and system for monitoring operation of a motor may include initially determining a no load torque versus temperature characteristic of the motor over a range of operating temperatures. After a period of operation, a no load torq...  
WO/2016/108827A1
An example method includes receiving a data set containing combinations of drilling parameter values and operating condition values for a drilling system corresponding to each combination of drilling parameter values. At least one of a f...  
WO/2016/108866A1
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and systems for modeling an advanced 3 -dimensional bottomhole assembly are disclosed. The method may include determining a drill string property for a drill string h...  
WO/2016/105390A1
Higher order simulation of hydrocarbon flows associated with complex fractures produced in the hydraulic fracturing process in a well system may be used to obtain high fidelity results while minimizing a cost of computation. The higher o...  
WO/2016/102381A1
A supervisory control system (114) and method enable automated supervisory control of complete drilling operations, wherein the presence of an automatic control system utilizing at least one Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to convey ...  
WO/2016/100687A1
Systems and methods for drilling a wellbore. The method includes measuring a first distance that a drilling device is raised while connected to a drill string, determining a weight-on-bit in the drill string, determining a second distanc...  
WO/2016/099498A1
A method of managing bottom hole assembly vibrations while drilling a wellbore including obtaining data regarding drilling parameters related to one or more drilling operations, determining if the bottom hole assembly has vibration level...  
WO/2016/100973A1
A plan structure and its applications in the upstream oil and gas industry are disclosed. The plan defines logical, sequential and conditional interrelationships between events in the plan, so that a controller can carry out the plan in ...  
WO/2016/100693A1
Systems and methods for tracking depth of a drill string. The method includes determining a measured elevation difference between a first position of a sensor and a second position of the sensor, based on measurements taken by an elevati...  
WO/2016/093817A1
A wellbore ranging system includes a processor, a memory, and a wellbore ranging module. The wellbore ranging module is operable to receive survey information in response to a survey measurement signal and determine a location of a first...  
WO/2016/094474A1
In one aspect, an intelligent sensor system is adapted to monitor at least a first operating parameter of a first vessel during oil and gas exploration and production operations. The system includes a first sensor housing assembly, which...  
WO/2016/094338A1
A sustainability screening tool for oil and gas operations which includes Gaussian plume modelling and calculations. A method includes using the sustainability screening tool for inputting data, calculating one or more environmental and ...  
WO/2016/089523A1
An embodiment of a method of performing an energy industry operation includes: deploying a carrier in an earth formation, the carrier including a downhole component configured to perform the operation; performing the operation according ...  

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