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WO/2010/027839A2
A drill bit made according to one embodiment includes at least one of a weight sensor and a torque sensor configured to provide signals representative of the weight and torque on the drill bit when the drill bit is used for cutting into ...  
WO/2010/025159A1
A system for use in a wellbore, comprises a length of casing, a structure that is configured to deform with deformation of the casing, said structure being affixed to the length of casing at substantially the same radial position along t...  
WO/2010/019798A2
A method for configuring a bottom hole assembly from a plurality of formation evaluation tools, includes: creating a health history for each tool of the plurality of formation evaluation tools; ranking the resulting plurality of health h...  
WO/2010/014398A2
Methods and devices for utilizing an electrically-actuated wireline insert safety valve (WLSV) and for delivering power to an electrically actuated WLSV via inductive charging and without the use of wired contact.  
WO/2010/010455A2
A method and system for automating exploration and production of subterranean resources, using data collected from exploration and production activities, including drilling rig data and/or the like is described. The method and system inc...  
WO/2010/008661A2
Job monitoring methods and apparatus for logging-while-drilling equipment are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes obtaining a fluid associated with an underground geological formation, analyzing the fluid with one or more sens...  
WO/2010/004247A1
Well bore servicing equipment is provided. The well bore servicing equipment comprises a first manipulator (20) to grip a well bore work string (152), to raise the work string, and to lower the work string. The well bore servicing equipm...  
WO/2010/003080A2
A method for drilling a well, the method including: identifying another well proximate to the well being drilled; collecting spatial information for at least a portion of the another well and the well being drilled; estimating a trajecto...  
WO/2009/150294A1
The invention relates to a method and equipment for displaying holes to be drilled when drilling holes into rock with a rock-drilling rig (1) having control equipment and a display belonging thereto and measuring means for defining the d...  
WO/2009/151786A2
A downhole rotational rate control apparatus, adapted for coupling to the lower end of a drill string, includes a progressive cavity (PC) motor, a driveshaft, a mud flow control valve, and an electronics section. Drilling mud flowing dow...  
WO/2009/142798A2
Methods of regulating flow in a hydrocarbon well include identifying at least two dissimilar zones in an interval of a well, perforating a well completion in the interval according to a limited-entry perforation strategy, and re-perforat...  
WO/2009/138558A1
The invention relates to a method for determining the dead zone of a proportional control valve (8) used for controlling an actuator of a rock drilling device, the method comprising controlling the control valve (8) with an electric P co...  
WO/2009/135157A2
A system for optimizing a rate-of-penetration of a drill string, the system including: a plurality of sensors in operable communication with the drill string; and a controller in operable communication with the plurality of sensors, the ...  
WO/2009/130441A1
A system for drilling a cavity in a medium includes a drill bit (130), a processor (230), and a controller (190). The drill bit rotates in the medium and removes at least a portion of the medium. The processor may be configured to receiv...  
WO/2009/128999A1
An apparatus to update data in a well control system includes a central control unit (240) in communication with a communications network (230), the central control unit comprising a first display database, an end device (210) in communi...  
WO/2009/123535A1
A method and a control system for regulating at least one drilling parameter when drilling in rock. An impulse-generating device is arranged via an impact means to induce shock waves in a tool acting on the rock during the drilling. The ...  
WO/2009/117478A2
An assembly for providing torque to an object in a wellhead. The assembly includes a body attachable to the wellhead and including a bore with a centerline. The body further includes a first set of pistons within cylinders oriented at an...  
WO/2009/117486A2
An apparatus for controlling a vibration of a drill string, the apparatus including: a plurality of sensors in operable communication with the drill string; and a controller in operable communication with the plurality of sensors, the co...  
WO/2009/105470A2
Various embodiments are directed to a method and apparatus for horizontal directional drilling with a tool library. Various methods include storing a plurality of operational tool profiles in memory, the operational tool profiles of the ...  
WO/2009/102578A2
Method and system for monitoring rotational time of a rotatable equipment. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising powering a sensor coupled to a rotatable equipment, the powering by a self-contained electron...  
WO/2009/102804A2
Systems and methods for the automated positioning of pads and orienting of slot templates for the pads. The systems and methods also include automated adjsutment of well path plans from a pad to selected well targets.  
WO/2009/090489A2
An example of a method includes the steps of applying a surface torque to a drill string in a borehole, detect signals related to one of a torque and a rotational speed experienced at a bottom hole assembly, initiating drilling fluid flo...  
WO/2009/089187A2
An anti-stall tool in an oil well drilling assembly that controls reciprocation of the drill bit by a controller that alters weight-on-bit (WOB) depending upon measured downhole pressure or torque at the downhole motor. The controller re...  
WO/2009/088915A2
A method for surveying a formation includes conveying a survey instrument into the wellbore; measuring one or more parameters of interest relating to a wellbore tubular in the wellbore; and operating the survey instrument after the measu...  
WO/2009/089188A2
An anti-stall tool in an oil well drilling assembly that controls reciprocation of the drill bit by controller that alters weight-on-bit (WOB) depending upon measured downhole pressure or torque. The downhole controller keeps the drill b...  
WO/2009/085732A2
An actuation apparatus includes an electronics module (102), an actuator module (104) coupled to the electronics module and electrically communicating with the electronics module, and a motor (112) in the actuator module coupled to a dri...  
WO/2009/085496A1
Methods and systems are described for drilling a well while distinguishing circulated gas or air from pumps-off gas in a drilling fluid at downhole pressure and temperature. A well is drilled with a drilling fluid, drill string, and dril...  
WO/2009/086094A1
Method and apparatus for visibly demonstrating a relationship between toolface orientation and quill position by: (1) receiving electronic data on an on-going basis, wherein the electronic data includes quill position data and at least o...  
WO/2009/082322A1
The present invention relates to a pulse generating device for inducing a shock wave in a tool, wherein the said pulse generating device comprises an impact means (201; 301) for transferring energy to a drill string (202) connected to th...  
WO/2009/082453A2
Disclosed is a system and device relating to flow pulsing for use in down-hole drilling rate of penetration (ROP) enhancement and measurement while drilling (MWD) using a pulse drilling device (PDD) with a fast acting valve in conjunctio...  
WO/2009/077718A2
A method of conducting a well treatment service job, comprising assembling an oilfield- communication network comprising a plurality of mobile terminals (102-118) distributed across a plurality of well sites and a plurality of base trans...  
WO/2009/077656A1
The invention relates to a rock drilling rigand a method of drilling rock. The rock drilling rig (2) comprises a flushing system with two or more compressors (9a, 9b) for generating the required compressed air for the flushing. The flush...  
WO/2008/078002A9
The invention relates to a method and a software product for designing a drilling pattern for excavating a rock cavern. The invention further relates to a rock- drilling rig, in whose control unit the software product and the method are ...  
WO/2009/075962A2
A method and system for estimating the status of a production well using a probability calculator and for developing such a probability calculator. The method includes developing a probability calculator, which may be a Bayesian network,...  
WO/2009/073008A1
Apparatus (100), systems (110), and methods may operate to generate acoustic emissions from within at least a first borehole (120), receive the acoustic emissions within a second borehole (136), and process the acoustic emissions to loca...  
WO/2009/073803A1
Systems and methods for monitoring and/or operating a rig site system are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a method for monitoring a rig site system may include obtaining sensor data at a rig site and transmitting pre-process...  
WO/2009/071520A2
The invention relates to a displaceable device unit for producing a through-hole in floors and back-fills, comprising an expansion unit (2) consisting of at least one first and one second expansion body (2a, 2b) with pressure surfaces (4...  
WO/2009/070521A2
A method for hydraulically controlling the direction of a drill bit or bottom hole assembly containing a drill contains lateral orifices which can be selectively opened and closed to move a portion of drilling fluid from the drill string...  
WO/2009/068316A1
A drilling system for drilling a lateral borehole from a main borehole comprises a tubular conduit through which a fluid can be pumped; and a drilling assembly connected to the tubular conduit so as to receive fluid pumped therethrough, ...  
WO/2009/067373A2
An invention for dynamically determining a trajectory of a drilled wellbore is provided. A method may include: receiving a piece of information including data converted from a measured physical characteristic of at least one of the wellb...  
WO/2009/066034A2
The invention relates to a plant for the production of a heavy-oil-based hydrocarbon effluent from at least one well, the plant comprising: an injection system (9, 11-16) for injecting an effluent lightening fluid into the bottom of the ...  
WO/2009/064656A2
A method includes obtaining a first set of survey data at a first point along a wellbore, estimating a present wellbore position based on at least the first set of survey data, determining a related ellipse of uncertainty at the present ...  
WO/2009/062725A2
A drilling system comprising a tool body including a drilling motor; a drill bit mounted on the tool body to be rotated by the drilling motor; a mechanism for applying weight to the bit when drilling; and a control system for controlling...  
WO/2009/062037A2
A method of creating and using a neural network model for wellbore operations is disclosed. The method, in one aspect, may include defining a plurality of a wellbore parameter; calculating a plurality of output values of a tool operating...  
WO/2009/062041A2
A method for automatically measuring a property of a fluid associated with a drilling application, including obtaining a sample of the fluid, wherein the sample of the fluid is obtained by directing the fluid through an electrode probe a...  
WO/2009/058635A2
A method, apparatus, and program storage device for integrating an implementing rule-based, heuristic, wellbore key performance rate of penetratio indicators advising drilling operations personnel based on the situational awareness o tre...  
WO/2009/052304A1
The present disclosure is directed to methods and apparatuses for controlling pump power draw from an engine in horizontal directional drilling. Various embodiments of the invention are directed to a horizontal directional drilling machi...  
WO/2009/039453A2
Methods and apparatus for using a quill to steer a hydraulic motor when elongating a wellbore in a direction having a horizontal component, wherein the quill and the hydraulic motor are coupled to opposing ends of a drill string, by moni...  
WO/2009/037381A1
The invention relates to a method for designing a drilling pattern for rock cavity excavation and a software product implementing the method. The drilling pat- tern (9) is created by means of a design program. The drilling pattern define...  
WO/2009/039448A2
Methods and systems for drilling to a target location include a control system that receives an input comprising a planned drilling path to a target location and determines a projected location of a bottom hole assembly of a drilling sys...  

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