US 11,674,353 B2
Trajectory control for directional drilling
Umut Zalluhoglu, Humble, TX (US); and Robert Darbe, Tomball, TX (US)
Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/778,967.
Prior Publication US 2021/0238926 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. E21B 7/06 (2006.01); E21B 44/02 (2006.01); E21B 47/0228 (2012.01); E21B 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 7/06 (2013.01) [E21B 7/10 (2013.01); E21B 44/02 (2013.01); E21B 47/0228 (2020.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A method comprising: storing a wellbore plan in a memory device of a rotary steerable system; computing a position and attitude of a drill bit within a wellbore; computing a wellbore trajectory error, while the rotary steerable system is downhole within the wellbore, between (i) the position of the drill bit and a well plan position and (ii) the attitude of the drill bit and a well plan attitude of the wellbore plan; determining an inclination set-point change command and an azimuth set-point change command using the wellbore trajectory error to minimize the wellbore trajectory error to adhere to the well plan, wherein determining the inclination set-point change command and the azimuth set-point change command accounts for a response depth comprising a spatial delay and a telemetry delay; and steering the drill bit using the inclination set-point change command and the azimuth set-point change command.