| CPC E21B 7/06 (2013.01) [E21B 21/08 (2013.01); E21B 47/00 (2013.01); E21B 47/12 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |

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11. A method for drilling a subterranean wellbore, the method comprising:
(a) rotating a bottom hole assembly (BHA) in the subterranean wellbore to drill, the BHA including a rotary steerable tool or a steerable drill bit having at least first, second, and third circumferentially spaced external pads configured to extend radially outward into contact with a wall of the wellbore and thereby steer the drilling;
(b) selecting, via a processor, a steering ratio;
(c) selecting, via the processor, a time interval;
(d) measuring, via a sensor, a rotation rate of the BHA rotation in (a);
(e) receiving, via the processor, a drilling parameter waveform; wherein the drilling parameter waveform is sinusoidal in shape;
(f) processing, via the processor, the steering ratio selected in (b) to compute a number of pad extensions in the time interval selected in (c);
(g) processing, via the processor, the rotation rate measured in (d) and a total number of potential pad extensions in the selected time interval to compute times for each of the potential pad extensions in the selected time interval;
(h) evaluating, via the processor, the drilling parameter waveform received in (e) at each of the computed times of the potential pad extensions in the selected time interval to select discrete pad extension times, wherein the discrete pad extension times are selected to overlap maxima in the drilling parameter waveform; and
(i) extending the at least first, second, and third pads at corresponding ones of the selected discrete pad extension times to steer the drilling.
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