US 11,841,694 B2
Predicting drilling tool failure
Robello Samuel, Cypress, TX (US); Aravind Prabhakar, Houston, TX (US); and Christopher Neil Marland, Spring, TX (US)
Assigned to LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION, Houston, TX (US)
Filed by LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATION, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/004,834.
Application 17/004,834 is a continuation of application No. 15/574,779, granted, now 10,877,462, previously published as PCT/US2015/038820, filed on Jul. 1, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0409334 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. E21B 44/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/4065 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/4065 (2013.01) [E21B 44/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for determining drilling tool failure thresholds, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of acceleration values from an accelerometer coupled with a drilling tool disposed within a wellbore;
calculating a plurality of jerk values and a plurality of inverse jerk values based on the plurality of acceleration values;
inputting a plurality of subsurface conditions and a plurality of operating conditions corresponding to the wellbore, wherein the plurality of operating conditions are determined using a drilling program;
generating a graph including the plurality of acceleration values and the plurality of inverse jerk values relative to time;
receiving historical drilling tool data corresponding to a second wellbore in a geographically similar area;
performing a simulation on the historical drilling tool data using a data driven model simulation to determine historical drilling tool failure data;
updating the graph to include the historical drilling tool failure data; and
determining a plurality of drilling tool failure threshold limits based at least in part on the graph.