Lateral motion drill bit model

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10012025-B2
Application number	US-201414517454-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2014
Priority date	Oct 18, 2013
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

A method for predicting a change in lateral displacement with a change in axial displacement of a drill bit drilling in a formation rock includes: constructing a virtual representation of the drill bit and the formation rock, the drill bit having a gage pad configured to remove rock by wearing or crushing the rock during moving contact and a cutter configured to cut into the rock during moving contact with the rock; adjusting lateral penetration depth until rock reactive force equals a side force applied to the drill bit to provide an adjusted lateral penetration depth; removing formation rock to where the pad and the cutters contact the rock at the adjusted lateral penetration depth and to a selected axial displacement of the drill bit; moving the drill bit in a drilling direction to the end of the currently drilled borehole; and iterating the adjusting, the removing, and the moving.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for predicting a change in lateral displacement with a change in axial displacement of a drill bit drilling in a formation rock, the method comprising:
constructing a virtual representation of the drill bit and the formation rock, the drill bit comprising a gage pad configured to remove rock by wearing or crushing the rock during moving contact with the rock and a cutter configured to cut into the rock during moving contact with the rock;
adjusting lateral penetration depth until rock reactive force equals a side force applied to the drill bit to provide a lateral displacement of the drill bit to provide an adjusted lateral penetration depth;
removing formation rock to where the pad and the cutter contact the formation rock at the adjusted lateral penetration depth and to a selected axial displacement of the drill bit;
moving the drill bit in a drilling direction to the end of a currently drilled borehole; and
iterating the adjusting, the removing, and the moving, to predict the change in lateral displacement with the change in depth of the drill bit;
wherein the method is implemented by a processor.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the drill bit is represented by a first set of nodes and the formation rock is represented by a second set of nodes.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising initializing the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes such that nodes from the first set and the second set overlap each other at a boundary between the drill bit and the formation rock.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the axial displacement is a distance between nodes in an axial direction at the boundary between the drill bit and the formation rock.

5. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising adding a new node representing the formation rock to be further drilled, the new node having an axial coordinate corresponding to an axial component of the drilled borehole and a lateral coordinate corresponding to a lateral component of the drilling direction.

Assignees

• Spencer Reed W
• Hanson Jonathan M
• Baker Hughes A Ge Co Llc

Inventors

• Spencer Reed W
• Hanson Jonathan M

Classifications

• E21B7/00 Primary

  Special methods or apparatus for drilling · CPC title

• E21B10/00

  Drill bits (specially adapted for deflecting the direction of boring {E21B7/064}; with means for collecting substances E21B27/00) · CPC title

• E21B44/00 Primary

  Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which function to carry out or modify a drilling operation without intervention of a human operator, e.g. computer-controlled drilling systems; Systems specially adapted for monitoring a plurality of drilling variables or conditions · CPC title