Abstract:
A downhole steering tool includes one or more steering blades selectively extendable from a housing. Each steering blade may be extended by fluid pressure within a steering cylinder. Each steering cylinder may be coupled to the interior of a mandrel positioned within the housing through an adjustable orifice. The adjustable orifice may be moved between an open and a partially open position. The adjustable orifice may be solenoid controlled or controlled by a ring valve. The adjustable orifice may generate one or more pressure pulses to transmit data to the surface.
Abstract:
A bearing section for a positive displacement mud motor for directional drilling in which the deflection of the drill bit is remotely adjusted by bending the drive sub using an offset flex drive mechanism to adjust between desired settings. The bearing section is adjustable from the surface without the need for trips of the bottom hole assembly to the surface.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for securing a protective sleeve or wear sleeve to a rotary component which is rotatable relative to a rotary seal, such that the wear sleeve is in relatively rotating sealing engagement with the rotary seal. The wear sleeve is secured to the shaft by wedging a lock ring between the wear sleeve and the shaft. Wedging action of the lock ring can be effected by wedging formations, such as tapered surfaces, configured for causing wedging of the lock ring in response to operator-induced axial movement of the lock ring relative to the shaft and/or the wear sleeve. Wedging of the lock ring can be effected by cooperating screw threads on the lock ring and the wear sleeve, so that an operator can tighten the sleeve on the shaft by application of torque thereto.
Abstract:
Downhole rotary steerable drill including a drilling shaft rotatably supported within a housing, the drilling shaft and housing each having a longitudinal axis. The drill can include a releasable locking mechanism for rotationally locking and releasing the drilling shaft relative to the housing, the releasable locking mechanism transitionable between locked and released configurations. The releasable locking mechanism includes a sliding plunger coupled to the housing by a coupling that permits longitudinal reciprocation of the sliding plunger relative to the housing and prevents rotation of the sliding plunger relative to the housing. The releasable locking mechanism can also include pressure-responsive piston that reciprocates between an unactuated configuration and actuated configuration in response to applied pressure from a pressuring pump.
Abstract:
An example downhole motor may include a first housing and a second housing with first and second portions characterized by non-parallel longitudinal axes. The second housing may be rotatably coupled to the first housing, and the first portion of the second housing may be arranged in a fixed, non-parallel longitudinal orientation with the first housing. A drive shaft may be at least partially within the first housing, and the motor may further comprise a selectively engageable torque coupling between the drive shaft and the second housing, positioned within the first housing.
Abstract:
A directional tendency prediction system or method that provides: determining geometric parameters of a bottomhole assembly having at least a stabilizer, a bit, and an eccentering mechanism that provides a range of eccentricity settings; deriving a side force on the bit across the range of eccentricity settings; and based at least in part on the side force on the bit, determining a walk angle or dogleg severity (DLS) across the range of eccentricity settings. The resulting DLS range may be compared with requirements for a desired borehole trajectory and if suitable, the parameters may be used to configure the bottomhole assembly, and the DLS dependence may be expressed in a tabular or functional form to control steering.
Abstract:
A rotary subterranean drill capable of detecting an excessive downhole pressure condition and automatically remediating the causal condition of the detected excessive pressure condition. A pressure detector coupled to a drill string of the rotary subterranean drill can sense an excessive downhole pressure condition that exceeds a predetermined value. When an excessive downhole pressure condition is sensed at the pressure detector drag members are automatically disengaged from the borehole, thereby permitting rotation of the anchorable exterior portion within the borehole.
Abstract:
A method for directional drilling a subterranean borehole includes transforming surface sensor measurements from time domain sensor data to frequency domain sensor data. A rotary drilling parameter may be changed when a parameter of the frequency domain sensor data reaches a threshold or is within a predetermined range of values.
Abstract:
A method for steering a well comprises disposing a first orienting assembly and a second orienting assembly spaced apart along a circular inner peripheral surface of a housing. An orienting sleeve is rotatably supported between the first orienting assembly and the second orienting assembly, The orienting sleeve has an angled bore therethrough, wherein a first longitudinal axis of the angled bore is inclined by a predetermined angle to a second longitudinal axis referenced to a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the orienting sleeve. A rotatable steering shaft is rotatably supported along the angled bore to control rotatable steering shaft bending. The rotation of the first orienting assembly, the second orienting assembly, and the orienting sleeve is controllably adjusted to control the steering direction of the rotatable steering shaft.
Abstract:
In order to avoid disadvantages of known approaches while maintaining monitored and controlled laying of a pipeline (3) in a borehole (1) and in particular to provide a method and a device for laying a pipeline (3) in a borehole (1), in which large working areas are not necessary either at the starting point or at the end point, in which the number of working steps is reduced compared with the HDD method, and the efficiency of which is improved compared with the MT method, a device for laying a pipeline (3) in a borehole (1) is proposed, having a drill bearing (8), which is couplable to a drill pipe (6) in order to absorb a compressive force acting in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the drill pipe (6) and is connectable to the pipeline (3) in order to transmit the compressive force as a tensile and/or compressive force acting in the longitudinal direction of the pipeline (3), having a drill motor (7), which is angled or anglable with respect to the longitudinal axis of the drill pipe (6), for a drill head (2), said drill motor (7) being provided to drive the drill head (2) independently of a rotation of the drill pipe (6), having a position determining unit (13, 16) for determining and transmitting a rotational position of the angled drill motor (7), and having a control pipe (18), which at least partially encloses the drill motor (7), wherein the drill head (2) extends out of the control pipe (18) in the direction of a working face (19) during operation.