Systems, devices, and methods for visualizing and steering a drilling apparatus are provided, including a drill string with a bottom hole assembly (BHA), a sensor system, and a controller operable to generate a visualization comprising one or more drilling windows representing drilling tolerances of a drill plan of the drilling operation and a depiction of a location of the BHA based on the one or more measurable parameters of the drilled wellbore. The differences between the location of the BHA and the one or more drilling windows may also be visualized. This visualization may be used by an operator to steer the drilled wellbore.

A system for automatic detection of drill pipe coupling on a drilling machine is disclosed. The system may include a rotary head, a drill pipe, a display, and a controller. The controller may be configured to: automatically identify a coupling or decoupling condition of the drill pipe; monitor motion and forces associated with the rotary head during a coupling or decoupling action of the drill pipe; automatically identify a fully coupled or fully decoupled condition of the coupling or decoupling action based on the monitored motion and forces of the rotary head; terminate the coupling action based on the identification of the fully coupled or fully decoupled condition; and update the display to indicate the fully coupled or fully decoupled condition of the drill pipe.

A wellbore depth instrument (WDI) for measuring wellbore depths along a wellbore, acting as an odometer. In one embodiment, the WDI may be mounted onto a downhole tool-string deployed by a pipe, coil, e-line, or slickline. Further, the WDI may comprise two independently suspended wheels of fixed diameter with respective internal electronic packages that each may record in memory rotations of their respective wheels and frequencies of those rotations along the wellbore. Such recordings may allow for accurate determination and characterization of tool-string dynamics (e.g., tool-string speed, direction, stick slip, creep and hold-ups) as well as absolute and relative tool-string position along a wellbore (i.e., wellbore depth).

A system for automated model-based drilling includes a plurality of surface-based sensors configured to sense one or more rig parameters in real-time, a hydraulic modeler unit configured to generate a real-time model of an equivalent circulating density based on one or more rig parameters, a control module configured to continually determine whether the equivalent circulating density is within pre-determined safety margins of a safe pressure window, and a forward parameters simulator configured to, while the equivalent circulating density is within the pre-determined safety margins of the safe pressure window, determine an optimal drilling parameter to change and an optimal drilling parameter amount of change. The control module changes a rig setting corresponding to the optimal drilling parameter to change to the optimal drilling parameter value automatically or outputs the optimal drilling parameter to change and the optimal drilling parameter value to a display for manual adjustment by a driller.

Systems and methods for thru-tubing completion including a sub-surface completion unit (SCU) system including a SCU wireless transceiver for communicating with a surface control system of a well by way of wireless communication with a down-hole wireless transceiver disposed in a wellbore of the well, one or more SCU anchoring seals having an un-deployed position (enabling the SCU to pass through production tubing disposed in the wellbore of the well) and a deployed position (to seal against a wall of the target zone of the open-hole portion of the wellbore to provide zonal isolation between adjacent regions in the wellbore) and one or more SCU centralizers having an un-deployed position (enabling the SCU to pass through the production tubing disposed in the wellbore of the well) and a deployed position (to position the SCU in the target zone of the open-hole portion of the wellbore).

A downhole drilling system for reducing effects of overheating comprises a drill string having one or more drill pipes interconnected therebetween, a bottom hole assembly (BHA) connected to a distal end of the drill string, and a controller. The BHA comprises a drill bit disposed at an end portion of the BHA, a downhole motor to rotate the drill bit, a drill collar, in which a centrally disposed passage is formed and drilling mud is supplied to the drill bit through the centrally disposed passage, a measurement instrument disposed in the drill collar to obtain drilling environmental profile and communicating with the controller, and a cooling sub disposed in or on the drill collar or the measurement instrument.

A method for drilling, comprising receiving, by a surface steerable system coupled to a drilling rig, BHA information from a rotary steerable bottom hole assembly (BHA) located in a borehole, calculating, by the surface steerable system, torsional and spatial forces acting on the rotary steerable BHA at a first location of the rotary steerable BHA with respect to a target drilling path responsive to the BHA information, calculating, by the surface steerable system, a first vector to create a convergence path from the first location of the rotary steerable BHA to the target drilling path that accounts for the torsional and the spatial forces acting on the rotary steerable BHA, causing, by the surface steerable system, at least one drilling parameter to be modified in order to alter a drilling direction of the rotary steerable BHA based on the calculated first vector, transmitting the at least one drilling parameter to the drilling rig to target the rotary steerable BHA in accordance with the first vector, and drilling the borehole using the rotary steerable BHA in response to the at least one drilling parameter.

The invention relates to a reliably functioning directional drilling device for continuous operation, with automatic, precision-controlled monitoring of targeted drilling at great depths with specification of a selectable directional path of the wellbore, comprising a housing, a bit drive shaft, which preferably rotates in the housing and which bears a rotary drill bit at its end, a control device located in the body section of the housing, and direction control devices for generating directing forces having radially alignable force components for the alignment of the directional drilling device during drilling operations, and magnetic field sensors that are connected to the control device, the magnetic field sensors being arranged in the head section, more specifically in the forward region of the housing facing the rotary drill bit, in close proximity to the rotary drill bit, i.e. near the rotary drill bit, and being calibrated by means of the method of the invention using a homogeneous magnetic field generated by a Helmholtz coil.

A method of drilling a wellbore is described using a BHA including an RSS that comprises an adjustment mechanism movable between first and second configurations to alter a drilling direction of the BHA, BHA sensor(s), and a controller. The method includes drilling, using the BHA, the wellbore with the adjustment mechanism in the first configuration; receiving, by the first controller, real-time data including inclination and azimuth angle data from the BHA sensor(s); determining, by the first controller and based on the real-time data, a relationship between an actual measurement and a target measurement that is associated with a target well path; automatically moving, by the first controller and in response to the determination of the relationship, the adjustment mechanism from the first to the second configuration; and drilling, using the BHA, the wellbore while the adjustment mechanism is in the second configuration.

A drilling assembly for use in drilling of a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a device that detects a flow-off state, a power generator that generates electrical energy in response to a fluid flowing through the drilling assembly during the flow-off state, and a circuit that utilizes such power to perform one or more selected operations in response to the detection of the flow-off state, including, but not limited to, storing data in a memory; shutting certain devices in the drilling assembly and parking a device in a desired position.